| New Moon <3 |
[Nov. 21st, 2009|01:19 am] |
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Went to see the second installment of the twilight saga "New Moon". I got to the movie theater thinking I could just buy a ticket and sit down. But as we got there, moon and I saw the massive flood of tweens and we were not able to see the movie at 7:30 as initially planned. So we saw the movie at 9:50 after waiting in line which was insane as my movie theater here in the area never gets this busy. Tweens upon tweens everywhere, with twilight stuff decked up from head to toe. I felt funny as all I wear twilight related is 2 bracelets, but I must add some more twilight love with something werewolfy! (will rectify that problem later). Once we got in moon and I ran up to get some decent seats as I hate seating all the way up front. Movie started and I would say maybe 30 mins into the movie someone threw up on the back of someone elses chair. So they had to bring a clean up crew and pause the movie. I had never seen a movie theater pause a movie to do a clean up, but they were nice enough to rewind a few scenes and pick it up from there when they were done. The only thing that bothered me was the amount of screaming, giggling and retarded chatting these kids were doing. Yes the actors are ripped/buff/hot and yes they come out half naked all the time, but come on screaming every time they come on?. I was excited about this movie, I am sure as much as many being a fan. But I guess I don't scream every time someone rolls on stage, I do like to hear what they are saying ;). The movie is a movie for fans. I felt a bit bad dragging moon along as the movie was very long but it followed the book so very well. I felt like I was reading it again, which was pretty cool. The wolves were pretty neat. I mean I have yet to see a well integrated monster period (in movies, cg still looks fake) but they look like badass wolves. Jacob was pretty much as I thought he would look and same with the other wolves.
I give the movie a thumbs up. This is coming from someone who has read all 4 books and loves the saga. So take in mind I may be a bit biased. I am going to watch the other 2 movies when they come out next year. I love how the books get more violent and of course adult.
I had a great night, screaming and vomiting aside I loved the movie <3
Jacob is hawt hawt hawt!
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| Zoots |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|06:48 pm] |
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2 of them, more to come soon.
On fun news, time to go to the movies and watch New Moon :D |
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| Marc's Birthday Celebration |
[Nov. 14th, 2009|02:53 pm] |
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Marc's bday was celebrated last night at Ibar and oh boy did we have fun. I never usually go to bars as I am not the type of person to drink and sit down. I like to move and dance whatever comes out of me. I do not consider myself a good dancer by any means but love to dance if the music has a decent beat. Last night the music was more indi rock based, so a lot was new to my ears but I really liked it. What I liked best about the club was that you could go dressed in your jeans and converse and not look totally out of place. I had shyed away from clubs before because of the dress code and being a girl it usually means you need to dress like some sort of hooker. Ibar kinda set a more lax feeling and let me dance in what I am most comfy which is my street clothes. We danced for hours, while the drinks kept coming. People were fantastic, we even interacted with some people outside. I was a bit less inclined to give high fives to passing drunks but watched trigger get quite a few. Went to eat at Pita Pit around 2am when the bar closed down and we walked around downtown to wait for our intoxication to go down. Finally drove back home and crashed around 4am. I had such a great time, I totally needed and wanted a sort of thing like this. No worries, having fun with friends and dancing to the beat of the music.
I did find a song I loved from last night, this one in particular:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WtXJXlqqOE
Photos of the craziness last night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinvixen/sets/72157622678268473/
I will be hitting that club and firestone more in the near future. Consider my weekends a bit more interesting from now on :D.
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| Dalmatian print fur |
[Nov. 10th, 2009|02:39 am] |
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Looking for decent quality dalmatian print fur. I only see the one that crscrafts carries and that one is very low quality. Is mendels version the same stuff crscrafts carries?
Throw me some links if you have them :D |
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| Fun with lights |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|01:21 am] |
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I love lights and of course photos. Was wanting to take some photos tonight as I found my remote for the camera again. Propped the slr on a tripod and went trigger happy so to speak. Trigger was over so used him as my model and took some pics for fun.
I took a few of Trigger leaping and looking crazy. I love random shots like these. I learn more about my camera just messing around than I do reading a manual. Plus I have fun and keep the funny pics as well.
Trigger jumped in my halfsuit so I took a few of him writing the name "Sam" in the air and drawing hearts.
