jill0r

YEAH!

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:12:19 GMT

THESE ARE NOT "PLUSHIES"
THEY ARE FIGURINES, AS STATED ON THE ITEM PAGE

http://patchtogether.com/store/store/view/id/172

my TUBE FERRET design made it through voting and is now up for SALE! 4" tall figure, your choice of SABLE/BROWN or WHITE, for only $14.95 each -- the cheapest toy available on patchtogether! i wanted to keep them simple so the price would be LOW LOW LOW, so i hope you guys are happy with the price the guys over at patchtogether have gone with!

this is a PRE-ORDER item and will not ship for 2+ months. once i've reached 20 orders, they will create a prototype for you to see [i'm halfway there already]. patchtogether DOES NOT accept paypal, sorry! your card WILL NOT BE CHARGED UNTIL THE TOY SHIPS.

YEAH!!! thanks to everyone who voted! this is so awesome!! i'm gonna do a DANCE!

need ride to westin

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:19:41 GMT

heyo,

is there anyone able to swing by and pick me up from o'hare next thursday for the con around 4pm? i don't want to get a ride from a furry stranger, been there done that didn't like it 8I

otherwise, is the METRA reasonable for rush-hour travel with lots of luggage? i am going to assume "no" -- not because i can't manage my bags, but because i don't want to be bowled over by commuters.

i am doing this con on a budget of about 5 cents so if i can avoid the taxi, i'd like to.

and, oh yeah, enjoy some Devotchka. this one gets stuck in my head pretty much daily. it is "epic" and not in the nerd buzzword sense.

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 06:06:34 GMT

oh my god, what is happening

shirt up for sale today only! $10!

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:38:07 GMT

"CAMPIONE" shirt up for sale TODAY ONLY, only $10! RIPT ships everywhere, as far as i know! i really like this design, it's about 2 months late going up for sale but i hope at least one of yall likes it :D let me know if you grab one! this shirt is available today, WEDNESDAY ONLY! :)

www.riptapparel.com

happy halloweener

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:35:54 GMT

yo, happy halloweenie [a song treat for YOU]!

after i turned 10 or 11 i actually really, really hated halloween -- costumes pissed me off, i felt like a huge goober going around asking for candy, and i was more content just sitting at my computer for the evening. after i built my first fursuit costume i started having fun again [though i never trick or treated past childhood, i still think that's VERY WEIRD], and this is the first year EVER that i've built a costume just for halloween from scratch. there's a huge costume parade downtown, think 20k+ participants, and while we went in fursuit last year i wanted to do something new this year ... so, presenting ...

RECESSION HALLOWEEN 2009 COSTUMES!

these are both made completely from recycled materials and scraps -- my mask, the bird thing, is 100% cardboard, masking tape and paper mache on a balaclava. i used fur scraps and other stuff i just had laying around; the only item that's 'new' is the ELwire handed down to me from my squeeze. glowing eyes are a fun gimmick!

the wolf is tabernak's creation, and i think it is VERY RAD coming from a guy who does not Make Things. it's cardboard on top of a recycled fursuit mask base with fur scraps from the floor [literally] and some paper and paint accents [check out another view here]. i helped him a little with the detailing but other than that, this is 100% his work -- give him a round of APPLAUSE. we were inspired by missmonstermel, nesting and by being poor and not wanting to stumble around in fursuits again. not bad for 2 days i figure! ps, they aren't fursuits and aren't meant to follow the aesthetics of fursuits -- just art pieces that happen to be masks! :)

i'm excited to wear this thing and andrew is happy with his too, i just wanted to share! like i said, this is the first halloween where i didn't just wear a Silly Shirt or throw on a fursuit, so it's kind of cool to me. hope you enjoy your evenings, i'm sure we will [i can drink in this mask].

