raynmond, i see your point about the photo. i can live without more of what you describe.
on the other hand, if they can use the shirts and someone is willing to get the shirts to them. great. please do. can we do more? absolutely does your email make suggestions how we can? yes and thank you for sharing your passion raymond. does your email address the issue that was raised? no. so now get off our backs my friend and hero :) markus On Feb 27, 2007, at 3:33 PM, R. Kristiansen wrote: > Hey all, > > Am I the only one who finds this just a Bit distasteful? To send a > bunch of > branded t-shirts to Cambodia because our geeky females didn't take > all of > them last summer in San Francisco? > > And then to ask for a picture to top it off? How are they to respond > to > this? "Ooh, the nice people in America have sent us t-shirts about > videoblogging. Let's smile for the Americans"? > > This is really making me upset. > > IF we are going to send VloggerCon t-shirts to poor non-Caucasians in > Cambodia, we might just as well Really get involved there. Get > involved with > their local community. Find ways that we as privileged westerners can > really > help. Just sending them 50 t-shirts because we can't find ways to > distribute > them among ourselves feels wrong. > > If we at all care about youth in Cambodia (and I am Not saying that > Beth > Kanter doesn't care), we should get involved, try to do something, > maybe set > up a project a la http://swajana.com/ where we can give them a chance > to put > their voice out there. Give us Their perspective on life. > > Give them a voice amplifier. Don't give them a frigging t-shirt and > let them > smile to the camera so we can tell ourselves and each other how > international we are as a vlogosphere. > > Am I off track here? :) > > best, > > Raymond M. Kristiansen > > On 2/27/07, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Jay: I'd love to send them over to Cambodia ... small girl sizes > are > > > perfect .... I can get them distributed via street kids or at the > > village > > > school or one of our orphanages. I can cover the postage across > from to > > me > > > - and I'll get them to Cambodia later this spring. B. > > > > Unless anyone else asks for a shirt soon... > > send me your address offlist. > > They're yours. > > > > as Jan says...we'd love a photo out of the deal.... > > > > Jay > > > > -- > > Here I am.... > > http://jaydedman.com > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > --- Markus Sandy http://feeds.feedburner.com/havemoneywillvlog http://feeds.feedburner.com/apperceptions http://feeds.feedburner.com/digitaldojo http://feeds.feedburner.com/spinflow [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
