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Eurofurence Information => Questions & Answers => Topic started by: Quincy the Raccoon on 02.09.2014, 23:49:38
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I could be just this silly old raccoon, but... The greenhouse world? What's that about for theme? :)
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EF20 PPS had covered the theme quite close.
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So sort of a post-apocalyptic world where anthropomorphic animals live in a semi-medieval setting?
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Yes, probably kinda like that. Please be patient until the next website launches, which will give a full introduction into the theme.
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Can't imagine much about that theme either, I just see a greenhouse with flowers and stuff xD
Let's see what you have planned ^^
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Guys, should I even remind you what a greenhouse effect is? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect
It is a situation when emissions from down here cause the atmosphere to accumulate heat from the Sun, like a garden greenhouse. This is what modern scientists are trying to warn the people about.
So, the greenhouse world is a world of global warming. Melting ice caps, airflow change causing climate change on a large scale. If you have seen the movie Waterworld (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/), you know what effects I'm talking about.
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Why I remember this movie?
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must I dress as recycle bin?
next year attendees?
(http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp13786900.jpg)
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must I dress as recycle bin?
next year attendees?
(http://comps.canstockphoto.com/can-stock-photo_csp13786900.jpg)
If you want, feel free and go fot it :)
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If you want, feel free and go fot it :)
NOPE! ^^
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must I dress as recycle bin?
next year attendees?
If you want, feel free and go fot it :)
Please take into consideration that a recycle bin costume may not meet the admittance requirements to enter the Fursuit Lounge. ;)
However, with Germany having one of the highest recycling rates (http://www.dw.de/eu-praises-german-recycling-measures/a-15905414), an authentic recycle bin costume might come with other problems than that... ;D
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Greenhouse world?
If they decide to "simulate" global warming by turning up the heat in the lobby areas, I think I will hide in the fursuit lounge for the whole con xD
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C'mon, folks!
The EF Board obviously have something in mind; I admit that I can't quite imagine what it is, but they haven't steered us wrong yet, each preceding theme has been fun and engaging so far. I say we wait patiently and - after everyone has had an interval to decompress - they will put up something which I am sure will inspire us and provide plenty of opportunity for creative involvement.
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Just wait for our annual website relaunch ... it will explain the theme, and we have a few really nice surprises up our sleeves :)
Until then ... just relax :)
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I still have this Furry8000 jingle about EF21 in mind and hope you think of it, too, while planing that con...
Something post apocalyptic offers opportunities. (Though I'm not saying you should get Stefan Raab to the consite to put napalm on his van.)
#p
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I still have this Furry8000 jingle about EF21 in mind and hope you think of it, too, while planing that con...
Something post apocalyptic offers opportunities. (Though I'm not saying you should get Stefan Raab to the consite to put napalm on his van.)
#p
We could re-do the jingle in English and play it during the OC :D
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I still have this Furry8000 jingle about EF21 in mind and hope you think of it, too, while planing that con...
Something post apocalyptic offers opportunities. (Though I'm not saying you should get Stefan Raab to the consite to put napalm on his van.)
Yes, and the closer EF21 gets, the more I regret ever making that skit :) It's creepy, when Eisfuchs and I made it, "EF21" was that weird thing in the far faaaaar future that we'd never live to see.
Funny enough, I totally wouldn't mind having Stefan Raab around these days ...
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maybe next year all fursuiter will placed like a tree with something of green on, than we'll sing "Jingle bells"
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Yes, and the closer EF21 gets, the more I regret ever making that skit :) It's creepy, when Eisfuchs and I made it, "EF21" was that weird thing in the far faaaaar future that we'd never live to see.
Funny enough, I totally wouldn't mind having Stefan Raab around these days ...
2002, I looked it up. I counted the years since EF8 but I wouldn't have imagined this would get real. (EF21 in general, not necessarily napalm and flooded toilets.) And I'm even planing to visit it.