\o/

TOY DESIGN TIME!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:46:16 GMT

http://patchtogether.com/designs/designs/view/id/2238

GUYS! i did a TUBE FERRET toy design! it's up for voting and comments over at PatchTogether, and YOU are the only ones who can help push it through into production! this would be a 4" - 5" tall TOY that you can put on your desk, throw at your real pet ferrets, whatever! REENACT THE FERRET DANCE animation! comes in two flavours, sable and white!

in order to get the design pushed to pre-production, i need YOU to register for Patchtogether [if you have not yet!], vote the design a "5" AND leave a COMMENT [seriously, the comments COUNT]. what's in it for you? YOUR OWN TUBE FERRET.

please, please, help out if you have a moment, pass it around, it honestly doesn't take much at all to get the ball rolling on this -- i would flip shit for 9 days straight if this came together. i am an avid dsigner toy collector and to have one of my own designs sitting next to my labbits and evil skaters and dunnies, well ... i would likely EXPLODE.

*apparently the website doesn't work with IE [5, 6, 7, newer versions ok], i can't help this, but having it looked at. should be fixed soon.

click those ferrs to vote! thank you!!!!

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:12:27 GMT

have you guys seen this?

an ANIMATION based on my "dook nation" drawing. PRETTY AWESOME!! [and now it's on youtube so i can show it to my mom and not make her have to look at furaffinity, which i would not be embarrassed to do but i don't want her to complain to me later, lol]

so tell me -- if i were to submit a ferret toy design [vinyl toy/figure] to patchtogether, just like the above characters, do you think it'd get enough votes to go into preproduction? would you be interested? i hate contests
but it'd be cool!

the missing feast

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:21:20 GMT

tis the reason for the season, you know

it completes me

[a gentle repost, it was most apt though!]

need photo help

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:52 GMT

any photo-friends around to help me work out some lighting for my shots? it's getting harder and harder to find good daylight to work with as the sun isn't even hitting our apartment anymore and overhead fluorescents alone are pretty gross.

this is an example of the best i can do as of late, which is very noisy, muddy and went thru a lot of shoppin'. here is the photo before i adjusted it

i am messing with the camera settings, sure, but there is only so much i can do -- pumping up the ISO just so i can get a halfway-usable shot in a dark room isn't cutting it. i need better lights. not sure if i should be looking at a strobe or something else, but the set up at the moment is simply the overhead fluorescents in a kitchen with room for perhaps one more light. otherwise they're going to be too close and blow it out anyways. my kitchen is this big. that was me standing in the doorway, the backdrop wall is immediately to my left flush with the doorway. small.

if anyone has any suggestions for help on this, especially on a budget [i do not mind buying a light but it has to be a cheap-ass light], let me know. i know i can do better than this. these photos are SHIT.

the funzone

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:21:46 GMT

washing costumes here in the city is pretty exciting! i don't really sweat enough for mine to get stanky but i like to wash them after every event if i can, just because i like the clean smell :) i took andrew's to be cleaned too because it was new, still lots of loose hairs, lots of scratchy sizing in the fur backing, and he sweats a ton.

so, these get dragged across queens blvd, a 6-lane-plus-2-bus-lane busy throughway, with nicknames like "the boulevard of death" to the laundromat where i cram them inside-out into a $2.75 washer and wonder if the chinese people are watching me. i generally leave my clothes at the laundromat because it's only a block or two up the road, and i don't think anybody is going to want to steal these. they are washed on cold with a nice spin cycle to get most of the water out, and then i grab my garbage bag and head back out across the road to drag two wet fursuits back to my apartment ...

then i have to find a way to lay them out to dry in the kitchen which is the only room in the apartment without an unobstructed window [and enough floor space, and a linoleum floor that can handle water dripping onto it]. i only have one drying rack, so the other body suit went on a tv tray with some kind of metal rack/shelf on it to allow air to circulate underneath. i let them dry from the inside out, turning them right side out again and brushing them as they dry. i tried the box fan to get them to dry faster today since we don't get any sunlight and a. they completely block the fridge and b. are butted up to the oven and stove, so the faster they dry out, the better.

