earlyadopter_j

Subculture Project

2009-11-13T14:43:30Z

At Parsons where I teach web design and an "image lab" class the freshman students all have to do research on a subculture of their choice and take photos, do interviews and create a beautifully designed brochure-type of thing -- Anyone interested in helping her? Click here

Want to be in a Music Video? FURSUITERS NEEDED FOR STARDOM

2009-10-21T13:42:58Z

Hey everyone - its been a long time - I'm still not dead!

A music video director called me asking about furries -- i just got his permission to post about it here to help spread the word - He has this great idea for a music video

The last scene is a huge party where everyone is in a fursuit and where the main character finally finds that she belongs. FOR this they need a bunch of people with fursuits to party - its supposed to look like a totally normal NY apt. party only everyone is in fursuit.

The video is going to shoot in NYC halloween weekend -- sounds like a good reason for a roadtrip you out-of-town people.

email the director if you even might be interested just to get on his list: dylanrmulick@hotmail.com

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD TO ANYONE in the area - this is a chance to get paid (something not sure how much) to be in a music video, meet a professional director, and generally be in a fake party.

They may put a bunch of my paintings up on the walls behind everyone too-- i would love to see a video with a lot of familiar faces.

its funny how i've kind of turned into an unofficial ambassador to the fandom -- happy to do it... you have no ideas how many times i've started off by saying "forget everything you've seen on TV"..... Anyway this director seems cool and it s for the up-and-coming band, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - and the theme is like everyone is a furry inside - using furriness as a metaphor - i'll let the director tell you about it himself- rather than put any more words in his mouth, but i think ita a good pro-furry pro-acceptance kind of theme.

the directors websites:
www.dylanrmulick.com
www.bucksboys.com
www.alliancevid.com

The Band: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart

Song: "Higher Than The Stars"

I am not dead

2009-01-18T17:46:58Z

I know its been forever since I posted on here - my SL project, Brooklyn is Watching kinda took off and also, and my "day job" building websites has been demanding much more of my time. We're creating a new product, a less expensive, template-driven version of our art gallery content management system, SPECIFIC, which will be called "opening" and we're hoping will be a good thing to bring out during this economic downturn.

I've moved my studio - combined my studio and home now that i'm living in a huge space with my girlfriend in Clinton Hill - my beloved is going to build me a painting rack soon- right now paintings take up about half the space i'm planning on using to actually paint in.

I can't wait to get back to painting both more stuffed animals and doing more fursuit portraits. I have several paintings that are nearly-but-not-quite finished that I need to work on.

I went, last night to an event called "club animals" the only person i knew there was Rapid T Rabbit, he had called me and encouraged me to come. It was kind of strange. More on that later.... I need to read up on other people's journals and see what everyone else is up to.

ANY SL People out there?

2008-03-01T18:33:43Z

You all may have been wondering what i was doing these past few weeks cause i've been not talking to anyone -- sorry- i've been working on this: www.brooklyniswatching.com

anyone in SL that wants to be seen in a brooklyn art gallery - go to
the SLURL on the most recent post at www.brooklyniswatching.com

portrait of chestnut

2008-01-08T23:31:22Z

wow, the last few days have been crazy. Tried to move our website from one set of servers to another within the same hosting company.... 48 hours later its still not all right, and we were down for 22 of those hours.
finally just now getting time to post some pics to flicker like this one:

more here! check it out!

I'm hoping to get the portrait of Foxwell done soon and then start on a new one -- JBadger's Brendon Wolf may be next...

two portraits underway at once

2007-12-31T18:38:20Z

Morton Fox said this week might be the only time in the next month he could sit for his portrait so i'm jumping on the opportunity and making a painting of his favorite suit, a husky named chestnut. I JUST got back from being out in kansas seeing my family but it feels good to get back in the studio- and this painting is off to a great start! I'm hoping to get a little more work done on the portrait of foxwell later this week and then try to find a time when he's available to come back for just one more sitting. Click here to see larger versions on my flickr account

pic of foxcoon portrait

2007-12-05T02:54:52Z

I need to do some more work on this before i have foxwell back to my studio to finish it up-- I've been swamped with web work lately and haven't been in my studio much but i should be there on thursday. On the good side, the new early-adopter web site is up and is in a 'soft launch' phase while we add a few features-- check it out and let me know what you think: early-adopter

New Way To organize Fursuit Portrait Schedule

2007-11-08T16:18:51Z

DEAR brooklyn fursuit portrait paint-off participants!
I've been meaning to email this to everyone but i've been sick and barely keeping up with everything else i'm doing so t save time i'm just going to post this here and hope that one of you will see it and point others in its direction...all y'all can now pick some days when you think you could make it to brooklyn and sit for a portrait:
http://jayvanburen.com/mwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