Well, seems we're all getting old. Even Stefan Raab. :D
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it would be also nice to knowing the exactly dates to plan vacation :3
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Eurofurence is Europe's largest furry convention and will return once more to the Estrel Hotel in Berlin, Germany. This year's theme is the 'post man' scenario and a little bit of Inherit the Earth - this year's theme is 'Greenhouse World'. Overgrown cities, decaying human structures, vegetation covering houses, streets & bridges. A civilization crumbling into dust.
Bots can read it in the pages metadata, but we can't read it on the page xD
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it would be also nice to knowing the exactly dates to plan vacation :3
It's new, but also available via the webpage now: August 19 - 23, 2015
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Bots can read it in the pages metadata, but we can't read it on the page xD
Because bots will be the only existing creatures after the CO2 apocalypse, or something? :) Thanks for acting like a good crawler... Interesting. Thus harder to cover than the Crime & Cops thing, don't you think?
Cubitus ●●●●
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Me no crawler. :P
Now there is the question: Where do we get so many vegetation to cover the whole Hotel with it? xD
And suddenly broken elevators are part of the theme then, huh?
Makes me think of the post-human documentaries on N24
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Thus harder to cover than the Crime & Cops thing, don't you think?
Personally... I think it opens up much more options since it's a much wider theme. The "Crime Scene Berlin" theme didn't leave that many options. It might be harded to coordinate the official decoration for that reason, but I'm already excited about what interpretations I'm going to see from the attendees!
Where do we get so many vegetation to cover the whole Hotel with it? xD
And suddenly broken elevators are part of the theme then, huh?
Maybe start watering the trees early? Maybe with the right chemicals they'll actually grow? :P
And broken elevators as a theme would only work if we could scale the vines into our rooms... but I think there's an ever so tiny security concern about that. So in advance: please don't actually climb anything higher than a chair!
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Makes me think of the post-human documentaries on N24
Hehe, that's exactly what I was thinking about too xD
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Maybe the hotel can be covered with wild vine like on this picture:
http://www.gartenmagazin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wilder-wein-haus.jpg (http://www.gartenmagazin.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/wilder-wein-haus.jpg)
These plants grow pretty fast. (Though they are indeed not such a good climbing surface.) :D
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These plants grow pretty fast.
I think we could use vines as decoration ... but actually GROWING them there as decoration would be a little bit extreme, IMHO :)
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I think we could use vines as decoration ... but actually GROWING them there as decoration would be a little bit extreme, IMHO :)
Why, Peter Jackson had his LotR sets grown a year in advance...
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I still have this Furry8000 jingle about EF21 in mind and hope you think of it, too, while planing that con...
Something post apocalyptic offers opportunities. (Though I'm not saying you should get Stefan Raab to the consite to put napalm on his van.)
#p
since that jingle i am waiting for that Con can we please invite the Bibeltreue Christen or the Jehovah's Witnesses ;)
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since that jingle i am waiting for that Con can we please invite the Bibeltreue Christen or the Jehovah's Witnesses ;)
Remember the EF19 fursuit parade obstacle course? http://media.furcon.de/Eurofurence/ef19/Akulatraxas/tn/20130823-IMG_6397.jpg
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I still have this Furry8000 jingle about EF21 in mind and hope you think of it, too, while planing that con...
Is it still online somewhere? I cannot find it anywhere.
Nevermind.
http://www.furry8000.de/downloads/2002-09-28/xx_Eurofurence_21.mp3
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I still have this Furry8000 jingle about EF21 in mind and hope you think of it, too, while planing that con...
Is it still online somewhere? I cannot find it anywhere.
Nevermind.
http://www.furry8000.de/downloads/2002-09-28/xx_Eurofurence_21.mp3
Im guessing thats Dhary?
Also is there an english transcript for us that dosn't speak german?