THIS IS ALL VERY EXCITING, but just thought i'd share in order to compare this kind of situation to just throwing them in the wash at home and putting them outside to dry during the day. it is pretty much a huge hassle but i love having a clean and fluffy costume to put on for my next event so it's worth it to me to go through all this crap. don't moan next time you have to wash your costumes at home!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:16:05 GMT

hey, i made a video with my new little nano!

and that means i'll be selling my other video camera! woah!

look at all these critters are furfright!

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:18:52 GMT

heyo,

going to try and catch up from the past week+ of craziness. i will get back to emails very soon, as well as the rest of this social stuff ... thanks for being patient :3

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:50:02 GMT

OH YO HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN

WORDDDDDDDDD

artwork commissions!

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:01:00 GMT

i am not open for any artwork commissions but my beau is!

fayded_chaos is offering ORIGINAL WATERCOLOUR ARTWORK for a paltry fee ... character illustrations, badges, icons, sketches, and probably anything else you can think of. he is a talented fella with a Real Live Art Degree, and sometimes we combine our skills to form a superrobot.

his gallery is available at the following address, all work-safe stuff:
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sebastian

and if you're interested in working with him, you can shoot him an email!
sebastian_silverfox [at] yahoo.com

he REALLY LOVES painting canids and birds and just about all animals. get some rad artwork!!

fox thrifting

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:46:39 GMT

i have an extra fox here.

would you like it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330365541180

beautiful fox partial with mask by Qarrezel, rest of the bits by me. moving jaw, fits heads up to 23" around, and is going for under ~$250 at the time of writing this -- Qarrezel's costumes go for $800+, so i think that is a Pretty Good Deal. auction ends sunday!

there are loads of lovely photos and more information on the auction page, check it out if you'd like and please pass it along if you know of any interested parties! :)

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in other news i am tired. all costumes on schedule for FF, all artwork is behind. offering refunds for commissions so people do't have to wait, behind on MFF stuff because it is sadly unpaid. ergh ... i will catch up someday. one for one ... not so bad. :/

oh sweet

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:02:42 GMT

facebook knows what i really care about

now i can keep track of Prince wherever he goes
thanks facebook advertising!

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:05:04 GMT

PARTYMAN

i am jealous of you fine, talented folks out there!

let's learn!

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:35:09 GMT

today, let's learn what the word feral really means!

"A feral organism is one that has escaped from domestication and returned, partly or wholly, to a wild state ... The dictionary definition of a feral animal is one which has escaped from a domestic or captive status and is living more or less as a wild animal. Zoologists generally exclude from the ‘feral’ category animals which were genuinely wild before they escaped from captivity: neither lions escaped from a zoo nor the sea eagles (Haliaeetus albicilla) recently re-introduced into the UK are regarded as 'feral'." - Wikipedia!

so ...

is your lion character who walks on 4 legs and has an angry expression "feral?"
NOPE

is your pygmy goat character, who lives independent from man/farmer joe on a remote cliffside and has had all signs of domestication almost completely bred out of its genes, "feral?"
YEP

is your normally-clothed dragonpokemorph character standing on 4 legs and wearing a collar "feral?"
NOPE

is a wild mustang in montana "feral?"
YEP

is a wolf-related ANYTHING "feral?"
NOPE

is any previously domesticated animal who now lives independent of man considered "feral?" ie, wild stray cats, wild horses, wild pigs?
YEAH MAN

is your talking furry character "feral," regardless of whether or not it's wearing raver pants?
NO SO STOP IT

feral = domesticated animal gone wild
feral =/= an animal that walks on four legs and looks angry

HOPE YOU ENJOYED LEARNING TODAY
[XTRA CREDIT: if you do a search for 'feral' on FA, the results are pretty hi-larious!]

in florida till next week

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:53:11 GMT

i'm in florida [clermont] till tuesday, anyone want to do dinner or something? i've asked around a few times and nobody seemed too interested, but thought i would ask one more time. thursday, saturday probably, and monday are good ... if not, whatever, just thought i'd ask! :V

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:15:22 GMT

so who is going to furfright, then?
and how about mff?

i see so many folx cancelling plans that i am kind of wondering if anybody is going at all!

i will be at both of these things and you can buy me lots of drinks

2 disney tickets up for grabs!

