{"id":13147,"date":"2008-08-08T07:07:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T11:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2014-01-20T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T23:00:48","slug":"denvention-3-thursday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/08\/denvention-3-thursday-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Denvention 3: Thursday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had some time between my morning panels and my planned lunch with Jetse de Vries, so I decided to check out the art show. Many times I overprogram myself so extensively at Worldcons that I go home without having taken a leisurely stroll there, and I didn&#8217;t want that to happen again. Aside from John Picacio and his diorama that turned into three covers for a series of Jeff Ford novels, the artist who intrigued me the most was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.briannamartray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brianna Martray<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After I finished wandering the art show, I still had a little more spare time, so I stepped into the dealers room, where I immediately bumped into Vivian Perry and Ed Bryant by a table selling a striking nude portraits, including a dramatic one of Chip Delany. I hadn&#8217;t seen Vivian for a few Worldcons, and so  caught up on her musical career.  That&#8217;s her below, so that when she&#8217;s on her future concert tour someday I&#8217;ll be able to say I knew her when.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottEdelmanVivianPerry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottEdelmanVivianPerry-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanVivianPerry\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottEdelmanVivianPerry-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/ScottEdelmanVivianPerry.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I found  Jetse de Vries at the end of his e-publishing panel, and we took off for lunch.  Jetse and I have passed like ships in the night at many conventions, and we figured that we were long overdue for a chance for a quiet conversation. Over bison burgers, we discussed his recent trip to view a total solar eclipse in Siberia, compared notes on our world travels, and traded writing techniques. <\/p>\n<p>The afternoon reading of my most recently short story went well.  I handed out Spongebob Squarepants marshmallow lollipops to give the crowd a sugar rush and keep them awake just in case my sonorous voice combined with a day of wandering the con knocked them out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d share more, but now I&#8217;m off to breakfast with Bob Silverberg, and so a report on Thursday night&#8217;s doings will have to wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some time between my morning panels and my planned lunch with Jetse de Vries, so I decided to check out the art show. Many times I overprogram myself so extensively at Worldcons that I go home without having taken a leisurely stroll there, and I didn&#8217;t want that to happen again. Aside from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-worldcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13149,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions\/13149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}