One Day News Source Video

I just found this News Source 15 video featuring Stuart Darsey, from One Day last year, floating around the Internet. Check it out.




I hope this inspires you to take off your shoes on April 8!

One Day Without Shoes Video Shoot

Today we started filming of our One Day Without Shoes video, and had a lot of fun in the process. Here are some photos from the shoot.

We can't wait for ODWS.

Send in your photos to have them added to the blog!

One Day Without Shoes design contest

TOMS is so excited about One Day Without Shoes, April 8, 2010, that they are going crazy with generosity (like they aren't generous enough?)!

TOMS has teamed up with Threadless.com to create an awesome T-shirt design contest. Participants are asked to design a tee based on the theme: It's hard without shoes. This theme leaves a lot of room for creativity in design. (The ideas are swirling around in my head as we speak.)

The contest runs from Feb. 2 - Feb. 21, 2010, and the winning design will be promoted along with ODWS. In addition, the winning designer will receive a year of free TOMS (12 pairs), the opportunity to design a t-shirt for the TOMS Shoes online store, a $500 Threadless.com gift card and $2000 dollars cash!

The submission deadline will be here before you know it, so get those brains a-stormin' and enter to win this great contest.

For more details on the contest check out TOMS Shoes & Threadless.com. You can also view the contest submissions.

It's that time of year again...

One Day without Shoes is fast approaching! Mark it on your calendars! April 8, 2010 is the second annual ODWS.


TOMS is asking everyone to go barefoot for one day, one hour, one minute on this day to raise awareness of the large group of people on this planet (40% of the population) that go barefoot every day.

Be sure to check TOMS' ODWS website and on the TOMS at UGA blog for updates on the event.

I leave you with this: The facts.

Fact #1:

In some developing nations, children must walk for miles to food, clean water and to seek medical help.

Fact #2:

Cuts and sores on feet can lead to serious infection.

Fact #3:

Often, children cannot attend school barefoot.

Fact #4:

In Ethiopia, approximately one million people are suffering from Podoconiosis, a debilitating and disfiguring disease caused by walking barefoot in volcanic soil.

Fact #5:

Podoconiosis is 100% preventable by wearing shoes.

Dawgs for Haiti

On January 12, 2010, the worst natural disaster to affect the western hemisphere in decades struck some of our poorest and most vulnerable neighbors. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake rattled the small Caribbean nation of Haiti, just ten miles outside of the densely populated city of Port-au-Prince. More than 50,000 people may be dead and buried among the rubble.

Volunteer UGA and the University of Georgia are answering the call to action. Dawgs for Haiti is a bulldog nation-wide effort organizing to raise money to support the victims of this devastating earthquake.

$50,000 for 50,000. That is our pledge, and our proceeds will be devided evenly between the relief efforts of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. The bulldog nation has 34,000 students, 250,000 alumni, and countless more members around the world. Now is the time for us to come together in the spirit of Southern hospitality and give our support to the victims of this terrible disaster.

Please donate generously.

Hanson + HelloGoodbye Concert

For all of you who were unable to get to the Tabernacle on Oct. 28 to the Use Your Sole Tour, here is what you missed:

HelloGoodbye played a great set and get everyone excited. I loved the guy with the Ukulele! They played a few classics, like Bonnie Taylor Shakedown, Call N' Return and Dear Jaime... Sincerely Me. I hadn't listened to these guys in a few years and I was pleasantly surprised by how many of their songs I remembered. I had a lot of fun singing and jumping around to their pop-punk, nerdy dance music.

And then Hanson took the stage.... All the girls in the audience sighed, screamed and swooned at their dreamy long hair and grown up good looks. (No more 15 year olds in this band.) They played a mix of old hits, like MMMbop and Where's the Love, and new ballads written to inspire change and bring new meaning to music, like The Walk and a few new songs off their new Stand Up, Stand Up EP.

By the end of the night, all the girls had melted away into little puddles and had to be mopped up. The other bands joined Hanson on stage for an encore and everyone left feeling warm and happy.

I just want to say that I'm a little upset I missed the Halloween show, because the guys performed a cover of Thriller for the encore.