Former Saturday Night Live alumnus and man of dozen voices on The
Simpsons, Harry Shearer was the subject of a brief interview for the St.
Petersburg Times, and made this interesting observation:
"I always have gone where the most creativity and freedom have been available. It's available at two places: at the top of show business if you make absolutely mindless mediocrities that sell a zillion dollars, or at the dawn of new media, (where) you can do interesting things and then, all of a sudden, the guys come in and say, 'Wait a minute, these are the rules' and then it's time to leave."
At the moment, we’re pretty lucky that the new media haven’t been taken over yet, so let’s enjoy it. Speaking of creativity and freedom, I had a great time recently at a week of summer school run by the Forkbeard Theatre Company, an innovative group that’s been doing multi-media productions for thirty years. It gave me the chance to experiment with lots of new (to me) methods. Here’s a little video I made in the process of trying out a combination of 2D animation and stop-motion (it does involve doll nudity...):
