The Magic Librarities

While no Champs at Gen Con stinks and the way Wizards handled it is extremely poor, they still have some fun stuff going on. They have 8 qualifier tournaments for a tournament on Sunday. The 8 players get to draft packs from 80 sets (Alpha - M13) then play a single elimination tourney. The winner ge...

I will definitely be there and was planning on trying to get something set up for the art collectors as well.

Would be great to meet you and other collectors here.

You.can see most of the art in my Day 1 wrap up on www.originalmagicart.com

I did my best to cover the event on Twitter. The playtest cards were great as well as all the old and new art.

Picked up a few pieces and spread the word about OMA.

Found a few originals, hopefully they will take me up on my invite and post their collection for everyone to see.

I will be live tweeting the event, especially the art.

Hopefully I will be able to pick up some original art while I am there as well.

Sadly I cant make it to the Sunday event and will likely be trying to find some to record it.

It is certainly shaping up to be a really good show.

Sunday??!?!?? No fair. Going to be flying back home by the time this happens.

Very disappointing. Would have changed.my travel plans if I new this but now it is too late.

Luckily most have a booth at the convention.

There is a new challenge over at www.originalmagicart.com where the most prolific artists from Gatecrash are being pitted against each other to see who illustrated the most powerful set of cards. Artist profiles were just posted and decklists should be coming out next week. Daniel Ljuggren looks to ...

New article today about my purchase of the original art for Enduring Ideal. Hope everyone enjoys it.

http://www.originalmagicart.com/?p=826

I'm looking into plane tickets but would really like more details. I'll reach out to the studio today and see what I can find out. That list is definitely shorter than the intial listing, though I can't find that listing on the page now. I'll hopefully be able to do a bit of impromtu press and recor...

Articles for next week are set and ready to go.

Tuesday and Thursday are interview day at OMA.

Also, I hope you enjoyed the interview with Pete Venters.

He gave some clues on the event in Seattle in March but still nothing concrete.

I have been watching Kickstarter for his/their project but nothing has shown up so far.

I made sure to confirm with the owner and Mark Tedin that the paintings were purchased legally, and both parties confirm that they were purchased above board. Mark is actually working with the owner now to get more information. These were purchased while Mark Tedin was being represented by the Galle...

I resolve to do the following: Continue growing the Original Magic Art comunity Expand my collection of original pieces to at least 100 Sell excess cards to fund more art purchases Get the three pieces of power that I still lack (Lotus, Walk, Sapphire) Already on my way with #1 and #2. The others wi...

The interview tomorrow on OMA has some more details, but nothing solid enough to make travel plans yet.

Oh, I completely agree. That is why I now require all EXIF data to be stripped from images that are uploaded on the site. Ideally I would like to get this stripped on upload, but I have not figured out how to do that yet. I definitely understand the perils of sharing too much information and try to ...