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Sara and I are thrilled to let you know that starting today we will be contributing twice a week to USA’s newly launched “Character Approved blog“, joining an amazing roster of though leaders that includes Chad Smith (writing about architecture), Stefan Boublil (design), Alyse Wax (fashion), Bags Hooper (television), Terry Boyd (food), Matt Jordan (music), Jerri Chou (social good/giving), Rohit Bhargava (tech), and Ann Kingman (writing)

Each day, USA Network’s CHARACTER APPROVED BLOG celebrates the people, places and things that are transforming the American cultural landscape. The project is an outgrowth of USA Network’s annual Character Approved Awards that pay tribute to the innovators who are influencing our opinions, our style, and our view of the world.

We’re thrilled to be a part of it and do hope that you check it out. Our article today is a celebration of the photography of Dennis Hopper.

(Disclosure: USA Networks is a client of my agency, Electric Artists)

See the full set of photos on the DFLEKTOR blog here.

“The Vancouver Transit Adspace Re-appropriation Project, or V-TARP, intends to reclaim the highly sought after mindspace used by corporations to communicate with the public, by collecting artworks from across the globe and installing them in the transit adspace.”

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More from Hyuro here.

Date: 18th July 2010 8.45am
Title: “Wish you were here?…”
Site: Southend-on-Sea High Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex.UK.

The mermaid sculpture was almost surrounded by Ground coffee, coffee beans, coffee house cups and ephemera. I liked the idea of her drowning in this stuff”…Laura

“Salvador is the third biggest city in Brazil and like another big cities, it is growing really fast. There’s an enormous destruction of nature happening here. I’m developing street interventions that talk with the public about the loss of the balance between humans and nature for everyone.”… Eder Muniz