Julia at Women at the Rad casting : Photo by Janelle Okwodu

Since last week Friday I've been combing through girls for the Rad Hourani intent on practicing what I've been preaching . That is namely to think beyond the predictable, move past a calvacade of pre-approved "names" and open my eyes .
"Just let a great girl walk and respond" I've been chanting for 6 days now .At some point some-one killed individuality and differentiation on the runways of The Zeroes in favor of blankness and neutrality . But what if the new direction (which is necessarily a reaction to what came before) is to unreel a series of deeply unique, very individualized boys and girls.
To keep the tedium of casting interesting I usually make up a kind of movie in my mind to help sharpen the filter. Last season I played Aphex Twins "Logon Rock Witch" all session long in my head as my kind of dream soundtrack that all the witch girls were gliding to. This season its Grace Jones' "Walking In The Rain" to which I'm dreaming of an army of sleek, shiny, aerodynamic people all angular and machine-like, like cyborgs but deeply deeply individualized. Boys and girls...the same feeling with different complexions...shifting features....That's my fiction for Rad SS09.