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Nevermind.
http://www.furry8000.de/downloads/2002-09-28/xx_Eurofurence_21.mp3
The scary part is ... I wrote that in 2002. And listening to it after 12 years in the year 2014, this hits a lot ... A LOT ... closer to home than I would have ever imagined. Or wanted.
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"Niemand liest das Programmheft" ;D I lost it at that, excuse me for laughing at your hard reality Cheetah.
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"Niemand lest das Programmheft" ;D I lost it at that, excuse me for laughing at your hard reality Cheetah.
Too true. It's a really nice conbook, informative, good quality and all that, but I guess...
(http://cdn.meme.li/instances/500x/54410132.jpg)
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"Niemand liest das Programmheft" ;D
As it was, and always will be. 8)
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We might need a Readers' Digest version of it :P
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Im guessing thats Dhary?
Also is there an english transcript for us that dosn't speak german?
We might need a Readers' Digest version of it :P
I have put a half an hour of work in to it and have it up for proof reading.
Depends when I get a reaction if I can post it here soon.
I have been thinking about making a video or something of it.
Just using pictures of EF20 with stock photos and copy / paste with comic style balloons etc.
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We might need a Readers' Digest version of it :P
We have that - even two of them: one is the pocket programme and the other even made it to stage and is called "opening ceremony" ;)
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The conbook is great! Not to mention the beautiful artwork, I've read it at least twice (also because I would forget things).
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As promised, here is a transcribe as far as I could understand.
I am fairly sure for everything, but that last part of the recording about the reason they flooded the level 2 toilets was unclear to me.
So if a native German can make it out, feel free to correct it and I will included it in my transcribe.
Edit after corrections from Druon at 20 sept. Thank you sir ^^
Notes:
- This transcribe contains time codes for easy reference. These have been made on the time given by Media Player Classic. Both VLC and Firefox apparently report a different total run time, which seams to be faulty (I have run it with a stopwatch and goes out of sync quickly). Firefox will report the runtime of 3.39 and will count on beyond that point when it reaches it. VLC will just 'run quicker' to actually end on the 3.39.
- I have also included my original document in odt (open document format) which will work best in LibreOffice or OpenOffice. MS Office will work, but will moan about it a bit.
Enjoy
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center – Cheetah at the phone
Yes, this is security. We are at the second level and we have a small problem.
What is going on?
So to say, we are at the second level and the toilets are overflowing.
Then why are you calling me?
– 0:30
You do not understand! I'm telling you: We are at the second level! And here are the toilets … <grumble grumble, wash, bubble bubble – End transmission>
Shit, that is starting out great...
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center
– 1:00
Uhmm, Cheetah, we have a problem.
Agh agh, go ahead shoot...
The manager of the venue has walked in to the art show. We stumbled upon him screaming: 'My eyes, my eyes'!
Oh my god, where was the security!? You know very well, that it is to hard for normal people. Get a doctor!
That's to late; security is already here, but he has hung himself in the garden.
– 1:30
Damnit. That is the 3rd time in a row. Okay, come upstairs. I will write a letter to the surviving relatives.
<End transmission>
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center
Hello Cheetah, this is security speaking from level one. There is water running from the ceiling and I'm guessing the toilets on the second level are again...
<grumble grumble, wash, bubble bubble – End transmission>
– 2:00
*Grumbling and despairing Cheetah*
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center
Cheetah! Cheetah, it's terrible. In the depression workshop 5 people have killed themselves!
Yeah so!? That is what is supposed to happen.
< End transmission >
*Talking to himself* Does no one every read the program?
– 2:30
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center
Hi Cheetah, you have to get down here immediately.
I can't leave here, what is the problem?
People here have released the cows!
Haha, very funny. I can make a fool out of myself without help.
< End transmission >
How stupid do people think I am?
– 3: 00
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center
Oh hi, Cheetah. Are we actually insured?
Why do you want to know?
Oh... Nothing 'really' bad. There is just a broken window.
Phooo, and here I was thinking it was really something bad. But out of curiosity, what has happened?
