tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38834425899636743672011-07-28T19:37:34.335-07:00Tony Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617528722920125150noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3883442589963674367.post-9161362544715237632010-03-06T20:31:00.000-08:002010-03-06T23:45:41.829-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TqghF7zEDTY/S5M9jOrRtcI/AAAAAAAAANQ/Nrih1nw65eI/s1600-h/tonyMaki_sc.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TqghF7zEDTY/S5M9jOrRtcI/AAAAAAAAANQ/Nrih1nw65eI/s320/tonyMaki_sc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445764049865389506" border="0" /></a>My buddies <a href="http://www.copperpotpictures.com/">Dave and Chad</a> created an amazing <a href="http://www.brownstonestoreddirt.com/">documentary</a> (see below). This inspired the super talented <a href="http://www.vickisaulls.com/vs/main.html">Vicki Saulls,</a> to create an online auction of original art on wooden postcards. All of the proceeds go to a school for the orphans in Sierra Leone. My Rhino was inspired by all of the kids in the film.<br /><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://brownstonestoreddirt.com/"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 211px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TqghF7zEDTY/S5Msi72-JOI/AAAAAAAAANI/OpkaaVWxiJc/s320/brownstones.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445745353116493026" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;">Two colleagues at </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.blueskystudios.com/">Blue Sky Studios</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, David LaMattina and Chad Walker, have created a </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://brownstonestoreddirt.com/">feature-length documentary</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> about a pen pal program between a group of at-risk sixth graders living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and orphans from the war living in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This Postcard Art project is an extension of the their film "Brownstones To Red Dirt" which features children from both schools. The kids in both places have inspired us all to want to do more and so we're putting together an art auction of original postcards based around the same central theme of the film in a fund raising effort to build a school for the orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone and create a library for the youth at their school in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >HELP BUILD A SCHOOL FOR AWESOME KIDS!</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">(and get some awesome original art)</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" >The Auction is open from Saturday March 5, 2010 - Saturday the 13th</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" ></span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://shop.ebay.com/brownstonestoreddirt/m.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A2%257C39%253A1%257C72%253A2608&amp;_ipg=200&amp;_trksid=p3911.c0.m14l">Click here to go to the Auction</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://btorpostcards.blogspot.com/">Click here to go to the Blog</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3883442589963674367-916136254471523763?l=tonimaki.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Tony Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617528722920125150noreply@blogger.com0