I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don’t pick straight down; it’s sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
In films, I do programming I can never do in television. I have fun. Both mediums are content-led, but they are so diverse in their psychology that they cannot have a meeting point.
I realise that a novel and a film are different mediums. As artistes, we need to respect other artistes. It also needs a lot of courage to take risks to experiment and interpret known literary works.
I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
I’ve been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It’s my home base. But I’m into doing comedy in all mediums, platforms and situations.
I think there are so many misconceptions about mediums.
It’s not that Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter aren’t really great mediums – let’s be honest; technology allowing us to be able to contact people around the world is fantastic – but it’s also so detrimental.
Different mediums are giving a different kind of satisfaction. The reason I do television, if I do web for the same reason, I will not be able to sustain it, and vice versa.
Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized.
I always thought about ‘Station to Station’ as an approach. It was about creating an alternative platform for culture where different mediums could co-exist.
The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it’s paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.
Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that’s when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don’t know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.
I’ve been lucky enough to sort of go over different mediums, different vibes and genres.
As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.
I never want to pigeonhole myself or get typecast. I’m looking forward to my career and showing all of my range as an actress, and I’m looking at other mediums, too. I’m a theater actress first. And I cannot wait to return to the stage.
I find the mediums to be incredibly different. In theatre you’re telling the same story eight times a week, and in TV that story is constantly changing and you’re often telling it out of order based on shooting schedules.
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