• Internet cat video festival is 'harder to get tickets to than Burning Man'
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[QUOTE]When Joel Shepard started selling tickets for an internet cat video festival, he wasn’t sure how much interest there would be beyond the cat fanatics (of which I am one). Shepard, video curator at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, was astonished when tickets sold out a month before the festival. And then came the emails. “It’s crazy. We aren’t ready to accommodate all the need. We sold out seven screenings but could have easily sold 70,” Shepard said. “I saw people on Craigslist asking for tickets. People have been emailing me begging for tickets.” Of course on the internet, it’s a cat video festival every day. When Google’s computer scientists set 16,000 processors to study YouTube, those computers, with no prompting from Google, [URL="http://www.wired.com/2012/06/google-x-neural-network/"]immediately began searching for and identifying cats[/URL]. For this festival, Shepard sought to elevate “this artifact” of modern life. Source: [url]http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/25/san-francisco-internet-cat-video-festival-tech-burning-man[/url] [/QUOTE]
Why pay for something you can get for free?
CatVidCon becomes a reality. [QUOTE=FlandersNed;49616860]Why pay for something you can get for free?[/QUOTE] Like any other Con I'm guessing it's just the appeal of going to a place where there are other likeminded people. And it turns out a lot of people like cat videos.
isn't the whole cat thing just something you look at for a minute or two when bored
[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;49617065]isn't the whole cat thing just something you look at for a minute or two when bored[/QUOTE] funny cat videos are a lifetime commitment.
Because we need more pointless conventions.
And here I was thinking the funny cat video panel I saw at a con last year was a bad idea. I would never of guessed someone would make a whole event out of them.
i can't remember the last time i have actually gone out of my way to watch a cat video
will there be a ball pit?
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;49619474]will there be a ball pit?[/QUOTE] no, but there will be a box pit
[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;49618979]i can't remember the last time i have actually gone out of my way to watch a cat video[/QUOTE] Cat videos are old news, baby animals from different species growing up together is where its at now.
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