jameybash

a personal blog for Jamey Alea

Category - Personal

August 18, 2023

A Shift in Priorities: Book Arts & Fire Ecology Press!

It has been a while since I’ve updated here, but actually I’ve gone through some serious changes in my life over the past couple of months. I had been struggling...

June 15, 2023

ZineFest 2023 & the Post-Covid AU

This past weekend was ZineFest 2023, co-hosted downtown by Book Arts and Just Buffalo Literary Center, and I’m very pleased to report that it was a great success! This was...

April 29, 2023

Embracing Felix – My Experience at Giovanni: The Last Supper

Last month, I attended a Vampire: the Masquerade blockbuster LARP on a whole different scale than any I’d done before. Giovanni: The Last Supper, hosted by Orion Games, was a...

January 8, 2023

On Trauma & Resilience in Buffalo, NY

2022 was a hard year. It was hard on me personally. I lost several friends this year, including two of my best friends, to sickness and death. I dealt with...

September 21, 2022

How I Became A Race Car Driver

It’s always an exciting day when you can cross one off the bucket list, and that happened to me recently when I made my ~racing debut~ earlier this month at...

June 2, 2022

A Field Trip to Cleveland: My Residency at Zygote Press!

I did something cool and interesting last week that I want to share about: a one week long residency at a printmaking studio in Cleveland, OH called Zygote Press! At...

October 11, 2021

Letterpress Love & The “Tarot of Sorts”

I’ve been rather quiet online recently, but it’s for a good reason: I’ve spent this summer very heads down working on art! And now I want to tell you about...

January 21, 2021

What Video Games Taught Me In 2020

2020 was certainly a nightmare dumpster fire of a year, but there were also some interesting things that came out of it. I was forced to take a good, hard...

October 12, 2020

Scarification Part 2: Solar Branding

I tried scarification for the first time a couple of years ago, using a branding iron, and I documented the healing process in detail. So I wanted to do something...

September 21, 2020

“Uncaged” Accolades!

My involvement with the Uncaged Anthology has been the gift that just keeps on giving. Like, the pleasure of working with Ashley Warren and being part of such a cool...

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