FurFright (finally)

2007-10-20T20:23:54Z

I went to Grand Central to catch the 9:07 train to waterbury only to find that there was none. I had been mis-reading the schedule-- looking at weekday instead of weekend. What an idiot!
NOW i am finally here-- and i now found my room an my friends. So glad to be here. Its really good to see everyone.

some nice comments

2007-10-15T03:57:10Z

Thanks to portiastluke for this post

OMG- unfogged

2007-10-15T03:07:37Z

This Post on UNFOGGED,with 108 comments five days after the fact, because i was wondering why so many hits came into my site from this URL. There's a lot of crazy stuff on there making fun of furries in really predictable, and boring ways, but there's also some very funny and clever stuff on there, some totally random stuff about fucking chewbacca (gotta love that). Some people like the paintings, some people hate them... What do you all think about it?

I made some replies on my blog and linked to it from a comment on unfogged but i doubt any of them will read it.

The funniest thing on the whole thread is someone's garbled Billy Idol Lyrics in response to the picture (at left) of Dex Clowning around at the Brooklyn Fursuit Portrait Paint-OFF

Woyro's Warren mentions FPP

2007-10-14T23:09:22Z

Thanks much to 55seddel for turning me onto the fact that Woyro's Warren, a furry podcast, mentioned my Fursuit Portrait Project! Very exciting.

Also that employee of the BBC interviewed me and is, I think, going to interview Rapid T. Rabbit about the Project and try to get it on TV-- we'll see if that pans out.

I'm hoping to finish the portrait of Foxwell the Foxcoon the week after furfright- Oh, did i mention, i'm going to furfright?-well i am-- i can't do any painting there but i'll bring my sketch book-- maybe i can get some people to sit for a sketch... anyone interested? Find me this picture shows what i look like!

BBC or current TV

2007-10-08T22:40:01Z

there's an employee of the BBC that is interested in interviewing some fursuiters for a story that will run either on BBC TV or on Current TV (maybe-- nothing is certain at this point) - some of you local NYC-area fursuiters who were thinking of sitting for a portrait contact me and let me know if you're interested in being on (maybe)TV...

oh! also-- i've met her and talked to her and she seems cool and is actually friends with some of my friends and i trust that she's going to make this story not like the CSI episode or whatever and give a more full representation of the fandom and not just focus on the most salacious aspects...

BB... we'll seee

2007-10-08T05:32:01Z

Well poor foxwell was not feeling well yesterday so he couldn't come sit for his portrait at Jack the Pelican. Honestly it might be for the best- painting a major portrait like that with people watching was pretty hard. I do well under pressure... but not too much pressure. At a paint-off there's no pressure because its all kind of for fun anyway- but I really want these large portraits to turn out well. The fact that he couldn't come yesterday means that we'll get to finish the portrait at my studio later, which will be more fun for me than painting there under those circumstances would have been anyway. I don't think i'm going to try to do a big portrait like that in a public place again. It was kind of a crazy idea- which was part of why i wanted to do it of course... but sometimes crazy ideas are bad ideas.

Spoke with a woman on the phone today who said she was from the BBC, had seen the article in Time Out, and wanted to do a story about the fursuit portrait project. Then i went over to the gallery of a friend of mine and he said that someone from the BBC had just called him as well... which seems like to weird of a coincidence... doesn't it? Who knows! Hope its Legit and foxwell gets well soon so he can get interviewed by her too....

article in T.O.N.Y.

2007-10-04T03:18:44Z

This article is about me and foxwell in Time Out New York! See the web version here. If you like it, DIGG it here I have a few things to quibble with on this-- They got what i'd said about my paintings backwards-- the stuffed animal paintings were the ones i'd called "anti-conceptual" and they really didn't go into enough detail about what furries are and why fursuiters do what they do. But over all it was a pretty good article, i thought- and i love that they included a big photo of one of my finished paintings. This magazine, although mostly unknown outside of NY, (i think-- have any of y'all non-new yorkers heard of it? --there is a london edition too, in fact it may have started there, i'm not sure) it is VERY widely read in NYC so I'm very excited to be in there.