 
If you want to see the rest, you can see them here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinvixen/
It got me thinking about doing a set of these in downtown clermont next to the water. Get a few of my friends in suit and out of suit and do a fun photoshoot at night. Going to probably test it out first on my street and then see how well I can capture the suits writing things in the night. The nights are so cold now, it would be a fun little outing.
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| Nanovor |
[Nov. 4th, 2009|01:16 am] |
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So I found these cool critters they other day and got myself a Nanoscope which is the handheld game. The best thing about these is you can connect them with the computer and transfer critters back and forth. But the fun does not stop there, you can battle with people online who have an account and chat as well. So been battling with a few here and there, but slowly training them via my nanoscope.
If you are unsure what I am talking about check this video out. You can create an account for free and battle online. To be able to take them with you in your pocket you do need a nanoscope and those can connect with friends to battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diS7n1F9DmU
Quick commercial that shows you how it works.
http://www.nanovor.com/products/nanoscope/
Size of the Nanoscope in my hand (full color screen btw)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinv.....en/4064865832/
The thing that attracted me to this was that you can carry it around and it reminds me a lot of the old digimon digivice that you could connect online. The d3 digivice that did this was slow and this was when people had phone connections and the graphics were lacking at best. This one seems like they have really planned a lot of stuff and new updates are always being released. So everytime you connect your nanoscope it gets some sort of an update. You can train up to 10 monsters at a time and you can gather more as you go.
If you get an account msg me back with your screen name and I can battle you. I just started this so very low level at the moment. Look for Latinvixen :D
If you get a nanoscope then we need to find each other at a con and battle :) Totally taking mine to cons and looking for others to battle with me.
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| Paranormal Activity |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|12:05 am] |
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I loved the film. I love movies that just scare you instead of showing flashy renders of stuff that tends to look fake anyways. I rather get a movie with loud noises and glimpses of stuff instead of seeing the full thing. This movie did just that. It has a whole blair witch, cloverfield look to it but was very well done for such a low budget film. It kept you wondering what was going to happen to the poor couple. So I went online and did a bit of research and I guess there are 2 other endings to the film. The one in the movie was changed by spieldberg which was pretty decent. I can see why it was added so it was a bit more climactic. The alternate ending that was shown when the movie was unknown works really well and I like it too. You can see it here:
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/32196/Paranormal_Activity___Alternate_Ending/
I still need to find the other one I was reading about. But finally a movie that made me feel at least very uncomfortable while watching it, but in a scary sort of way.
Loved it and give it 2 thumbs up :D |
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| Halloween and this past week :) |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|09:44 pm] |
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This week was pretty fun. We worked and played and had fun with our friend Tivadu who was in town. He is getting ready to head out tomorrow so last night of relaxing as we had a full disney day.
We started the week by finishing these 2 costumes in time for halloween. One was a half costume and the other was a full costume but only the heads were photographed.
 
Tivadu decided to cook us some Cambodian food, and we loved it. Extremely spicy but a lot of fun to eat. I took a pic before everyone dug in :D
Trigger, Tiv and myself went to a special needs school to entertain the kids. We had a fantastic time. The kids loved us and we were able to interact with everyone for a few hours.
For Halloween we suited at Downtown Disney. It was Trigger and I but we were only able to get one photo of me before going to run around at Elliots. We had a great time, we walked all the way from Cirque de Solei all the way to Earl of Sandwich. We got photos with everyone and the kids loved it. Suited for about 1.5 hours then ran out to get changed and headed to Elliots party that night. We chilled, and chatted with a few people there. Stayed only for a little bit then went to relax at Lacy's house and did some Djing with arito over in second life. Watched some scary stuff and finally went to bed.
Today was the last day with Tiv so we took him to disney. I needed to renew my year pass so went ahead and took Tiv as well. Went with Arito, Adam, Moon, Tiv and myself. Stayed at Hollywood studios and just had fun.
 
On other news I went out and got a Nanovor toy. I love anything that is virtual pet related and this was a fighting pet so had to try it. Took a quick pic today in the car as I am slowly training the critters as you can play with these online. You can create an online account for free and fight others online, so if anyone is interested just find me and we can battle. The actual toy is for offline training and taking it around with you. Here is a full video so you can see what it does.
Took a quick pic today :D
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinvixen/4064865832/
As of now I can say the toy is pretty amazing judging by everything it does. It has full 3d graphics and really neat games and menus. Critters evolve and you can keep gathering stuff online and offline. Totally worth it.
