Brian Brushwood is an American magician, podcaster, author, lecturer and comedian. Brushwood, known for the series Scam School, a show where he teaches the audience entertaining tricks at bars so they can “scam” a free drink from their friends. In addition to Scam School Brushwood co-hosts the podcasts Weird Things with Andrew Mayne and Justin Robert Young, Cordkillers with Tom Merritt and Night Attack with Young. Brushwood was also a regular guest on the This Week in Tech podcast. Brushwood performs his Bizarre Magic stage show across the United States and is the author of six books. Brushwood has appeared on national television numerous times including on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, CNN and Food Network.^[1]

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^{[1] Wikipedia}

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Daily Tech News Show is a daily podcast about tech hosted by Tom Merritt. Tom Merritt is a technology journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the former co-host of Tech News Today on the TWiT.tv Network, and was previously an Executive Editor for CNET and developer and co-host of the daily podcast Buzz Out Loud. He currently hosts Daily Tech News Show, Cordkillers, and Sword and Laser, among other shows.^[1]

This panel was a live recording of an episode of Daily Tech News Show. Panelists included Tom Merritt, Jonathan Strickland, Justin Robert Young, Len Peralta and Veronica Belmont.

Jonathan Strickland has written about the future and technology professionally for six years but his interest in these subjects goes back much further. He fell in love with computers when his dad brought home an Apple IIe. He credits storytellers like Gene Roddenberry, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Brad Strickland for his fascination with the future and the fantastic technologies we may one day see. Jonathan’s hobbies include acting, performing improvisational comedy and playing online first person shooters (poorly).^[2]

Justin Robert Young is a podcaster, comedian, game creator and host at Bit Torrent News.

You can find Len Peralta’s quirky, offbeat style in comic books, card games, on t-shirts, posters and all over social media. Along with working on projects with companies like Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Steve Jackson Games, Boom! Comics, Rifftrax and Noggin, Len has illustrated several books including “There’s A Zombie In My Treehouse” by John “Widgett” Robinson and Ken Plume, “Silly Rhymes For Belligerent Children” written by MST3K/Cinematic Titanic’s Trace Beaulieu and “Super Powered Revenge Christmas” a full graphic novel with Bill Corbett (Rifftrax). Recently, his self-published graphic novel series, Exterminite, with Mikey Neumann and Kris Straub was named as a hot property for Hollywood to adapt.

Len is the resident artist every Friday for Tom Merritt’s Daily Tech News Show where he draws an original piece while the show is being recorded. His work has appeared on CNN.com, The New Yorker and at gallery exhibitions in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Hawaii and San Diego Comic Con. Len was also listed as one of the Top 100 Geeks To Follow on Twitter by Wired Magazine.^[3]

Since 2006, Veronica has been hosting content for the web and TV. This includes everything from video podcasts to red carpet premieres. She has also been a guest on many programs as a tech, science, and futurism commentator. You may have seen her on the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Pre-Show, the Game of Thrones Season 5 Premiere, and Gizmodo: The Gadget Testers. She has also worked for Discovery Digital, Sony Playstation, and CNET Networks. More recently she was the host of Dear Veronica for Engadget, and (as always) Sword & Laser!^[4]

Note: This is part of a series of photos from Dragon Con. Dragon Con is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place yearly in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about Dragon Con visit http://www.dragoncon.org/.

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^{[1] Wikipedia
[2] FWThinking
[3] LenPeralta.com
[4] VeronicaBelmont.com}

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Bill Farmer was an Ask a Character panelists at Dragon Con. During the panel the moderator and audience members asked questions in which the panelists would respond in the voice of their character(s). Other panelists included Sam Marin, Carey S. Means, Mark Meer and Rob Paulsen.

Bill Farmer is best know as the voice of Disney’s Goofy since 1987. He is also the current voice of Pluto and Horace Horsecollar.

Other significant characters he has played include Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, and Foghorn Leghorn in the movie Space Jam (1996). He has also done several guest voices, both on TV, including The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and in video games, including the Destroy All Humans! series, Namco’s Tales of Symphonia, where he voiced Governor-General Dorr, in Square Enix’s Kingdom Hearts series reprising the role of Goofy, Detective Date in the SEGA game Yakuza, Captain Wedgewood and Frill Lizard in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger, many voices on EverQuest II, Cletus Samson, Floyd Sanders, Jeff Meyers and Ryan LaRosa in the video game Dead Rising and Sam and others in the cult classic adventure game Sam & Max Hit the Road.^[1]

Note: This post is part of a series of photos from Dragon Con. Dragon Con is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place once each year in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information about Dragon Con visit http://www.dragoncon.org.

