can anyone direct me to forums with people who would be open to modeling in a fursuit. it would be quite a production, with lighting in a setting of thier choosing. i'm pitching the spread to a few magazines now and trying to connect with people who are interested. please help! anyone?
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 1:54 PMcheck out some of the furry communities on livejournal. you *might* find some willing people, but be warned that many furries are afraid of bad press.
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 3:35 PMMany furries are afraid of their own shadow... Talk about bi-polar... -
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 6:45 PMFurs are concerned about bad press for a reason.
Can YOU name any story or show from any major media outlet that has depicted furries in a positive way? I can't. It's always a freakshow. Of course it's inevitable, it happens to every subculture group. Heck, the media is still treating gays like a freakshow most of the time. I don't expect they'll suddenly think that furries are normal any time soon. It makes for more exciting stories if you have a freak, rather than just a fan.
It's occasionally annoying that furries get all paranoid, but there's at least some reason for it. -
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Thu, April 12, 2007 - 2:01 PMIt's partially because the people who DO come forward to talk about being a furry are often times the ones that give it a bad name. I've done a bunch of interviews, podcasts and talks about what "furry" is about. Mostly people want the sensationlist point of view because the boring truth is not interesting enough and they have already invested a considerable amount of time and money to drop it all together. But, for the most part all of the segements I have been involved with had a positive twist on them; including the CBS "Fur Fetish" segement.
If the more intelligent and articulate people would come forward, it's very likely that the "bad press" will turn more into "interesting press".
Hell, I'd totally do the photoshoot, but my fursuit is crap and I live on the other side of the country. :) -
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Fri, April 13, 2007 - 1:59 PMTrue enough.
I don't currently have much of a personal suit, I have two half-baked partials, one of which is missing a tail. I hope to have a personal suit done soon though. -
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Fri, April 13, 2007 - 2:03 PMyou're like me... so busy working on other peoples' things that yours has to come last. -
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Sun, April 15, 2007 - 1:13 AMYup. The woes of any artist who lives off commissions, I think. Though I may manage to squeeze in some time for myself this summer, I hope. -
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Sun, April 15, 2007 - 9:40 PMI'm in that same fantasy.....oh, the cool stuff i wanna make for myself!
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Mon, April 16, 2007 - 2:59 PMActually, most all of the press I've seen on furries has been positive. Most of the time I talk about furries with people outside the fandom, they've always had a positive impression (except for the occasional ones who think all furs play second life, or try to call us plushies.)
The ones who always obsess on the negative, or the press being about furs being into anonymous sex, or even know about things like the MTV sex special or the Vanity Fair article on fur fetish, are people who are deeply involved in the furry fandom. It's like they are the ones who obsess on the negative, sexual publicity (and often it is them who are into the sexual perversions)...
Most of the world just sees it as another hobbie or craft. If anything, the negative is associated with the geekness factor of it, similar to the bad hype that Trekkies get. -
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Mon, April 16, 2007 - 11:37 PMI dunno... I've seen some positive press, but a dozen local news articles and a couple of three second TV spots on a con vs. two really major shows centered on furry as creepy sex fetish? Scale is still weighted towards the negative.
I do agree that most people don't really think that badly of it, but that's mostly because most people haven't even heard of it. Furry is still very small. Give it a few decades more and then we'll see. But I doubt the mainstream will ever think of us as normal.
And... you say "deeply involved in the furry fandom" like it's a bad thing. Do you think being deeply involved isn't good? If so, why? -
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Tue, April 17, 2007 - 12:52 PMI am also deeply involved in the fandom myself.
What I meant was, most people I see who obsess on the bad press, are furs. Other people just don't obsess on it.
It's like reading the newspaper. If you only ever read the front page of the paper, you will think you are living in a country obsessed with war and violence. If you only read the front page of the living section, you will think that you are living in a community obsessed with quilting, gardening, cooking, and American Idol.
We all filter information differently.
I personally, have seen 4 negative media references to furries (CSI, MTV Sex 2k, a vanity fair article, and a news story about a guy in a tiger suit at disney accidentally punching a kind.) All 4 of those references, I saw because I was linked to them online through furries, either on lj, or other furries web sites.
I've seen well over a dozen other news stories (local paper, tv, etc) on mascoting, furry conventions coming to town, animal lifestylists, etc..., and all of them were positive. Never saw any of these stories being passed around through furry LJ sites, tribe.net, personal sites, etc.
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