I once went for a walk in the San Francisco Bay Area mountains, and ran into these little creatures.
While taking a class at BAVC in Mission District of San Francisco, one student got curious about the neighborhood - what exactly was it? He went around and asked a few people, got very confusing and contradicting responses, and that’s how we found our theme for the class project movie.
Raccoons are quite common in California, and they are very smart and cute. They are especially attracted to food in hikers’ backpacks, and would do just about anything to distract people’s attention from the item of their desire - and then sneak in to get it. Well, no point in telling - see for yourself:
…And the site was born.
Took it roughly two months from the conception of the idea, registering of the domain, and the climatic insertion of the top-loaded HTML with the “Under Construction” code seed, to this first post.
Bang!
Judging by the gestation period, it may have to do something with feline creatures, but we have yet to [...]