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Want to get another fursuit (yes another) but kind of looking to get an international maker(EU,USA,AU etc..) rather then UK.

Can anyone recommend me any?

I've looked at DHC, Lacy, Arend Studios, MixedCandy and they are just a little bit too far out of my price range any other recommendations?

I'm sort of looking for upto $1000 for either a partial/full

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Ok, I figure this is a good place to pose the question.

Short summery: I was watching TV and a commercial came on for some show that I remember was seeking furries. New season starting, so I hit up IMDB, but came up empty. Then on a whim I typed in 'Furry', and came across this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1974260/

And the trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi345807897/

Now supposedly, this came out in May, but I remember hearing absoultely nothing about it.
Does anyone know what all this is, and if is was done for anyone in particular?
And also where one might find the full version?

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Author: Allicorn

Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman presented “Stor Gul Kanin” as part of a festival of art in Örebro, Sweden. The gigantic, yellow bunny now dominates the open space adjacent to St. Nicolai’s church.

The Huffington Post has a slideshow of pictures and a brief article.

If this is someone’s plush toy, we’re a bit worried about its owner coming back to get him after dropping him in this Swedish town square! As part of this summer’s openART biennale in Orebro, Sweden, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman built this giant, 13-meter-high yellow bunny using local materials and craftsmen. Located near St. Nicolai church in the city center, Stor Gul Kanin (Big Yellow Bunny) questions the purpose of the public space and changes the perspective of the monuments within.

Find the orginal article here: flayrah – furry food for thought

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In the past few hours, all of the Social Networks as well as forums on Fur Affinity and Lulz.net have been abuzz over Fur Affinity tracking users.

Fur Affinity has recently enrolled in an affiliate program called VigLink.  It’s a service that allows a website to monetize(make money from) outbound links – say if a site links to products on Amazon, Barnes and Nobel and hundreds of other merchants on the web.

This is a very common practice.  Furry News Network actively participates in affiliate programs, as does sites like Flayrah.

Until recently, Fur Affinity has maintained a privacy policy that indicated that they do not collect data or sell data on their users.  By using this service, they can track some limited information.  Any web traffic analysis package allows a site owner to see where users are coming from, what pages on their sites are generating the most traffic and other information, including outbound links – like to affiliate programs or to an advertiser’s site.  VigLink allows them to see the same kind of information. It does however, allow an affiliate to see what products users have purchased – however, there is no user identifiable information such as IP address or user account names provided back to the affiliates.

There have been accusations that Fur Affinity’s action violates Federal Trade Commission rules. This would be the case if Fur Affinity was a site that offered product or book reviews. As they do not offer such reviews, the FTC rules covering Affiliate Links and Disclosure do not apply. You can read the FTC Guidelines on Affiliate disclosure here.

As for tracking, if you do not wish to be tracked, you can opt out of VigLink’s program by going to their site and chose the Opt Out link. Fur Affinity has updated their Terms Of Service to include information on VigLink – you can see the current Terms of Service Document here.  To go beyond this, you may choose to disable cookies all together in your browsers Privacy and Security settings, or install an Ad Blocker in your browser.

According to Dragoneer’s post in the FA Forums, they have been trying out VigLink’s affiliate service for 5 days.

Now, to address how this has been handled – It is within any Site Owner’s right to update their site or code, and their Terms or Service without notice to the user base.

As a user of Fur Affinity, you are being provided a service for free.  It is unreasonable to expect a site owner to provide the service out of pocket.  Fur Affinity has survived on donations and ad revenue from banner sales.  With the costs of operating the service growing, additional revenue streams are needed.

The alternative would be for sites like Fur Affinity to change to a subscription model, or charge all artists fees for any commission sales that go on to cover equipment, programming, bandwidth and operating costs.

All in all, Fur Affinity has updated their TOS, you have been provided an Opt Out link to opt out of VigLink’s tracking, and good, bad, or otherwise, you have the facts about what the service tracks.

You can read more about VigLink’s services at their web site VigLink.com

VigLink does not provide granular information on specific, user identifiable information.