Here is the website:
http://www.nanovor.com/products/nanoscope/
Here are a few more photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinvixen/
Saw where the wild things are and the movie sucked :P
THIS MONTH IS RETRO MONTH! |
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| Halloween :D |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|02:37 pm] |
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Halloween is tomorrow and I am pretty excited to see what we are going to do. Will be doing park tomorrow probably or trick or treating in the day, depends on what everyone here wants to do. Should be going to elliots for a bit and probably going to hit downtown orlando for some party in suit. Should be an exhausting but rewarding halloween, just need to figure it all out today.
But for now, I need to finish these 2 suits and mail them out in 2 hours.
Back to work! |
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| Furloween recap |
[Oct. 25th, 2009|01:05 pm] |
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Went last night and showed up after the food had been put away. I was not interested in the dinner service as it was not my cup of tea the year previous. We thought that maybe just maybe we could pay slightly less for being there so late and no food service, welp we were wrong, we dished out $30 for being there only for about 4 hours which I am sorry to say is a bit of a rip off. Yes I had fun, and I danced to some stuff as the music was spotty at best and it felt like itunes was just left on in a random station (I am picky with music, but any music with a good beat that I can dance too I tend to be OK with). I love the set up and the people there, but Djs need to step it up a bit (Maybe I always ask for too much). Radix and media had some really good stuff, and had some fun with that. Met a few new people that happened to be hilarious (Havoc and her pals were funny to boot, you guys made my night).
But it really made me think about this for next year. Regretting not having attended necronomicon instead which was my plan B and would of been cheaper for an entire con day. The dance floor was ungodly warm, as all the fans were in the headless lounge which was nice and cool in there but we were all dying while dancing.
So all in all, I did enjoy the night. But it was mostly because I found some friends to dork around with and just be plain silly. No photos or video as I was in suit most of the time.
Not sure if I will attend again unless there is a drop in price. We pay $40 to enter cons now a days and that is an entire weekend. I hate to complain but it is becoming harder and harder to dish out money like that for events that are less than a day long. |
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| Lion up on Ebay! |
[Oct. 23rd, 2009|11:27 am] |
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Ebay Auction
Auction is up http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110449193180
Selling a lion partial via ebay. A refurbished head we did earlier this year, but now looking sexier and trendier than ever ;).
Comes with:
- Head (3d eyes and moving jaw)
- 5 digit hand paws (pink paw pads)
- Long soft tail (attach via belt loop)
Furs are easy enough to match if you are interested in making it into a full costume via us or doing it yourself.
Happy bidding!
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| Disney suiting video |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|10:26 pm] |
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| Mickeys not so scary halloween 2009 |
[Oct. 19th, 2009|01:53 pm] |
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We did it again and had a blast. We went last year and had a fantastic time the 2 times we went. Last year was the first time we were able to get 2 fursuits in, we tried it again with 3 this year (myself in a halfsuit, trigger in his and moonstalker in his). The staff was more than awesome and everyone wanted photos, hugs and kids wanted to kiss our noses. People got a total kick out of us riding the rides with them and just being there. It was a beyond rewarding and positive experience. The smiles on peoples faces and how happy they got when they saw us made it amazing. You could not walk anywhere without a mob of kids at your tail and wanting something from you.
Arito was our camera/video and water man. He went dressed in my wolf kigurumi so fit right in with all of us being crazy around the park. So a giant thank you Arito for taking good care of us last night.
All the photos that Arito took can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/latinvixen/sets/72157622494600853/
We picked last night in particular because it was down in the 40's temperature wise. I was super amazed it could get that cold that fast in florida. Because 2 days ago it was about 90. So Trigger informed me what day would be best, as it was very last min seeing it depended on the weather forecast. And we picked correct, there was no humidity in the air which made suiting a real breeze.
We got to interact with characters at the park which was nice too. Actually danced with stitch, I do not think he knew what to make of me. He would poke at me, look and just tilt his head from side to side. I am sure for the entertainers as this was something they were not sure how to react to. But at least they were nice, and interacted back and we were welcomed with open arms.
And before anyone complains about why they were not invited and we did not make this a free invite there is a good reason. A few years back we tried to do this as an open invite where we got I would say about 10 fursuiters all together. We got to the gates and were denied right there on the spot (too many suits looks really scary to them, we looked like a mob). I rather not get peoples hopes up and then not full fill them. So now I go when I can, with good friends and very little suits. If we get in, great, if not then we just go home. We have been lucky so we will leave it at that. So do not ask to come with us, we keep it small for the one reason to be able just in a rare chance and actually wear our suits.
