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Rod Hunt worked with San Francisco based advertising agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners illustrating their new advertising campaign "Welcome to the World of Sex" for AIDES, the first French HIV/AIDS prevention non-profit organization.

Their latest campaign aims to promote safe sex, awareness and behavioural changes through innovative and provocative imagery. Rod's Sex Theme Park map has the tagline “The safer you play, the longer you stay” & takes a humorous & revealing approach to the world of human sexuality & safe sex.

People seem to be a bit freaked out by this video thinking the lion is trying to eat the baby. I agree more with the sentiment that the lioness wants to play with the kid.

Yes sir. There's an app for people going to AnthroCon now.

Yes sir. There's an app for people going to AnthroCon now.

...and one of the things they're looking for are furries in addition to wolves, vampires, adult babies.

Let's see who's gonna bite this time around.

in January of 2011, a group of biologists and conservationists in Nepal moved a tiger from a rehabilitation facility in Chitwan National Park to a new reserve in Bardia National Park.

Fitted with a radio collar, the tiger—named Namo Buddha—represented a unique opportunity for researchers to closely follow the behavior of an introduced tiger. Unfortunately, this same technology led them to a grisly discovery a few short months later.

Just today I was recommending the incomparably wonderful animated film A Town Called Panic to a friend, which it occurred to me to wonder: what progress has been made on the project the makers of that film (Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar) are cooking up now? They’re making a new film, Ernest and Celestine (co-directed by Benjamin Renner), and as it turns out there is actually a current article about it in Variety, based on the fact that yesterday saw the debut of footage at the Annecy festival in France.

So that crop above is probably your first look at Ernest and Celestine, which adapts the book series by Gabrielle Vincent. The full image is below, along with some more news on the film. It looks like quite a change of pace from A Town Called Panic…

Variety announces that Lambert Wilson (The Matrix Reloaded, Of Gods and Men) will voice Ernest, “a gruff bear who wants to be an artist, who befriends Celestine, an ingenious mouse.” Also in the cast are Anne-Marie Loop, voicing an aged lady mouse and Dominique Collignon, playing a dentist.

Acclaimed French writer Daniel Pennac penned the screenplay, based on the series of illustrated kids books by the late Gabrielle Vincent. Goran Bregovic, who has often worked with Emir Kusturica, is reportedly doing the film’s music. And Didier Brunner is producing; he was behind a couple films that people liked, such as The Triplets of Belleville and The Secret of Kells, so that is probably a good sign for this one.

This video is a celebration of the wonderful "magic" that happens when ordinary people put on animal costumes and bring happiness and joy to others, particularly children. Unlike (most) adults, kids still have the capacity to imagine that the fursuiter is not a hot, sweaty performer baking in a suit - but a cartoon character, or maybe their favorite stuffed animal, come to life.

All the quotes used in this video were obtained directly from the fursuiters themselves from our local group up here in the greater Seattle area.

Video by Kijani
Original footage shot mostly by Dolphin Echo
Still photos by Chaos Reign

This article is enlarged from a chronology originally printed for an exhibition at L.A.con III, the fifty-fourth annual World Science Fiction Convention, 29 August-2 September 1996, at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California.

There is no single specific date or event that can lay claim to being the birth of furry fandom. However, there is general agreement that it was around late 1983 or early 1984 that furry fans coalesced out of SF fandom and comics fandom and began an independent identity.

Due to the practice in the comic-book industry of dating one to three months in the future, the dates of the comic books listed here may be a month or two later than their actual appearances.

To indicate significant geographic centers of furry fandom, the home cities have been listed of active fans. Entries without cities indicate that the individuals named have not been active in furry fandom.

The goal of this chronology is to list the "first" and the "most influential" entries in the many aspects of furry interest. If there were more room, many other favorites could be added to each category: novels such as Brian Jacques' Redwall series, Paul Kidd's Mus of Kerbridge, Mark Rogers' Samurai Cat series, and Mary Stanton's The Heavenly Horse From the Outermost West; movies like Animalympics, The Great Mouse Detective, and Meet the Feebles; TV cartoons such as The Amazing 3, Animaniacs, Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers, the animated Star Trek with Lieutenant M'Ress, SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, TaleSpin, and Tiny Toon Adventures; comic books like The Chronicles of Panda Khan, Eb'nn, Red Shetland, Space Beaver, and Wild Life; fanzines like Hunca Munca! and Pawprints; MU*s like Animal Nation, FurryFaire, FurToonia, Redwall MUCK, and Tapestries. It was not our intention to slight anything, but space limitations precluded our including everything. Please consider this chronology in the nature of a brief encyclopedic summary. A detailed history of furry fandom is yet to be written.

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n 2002, YiffStar was born. Run and mainly supported out of pocket by Toumal, It stood for Yiffy Story Archive and functioned as a site for mainly adult themed stories, art and music, housing some 25,000 entries by fall of 2007. In 2008, Alex Vance was working on his own concept for a “Social Content Platform” called “Anthropad”.

Toumal and Alex had already worked together on Alex’s own furry story archive, FurRag, and being friends had no problems working together on other projects. Toumal was excited about some of the concepts Alex had for his “Anthropad” concept, and through discussion, they both reached an agreement that instead of building a new site from scratch, using off the shelf software, they would instead use some of those very same concepts to rebuild Yiffstar, which was in need of a refresh after 8 years of service.

It took a year and a half, a”Cadre” of coders and extensive work, but YiffStar was relaunched as SoFurry on December 26, 2009.

Well someone had the bright idea to get the Westboro church to protest AnthroCon. Looks like the mod's locked down this post though, so no harm done.

In Zookeeper, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship -- animal style. The film also stars Rosario Dawson and Leslie Bibb and features the voices of Cher, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, and Sylvester Stallone.

