Theme 2012: Futurecamp!

Everyone knows the history of furry. (Play along with us here!)

Back in the early 1930s children were bored, unhappy…one might say greatly depressed.  So the government came up with a solution: encourage the imagination of children to escape into a fantasy world!  The mascots of this experiment were furry animals, and kids were encouraged to pretend they were their friends and play games with them.

Twenty years later, many children had grown up, but they never left that happy furry world behind.  Thus: Furry was born!

Around the mid to late 1950s, Camp Feral! was a furry summer camp designed by furs for furs.  One year, a group of the early Feral! staff thought it would be fun to plan a future event based on their perception of the future.  A 'Futurecamp' based on how they felt camping would become. They wrote the entire plan down in a leather sketchbook, and put it on a shelf.  The year they chose: 2012.

Decades later, while cleaning out the backlog of Feral historical documents, a staffer stumbled across the book…with it's entire design for the 2012 event…and figured "Hell…if they've already planned it, why not take a year off!"

So we have it…the past meets the future, here in the present.  Jetpacks for Furs (with Tailguard, of course).  Hovercanoes.  In some cases they got things right: crazy 'Sockhops' in the woods with flashy lights and music made by *gasp* computers!  And that everyone could travel to camp via their very own 'Portal Device' (or, if they hadn't been invented yet…a series of pneumatic tubes).

We'd love for all writers, artists, and creative types to join in the fun and help us build this alternate universe with us!  We'll of course do our part...not just with the camp, but also with our annual video series, this year being a cheesy sitcom  from the period called 'Futurecamp!'

Feral! 2012…The Future is Now!  And it's gonna be a blast!