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I guess this wraps it up best: Great weather, great chat, great food, great convention.
Explaining "Furry" to journalists often is like this:
At last, I'm done with editing my vaction photos. A four week trip through California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. 2643 pictures. After sorting and editing, 495 pictures in the large collection. And still 129 photos in the "best of" collection, which can be viewed at my online gallery.
Wow, that was great coverage! I expected a couple of snippets about us, but it felt like they filled half of the show with us. A recording is available from arte +7 for a week (unfortunately, only viewable on nights after 11 pm due to some few NSFW scenes.)
Watched several SIGs again while my parents went to the mall and Home Depot for some more browsing... David Barclay gave another great lecture on puppeteering and showed some very valuable tricks and a cool animatronic costume head:
Saturday brought the fursuit parade, with a new record number of costumes, I heard. Granted, every year has a new record, as fast as the costuming gets more popular... This time the parade was lead by Chinese dragon dancers, which was a great idea. Later, guest of honor David Barclay presented the Outabody system, a motion tracking system for puppeteers. Very interesting technology, David is also a very nice guy to talk to.
Not so many fursuits outside official events this year, but maybe I was at the lobby at the wrong times. I watched the A Puppet Is Born SIG by the pawpet crew, went to another SIG where the panelist didn't show up (at least not within the 15 minutes I waited) and finally watched Alexander James Adam's concert. The sound was nearly perfect, Alec in excellent mood and his performance simply awesome.
Today, we went shopping. Found a Western hat, went to Walmart to look for stuff for the RV trip, afterwards drove to the Great Mall of the Bay and then to Fry's. I bought three T-shirts, two belts and a pair of cheap shoes at Walmart, and a fleece jacket and vest at the mall. My father bought a new digital photo camera at Fry's after realizing that nobody offers Smart Media cards anymore.