Pawpet Show Looks Into the Future
This year's pawpetshow took a few bold and risky steps. The characters whose adventures we have followed for so many years stepped down from the stage.
Fan favourites like Poke and Lori had to make room for a new generation of pawpets in this year's adventure which took the audience to the Pearl of Asia, Hong Kong. Anybody expecting a more traditional plot was surprised with a futuristic cyberpunk thriller, pitting hackers, corporations and the Communist Party of China against each other in a close struggle for political power and control over the cyberspace.
Puppets and Power Tools
“Crazy is an important attribute to have,” Eisfuchs observed as your correspondent chatted with him, sat on the floor in the Pawpet Show backstage room earlier this week. Crazy and dedicated would seem equally fitting.
Kung Fur Hustle
For this year’s charity event, and in a nod to the theme, Pinky hosted the “Kung Fur Show”, a display of martial arts with a dash of fun-loving insanity.
Hottest Motorfurs Meet Ever Attracts a Crowd
The Motorfurs Meeting was held Saturday afternoon on the parking area slightly down the road from Maritim. The event attracted approximately thirty vehicles and a good crowd in excellent weather.Fur Flies as Emperor Seeks His Champions
Once again, the Fursuit Gameshow proved to be a contest of agility, skill and - most of all – endurance, as the finals stretched on until close to midnight on Friday evening.
Hosted by Aetobatus, the show pitted eight pairs of fursuiters, the finalists of Thursday's preliminaries, against each other in a series of challenges to find the pair most worthy of serving as the Emperor’s new architects.
So You Think You Can Dance?
Eurofurence first timer this year was the "Enter the Arena" dance contest. And it was a roaring success. Twelve contestants entered the dance floor in an all out dancing combat.
Bitter Lake: A Bold Experiment
This year's Eurofurence saw the première of Bitter Lake, a venture into live-action furry filmmaking. The project evolved out of "Fursuit Theatre" and took acting in fursuits from the stage to the silver screen.
Why is it Raining on our Parade?
This year the fursuit parade was expanded into a short street tour around downtown Magdeburg. For the first time, the event did not take place during the weekend, as to avoid a date collision with today's Christopher Street Day Parade.Eurofurence's Forbidden Cities
There are many areas where not everyfur can enter. The "Furbidden City" with its headless indulgences is only one example. A look behind closed doors.
Some 600 furs at Eurofurence are not fursuiters. As such, they can only speculate as to what goes on behind the wooden walls of the Furbidden City, eternally shrouded in a low, buzzing hum. It comes from a myriad of powerful fans. A yellow dog is cooling its chest and crotch at two of them. Even bigger ones are connected to long pipes with multiple outlets that dozens of suiters use to dry their handpaws and heads simultaneously. Indeed, many of them are headless - this is the only place they allow themselves to be seen like this.
Words with Friends
Perhaps it is being the chairman of the world’s largest furry convention that provides the bulk of the situations for his stories. Or, it might be his work as a scientist and contact with a variety of smart, intelligent people that keeps his creative juices flowing.
Are Real Anthros Possible?
What are science's answers to the perennial question: "Could we create anthros in real life?" According to the material presented in Pr. Theodose's workshop, there are two viable approaches to the idea, one human and one animal based.
Fursuit Games
The Fursuit Gameshow QualifiersThe Fursuit gameshow started off again with the preliminaries taking place on Thursday afternoon. Competitions to find out which pairs of critters to move on to Friday evening's final saw the popular charity collection run return, with fursuiters trying their best to convince others around the hotel to give to charity.Furball Run
Some say that they drive 600 miles to dress up as animals and drink beer, and that they think there is no German word for “fluffy”. All we know is, it’s called the Furball Run.
First run in 2008 under the benevolent dictatorship of Jasper and AK, who thought that organizing a road trip across Europe for a group of furries wouldn’t shorten their lives, the Furball Run is a convoy of primarily British EF attendees from the UK to Germany. Covering over 600 miles across four countries in two days, the Furball Run is the largest organized convoy to Eurofurence, with 15 vehicles and around 40 people taking part this year.
"Let Eurofurence Begin!"
To a packed main stage, Pinky hosted this year’s opening ceremonies event with her signature poise and passion.
What's New in the Artshow?
It's a busy afternoon for Blue_Panther, second director of the art show. A flurry of artists are unpacking and hanging their work to the carefully numbered panels.
Just Ask, pt 2
The second part of a short story by Bariki. The rabbit waiter makes contact with the stranger, although in a way that he would not have anticipated...A Tale of Two Parades
It's a fabulous weekend for Magdeburg. The reason why the fursuit parade was moved to Friday is another parade: Christopher Street Day!
Some 417 fursuiters are assembled at Eurofurence. When they march through the streets of Magdeburg in a colourful defilee, cars stop, children squeal and parents take photographs. This year, for the first time, the fursuit parade will take place on Friday, instead of Saturday.
The reason for this change is as simple as it is surprising. Another line of paraders will waltz through Magdeburg on Saturday, just in front of the Maritim: the Christopher Street Day parade!
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