In my line of work I often encounter the Dieter like visionaries. With all respect to Dieter as an artist, and less respect to the art-directors that breath down MY neck, I can say it's a general problem to fully comprehend what they talk about. Where I as a production-man are more close to the tools, the art-directors seem to float in their own fluidic space. They try desperately to translate their thoughts, with words, hands and feet, so people like myself can give birth to it through a Macintosh Machine and it's peripherals. Resulting in a sort of comprise between their thoughts and my skills with a big axe close to our necks as the deadline. Deadlines often kill the quality of what grows from that interaction. Time makes things grow to their full extend. Art cannot be pushed. Something that lost as soon as commerce is involved. Rene On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 07:59 AM, David Hansen wrote:
I agree with you Rene, I was solely commenting the visual concept and style of the website and the coverart. The technical quality and the weight behind the PR output leaves a lot to be desired, unfortunately.
/Dava,
Dadaism might be lingering through the phenomena Yello from day one till now, but let's not forget something.
Yello has become more an institute than just another synth group. Something they share with pioneers like