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Issue 3
In the last issue, we covered the world of Urgent Genius, where bold thinkers use the hyperkinetic world of news and pop culture as a springboard to quick, killer creativity.

This issue, iris in the Americas will be exploring the idea of independence.

Giving the finger to the man and doing it your own way has always been a powerful idea. Now in an age where the web is empowering people in so many new ways, independence is a more powerful idea than ever.

So let’s take a look at the risk-takers and challenger brands disrupting every industry from movies to banking. Let’s salute those who are forsaking big brands to buy locally, and creating their own products. And let’s celebrate all the ways people around the world are now thinking and acting independently.

Join in. Comment and share here: undertheinfluenceUSA@iris-worldwide.com

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REBIRTH PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE



A new career path I’d never previously considered, Bethnal Green, London.

REBIRTH PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE

Old toy cars are now street art. Adelaide, Australia.

At the Hour of Our Death



Sarah Sudhoff takes photos of the messes dead bodies leave behind.

Find out more on Wired.

REBIRTH PHOTOGRAPHY CHALLENGE

Bringing animals back to life, London’s Natural History Museum.

Rebirth photography challenge



The Jane Hotel in New York’s doing new things in old ways.

Rebirth photography challenge



A diorama at the DDR Museum in Berlin shows how residents of the GDR used nudity as a form of protest.

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DEADPHOTOGRAPHERS Deadphotographers is a collection of images sourced through the house clearances of the deceased. The experience, skills and styles of the photographers range vastly. But with most, there’s a sense of love of their subjects and of the activity they once pursued. Found through his father’s removal company, if it weren’t for UK photographer James Dodd, these photos would never see the light of day again.

DEADPHOTOGRAPHERS

Deadphotographers is a collection of images sourced through the house clearances of the deceased.

The experience, skills and styles of the photographers range vastly. But with most, there’s a sense of love of their subjects and of the activity they once pursued.

Found through his father’s removal company, if it weren’t for UK photographer James Dodd, these photos would never see the light of day again.

The Future of Art

Two things I love about this video:

  1. The term ‘micropatronage’
  2. The hyper, hyper mid-sentence jump cuts.

Plus it’s pretty good value in any case.

DANIEL JOHNSTON’S INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSIC GREATNESS

You probably haven’t heard of Daniel Johnston. But that’s ok. In fact, it’s more than ok because it means I get to be the person that introduces you to him. You can thank me later.

Johnston is a musician. He’s an illustrator. He’s a genius. He’s also mentally ill.

Californian-born, he’s 50 years old now but has to live next door to his parents. Not the picture you’d expect of a man whose forays into music saw him accumulate a fan base of names like Kurt Cobain, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers and Beck.

But through a career that’s seen him in and out of mental institutions, running away, causing the crash of his father’s plane, it’s never really been about the music.

Johnston is a phenomenal illustrator whose dream is to have his own comic book. But not just any comic book.

The Infinite Comic Book of Music Greatness will be interactive. Living online, it will combine his incredible characters and stories with his music, and offers fans, musicians and artists around the world the chance to upload their own work.

W+K have taken Johnston on as a client in an attempt to make his dream come true. You can help, too. Visit their Kickstarter page now.





CITIES REORGANISED

French artist Armelle Caron reorganises city maps according to the size of individual blocks. In the end they’re oddly beautiful and completely unrecognisable; ideas of place reborn. 

[via Design Crush]

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