*After-action reports
*ConCom onions and roses
*Q&A and election for Norwescon 35 (chair, vice-chair, 2 GoH selection committee positions)

The election will conclude at the meeting. Then the ballots will be counted at the post-meeting social held at William and Sally’s house in Federal Way. Hopefully it won’t be pouring so we’ll be able to be outside, please dress for the weather. The social starts at 5ish and will feature a taco bar, please bring your own tortillas if their common ingredients are an issue for you. Contact SunnyJim if you wish to contribute food.

Directions to the social will be available at the meeting. Thank you.

Here’s a roundup of the photos, videos, and comments that we’ve found so far. Have more to contribute, or links that we should know about? Leave a comment and let us know!

Photos

The Norwescon 34 Group on Flickr has been collecting a bunch of photos in the days following the convention. We’re almost up to 1,000 shots, all contributed by you wonderful congoers, and we’re always looking forward to seeing more!

We’ve also been trying to track photos that we find in other places around the ‘net. Here’s what we’ve dug up so far (that we can link to — we know of some other Facebook albums, but they’re not publicly accessible):

• Norwescon 34, April 2011 by alison.velvetgarden
• Norwescon 2011 by ChainCrafts
• Norwescon 2011 by Ruth Frey
• Norwescon34 by Jennifer Lovely
• Norwescon 34 Fannish Fetish Fashion by Raven C.S. McCracken
• Norwescon 34 by mspurplepearl
• Norwescon 34 by Project London
• Norwescon 34 by Thebes-Inc (Todd Gardiner)
• Norwescon 2011 by thewanderingfool
• Norwescon 2011 by Gabriel Cain

The official Norwescon Flickr account will start to post photos soon — it just takes a little time to sort through everything that our photographic team took over the course of the weekend!

Video

The Norwescon YouTube channel has posted a selection of videos from Norwescon 34.

• From the Philip K. Dick Award ceremony: Masumi Washington and Nick Mamatas read from Harmony, James Knapp reads from State of Decay, Lou Anders reads from The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, Kristen Nelson reads from Song of Scarabaeus, Alden Bell reads from The Reapers are the Angels, and the announcement of the P.K. Dick Award.
• From the closing ceremonies: A chat with Writer Guest of Honor Patricia A. McKillip, and a chat with Artist Guest of Honor Kinuko Y. Craft.

We have also archived our ustream broadcast of the Philip K. Dick Award Ceremony.

ITVNW has posted two interviews with author Jean Johnson as part of their Multiversal News show: interview one and interview two.

And here’s a few other goodies we’ve found on YouTube so far:

• NorWesCon by mabrick
• My She-ra Skit by ellmarr
• Fannish Fetish Fashion Show 2011 by Modulardiva
• Norwescon34 Sat Dance by BaronMunchausen0
• The Barbarian and the Fairy by BaronMunchausen0
• Norwescon 34 SMACDown Arcade by mc300baud
• tereshkova2001 has posted a few videos of her award-winning Na’Vi costume

Weblogs

Lots and lots of blog posts! Let’s see what we dug up (listed roughly in order of when we found them)….

