This took me a bit longer than I expected, but finally...
I've got my recording gear TODAY!!

A Lexicon Lambda stereo pre-amp,
an Audio-technica AT2020 condenser-microphone and
a König & Meyer microphone stand (lol)
.......it's all mine! ^____^

So, it's time to get serious! >:D


Congratz, If you've read so far!
I mentioned another thing, and that is my pageview counter. It will reach the 1k quite soon (if nothing VERY BAD happens^^), so I decided to offer a reward for he/she who posts a screenshot of the 1k pageviews and notes me about it FIRST! I could offer either to draw something (which I'm not really good at) or to compose a little song (a character-theme for example). Or I've you just want me to sing on any song, that would be no problem at all.

So long, regards, Firebrand

That bear made my day! I'm talking about  Lioncourt. He did the voice acting for the recently released, great MGS-fan-movie.....for Solid Snake HIMSELF!!!

But just read by yourself...

Lioncourt wrote:After three years of dedication, drive and passion by Italian filmakers Hive Division. Metal Gear Solid: Philanthropy, the feature length fan film directed by Giaccomo Talamini, has officially been released to the world. The film is now available free to stream and/or download from the offical website.

With a full english voice cast, an epic musical score and sound design by Hybrid Two Studios, breathtaking visual effects, and an all new ending theme sung by MGS1 vocalist Aoife Ferry, this movie brings the saga of MGS to life like never before, in what could be Solid Snake's most dangerous mission yet!

Head on over to the official website, (http://www.mgs-philanthropy.net) to stream the film or to download the high quality version, Hybrid Two Studio's website, (http://hybridtwo.com) to download the complete muscial score for the film or check out the offical Facebook page for in depth behind the scenes material.

Spread the word. Tell your friends. Come and get it!

P.S. Stick around until the end of the film. Trust me

Bearhugs,
Lioncourt

This movie is just awesome! (expecially if you note that it is a fan-movie!)

And I advise everybody to obey his words and watch the film to the very end. You will be rewarded!!!

Bill Cosby and Noah

Just a little snippet, I found the tube, that made me laugh so hard!

Yay! I'm new to arts, composed/covered only a few song, and I'm already looking forward to my first collab. =3

I'm always looking for a challange, but this seems pretty exciting to me!
The song we will cover is The Bard's Song (by Blind Guardian). (A must have heard for every fan of classic fantasy storys/RPGs)

But who are WE??
Well, thats:
me ( Firebrand99) at the vocals and the piano,
 dabs as the composer/arranger,
 Kaliden on the accoustic guitar (and maybe vocals, too),
 Karuno on the violin and the flute
and a cellist who we are still looking for^^

I wether knew the band nor the song in the first place. While browsing through dabs gallery I found his Classical cover.
I was instantly seduced by this song and started singing it over and over. I also recognized, that dabs can play guitar, so I came up with the idea to make a cover of that song with vocals and several guitar-tracks, mixed together. But this thing grew up to a multi-instrument-classical-cover.

We intend to do a cover with real instruments, so that it sounds real authentic!
So let's just see, how this turns out! :D

Yeah yeah, I read it on ever second user page: >Dislikes: Hiphop, Rap,...<.
And I really DO understand it. Over 90% of the Hiphop I hear on radio-broadcasts or on MTV is just crap. I wouldn't even download them/buy an album if it was for free. Unfortunatly all this Gangsta-Rap and the like sells quite well.

But I'm not sure, if anyone of you guys (and chicks^^) have heard any GOOD Hiphop so far! (GOOD in my opinion, of course). If your risk to possibly waste a few minutes of your time, listening to the following songs, you MAY be surprised!^^ They're very upbeat and don't have anything in common with Hiphop as you may know it (besides someone is rapping^^)

The songs are from a CRAZY german band (that sadly broke up many years ago), so you probably won't understand what they are about. Therefor I will try to describe them is 1 or 2 sentences and give a translation of my favourite lyrics line.

