Ray gun : out of control /
introduction by Marvin Scott Jarrett ; essay by Dean Kuipers ; [text and images selected and edited by Dean Kuipers & Chris Ashworth].
- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- 240 p. : ill. (chiefly col), ports. ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Foreword / William Gibson Marvin's Room / Marvin Scott Jarrett Out of Control Are You the Bomb? Speaking Ray Gun to the New Niche Cool / Dean Kuipers The Closing Down / David Bowie Style How the Art Was Done and Where It Got Us: Michael Stripe in Dialogue with Chris Bilheimer / Mark Blackwell and Marvin Scott Jarrett Action Alternative by Design? / Rick Poynor.
In four short but inspired years, Ray Gun has captured the imagination of American alternative culture as a forum for debate and as an arbiter of credibility on music, graphic design, culture, and style. Out of Control celebrates Ray Gun and its sister magazines in a potent blend of the very best from their past stirred up with a larger dose of challenging new graphics, writing, photography, illustration, typography, fashion, and music from the cutting edge of today's youth culture. In it the Ray Gun creative team and literally hundreds of contributors - including many essential tastemakers - set out on a quest to track the critical search for identity in a youth culture that is itself media-driven and identity-mad.