we attend a two thousand and twelve science fiction convention in sea tac known as norwest con thirty five across exile basically self imposed in the human land for various reasons that she won't talk about and so i figured that i would like to get the chance to w and then it's just work in progress changing redoing things that just didn't quite turn out right all the time i make a change i put it on i use it for a car and i go i need to change  we have a player ship about probably eighty or ninety people and get about thirty to fifty people in a weekend and basically run around in the woods all we can with  and he runs our membership services division former chair of one time or another in the polls and this being norwest thirty five meaning its thirty fifth year because i know that the numbers each year  example of that is we have a fashion show and it's going on popular of the years and it's now put into a much larger space it's probably our second largest the vest we've also when to out the  bar at the top of our tower here which we only have once in our history here so it's another place for members to meet we'd have a couple extra downstairs up there i have to really put a plug in for the hugo award nominations that we are now doing on so it's it's actually kind of growing we're very pleased to be a part of that and what are some of your guest speakers for this year well let's see our  don't say a lot but a large number of his books deal with the destruction of the earth in all sorts of scientific and interesting ways sometimes he finds the solutions sometimes he doesn't absolutely are discussed of honor this year is john who is a multi winner of many different words also that he's up for here go again this year and his work is has a lot of like a manipulative photographic images along with fabulous artwork i like this colors in th currently he's probably best known for doing the calendar for george r r martin and game of thrones calendar so twelve of his pieces are there it was one of the number one selling calendars out there and we have some of those here on display and they're just beautiful  showing up and it's just nice being able to honor and talk to our publishers the people who support the fact that we like to push or push i don't that strong word and we push it we do hear it know us we really appreciate  all the things that the publishers do this year and for those that don't fully understand norwest khan actually stands for i don't know if it stands for a thing but it's basically northwest  convention we are what we call a generic science fiction convention which focuses mostly on the literary but we cover just about everything we have media fans we have anime fans if there is a fandom out there we probably have a represented by about our main focus is the science of science fiction literary arts and do you have any plans for a no west thirty six things are in the works i'm stepping back next year i want to enjoy the convention instead of working it but there are things that are working on nothing that's been publicly announced yet that will probably be announced in the next couple days on our website definitely go to the web site because that's the best talk about this year another almost record breaking year we have over three thousand members in the house right now that's the third year in a row that we've been three thousand or more so science fiction is booming in the area do you think that you might end up growing this location of it's always a possibility but we love this facility for us to grow much larger we have to probably move into the convention center which would change the look and feel of going  definitely up for a four day event we have things that happen in the morning and easy later in the night so it's definitely something someplace we have to be where we had that sort of action access to the the space if we don't have it with the hotel rooms and also those the locations i don't think we can put on the type of committee to do and we have stuff from young adults all the way up to people in their eighty's or ninety's everywhere in between our demographic covered just about everyone will let me put the plug in also  north to thirty five we all it's always for the best original paperback published book in the us and it's always for last year's books so we're one year behind but it's honor and supply a privilege for us to be able to do that here and we just had the is every friday night ok and of course the web site one more time for more information is norwest con dot org ok well i will let you guys go because i know you guys have other duties you got to take care of and there's more of the convention to check out so we'll do that kinds of lenders with of science fiction now with me i have one of the artists we were able to get to be on camera and you are my name's matthew can show and tell us a bit about the art that we're looking at right here you're looking at here is a polymer clay called super sculpey that i've scull said using a form which usually means that i wrap a certain amount of material in aluminum foil do use wire to make the form and then quickly on top of it and then i cook it in a conventional oven and then use a combination of gray paint and acrylic paint to render yes and is it got a title or anything it's called basic change and there's something in particular about that one well it was the first full production piece that i've done in this style where the piece is hanging off a wall and it's coming out of the way i wanted to do something that was a little twisted but not macabre i wanted something that wasn't meant to be completely dark so i chose warm colors with tops and cool colors from the bottom and i felt that i reflected the title the basic change where it's a representation of the body which is a structure but in a form that's liquid for me and i wanted to make a piece that very much displayed that discomfort and i said i feel i feel somewhat accomplished that it was also for a art show down in pi and the seattle some kind of growth and coming out of the mouth which is i feel and i want to i wanted to be very much kind of like the medical braces you see with someone who's hurt their head  have drills put into