Hey! puppy might need one of those! : )

Hee! Gimmie a bit: Will be interesting to see how this turns out!

Looks pretty awesome!
Loving that shine, too. :D

Thanks! The shine is from Hawkwolfs mask polishing!

now dobies look even more menacing. :)

what is that... thing outer left? please tell me it's some muffing, and not a hideous part of anatomy. XD

Heh. Looks like some part of a mask mold that hasn't been painted, yet. I had the same twitchy thought as you did. *chuckles*

this only shows how deeply rooted in the gutter our minds are. [evil laughter]

And also how deeply rooted the silly notion that genital parts are somehow "dirty"! *giggles*

unless they are kept clean. with the amounts of spooge this fandom uses up there ain't no way anybody is clean and pristine here.

"Watch your step!" are you kidding me? I would have to forget how to fall in order to be able to steer clear of those puddles...

I dunno where you're hanging out, but... EEEEEWWWWW? At least the folks I know are tidy about that stuff. *giggle*

at Eurofurence 5, 1999, some artist sold a white sheet of paper, framed, in the artshow. he named it "Spooge.".

maybe this gives you an idea where I am hanging out at. XD

Wow :) So youve been attending early cons too! What was your first con?

eurofurence 4 in 1998. I met my first furry in '97, at a rpg con here. then the eurofurence was mentioned and I duved headfirst into the madness. ^^

LOL Da-Daist "art" makes me laugh... *wonders what the fellow got for his joke* Neat the you've been in the Fandom that long. I'm fairly new to the Fandom in the sense of going to Cons or hanging out at fur-meets, but I've been into this crazy sort of costuming since I was in my late teens (I'm 42 now). I think the Fandom was just getting started at that time, so I didn't actually hear the term "Fury" until some time in the mid-nineties. Winnipeg was a pretty parochial place- cool stuff doesn't hit our town until years after the fashion has hit everywhere else and gotten boring... for them. To give you a back-creeping idea: mullets were the most popular hairstyle I remember from when I was a teen into my twenties, and they stayed popular almost until 2000. Now, it's eighties feathering that's slowly creeping out of style in my hometown. They still like gods-awful shoulder-pads, though. Ugh.

the piece went into art auction... I believe it went over for some 30DM, which was a considerable sum back when. ^^

aw, Winipeg. I think there was a western movie which hit that location on their way west... XD

oy. THAT backwater? they have electricity only because it was forced upon them, hm? ^^

Heyyyy. Don't dis my hometown. Heh. Yeah, it's full of Rednecks and beer-hounds. Country music, rap and awful fashion-choices. Too much winter, lousy summers that bake yer tail off and if the heat doesn't get you, the mosquitoes will. It's a place where I got told "we can't hire you because you don't have the experience" for twenty fucking years. I'm Aboriginal, which meant NO-ONE would hire me, so that was the excuse I got. I got refused a job once for wearing purple shoe-laces in my Doc Martin's, if you can believe it. She also told me I had to remove my nose-stud. It was so tiny (I wore my smallest one on purpose), that I couldn't believe she not only noticed it, but said I had to take it out. Smelling a long-dead rat, I asked her, "if I was a Hindu, would you still tell me to remove my nose stud?" she said "yes". So I got up and started to leave. She was confused and asked me where I was going, so I told, "You've wasted my time- even if you did give me job, I refuse to work for racists." Left her there, gaping like beached fish and walked out.

Yeah, my "backwater" town can be a boring, stagnant, parochial place to be in. But, it produced me, a thriving Sf fan community, and is now even boasting some furs. It has it's good points, though- arts like movies do well there. That Western you mentioned, was a movie about Jesse James, and a large chunk of our downtown was a stand-in for a town in Kansas.

aha. I once got refused for a job because I was "overqualified", if you can believe THAT. it has become a problem all over germany: employers want qualified personnel, and want them to do qualified work, for underwage. of course, most times they get crafty, yet uneducated (in the profession) personnel, and they seem to rather 'build them up', than hire experts which can do the job from the beginning. and those who are experts are often cast aside out of fear they might demand a higher pay.
of course I do, I have a profession and experience in many jobs, ferfrissake! unlike that fat ass of a bureaucrat who's interviewing me despite they know full well they won't hire me to begin with, yet they waste my time...

