Ieuan ''(pronounced "YAY-an" )'' Rees (born about 1941) is a veteran

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, artist, teacher and YouTube personality from

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Education and early life

Ieuan Rees has designed stone carvings for ''

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'' 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

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" 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 "

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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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