Just a Memo

Shepard Fairey (”Obey Giant“) and the Obama Hope image was featured Wednesday night on CBS News with Katie Couric. Here’s the segment.

Here’s the infamous HOPE image (aka. “Obama is Hope”), along with others that Fairey created before (and after) the historic election day this past Tuesday, November 4, 2008:

In celebration of Halloween, You the Designer and UPrinting.com have created 4 political masks just in time for Friday night fun! These fun political mask designs can be easily printed and cut out so you can support or make fun of your favorite political star!

Here’s a preview:

Click on the candidate’s name below to download the PDF version:

• Barack Obama
• Joe Biden
• John McCain
• Sarah Palin

Enjoy!

Source via You the Designer.

With the countdown to probably one of the biggest choices Americans are going face in the years to come, the Presidential Elections will be here in no time. In an effort to get the word out for people to vote for their future, Declare Yourself^[1] partnered up with some of Hollywood’s stars to get the message across. In this case, they did well using “reverse psychology“:

A couple of bits that stood out for me are the ones from Jonah Hill and Sarah Silverman. Comedy is comedy. It’s just bound to get laughs but at the same time, tell the truth. “Truth in jest” right?

Anyways, GO VOTE! Not only does it give your thoughts more weight when debating things ranging from the Economy to Global Warming, but it also allows you to say “YES” when asked in the middle of the debate, “did you vote?”

A couple of ways to register online:

• rockthevote.org
• declareyourself.com

Voter registration deadlines begin this upcoming Saturday, October 4th. Go do it now before its too late. It’ll only take a couple of minutes to register. Remember, don’t complain if you can’t even exercise your right to vote. I hope that helps.

Update
Only a couple more days till November 4th, Declare Yourself produced part 2 of the campaign:

1. Declare Yourself is the national nonpartisan, nonprofit voter initiative aimed at registering America’s 18-year-olds to vote in the 2008 primaries and general election. DeclareYourself.com is your place for news and information about the candidates and issues, answers to your questions about registering and voting, and an easy-to-use online registration tool. Declare Yourself will give millions of first-time voters an active voice in their democracy & prove that they are a force to be reckoned with.
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Declare Yourself teamed up with photographers Mark Liddell and David LaChapelle along with Jessica Alba, Christina Aguilera, Jonathan Bennett, LaToya London and Andre 3000 to bring some PSAs to get people to vote this upcoming November’s Presidential Elections.

Meanwhile, if I may say, the campaign also has a great tagline: “Only you can silence yourself.” Awesome. These are great.

Woah. As if having the creative likes of Obey (Shepard Fairey), ISO50 (Scott Hansen), and Sarah Silverman weren’t enough, a couple of iPhoneDevCamp alumni volunteered to create an iPhone and iPod Touch application for Barack Obama.

You’ll have instant access to Barack’s positions on important issues, as well as local and national campaign news as it happens. Photos and videos from the campaign trail are all here, too.

• Call Friends: A great volunteering tool that lets you make a difference any time you want by talking to people you already know. Your contacts are prioritized by key battleground states, and you can make calls and organize results all in one place.
• Call Stats: See nationwide Obama ‘08 Call Friends totals and find out how your call totals compare to leading callers.
• Get Involved: Do more. Find and contact your local Obama for America HQ.
• Receive Updates: Receive the latest news and announcements via text messages or email.
• News: Browse complete coverage of national and local campaign news.
• Local Events: Find local events, share by email and get maps and directions.
• Media: Browse videos and photos from the campaign
• Issues: Get clear facts about Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s plan for essential issues facing Americans.

I wonder how the McCain camp will follow up on this. For some reason, every time I associate John McCain and the web, I seem to refer to Mike Davidson punishing McCain’s web team for hot linking images on John McCain’s MySpace page. Classic.

Anyways, enough of the reminiscing. I commend the iPhoneDevCamp alumni amongst the other 4 who volunteered their time to the project. It truly gives some boost and good press to the iPhone development platform and its everyday application; whether it be checking your health, to learning why to vote for a presidential candidate.

The app is available at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/iphone