Hi folks!
So it’s been almost 4 weeks since our Christmas Radiohead For Haiti DVD release, so I feel like I should give everyone some updates. What can I say – it is pretty smashing.
As of Tuesday, January 18 we have raised $16,720 from a total of 42 countries (!!) – pardon me – 41 countries and some $$ from ‘undisclosed locations’ :-)
This is stunning and amazing and profoundly awesome, and so we all need to give one huge ‘thank you’ to each other for making this happen.
But here’s what I’m thinking…. We got a really intense press attention, so we got it out there to people who love Radiohead, would love to contribute to the Haiti fund, but are not necessarily hanging out on WASTE or Atease, or even DAS. But press attention is a funny thing – it’s huge, it’s monstrously useful, incredibly flattering and – profoundly shot-lived. Kinda like an attention of a
5-year old. :) Alright, I get it, it’s their job – NEWS. The situation in Haiti sucks, it’s downright terrible if you watched any videos on youtube, but it’s just – hmm – not really ‘newsy’ enough, is it?
Now, I’m thinking, you guys are hardcore, you were the first ones to hear about our DVD project, and the fundraiser and all – way before Spin, and Consequence of Sound, and LA Times, and BBC, and Stereogum, and Rolling Stone Brazil, and Pitchfork and every other news channel that ran a column about it. You didn’t really find it out from them. In fact, I got a couple of ‘How come you didn’t tell me?!’ and ‘I had no idea!!’ emails in the last couple days which makes me think that our own ‘traditional’ grass-roots methods of just spreading the word make a big difference. Don’t you
think? We did not look for media coverage of this project – they found it, and it’s great; but now, that the media rush is mostly over - I’m asking you to perhaps forward this info on the DVD to whatever page, blog, site, facebook post – or just a bunch of friends who you think might be interested, but were not 'in the know'.
Now, because people we are talking about are NOT HERE, and we want to make it easy for them – here’s our ‘unaffiliated’ blog
http://inez4bears.blogspot.com/2010/12/radiohead-for-haiti-multi-cam-dvd.html
(identical to this http://www.waste-central.com/profiles/blogs/radiohead-for-haiti-multicam ) with all the download links… all the info and the story.
and here’s the Oxfam donations page www.oxfamamerica.org/radiohead – put it right there too, when you are emailing or posting.
Just let people know about this thing happening – they will thank you!
This is a looooong process, you know, it will take A LOT of effort and $$ to get Haiti back together. Whatever YOU, guys, do to help it is PRICELESS.
And our uploads/downloads are running – hundreds a day…. ha ha You would think $16K+ can still grow quite a bit!!!
Thanks a million for all your help. I have a total crisis at work - just can’t handle this anymore – perhaps you can take over? ;-)
xo
inez
