i'm one of the few things like rag paper and as you see here we have some of the circle from my series for us and i've been working on the series since one nine hundred eighty one with breaks the most recent one is from last year from two thousand and ten and we  have paintings in various styles we have some traditional type landscapes and we also have some more surreal mixed media works which are a new technique that i'm using which is acrylic gel transfer mixed with the regular  hi and how long have you been the chair i was chair three times previously but it's been a few years so this is a new time to do it and then with you we also have  com was formed by a group of fans in the northwest who wanted to originally did for a worldcon a world exposition show for the science fiction fantasy they had never run a convention before so they thought well we better try at least doing one and norwest khan was born after they did their first and second one they discovered that this was so much fun and they were doing so well that in fact they didn't really need a worldcon so the local star trek group joined in and a few other the fan groups joined in and well norwest got its roots and was born and it's thirty four years later ok now i know that when i looked at the website for kind of history information i noticed that it went back quite a ways and went from hotel to hotel but then it kind of went to wiki for further back yesterday well we've had many chairman many committees over the years so our history is quite long and we have been in many hotels actually we've been but about four or five hotels over our years mostly because we had to grow we originally in the old building down with doesn't exist in a lot of new light rail over by the airport and we had four hundred and eighty people come to the very first convention and this year at this moment where we're coming very close to three thousand five hundred so we've had to kind of grow and and integrate ourselves from thursday through saturday so far or for the whole weekend that is total membership one day pass or a full membership i would say ninety ninety five percent of our memberships are full membership for day so there  will be about thirty five hundred live bodies in the bill and how many people are just kind of decide to come off the street because they care about cons and want to show up we pre register about fourteen hundred fifteen hundred people about two thousand of them we don't know if we're going to show up until they actually get here and for those that don't quite understand what the acronym is norwest what does it mean northwest convention i too am trying to learn more about it and what to expect as we walk around and check out all the various costumes and try to figure out who is portraying what and stuff like that it seems that every couple years lot of the a lot of the conventions that have been inspired by no less con picked a specific genre of fandom to focus on for instance dream con was primarily their focus was on gaming con we can if they can do we can do it so i think when it's more of a inspiring people to be able to do their own special events because i think  know it didn't really start here and there were a lot of fans who come to our west con but they formed their own fan group i don't know if we really inspired them some of the original founders at that point i but we would get some minor folk if they wanted something to focus on the one hundred percent and they'd run there are friendly neighbors down the street they're pretty big in downtown seattle right now but you guys are actually four and the enter screw in the convention we were able to expand the interest base the key with what we do for literature is that people sometimes forget the core root of what their hobby or they're the interested so we wanted to expand what we're doing and kind of encompass all of the fans and be able to embrace them and kind of educate them and as our numbers grew the interest broaden and the things that people wanted to do so we just had to expand our days as it is we could probably put another day on the end but i don't think all of our volunteers would like that we get pretty tired after four days that's an important thing to bring up no one is one hundred percent well is there any information that we're leaving out or maybe about the future and that's what i can think of one major event that we host which is very important turn left on each year for i think it's the last twenty eight years in the dick memorial award which is a war for the best paperback published in the u s in the previous year it is actually it's sponsored by the philadelphia science fiction society and  their trust our sister group northwest science fiction society which is more of a social group is also involved with helping sponsor it and every year we have a big event we did it last night we had a couple of the nominees president for the first time we actually streamed on the web and we had a one hundred plus viewers out there it's one of the big awards it's given out each year in science fiction literature and philip k dick is or was he was one of the best science fiction writers back in the basically sixty's and seventy's large number of people more no no no in four of the books the been turned in the movies blade runner total recall for example years we would definitely be on easter in the future so it means we move around a little bit but late march early april usually this is about the latest week and i want to  see if i can make it happen i know this year is our first year that with either side by cons in this area we're having a costumer guest of honor and nobody's ever done that before