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New Student Film: Furry
The film “Furry” is by Lindsey Batdorf, who wrote, directed and edited the project. Furry is a 20-minute comedy that was produced at Ringling College of Art and Design, as her senior thesis project.
The film is about Ryan Wetherby, a 23-year-old illustrator who is obsessed with his childhood wolf character named Kitsu. He finally has an opportunity to get together with the girl of his dreams, a co-worker named Emily. He faces a dilemma, however: should he tell Emily about his furry obsession, or should he hide it from her? It doesn’t help that his “out-and-proud” furry friend, Terry, is always looking to convert new people to the fandom!
We asked Lindsey about her experience with the fandom:
As far as my experience with the fandom goes, I learned about the furry lifestyle from my past college roommate. She had a tigress character that was her “fursona” and she loved to draw Sonic the Hedgehog art. I investigated further, and I found that beneath the negative rep it gets from the media, the furry fandom is a nerdy yet fun-loving community of nice folks. This was only proven to me further when I went to Anthrocon 2010 and met a lot of incredibly friendly furries!
Trailer for my thesis film, Furry. Produced at Ringling College of Art and Design.
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Baby 'Moon Bears' Rescued In China (VIDEO)
Fuzzy Logic: Episode 3 – Fruit Of The Loom!
Author: admin
Our third episode is up and live for download! In this episode, we talk about laser badgers, video games, creepy people, roommates, breaking up, and a variety of other things! This one comes in at exactly one hour long, too!
This time, we even have an e-mail left over from this week, so getting to three e-mails will be even easier, making us far more likely to record for our THIRD week in a row, woo! Don’t forget to keep sending ‘em in; as we’re slowly proving, we’ll cover most any topic you want discussed! Keep spreading the word, too!
Find the full article here: Fuzzy Logic Pod Cast
Link to this post!23,000 Bunnies Dead in Easter Sunday Massacre
Author: AshMCairo
The shooting of more than 23,000 rabbits in New Zealand during a charity hunting event held over the Easter vacation weekend has drawn fire from animal welfare campaigners.
While organizers of the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt, held across the southern region of New Zealand’s South Island, argued the event was ridding farmland of an introduced, rampant pest species, welfare group Safe saw things differently, the Sunday Star-Times reported.
Safe director Hans Kriek said the event promoted the killing of animals in a “party atmosphere.”
“It’s seen as a party atmosphere, sending people out as inexperienced hunters blasting away at animals,” he said. “The ones they kill are one thing, the ones they injure are another.”
Hunt spokesman Dave Ramsay said the rabbit problem was at its worst in the region for 20 years, and the annual event raised thousands for local charities.
In total 47 teams — with 12 shooters each — from all over New Zealand took part, Ramsay told The Otago Daily Times.
Although the event only carries total prize money of NZ$ 3,500 (US$ 2,800), the most sought-after prize was the trophy for the team which shoots the greatest number of rabbits, he said.
Find the full article here: furryne.ws | Published News
Link to this post!Alexis Dunbar, Florida Woman, Finds 7-Foot Alligator In Her Bathroom (VIDEO)
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PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) — A Tampa-area woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom – a 7-foot alligator.
Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the alligator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away.
Dunbar believes the alligator used a doggie door on the back porch to get inside the house. Dunbar lives in Palmetto, which is south of St. Petersburg.
Spring is mating season for alligators and wildlife officials urge people to be extremely cautious, especially around water.
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Find the full article here: furryne.ws | Published News
Season 5 - Show 49
23,000 Bunnies Dead in Easter Sunday Massacre
While organizers of the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt, held across the southern region of New Zealand's South Island, argued the event was ridding farmland of an introduced, rampant pest species, welfare group Safe saw things differently, the Sunday Star-Times reported.
Safe director Hans Kriek said the event promoted the killing of animals in a "party atmosphere."
"It's seen as a party atmosphere, sending people out as inexperienced hunters blasting away at animals," he said. "The ones they kill are one thing, the ones they injure are another."
Hunt spokesman Dave Ramsay said the rabbit problem was at its worst in the region for 20 years, and the annual event raised thousands for local charities.
In total 47 teams -- with 12 shooters each -- from all over New Zealand took part, Ramsay told The Otago Daily Times.
Although the event only carries total prize money of NZ$3,500 (US$2,800), the most sought-after prize was the trophy for the team which shoots the greatest number of rabbits, he said.
Alexis Dunbar, Florida Woman, Finds 7-Foot Alligator In Her Bathroom (VIDEO)
Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the alligator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away.
Dunbar believes the alligator used a doggie door on the back porch to get inside the house. Dunbar lives in Palmetto, which is south of St. Petersburg.
Spring is mating season for alligators and wildlife officials urge people to be extremely cautious, especially around water.
President Obama Didn't Do Enough To Celebrate Easter, Critics Say
"I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason -- because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there's something about the resurrection -- something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective.
