https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyeA9aN_pG0

After the success of 2016’s “Project 8-Ball”—the recording of Bellingham’s Procession of the Species on Super 8 film—a sequel was commissioned for 2017: “Project 8 is Not Enough”. Originally intended for VancouFur, the shoot had to be postponed due to inclement weather. Having already purchased the necessary three cartridges of small gauge stock, the film was placed into storage to await a second-take opportunity.

That opportunity arrived on July 1st: Canada’s one-hundred and fiftieth national birthday. It was on this date that TK—in town for the first visit since his inglorious 2012 deportation—decided to host a Fursuit walk in conjuncture with the Canada 150 celebrations at Canada Place: Vancouver’s waterfront convention centre, and site of the largest planned festivities in the west. Not since the 2010 Olympic Winter Games had the city witnessed such an outpouring of patriotism. This special occasion begged to be recorded in a unique medium; besides, nobody else was going to do it!

On the morning of Canada Day, our group assembled in the same Gastown parkade which just hours earlier had served as crew park for Deadpool 2. Joining Rennie Fox were Marlin FisheRoo, Friduwulf, Chiswick Gryphon, Harvest , Penryn Magpie, Maxwolf, Rico, and Sairys Wolf. Fox, Gwydion, Orwin, Prowler, Toboe, Trigger and Whitzy were on hand to act as spotters, water bearers, digital documenters, and assurers of their general wellbeing. That a few furs from the United States chose to join us made this outing all the more special. At eleven o’clock, the suiters stepped out onto Water Street. It look half an hour to migrate the five blocks between Gastown and Canada Place. Every time we stopped at a crosswalk or to allow stragglers in the heard to catch up, we were mobbed. Once everybody finally arrived at Canada Place, I switched over to documenting the day on Super 8 film.

We were unsure about what kind of reception the fursuiters would receive. Everybody had been asked to come dressed in maple leaf paraphernalia. They were embraced. The crowd fell all over itself to get pictures with the suiters; especially once we had made our way over to the flaring Olympic Cauldron. We ended up as leadoff photo to Canada Place’s Facebook Album. Vancouver Police positively Tweeted about us. But perhaps the greatest triumph was becoming part of the national Canada Day broadcast. See that fellow in the purple and white dotted shirt posing with Maxwolf? He is Canadian Broadcasting Corporation correspondent Ian Hanomansing, amd had just finished speaking with Peter Mansbridge (known to every single one of you as Zootopia’s newscaster, Peter Moosebridge); who was in Ottawa during his final national telecast before retirement. When Hanomansing’s camera operator panned to show-off the crowd at Canada Place, the countrywide audience saw us in the midst of these celebrations.

Very special thank yous go out to the staff and security at the convention center, who not only allowed us to come inside for a break but also escorted our heard through the building so that we could bypass the crowd outside and safely reach the cauldron. To the good people at Niagara Custom Lab for providing and processing the Kodak Vision 3 50D 7203 Color Negative Film stock. And to Lifetime Heritage Films for their spectacular 5K scanning and colour correction of the resulting negative.

Niagara Custom Lab
http://niagaracustomlab.com/

Lifetime Heritage Films
http://lifetimeheritagefilms.com/