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Running to save his life, Aldwyn, the street-wise orphan cat, ducks into a strange store. Moments later Jack, a young wizard-in-training, comes in to pick out his familiar – a magical animal companion. Aldwyn’s always been clever. But magical? Apparently Jack thinks so—and Aldwyn is happy to play along. Anything to get out of town!

Once home with Jack in Stone Runlet, Aldwyn thinks that he’s got it made—a life of ease with a boy who loves him. He just has to convince the other familiars—the know-it-all blue jay Skylar and the friendly tree frog Gilbert--that he’s the telekinetic cat he claims to be.

Then, after the sky lights up with an omen, the unthinkable happens. Jack and the other young wizards are captured by the evil queen of Vastia. Together Aldwyn, Skylar and Gilbert must save them—but how?

On their thrilling quest across the land, the familiars will face dangerous foes, unearth a shocking centuries old secret, and discover a mysterious destiny that will change them all forever.

The new FX comedy Wilfred is equal parts crazy, hilarious, crude and brilliant. The half-hour, live-action series, adapted from the Australian series of the same name, follows Ryan (Elijah Wood), a young man struggling unsuccessfully to make his way in the world until he forms a unique friendship with Wilfred (Jason Gann), his neighbor’s canine pet. While everyone else, including his owner Jenna (Fiona Gubelmann), sees Wilfred as just a dog, Ryan sees a surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. As Wilfred, the dog, shows Ryan, the man, how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the unpredictability and insanity of the world around him, the two develop an unlikely friendship that gives new meaning to “man’s best friend.”

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SEEKING FURRIES (ANYWHERE)

Emmy award winning TV production company is seeking Furries for a new documentary series on a major cable network. If you fit this description, please respond for more information.

Thanks!

Location: Anywhere
Compensation: TBD
Principals only. Recruiters, please don’t contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
PostingID: 2469078574

[Editor's note:  Before even THINKING about contacting these people, do yourself and the rest of the fandom a favor and watch Uncle Kage's Panel on Furries in the Media]

Update: 7/7/2011 – 5:00pm – Production Company Identified – Asylum Entertainment

Hi There,

To give you some more details, we are producing a one-hour documentary as part of an ongoing TV documentary series (each episode is different, so this would be just one episode).  We’re looking for young adults who participate in the furry lifestyle to be the focus of the episode.

Can you send some photos of yourself and your ‘fursona’?  Preferably we’re looking for people between the ages of 18 and 28, but we’re open to meeting any potential people who are interested. Also, any more information about your story and who you are would be really helpful!

Thanks!

Marielle Skouras
Development Coordinator | Asylum Entertainment
15301 Ventura Blvd., Suite 400 | Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
www.asylument.com

Posted on the Fur Affinity Forums 7/9/2011

Hi everyone,

I know some of you have heard about this already, but I wanted to reach out to more of you to let you know of an exciting opportunity. I work at an Emmy-award winning production company, and we are producing a one-hour episode of an acclaimed documentary series for a major cable network about furries. The documentary will focus on two to three different furries. It’s follow-doc style, so it’s meant to basically see a real slice of the life of a furry. 

Some of you have expressed concern that other media representations of furries in the past focused solely on the sexual parts of it. I understand that sexuality accounts for only a minority of furries, and we are absolutely NOT making the focus of this documentary about sex. This is about life, and the exploration of a popular trend and lifestyle that’s emerging in today’s society. 

Some TV series are formatted, which means that in every episode the same thing has to happen. For example, in Hoarders, we know that a person has a hoarding problem, sees a therapist, cleans their home, and make an effort to be ‘cured’ by the end of the episode. The series that we are doing is NOT formatted, meaning that we will be able to do whatever we like in the episode. So that means that whoever ends up being chosen for the documentary will essentially be choosing what he or she will be doing in the episode. 

We find Therians particularly fascinating, and would love to have a Therian as one of the participants. That will have nothing to do with sexuality as the focus will be on what it is like to be born in the wrong body. Additionally, we’d love to find a couple who are both furries to participate. In that case, the focus would not be on sex, but would be on their relationship and how being furry affects that. Those are just two specific examples… we’d love to meet everyone, as I’ve only been researching this for about a week so I’m sure there are many more fascinating aspects about furries that I’ve yet to learn.

