October ConCom Meeting
Would you like to help plan, organize, and create the Pacific Northwest’s premier science-fiction and fantasy convention? Norwescon is always looking for volunteers, and our monthly Convention Committee planning meetings are a great way to get involved! Come pull back the curtain, meet the masterminds behind the event, and find out where your particular talents can be put to use!
October’s Norwescon 35 planning meeting will be held:
DATE
Saturday, October 20th, 2012
TIME
- 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon: Executive Team Meeting
- 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.: Lunch
- 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.: Convention Committee (ConCom) Meeting
PLACE
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 Pacific Highway South
SeaTac, WA 98188
206-246-8600
For directions and a map, please see the hotel’s website.
NOTE: There is a discounted charge of $8.00 for parking.
Please consult the hotel readerboard when you arrive for the location of the meeting room.
FUTURE EVENTS
- November ConCom: 11/10/2012
- December ConCom: 12/8/2012
- January ConCom: 1/12/2013
- February ConCom: 2/9/2013
- March ConCom: 3/9/2013
- Stuffing Party: 3/24/2013
- Norwescon 36: 3/28–31/2012
- Post-Con ConCom: 4/20/2013
Artist Guest of Honor: Lee Moyer
We are pleased to announce that our Artist Guest of Honor for Norwescon 36 will be painter, illustrator, graphic designer, Web designer, and comic book painter and designer Lee Moyer!
Lee Moyer is a Chesley Award winning Illustrator, Designer and Art Director from Portland, Oregon whose curious penchant for bizarre Kickstarter projects has, of late, been much remarked upon (and indeed featured in Forbes and elsewhere).
His work has been featured in many Spectrum annuals, A Lovecraft Retrospective – Artists inspired by H.P.L., D’Artiste – Digital Painting, Communication Arts and Design Graphics magazines, and at the Society of Illustrators, the National Zoo and the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural History Museum.
Covers: Iain M. Banks, Mary Robinette Kowal, M. K. Hobson, Philip Jose Farmer, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Michael Bishop, Mark Hodder, Edgar Pangborn, Jack McDevitt, Alan Moore, HP Lovecraft, Joe Haldeman, Tad Williams and Raymond Chandler.
Posters: The Call of Cthulhu, Tori Amos, Alfred Hitchcock, J.R.R. Tolkien, David Sedaris, Mo Willems, Athol Fugard, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andre 3000, John Mellencamp and Stephen King.
Known Associates: Inveterate cattle-rustler, Keith Baker (Eberron, Gloom, The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, The Ebon Mirror, At Your Service, En Route, Space Pirates, Power Brokers, et al.); that auteur of the unlikely, Michael Swanwick (A Geography of Unknown Lands, The Best of Michael Swanwick, Dismembrance); Annotator Horribilis, Kim Newman (Diogenes Club series); mad, bad and dangerous to know Caitlín R. Kiernan (Two Worlds and In Between, Confessions of a Five Chambered Heart, et al.); surprising little spitfire, Elaine Lee (Starstruck, Honey West Series, et al.); mentor and dementor, Michael Wm. Kaluta (Starstruck, Tom Strong’s Terrific Tales, The Abyss, et al.), Sardonic and Ironic Rob Heinsoo (Dungeons & Dragons, 13th Age, et al.); and moonstruck playwright Jeff Goode (Dracula Rides Again, Love Loves a Pornographer, and Marley’s Ghost).
Lee collaborated with Peter S. Beagle, Ray Bradbury, Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher, Jacqueline Carey, Neil Gaiman, Charlaine Harris, Robin Hobb, N.K. Jemisin, George R. R. Martin, Terry Pratchett, and Patrick Rothfuss for Check These Out, his 2013 Literary Pin-up Calendar.
He plays a mean game of Anagrams.
Web: www.leemoyer.com
Blog: leemoyer.wordpress.com
Twitter: @LccMoyer
Facebook: facebook.com/leemoyer
Party Suite Reservations are Open!
As of noon today (October 1st, 2012), we have opened the request form for reserving party suites at Norwescon 36!
Please review the following guidelines, then fill out our request form to request your suite:
Read MoreMechanical hand project debuted at Norwescon 34
Norwescon was mentioned in this account (recently featured on Boing Boing) of a project to develop a functional mechanical hand. It turns out that a gadget first created for a costume, and first shown publicly at Norwescon 34, is being adapted to assist a South African man who lost fingers on his right hand in a woodworking accident.
Back in April of 2011 – my husband Ivan and I decided we wanted to attend our very first Sci Fi convention, so he got to work on creating our costumes for the event. Ivan decided he wanted to make functional Mechanical hands and after studying how the human fingers work and taking a few lessons from a crab leg..he figured it out.
His hand was a hit at NORWESCON and within weeks, the silly little Youtube video he had created to share his awesomeness was getting thousands of views a day.
Little did we know that this would not only lead him to getting numerous orders for pairs of these mechanical hands from fellow goofballs that love to dress up and be a little crazy too, for a director of a play, a plastic version for a team of scientists at UCLA and a major Robotics company…but that one day he would get an email from a man named Rich in South Africa who was curious to see if Ivan could help him find a way to figure out the design he had been working on to restore two of the 4 fingers he had recently lost on his right hand due to a woodworking accident…after looking into a few prosthetics and researching the Xfinger design and being told it would cost him up to $10,000 (US Dollars) per finger…he knew he would never be able to afford this and wanted to design something on his own.
This was no longer a “Silly project” Ivan had been doing for a few extra bucks once in awhile…this now had purpose. It had possibilities. It could…change lives.
You can read more about this incredible project at coming up short handed, and Norwescon is proud to have such dedicated people in our membership. Congratulations and best wishes to Ivan Owen and Richard Van As!
September ConCom Meeting
The Norwescon 35 family invites you to join the Norwescon 36 family!
Would you like to help plan, organize, and create the Pacific Northwest’s premier science-fiction and fantasy convention? Norwescon is always looking for volunteers, and our monthly Convention Committee planning meetings are a great way to get involved! Come pull back the curtain, meet the masterminds behind the event, and find out where your particular talents can be put to use!
September’s Norwescon 35 planning meeting will be held:
DATE
Saturday, September 15th, 2012
TIME
- 10:00 a.m.–12:00 noon: Executive Team Meeting
- 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.: Lunch
- 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.: Convention Committee (ConCom) Meeting
PLACE
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 Pacific Highway South
SeaTac, WA 98188
206-246-8600
For directions and a map, please see the hotel’s website.
NOTE: There is a discounted charge of $8.00 for parking.
Please consult the hotel readerboard when you arrive for the location of the meeting room.
Post-Meeting Social
The post-meeting social for September will be at the NWSFS Second Annual Sci-Fi Cocktail Party. Details will be available at the meeting.
FUTURE EVENTS
- October ConCom: 10/20/2012
- November ConCom: 11/10/2012
- December ConCom: 12/8/2012
- January ConCom: 1/12/2013
- February ConCom: 2/9/2013
- March ConCom: 3/9/2013
- Stuffing Party: 3/24/2013
- Norwescon 36: 3/28–31/2012
- Post-Con ConCom: 4/20/2013