"We all live in the hustle and bustle of our work... But then comes Holy Week. The triumph of Palm Sunday. The humility of Jesus washing the disciples' feet. His slow march up that hill, and the pain and the scorn and the shame of the cross. And we're reminded that in that moment, he took on the sins of the world -- past, present and future -- and he extended to us that unfathomable gift of grace and salvation through his death and resurrection.
"In the words of the book Isaiah: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
"This magnificent grace, this expansive grace, this 'Amazing Grace' calls me to reflect. And it calls me to pray. It calls me to ask God for forgiveness for the times that I've not shown grace to others, those times that I've fallen short. It calls me to praise God for the gift of our son -- his Son and our Savior."
Encyclopedia Dramatica Is Gone — Why This Isn’t Good
“It is our hope that DeGrippo [the former operator of Encyclopedia Dramatica] will opt to take action to keep these sites offline.”
That passage from a prior article here on FNN, referring to mirror sites of Encyclopedia Dramatica, compelled me to write this editorial. Note that I am labeling this as an editorial and not a news article — I don’t think that the passage above had any business being in an article trying to pass itself off as objective news.
Encyclopedia Dramatica (or just ED, as many called it) may have been rude, obscene and obnoxious. But it was also a free and open repository of things that others couldn’t or wouldn’t talk about. It was in many ways more truthful than any other site out there, in terms of documenting actual culture on the Internet.
Those of you here who know me probably know me first as someone who is passionate about documenting culture, particularly Internet-based culture. You may have watched my documentary on the Furry Fandom, “Furries – An Inside Look“. Because of this passion, I feel that ED was more good than bad. On the Internet, people act silly, or angrily; openly, or offensively; honestly, or inflammatorily; because they feel they have little or no accountability for it. This can be a good or a bad thing. But regardless of how behavior on the Internet took form, ED was a repository of it. It didn’t pick a side, it didn’t attack or support any one point of view (it tended to just attack everything, really). It preserved Internet culture in all of its creativity, hilarity, and yes, its horror, along with the many memorable and culturally-significant memes that have arisen from this culture, with little limitation or censorship. And while I don’t condone inflammatory behavior, I do condone repositories of culture, and open forums of communication.
Before you demonize ED, remember that it is the anonymity of the Internet that allows many Furries to express their feelings. It is the degree of separation between “RL” and “OL” that allows so many to come in to their own as characters that help them evolve their actual selves. So many furs can trace the development of their very self-image and modes of expression, and the friends they met along the way, to the Internet, and its ability to allow one to communicate freely and anonymously and across all borders. Furries benefit from the same things that ED did. And finding themselves judged so often (even by ED itself), I believe that Furries should, in good faith, reserve judgment against other communities, ED being just one of them. Even if it means having to be ‘the better person’.
I also believe that ED taught people, many Furries included, important lessons that they may not want to admit were things they should have known ahead of time. Upset that ED posted an article about a video you uploaded to the Internet of you having sex in a fursuit? Foaming at the mouth because of how they are defaming the Fandom in such a manner? Well, consider that maybe you shouldn’t have uploaded a video to the Internet of you having sex in a fursuit in the first place. ED taught people, in the harshest of ways, that if you make something available to the public, it may come back to bite you. And that is a universal lesson. Take it in to account before the next time you go job hunting — employers will Google around for you. They will find your Facebook, and your Twitter, and probably your YouTube — maybe even your XTube, for those who choose to post such things. Before pointing fingers in anger at ED (even though ED does deserve some of it), also look back at yourself. It is your responsibility to manage your public image.
ED was an archive of the culture, including the underbelly, of the Internet. If you didn’t want to have an embarassing article there, you probably shouldn’t have handed them the material. Keep your private life private. Or at least don’t expect it to never come back and harm you if you make it public.
Overall, Encyclopedia Dramatica was a no-holds-barred free and open forum that didn’t answer to anyone. It was an equal-opportunity hater. And while much of that may not be nice, it wasn’t fake. It wasn’t a smoothed-over PR effort. It was a cultural repository of all things, good and bad, that the Internet had to offer. And I feel that we should mourn its loss.
Link to this post!I Blame Hannah Barbera
This is the reason I fell in love with the with Fursuits. I wanted to have as much fun as these guys did!
The Lazy Man's Guide To Becoming Famous (on FA)
It was tested by 30 different scientists around the world, so this is 100% accurate!!!
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African Cats Film Verdict
04/25/2011
By: CraftyAndy
A review of the recent documentary African Cats.
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Easter weekend in Atlanta is Frolicon Weekend. Frolicon is an alternative convention which celebrates BDSM and Kink along with Sci-Fi and Fantasy.
Over the past few years, they have been very friendly with the Atlanta Furry community, and have offered a panel where well respected members of the Atlanta Furry community come and explain what furry is. During those panels, it is made clear that while some people bring a fetish aspect to Furry, that it is not all about sex.
