Avatar
Ryan Essmaker is a designer and web developer with a soft spot for good typography, responsive design, and well-written markup. In his spare time you can find him with camera in hand or strumming on the ole six-string making sweet, sweet melodies.

designingmonsters.com
@ryanessmaker
The Great Discontent

2011 TED Prize Winner: JR 

Watch the video. JR’s projects are incredibly inspiring.

JR creates pervasive art that spreads uninvited on buildings of Parisian slums, on walls in the Middle East, on broken bridges in Africa or in favelas in Brazil. People in the exhibit communities, those who often live with the bare minimum, discover something absolutely unnecessary but utterly wonderful. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Elderly women become models for a day; kids turn into artists for a week. In this art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.