{"id":8770,"date":"2017-09-09T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2017-09-09T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T19:52:37","slug":"talkcast-360-granitecon-2017-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8770","title":{"rendered":"TalkCast 360 &#8211; GraniteCon 2017 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8772 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/The-Graniteer.png\" alt=\"The Graniteer\" width=\"224\" height=\"158\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our first guest is Chris Proulx chief mastermind of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\">Granite State Comic Con<\/a>. We get a behind the scenes look at the amazing amount of work that goers into putting the show together. Chris talks about some of the many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\/guests\/\" target=\"_blank\">special guests<\/a> for this years event. We also talk about the many wonderful\u00a0participants in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\/artist-alley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Artists Alley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\/vendors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vendor Row<\/a>,\u00a0the usual outstanding Cosplay event as well as an outstanding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">array of events<\/a> occurring through the weekend. Also, new this year is some amazing <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\">convention only merchandise<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The second guest is the amazing and talented artist and creator <a href=\"http:\/\/schwarzkreuz.xepher.net\">Rhiannon Mccullough<\/a>.\u00a0Rhiannon is a convention regular and her <a href=\"http:\/\/kaiserin83.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">unique creations<\/a> are amazing and distinctive. She talked about some <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8774\" src=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_ovuecwwH0r1su74sso1_500-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"tumblr_ovuecwwH0r1su74sso1_500\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_ovuecwwH0r1su74sso1_500-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/tumblr_ovuecwwH0r1su74sso1_500.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>changes she is doing this year in order to branch out to different communities and we spent a fair amount of time talking about the future of the independent artisan place in the convention scene. She also talked about her eastern inspiration. The last time she was on was <a href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=6409\" target=\"_blank\">July,2012<\/a>\u00a0(she sounds exactly the same!!!).<\/p>\n<p>Join us all at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granitecon.com\/buy-tickets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Granite State Comic Con<\/a>, Sept. 16-17 in Manchester, N.H.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy The Chaos<\/p>\n<span id=\"pod_audio_1\">&nbsp;<\/span><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8770-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast360.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast360.mp3\">http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast360.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><a href='http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast360.mp3'>Download<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/castplayer?castfile=http:\/\/www.scifisaturdaynight.com\/podcast\/talkcast360.mp3&id=8770\" rel=\"0\" class=\"newPlayerWindow\" >Open Player in New Window<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8770\" data-text=\"TalkCast 360 - GraniteCon 2017 Preview\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8770\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2F%3Fp%3D8770&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc49ccc512d4f99a9a863cc00915cb240%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dmm%26r%3Dpg&#038;description=TalkCast%20360%20-%20GraniteCon%202017%20Preview\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first guest is Chris Proulx chief mastermind of Granite State Comic Con. 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We also talk about the many wonderful\u00a0participants in Artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8770\" data-text=\"TalkCast 360 - GraniteCon 2017 Preview\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/?p=8770\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fscifisaturdaynight.com%2F%3Fp%3D8770&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fc49ccc512d4f99a9a863cc00915cb240%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dmm%26r%3Dpg&#038;description=TalkCast%20360%20-%20GraniteCon%202017%20Preview\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[943,724,977],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scifisaturdaynight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}