Monthly Archives: January 2012
Economy of Line II at Urbanlight Studios
| January 9, 2012 | Posted by CalamityJon under Events and Appearances |
This upcoming Friday the 13th (oooh, spooky!), Seattle-based sketchgroup The Bureau of Drawers (of which I’m a merry member) will be hosting their second Economy of Line show at Urbanlight Studios (8537 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle WA) during the Greenwood-Phinney Art Walk.
More than a dozen members of the group will be set up at live-drawing stations on both floors of UrbanLight studios, actually creating the gallery show from scratch – we begin the evening with all the gallery walls completely devoid of art, then we draw like little crazy people in an attempt to make enough original art to fill every square inch! It’s madness!
The last Economy of Line show was a blast, so I hope you Seattle-area locals will join us – the artists will be approachable, available, and happy to chat, as well as to take suggestions and commissions. Additionally, all the work produced that night will be for sale, for very reasonable prices - you can walk up and buy the art right off the wall, and for little more than walking-around money. You got walking-around money, don’t you? If not, why are you walking around? See, I win.
So, please do swing by, we’d love to see you, and help spread the word if you can:
The Bureau of Drawers present Economy of Line II
@ UrbanLight Studios
8537 Greenwood Ave N
Seattle, WA – (206) 708-7281
Part of the Greenwood-Phinney Art Walk
More info here …
Another new year, another new blog …
| January 9, 2012 | Posted by CalamityJon under Uncategorized |
I took the opportunity, at the end of 2011, to leave my webhost of the last eight years (over what I’ll politely call “over-enthusiastic billing liberalities” applied to my account) and, since I’m relocating to a whole new host I thought I may as well start over with a whole new blog.
The cupboards are currently bare over here, but having officially – and finally – changed over the name of my personal site from the name it once held as a studio collective website – “Ape-Law.com” – to the more self-identifying “Calamity Jon Save.Us”, I figure this is a good time to begin collecting the last ten years of internet and artistic frivolities in one location.
What’s eventually going to end up here? Well, at the very least, it’ll be nice to have a single hub pointing the way to my presence on the assorted social networking, social media and general locales of internet froofraw where I typically abide. Swerve your observe to the right-hand column for a handy map of the places where I digitally dip my toe on occasion.
Content-wise, I have literally a decade of articles, scripts, stories, poems, pamphlets, doodles, illustrations and full-blown comics taking up space on my hard drive with nowhere else to go. While this site is, so far, only a blog and a front page, I hope to turn it into the Calamity Jon Omnibus (or “Calamity Jomnibus”).
Over the last two or three years, I’ve transitioned from working largely in illustration to working primarily in graphic design, and additionally specializing in the emerging discipline of User Experience Design. In that time, two things have happened – a number of my skills have spun off into new directions, and an equal number of my old skills have atrophied from disuse.
This is why, in 2012, I’ve resolved to re-apply myself to my old haunts and to – with “perishing” being the only alternative – start becoming active again. Providing the iron in my spine maintains its resolute rigidity, you can expect to see new comics, new illustrations, new blogs and collaborative projects, stories and posts covering some of the new skills and disciplines I’ve picked up over the last, somewhat life-changing three years.
In the meantime, thanks so much for swinging by and checking it out. Expect more stuff every day that I remember to post more stuff (that’s the best promise I can make), and Happy New Year, folks!
-Calamity Jon
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