I started the Boudoir Rouge series with only one great cause in mind: honor the women of Second Life.

I had no intent to sell this series for a charity because I have no time to organize a fundraiser and also because I never really sold my art.

I had this talk with Gwyneth and realized it could be a good way, with all the time I spent and will spend on this series, to at least make it useful. Thing is, if I do that, I will need some help and it will take some time to put that on the rails.

I need to shop around different printing services and see what could be produced and mass sold. The idea I have in head is a printed booklet with all pictures in it. Maybe other articles like posters too. Also Moo Money gave me that idea I could also do a limited framed series, that would be numbered and sold to the highest bidders. I must discuss this with Greg from Avatrait since they can offer such service and their prints/frames are high quality enough for the purpose. In brief this must be discussed and thought about in a more concise way.

Another thing is I intend the Boudoir Rouge series to be exposed exclusively at Code Red Lounge/Gallery and all the art sold inworld would be accounted for charities too.

So here’s the deal. I spent already about 72h on the actual series, and will spend much much more. I would be happy if I could make a few meager bucks for all the time spent, and would gladly donate the rest to charities. I am ready to give up to 90% of the proceedings to some good causes. That means for example if 5000$US is gathered, I would get 500$ and 4500$ would be donated. This still needs to be thought about and confirmed but that is what I have in mind.

I have two underlying causes I would like to donate to: AIDS research and cancer research. So I would split the proceedings half/half. One half would probably go to the AMFAR or ARA (AIDS research) and the other half probably to Relay for Life, or the AACR (cancer research). EDIT: I am NOT currently campaigning for R4L or any other organization at the moment because the project is still at evaluation stage and no campaign is going on until there is goods to deliver, this is my primary focus. Tho, I would encourage anyone of you to give their Lindens to R4L, since it is an awesome cause. All donations to any organization would be a personal donation.
I have a lot of concern about children living in Eastern Europe around the decrepit Chernobyl reactor and around many other foreign country sponsored world-class nuclear stockpiles located in Eastern European countries. Those kids gets cancer at infancy stage because of nuclear proliferation and gross negligence of both the russian government and our industrialized countries that buys this nuclear storage space for peanuts. But one of the problems is local authorities are so corrupt there’s very little chance the money would make it through there. Hence the reason I chose to donate to America based cancer research organizations instead, because in the long term research may be more beneficial to them.

I hope I can get this working with some help, since those are two causes that are really important to me. At least I can hope it will spread awareness about those problems that touches everyone of us, be it ourselves or someone we know closely, and how important it is to encourage research.

Sometimes I’m just sorry that it’s us, the little people, that must support research when fat corporations pulls profit from medication sales for AIDS and block generic medication sales, and causes most of the environmental damage that leads to the proliferation of all types of cancer.

But if we do not take the matter in our own hands, it is certainly not us that will profit the most from the newly found cures. Let’s fight sickness for the future of our own children, when the time comes, the people responsible for exacerbating the effects of those terrible diseases will find their own doom.