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Dany Slone (Panelist) A Midwesterner transplanted to the Western coast, Dany is both a model and costumer, with a specialty in character replicating, with such names as Lara Croft (and her self-imagined, evil alter ego, Lara Goth), J.M. Linsner's Dawn and Lucius Malfoy in her repetoire. Dany will be part of two panels, one on gender-changing in costuming, and her personal favorite, "commando costume research". More information on her can be found at her website, lara-goth.com. Jasmine Watson (Artist Guest of Honor) Jasmine Watson is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary jewellers. Her work features prominently in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy, can be seen in Xena, Warrior Princess,and Hercules, the Legendary Journeys. She is currently living and working in London, where she is designing and producing her latest collection of jewellery. You can visit her website at jasminewatson.com Jen Leigh (Artist) Kirkland resident Jen requested that her actual title be "random craftsbitch." She'll be showing off her works and teaching basic chainmail techniques. Jen's websites: www.nayolan.com & www.clayjewels.net Jennifer "Radar" Wylie (Panelist) Jennifer has been an active costumer for almost four years now. Many of her creations include Harry Potter costumes for premiere parties and book releases, Lord of the Rings costumes for conventions and Halloween (including a Galadriel dress and a full set of Third Age Elven armor), and many other things. She costumes on a budget, having learned thrifty lessons from when she was a poor starving college student. She'll be hosting panels over the weekend about how you can create detailed costumes on a small amount of money. Julie Haehn (Panelist) Julie will be teaching chainmail jewelry workshops at TolCon. Lori "Glockgal" Sammy (Artist) Lori is famous in fandom for her artwork. You can see some of it at her website: Every Flavour Lucky for us, she lives in nearby Vancouver BC. The Great Luke Ski (Musical Guest of Honor) As heard on 'the Dr. Demento Show', "the great Luke Ski", this up and coming parodist specializes in high quality rap parodies, and touches on many pop culture subjects such as science fiction, cartoons, TV, Movies, and more. Luke Ski has been writing, recording, and performing his parodies since 1994. He has taken his fandom-comedy-music act to dozens of convention over the past 9 years, including Star Wars Celebration II, regular appearances at GenCon, MarCon, and ALCON, as well as opening for several showings of the "Rocky Horror Picture Show" at various theatres across the Midwest. His biggest hits include "Peter Parker", "What's Up Spock?", "Fanboy", "Insane And The Brain", "Star Wars Trilogy Homesick Blues", "Y.O.D.A.", "Baby Got Brak", "Wannabe A Slayer", "Bender Roboto", and "It's A Fanboy Christmas", which are from his CDs, "Carpe Dementia" (1999), and "Uber Geek" (2002). His latest CD release, titled "Worst Album Ever" (2003), features his newest hit, "Stealing Like A Hobbit", an Eminem parody about the "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy, which spent 8 weeks in a row on Dr. Demento's weekly Funny Five countdown.
Luke Collis Sienkowski grew up in Pell Lake, Wisconsin, just a few miles away from the popular tourist destination Lake Geneva. He spent his youth teaching himself how to draw and watching all the comedy TV shows, movies, and stand-up specials that he could find. At age 15 he took the stage at the Comedy Café in Milwaukee to perform stand-up comedy for the first time. He soon expanded into improv at ComedySportz clubs in Milwaukee and Kansas City. After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1996, he opened a caricature art stand at Station Casino Kansas City. It was during this time that Luke began submitting comedy songs to "the Dr. Demento Show" under his nickname, 'the great Luke Ski'. Soon, he began releasing CDs of his music, and spending many weekends traveling to conventions and other venues across the Midwest to perform his comedy music for eager Demento fans. It was at one of these conventions, ALCON '98, where he met Stephanie Wild, a professional stagehand from Madison, WI. In 2000, he moved from Kansas City back to his home state of Wisconsin to live with Stephanie, and in June of 2001 they were married. By day, Luke is a freelance cartoonist and caricaturist, and continues to write, perform, and record comedy albums. Visit him at lukeski.com
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