The Iron Artist: Badgers, Salvador Dali, and Duality!

Two easels, two brushes, two artists, but only one can claim the title Iron Artist. The art world trembled and quaked on Sunday as two giants—Bill Stout and Ted Naifeh—met in the Regency Ballroom at 10:00AM for head-to-head art combat. The rules were simple: The painting had to contain badgers, the required style was that of Salvador Dali, the secret… Read more →

Updates from Saturn and Titan with Dr. Kevin R. Grazier

Dr. Kevin R. Grazier pumped the audience with an overload of yummy-geek-goodness at the “Updates from Saturn and Titan” panel on Friday night. The twenty-one foot tall, six ton Cassini spacecraft’s four-year-plan is to make seventy-four orbits with fifty-two flybys of seven of Saturn’s moons: Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion, Iapetus, Phoebe (MET DR. THIP). The craft is… Read more →

2006 Artist Award Winners

BEST IN SHOW: “Elemental Moon” by Rick Sardinha ARTIST CHOICE AWARD: “Golden Moon” by Tom Fleming SPECIAL AWARDS (voted by attendees): First Place: “D&D Classic” by DPI Studios Second Place: “Ferret Rider” by Tomak Baksik Third Place: “Through the Looking Glass” by Victoria Moore Abbott Best Alien: “Tzir Repairs” by Lora Laverne Moore Best Amazon: “Minerva of Etonia” by Tomak… Read more →

Robot Battles: To the Bitter End

Master of ceremonies Kelly Lockhart returned this year as host, this time clad in an Elvis costume. To make the stage environment more interesting, he brought along rubber snakes as a stage hazard to trip up the robots. Yes, it was Snakes…on a Stage… The double-elimination Robot Battles competition was divided into the 12 lb weight category and 30 lb… Read more →