Eurofurence booth at the festival

On December 1st and 2nd, 2007 the independent art festival Rassemblement des Mondes Hors-Pistes (Assembly of the Off-Track Worlds) took Part at gallery agnes b. in Paris. The festival celebrated ten years of TRACKS,^[1] a TV magazine about subcultures and independent art which broadcasts on the Franco-German cultural channel Arte.

Members of the Eurofurence staff were invited^[2] to take part in the festival. TRACKS had previously covered the furry fandom with a report from Conifur Northwest 2002.^[3]

As this is a furry themed publication, I will be reviewing games that star or prominently feature anthropomorphic characters. Since this is my first review, let's go back to one of the earliest furry video games I can think of: Monty on the Run.

Monty on the Run is a 1985 Commodore 64 platform game created by Peter Harrap, a game which is so bloody complicated it would make a savant cringe. You play the role of Monty Mole, being chased by the police for intervening in the 1984-85 miners strike. It follows up from one of the previous games if the Wikipedia articles are to be believed. Though for some strange reason you never actually encounter any police for the duration of the game, but rather a plethora of bizarre, surrealistic enemies. Monty must now find a boat to cross the English Channel so that he can flee from Thatcher's Britain. Novel, isn't it?

In the media this quarter:

• an ancient anthro lion sold for $57 million;
• we made the top 10 fetish list, despite not being a fetish;
• there was a big fur on campus;
• people forgot about furry art, and found that furry IS art;
• we learned that hell has no furries, so we won't be yiffing there then;
• we found that the French like their furries HOT!;
• we also found that Boinkology don't read their own references;
• we asked whether you really feeling furry?;
• we found out about another furry documentary to come;
• Second Life furries got more thrashing;
• and someone asked a British tabloid about having fursuit sex.

Leon Fauve - "the Welsh wuff" - is an art student in Wales (surprisingly), who recently found fame for his "FMV" series of videos.

FMV Explosion is a series of "Furry Music Videos" created by Leon, each of which is a combination of random furry videos put to music and sound clips. There are currently six in existence, with a seventh on the way!

• FMV Explosion
• FMV Explosion II - This time, it's Fursonal!
• FMV Explosion III - Furs of Fury
• FMV Explosion 4 - Furball
• FMV Explosion 5 - Fulla' Fursonality
• FMV Explosion 6 - Goodbye and Furwell
• FMV Explosion 7-ish - Final Bullet in the Dead Horse [Update: Leon released his work on the seventh due to lack of free time to finish it]

It's very rare that I end up getting more than annoyed at something; even moreso when it gets to a point where I feel an intervention is needed. But last month just that happened.

I set the scene; it's November in the north of England, it's quite cold and is raining as it usually is. However the ecstasy that the day's furmeet brings is enough to alleviate such a low. It's the Manchester furmeet, the twice-yearly event when I get to meet the equivalent to a small convention of furs without having to spend a penny!

I meet old faces and meet anew. We laugh, snuggle and generally have a good time. Fursuits are brought out and the fursuiting events go on. The artists converge into "artists corner", show off their sketches and draw new ones. All the same to the average meet! A fairly perfect day in furrydom.

Then you see, and you learn.