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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 03/10/2026

Caught some beautiful textile work at Liz Leach gallery in Portland last night. The sunset one by is soooo gorgeous in person

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/10/2026

I made a Wipeout car sponsored by my design firm Parliament, just for fun

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 29/09/2026

A perfectly placed printing error. My copy of Metal Scraps Covered in Moss has a slightly folded page where “The Black Line” location appears in the book. @travisdhill.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 12/09/2026

Just got home from vacation and step 1 was cracking this open. @corvusbelli.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 06/09/2026

This lady’s face captures my current thoughts on Nashville

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 03/09/2026

If I could only play games from one publisher for the rest of my life, I think I’d have to choose @dvcgames.bsky.social. Pacts delivers.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 31/08/2026

Neon Hope is an LCG-like set in a cyberpunk/solarpunk world. Only played one episode (of five in the box) but so far it seems really really promising. @hopefulgames.bsky.social

Neon Hope box with tagline "A storytelling hame in a glitched utopia"

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 31/08/2026

Only games I got at the Cloud Cap garage sale today. Freak games for freaks.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 31/08/2026

Just a couple rangers in the arcology doin ranger stuff. @earthbornegames.bsky.social

Playing the Earthborne Rangers Legacy of the Ancestors campaign

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 27/08/2026

My livestream about edgy, cynical 90s brands starts in 10 minutes! www.youtube.com/@weareparlia...

You're Not the Audience Live Show. The 90s: When Brands Stopped Giving a Shit

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 25/08/2026

Been thinking a lot about the alternative brands of the 90s for my day job. Ok Soda. Jones Soda. Diesel. There was a strong cynical and anti-corporate ideology (long live Adbusters) yet it’s interesting how big corporations like Coke or Camel took on those vibes. Also OK Soda is so good looking 🔥

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 21/08/2026

Played Marvel Crisis Protocol by @atomicmassgames.bsky.social for the first time. @wordblanket.com got a big collection secondhand and we had a blast. Pretty straightforward and streamlined skirmish game with lots of fun superhero moments, even for a guy like me with no knowledge of Marvel stuff

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 21/08/2026

I'm a big of Tavern agency. Good, smart branding work. Now I have way too many stickers to slap on water bottles, tool boxes, laptops, and butts. tavern.agency

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 16/08/2026

Got hit with a bad cold this week, but finally feeling good enough today to pull out some games. Puzzly times with Paleo and Bullet

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 06/08/2026

I took a selfie because of the permanent golden hour from wildfire smoke 🙃

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/08/2026

Tried to read an article on @polygon.com and this is what I got. The internet is a nightmare.

A billion ad pop ups on Polygon’s website

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 30/07/2026

Nerds are screaming THIS DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THEIR GAMES but they're not trying to make it look like their games. From a branding perspective, it's a heritage play so you remember them as the company that made classic games in the 90s. It's an update of their 1986-2000 logo

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 28/07/2026

I call your Odyssey and raise you one Northman ⚔️

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 21/07/2026

I'm talking about sci-fi and what brands can learn from it on my live show this Thursday. www.youtube.com/@weareparlia...

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 21/07/2026

These sculptures by Benjamin Tong 😍 They're like if David Altmejd got into nerd culture

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 20/07/2026

I still love how the maps turned out

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 19/07/2026

My design firm did our annual golf tournament, the Caddyshack Invitational. None of us are good golfers, but we’re good day drinkers

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 16/07/2026

Had to take the Kennerspiel winner for a ride. The big Kniz always delivers

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 14/07/2026

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

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 03/07/2026

I like this sculpture. Taryn Tomasello’s “Bunker” at Society Gallery. Opened tonight in Portland

A gray ceramic sculpture of an underground bunker

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/07/2026

New client: Your LinkedIn profile photo is uhh.... interesting. Me:

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/07/2026

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.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 02/07/2026

16 years ago I had a solo show at a small artist-ran gallery called Half Dozen Gallery in Portland. It was the show where I feel like my work started coming into its own and defining my visual language. Wild to look back on it

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 01/07/2026

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 😆

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 23/06/2026

Apparently I accidentally took these photos while doing my long morning walk

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 22/06/2026

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

He-Man board game with giant Castle Grayskull mini

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 14/06/2026

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.

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 12/06/2026

I've been talking about Wipeout a lot at my job. So I made some wallpapers for our agency Parliament

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 10/06/2026

I got the best book ever for my birthday

Wipeout graphic archives book. Sketches of logos

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 03/06/2026

From 1980, Saga by TSR 😍 A very sweet birthday present from @timhutchings.bsky.social

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 01/06/2026

Finally getting all minis ready for Whispers of the Deep so got refresh them rules

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 31/05/2026

When your local bookshop has a copy of Eternøl 👌 @electi.bsky.social

Eternøl cover. A 15mm sci-fi mech skirmish game

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 31/05/2026

Sometimes ya gotta do a ladder long pour of Son of Man cider 🍏 🥽

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Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl.com · 27/05/2026

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.

Tokens and character cards from Runebound

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