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^{[1] Bill Farmer’s Wikiepdia}

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During Dragon Con Magician Brian Brushwood “Shwood” was set to appear on a panel about magic and skepticism as a part of Dragcon Con’s Skeptrack. Being a fan of Shwood I tried to attend most of his panels. Only after I had lined up over an hour prior to the start did I learn not only Shwood but also an unannounced, in the app, guest James Randi was a panelists. For those of you younger than 30-35 James Randi was a frequent guest on The Johnny Carson Show. It was quite an honor to see and hear James Randi’s stories. He told many stories of “snake oil” salesmen that fronted themselves as priest who were able to heal if the individuals would “believe strong enough.”

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims. Randi is the co-founder of Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) and the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). He began his career as a magician under the stage name, The Amazing Randi, and later chose to devote most of his time to investigating paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims, which he collectively calls “woo-woo”. Randi retired from practicing magic aged 60, and from the JREF aged 87.^[1]

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^{[1] Wikipedia}

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Each year at Dragon Con it is not hard to spot Deadpool in the crowd. Look left and then right and I am sure you will see at least one each way. During the event all the Deadpools congregate for a massive “family” photo.  Typically shenanigans ensue before, during and after the shoot. It is a lot of fun to look at each individual Deadpool because they are so unique even acting as the same character. It was tough to choose just one photo from the shoot, however I was able to locate a Deadpool that was looking towards the cameras, mine specifically, with a pose I loved.

Deadpool (real name Wade Winston Wilson) is a fictional antihero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by artist/writer Rob Liefeld and writer Fabian Nicieza, the character first appeared in The New Mutants #98 (cover-dated February 1991). Initially Deadpool was depicted as a supervillain when he made his first appearance in The New Mutants and later in issues of X-Force, but later evolved into his more recognizable antiheroic persona. Deadpool is a disfigured and mentally unstable mercenary with the superhuman ability of an accelerated healing factor and physical prowess. He is known as the “Merc with a Mouth” because of his talkative nature and tendency to break the fourth wall, which is used by writers for humorous effect and running gags.

The character’s popularity has seen him feature in numerous other media. In the 2004 series Cable & Deadpool, he refers to his own scarred appearance as “Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar Pei”, leading to Reynolds eventually portraying the character in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine and reprising the role in the 2016 filmDeadpool.^[1]

Note: This post is part of a series of photos from Dragon Con. Dragon Con is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place once each year in Atlanta, Georgia.

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^{[1] Wikipedia}

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Ask a Character panel at Dragon Con was a panel where voice actors from cartoons and video games answer questions from the moderator and audience in the voices of their respective characters, and even sometimes characters they do not voice. From left to right: Bill Farmer, Sam Marin, Carey S. Means, Mark Meer, Rob Paulsen. Ask a Character, or any variant of it, is a must see. I always love to hear how the character would answer certain questions.

Bill Farmer is best known as the voice of Goofy since 1987. He is also the current voice of Pluto and Horace Horsecollar.

Sam Marin currently voices Benson, Pops and Muscle Man on Regular Show an American animated television series created by J.G. Quintel, and produced by Cartoon Network Studios for Cartoon Network.^[1]

Carey S. Means is an American voice artist and actor best known for playing Frylock in the Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He also voiced Thundercleese from The Brak Show.^[2]

Mark Meer is a Canadian actor, writer and improvisor, based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is internationally known for his role in the Mass Effect trilogy, in which he stars as the voice of the male version of the player character, Commander Shepard.^[3]

Rob Paulsen is an American voice actor and singer who has done many voice roles in various films, television shows and video games. He is known for voicing Raphael and Donatello from the 1987 cartoon and 2012 cartoon respectively of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yakko Warner and Dr. Otto Scratchansniff from Animaniacs, Jack Fenton from Danny Phantom, Pinky from Pinky and the Brain and the title character in The Mask. In total, Paulsen has been the voice of over 250 different animated characters and performed in over 1000 commercials. He continues to play parts in dozens of cartoons as well as characters in animated feature movies.^[4]

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^{[1] Regular Show Wikia
[2] Carey Means Wikipedia
[3] Mark Meer Wikipedia
[4] Rob Paulsen Wikipedia}

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