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Rainfurrest, future plans
15 years ago
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I'm going to post my full con report after I've had some sleep, and time to organize my thoughts. I will say that the convention was a wild success for Con*Tact Caffeine, though! We were totally sold out by noon on Saturday, so we're really looking forward to Further Confusion and have some great ideas for more products to offer, as well as changes to our existing products to make them even more fun.
I met SO MANY wonderful new friends, and I won't even attempt to send shout-outs to all of them, because I'll miss somebody and then they'll be sad and think I love them less than the other people. Needless to say, it was really the people that made the con for me this year, rather than the theme, costumes, or money.
There were a few negatives about the convention, such as a Gofur asking us for free merchandise AT OUR TABLE in the Dealer's Den (but alas, we never caught his name), and the conbook being devoid of any recognition for any of the panelists who taught panels over the course of the weekend (In my case, I did 4 seperate panels). Considering the substantial time, money, and space investment many of us put into our panels, to be completely ignored for any sort of note in the conbook, or on the signage for the panel, and still having to pay full membership price to go to the convention, it's left a really bad taste in my mouth for doing any future classes at cons. Which really is a shame, because next year's theme is "Furry Camping" and I had some great "Summer camp" themed projects to teach. Even something as simple as a pretty ribbon to stick on our badges for the weekend would've been better than nothing. We didn't even have a mention anywhere on the website, and that wouldn't have cost them a thing to add.
While the bulk of this post may talk about the negative, rest assured that Rainfurrest 2010 was really the best con I've ever been to as far as the people, the dedication of the (majority) of the staff, the location (my favorite hotel in the world), and the sales. I found myself constantly busy with wonderful fun activities (although I missed panels I wanted to see, due to table-sitting), had a lot of fun showing off our new(ish) costumes, and most importantly, had a good time for the last time out in my Klickitat suit. I've decided to retire the bear, and have plans with
matrices to work with her, and build a 2.0 version of Klickitat, while she is going to finally update Beef Jerky. Despite our best efforts to prolong the lives of our costumes, time and travel really do take a toll on fursuits, and it seems like both of them are reaching the ends of their lives.
We will be getting photos of the 1.5 versions of Brighton and Mome Rath up as soon as possible, it looks like the weather will be agreeable to getting some great pictures of them this week, and my photographer friend has already agreed to coming over and working with us on photos of the soaps for Con*Tact Caffeine's website.
In the meantime, enjoy this video of Brighton with FC's Ninja riding on his shoulders, dangling a giant taco-on-a-fishing-pole in front of him to keep him moving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYczpMhlWM (Note: Brighton is a "Cave Dog," not a kangaroo!)
I met SO MANY wonderful new friends, and I won't even attempt to send shout-outs to all of them, because I'll miss somebody and then they'll be sad and think I love them less than the other people. Needless to say, it was really the people that made the con for me this year, rather than the theme, costumes, or money.
There were a few negatives about the convention, such as a Gofur asking us for free merchandise AT OUR TABLE in the Dealer's Den (but alas, we never caught his name), and the conbook being devoid of any recognition for any of the panelists who taught panels over the course of the weekend (In my case, I did 4 seperate panels). Considering the substantial time, money, and space investment many of us put into our panels, to be completely ignored for any sort of note in the conbook, or on the signage for the panel, and still having to pay full membership price to go to the convention, it's left a really bad taste in my mouth for doing any future classes at cons. Which really is a shame, because next year's theme is "Furry Camping" and I had some great "Summer camp" themed projects to teach. Even something as simple as a pretty ribbon to stick on our badges for the weekend would've been better than nothing. We didn't even have a mention anywhere on the website, and that wouldn't have cost them a thing to add.
While the bulk of this post may talk about the negative, rest assured that Rainfurrest 2010 was really the best con I've ever been to as far as the people, the dedication of the (majority) of the staff, the location (my favorite hotel in the world), and the sales. I found myself constantly busy with wonderful fun activities (although I missed panels I wanted to see, due to table-sitting), had a lot of fun showing off our new(ish) costumes, and most importantly, had a good time for the last time out in my Klickitat suit. I've decided to retire the bear, and have plans with
matrices to work with her, and build a 2.0 version of Klickitat, while she is going to finally update Beef Jerky. Despite our best efforts to prolong the lives of our costumes, time and travel really do take a toll on fursuits, and it seems like both of them are reaching the ends of their lives.We will be getting photos of the 1.5 versions of Brighton and Mome Rath up as soon as possible, it looks like the weather will be agreeable to getting some great pictures of them this week, and my photographer friend has already agreed to coming over and working with us on photos of the soaps for Con*Tact Caffeine's website.
In the meantime, enjoy this video of Brighton with FC's Ninja riding on his shoulders, dangling a giant taco-on-a-fishing-pole in front of him to keep him moving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEYczpMhlWM (Note: Brighton is a "Cave Dog," not a kangaroo!)
Sharako says the "Scritch and Hiss" will be up soon!
I experienced some issues with staff as well. There seemed to be one or two newbees on the crew that didn't really get how to handle being staff. I think that when the hotel isn't bringing down so much stress on the con there might be some marked improvements in the general mood of things.