Calvin Ross Carl
@calvinrosscarl
Creative Director — Parliament Board Games — @goodgoblet.com Artist — SEASON Ex-Gallerist — Carl & Sloan Ex-Art Director — Invision PDX 🌈
Went on a Big Walk today! @househouse.com @panic.com It’s an absolute joy. Even the part where @timhutchings.bsky.social threw our flashlight into the ocean
I like this sculpture. Taryn Tomasello’s “Bunker” at Society Gallery. Opened tonight in Portland
New client: Your LinkedIn profile photo is uhh.... interesting. Me:
Some of the last work I made before I dropped out of the art world to became a mediocre poet, a game nerd, and a person who actually relaxes occasionally.
Totally. I’ve been playing some persecutor purely because the card art looks like Randy Macho Man Savage. So there’s nothing actually strategic about my choices 😆
Apparently I accidentally took these photos while doing my long morning walk
Masters of the Universe: Clash for Eternia (or just call it "He-Man Game") was decent, but the best part was seeing @wordblanket.com do his best Skeletor impression over and over again
People outside the US (I know you get this) don’t understand the vastness of space in the US and how it upends all ideas of shared social responsibility and duty. I’m in rural Oregon with family right now, and the ideological shift two hours outside of Portland, OR is WILD. But it’s beautiful here.
I've been talking about Wipeout a lot at my job. So I made some wallpapers for our agency Parliament
From 1980, Saga by TSR 😍 A very sweet birthday present from @timhutchings.bsky.social
Finally getting all minis ready for Whispers of the Deep so got refresh them rules
When your local bookshop has a copy of Eternøl 👌 @electi.bsky.social
Sometimes ya gotta do a ladder long pour of Son of Man cider 🍏 🥽
At our weekly game design get together, we discussed coins vs dice for randomization. And it made me miss the absurdity of tossing tokens in Runebound. Your character and weapons get unique tokens. Then you toss them in the air and see which way they land, as if casting runes.
Laura Jean Foster at @falsefront.bsky.social is a real charmer
It turns out that I’m very bad at being the humans and @wordblanket.com is very good at being the demons in Claustrophobia 1643
Portland Cherry Bombs win their first game ever! @cherrybombsfc.bsky.social
First planet of Unsettled. What an immaculate action efficiency puzzle ✨ And it actually has solid, fun writing in it!
Accidentally won at Scales of Fate. Probably the first from IV Games that has really hit for me