Now I understand why Vanity Fair always get the best photos amongst all magazine ... they are innovative and most importantly, they have style. Their covers are always interesting. Honestly I've never read any of them ... HAHA ... but since Oprah ... (erm yes. .. Oprah again) mentioned in her show that she's going to be in 2 of the covers this month for Bono's (RED) Africa project, I have been looking out at the magazine stand and Yeah ... they are OUT!!!! And I get 20% discount haha ... GREAT.
So what's this about? Bono has been this month's issue - guest editor of Vanity Fair. He's created a theme to promote Africa's beauty and also the (RED) project, of course. So, together with the Vanity Fair team and renowned photographer - Annie Leibovitz, they have come up with 20 covers with great people. To name a few: Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Maya Angelou, Iman, Madonna, etc. Each of the pictures are showing one or 2 ppl are trying to pass information to the other party .. chain message. And the message is about Africa.
These are the 20 covers that are available in a snapshot
And ... this is the one that I chose out of the 20 hehe .. guess I don't need to say why. Image courtesy of Vanity Fair - www.vf.com
I'd like to say, great job, Bono! Your passion and dedication for Africa is so great. All the best and hope the (RED) project will keep saving lives through simple means.
To read and view more of this special edition of Vanity Affair, you may check out this slideshow. You'll not regret it. I love the one with Iman too. She looks stunning like Cleopatra or something .... Bbbbbrrr .... And the one with Chris Rock and Warren Buffet. It's so funny. Chris Rock is trying to get some stock tips from Warren Buffet ... I wonder if he really gets some out of it hahaha ...
Have you heard of cellphone that saves lives? I did. Through Sheryl Crow's advertisement below:
But, the real kick was when I watched Oprah and Bono went shopping. So, I got myself into shopping mode too and I remembered Sheryl Crow in the process and voila, MotoRAZR Red is mine now. :p
Oprah & Bono Went Shopping:
The (RED) Campaign was originated by Bono (U2) and Bobby Shriver. What a brilliant concept where people can spend and save at the same time. I'm so so sold. Together they have created the (RED) campaign that supports The Global Fund and up to date they have achieved the following in less than 4 years:
· 770,000 people with treatment for HIV and AIDS · nearly 9 million people with voluntary HIV testing · more than 1 million orphans with care and support · 2 million people with treatment for tuberculosis · more than 22 million people treated for malaria · nearly 18 million families with insecticide-treated mosquito nets
So, after being so sold by Sheryl Crow & Oprah (who else...), I went to get my own MotoRAZR V3M RED to support this noble cause. Not that I need another phone. I've never fancied any other phone than Nokia. But, since it's my long time fetish to own a flip phone and since this flip phone will buy so many pills for the AIDS victims in Africa. Why not?
And on top of that, I have great friends who are supporting this cause in our own unique way. We get a new spoke person to promote the MotoRAZR RED and that is our beloved Doraemon (whom Miss Cooking Pot said the shape of his head is the same as the shape of his buttock -.-) and Doraemon is doing the same ad as Sheryl Crow (well, last part of it) and we are doing it in 4 different languages (except Japanese, unfortunately, none of us know how to translate that :p). So we started off with English, Bahasa Indonesia, Cantonese and finally Hok Kien.
Since we are amateurs, we did mistake for the first time round, here's our NG (No Good) shot due to Miss Cooking Pot who forgot her line -.-.
Hope you'll be inspired and continue to support the (RED) Project. :-) You can find out more at www.joinred.com.
I am also sharing more videos by other celebrities but nobody has made an impact like Sheryl Crow did.
Chester Bennington (Linkin Park):
Chris Rock:
Kanye West:
For the complete list of other artists who are promoting the Motorola Red, you can check out this link. You may find others like Rick Rubin, Molly Sims and Shaun White. They are all awesome.