I hope this clears some confusion and apprehension up on what our intention is with this documentary. I’d love to find people who want to participate, so if interested, please message me. Or, you can send me an email to msko...@asylument.com

To find out more about our company visit our website: www.asylument.com

Thank you and I look forward to meeting you! 

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http://www.ocweekly.com/slideshow/califur-2011-a-furry-convention-33476341/

"On June 3-5, 2011, furries from all over congregated at the Irvine Marriott for CaliFur 2011. Guest of honor? Touch My Badger. Click here to learn more about furries. All images by Christopher Victorio."



I'm wondering why this club doesn't use the memories and tags feature. If we tagged every post by convention we could easily see what stories had already been posted and thus avoid double posting stuff.
Idk, it seems a much nicer idea to me then no tagging at all.
http://fursuitreviews.livejournal.com/profile is a good example of how tagging and post memories can make it really easy to find what you want.

With a Facebook page, a Twitter Stream and a KickStarter page, “Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits” is doing all the grass-roots marketing it can to get this new movie off the ground.

Sarah Anne Lloyd from Seattlest.com interviews filmmaker Chris Diani about his new project.

Fursuits Aren’t Cheap: Local Filmmaker Needs Your Fuzzy Wuzzy Dollars

“I don’t drink coffee, I don’t eat seafood and I make movies,” asked local filmmaker Chris Diani of his Seattle residency, drinking a Coke at the Five Point, “What am I doing here?”

He kids. Seattle has been great to him. Diani moved to Seattle in about 1993, immersing himself in the local theater scene. Eventually he moved onto film, making the beloved gay zombie B-movie throwback Creatures from the Pink Lagoon. He likes grilled cheese sandwiches and sweater vests.

But that’s not what we met to talk about. That would be furries. Yes, those furries. For his second feature film, classic film fan Diani is going from making a self-described “campy mix of classic B horror flicks and pre-Stonewall gay melodramas” (Creatures) to Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits, which he envisions as a throwback to the classic screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s. Think The Palm Beach Story with fursuits (and without the hunting subplot, because that would be unfortunate).

It goes something like this: there’s a gay couple who are both broke artists. They break up to find sugar daddies, and one does! But when he goes to meet said sugar daddy at a hotel, little does he realize that his sugar daddy is a furry, and the hotel is hosting a furry convention.

Finish reading Fursuits Aren’t Cheap: Local Filmmaker Needs Your Fuzzy Wuzzy Dollars

By: Lionking300
Anthrocon CEO and Chairman Uncle Kage imparted his wit and wisdom to us on Friday at AC 2011, delving into the touchy and important topic of how furries are portrayed in the media.

If you care at all about how we are portrayed in the public eye, this panel is worth a watch!

Friday, July 8th is Chick-fil-a’s annual Cow Appreciation Day.  Here’s the deal – you go to any Chick-fil-a dressed as a cow and get free food!

If you come in dressed partial – like a mask, cow shirt, tail, etc – you qualify to get an entree free.  If you come in dressed “Head to Hoof” as a cow, you get your entire meal free!

If you participate in Cow Appreciation Day”, email your photo in Friday afternoon and we’ll post them all to a gallery here on FNN!

You can see Chick-fil-a’s Cow Appreciation site for all the details on the event.  You can also RSVP to the event on Facebook, and download their new iPhone App.  To help you out, they even include a costume kit here: Cow Costume Kit

 

A four-minute short with English subtitles from Gobelins, the French animation school, about a town and its relations with anthropomorphics.

Things do move quickly these days. The Familiars, a hardcover fantasy novel by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, was published by HarperCollins last September. Now, it’s already in development as an animated feature film for Sony Pictures. Here’s the story synopsis from Amazon.com and Booklist: “Aldwyn, a scruffy, quick-witted alley cat on the lam, poses as a magical animal when he ducks into a shop to avoid capture and ends up purchased as a boy wizard’s familiar. Despite needing to keep his mundane nature hidden, Aldwyn settles easily into his new role, bonding with his human loyal, Jack, and befriending two other children’s familiars: Gilbert, a tree frog, and Skylar, a blue jay. When an evil witch kidnaps the children and kills their mentor, only their familiars can save them.” The second book in the series, The Familiars: Secrets of the Crown, is heading for bookshelves this coming September. Meanwhile, here’s news about the movie from Bookyurt.com and Variety: “Doug Sweetland, a Pixar veteran of 16 years, has signed on to helm The Familiars for Sony Pictures Animation. Based on the novel by Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson, The Familiars is the story of the animals chosen to be familiars for young wizards in training. Sam Raimi and Josh Donen will exec produce.While at Pixar, Sweetland worked on animated features including Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo.” You can also find out more by visiting The Familiars web site.

