Apr. 25th, 2003

Confurence

Apr. 25th, 2003 11:16 am
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Getting ready to pop over to Confurence. I'll probably stop by the shop and coat some molds in latex: with the wet weather it takes an age for latex to dry (especially in glass molds). This way I can run foam in them on the way back from the con. What a clockwork!

I heard that this is going to be the last CF. I'm not surprised: I'm mostly curious who will finally show up. For a while some people have stopped buying memberships and just used the con as a convenient place to meet up with people from out of town. Unlike the recent Norwescon I recently attended, the programming at CF's has little I find interesting. The same old panels: furry spirituality, wolves, blah-blah. Same ol', same ol'. I don't think there's a masquerade and all I'm hearing from artistis and costumers is how they're working on stuff for Anthrocon.

Mark and Rod were benevolent tyrants with questionable discretion when it came to policy and promotion of Confurence, but I do give them full credit for taking the first plunge. Nowadays people think nothing of starting a con for a splinter fandom, but back then this was a huge leap.

The current chair of CF took on more than he realized, I think. He had a good agenda: to clean up the reputation of the grandfather convention of furry fandom, but he didn't have the ability or chutzpah to follow through. So the con got middled, marginalized. And more robust competition offered conventions with more vitality and organization. Sad, but it's a jungle out there.

Confurence

Apr. 25th, 2003 11:16 am
furtech: (Default)
Getting ready to pop over to Confurence. I'll probably stop by the shop and coat some molds in latex: with the wet weather it takes an age for latex to dry (especially in glass molds). This way I can run foam in them on the way back from the con. What a clockwork!

I heard that this is going to be the last CF. I'm not surprised: I'm mostly curious who will finally show up. For a while some people have stopped buying memberships and just used the con as a convenient place to meet up with people from out of town. Unlike the recent Norwescon I recently attended, the programming at CF's has little I find interesting. The same old panels: furry spirituality, wolves, blah-blah. Same ol', same ol'. I don't think there's a masquerade and all I'm hearing from artistis and costumers is how they're working on stuff for Anthrocon.

Mark and Rod were benevolent tyrants with questionable discretion when it came to policy and promotion of Confurence, but I do give them full credit for taking the first plunge. Nowadays people think nothing of starting a con for a splinter fandom, but back then this was a huge leap.

The current chair of CF took on more than he realized, I think. He had a good agenda: to clean up the reputation of the grandfather convention of furry fandom, but he didn't have the ability or chutzpah to follow through. So the con got middled, marginalized. And more robust competition offered conventions with more vitality and organization. Sad, but it's a jungle out there.

Confurence

Apr. 25th, 2003 11:16 am
furtech: (Default)
Getting ready to pop over to Confurence. I'll probably stop by the shop and coat some molds in latex: with the wet weather it takes an age for latex to dry (especially in glass molds). This way I can run foam in them on the way back from the con. What a clockwork!

I heard that this is going to be the last CF. I'm not surprised: I'm mostly curious who will finally show up. For a while some people have stopped buying memberships and just used the con as a convenient place to meet up with people from out of town. Unlike the recent Norwescon I recently attended, the programming at CF's has little I find interesting. The same old panels: furry spirituality, wolves, blah-blah. Same ol', same ol'. I don't think there's a masquerade and all I'm hearing from artistis and costumers is how they're working on stuff for Anthrocon.

Mark and Rod were benevolent tyrants with questionable discretion when it came to policy and promotion of Confurence, but I do give them full credit for taking the first plunge. Nowadays people think nothing of starting a con for a splinter fandom, but back then this was a huge leap.

The current chair of CF took on more than he realized, I think. He had a good agenda: to clean up the reputation of the grandfather convention of furry fandom, but he didn't have the ability or chutzpah to follow through. So the con got middled, marginalized. And more robust competition offered conventions with more vitality and organization. Sad, but it's a jungle out there.

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