COMPACT AID! -The Charity Auction for the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Disaster in Japan

Hello All

I would like to have a charity auction for the recent and ongoing disaster in Japan.
It was and continues to be a truly horrifying disaster–really sad & scary. The Tohoku region, and even Tokyo continues to sway from residual quakes.


I have been feeling as if I can't do anything to help out here in Tokyo. I’ve been limited to watching the news and looking at Twitter and Facebook for news updates. In all honesty, this is too much disaster for me.

Prayers and thoughts are good, but to directly help the disaster areas, I think cash donations will work best and I need your help.

During the worst of the earthquake and for two days afterwards, neither cell phones nor landlines worked, leaving many to rely on the Internet and smart phones, which were most helpful for using Twitter to communicate...

So, for this charity auction, we will be selling 'wallpapers' for computers and cell phones rather than traditional fine art media.

We will hold the auction at Cultivate, where my illustration exhibition is being shown.
An additional auction will be held on the Cultivate website after the live event with new images.

Auction will start at 3:00pm on March 19th, 2011 at Cultivate in Tokyo.

Also, will be Ustream on the here< http://bit.ly/vincentradioust >
support by Vincent Radio

I sincerely hope you can make it!

Thank you!

x



participant:

Hanayo/ Tenko/Aki Goto/Nick Relph/Brian Degraw (GANG GANG DANCE)/Zoren Gold & Minori (MI-ZO)/Tomoo Gokita/ Hitoshi Odajima/ Kentaro Minoura/ Shintaro Sakamoto (ex.Yura Yura Teikoku)/Will Sweeney (ZONGAMIN)/Susumu Mukai (ZONGAMIN)/LET DOWN



All proceeds will be donated to the Japan Red Cross Society
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/index.html

Time Travel

I'm saving this for real this time is a frequently updated tumblr site of great images by Emma Cooper. I had been checking the site some and was surprised to find on it a photo I took in 2008 of a t-shirt I bought in 1990. I bought the shirt at Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule store in Brooklyn, which I journeyed to from Andover, Massachusetts, where I was attending boarding school. It was my second year living away from home, which was in Tokyo. The t-shirt somehow found its way back to me on the Internet 20 years later. I'm not sure what this has to do with art, but it has something to do with how images circulate. Reference Library is also a great archive/diary by Andy Beach.
先日、I'm saving this for real this timeという、面白いtumblrサイトをみていたら、自分が20年前に買ったT-シャツの写真が上がってた。僕がアメリカに留学して2年目のとき、ブルックリンにあったスパイク・リーのお店で買ったものだった。店には遥々ボストンの郊外にあった高校から行った。それを2年前に実家で見つけて写真に撮った。そして最近、インターネットを通してT-シャツがまた僕を見つけた。アートとは関係ないが、イメージの流通の仕方に関係する話だと思う。Reference Libraryも面白いアーカイヴだ。