About Openvein
Updated March 1, 2009
openvein is the all-purpose digital depository for the multi-disciplinary work of john c. worsley. it serves as a digital portfolio and a record of past work, personal and professional. this is the fourth complete iteration of the site.
john was born in 1978 in sacramento, california, but has spent the last twenty years in comically idyllic portland, oregon.
in addition to compulsively and self-consciously writing about himself in the third-person, his credits include a mostly futile year of college at the university of oregon, releasing electronic music under monikers as oblique as lxl, xszi, 12:24, and lxgkd, co-founding a successful technology company, writing a somehow epic-yet-underwritten 600-page tome on sql, developing and promptly abandoning yet-another-superfluous-three-letter-web-language, contributing 3d-graphics and programming to gus van sant's award-winning elephant, and fleeing the full-time computer programming industry screaming.
since 2003 john has been self-employed variously as a programmer, illustrator, designer, and writer, self-publishing comics such as the science-fiction neomythological painkillers, and the contemporary horror comic dead valentines. his work has been shown on several occasions at the sequential art gallery for portland's first thursday gallery tradition.
as an illustrator, he has contributed concept and production art for both online and print games such as iron realms' achaea, pinnacle's deadlands: reloaded and wizkids' pirates of the spanish main.
staying generally active in the miniature-comics-mecca that is the portland comics scene, he is also the maintainer of the websites for the stumptown comics fest, the portland zine symposium, and shannon wheeler's too much coffee man.
he has way too many web 2.0/social networking profiles.
once for six months he walked up a volcano every night.
any given night you might find him there.
atascadero, escondido.