Hamster Rage is an interesting beast by writer and artist Brian J. Crowley. It's a webcomic featuring an anthropomorphic super powered hamster with a penchant for trench coats and cheese. Nevertheless, the lead character isn't what makes this an odd read. It is the feeling that so much more is going on beyond the scenes than the reader is privy to. The first introductory batch, available online or in a recently released paper issue, features Roosevelt, the titular raging hamster, alongside a boatload of supporting characters duking it out in the streets of Chicago, featuring a number of landmarks familiar to people who frequent Montrose between Ashland and Clark.

I went to a meeting earlier in the day to see a game that was billed "a mystery game from Sony." The only other information I knew about it was that it was announced at the Sony press conference yesterday.

I was hoping and praying the game was Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.

Lucky for me, it was! GLORIOUS!

Poor James Pond. A star on the Amiga, he never quite made an impact on other platforms, though he sure as hell tried. James Pond II - Codename: Robocod, in particular, is one of those inescapable games that resurfaces every few years on a new console, with its most recent appearance being as a freebie title featured in Sony UK's "Welcome Back" program for PlayStation 3 and PSP owners.

This month, however, James will return in his first new adventure since 1993's The Aquatic Games. James Pond in The Deathly Shallows ("Yes, you did read that correctly," the press release assures) ditches the platforming gameplay that defined later sequels for side-scrolling shooter mechanics that recall the original James Pond for the Amiga and Sega Genesis.

Few other details have been revealed, but you can probably expect lots of fish, bubbles, and terrible puns when the game releases for the iPhone and iPad on June 30th. Maybe if we're lucky, James will take another ill-advised swipe at Sonic the Hedgehog.

The new big thing in Furry Fandom is contests! Yes, now you can enter into a contest to win a paid commission. All you have to do is submit a piece of art, of the finest quality you can make, to specification and for free to the person running the contest… see the flaw yet?

To those of you who've not worked it out: yes, this is what we call a "scam".

Updated with some probability theory showing the scammy nature of these contests.

The guy running the contest gets a whole load of "to specification" artwork, and only has to pay for one, but keeps all of them. The clever ones even put in the small print that all rights to submissions are transferred to them. The really abusive ones never pay out at all, with their winner being a friend or a sock-puppet. Sometimes they're run by people who just don't get that it's not okay to trick people into giving you stuff for free.

This is nothing new, and has been going on in other fandoms for as long as people thought they could take advantage of others, or felt they deserved things for free. Other variants include "Your submission could be included in a High Quality Full Colour Art-Book, retailing for $18.99." where every submission wins, and the books are then sold to the "Lucky" winners.

Some people do try to defend these contests, with the following arguments…

"These contests provide exposure for the people who enter."

They're probably the least effective way to gain exposure. What exposure is gained will be that from people who look at the other entries – which may not be possible in closed submissions – and from whatever use the winning entry sees, which may be very limited indeed.

"People should be allowed to give their work away for free if they want."

Sure, I'm not going to make the Pixel-Stained Technopeasant argument. If you want to willingly give away your work, that's fine. But that's different to using the promise of a "win" to get people to do work for free, particularly if you give exact specifications for what you want. People have the right to distribute their work how they want, but taking advantage by subtly coercing them into handing over stuff for free is unethical.

"No one gets hurt, it's just for fun."

People can spend hours, even days of hard work on their submission – and can then be crushed when they realise they've been taken for a sucker. That sounds like harm to me.

Sadly, it's hard to prevent these abusive "contests". But it is possible to get the message out to creators to beware of being scammed into providing their work for free.

There’s something that I notice at anime conventions and it’s that there is a silent disrespect and hatred for the furry fandom. It seems some “otaku” place themselves on a pedestal over furs. I understand that at an anime convention it is conventional for people to cosplay as anime characters. So furs that dress up as pokemon or digimon or any other creatures related to an anime series are generally left alone. But there’s a silent double standard in the anime fandom and it’s that you can costume as any character, anime related or otherwise, but god forbid you fursuit as your personal character! Or god forbid you sell “furry”/anthropomorphic art in artist alley. People will talk about them behind their backs as if somehow they are greater than the other person. And this isn’t just limited to the furry fandom. Anime fans get their fair share of hatred. Anime in America is thought of as a fad that will disappear in time. People who like anime are thought of as immature or “wannabe Japanese” people. God forbid a person shows a genuine interest in the language or culture as well as likes anime. They will be thought of as a “weaboo”. And what about sci-fi and comic book fans? Their like of cosplaying as their favorite characters at conventions is always fodder for late night comedians to poke fun at. They’re thought of as the 40 year old, overweight virgins who will never get a girl because of his “insane” interest in Star Wars or Superman. Yet there still seems to be a ranking system of fandoms within fandoms.

I get kind of tired of people laughing at some of my characters because they think that they're "furries" in the bad sense of the word. I'd like to start by saying that these characters were characters BEFORE I gave them their powers. I didn't say "Okay I want a tiger chick...what is her story?" I said "Okay here's this girl with this story, I should figure out what super powers she has." to which I decided on super strength, agility, etc. But I wanted to go further then that by making her appearance something that would constantly be a haunting thing per say. Mutated enough that it causes her stress. I didn't do it because I have a fetish for furries. I didn't do it because I just like tigers. I did it for the character's sake.

If I'm considered a furry then I guess Batman is too. Sam is stuck with her appearance. Batman just plain CHOOSES to put on a bat themed costume and run around Gotham! To inspire fear? Surrrreee right right...Admit it Bruce! You just have a fetish! What's that? Fans disagree? Then STOP CALLING ME A FURRY DAMN IT!

Police officers in China practice how to trap a tiger in case one escapes from the zoo. Obviously they won't practice with real tigers so they get people to dress up in Tigger suits.