Monday mornings can be a tiny bit massively miserable.

Here’s a silly thing that probably won’t change that at all in any way under any circumstances whatsoever at all:

Download stu_poohpoohs_the_blues_1.mp3

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It’s my new weekly podcast called Stu Pooh-Pooh the Blues.

iTunes it, iPod it or iGnore it.

It’s an hour’s worth of no worth.  A random collection of aural bric-a-brac, to hopefully get the week going with marginally less self-harming.  Or to kill some time until the pubs open.  At 11.

Back in March our head office in Portland started working on a pro bono project at the request of Nike. For months it was simply called "that refugee thing," and largely flew under the radar. It started to take shape about 6 weeks ago when we finally landed on a name: ninemillion.org.

Teams went to Azerbaijan, Thailand and Uganda to interview, photograph and videotape real refugee children. We entered into global partnerships to make the campaign come to life. They made a print ad. They made a TV spot. They made some short films. And they built a web site to help tell a story from the eyes of the nine million refugee children around the world, ultimately to generate donations to the United Nations world refugee fund.

The campaign launched yesterday around the world. Our Nike clients are in Washington D.C. for the kickoff, and we’ve just heard that it was very well received from heads of state, celebrities and politicians in attendance.

Today is the beginning of a 12 month fundraising drive, and the end of a crazy couple of months of very hard work and dedication from an amazing team of people.

If you have a moment, check out the web site at:

http://www.ninemillion.org