Always a delight to see you! (And your dear deer!)
By total coincidence, right now I just happen to be watching Joe Strike's video that he took at ConFurence 4, and found a very enthusiastic young Bunnell in the Artists Alley!
I'm pretty sure there is an irony to be found somewhere in this. All this talk of wanting to experience cons the way the younger you did, while simultaneously acting ashamed of the younger you? :) I don't think you can have it both ways!
*chuckle* Aww, he's jes pullin' yer leg. (At least I think he is. I hope he is!) Actually I can totally see wanting to share this type of thing with friends in private, but not wanting the whole internet to be able to see it. Maybe I should take that screencap down...? I think I'll break the link now, just in case...
I think I've got a different CF4 video which features some of the dopey stuff we did like putting pillows in our pants and dancing on beds to Beastie Boys' "Hey Ladies"
Oh dear I've said too much. whatever you do don't ask prickvixen who wasn't there either.
Unfortunately, no. I really wish it were on YouTube, but it would be up to Joe to put it up there. He has a video he made at Philcon 1992, too, where all the two dozen or so furries on the whole east coast at the time are gathered together and engaging in typical con-type antics with each other. It's hilarious stuff and highly entertaining!
What's really fascinating about this old footage is that, even 20+ years ago, furry fans looked pretty much the same, talked the same and acted the same as we still do now. Cons, though smaller, looked basically the same, too. There was a dealers den and an artists alley and a costume masquerade and competition, and people wandering around the hallways and public areas doing all kinds of wacky shit. And room parties, complete with portable bars and guys sitting around watching cartoons and doing bong loads! It's really amazing to see how essentially little we've changed over the years. ^^
I'd love to see that kind of stuff. Any chance you or Joe would be willing to share it in private at a convention, or create a physical copy that you could mail out? I would be happy to pay for it and I would not distribute it without permission.
in a nutshell from two different sources, around summer of 1990:
1) I'd been on the predecessors to FurryMUCK, and was almost a founding wizard. I still have my FurryMuck character Bunnell, dbref #45. 2) On August 4, 1990, in DeLand Florida, Tiny Toons animator and comic artist Ken Mitchroney told me to check out Rowrbrazzle. I posted about it on rec.arts.comics upon returning to Gainesville, got in touch with some guys from YARF, in October I attended a furry party in Tampa, then in January drove across the country to ConFURence 2.
Wow, you got into things even earlier than I thought! I also didn't know you were originally an East Coast fur. Someone really needs to write up the history of East Coast furry fandom. The West Coast takes almost all the credit for it, as you know, but that isn't the whole story by any means.
BTW, did you ever check out the video that was made at that Furry Fandom history panel that Walden crashed at FC2014? It's quite interesting. Also interesting to note that there was almost nothing in it about the origins of East Coast furfandom...
By total coincidence, right now I just happen to be watching Joe Strike's video that he took at ConFurence 4, and found a very enthusiastic young Bunnell in the Artists Alley!
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I'm pretty sure there is an irony to be found somewhere in this. All this talk of wanting to experience cons the way the younger you did, while simultaneously acting ashamed of the younger you? :) I don't think you can have it both ways!
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I think I've got a different CF4 video which features some of the dopey stuff we did like putting pillows in our pants and dancing on beds to Beastie Boys' "Hey Ladies"
Oh dear I've said too much.
whatever you do don't ask prickvixen who wasn't there either.
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What's really fascinating about this old footage is that, even 20+ years ago, furry fans looked pretty much the same, talked the same and acted the same as we still do now. Cons, though smaller, looked basically the same, too. There was a dealers den and an artists alley and a costume masquerade and competition, and people wandering around the hallways and public areas doing all kinds of wacky shit. And room parties, complete with portable bars and guys sitting around watching cartoons and doing bong loads! It's really amazing to see how essentially little we've changed over the years. ^^
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1) I'd been on the predecessors to FurryMUCK, and was almost a founding wizard. I still have my FurryMuck character Bunnell, dbref #45.
2) On August 4, 1990, in DeLand Florida, Tiny Toons animator and comic artist Ken Mitchroney told me to check out Rowrbrazzle. I posted about it on rec.arts.comics upon returning to Gainesville, got in touch with some guys from YARF, in October I attended a furry party in Tampa, then in January drove across the country to ConFURence 2.
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BTW, did you ever check out the video that was made at that Furry Fandom history panel that Walden crashed at FC2014? It's quite interesting. Also interesting to note that there was almost nothing in it about the origins of East Coast furfandom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adC7N2pcY2M
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