----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Shawn Levy writes: >PBRamaeker writes [many ill-tempered things, including]: >GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE! Over intellectualization of art tends to kill it. >You want to discuss how much MTV has influenced present day socitey? fine, >I'll discuss it all day, and even agree with you. But to start tearing apart >a 3:00 chunk of tape, wondering if it's post-industrial etc. IMHO is >right-out silly. If you think I'm an uneducated boor, fine, but whilst you >proclaim your richeousness, I'm in some burned-out wharehouse in Brooklyn >MAKING THE DAMN THINGS!.... >Ask the person who made it, THERE"S your analysis, and >the ONLY one that counts. If someone came up to me and said "ohh..I see, you >were influenced by the work of Sergi Eisenstein in that video you did" I >would simply tell them to take a hike, because the influence I had when >shooting that day was the miserable rate I was getting and how cold I was..... >Do you see what I mean? The ONLY vision and analysis of what the >artist/cinematographer "was trying to say" is what the artist/cinematographer >SAYS it is..if you want to disagree with them, then have fun in your little >world mumbling to yourself "he doesn't know what he means...he just doesn't >know..." I just thought I should say, I DIDN'T WRITE THAT. The person who did, Freelancer, was responding to my criticism of his position. Just thought I should clarify that. -PBR