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January 7, 2005
Tsunami Donations Update - Burgerman Steps Up - 25 More Als Available -
As we head into the weekend, we thought we'd give you an update on the Wooster donations for Southern Asia and let you know about "Wooster Raffles", something we've been putting together with Swoon, D*Face, and some other amazing artists:First, after a bit of recounting today, we just realized that we have about 25 more sketchbook pages from Mysterious Al to give to people who donate more than $20. Because of this, we've put the donation button back up on the left hand nav bar. Once these 25 go, unfortunately there are no more of them.
But don't worry, Jon Burgerman has stepped in for round 2....
Burgerman, one of our favorite artists (and one of the nicest guys you will ever meet in your life) is donating 100 of his amazing doodles to the cause. Most of you know Jon's work, but if you don't, check out his website here. So as soon as we run out of Al's sketchbook pages, for every donation over $20, Jon will send you one of his wonderful sketches. Here's it straight from Jon:
I was impressed by Mysterious' amazing donation to the Wooster collection for the Tsunami Disaster appeal and thought about what I could give to help. Basically the only thing I'm half good at is doodling and as Al proved doodles can help. So I'm going to sit down and draw 100 drawings for Wooster to use to help drum up some more much needed donations. I've started already so you can see what they're goin to be like (each will be different and of.. ahem.. variable quality). Thanks for your efforts so far - we must all continue to do what we can to help those affected by the terrible tragedy.
But wait - there's more. Beginning next week we're going to be adding another layer to the donation drive. We're calling it "Wooster Raffles" Here's how it will work. For every $10 you donate (or have already donated), you will receive one virtual raffle ticket. So if you donate (or have donated) $30, you receive 3 raffle tickets. If you donate (or have donated) $70 you will receive 7.
So at the end of each week, for as long as people want to donate to the cause, we will be picking - at random from the pool of raffle tickets- winners who will receive an amazing piece of art that have been donated specifically for this cause. Artists who will be donating their work for the raffle include Swoon, D*Face, and many others.
Here's why we are doing a raffle - Many artists have sent us emails offering to donate work to be auctioned off to raise money. But if we went forward with an auction, and if we did indeed put these pieces up on the site, they will go to the highest bidder for, in some cases, hundreds of dollars. This means that the price for each of them will go up so high that the only people who would ultimately "win" the pieces would be those people who have the most money, not necessarily those people who want to help the most or those people who are the true fans of the art and the artists.
Most of the people who come to the Wooster site each day don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on a piece of art. Because of this, an auction on the Wooster site would not be really for the Wooster community at all. It would raise money but it would not involve the Wooster community of artists and art lovers.
Because of this, we came up with an idea, a solution - "Wooster Raffles". In this way everyone has a shot at recieving a piece of art no matter how much money you donate. In this way the artwork will still be used to raise money, but will not necessarily go to the people who have the most money. Make sense?
So beginning this weekend we'll start to let you know some of the artwork that will be included in the raffle. The pieces, and the artists, are amazing. So keep donating! If you donate now, you will be receiving work from Al or Jon's sketchbooks and you will also be entered into the raffle. We don't want to stop until we hit $10.000. And we're half way there!
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