{"id":1938,"date":"2013-01-30T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:16:13","slug":"storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/","title":{"rendered":"Storyteller and Filmmaker Werner Herzog"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Werner Herzog Talks About The Chicken Twins<\/h1>\n<p>In this video, German filmmaker Werner Herzog (<a title=\"Werner Herzog on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wernerherzog\" target=\"_blank\">@wernerherzog<\/a>) appears in conversation with acclaimed author and essayist, <a title=\"Pico Iyer on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PicoIyer\" target=\"_blank\">Pico Iyer<\/a> at UC Santa Barbara. I&#8217;m not sure how many times I&#8217;ve watched and listened to it, but I find it to be one of the finest examples of storytelling. On the back of Herzog&#8217;s engaging delivery, the story naturally unfolds and numerous peculiar surprises are revealed from one moment to the next. 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I&#8217;m not sure how many times I&#8217;ve watched and listened to it, but I find it to be one of the finest examples of storytelling. On the back of Herzog&#8217;s engaging delivery, the story naturally unfolds and numerous peculiar surprises are revealed from one moment to the next. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1938\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span>Tumblr<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1938\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1938\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span>LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\"><span>Pocket<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-google-plus-1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"sharing-google-1938\" class=\"share-google-plus-1 sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=google-plus-1\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Google+\"><span>Google<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2013\/01\/storyteller-and-filmmaker-werner-herzog\/?share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span>Email<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded' id='like-post-wrapper-28846771-1938-6a9effadcb7af' data-src='\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=28846771&amp;post_id=1938&amp;origin=www.siriuspress.com&amp;obj_id=28846771-1938-6a9effadcb7af' data-name='like-post-frame-28846771-1938-6a9effadcb7af'><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3><div class='likes-widget-placeholder post-likes-widget-placeholder' style='height: 55px;'><span class='button'><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading...<\/span><\/div><span class='sd-text-color'><\/span><a class='sd-link-color'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[262,261,260,263,110,259,78,258],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1646,"url":"http:\/\/www.siriuspress.com\/studio\/2012\/04\/enjoy-the-ride\/","url_meta":{"origin":1938,"position":0},"title":"Enjoy the Ride","date":"April 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019m convinced that the creative process for fiction writers is a messy mixture of imagination, insecurity, and wee bit of insanity. 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