Well, one of these rocks must have missed their mark...
– 3:30
… What rocks?
Well... These protesters where very intoxicated and can't aim well anymore.
Uhhmm... Who?
The protestors! Today at noon one group of newbies went to the church quare to parade around in their anatomically correct fursuits. Unfortunately they ran into a rally by members of the Bible-believing Christian party*1 and they thought we are the disciples of Satan. They really thought we wanted to burn down the city with that fire.
– 4:00
What fire are you talking about!?
After Stefan Raab*2 tried to video tape the orgy in the video showroom, that started when someone secretly sneaked in some animal porn, a couple of people really freaked out and poured napalm down from the second floor all over his outside broadcast van.
NAPALM!? Napalm, on my con!? What the heck is Napalm doing on my con?
How should I know? You're the organizer!
Yes damnit!... But but...
Come on easy now, the stupid napalm eventually burned up and the roof truss barely got damaged.
Barely got damaged?!
– 5:00
Yes we simply clogged the toilets and so the fire couldn't spread... One moment, what is that... Wha.. haaaa!
<grumble grumble, wash, bubble bubble – End transmission>
*Cheetah crying* Why... Why always me!?
Furry-Eight-Thousand
For us nothing is too...
< End transmission >
References
*1 Partei Bibeltreuer Christen: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Bible-abiding_Christians) (Bible-sweater Christians Party), a small, but real party in Germany, not to confuse with the well-known Christian Democratic Union who most people probably would think of, when they hear about a Christian party.
*2 Stefan Raab: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Raab) Prominent German entertainer, television host, comedian, and musician.
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Good work, Fineas! :)
I tried to fix that last part for you,though.
Eurofurence 21 dispatch center
Oh hi, Cheetah. Are we actually insured?
Why do you want to know?
Oh... Nothing 'really' bad. There is just a broken window.
Phooo, and here I was thinking it was really something bad. But out of curiosity, what has happened?
Well, one of these rocks must have missed their mark...
– 3:30
… What rocks?
Well... These protesters where very intoxicated and can't aim well anymore.
Uhhmm... Who?
The protestors! Today at noon one group of newbies went to the church quare to parade around in their anatomically correct fursuits. Unfortunately they ran into a rally by members of the Bible-believing Christian party* and they thought we are the disciples of Satan. They really thought we wanted to burn down the city with that fire.
((*Partei Bibeltreuer Christen, a small, but real party in Germany, not to confuse with the well-known Christian Democratic Union who most people probably would think of, when they hear about a Christian party.))
– 4:00
What fire are you talking about!?
After Stefan Raab tried to video tape the orgy in the video showroom, that started when someone secretly sneaked in some animal porn, a couple of people really freaked out and poured napalm down from the second floor all over his outside broadcast van.
NAPALM!? Napalm, on my con!? What the heck is Napalm doing on my con?
How should I know? You're the organizer!
Yes damnit!... But but...
Come on easy now, the stupid napalm eventually burned up and the roof truss barely got damaged.
Barely got damaged?!
– 5:00
Yes we simply clogged the toilets and so the fire couldn't spread... One moment, what is that... Wha.. haaaa!
<grumble grumble, wash, bubble bubble – End transmission>
*Cheetah crying* Why... Why always me!?
Furry-Eight-Thousand
For us nothing is too...
< End transmission >
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"Niemand liest das Programmheft" ;D
As it was, and always will be. 8)
Insert one single typo. You will get at least 3 forum threads about "ugh there was a mistake in the conbook".
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"Niemand liest das Programmheft" ;D
As it was, and always will be. 8)
Insert one single typo. You will get at least 3 forum threads about "ugh there was a mistake in the conbook".
Well, I think that the hunt-the-body-outlines game was a pretty good way of getting more people to open that book on location than any other part of the content... We need to have something like that again and make sure that the "hints" are well hidden inside the important stuff. "Oh, I read the programming by accident" ;)