MORE paint

2007-09-28T23:16:31Z

The art supply store is such a dangerous place for me to go... i just dropped $178 on oil paint today- money i really shouldn't spend... but there were so many excellent colors i just couldn't stop myself- williamsburg paint is the worst-its really nice quality, handmade paint... heavenly... so freaking expensive. (sigh) I'm very, very excited to use the new tubes in my painting of foxwell which continues tomorrow at Jack the Pelican-

Also there are new pictures of the Brooklyn Paint-off by my friend Lila-- they are really beautiful- check it out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/70665173@N00/sets/72157602088807498

AND--- LAST bit of news-- there will be an article coming out in Wed. Time Out New York about the fursuit portrait project they interviewed me and Foxwell and the article sounds like its going to be very fair and balanced-- really looking forward to seeing it... and it will probably mean that the last day of live portrait painting at JTTP - next saturday will get a crazy amount of foot traffic so if any of you local NYC area fursuiters want to come and play with the hipster crowd some more feel free-- the folks that came to the paint-off had a good time.

earlyadopter_j @ 2007-09-22T23:37:00

2007-09-23T03:38:45Z

Well i started the new portrait of Foxwell today! the article about this project in Time Out New York is going to come out a week from tuesday..... very tired... must sleep....

Pics from the Brooklyn Paint-Off

2007-09-16T02:42:09Z

Well Foxwell got some paint on his suit, but I think it will come out and otherwise everything was beautiful! The Paint-Off was attended by the fursuiters foxwell,tig_wolf,Dex the Raccoon,jdpuppy,Bobby Bobcat, ganador and jbadger and the painters Amy Wilson, Sarah Blackwelder, Mark Parrish, and me of course. We had the excellent performance & conceptual artistLynne Chan as the MC.

Pics from the Brooklyn Paint-Off

2007-09-16T02:40:53Z

Well Foxwell got some paint on his suit, but I think it will come out and otherwise everything was beautiful! The Paint-Off was attended by the fursuiters foxwell,tig_wolf,Dex the Raccoon,jdpuppy,Bobby Bobcat,exampleusernameganador and jbadger and the painters Amy Wilson, Sarah Blackwelder, Mark Parrish, and me of course. We had the excellent performance & conceptual artistLynne Chan as the MC.

ready for the paint-off

2007-09-14T05:16:54Z

well with help from foxwell, Tigwolf and dreamwolf we got the space ready for the paint off tomorrow night.
anyone in the NYC area come on down -- jack the pelican from 7-9pm!

Best Testimonial Ever!!!

2007-09-12T17:54:52Z

If you want to know about why i'm doing this- this is one reason-- i got this letter from zeuslion and i'm posting it (with permission) because i was so touched and it really is exactly what this project is about.

Jay,

I'm Ben / ZeusLion, we met briefly at the KCFurs breakfast in July and then spoke again for a few moments at First Fridays. I just wanted to take the opportunity to let you now how much I enjoyed getting a first hand look at your work and what a pleasure it was getting to meet and speak with you, however briefly.

As I'm sure you've experienced the Furry Fandom can often be a rather insular group, weary of outsiders and mainstream views on our world. It is such a pleasure when someone can see something beautiful and universal in our little culture that we ourselves cannot always articulate and then find an interesting, accessible way of presenting it to a larger audience. That's what your work meant to me, and I really appreciate that! Additionally, the art within our community, so much of it is superficial and, well, rather vain beauty. It was nice to see work that dealt more directly with feeling, emotion, the essence of the subject rather than his perfect abs or her suggestive pose.

All that to say thank you for your work and for just being a fun person to talk to. If you continue this project, I hope you'll come back with it KC again sometime. Even if not, you've got a new fan in Kansas City. Good luck and thanks again.

- Ben a.k.a. ZeusLion

new flier for brooklyn paint off

2007-09-12T05:35:48Z

Anyone in NYC area please repost this to your LJ, send to your friends, etc!

Friday Paint-off - need a DJ and someone to do streaming

2007-09-11T19:50:38Z

anyone know how to stream video from a webcam? I'm pretty sure we could get someone to let us use their streaming server, i just don't know how to do it and don't have time before friday. FREE BEER to anyone in the NYC area who wants to participate! (btw anyone in a fursuit gets free beer too)
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of course....

:)

nO! sLEEp TIlL BROOKLYN!!!!!

2007-09-11T04:25:50Z

getting ready for the brooklyn paint-off

anyone want to take on the challenge of putting this one on the web via streaming video?

KC Paint-Off Photos!

2007-09-10T03:38:13Z

This is only the first batch-click the image to see more-- speaking of which -- all y'all that were there and taking pics! send 'em to me.

If you missed it, the paint-off went great! We ended up with 6 Fursuiters- we had Indigo Pounce, FuzzyRoo, Teto, RedFox, Pistol-pup's new suit the Fox (to be named later) and Stanton the Coyote in attendance. Artists included Jason Needham, EdieCannis, Dan Billen, Conny Ehrlich, and me. Did y'all have a good time?