• Never’s Remedy: Norwescon 34
• Nancy Kress: Norwescon 34, Norwescon Day 2, and Norwescon Last Day
• Chaincrafts: !Norwescon2011!
• A Juggler Rides the Bus: Norwescon
• A Moving Line: Norwescon Weekend
• Angela Korra’ti: Norwescon 34: Made of epic and awesome
• Project London: The Producer’s Report #139 and Director Update: 536 – The Sound!
• anghara: There and back again – that was Norwescon
• Haika Soru: PK Dick Award Report
• stina_leicht: NorWesCon Sum Up
• GeekWire: Practical Nerd: A Norwescon vision of tomorrow’s tech
• Cat Rambo: Notes from the Year’s Best Fantasy and Science Fiction 2010 Panel, Norwescon 34, Notes from the Supernatural Seattle Panel, Norwescon 34, and Recent Appearances and News
• Ogre Likes Stuff: Norwescon 2011
• Stephanie L. Weippert: Home
• Apocalypse Girl: Norwescon
• Aibhinn: Norwescon! And getting back into the swing of things.
• Chooseomatic Books: Norwescon, you’re the bes’con
• Liz Argall: Norwescon – Further reading and little L’esprit de l’escalier
• Evil Girlfriend With A Pen: When Characters Speak to You
• Rhiannon Held: Post Con
• Suburban Fantasy: New Way to Show Off Books
• Keith B. Phillips: Norwescon 34
• Tales From the Ragged Edge: The Post-Norwescon De-brief
• Bastard’s Notebook: The (not-so-dreaded) post-con report
• The Unnamed Friend: Easter Weekend Conventions
• Geek Girls Rule: Norwescon and Putting the ‘R’ in RPG
• Off the Written Path: Norwescon in a Nutshell
• All Part of the Dream: Norwescon 34
• The Daily Delaney: Poem for the Middle of the Night…
• The Fabled Fox: I went to Norwescon this weekend, and wore my…
• Kevin Radthorne: Norwescon tally
• James Knapp: Ex-Con (Norwescon Impressions Part I) and Ex-Con (Norwescon Impressions Part II)
• Game Arts Guild: Easter Miracle
• Death*Star: NorwesCon: Special Thanks from MC-3PO of Death*Star
• Lou Anders (our Guest of Honor representative from Pyr Books): Norwescon 34
• Tea & Automatons: Norwescon: Eggs, Tentacles and Steampunk
• Duck Tape is Awesome: Norwescon
• Individual Liberty – Individual Responsibility: Norwescon 34
• Sharii: Unexpected April Awesomeness
• Tony Fabris: What a great weekend!
• Intel Inside Scoop: The Tomorrow Project Seattle: 10 Norwescon Audience Questions
• Shmorgh is Bored: Post-Norwescon and a Flash Story Sale!
• Pineapples & Artichokes: Norwescon post mortem
• My Own Personal Grey: Norwescon 34 Con Report One
• Leannan Sidhe: Norwescon is over, the CD release concert is yet to come!
• Tales of a Fantasy Scribbler: advice i got at norwescon
• Grendelfish: Norwescon 34
• Inkpunks: The Premise That Sells
• On the Road to Fair Elfland: Norwescon 34 – April 21-24
• Jeremy “Bolthy” Zimmerman: Norwescon 34 Recapitude
• Sandra M. Odell: Peeking Around The Corner At Norwescon 34
• Monsters in the Sky: Norwescon: Running Leviathans Demos
• The Barer Cave: Norwescon 34: The Future of My Past Was My Present
• Maggie’s Cave: Writing Update: Best Intentions
• Dani Kollin: Norwescon: Why Is This Con Different From All Other Cons?
• Pixels, Light and Hot Wax: Norwescon 34 Report
• She’s the Golden Egg: Dread.Fully the Mad Hatter @ Norwescon
• Solarbird: My gods that was epic
• Ashley Cook: Norwescon in a Nutshell
• Anthony Pryor: Norwescon

And that’s everything we know of as of the time of this post. Know of more, or something we missed? Leave a comment!

If you witnessed or know anything about the accident, please contact Detective Steven P. Hager directly at 206.510.1549 regarding case #11-086110.

Thank you!

BIOZME – ZOMBIE
HOSKICOB – BIOSHOCK
SOUTMERC – COSTUMER
NOLINGK – KLINGON
SPEAKTUMN – STEAMPUNK
TAILOSTIHYP -HOSPITALITY
WONCRATOB – BROWNCOAT
TROMTROSROPE – STORMTROOPER

ACROSS:
2. HAL
4. Daleks
7. MOTU
9. Borg
10. Pod
12. Rama
14. Towel
15. Frankenstein
17. nine
18. DNA
19. Smeg
20. Island
22. Grok
23. Mons
26. Evil
29. Pizza
30. Steel
32. Electric
35. Ansible
36. Stars
38. Mal
39. Cylons
40. UFO

DOWN
1. Gorf
2. Humans
3. Moon
4. Down
5 Ade
6. Klingon
8. Tardis
10. Poison
11. I Know
13. Analog
14. T.E.
16. Tag
21. Devils
24. Spice
25. Fizzler
27. Tea
28. Seldon
29. Pi
30. Soma
31. End
33. Le
34. Cat
37. Alf

WallyPark has opened a new 1,800 car garage across the street from the Doubletree. They are running a grand opening special rate of $9.95 per day.

