How do you feel about writers being multimedia artists?
Oh, what do I feel? I feel horrible. Writers should only focus on a singular craft. If your favorite writer did anything other than writing he's a hack and should be forgotten immediately.
>>24887525Salinger might say
>>24887522It tends to expose them as talentless hacks in every domain but one. David Lynch’s real passion was painting. Ever heard anyone talk about his painting?Bill Hicks loved music but couldn’t sing or play well. Churchill and Hitler both liked to paint and they both suck. Knowing enough of an instrument to belt out a tune used to be a lot more common. Hugh Laurie could play a reasonable tune in the adaptation of Jeeves and Wooster. If you go back to Laurel & Hardy, Ollie had a decent singing voice and you can see social settings where people would get together to perform music live as a time capsule of the era before access to records. If you want a “success” someone like William Blake would count. Both his art and verse have been torn apart for being unrefined but he was very much forging his own path and creating poetry as part of his etchings was how key works were meant to be seen (today they’re often removed from that context).
>>24887534It's odd David Lynch loved painting considering his obsession with dreams
More on topic examples. Kurt Vonnegut.
>>24887540Lewis Carroll illustrating Alice. Had to dodge his pedo pictures which come up in the search btw. Maybe that was his real “art”.
>>24887542I guess this is a bit of a backwards example. Herzog is obviously not known as a writer but his trademark monologues translate pretty well to a written format.
>>24887540Wow that's absolutely terrible.>>24887542Now this is a bit more, ahem, "artistically refined" if you know what I mean
>>24887538What’s odd about that?
>>24887522Can be cool if it’s a joint effort between multiple artists from different mediums. If I wrote a book I would like to work with a professional musician so he makes an accompanying album that enhances the mood and atmosphere of the writing.
Clark Ashton Smith was into sculpting and painting. It sounds cooler than it is. His works are Deviant Art-tier at best.
>>24887641Just that painting is a very limited medium in terms of sound. It's also quite stagnant and not optimal for dreamscape creation.
>>24887522How do *you* feel? Why not tell us that, instead of dropping engagement bate bullshit.DEAD INTERNET
>>24887522I am
>>24887522From a consumer's or critic's perspective a change of medium, art, craft or style seems like change to another category entirely. Perhaps even an insult to his gift, or waste of talent. Then again, some people, whether they admit it or not, will not allow a genius to be excellent in two disciplines, because it would just be too unfair, wouldn't it. We like the idea of an autist who is a master of one thing, but not even a jack in anything else. However, from an artist's point of view his art might be just the result of him expressing himself, his innermost feelings. The medium becomes a tool among others. A certain craft another way to the next. A true multitalent or even the universal genius is one in a million, if not one of a kind.
>>24887549Another great backwards example.
>>24888074Could be a prop in a Cthulhu cult movie
Gormenghast is pretty noteworthy but I think his illustrations suck desu. Still he was a paid illustrator and artist so that’s at least pro level in two arenas.
>>24888130This got me to thinking. Tove Jansson is both famous for the drawings and design of the Moomins as well as the stories. I guess this is a bit like Blake in that someone combined their interests and made a visual and literary work.
>>24887651I don’t know why I’m stuck on Bill Hicks but he made Arizona Bay have musical interludes. It’s a different experience for a comedy album and a success imo. Makes me think about how big the audiobook market is though as to what you’re saying about having musical accompaniment, that’s got potential. I have listened to some that have musical stings but it’s usually as chapter theme music or just for the intro and outro. For actual production level you’re stepping into audio drama adaptations and they tend to go further than just saying the words to music, it’s sfx and multiple voices, like old radio plays basically.
>>24888088I got one too.Rousseau's music is great and he enjoyed great success for it. It's a shame we have very little recordings of his pieces.He released his three most famous pieces of writing (excluding the Confessions and Reveries released posthumously) all in the span of a year, around age 50.
>>24887522Idk Joyce is said to have been a very good guitar player. Here's a picture of him fingerpickin away on a parlor
>>24888540I cant take him seriously after reading the fart letter
>>24888549If anything it shows how much he liked expressing himself through writing so uhh... FILTERED I guess
Alain Robbe-Grillet was a filmmaker as well as a writer. Last Year at Marienbad is the greatest film of all time in my opinion.
>>24887538Lynch thought dreams were totally unimportant. People constantly try to tie his work to dreams but he consistently said that dreams don't matter to him.
>>24887525I don't believe anyone who only writes can be a good writer, any more than a person who has never seen objects in his life can be a good painter.
>>24889309That's why his films mostly suck, Eraserhead being the exception.
It's fine; it's all about expressing yourself. What I deplore is seeing artists having to become marketeers.
>>24887549I love Herzog, will try reading this
>>24889309"I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream... allows you to dream in the dark. It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film." - David LynchFucking retard why are you lying?
>>24889249That was directed by Alain Resnais, no? Grillet did direct other films tho.
>>24887540This looks like the kind of shit the CIA would try to trick normies into believing is art
>>24887522Checked for based northport tapes bread, one of my favorites of all time. Wish they would make more of Jack's recordings like this easier to get, but in most of them he called out the Jews so you gotta go to places like Emory university to find most of them.
>>24887522This board can discuss everything but books. Why do you think that is? Every medium, visual, sonic, or tactile, other than writing. is more important to human culture in the current year.
>>24887522It's alright I guess Still crazy to me that this shit happened Two of the all time greats imo
>>24887522More common with game devs than writers, and there, they're 2 for 2
I think most artistic types dabble in at least one other medium. Sometimes I write instrumental songs that fit the vibe of my short stories. Being able to paint book covers or make illustrations for my work would be nice too but I haven't learned to draw.
>>24890640My mistake, it was still written by him though.
>>24888027Well he was a musician as well so I don’t think he was limited by painting when he could also portray other moods and ideas through music.
>>24891048Well most counterculture authors from the 60s and 70s were CIA assets, including Vonnegut and possibly Pynchon.
>>24888134Tolkien was also an accomplished illustrator, he did all the original Hobbit/LotR art.