some companies have had to learn that experts might be needed. alas, since they didn't 'build them up' in the past few years, there are none available anymore... the ones they canned wandered off looking for owrk in different professions, the ones off school suffer from a school systenm that needed a dire overhaul for at least 20 years now...

must have been an older movie you mentioned, I can't recall it... there might also be a mentioning in one or another Lucky Luke comic book. :)
german TV stations have picked up a habit of setting up crime series within certain city areas, much like the Tatort crime series have their specific, reocurring characters in larger cities. so, my hometown of Stuttgart has not only Tatort, but also a weekly crime series, too. funny thing looking after the locations they use. good for a laugh when you see them drive crisscross downtown for a location in a suburbian area. :)

The Jesse James movie came out about two years ago- not all that old, actually. Several movies have used our downtown area for historic pictures, as we have a lot of architecture that dates back to 1890 or so, and it fits well with films set in that era.

With me, job-wise, it's rarely that I'm overqualified- it's getting anyone to hire me at all so I can get some training. I really don't have much experience in anything, but I learn fast, but no one was willing to take a chance on me. I finally did get a job- lasted three years- and it was dead-simple. I worked in a fabric warehouse, cutting fabric and helping people with their home decor designing and things like that. Not exactly brainy work, but it was fun.
In any case, I didn't want to have to fight with that whole "no experience" thing again when I moved to the US, so I'm doing my art and clothing-design (and fursuits) full-time, now and I'm slowly building a business on it. I wouldn't be able to do that if it weren't for my husband, so I'm really lucky that I can do this at all.

I don't watch the modern western movies too often. it's like every story is already told; which is why I stopped reading western stories at all. :)

yeah, don't give up, that's the spirit. :) best wishes for your business. ^^

Westerns never really grabbed me, unless the story had Indians in it. Unfortunately, I'd almost always be disappointed, because the Tribes were almost always portrayed as the "enemy", and that bit of racism pissed me off. I'm Aboriginal, and I kept hoping for a western that showed my folk in a more honest, balanced way. Instead, it was more stupid "Indians wanna steal yer horses and rape yer women" kind of propaganda. Yuck.

I'm a stubborn old lizard- giving up is really difficult for me to do. No matter how depressed I get (and it can get pretty bad), something in my head always sez- "there's gotta be something better than this- GO FIND IT."

speaking of "go find it"... the now-defunct country of GDR (aka, Neufuenfland, aka eastern germany) used to shoot a number of western movies where they made an extra effort to portray the american natives, and the real situations they and the white people got into as real as possible without making a documentary out of it. like the western germans with their Karl May movies, and the italians with their spaghetti westerns, they were shot in former yugoslavia. one of the main 'indian' actors was a yugoslavian actor named Gojko Mitic. they are somehow still available here in germany, maybe they found their way to english countries, too...
seems like the makers felt for the seemingly surpressed masses of american natives in a 'socialistic camaraderie' way, and tried to show the audience the real stuff. ^^
honestly, I don't know much about AN tribes, so I can't say how accurate those movies are, really. but everybody who knows them recommends the stories and characterisations.

with all the tidbit info about you now, is it save to presume your nickname be taken from your ancestor's native tongue? may I ask which tribe you desceded from?^^

Thats the color ref I was using from the Gazelle I did awhile back as I thought it was the same color.

aha. it looks really odd here. :)

Hey, you photoshopped me! :)

Hee! I hope ya dont mind, it was the best frontal photograph we had that was on a body for scale! You should see the psd that kat created: She can make your Ears disappear!! ;)

Oh rawr! That looks to be coming gooood! :)

Thankyee :) My GF  sagehendrix is doing wonders with it tho!

Heee! Well fantastic for her! :)

That looks great!

Thank you! Its my feeble photoshop skills...

Very nice. I like the shine effect.

heh :) The shine was from an actual photosession that  hawkwolf did: This pic I didnt think people would see and get a notice of!

Nice lol :)

Thanks :) Original photo is of  hawkwolf

Sweet.

thankya :) Hoping youve been well!!

Yup! Making a fursuit for and it's coming along really well. Creatively, this has been the coolest time of my life. *perk, perks off to be odd elsewhere*

Very nice, very curious to see how this turns out.

Thanks! Watch this spot ----> . ;)

hee... Sooooo many peeps wanna fox mask!! Itll come ;)