They have also made 100 coupons available for Norwescon members which are good for 15% off at check out. That makes it $8.45/day! Just show your parking stub at the convention information desk while supplies last to pick up the coupon. You will need to show your Norwescon badge to use the coupon when you retrieve your car.

Welcome to the Twelfth Annual Fandance Film Festival, hosted at Norwescon 34! Twelve years of madness, filmmaking, and of seeing all the latest, greatest, funniest, weirdest, and most bleeding, squealing, giant smashing roboting edge entertainment still available without extensive tipping (mind you, we’re not saying no). The festival is a celebration of low- and no-budget cinema, brought to wondrous lurching life by amateur filmmakers from all around the Pacific Northwest.

More than just movies, this 120-minute extravaganza of entertainment will also include the filmmakers, who will regale you with terrifying tales of their productions. Be there, or be a regular right quadrilateral!

The Fandance Film Festival marks the final phase of the “Let’s Make a Movie!” workshop. The workshop walks participants through every step of making a movie, from conception to the premiere of the finished product at Fandance! This year at Norwescon also marks the twelve-year anniversary of “Let’s Make a Movie!”

For more information please visit the Fandance Film Festival page.

This panel is scheduled for 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, April 24, 2011, in Evergreen 3 and 4. A membership is required to attend.

We want to thank Heather Dale for coming all the way out from Ontario for us, and Electric Children and Andrew Ross for volunteering to play on Thursday. Plus we have some of your favourites back again, like last year’s Norwescon newcomer, Death*Star, and local filk monsters Vixy & Tony. Check it:

Thursday night: (Experimental Night!)

• CRIME and the Forces of Evil (8pm) – Rage-driven acoustic elfmetal!
• Electric Children (9pm) – 8-Bit Electro house from Seattle Chiptune veteran Jack Waterman
• Andrew Ross (10pm) – A can of worms filled with Pandora’s boxes!

Friday night:

• Annie Henry (7pm) – Irish trad with a twist
• Leannan Sidhe (8pm) – Bittersweet faerie folksongs for ensnaring human hearts
• Aislinn the Bard (9pm) – Pegasus nominee Anne Prather has a new CD!
• Starlight (10pm) – Stephanie Weippert and Rich Glover’s new band, a heady mix of country, folk, filk, and rock with a skyward reach.

Saturday night:

• Fighter X (7pm) – IT’S GAME BOY DANCE MUSIC. 8-bit electronic artist Fighter X’s first appearance at Norwescon!
• Death*Star (8pm) – From Magic to tabletop, Mecha to gamestop, these nerds rap about geek culture in all its glory. This nerdcore battlestation is fully operational.
• Vixy & Tony (9pm) – Come rock out with Vixy & Tony’s intensely fun acoustic folk-rock!
• The Heather Dale Band (10pm) – Canadian Celtic heavyweight Heather Dale brings her band all the way west from Ontario! Praise her! PRAISE HER!

Check the nwcMUSIC page for sample tracks from many of these artists!

We’ve also just added the official Pocket Program (1.4MB .pdf), and the programming errata list (106KB .pdf) that can also be found in your registration swag bag.

We’ve updated our gaming schedule for the scheduled gaming rooms. Lots of fun RPG, dice, card, and miniature games (and more!) for you to play, all weekend long.

And finally, Norwescon Music Programming regrets to announce that Pondside has had to withdraw from Norwescon programming due to unexpected logistics issues beyond their or our control. Pondside’s show was scheduled for Friday, 7pm, and Juliana has had to withdraw from all panels. Don’t worry; there are no health or similar issues involved; it really is just an unfortunate confluence of logistics.

Relatedly, Norwescon Music Programming is pleased to announce that Annie Henry has agreed to perform at Norwescon on Friday, at 7pm, filling in for Pondside! Annie Henry performs, as her website puts it, “Irish trad with a twist,” and can be found at sessions and on stages up and down the Cascadian corridor. Please welcome her to Norwescon’s stages for the very first time!

Thanks for your understanding as we make these last-minute adjustments!

There will also be a Kid’s Zine printed on Saturday. Submissions accepted by 10pm on Friday in all the same places for anything you want our younger fans to know.