ANTI/gen: among other things, an online clothing shop...

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posted by Jon on June 8th, 2009 in Funness, Love

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Processing...Well, I was trying to do a little pre-work work but lost my way. I kept thinking about how lonely you loyal readers must be ever since we announced shutting down the shop and seemingly sailed off the edge of the earth.

One thing I’ll say upfront is that these posts will likely get more personal since they’re coming at ya way less formally than previous updates (or not, guess that’s subjective…). If it is lame or uneventful, I’d say I’m sorry but it’s mostly your fault.

So, Rich has his last week here in Santa Cruz before he moves back to San Diego to work at House of Blues and move in with his girl, Ali. I can’t wait to sleep our your couch.

And, me… well, if you’re curious (and I’ll assume you are since you’re still reading,) I’ve been keeping my brain occupied. Few things of interest:

  • I met Flying Lotus. (ok, at a show)
  • I’m playing with Processing. It’s a programming language geared toward audio/visual generation/manipulation. The picture above is a screenshot of some live action - a little doctored for ambience.
  • Odysseus and I are getting settled in our new diggs.
  • I’m playing with Reason. Actually, I’ve been playing with reason for well over a year now but usually alone at night, and hardly as good as one should be after using anything for over a year. Hope to share some beats I come up with if I can get my shit dialed.
  • I stopped shaving again.
  • In nerd news: I’ve refactored a ton of my first open-source project for anything. This one happens to be an Authorize.net plugin in the most excellent CakePHP framework and the plugin can be found and forked at github.
  • I’m in the market for a good chef’s knife.

Well, I gotta finish up this cup of coffee and get my ass to the office. I’ve been riding my bike to work for over a month now so I’ve got a bit of a trek ahead of me.

In the meantime, listen…


mr wobble’s nightmare

posted by Jon on May 8th, 2009 in Funness, Sounds, Video Video

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this was just too rad to keep to myself.


this shop has sailed…

posted by Jon on April 18th, 2009 in Shop News

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hmm.. i’m not sure how to go about saying this so i’ll just say it: we’re closing the shop.

a ton of factors come into play up to the decision that was made to do so, but overall it doesn’t really matter… it’s just time.

now, i can’t speak for rich, but on a personal level, this is actually one of the most liberating decisions i’ve made in a while. there’s definitely a sad aspect to it, but overall it’s really positive. let me explain, briefly:

we lost sight of the purpose we even started this: to have fun. the shop has been such an emotional, psychological and financial drain for both of us — such a stress due to the many factors involved in mantaining a shop, the site, marketing, etc. etc. and above all, a declining economy. things just weren’t working out on many levels and it was eating away at us. now, a suddenly lucid realization: we have reached our limit.

one of our other goals was this underlying mission to provide a way for ourselves, our friends, family and everyone who supported us to have an easy way to get some of the clothes we were into wayyy discounted. that’s one of the positive sides of closing: until further notice, everything is now priced at cost. this means at least 50% off, more in many cases.

anti-gen was never solely intended to be a shop; it was just the first idea. and with that, though there’s a sea of changes that has swept over both rich and i’s lives in the past week… as soon as the storm has passed this means there is so much more time to — rather than stress about the financials of a failing store — get creative with other, perhaps more meaningful technological and social experiments.

it has been a blast and i’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished with the shop.

thank you everyone for any and all support.

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anti/gen will continue to be the umbrella identity that rich and i work under. i have a lot of ideas and i’m really looking forward to having the free time to pursue and share them with you all.


anti-gen not anti-social

hey santa cruz, free shipping. free shipping for any order at the shop if you are delivering to santa cruz, california -- courtesy of rich and his yama-hog.
Cakefest Berlin 2009, July 9-12, Berlin, Germany