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Monday, December 01, 2014

Items Available For Purchase, Possibly As Gifts

As I believe I have mentioned in this space a few times before, I have a store on Zazzle, where various items are for sale with designs I produced from pre-1923* sheet music covers. If you bought one of them, I would get some money, which would be pretty cool.

This is the one that started it all, because I wanted a poster of this design and couldn't find one. I bought the sheet music on Ebay and had it scanned at a place in Berkeley that usually does much more artistic stuff, and then cleaned it up a bit in GIMP.** I think it turned out okay:

I Love You California Poster by Musicallaneous

Then I learned how to do about three more things in GIMP and pulled out just the bear, and put it on a shirt:

I Love You California T Shirts by Musicallaneous

The "I'm Not A Hipster" T-shirt Line

If there is one thing that every hipster in America can agree on it is that they are definitely, totally not hipsters. It reminds me of a VH1 special I saw, about the greatest disco songs, where every single one of the bands insisted they were making soul music or R&B, not disco; including, I believe, the band that recorded "Disco Inferno." I was thinking about this and it occurred to me that, regardless of the social and psychological implications, what we had here was a product opportunity. Therefore, I present to you: The "I'm not a Hipster" line of products.

Not A Hipster-- Pants by halfthefun

For the narrow-trouser aficionado.

A Sudden Descent Into Crass Commercialism

If you live in the Bay Area (and frankly, why wouldn't you?), you've probably seen plenty of people wearing "The City" and "The Town" t-shirts, celebrating the nicknames of San Francisco and Oakland, respectively. I've always thought they're great, but just a little limiting. Which is why, with the help of a contract design company and the custom product e-retailer that's based in my same office park, we are proud to introduce the first products in the Half the Fun retail empire*: