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ActFur OnAir: ActFur s3 ep06 – Rockabilly
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The New Thundercats : Watch 9 Minutes of Purrfect Leaked Footage (VIDEO)
Author: Doug
There’s a good chance this will be pulled down by the powers that be pretty soon, so enjoy it while it lasts. More than nine minutes of footage from Cartoon Network’s Thundercats reboot has made its way online, our first lengthy look at the new version of one of the best afterschool cartoons of the late 1980s.
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Bronyville Episode 010 – Friendship Needs to Man Up!
Author: AppleCider
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today, Chef and I spent some time together catching up on all our fans wonderful questions. We made sure not to miss adding another celebrity brony, celebrating our meme dominance, and getting stoked for fighting games that we will be no good at but it is filled with way too much awesome. Afterwards, we cover everything from Applejack’s missing parents, horrific misspellings of the best pony, and hot dog eating competitions. But what we learned most of all was this – that we should all take a few hoofsteps back and ‘repeat to ourselves it’s just a show, I should really just relax.’
Sincerely,
AppleCider
PS – Show notes can be found on the following Google Doc.
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=16qDyuGu9gv-YymQMU_LkJ-CQtjIqrvQUtguA3d4Oceg
Intro – Friendship Forever Mix by ChainAlgorithm on Youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V59MgGRHvo
Outro – Cutie Mark Crusaders Theme (Power Metal) by Joecoolman26 on Youtube – http://youtu.be/xqlpHa0pk8E
Find the full article here: BronyShow
KnotCast: Episode 145 – Anthrocon Adventures
Author: E-Mail Hidden
Seat of your pants, high flying podcast action! This week on Knotcast we’re all a bit tired. But the show must go on after last weeks episode was eaten. We get some followups to emails from 144, read a couple AC con reports, and Fuzz shares a bit of his own AC experiences.
We also tell haters what they can do. Hint: It involves rakes.
This weeks music break is WWU Piano Cover by Bucktown Tiger.
Use our coupon code ‘knot’ at AdamEve.com for a great deal, and help the podcast in the process!
Episode 145 – Anthrocon Adventures (AAC; 22.1 MB)
Episode 145 – Anthrocon Adventures (MP3; 53.3 MB)
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Hypnobeast Podcast #6 “Ballooni-La”
Author: The Hypnotic Beast
Episode 6 of the Hypnotic Beast Podcast. “balloni-La,” a guided imagery session for happiness and relaxation.
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"Wilfred" New TV comedy starring Elijah Wood, trying to deal with the fact his neighbor's dog appears to him as a man in a dog suit.
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FC-46 The Door Slammers - Back from AnthroCon 2011 and a bit disorganized, we crack down on some interesting news, show off our live interview with Nuka at the con, and have some really fun debates. For two of the hosts being sick not to mention being dis
Back from AnthroCon 2011 and a bit disorganized, we crack down on some interesting news, show off our live interview with Nuka at the con, and have some really fun debates. For two of the hosts being sick not to mention being distracted by the new studio camera system, I think we did a good job in the end. :3
News:- Anthrocon Attendance Up By 160, Raises $11,000 for Toonseum
- SoFurry Announces Public Beta Date, Gains 10k Members in a Month
- Howard Stern Show interviews several attendees at Anthrocon 2011
- Piercing Cats Is Cruelty, Judges Rule
- Anthrocon and the 96.1 Morning Freakshow make Deadspin
- U.S.-Made Pesticide Continues to Kill Off Lions in Kenya
- International Furry Survey – Summer Edition now OPEN
- Seattle Furry nightlife gets a facelift
- Wilfred’s Jason Gann Interviewed – Reports being propositioned for sex by furries.
- Furnetics
- Zachary Pillow – “its been to long”
Interview:
Topic of the Week:
- Anthrocon
FC-46 The Door Slammers - Back from AnthroCon 2011 and a bit disorganized, we crack down on some interesting news, show off our live interview with Nuka at the con, and have some really fun debates. For two of the hosts being sick not to mention being dis
Back from AnthroCon 2011 and a bit disorganized, we crack down on some interesting news, show off our live interview with Nuka at the con, and have some really fun debates. For two of the hosts being sick not to mention being distracted by the new studio camera system, I think we did a good job in the end. :3
News:- Anthrocon Attendance Up By 160, Raises $11,000 for Toonseum
- SoFurry Announces Public Beta Date, Gains 10k Members in a Month
- Howard Stern Show interviews several attendees at Anthrocon 2011
- Piercing Cats Is Cruelty, Judges Rule
- Anthrocon and the 96.1 Morning Freakshow make Deadspin
- U.S.-Made Pesticide Continues to Kill Off Lions in Kenya
- International Furry Survey – Summer Edition now OPEN
- Seattle Furry nightlife gets a facelift
- Wilfred’s Jason Gann Interviewed – Reports being propositioned for sex by furries.
- Furnetics
- Zachary Pillow – “its been to long”
Interview:
Topic of the Week:
- Anthrocon
FC-46 The Door Slammers - Back from AnthroCon 2011 and a bit disorganized, we crack down on some interesting news, show off our live interview with Nuka at the con, and have some really fun debates. For two of the hosts being sick not to mention being dis
Back from AnthroCon 2011 and a bit disorganized, we crack down on some interesting news, show off our live interview with Nuka at the con, and have some really fun debates. For two of the hosts being sick not to mention being distracted by the new studio camera system, I think we did a good job in the end. :3
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WikiFur Article of the Week:
- Furnetics
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- Zachary Pillow – “its been to long”
Interview:
Topic of the Week:
- Anthrocon
Yippee Coyote: July 2011 Featured Fursuiter of the Month
Editor’s note: The FNN Featured Fursuiter of the Month is a new profile series written by Kijani. Every month he will choose one well-recognized figure in the fandom’s fursuiting community, offering a unique “behind the mask” look at their characters and lives outside of fursuiting.
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Passion for performing: Furry veteran Yippee Coyote has left his mark on the fandom
Jimmy Chin, July's featured Fursuiter of the Month, poses as a spy for Further Confusion's 2007 theme, 'Fur Your Eyes Only.'
Imagine, if you can, the challenges of being a furry fan before the advent of the internet.
To share their craft with others, artists, writers and animators had to join Amateur Press Association clubs that would collate quarterly submissions, and connecting with fellow fans was equally as difficult compared to today’s ease of online forums, instant messaging and social media sites.
Back in 1990, a young artist holding an engineering degree from the University of Florida named Jimmy Chin, perhaps better known nowadays as Yippee Coyote, attended his first furry event, NecronomiCon, in Tampa.
Earlier that year, the first official furry convention, ConFURence, was held in southern California.
Having been around since the beginning, Chin was able to witness the beginnings of what we know today as the furry fandom.
“Within a few years, ConFURence went from furries seeking and sharing art and stories, to furries meeting each other after conversing online.” Chin explained. “That’s the birth of the community.”
WESTWARD HO
Chin ended up moving to southern California in 1995 to pursue a career in animation, but ended up getting a job in software support for a computer company.
He saw the cross-country trek as a fresh start on life.
“I took the idea of moving west as a reinvention of myself,” Chin said. “Originally when I joined the fandom, I started as a bunny (influenced by Roger Rabbit), but I adopted a coyote fursona.”
He added that particular fursona was actually not Yippee; the character he is best known as today was meant to be a “homeless” mascot character, “an idealized cartoon” he could pretend to be.
Another common misconception is that Yippee’s character design was based of Wile E. Coyote of Looney Tunes fame, rather he was fashioned off the round-muzzle designs found on Disney’s “Coyote’s Lament” cartoon.
Since his creation in 1996, Without a doubt, Yippee has been one of the most well-traveled fursuits in the fandom, attending local community and furry events all across the country and Europe. Yippee was ceremoniously retired earlier this year – and he went out with a bang.
Chin was asked to be the Guest of Honor of Euroference 14 in Germany, and also celebrated a championship run in the Furry Fandom Fursuit Fracas tournament last year.
Finally, he wanted to cap his character’s run by earning a double-doodah award for attending and performing in two Doodah Parades – one in New Jersey and the original parade in Pasadena, creating a full-circle loop that proved to be a fitting end to the coyote’s run.
“I wasn’t sure he’d survive the ceremonial pie toss afterward, I figured that would be a good endpoint,” said Chin. “Yippee went on to attend the original Pasadena Doodah parade at the end of April, the same parade he publicly debuted at in 1996, 14 1/2 years later.”
The character Yippee Coyote, left, was recently retired from performing after more than 14 years. Chin can still be found bouncing around as Twilight Bunny (right) at local events and conventions.
A PASSION FOR PERFORMING
Chin’s passion for mascots and getting into character goes far back, even before the term “fursuit” was coined in the early ‘90s.
“I’d always been fascinated by mascots and theme park characters,” Chin recalled. “Although I tried out for my college mascot, I didn’t get it, but still held onto the interest. When I found furry. I found that people could build their own suits, and in 1994 I built my first fursuit, and wore it to conventions, both furry and local sci-fi cons.”
In addition to creating and performing as a number of different characters in addition to Yippee, Chin also developed quite a professional resume, having performed for Six Flags Magic Mountain, and several major sports organizations in the bay area, including being selected as a guest mascot performer during the 2003 Major League Soccer All-Star game.
Chin, who attends several conventions a year, also enjoys sharing his experience and insight of character performance with others in the fandom.
He hosted a panel discussion on that topic, “The Power of Pretend,” at Anthrocon in 2010 and also Further Confusion in 2011.
“Performing is a kind of transaction between the performer and spectator,” said Chin, who was one of founding members of the character performance group Critters by the Bay. “If the performer can get people to believe in this as a character, to look beyond the costume, then that’s the ‘magic’ in action.”
TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN’
Having been around the fandom as long as Chin has, he noted that the most drastic change the fandom has seen has been its exponential growth, and the acceptance of “furry” in the eyes of the public.