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08/31/2011
By: CraftyAndy

This is a opinion article. These are my thoughts alone and nothing I say is be all end all.

Never do anything in hopes of fame and fortune, you’ll fail even if you succeed.

My view on the media is well varied, depends on the media. However lets stick to furries in the media. There is only one type that I would be nervous about and I’ll get to that soon enough, right now I just want to hold your interest.

As far as Tyra Banks, CSI, Strange Addiction, every other ‘event’ related to television, movies, and articles what actual repercussions were there other then other furries going on a tangent and ripping on the people who participated in these things? I doubt they got nearly as much gruff, if any from the general public. I never saw a decline in Anthrocon, being barred from public venues as a result from any of these things (if anyone has examples that come from personal experience and not hear say by all means let me know.)
Why can’t people just shrug it off and stop making a big deal over every god damn thing that comes the way of people who share interest in furry related entertainment. The most recent is of course a reality show emailing FA members asking them to participate in “hell if I know ” type of show. Who cares? Why care? If you want to go on so be it, doesn’t effect me in anyway no matter what you do. I’m not going to wake up and get fired from my job or lose my video editing skills. There isn’t going to be some rally that forms against all things furry as a result of it, because really even the supposed ‘worst of us’ (socially) are they a problem in terms of the grand scheme of things? Will some politician or world leader look at Tyr Banks and say “you know furry is problem corrupting our youth I say we ban all copies of Lion King immediately.” I doubt it.
The only I ever get nervous about a furry news related event is one of the big cable and local news channels. These venues, though they are just as focused on entertainment as any other show, they have more of a dedicated following that would more than likely take action in some way.
I know in the grand scheme of things all the people who could have a real negative impact on furry fans have bigger fish to fry but I think this is a sound argument. When Howard Stern says “Furries should be locked up.” At most you’ll get some internet chatter in agreement with a line of empty threats and comments. When Bill Oreilley, or Glenn Beck start saying “furries should be locked up.” Well then that’s when you’ll get these groups of people who would take action, maybe confront you, become hostile, get the cops called on your little public BBQ meet because you were interacting with children and a parent got “afraid.” Maybe (I doubt it’s even possible but my imagination is at work here) even pass ordinances that require a permit and background check to wear a fursuit in public. Furry is not that big but neither was the gaming culture at one point and when that exploded in the nineties, ideas of legislation was being thrown around left and right.
Anyone recall when D&D was seen as a path towards Satanism and we got specials and tv movies about how kids were killing themselves and each other. When people thought it stemmed from this RPG instead of it having to do with them being troubled individuals. People called for a banning of the books which resulted in the company censoring it’s next edition and then dropping in sales to the point of bankruptcy.
So to sum up I see no reason to worry about whatever media throws at me or you. Just think and ask questions about what you could be getting yourself into if you agree to go on someone’s TV show and think through the vast amount of scenarios that might transpire. Never do anything in hopes of fame and fortune, you’ll fail even if you succeed.
So anyone else have thoughts they’d like to share?

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The Storyteller was a popular fantasy TV series in the late 1980′s, created by Jim Henson and the Muppet Creature Shop. It featured John Hurt in the role of the Storyteller, simultaneously telling fantastic tales to his muppet dog (voiced by Brian Henson) and we the audience. Now, Archaia Entertainment brings us a brand-new Storyteller graphic novel in hardcover. It features new stories and artwork from numerous talented folk. Here’s a write-up from Comics Beat: “The Storyteller anthology will be edited by Nate Cosby, formerly of Marvel, with contributions by Roger Langridge, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, Jeff Parker, Paul Tobin, Colleen Coover, Francesco Francavilla, Brian Clevinger, Tom Fowler, Marjorie Liu, Evan Shaner, Jennifer Meyer, Katie Cook, Chris Eliopoulos, Ron Marz, Jim McCann and Janet Lee — and an unpublished story by the late Anthony Minghella [who helped the late Jim Henson create the original series].” Look for it in September.

image c. 2011 Archaia Entertainment