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JR: Art is not supposed
to change the world.
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But art can change
the way we see the world.
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(Music)
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So, now my wish is ...
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For you to stand up
for what you care about
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by participating
in a global art project ...
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And together we'll turn
the world inside out.
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[Great big story
In partnership with TED]
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Narrator: They had a big idea
to change the world.
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But they couldn't do it alone.
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(Overlapping voices): So my wish ...
My wish ... I wish ...
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And now, here's my wish.
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[Torchbearers]
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[Ideas in action]
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(Camera clicking)
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JR: My name is JR,
I like to call myself an artist.
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There's two ways of thinking about my work
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The easy way is just -- I'm papering
black and white images on walls.
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But I believe my work
is about connecting people.
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For me, it's the power
of bringing people together.
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I went there to do
art projects with the community.
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Now, I realized that the community
wanted to do art projects
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even more than I wanted.
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And I started thinking,
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why I don't take myself
out of the equation and let them do it.
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So the wish was pretty simple --
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we just put up a website
and you can send us your photo
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for whatever you believe in
or whatever you want to fight for,
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we'll send you back
your photo in large format
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wherever you are in the world.
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Every day I see rolls leaving
around the world.
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The project went much further
than the places I've been
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and that shows the power of art.
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And photobooths truck is the magic of it.
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(Music)
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Luana: We're a team of four
traveling in the photobooths truck.
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Josh, Basil, Jamie and I.
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Jamie: To pose, you should do like this.
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(Laughter)
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We are using two of these trucks
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to cover 30 cities around America.
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Luana: We're just a tool
for people that want
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to send a positive message.
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Jamie: Step inside
and take a seat over here.
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Once the truck is ready
and running, anyone can come.
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Wait for the flash.
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(Music)
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(Camera clicking)
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Touch the screen, take
your picture, type information.
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No matter [unclear]
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We print on the sight, three by four feet.
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No one is used to seeing
their face so big.
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Woman: Oh yeah,
there's my funny face for you.
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Jamie: The truck has this magic
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about bringing photography
back to the print.
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Then the posters go to the wall.
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We use wallpaper glue,
put them up and that's it.
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We printed more
than 300,000 faces already.
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And we sent them
to more than 130 countries.
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(Music)
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Luana: It's the people's art project,
we don't decide the message.
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It can be political,
to bring attention to issues.
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Jamie: I love the idea of using
photography to promote change.
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This specific project
should raise awareness
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about the DREAMers situation.
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Karina Ruiz: Inside Out is bringing
the opportunity for DREAMers like myself,
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a person that came here at young age,
to have a better future.
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To come out and give a face to the issue.
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Vianey Perez: When people drive by
and they see a lot of faces,
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they're going to get curious
and they're going to wonder who they are.
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That's the face to the issue.
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To humanize it.
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(Music)
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JR: You do think that just pasting
an image out there might have no impact
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but it does have an impact.
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You cannot know when and how,
but it's worth trying.
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Jamie: It all starts
with believing, right.
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And so, if you don't believe
that you can make a change,
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change will never happen.
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Even if it's a very small change
in one person, that's a positive change.
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This is not about JR anymore.
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It's about everyone who believes
that art can change the world.
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JR: I think that definitely art can change
the perception we have about the world.
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And if we start seeing
the world differently,
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maybe it's a good path
to start changing the world.