Thanks to Chris Hudson for these photos from the Richmond, VA Get Out And Vote show. Ain’t that backdrop sexy?

From the back..

Santogold & Adam Yauch

Jack Johnson

Sheryl Crow

Mike D & Mix Master

Ad Rock & Yauch

We were stoked to work with our new friends over at OK Rocket on the new Jason Mraz site. You may remember our post a little while back about creating the look & feel for the site…

Well, now we’re winning awards! Well, being showcased for the work on sites we respect a lot. Or rather, a site we worked on is, and OK Rocket is winning awards.. so, that’s an award for us too right? Sweet!

First one from WDS - websitedesignawards.com in the Flash category.

The second from Adobe as the Site Of The Day for 10/28.

Obviously OK Rocket deserves the credit here in creating a kick ass fluid flash site with insane CMS backend, but we’ll gladly stand up next to them and take the credit for the look/feel and conceptualization of course! Yay!

Our good friends over at NCompass threw the official launch party for Gutar Hero: World Tour for Activision and Best Buy. The logo lock-up we did for Best Buy / Activision was literally everywhere, but somehow out of the 3 iPhone photos that turned out, you can’t see it anywhere. oh well. crazy big party, and the new game looks sick.

Thanks to Scott from Activision for the extra passes and the NCompass crew for taking care of us.

But I gotta say.. who let the Smashing Pumpkins play 20 minutes of straight up noise in their set? Ouch. That was a bit brutal. But otherwise, good times!

Darren & Simon have a strange relationship…

The main game-play room and open bar..

Andrew, our new studio partner and head of Japs Ltd, looking very serious (and blurry - thanks iPhone).

EDIT: Found: The logo money shot, photo courtesy joystiq (Thanks for the heads up Matt!)

Check out joystiq for a full write-up on the event, and more images from the party here.

This one is for the Rock The Vote sponsored “The Ultimate Get Out The Vote Rally” happening in Denver, CO on 11/3 with the Beasties and Tenacious D. We’ll be doing a limited # of posters for this one too, available only at the venue night of the show.

VOTE OBAMA ‘08!! VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!

We had the pleasure of spending the last year or so developing Jason’s new photography book - A Thousand Things - under his direction. This was quite a project actually, sifting through literally thousands of Polaroids to come up with the collection showcased here, sourcing production, running sales projections, assisting in the marketing and distribution development, overseeing production, and much more..

I gotta say, developing a book like this is a LOT more work than we anticipated, and the timelines are insanely long, but we think it turned out great - a really clean, solid book that we’re all very proud of. Only 5000 copies were printed on this first pressing and it’s available now from Jason’s webstore, Amazon.com, on the current Mraz store, and ventually bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Nobles.

You can find out more information and see a preview of the contents on the book’s official page (which we also developed the look & feel for), athousandthingsbook.com.

Big thanks to Bill Silva, Jason, the entire BSM crew, the guys over at America’s Printers, and Graham Nash for trusting us with this project!

Here is a new Hoody we did for the upcoming Pierce The Veil tour.

We were recently asked to do the “Best Buy Guitar Hero: World Tour Headquarters” logo lock-up for the big Guitar Hero release this year. this shit’s everywhere now. hooray.

GET OUT AND VOTE!! It’s a big election year and our friends the Beastie Boys are putting together a VOTE NOW DAMNIT series of shows at the beginning of November.

We just finished the poster / admat for what’s officially being called the Get Out And Vote ‘08 Tour.

There will be a limited # of screenprinted posters available at each gig with all proceeds of their sales going to Rock The Vote.

Artists vary by city:

October 28th - Richmond, VA - Richmond Coliseum
Beastie Boys, Sheryl Crow, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Santogold, and special guests

November 1st - St Paul, MN - Roy Wilkens Auditorium
Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Tenacious D, and special guests

November 3rd - Milwaukee, WI - U.S. Cellular Arena
Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Crosby & Nash, Tenacious D, and special guests

So as mentioned, we’re in a new space. welcome…

the build out has begun…

from the other side…

and the rest of the space. jeez.

simon hard at work.

he usually doesn’t smile. odd.

here we have darren drawing some bones.

argh.

doug is either really stressed out, or afraid of being captured by the feds. hmm…

lola loves her some blue astroturf.

yay!

This is Simon. he is a new art director here at The Uprising.
Also we just moved into a sick 5000 square foot loft.
we will soon take over everything.

Welcome Simon.