“The public acceptance has changed drastically, though I don’t think we’re out of the woods yet,” he said. “We’ve felt some growing pains with bad publicity, but as conventions get larger, cities take note of the revenue coming in to their downtowns, and it’s in their best interest to paint a more accepting portrait of these gathers.”
Chin admitted that his over two decades in the fandom wouldn’t be the same if it wasn’t for the amazing people he’s encountered and the multitude of memorable experiences he’s been fortunate enough to have baking in a hot, furry animal costume and entertaining others.
“The people I’ve met, the sharing of energies, opinions, experiences,” said Chin on what he enjoys most about the fandom to this day. “People who share this love of performing, and some great friendships I’ve found over the years. That, and the creative energy that is coming from the fandom. I love seeing what people are doing these days creatively, and how much things have progressed over twenty years I’ve been around.”
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Additional Q & A with Yippee
Q: What was your most memorable fursuiting moment?
A: Being onstage as Pinky, with (Guest of Honor) Rob Paulsen at AC07. I’ve been a longtime fan of his character voice work. I was walking on clouds for the rest of my con.
Q: If you could get a chance to meet and spend time with any three people, dead or alive, who would they be?
A: Animator/director Chuck Jones, creator of Wile E. Coyote, Former Philly Phanatic Dave Raymond. He must be full of stories of bringing a fuzzy character to the jaded Phillies fans and winning acceptance. Third… probably Walt Disney.
Review: ‘Amazing Dogs’, by Jon Bondeson
Author: Fred
Amazing Dogs: A Cabinet of Canine Curiosities
Illustrated with contemporary images.
Jon Bondeson (Cornell University Press, May 2011)
Hardcover $ 29.95 (286 pages)
Bondeson is a Cornell University lecturer who has written several books about historical oddities (“The Two-Headed Boy, And Other Medical Marvels”, 2000; “Buried Alive: the Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear”, 2001; etc.). Here he documents examples of headline-making dogs, emphasizing intelligent and “talking” dogs but also including notable meat-roasting dogs, rat-catching dogs, famous people’s dogs, martyred dogs, and more.
The intelligent and “talking” dogs will be of most interest to Furry fans. Bondeson notes that reports of these date back to antiquity, but these “true stories” contain so much obvious fantasy that none of them can be taken seriously. He cites the 18th century as about as far back as contemporary news reports and theatrical posters go.
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Episode 146 - Breaking the 4th Wall
SoFurry Announces Public Beta Date, Gains 10k Members in a month
If you’ve been waiting for it, your wait is almost over. SoFurry posted that they will open the public beta on (or around) July 17th.
Good news! SoFurry 2.0 Public Beta launches at the end of next week, at or around the 17th. Yes, the old site will remain operational for quite some time after that, and no, you don’t need to reupload your art or stories. It’s all gonna be there, on both sites!
In other news, did you know that since our announcement last month, we’ve grown from 150.000 to almost 160.000 users in a single month? Go spread the word, tell your friends and favorite artists about SF 2.0!
We showed you a few preview images from SoFurry last month – there are more images posted in the Dev Journal you can find here.
Bubbles & Gondola
More from Europe, this time from France. We really don’t know how to summarize this; even the title doesn’t exactly make sense. Probably better to let the publisher describe this new full-color hardcover graphic novel by artist and writer Renaud Dillies. Here’s what NBM Publishing put up on Amazon regarding Bubbles & Gondola: “Poetry, fantasy, and Django Reinhardt are woven into a fairy tale about solitude and awakening the creative spirit in this graphic novel. Charlie is a mouse who enjoys his solitude, staying up late nights indoors to listen to records and play his guitar; he experiences the outside world only through the windows of his house. As Charlie begins to stumble with writer’s block, a bluebird named Mr. Solitude arrives to encourage Charlie to search for inspiration outside of himself and his home. Told with a melancholic and heart-warming lyricism, this tender story combines pithy observations with whimsical illustrations to create a simple yet poignant tale for readers young and old.” The book is scheduled for release on October 1st.
image c. 2011 NBM Publishing
Episode 10 – Furry and You - We’ve got a record number of e-mails this time around (4), and as a result, the show is a bit longer than usual! I promise, as we get more e-mails, we’ll cut down on the prattle a bit so that we can tend to your n[...]
We’ve got a record number of e-mails this time around (4), and as a result, the show is a bit longer than usual! I promise, as we get more e-mails, we’ll cut down on the prattle a bit so that we can tend to your needs. After all, that’s what we’re all about!
This time, there are discussions of social awkwardness, the need for consumers, cookies, Kyo’s mom, the Ark of the Covenant, the fact that people being different is good…and something legitimately important, an assault on Tiger Haven, a home for big cats who have been abandoned or mistreated.
Please go here and sign their petition to continue to house their 280+ cats!
Also referenced in the show is a dazzling array of pictures of this great big mudball we live on in all its splendor. Here’s the site if you want to have a look!
Next week’s show is all about how you got into the furry fandom. Did you get introduced by a friend? Did you discover it at random through the internet? Did you simply hear about it and wonder what it was all about? Write in and let us know, and don’t forget, we’re always here to answer your non-topical questions as well!
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