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ASCK is back from a crazy break that took up blog-writing time, but there’s been some cool happenings in the meantime to blog about over the next couple weeks, so you can expect some great inspiration in street culture. One source of constant inspiration - and story we’ve shared before - is that of Bobby Hundreds. I recently ran across The Hundreds’ spot in MTV’s GYT campaign, and I was even more impressed this time around. The Hundreds is proof that with a ton of passion and even more hard work, you can build your own empire. In fact, every story in the GYT campaign is equally inspiring, and made for a good cause. You can check out Buff Monster, Love+Made, and more here.

KONY 2012 

Invisible Children has been around for quite a while, and has figured out many different ways to penetrate pop culture, even so far as to stage a “rescue” on the Oprah show to raise awareness.

It can no longer be denied that social networking is one of the most powerful avenues on connecting people for a cause that exists, and Invisible Children is out to prove it with a campaign called KONY 2012, which crescendoes on 4/20 of this year. The campaign will end at the end of this year, but until then the program will drive home the desire to end crimes against mankind by way of guerilla marketing (street art), virally sharing information on sites like Twitter and FaceBook, and very well-done videos such as this one above, which you should certainly make time to watch.

 Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda. He has been abducting children for decades and forcing them to do things as terrible as to murder their own parents. The KONY 2012 campaign is not to celebrate his sins against humanity, but instead to make him famous and bring light to a person who is widely considerd the most evil human being that is alive.

Whether you believe in the method and its likelihood to produce the desired result or not, the cause is undeniably worth supporting, and sharing this video or blog post will be work done toward the betterment of our world. Find more information here.

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