Wait, MaxFunHQ is moving?
After more than a decade at the American Cement Building, the time has come to move on. We had three main options:
- Find new digs for the whole team.
- Downsize to a small studio-only space.
- Live that virtual life! Podcast in PJs! Zoom our way to prosperity!
What did we choose? And how did we choose it?
A bunch of worker owners were tasked with scouring the city for possibilities. Ultimately, they found a large, open space in downtown LA that is, shockingly, within our indie-media-biz-oh-and-we’re-a-worker-cooperative budget.
If this place didn’t exist, honestly, we might have looked more seriously at downsizing. But it does, and though it is scary and maybe foolhardy to sign up to pay rent in an increasingly virtual world, at a meeting of all worker-owners of MaxFun, we voted collectively to do it.
The “why” is simple: MaxFun is a community, and a community needs a home. In a world increasingly populated with AI slop, we need a place to gather our real human workers to discuss and debate and collaborate on stuff that will be personal, strange, handcrafted, and occasionally breathtakingly stupid.
In the coming weeks we hope to invite many of you into our community’s new home, with photos and videos and even a post-move party. But in the meantime, you can…
Get cool stuff AND help us move!
We’ve got three great ways for you to help us move. The first is your traditional money-in-exchange-for-goods-type-deal, with a vintagey MaxFun-exclusive twist. The other two are…weirder.
Buy vintage merch
Every MaxFunDrive, we buy a few more gifts than we need—stuff gets lost in the mail, or breaks, or glitches. Many years of “a few” has added up to “kind of a lot, actually,” and now we would be very happy for you to take this vintage MFD merch off our hands for very modest prices.
You can’t just choose the exact thing you want, though—that would make fulfillment a bear, and besides, that privilege is reserved for our incredible MaxFun new & upgrading members. But if you like a deal and a surprise, you can select from mystery packs of past MFD pins (3 for $15), aprons / bags / really REALLY BIG bags ($35) and more.
We’ve also got socks, skateboard decks, stickers, and more! Go check ’em out and spin that metaphorical mystery wheel!
Slap your name on our stuff
Okay, we don’t have an arena, but we do have items for sponsorship to fit pretty much every budget. Pay a little money (or a lot) and have your name emblazoned on our brand new studio (with a fancy metal plaque) or a toilet roll holder (with a paper label—but it’s gold!).
This was partially inspired by the Curtis Galloway coffee machine, so named because lovely MaxFun member Curtis Galloway bought us a wonderful coffee machine that we use every day.
If nothing else, please just go look at the 30-second Sharpie drawings of items and read all of our slightly unhinged descriptions of everything in the office.
We had fun.
–>>Buy naming rights to an item<<–
Plus, if you sponsor something, we’ll email you an invite for the traditional post-move pizza and beer to check out your, uh, dongle or whatever.
The really weird ideas
Want to chip in but don’t want…stuff? Does the thought of having your name on something permanently conjure unpleasant feelings about mortality? We’ve got you covered!
For $10, we’ll have a MaxFunHQ staffer give you a compliment via our social media channels. What kind of compliment? Who knows, but we’ll make it good, and we’re certain that it, or something like it, will be 100% true.
For $5, we promise you Mortalization at MaxFunHQ! We’ll put your name up on a post-it note, and it will stay there until it falls down or somebody needs to write a quick reminder for themselves.
–>>Do something kinda pointless, but fun!<<–
Thanks for reading and for being the best audience in the biz! Also if anyone in the LA area needs some cardboard boxes in a few weeks, hit us up.
— All your friends at MaxFunHQ