{"id":44705,"date":"2020-06-12T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T08:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/?p=44705"},"modified":"2020-06-12T21:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:26:34","slug":"sound-of-ian-berrys-clapping-hands-keeps-on-getting-stronger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/news\/sound-of-ian-berrys-clapping-hands-keeps-on-getting-stronger\/44705","title":{"rendered":"Sound Of Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Clapping Hands Keeps On Getting Stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What an incredible Journey Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Denim Clapping Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have been on and still going. I wrote about it a few weeks ago as it travelled through Britain as well as the world and he managed to get them from Land\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s End to John O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Groats, thus travelling the length of Britain with almost everywhere in between!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also cemented Ian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s place as an artist, not a denim artist. Yes he may use our favourite material, but its more than that. With a celebrity following and Art buyers around the world year on year, he keeps growing. And don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take my word for it, David Hockney is a fan!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CAGUgLsJb5E\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp; Baltic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NPcQuEvcipA\">Newcastle<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Baltic Gateshead\/Newcastle illuminated with a tribute to those we clap for\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NPcQuEvcipA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww.iclapfor.com\/\">#iclapfor<\/a> was growing and growing but then the world changed. Ian postponed projections in New York but in the UK it looks like it may have a new lease of life \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and Ian is part of a very impressive line up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now get his famed <strong>Clapping Hands<\/strong> as a badge with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinyourthanks.org\/\"><strong>Pin Your Thanks<\/strong><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c along with stars <strong><em>Keira Knightley, Ringo Starr, Joe Lycett, <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>David James MBE, Dame Sarah Storey and <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Anoushka Shanka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/97bmjd5g6v7w2qx\/AADb1tt78PUe1tgXmL-KR8GJa?dl=0\"><strong><em>link<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian getting the projections north to south is remarkable, add in Ipswich and Swansea, he went East to West too. Quite an incredible feat! It also went as far as Colombia, Mexico City and Australia and many more!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A permanent longer lasting tribute on doctor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surgery wall in London, just around the corner from Blackhorse Lane Ateliers now has it as a stunning mural, in collaboration with Wood Street Walls and Atma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Wood-Street-Walls-86x64.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/423688532\">Film<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ATMA x Ian Berry - ICLAPFOR Mural for NHS\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/423688532?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The hands are still being projected in a Batman-like beam onto buildings worldwide to say thank you to all those on the front line. And now we you can show your personal thanks to those that have supported us through this badge, with the <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPeople\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Medal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em>. I hope many in the denim community support Ian, and the project. Of course, pins go well with denim.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea came from Ian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s six-year-old son Elliott who cutely loved the clapping for the NHS and when Ian, made the distinctive blue hands from denim for a photo Elliott took of his hands, Elliott then even had the idea to project it onto buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AAngel1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AAngel1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AAngel1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AAngel1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AAngel1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/AAngel1-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we last wrote the projections have been on such buildings as the BT Tower in Birmingham, in Greenwich and the Angel of the North in the North East \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it has now gone global with projections in Brazil, Sweden, Italy and the USA and beyond<strong>. <\/strong>To launch <strong>Pin Your Thanks<\/strong>&nbsp; Ian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s projection was put on London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s South Bank at the Royal Festival Hall with the Clapping Hands morphing into his badge, then those of the star designers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/04_200601_PYT_PIN_YOUR_THANKS_1st_JUN_ABK-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44709\"\/><figcaption>\u00c2\u00a9 2020 Andrew Baker\nLONDON UK 1st June 2020.\nPin Your Thanks Projection on The Festival Hall.\nPhotograph \u00c2\u00a9 Andrew Baker\nPR HANDOUT<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/11_200601_PYT_PIN_YOUR_THANKS_1st_JUN_ABK-1024x632.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44710\"\/><figcaption>\u00c2\u00a9 2020 Andrew Baker\nLONDON UK 1st June 2020.\nPin Your Thanks Projection on The Festival Hall.\nPhotograph \u00c2\u00a9 Andrew Baker\nPR HANDOUT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s question <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwho do you clap for?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> using the hashtag <strong>#iclapfor <\/strong>were put on projections, the one on the Angel of the North went through all the different Front Line workers that had been suggested through this..<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angel of the North #iclapfor projection\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZOUDq5Xeukw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pin Your Thanks<\/strong> is an along the same idea and a perfect fit, another way to show who you clap for, who you wish to show your heartfelt thanks to and a way for others to give their personal thanks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenny Beavan OBE, double Academy Award-winning costume designer, of #PinYourThanks adds: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We were looking for exciting and innovative ways for people to express personal gratitude to their local heroes and Ian was invited on board before we even knew he was about to put out his Clapping Hands \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and what a perfect fit it turned out to be. What a creative man he is.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsat on his hands\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for a few weeks as he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to seem like he was jumping on the band wagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcby trying not to get on the bandwagon, I actually missed the band wagon and when it was going really well it seemed it had to slow down, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d started the period saying it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t my time, and trying to lay low, letting others have the platform \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I think it should be Doctors and nurses and so many more that should be celebrated. Of course that was the plan with this, but still I feel strange that it is my name there. For me it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the doctors and nurses that should have the blue ticks on Instagram but we live in a different world, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I truly hope this period has shown us what is important\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/em> Said Ian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwe live in the world where the court jester is king\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian has raised lots of money for the NHS Charities Together and Doctors Without Borders and will continue to do so with Pin Your Thanks along with other initiatives coming and we are looking forward to seeing those.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an incredible Journey Ian Berry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Denim Clapping Hand\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s have been on and still going. I wrote about it a few weeks ago as it travelled through Britain as well as the world and he managed to get them from Land\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s End to John O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Groats, thus travelling the length of Britain with almost everywhere in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":44711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[1563],"class_list":["post-44705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ian-berry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44737,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44705\/revisions\/44737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denimsandjeans.com\/recovery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}