About two days ago someone mentioned how awesome it would be if a certain slogan became a shirt. I threw out the idea that the money could go to running creator focused events, and a few people said it was cool. That night, melbourne creator Frank Candiloro and I were back and forthing names and ideas. It started so small…

In the beginning we had names involving “Society” and “Appreciation”, that were either wankily long or exclusionary to a part of the creative world we wanted to include. Remembering conversations years ago about the name Creatorcon, I jumped on it, did a search to make sure there was no one in the country running it at the moment, and ten minutes later there was a gmail, a redbubble account and a facebook page.

We didn’t plan for particularly long, but the goals are real – create creator focused events, like what Doujicon started out like in Melbourne, and launches and run workshops etc, for the benefit of budding creators. We started seeing people think of the goal as a convention, which is our fault (well the name does include con) but we are never going to achieve a Supanova or Armageddon type pull. In my hopes and dreams I would love it to eventually evolve into something like TINA, which also started humbly, but grew to be an event creators came from all over the country to see.

These are just my hopes, and I know they are a bit ambitious. But if we start small, and remember that the community wants this, I think we can make something special.