Subject 9 – Furry comic guest review by Vox Fox.
by Patch O'Furr
Submitted by Vox Fox, a talent in music, fursuiting and video in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Dogpatch Press
Fluff Pieces Every Week
Category: Video
July 29, 2015
Furry internet history, tragic accident takes RedSavage and Milofox. NEWSDUMP (7/29/15)
by Patch O'Furr
Tips: patch.ofurr@gmail.com.
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Guest posts welcome. “Local correspondents” wanted to talk about your local networks.
____________________________
Media and Fandom news.
_____________________________
New from “Culturally F’d”: how the 1990’s internet made a Furry phenomenon.
I highly endorse this Youtube series, which investigates everything this blog is for! Host blackbird, Arrkay, sent this.
(Arrkay:) “This week we are “Ctrl:F’d.” Culturally F’d looks at furries and the history of the internet.
The episode was later than expected for 2 reasons: 1) I was hosting a Drag Party (Howl Toronto‘s “Fierceness Party”,) where I recorded footage to feature soon where we discuss the commonalities of fursuiting and drag queens. 2) It’s our longest episode so far, and will probably be the longest of the season!
As Michael from VSauce recently pointed out, on the internet, no one know’s if you’re a dog. This meme was originally from the July 5, 1993 edition of the New Yorker. No group on the internet holds this adage more closely than furries.
MUDs, MUCKs, and early chat rooms made Furry visible in the first online communities of the 1980’s and 90’s. That happened before computers were widely accessible, and even before the mega-infrastructure of the internet was built. This aspect of the fandom grew largely from colleges and universities, equipped with online connections and computers that were still far too expensive for home-use.
July 21, 2015
Furry Force 3 is out, and I can’t stop larfing! Interview with the animators.
by Patch O'Furr
Furry Force part 3: “Furry Superheroes Are the Grossest” is the new animated comedy short from CollegeHumor. It did confusing things to my body. I didn’t know whether to laugh or barf. Let’s call it larfing. If you’ve ever been hangry, you get what I’m trying to say. Or if you’ve ever sharted… never mind, because that’s gross. If you don’t like gross, don’t watch this. Run away. Furry Force 3 pushes the silly, teasing grossness of the first two shorts way past sick and twisted. It might go too far for most of us. But for some asstronauts at the outer limits of taste, that’s exactly where they wanted to go.
They went this far because the Furry Force series won unexpected demand. The response surprised even the creators, who had no idea they would get appreciation by satirizing furries. (Read my interview with writer Adam Conover and what he says about it.) They even won the highest Furry award, the Ursa Major! CollegeHumor laughed with furries while laughing at them, by campaigning to win the Ursa Major. This new episode comes fresh after being voted Best Anthropomorphic Dramatic Short of 2014.
July 1, 2015
It’s the “Idea Channel” for furries – Culturally F’d on Youtube.
by Patch O'Furr
Sometimes the Dogpatch Press tip account gets extra cool messages. Here’s what new friend Arrkay sent:
We here love what you guys post online and what your content does for the fandom, so we hope you’ll take some time to check out what we’re doing!
Where does the love of anthropomorphics come from? How far back can we dig in history and mass media to really get to the bottom of it? Why does every culture across the face of the earth have a fascination with animal-people?
Arrkay got me excited to know more. The show summaries are gold… (everything I’d love to expose here.) Let him explain it in his words:
An all new Furry YouTube show has come on the scene: Culturally F’d.
Culturally F’d explores the furries of the past and present, climbing the ladder of history through mass media in all the different ways humans have blended the properties of man and animal, and why. From Cave Paintings to Comic Books, and everything in between. Culturally F’d is an exploration of what makes everyone just a little bit furry, and what makes furries especially furry.
June 26, 2015
Animation Show of Shows – Yiff vs. Murr – History of faux fur – Newsdump (6/25/15)
by Patch O'Furr
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Tips are always welcome.
____________________________
Media and Fandom News
_____________________________
The Animation Show of Shows: There’s no better source for artistic animation, and they need support.
This touring show presents the best of the best in the world of short films, by the most talented directors. It’s ordinarily only seen by invite at top movie studios (your Pixars and so forth), and at colleges, with special public access to those who hear through word of mouth. You may not have heard of it, because it’s been a personal project funded by one amazing guy, Ron. (He also runs Acme Filmworks, who directed a good couch gag for The Simpsons.)
Now, The Animation Show of Shows is appealing for support for their amazing art cause.
I don’t ordinarily post crowd funding (too much to cover!) Leave that to awesome Furry journalist Corbeau at Furstarter. (We need more “furry news” specialists.) This is just an exceptional cause. If you like animation, don’t miss it.
Through this show, I discovered the hilarious short, Flamingo Pride. It shows what happens to the only heterosexual flamingo at the birds celebration. It’s almost as fabulous as the San Francisco Bay Furries will be this weekend, in the SF Pride parade.
Knoxville, TN has furries in their Pride parade. Draconis, Chair of Fangcon, reports: Read the rest of this entry »
June 8, 2015
Fursuiting from Minnesota to Moscow, and sentient beast fables – Newsdump (6/8/15)
by Patch O'Furr
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Tips are always welcome.
