Ronan O’Gara’s “Any Given Dimanche”
A mash-up of Ronan O’Gara’s foulmouthed team talk in French with the Al Pacino speech in Any Given Sunday
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Free \ Dive
Underwater scuba diving footage in Corfu
Paper Poolbeg Chimneys
I recently played around with the text-to-image generator Midjourney and tried to recreate the iconic Poolbeg chimneys in Dublin Bay in the style of paper cut art. The result was super cool and I wanted to share it here.
Performing Poet
A couple of snaps of me in full poetry flow at last night’s spoken word/poetry evening at the Sandymount Community Centre. A beautiful evening with a warm friendly crowd. Art is good for the heart.
Poetry Gig Alert
If you’re in the mood for some spoken word and poetic performance, then I’m MCing and performing at this cosy little show in the Sandymount Community Centre in Dublin today (Friday 21st April). Featuring the considerable lyrical talents of Colm Keegan , Hazel Hogan and Rodney Devitt. It should be a great evening filled with laughter […]
Wallpaper made from Swedish comics
Made wallpaper out of some old Swedish comic covers
Text to Image – Artificially Intelligent Art or Synthesized Collages?
Werner Herzog as Superman in the style of Edward Hopper (Created on Midjourney) There have been a lot of newspaper column inches dedicated to Artificial Intelligence lately, specifically the huge leaps forward in AI assisted creative tools. Most of you will have heard of the conversational ChatGPT tool and it’s written content that it can churn out […]
Yer man is an absolute muppet!
A few years ago I had the honour of a puppet being made in my likeness. It was for a special edition of my video series The Blast at Facebook/Meta. My onscreen persona was a shirt-and-tie late night host, with a humorous sensibility. We were putting together a blooper reel from my interviews and hosting […]
The Last of Us – Compelling storytelling
The Last of Us is truly excellent. I loved playing the game. The show builds on it while retaining the core of what made the game great. It’s a thoughtful story about love ultimately. Episode 3 with Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett brought that home so beautifully. That episode is up there with the best […]
