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I S S U E # 0SEPTEMBER 2008



direct addressWelcome to issue 0! We’vecalled it that because this isa short teaser to show you what

our 1st issue (out November 1st)will look like.

In this issue I have called onfavours from friends toprovide you with examples ofwhat we will do monthly, sothanks to Brian and Marie forbravely volunteering to beproled in this issue.

discounderworld is dedicated toproviding like-minded peoplearound the world withinformation they will love toread about, packaged up in ainteractive, easily accessibleformat.

Each issue of discounderworld isgoing to provide you with

proles of people from alldifferent walks of life and thethings that they are passionateabout.

It is a step up from a websitebecause you no longer have tonegotiate an overload ofinformation to nd gems of goodreading, and it differs from

the traditional magazine in itsrange of media options,accessibility and itsinteractivity. Video and audioinserts open up excitingpossibilities to learn aboutothers and to showcase yourself.

We are a generation who arepassionate about exploring,experiencing, growing andlearning while having fun. Mostof us have travelled, aretravelling, or will travel, andwe love nding about the real

people in the world weinhabit. discounderworld is away to keep tabs on the

people of the world, whereveryou may be and whatever you maybe doing.

We want you to participate bynominating interesting peopleto be proled, and by beingvocal and letting us know whatyou like and what sucks.discounderworld is built toevolve, so if you wantsomething, don’t be shy; yourmother wasn’t.

If you are an artist with astory to tell, please submitthrough the designated pages,(4 & 10), or if you know ofsomeone who you think the worldwill be interested in, pleasedrop us a line along with a few

reasons why, [email protected].

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irish

brian

age: 25

mentor/role/model/idol:

‘Hunter S.Thompson, good

ideas, a little bit over the

top though.’

person he would most like to

meet:

‘Jesus, to see what he’s

about. What’s your story?

You know that wine trick,

how’d you do that?’

www.discounderworld.com. irish brian. page 5



Renee took this photo of two children

playing in a lane in Malaysia in 2005 and Brian

created the stencils in 2006.



www.discounderworld.com. irish brian. page 7www.discounderworld.com. irish brian. page 7Brian was born in Dungarvan, a

small town in Waterford County on

the south-east coast of Ireland.

He is a man of a few carefully

chosen words.

What’s the best thing about Ire-

land?

‘The Guinness.’

And the worst?

‘The fecking rain.’

What are the people like?

‘Drunk and wet.’

What are their biggest worries?

‘Getting dry and getting sober.’

He rolls his cigarette and

chuckles.

Brian now lives in New Zealand

with his ancée Renee, and they

are due to marry in January next

year.

.Renee and Brian met when they were

both living in Dublin in 2004.

They were engaged 6 months

after getting together and have

been travelling the world ever

since.

Brian’s artistic talent lies in

transferring photographs onto

everyday items via a series ofdifferent stencils and spray

paints.

Brian’s ancée Renee mixing at their

engagement party in early 2006.



His interest in stencils began as

an interest in Pop Art, nurtured

by his uncle John, whose house was

lled with Pop Art books and

posters. While still in

highschool, Brian attempted his

rst stencil piece; a life-sized

hooker standing on a street

corner.

The vinyl pieces in

discounderworld were created in

Edinburgh in 2006, when he and

Renee were living there after a

stint travelling round Asia,

Australia and New Zealand.

Inspired in Melbourne by the

streets covered in stencils, Brian

was full of ideas by the time heand Renee had set up at in

Edinburgh. As a result of limited

cash ow, he began spray painting

on anything he could get his hands

on.

‘I was working part-time and bored

shitless like. So I began

spraying on anything I found;

shelves, old bits of bed, random people’s waste.’

The idea was to preserve good

times on the recovered pieces of

trash, ‘because I didn’t have any

money for photos did I?’

The shape and size of the objects

Brian found inuenced the stencil

design and the photos he chose to

transfer.

After visiting the skip bins at

the end of his street to nd

something interesting to spray on,

Brian would create stencils out of

his chosen image by using

photoshop to blow up and alter

the image to black and white. He

would then adjust the image into

printable layers, and cut eachlayer out of paper, ready to be

sprayed.

Brian’s ancée Renee mixing at their

engagement party in early 2006.

For each of these designs it took

Brian eight hours to create the

ve stencils he would eventually

use to spray paint on the vinyls.

Brian’s fascination with

preserving memories oninteresting objects is also

evident in his colourful

collection of tattoos up his arms

and on his wrists.

By far the most intriguing is the

one on his right wrist. It is

written in the ‘Ogham’ script,

which is primarily used to

represent the Old Irish language,and at rst glance, looks like a

meaningless series of vertical and

horizontal lines.

Ogham was invented around the 4th

century AD as a way for Irish

allies to communicate

independently of the Roman

British forces who were

threatening to invade.

There are 400 or so surviving

examples of Ogham in the world,

and most denote names of people or

ownership of land.

Brian and Renee both got the same

inscription in 2005, which means

‘home’.

As for the future, where is Briangoing to be in ve years? ‘God

knows, somewhere hot.’

Skip bins around the world be

warned.

How would you

describe your art?

‘Found’

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