another corner there are a lot of pla that they go through very well they take a bite out of an apple they run corn on the cob very quickly i like them they work really his job to learn how to talk a needle around them otherwise you're kind of bloody and  other help here you know i'm gettin old i can handle three of the time anymore never mind this is a challenge is kind about manner and they stay in your hair until they come out so naturally or if you were to cut them out or remove them yourself but they can be permed they can be gone they can be curled like the ones in my hair you basically they're like a real hair that you can do anything you know it's a very  traced and how did you choose to have this well a week ago i saw a friend of mine who had them in his hair and it looks spectacular and he told me that she would be here at cherry worlds or to eugene and i've been going for several years now actually that's where i met my partner and it's a really amazing time they have really really good music yeah a lot of amazing  vendors they have probably have about two hundred vendors every year some really awesome bands they fly in from overseas with so you get a lot of the traditional sounds in music mixed with modern modern instrumentation one more yes they usually stay and depending on how rough you are in your hair anywhere from four to six months is what i get out of mine so as you install them on your own hair when you're doing that or  i do i have successfully managed to put them into my own hair as of this way again so previous to that you had to have someone else doing four yet the lady that i learned from her dancing hand she is i spent time with her very well last year there and her best and first learned of watching her and having her show me the process and then i did a bunch of her hair for her but i been having her do my hair probably for about two years out it like when i go to perry caunterbury world the winter celebration is just a bunch of different events that she is that and then i always go and have her update give me a few more things that you're narrowing this down from multiple yanked went out yesterday as a matter of fact it was one of the it was one of the first ones i had tied into my hair which i had it it was no longer the bottom of my hair and so when i was moving around the house it was sort of flying around out here and i wrapped my hand around it and just out with the hair but other than that not very often so as they say get blended in will get into your hair pretty pretty good but when you're putting them in and when you're installing them on to somebody have you ever really pulled her up by mistake not by mistake a friend of ours suge tucker whom we who actually introduced us at cherry worlds because she is an independent musician who knew had fallen very ill here's the book shame and as such had no health insurance and she fell very ill ended up in the hospital twice surgery lots of expensive tests bills around fifty thousand dollars and she thought she was going to have to get off the road and take a crappy job and give up being a musician and her friend said i broke it there to see it off of all i do you break them sometimes life but so soon just friends said no we want you to continue making music and everyone pulled together and started you know i started saying hey there's this thing that i let's auction it off and you can have the proceeds to pay you know for helping to pay your medical bills and my partner who has been in publishing be interested in being part of it and of course that was the first time he'd actually started so he called me up and said souray had this idea what do you think and i said i think that's a fantastic idea  of local and smaller you know less lesser known authors and artists every single story was also illustrated donated to their work and we put together this which is just you know how many plots are there in the world three years no it took a good two years before we got it online and that actually did come out i don't know what's going to be scared because we met the illustrator here  art is that you do well i do i do artwork and to do basic styles here we have intaglio etching ones which are limited edition finer prints that i swear i make a design on a metal plate and then print one each one individually with rag paper and as you see here we have some of the circle from my series the enchanted forest and i've been working on the series since the one nine hundred eighty one with the occasional breaks the most recent one is from last year from two thousand and ten and we  acrylic 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 a and the large piece there is is a collaboration with my friend helen clark and this is from our fallen giant series and so we have the pieces called tides of intimacy people and more information about you and your art our just happened to be standing in the booth of the artists that we're about to feature and that artist is this gentleman and you are rob curley and film you're working on something even right now right now i always have a sketchbook with me that's one of my rules have to have a sketch with and a friend of mine described a character that's based on her so she was over signing autographs over there  s a little while ago i managed to catch a couple going to defer and turn it into the beginning of her character how is it usually takes for you to create one of these two well they're all different that's actually a really good question some of them have taken as little as a few hours i don't know if any of them here have only been a few hours but some of my pieces that are finished are anywhere from i would say four hours to four weeks depending on how much she's become a good friend of ours i've been doing illustrations for some of her songs there's a picture of her over in the corner as imogene is is the actual artist the performer was right there exactly and even the library is one of her most popular songs off of her new album mischief and it was extraordinarily inspiring when i first heard it i had to turn it into something visual fo high 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 me time to do it and then with you we also have had that be pat that we talked about that the little bit of the history of this event all the old stuff starts early history sean sean is younger i'm older so i'll do the old northwest column was formed by a group of fans in the northwest who wanted to a originally did for a worldcon a world exposition show the science fiction fantasy they had never run a before so they thought well we better try at least doing one and so on 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 others of fan groups joined in and well norwest got its roots and was born and it's thirty four years later and i know that when i further back history 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 in but about four or five hotels over our years mostly because we had to grow we originally in the old high building down with doesn't exist anymore at least going down to the new light rail over by the airport and we had four hundred eighty so people come to the very first convention and this year at this moment we're we're coming very close to three thousand five hundred so we've had to kind of grow 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  be about thirty five hundred live bodies in the building and how many people are just kind of said to come off the street and because they hear 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 we actually get here and for those that don't quite understand what the acronym norwest what does it mean northwest  stick with the literary art and science you feel that whatever the various groups are there that kind of joined in like the vampire group forget what it was called but i believe  camera it's there's a lot of literature out there dealing with sound cards right now urban fantasy is one of the number one selling science fiction fantasy books right now our guest of honor this year or one of our guest of honor 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 we get a new splinter group of fandom are focused vampires are actually actually i feel are more on their way out right now the big one i think coming in is what is known as steam con with tori in science fiction we're seeing a con we can if they can do it we can do it so i think with more of a inspiring people to be able to do their own special events because i think it's a  no it didn't really start here and i'm a there were a lot of fans who come to our west con but they formed their own fan group so i don't know if we really inspired down some of the original founders at that point i interest is so we wanted to expand what we were doing 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 and the things that well is there any information that we're leaving out or maybe about the future of iraq i can think of one major event that we host which is very important turned on each year for i think it's the last twenty eight years in the there trust our sister group northwest science fiction society which is more of a social group is also involved with helping sponsor and every year we have a big event we did it last night we had a couple of the nominees present 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 which are 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 know who know him for the books the been turned into movies blade runner total recall for example fifteen twenty years we missed a few years will definitely be on the east or who knows in the future so it means we move around a little bit but late march early april usually this is about the latest we never know quite what you're going to and we have and how long to take you to create this richard made it out we can interact with them more cruel bit more laid back and generally we have a few things we do different we ever get to see you know with the cling on to they bring in their game so you know you don't have to worry and when it is january i'm forgetting the date that it's in january so it's generally couple weeks after new years  artist they want to be in our show we have a dealers room all weekend they can get in there if there's panels they want to see they can contact me through the website and i'll see if i can make it happen i know this year is our first year of that and he actually has a news paper type articles with his books and we're going to be doing a writing competition you know they keep watching websites and they're going to see everything that's going on