I’m Jim Owens. I make interactive stuff with all of the adobe cc products in conjunction with writing, photography, video, and html, css, and js. Raised in Chicago I have lived in the intermountain west for most of my life after studying at Syracuse University (undergrad) and the University of Rhode Island (grad). I am most commonly found in Park City (Utah) and Boulder City (Nevada). I work on the road as a bit of a nomad often, living very simply and very digitally, also studying Spanish when and where possible. My favorite spots outside of the USA are Paris, Barcelona, and Playa del Carmen (Mexico). I am also a licensed professional geologist and often work on natural-resources and environmental-industry-based projects.

My blog contains entries on where I am, what I am doing, and what I’m thinking. I’ll try to avoid politics. The subjects covered will include the digital world, the nomadic workstyle, learning a second language, art, design, travel, and discussion of various personal photography, video and otherwise-digital projects.

The photography galleries are organized by place and, beyond that, are pretty disorganized. They include photographs taken over the course of around twenty years, ranging widely in quality from fairly crude phone-camera shots through DSLR digital, scanned 35mm-slides, and very high-quality scans of 4×5-transparencies. Many have been published here and there over the years. Most galleries contain images taken over several trips. This is an ongoing labor of love, with new images added frequently. These include the products of new trips, stuff found while rifling through old portable hard-drives and photo-cards, and the scanning of lots of 35mm-slides and 4×5-transparencies. The illustration and design gallery is not off the ground yet but examples of my illustration can be found elsewhere on the site. The video gallery is fairly new and contains a few video projects.

I intend for the site to be a bit of a laboratory of everything that I am playing around with, including both content and code. So please enjoy and forgive the fact that the site will be under perpetual construction and tad dishevelled. All rights are reserved © Jim Owens 2020.