Opera is a hot medium, an art of excess.
But film may be Kiev's current hottest medium.
The 45 may not look like a white-hot medium, but in 1964 it was.
Then, in 1988, I went into standup, the obvious new hot medium.
"A hot medium is one that extends one single sense in 'high definition,' " Marshall McLuhan wrote in his famous, meandering study of different media forms.
The McLuhan program included a hot medium, a film about McLuhan by Kevin McMahon titled "McLuhan's Wake," followed up with a cool one, a panel discussion.
Film buffs will recall the wonderful sequence in Annie Hall, where Woody and Diane Keaton are queuing for a movie when a guy behind them starts opining pompously about McLuhan's description of television as a "high intensity or hot medium".
The cooking involves waltzing the food between the grill's hot, medium and cool zones -- the first for searing, the second for cooking and the third for keeping the food warm or dodging flare-ups.
When the Internet became a hot medium for ticket vending in the late 1990's (the Moviefone.com Web site started in 1995, and America Online bought the company for $388 million in 1999), theater companies sought to gain control of their own remote sales.
Upon heating via the hot medium, the PS matrix was expanded to form a cellular structure.
