Necronomicon Providence 2015, Day One #NecronomiconPVD

The first day of NecronomiCon Providence 2015 was a busy one for me and Liv. We started off bright and early helping Arkham Bazaar set up their display in the Lovecraft Grand Emporium (Rhode Island Convention Center, Hall D, free for attendees, $5 for the public). For me this entailed mostly standing around and schlepping, and driving their van around downtown Providence. And unpacking shirts. Lots and lots of shirts.

We gotta lotta shirts to sell!

Once we got things set up, our marching orders broke down into three tasks: selling merchandise, kibitzing with artists, and covering each other so we could eat/pee. Naturally I took photos:

Nick "The Hat" Gucker telling me to go away.

Cody Goodfellow enjoyed how Nick Gucker scared me away. He laughed long and hard.

Liv Rainey-Smith and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Besides both having hyphenated names, Liv contributed an illustration to Silvia's project She Walks in Shadows, which recently has made the MRAs very sad. That much awesome in one photo naturally produces lens glare.

After vending Liv went to the opening reception in a very hot church; I had a nice long nap in the hotel (overzealous air conditioning REALLY IS the bomb, folks). From there we headed to the artist's reception at the Providence Art Club. The show stealer in our opinions was Santiago Caruso, whose primary medium is ink and scratch board. His finely crafted illustrations show a level of skill and thought that one doesn't often see in illustration work, and the originals are well worth their four-figure price tags. Liv didn't get into the show this year (we think this was because she was in the art show in 2013), but her work is showing in a separate show of prints at Julian's. Get there during off peak hours if you want to see the art.

I did manage to get a snapshot of a some of the featured artists:

There's so much talent in this shot it almost melted my camera lens. Top row, left to right: Nick Gucker, Jeanne D'Angelo, Skinner, Liv Rainey-Smith, Artist of Honor John Coulthart, (Unknown). Bottom: Michael Bukowski.

So, that was yesterday. Today we're most of all looking forward to the Non-Euclidean Science panel, both because such topics interest me as a mathematician and because Silvia Moreno-Garcia is one of the panelists. It will be interesting to see whether She Walks In Shadows comes up.