their head and it's generally very uncomfortable well i think you taking a few moments to show us pieces of yours i think and if people want to learn more information about you you have a website i cambus i love narrative painting i did train academically engage academy of fine art so my style is kind of a classical real islam but in the finally disturbing and macabre i guess that would explain the dull down here right creepy dolls are always fun and then the dearest soul with the blood filled childless the julie borrow who i am affiliated with their crap job studios one a couple of awards as well and she is actually my model in this one you kind of yours whoever you can get at the time technically from what she's done in the past really ok so i got julie coming up here now painting and he was just starting to talk about your painting here you are julie i'm julie barrow and this is my painting it's called harry and it was a two parter i did a drawing initially of it the value drawings and then i basically did this painting off the drawing the drawings not on their site reproduce the drawing and then i actually did the painting and it's supposed to be i year and a half and i've been studying classical till a method of painting and drawing so a lot of what you see in terms of technique is classical classical  it classical method but a little more looser but kind of playing around with some of the lighting and such so this one was more a little more experimental than this one took me quite a well you never know what you're going to see at a science fiction convention and and what is this that we're looking at this is my steampunk baby carriage made for my b b q through the because everyone should have a b to learn more about norwest khan thirty six occurring march twenty eighth through the thirty first two thousand and thirteen at the c tech doubletree please visit norwest khan dot org please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows while my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and as always thank you for watching adventure t it's spring time and making sure the sound is actually pretty good because there's been some issues with the jack but you can maybe hear some sounds of spring in the background it's a little on the cool side still but spring means a lot of events are coming up so with the footage you've seen norwest khan is coming up at the end of the month also the beginning of next month is the tulip festival for the entire month of april though sometimes it happens a little bit early sometimes it runs a little late depending upon mother nature so i always check the website that footage is coming up momentarily but there are a whole slew of festivals and conventions and events that are all beginning so stay tuned we'll be seeing some footage of those things coming up over the weeks and months and of course i'll try to mention as many of them as possible so you have a heads up thanks or quick on also happening at the end of the month and the japanese cultural festival is happening at the center in april and of course you can always visit the archives and there at the end of this episode up north in the skagit valley we attend the twenty ninth annual two thousand and twelve tulip festival and you are coders with your husband right and how long have you owned to look out but it's been over thirty years and how many varieties are over your right shoulder right now there were there subsidized so they can afford to do that we're not subsidize its state so we can't do it ok and then and then once we get to be good for the northwest  the trolleys really are a nice compromise instead of walking in your you know right in front of us over here we have a little display and talk a little bit about that that's  so we have little flags inside and they can buy the little flags for three dollars a piece leave all that money go just for the veterans and that's just for the veterans and what we do is there again the veterans are buying it for their own little burnham's they're going to enjoy that because it's a very something is a very old and when you have plans there were over at this shed and what can you tell me about this shed is a hundred years old it was one of the old home instead of just it's a property and we very carefully moved it from the when when this matures see it starts up from a green but when it matures it see it you notice that you see the dark here and it does get a little a little bit more darker yeah but pictures can be deceiving and if you do the best you can do with what you have and being cut means it's news you have to have i think take a picture of this this year for next year because there is no picture has it been news that we have to do the best we can do so that would not be a good tool it would not be a good garden to go on this is this one here's where you can see the difference and that that's often the case w that's a kind of an unusual color because it's going to have it's sort of an overview of a variety of fields you can pick up a program most anywhere up this way this particular and all of the countries flags that are being flown are represented another shot of some of the flag at one point they turned part of that hospital in dutch territory a baby born good actually become the lying that's going on here whole lot of stuff and then these shed areas where the homes are all separated and stuff during it's not as wet here you still have to be careful because they're here summer and rock as you walk out around the field of course they got a little cut out so you can put your face on the that's pretty rude but we're going to have to close out this episode a huge thank you to jeanette de godi for showing us around to look down to learn more about the farm tulips grown the owners anthony and jeanette the history and lots more please town dot com to learn more about the thirtieth annual two thousand and thirteen festival occurring the month of april or as mother nature dictates be sure to visit to look festival dot org please visit my archive page at seattle community media dot org slash node slash one two three seven four slash list shows well my website is being updated or shoot me an email and i'll send you the link and