Well, the “Regular Guys” did it again. Just like with their “Undercover” bit on Furry Weekend Atlanta, they had one of their people “Seabaz” go to the convention where he recorded audio and took photographs. During the replay of this, it pointed out that the same furries that were pissed at them for breaking in to Furry Weekend Atlanta were hosting the Furry Panel at Frolicon.
Link to this post!Encyclopedia Dramatica Gone For Good
Encyclopedia Dramatica, bane of all Furries, is no more forever, says primary contributor Sherrod DeGrippo.
ED was not necessarily an unbiased or even readable source of information, but it also distilled the culture surrounding memes and internet humor in all its unapologetic, hateful, dramatic, anti-everything glory. (As it was near impossible to single out the site as being offensive to a single group, as it made horrific fun of everyone from gay people, black people, old people, emo people, Jewish people, fat people and Furries equally- it still was the target of some banhammers, big government ones, too.)
The site that formerly cataloged the wealth of drama and attention whores on the internet now redirects to a sanitized, entirely different site called OhInternet. DeGrippo cites an impetus to move away from the racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia and offensive graphic pornography that defined the old site:
DeGrippo says that the biggest difference between OhInternet and Dramatica is that the new site has moved towards “a more toned down content style and a streamlined design: Shock for shock’s sake is old at this point and we’re looking forward to the future and how things are evolving … when you put user experience first, the language becomes highly important and that’s what we’ve done.”
With a more toned down, work safe site, OhInternet is now open for monetization – generating advertising revenue through programs ED would have previously been barred from. Advertisers often have strict rules regulating where their advertisements can appear. With the hate that ED was known for, no advertiser would have touched the site.
ED’s fanbase doesn’t seem to be easily converting to the newer, friendlier version of ED, and Geekosystem reports that OhInternet’s Facebook page was littered with offensive, pornographic comments in response to the new site. Will you be sad to see the horribly offensive site go, or did you have secret lulz when browsing its salacious pages?
Several fans of ED have gotten a copy of the backup and are trying to revive the site at Encyclopediadramatica.ch. There are several other ‘mirror’ sites going up with the same backup. It is our hope that DeGrippo will opt to take action to keep these sites offline.
[EDIT: Encyclopedia Dramatica as owned and run by Sherrod DeGrippo is gone. As stated above, there are groups trying to bring versions back. I seriously doubt they will be able to maintain these copies for any significant time. ED went through many legal battles and faced large hosting bills each month. It is doubtful anyone really wants shoulder the legal and financial responsibility for a true rebirth of the site. The LULz are fun when you are not the one trying to pay the bills that they generate.
The idententity of the individual in question has been posted at this blog "There Is No Joseph Evers" and there are several DOX sites that have sprang up. This is NOT the same ED that resided at encyclopediadramatica.com - it is a copy, and an incomplete one at that.]
OhInternet’s page on Furries: http://ohinternet.com/Furries
OhInternet’s page on WikiFur: http://ohinternet.com/WikiFur
OhInternet’s page on FurAffinity: http://ohinternet.com/Furaffinity
Other sources:
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David Beckham Gets Furry for Easter
No lie! The UK Soccer star dons an Easter Bunny costume to surprise his family.
Tweets came from Victoria Beckham…
https://twitter.com/#!/victoriabeckham/status/62236067528589312
https://twitter.com/#!/victoriabeckham/status/62268242105864193
While we realize he’s not a furry, it’s still cool. Wonder how he enjoyed the experience?
Link to this post!I Blame Hannah Barbera
Growing up in the 70′s, there were lots of interesting things on television. One program I remember above all others was the Banana Splits show. This was designed by Sid & Marty Kroft and was produced and distributed by Hannah Barbera.
This is the reason I fell in love with the with Fursuits. I wanted to have as much fun as these guys did!
Let me introduce you to the Banana Splits! The main characters were Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, a gorilla; Drooper, a lion, and Snorky (called “Snork” in the theme song lyrics), an elephant. Fleegle would assume the role as leader of the Banana Splits and preside at club meetings. The characters were played by actors in fleecy costumes similar to later Sid and Marty Krofft characters such as H.R. Pufnstuf. They all spoke in English (Drooper with a Southern drawl), except for Snorky who “spoke” in honking noises.
The Tra-La-La song is still as infectious today as it was in 1967.
Version #2
The 2008 Revival of the show
So, what sparked YOUR interest in Furries? Comment below!
Link to this post!More Furries Voting!
Voting has closed for the 2011 Ursa Major Awards, celebrating all your favorite furry stuff from 2010. Can’t tell you who won yet — that’ll be announced at a special awards ceremony at Morphicon, taking place May 12th through 15th in Columbus, Ohio. Definitely looks as if there will be some surprises though! We can tell you that this year over 1,300 fur fans from around the world took part in voting for their favorite furry-themed movies, TV series, comic strips, games, and more. That’s a growth of more than 200 voters from last year! As usual, visit the Ursa Major Awards web site to find out more about the award winners and nominees, past and present.