I just saw this afternoon over Mel & Joey a featured artist named Bren Bataclan an artist from Boston who started his Smile Boston Project on 2003 when he lost his job. The project involves leaving his acrylic paintings for people to take for "free" all over Boston at park benches, train stations, hostpitals and other places. He attached a note in each painting saying " This painting is yours if you promise to smile at random more often".Bren is a big fan of grafitti but he never had the guts to spray paint a wall. Instead hes uses different cities across America and around the world as his temporary exhibit spaces. He is now in the Philippines and is touching lives of his "kababayan" (countrymen).
His paintings (or cartoon) touched lives one of them was about to commit suicide but was inspired by his work. I really got goosebumps when I saw it. His advocacy was filmed entered in film festivals and won!.
I am now a fan and if would like to follow him click on his website at http//bataclan.com
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