Huffington Post: Brandon Boyd: Incubus Front-Man Teams Up With TOMS To Give Shoes To Children (VIDEO)
This summer, Incubus front man Brandon Boyd teamed up with TOMS Shoes for the Collaborative Canvas Project. Together, Boyd and friend, model/artist Kristin Jai Klosterman, created unique works of art on massive canvases, that were then cut in pieces to create 100 limited-edition pairs of TOMS shoes. Boyd and Klosterman each painted an individual canvas and collaborated on the third.
The shoes made from their art were debuted in L.A. last week. Causecast caught up with Boyd at the launch party.
Causecast: Can I ask you why you feel compelled to be active? Also, why should you or anyone care about someone in another continent when it doesn't directly affect you?
Brandon Boyd: I think the best way to answer that question is with a very simple answer. It's probably sounding a little hokey, but honestly what I believe and how I think..
Read more at the Huffington Post
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Comment by Brenda Estefania Miranda on June 19, 2010 at 10:51pm -
love it!
love the art..love the cause...just LOVE IT!
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Comment by Elisha Kay Marr on November 4, 2009 at 2:57pm -
Love this idea! The shoes look fantastic
Giving back is always good Karma man
: )
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Comment by gail powell on October 30, 2009 at 11:57pm -
"art is the flower life is the green leaf.
let every artist strive to make his flower (or shoes)
a beautiful living thing
something that will convince the world,
that there may be... there are...(shoes)&
things more precious more beautiful...
more lasting than life." c.r. mackintosh
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Comment by Rafaella de Souza on October 30, 2009 at 3:56pm -
Art + Charity is a perfect combination)
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