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:09:04 GMT

i have two one-day "park hopper" DISNEYWORLD / DISNEYLAND passes, they expire December 17, 2009 -- they are each good for one person for one whole day for all of the parks at either resort.

one ticket will get you into ALL 4 FLORIDA parks [magic kingdom, epcot, studios, animal kingdom, worth $131!] or BOTH CALIFORNIA parks [disneyland and california adventure, worth $97!] for a day!

i totally forgot about these and won't be using them before they expire. maybe you live close to one of the resorts and want to visit free for the day? :)

accepting all offers, no $$$ please -- i'd be happy to trade for art or something [not looking to get face value for these, so don't be shy]! leave a comment or send me a note and i will get back to you! :3

ghhhh, going to florida next week

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:33:52 GMT

i caught a disease from tabernak, so despite wanting to get a ton of work done, it is just not happening -- i am going to take it easy and cut out some tails or something today. not falling behind, just not getting ahead. i should feel better tomorrow, anyways. the clouds are gone finally. :3

next week i am going on a Real Vacation to visit my mom in florida -- every single trip i've taken thus far that involved me leaving the immediate area also included homework, whether it be sewing or what -- i am not bringing ANY work with me because my brain is fried. i will work on bottlecap commissions but that's it. i'll be staying in clermont, so if anyone down there wants to do dinner or something, let me know, i'll be in the area for a week. :) visiting the BEACH \m/

then in october it's furfright and i get to see my gentleman again, finally. time flies, at the very least. and then MFF in november, i think...? i still have to figure that one out.

and between all of that i want to go get my tattoo finally! :O

and just a reminder, i am posting fursuit work to jillcostumes -- i've posted some new costumes there, go check them out!

now i will think about taking a shower. this is difficult.

Kite and Gloridean

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:25:58 GMT

Kite and Gloridean
Originally uploaded by mercurypale

we had an adventure this weekend, first travelling up to CT to take some photos of a new suit [i'll post it later in the week over @ jillcostumes] and then heading to the renn faire yesterday -- me and fayded_chaos wore our pretty costumes that qarrezel made and i hadn't been able to get photos of them together until now, so i never even posted about mine. i gave her free reign to make whatever she wanted, only asking that it be white, canid, and somehow match eric's copper beast costume. it came out absolutely perfect and i really like wearing it -- we put together costumes to wear with the masks and they fit in so well at the faire that we were asked more than once if we worked there and were even offered tips. tabernak took photos for us :***

such a huge difference in costuming at a furry convention vs costuming at events 'for the general public' -- i definitely prefer the latter over the former. these costumes won't be going to any furry conventions.

you can see all of the photos we had taken at flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mercurypale/sets/72157622165031895/

there's even a photo of fayded_chaos juggling in costume, because he is just that fantastic and talented.

hope you enjoy the pics as much as we did posing for them! :3

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:50:47 GMT

yeaaaah i finally cleaned my DESK!

it was pretty far gone, but i wiped all of the sticky booze reside off and now it looks great. 8)

vinyl vinyl vinyl vinyl ... need more toys. really. love the new evil skater series.

attn: coyote fans!

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:42:55 GMT

just wanted to make a post about something nice that my roommate is selling as it's Of Furry Interest -- an 18k white gold one of a kind coyote pendant with yellow diamond, custom made.

link to auction

classy and flashy without being tacky! pass it on if you've got an interested party in mind! :)