Campaign

JAY-Z PERFORMS AT OBAMA CAMPAIGN EVENT WHILE BEYONCE GETS MINION TO PEN AN ‘OPEN LETTER’ TO THE PRESIDENT

November 6, 2012

Musicians mixing it up with politicians and performing at their campaign events is a highly amusing sight. It’s all so showbizzy. Check out former Marcy Projects waste man turned rapper, turned mogul, turned close friend to politicians Jay-Z, performing the track 99 Problems at President Obama’s last campaign event before America decides who sits in the Oval Office tomorrow. …. *cringe* And while Jigga performed his wife Beyonce was busy at home instructing one of her minions to devise/write an ‘open letter’ to the President. Hahahahaha. Jigga, 99 Problems, Springsteen,  gushing open letters […]

DIGITAL DEATH CAMPAIGN REACHES $1 MILLION GOAL THANKS TO BILLIONAIRE PHILANTHROPIST

December 7, 2010

It looks like somebody took pity on Alicia Keys and the celebrities who took part in the farcical/struggling Digital Death Campaign  and  has donated $500,000 to the cause. Via AHN The much-publicized Digital Death campaign of Keep a Child Alive organization, spearheaded by Alicia Keys, has finally made $1 million in donations after a very slow start, thanks to a billionaire. The campaign, which sees celebrities “digitally dead” from their social network sites in the hopes of raising a million dollars for the charity, was met with […]

CELEBRITIES RECORD THEIR “LAST TWEETS AND TESTAMENTS” TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR WORLD AIDS DAY

December 1, 2010

Today Hollywood “died digitally” for World AIDS Day, as part of Alicia Keys’ Keep a Child Alive AIDS Awareness Campaign. Celebrities who have Twitter accounts have  ”sacrificed yes that’s right “SACRIFICED” tweeting until $1 million is raised to buy their digital lives back (they believe their fans will miss their presence on Twitter that much), and millionairess Alicia Keys believes that spending thousands of dollars  on this campaign will help HIV/AIDS sufferers living in Africa and India. Anyway before they abandoned their Twitter accounts […]

KIM KARDASHIAN POSES AS A CORPSE FOR CHARITY

November 29, 2010

Source “Reality” TV star Kim Kardashian has agreed to pose as a corpse for a promotional campaign called The Digital Life Sacrifice. Punchbowl Blog reports, the image is part of an internet campaign in which stars including Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Usher will quit social networking sites to raise money for charity. They have filmed ‘last tweet and testament’ videos which will appear in ads showing them in coffins to represent what the campaign calls their digital deaths. They will log off […]

WE ARE LONDON. ARE YOU?

November 17, 2010

adidas Originals is celebrating London talent during November and December with its WE ARE LONDON campaign. WE ARE LONDON features emerging talent from the capital and stars artists: Bashy, Scorcher, Devlin, Loick Essien, Maxsta and SB:TV presenter Georgia LA.   We Are London is adidas’ biggest campaign in London to date which celebrates the unique talent and creativity that thrives within our capital city. The sounds, the sights and the vibrancy of young London. WE ARE LONDON is a declaration of belonging […]

UK NEWS: GALLERY LAUNCHES SLAVE PORTRAIT APPEAL

July 8, 2010

BBC News reports that The National Portrait Gallery has launched a campaign to stop the export of the earliest known British oil painting of a freed slave. A spokesperson from the gallery says they need to raise £100,000 to save the 1733 portrait of Gambian Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, by artist William Hoare. Ayuba Suleiman Diallo Diallo came from a prosperous family of religious clerics, was captured as a slave in Africa at the age of 29 and was transported to work on a plantation in America. […]