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 […]
A collection of the many quotes I have scrawled on my chalkboard this year to inspire and prompt my creativity.
Today on the chalkboard I am pondering the words of the great German film director Werner Herzog, and his metaphorical description of carrying a great weight with you (be it your dreams, your identity, your creative impulses). If you havent seen his film Fitzcarraldo, where he literally pulls a boat over a mountain, then do […]
The legendary German filmmaker Werner Herzog was profiled a while back in the Guardian newspaper with a particular focus on his comedic sensibilities. Well worth a read for an insight into the mind of a quirky genius. The above video is also another classic Herzog interview with his typical acerbic wit mixed with his profound […]
A pumpkin that I carved with my friends to look like Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu.
At my monthly Brownbread Mixtape show I would regularly write radio style comedy sketches to be performed by myself and our resident sketch troupe The Brownbread Players (Gus McDonagh, Eva Bartley and Sean McDonagh). I have been a huge Werner Herzog fan for many moons and something tickled me about trying to do one of […]