 

image c. HarperCollins

http://mscottbrauer.photoshelter.com/gallery/Furries/G0000_vd8MkiSXmA



> Furries are a group of people who identify themselves, to varying degrees, as anthropomorphic animals instead of as humans. Mainstream coverage of their culture has characterized the community poorly, and as such the furry fandom, as it's called, has been reticent to go on the record in recent years. For many furries, the culture is an inherently sexual one, but for others, being a furry isn't about sexual expression at all. Furries find outlet for the identity by working as masoctos or children's entertainers or by making fursuits for others. Furriness is as much about performance as it is about the self. By the very nature of fursuiting--that is, of dressing up as walking, talking animals--the fandom is not taken seriously. The pictures in this series take an objective look at the lives of a small number of furries in New England, examining the community and individuals at a personal level.

Tearsheet: Furries in Epsilon Magazine in Greece
http://www.mscottbrauer.com/tearsheet-furries-in-epsilon-magazine-in-greece/



Tearsheet: Furries in Vision Magazine May 2010
http://www.mscottbrauer.com/tearsheet-furries-in-vision-magazine-may-2010/

http://y108.radio.com/2011/06/26/feast-your-eyes-on-the-furries/

Thousands of costumed characters migrated to Pittsburgh’s David L. Lawrence convention center for the (6th annual) Anthrocon 2011. Known as ‘furries’, these folks enjoy dressing as animals with human characteristics. Monty took photos, in case you’re allergic.

Hello to all our listeners
Sorry this one is a little late, we slipped up and had a massive party for Canada day and didn’t get to record on time. It’s fixed now.

Click below to listen:

http://www.unfurled.net/episodes/UnFurled_-_Episode_39.mp3

Click to download | Open Player in New Window

Come and listen to us blab more with the cast and Cheetah Kit who returns as guest.

Episode 39 – ‘sodes - Hello to all our listeners Sorry this one is a little late, we slipped up and had a massive party for Canada day and didn’t get to record on time. It’s fixed now. Come and listen to us blab more with the cast and Cheetah Kit who returns as guest.

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Senior Thesis from Ringling College of Art and Design
Class of 2008

In the dangers of the Australian outback, a simple man ventures out to fulfill his life long dream... to ride in the pouch of a kangaroo.

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They only look like baby pandas.

These little bundles of joy are actually chow chow dogs that have been dyed black-and-white to look like pandas.

Dyeing pets has been a trend in pet pampering for quite some time. At last summer's Pets Show Taipei, there was a fierce dog-dyeing competition. Check out photos.

But dyeing your pets to look like other wild animals is a more recent development.

The trend demonstrates how quickly and dramatically attitudes toward pets — particularly dogs — have changed in many parts of Asia.

In Taiwan, for example, just 10 years ago, dogs were still eaten in public restaurants and raised on farms for that purpose. Traditional Chinese medicine held that so-called "fragrant meat" from dogs could fortify one's health. Now, eating dog is viewed by many as an embarrassing reminder of a poorer time.

Elsewhere, in mainland China, dog meat is still very much on the menu. In fact, it's more expensive than pork or beef.

So, while more people may be eating dog as the country gets richer, newly wealthy Chinese have embraced dog-owning culture with a vengeance.

Dogs are brought into restaurants, fussed over in public, dressed up in ridiculous outfits and dyed to look like ferocious tigers.

Panda or chow chow? Tiger or retriever? You be the judge

Five years ago Don and Brenda Hoch took home a skunk after seeing it by chance in a pet store

The Hudson, Fla., couple found they had a way with the animals, and now the Hochs share their home with not one, but 15 skunks.
Their original pet skunk, Spike, shares his permanent home with fourteen others the couple are fostering for Florida Skunk Rescue. Eventually the skunks will move to permanent homes.
"A lot of our rescues are skunks that needed someone to work with them because they were neglected in the home they came from and consequently became biters," Brenda Hoch said. "We've worked with them and have gotten them to become friendly again."
Fortunately, the Hochs don't live with a constant fear of being sprayed. The skunks are de-scented at a young age, around two to three weeks old.