MFF2006 -- Theme, GoH announcement

[feren]

Shamelessly stolen from duncandahusky and reposted here. Dunc has already done all the formatting and legwork, I'm just making sure y'all see it...

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Midwest FurFest announces Guests of Honor, theme for 2006

Midwest FurFest
Hyatt Regency Woodfield
Schaumburg, Illinois
November 17 - 19, 2006

Midwest FurFest is happy to announce that the theme for MFF 2006 will be: Midwest FurFest County Fair!

We are also proud to announce our Guests of Honor for 2006:

We are pleased to welcome the talented artist Heather "Kyoht" Luterman. Kyoht's work has been featured by Australia's National Dinosaur Museum, and Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books and media. You can see more of Kyoht's work at her website, http://www.kyoht.com

We also welcome Whitefox (aka Whitey Fawks), noted costumer and co-owner of Arend Studios (http://www.arendstudios.com). You can find examples of Whitefox's work at any furry convention, and he has created numerous retail, nonprofit, and sports mascots.

Finally, we are happy to be joined by Jen Seng (aka Spunky). Jen is a talented artist and cartoonist whose work has been featured by Sofa Wolf Press, among others. Her work can be found at http://www.toonapalooza.net
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Midwest FurFest is a production of Midwest Furry Fandom, Inc.
For more information go to http://www.furfest.org

Comments

[fiskblack.livejournal.com]

Goodness. How many guests of honor do you need?

[feren.livejournal.com]

We usually try to have three guests of honor every year, each representing different aspects of the fandom.

[fiskblack.livejournal.com]

There are three aspects of the fandom?

[feren.livejournal.com]

More.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Well... art (two-dimensional), cartooning, animation, puppetry, costuming, writing... am I missing anything?

[fiskblack.livejournal.com]

You left out whoring, mucking, and whining. :)

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Ssssh, your cynicism is showing. :D

[fiskblack.livejournal.com]

I've been around too long :(

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Me too. But the cynicism wears off after a while and then you just find everything amusing, when you don't shrug it off as unimportant. :D

Okay..

[brianblackberry.livejournal.com]

That was pretty damn funny. :)

...

Because its true,

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Strange... no writing guest of honor this year?

[feren.livejournal.com]

We rotate "focus" areas between years.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm going to enjoy it no matter who ends up headlining it. *wiggles licensed fingers* And so will everyone else! ;)

[gatcat.livejournal.com]

Durn tootin!

[hightensile.livejournal.com]

Shhh, we're not allowed to have you as GoH every year.

I know, I've tried ;)

--kit

[brianblackberry.livejournal.com]

Writers are to furry fandom what artists are to Sci-Fi fandom, the poor boy of the group. You'll be lucky to ever see any as a Guest of Honor.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

That's not true of MFF, from my experience... they usually have a Writing GoH. They had one last year, and I remember they invited Watts once, and I was their Writing GoH one year. I even did a reading. :)

[brianblackberry.livejournal.com]

Well every Sci-Fi convention has an artist GoH, but artists are still the poor boy of the fandom and get little notice compared to the writers, and writers are about the same level in furry, even if they get guest spots at occasional conventions, they play overall a distant second fiddle to those of the visual medium. This isn't a knock against either fandom, just a statement of how things are.

[linnaeus.livejournal.com]

Traditionally we switch off between written word and fursuit makers/performers for one of our GoH slots. Last year we had Gene Breshears.

[quoting-mungo.livejournal.com]

This just makes me that much more determined to try to make sure I can get there. The lineup is looking awesome.

Vixen needs more jobhunting.


-Alexandra