Picked up a newspaper today and yes @MNFurs is front page top article in the variety section of @StarTribune pic.twitter.com/UM6GOH1srN
— Kurst in State of Yote (@hyperyote) June 4, 2015
“Call of the wild: Local Furries say they are misunderstood.”
A Minnesota newspaper has a standard-issue “meet the furries” article. The last Newsdump (5/28/15) reported that MNFurs have been growing with an active community, a registered nonprofit, and a new convention (Furry Migration.) Their activity caught the notice of their local newspaper, and reporters went to their picnic. The article includes these standard features: 1) All-fursuiter gallery 2) Apologetic sex denial 3) Weirdos aren’t so bad! We see it over and over, but it was very well received, and it’s OK if the news readers haven’t seen it before. There’s also a wedding, frisbee and hugs… The more of that, the better. MNfurs discuss the article on their forum.
International mascot Trip E. Collie goes to France.
An April Newsdump shared Trip’s surprising experience of seeing his fursuit photo advertising a large international festival in France. Trip went there to meet the organizers, and possibly sit down with them for a bowl of kibble. Good boy!
____________________________
Animation and books
_____________________________
Mort(e), by Robert Repino, gets a great review about “Sentient beast” fables. Read the rest of this entry »
April 2, 2015
Jungle Shuffle – CGI Feature announcement by Fred Patten.
by kiwiztiger
Tip: Courtesy of Ace Eldritch.
Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
The Jungle Shuffle Mystery
We get questions. Patch said, “Someone has just asked me about this…” and sent me a YouTube link to a trailer for Jungle Shuffle. It’s an animated feature full of anthro – red pandas? “Nope. It’s news to me. Let me look into it.”
Okay. Jungle Shuffle, or The Jungle Shuffle, is a 85-minute computer generated imagery (CGI) animated feature, with coatimundis, not red pandas. It was a South Korean and Mexican co-production, directed by Taedong Park and Mauricio de la Orta.
The plot: in 1960 in the dense Lacedon jungle in southern Mexico (the Mayan area), Manu (boy) and Sacha (girl) are two coatimundis in a village tribe led by Sacha’s father. Manu is a typical loner, barely tolerated by anyone but Sacha. Manu’s rival for Sacha’s paw is Artex, a smarmy wise guy who is really trying to become the chief’s successor. Artex persuades the chief to have a big protective totem made to scare off the humans who are starting to invade the jungle. Manu accidentally destroys the totem, and is banished from the coati’s village to live alone in the jungle. When Sacha is captured by the human hunters of Profesor Loco (who is conducting experiments with captured local animals to develop a super-chicken), Manu tries to rescue her; but he runs into Balaam the jaguar, whose mate Kim has also been captured. Manu and Balaam get in each others’ way, resulting in Manu making another enemy. But Manu does mange to rescue a monkey, Chuy (a comic-relief wannabe kung-fu fighter). Together the two manage to rescue both Sacha and Kim, and Manu becomes everyone’s hero.
March 2, 2015
Mainstream advertising: “More and more, Furries are being hinted at in marketing media!”
by Patch O'Furr
No – this isn’t about regular anthro animals, or mascots like Tony the Tiger (as fabulous as he is.)
However, this regular Symbicort “wolf” ad has kept bringing occasional traffic since I posted it in the summer. People seem to want more of the animation:
There’s a million regular ads. Let’s focus on ones with specific awareness of Furry subculture.
First… the newest one I’ve seen: “Cage Dancing, bicurious furries.”
It’s a Slo Down Wines commercial from January 2015. The title is “Boxers/Furries”. They aim for outrageous, and have other commercials with S&M scenes.
February 9, 2015
History of mascots, Dawgtown movie, Government-issue furries – Newsdump (2/09/15)
by Patch O'Furr
Headlines, links and little stories to make your tail wag. Story tips are always welcome. First, a little site news…
Nominate Dogpatch Press for an Ursa Major Award, and get fuzzy hugs! I love furries so much, blogging about them is it’s own reward. But I love shinies too, so can the highly attractive readers of this site nominate it for an award? Please go to the Ursa Majors site and submit a Best Magazine nomination. These hugs are worth it. (OK, they’re worth nothing because I hug everyone for free. They’re just priceless.)
_____________________________
Animation and media
_____________________________
“99 Percent Invisible” radio show presents a thrilling history of mascots.
From Episode 151 – La Mascotte:
“Furry, larger-than-life, foam-headed mascots may seem standard-issue for sports teams now, but this is only a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of professional sports.”
March 7, 2013
Opinion: Indie web series ‘Fursona Files’ looks a little mangy
by Patch O'Furr
I haven’t seen this shared around until I noticed it on the Bay Area Furries mailing list.
Admit One Productions presents – Fursona… A SNEAK PEEK from Courtney James.
(EDIT: video down, try here.)
According to their website:
What’s your Fursona? Thats [sic] the million dollar question asked in this fast paced black comedy web series about the adventures of Virginia Blake – a successful investigative journalist – who is writing an expose on the FURRY underworld to save her tarnished career!