Ieuan ''(pronounced "YIGH-un" )''
Rees (born about 1941) is a veteran
stone cutter
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, artist, teacher and YouTube personality from
Ammanford,
Wales
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Education and early life
Ieuan Rees has designed stone carvings for ''
The Vicar of Dibley
''The Vicar of Dibley'' is a British sitcom which originally ran on BBC One from 10 November 1994 to 1 January 2007. It is set in a fictional small Oxfordshire village called Dibley, which is assigned a female vicar following the 1992 changes ...
'' TV series, for opening titles in other UK comedies and has designed works for public buildings including the Senedd in Cardiff, Wales.
Recent fame
Ieuan Rees's most recent claim to fame is via the "Best Unintentional
ASMR" channel on YouTube. This YouTube video came about due to a project from "Artisan Media" in 2012. They had intended on video taping artists at work and selling the videos, however, he was "too niche" so they uploaded it to YouTube and abandoned the project, as did Rees himself.
It would be eventually picked up by a YouTube channel known as "Best Unintentional ASMR" where it would go on to gather more than 5.6 million views,
spawn a "
GoFundMe
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" campaign, and get him interviewed by the BBC,
The South Wales Guardian
and Inside Edition.
Works
References
External links
Official website
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1941 births
20th-century calligraphers
21st-century calligraphers
Autonomous sensory meridian response
Living people
Stonemasons
Welsh artists
Welsh calligraphers
Year of birth uncertain
People from Ammanford