raygun

["Brian J Dillard" <dillardb@student.msu.edu>]

raygun, the so-typographically-pretentions-it's-nearly-unreadable hipster mag,
this month has a review of TLTC&TC which is negative in the extreme. the final
sentence says (i'm paraphrasing from memory) that since both the red shoes
album and movie were artistically problemmatic, kate should return to her own
creativity rather than doing stuff inspired by others. this of course is
ludicrous considering that from the beginning, arguably some of kate's best
work has been informed by myth, legend, folklore, fiction and film references.
but what really bugged me was that they slammed on it visually, saying that
everybody else learned how to light for shooting on video in the early 80s, so
kate has no excuse for doing it poorly here. for one, the lighting and
production design are, IMHO, excellent in THTC&TC. what's more, it was shot ON
FILM.

do your homework, posers!

brian dillard