A quick update on the Tsunami donations that
people have been making on the Wooster website:

First, in the last
few days since we’ve but up the donations button, as a group the Wooster
community has raised close to $1,500.00 USD for Tsunami relief. That’s an awsome
amount, as we had no idea what to expect. Some donations are as small as $5.00,
so a great amount of you have been making donation. Thank you so much!

/>A quick note on where the money will go - When we put up the donation button
last week we stated that we’d be donating the money on your behalf to Doctors
Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontiere. But in the last 24 hours, Medecins
Sans Frontiere has said that they have reached their maximum amount of donations
for Asia (not a bad problem to have!) and that they are no longer taking
donations for the Tsunami relief. Because of this, we have decided to donate the
Wooster group collections to Oxfam. We hope you all agree with this as Oxfam is
a terrific organization and very worthy of our support. You can learn more about
Oxfam here.

And finally,
here’s a new, incredibly cool,  incentive to donate….

We’re
extremely pleased to let you know that href="http://www.mysteriousal.com/">Mysterious Al, a true street art
“geezer” (as Chaz and Galo would say), has joined us in helping to raise money
by making the following donation.

Here’s it straight from Al himself
—

“Seeing as to how out of hand this tsunami shit is
getting, I can no longer commit to just throwing coins into buckets on Oxford
Street.

I’d like to help as much as I can - and, having very limited
money or rescourses, I would like to donate pages from my personal sketchbooks
to the tsunami relief funds.

I will tear out a sketchbook page for
the first 100 people to donate $20 USD (?10) or more to the Wooster fund. I will
arrange for all posting (regular, non-recorded, cheapest post) to anywhere in
the world.

Some of my sketchbook pages feature some of the best
artists in the world - including Flying Fortress, Pete Fowler, The London
Police, Freaklub, D*face, PMH, Dave The Chimp (and unfortunately, myself)
amongst many others.

Please note that sketchbook pages will be torn
out by one of my mates at random, and pages vary in quality (ahem). They are
just sketches, after all…

Best for 2005- mysterious
al”

Here’s a snap of Al’s sketchbooks that the pages
will be coming out from…

/>So as you will notice we’ve just added a new donation button on the left hand
nav bar. If you would like to donate and receive a page from Al’s cherished
sketchbooks, donate now. The donation is separate from the adFunture Rubble, so
if you want both, you will need to donate twice. (Don’t forget to include your
address)

Thanks, Al!  And thanks everyone for donating.

/>Marc and Sara