If you want to know how we got in, we did like anyone else. Through the gates, and we just got lucky again 2nd year in a row. No special tricks, no magic, no bribes. Just pure luck.
Video will be posted later today. |
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| A few costumes |
[Oct. 17th, 2009|03:03 pm] |
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To add to the mix as I almost forgot to do so :D
More to come next week :) |
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| Lack of posts |
[Oct. 7th, 2009|05:03 pm] |
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I do most of my daily posting on twitter, so follow me there:
http://twitter.com/Latinvixen
But on other news just busy working on a few costumes to have done for Furfright.
Need to finish for FF:
-Jill goat
-Jill's head
-BooBoo partial
In time for halloween instead: Midori and Moofli (you guys are amazingly patient, thank you)
Back to work :P |
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| Deka Tamagotchi review :D |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|04:21 pm] |
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For anyone interested in virtual pets I made a little review video on this totally awesome tamagotchi. Huge and straight from Japan :).
I am currently trying to figure out everything about this pokemon virtual pet. Manaphy egg is this new virtual pet released in Japan by Tomy. Was able to get one via ebay and been playing with it for 2 days. A bit different than the pocket pikachu and closer to the way a digimon pendulum X works, with maps and dice. Adorable animations and sounds. Need to take photos of a few of the screens to be able to sit down and write out what everything means. Once I can do so I will make a review on this one via youtube as well as there aren't any about this one.
Yes I get a total kick out of doing digital pet reviews as hobby. I like to provide helpful videos for others interested in collecting these as well. Plus I make videos for the ones you rarely see videos of on youtube :D.
If you have any questions just ask ^.^
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| Popularity in the fandom (my take on it) |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|10:57 am] |
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A few comments sprouted this post so I wanted to post my views on this subject. Popularity in the fandom, what does it mean? To me it means free advertising, people knowing your website and name and your fursuits are easy to recognize. What does popularity also bring, drama and jealousy rolling down your doorstep. People in the fandom become popular for doing their work, being good at what they are and spreading it to the masses. They also become popular for being loud mouths, annoying and trollish. I try to go for the more positive route. The thing I want to chime in here is POPULARITY DOES NOT PAY THE BILLS, IT DOES NOT FEED ME, OR LET ME PAY FOR AN INJURY. Seriously people open your eyes. Who the hell cares about being popular to up yourself in a fandom than in the grand scheme of things is tiny and really not as noticeable to the common population. I gotta love how people assume that you just build costumes to become popular. I guess if being popular is based on points where I can open a credit card and buy food at walmart, then awesome let me rack up that popularity. But seriously grow up! Furry is like high school, there are popular kids. But before you throw a brick at them and bitch, think about why they became popular. Do you think they chose to be popular, they wore popular shirts and told everyone they were? Listen at a con next time, who calls those so called people popular? People that usually have a grudge or are jealous. The so called populars never call themselves popular because it does not get them anywhere. Oh boy the popular people hang out? My goodness maybe they have like minds, maybe they can hold a conversation and be friends....No that makes the elitists, yes that is it, because I must judge because I am jealous I can't even make one friend.
It all comes down to jealousy. We as makers, artists, performers whatever you are have worked years for it. Years of trial and error. I was a nobody for a few years in the fandom and my work was mocked. After years of trying and improving stuff started to sell better, people liked it and mixedcandy grew. But no I was no overnight sensation, no one was. We all worked our asses off. This is why I find it insulting for people to blurt out their dumb opinions sprouted out of their ass that call us attention whores or anything of the like. We work like anyone, we work to be better, we work to appeal to you.
Popularity is everywhere! Deal with it. It seems at times the fandom holds peoples hands because they are scared of the real world. Have you turned on the TV? Have you seen what popular people like movie stars or wait even the president is doing? Do you read? How about the magazines and newspaper. Those people be it some way or another worked for it, somehow but they got there. And people that complain are just jealous they would not do the work to get up there.
So take off those training wheels, and actually take a step in the real world. Fursuit makers may just seem like they deal with "furry based problems" but don't forget this is a real business like any business out there. We deal with the everyday problems, and we cannot cry to the IRS about taxes, or ask for a hug. We deal with it and we do not use the so called FURRY POPULARITY card to escape problems. |
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| The wrong way to pack a costume |
[Sep. 28th, 2009|01:11 am] |
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