Fischmob - Du, äh du
It's sort of a love song, but more like a description of a woman, a physical quite strong woman.
Quote [1:44]:"Her back is more broad than of a docker, and at a biceps comparison I'm only second, sadly"

Fischmob - Tranquilo
A song about the disability to get up in the morning.
Quote [2:25]:"As long as the butt fits into the pants, no work will be accepted"

Fischmob - Bonanzarad
A tribute-song for the "Bonanza"-bike (a bike, also called High Riser; popular in the 60s and 70s)
Quote [0:52]:"When I rush towards a victim with 30 kph, adrenalin comes out of my ears, mouth and nose."

All these songs where performed with guitars (and some synth & sound samples)
I want to practice with Guitar Pro, so I will remix and submit a medley of these songs, JUST IN CASE someone is interested

500 pageviews so far. A first little milestone for me.
It seems that some people have noticed what I'm doing. I really enjoyed, to grow into this great community. over a month has elapsed and everyone I met so far was friendly and most of them had some kind word for this little Gargoyle.

It's time for a little review now.

The thing that introduced me to the furry scene was my affinity/fetish for Growth, Inflation and Fatfurs (especially DragoMike's) in the first place. I' read a really nice story, written by DragoMike, which name is: The Rising Dragon. I got hooked to it and wanted to have a chat with DM. Due to his broken email I looked for another way... and so I found FA.^^

I didn't want to join this community empty-handed, so I decided to think of a fursona and draw something. Approximately at the same time I got my harmonium, so it was just a matter of time about when to start submitting audio stuff. That was a craft i knew much more about than drawing.

I was quite busy for the last 2 weeks due to working at my brothers gastronomy. During this period I gathered many ideas and made up my first collab. I'm started over hald a dozen of partly smaller partly bigger projects (most of them according music stuff), but I just had a very limited amount of time available. As from the beginning of the next week that will change hopefully.^^

I was an addictive WoW-Gamer till a few weeks ago. I decided to abandon it in favor of my artistic activities on FA, wich consumed my in quite a similar way WoW did before.
Similar but quite different! .......

Before I joined FA I regarded myself just as a consumer of arts, gaming and music in particular. Since I'm here I met many amazing artists, some of them even much younger than me. They exhibited so much talent, skill and enthusiasm for arts, as I couldn't ever imgine. Thnat really impressed me!!! It made me think of how much time I had wasted in my life so far without any creative momentum.

I hope it's never too late to become an artist!!!!!

When I woke up this morning I though it would be a day like any other, but it turned out quite differently!

I turned on my PC as usual and saw my first surprise.
A gift from the marvellous  thecaptainfoxx showing me as a sumo wrestler. Thank you very very much for this, Foxxy!
Sumo Slob Firebrand ... check it out!
I was very pleased and soo happy about that. Deeply touched, too.

So that day started very joyful and I was singing the whole day at work. But I didn't just sing any song, NO! It was the Mr. Yiffy Song of the excellent  maxgoof (a very funny parody. Actually I just sang the chorus, cuz I didn't remember the lyrics) I'm pretty sure that no one of my retarded, austrian workmates knew what yiffy means. hehehe

It turned to evening and then another thing hit me like a flash.  karuno decided to join my musical cover-collaboration on The Bard's song (by Blind Guardian)!!! I was veeeeery happy, cuz I think he will be a great enrichment to this collab (I will write about this collab in another journal, because it's so HUUUUGE!^^)

I was so glad about that day, so that I intended to sing "Oh Happy Day" (with some changed lyrics) for all you guys who made my day! But I had to delay that for a good reason! Read further^^.

As if though that wouldn't be enough for one single day, my former studying-mates paid me a SURPRISE VISIT. So I could share the evening of this great, exciting day with some good friends around. I showed them alls my stuff on FA and also some of yours, and they were very pleased, too.

Last, but definitly not least one of my friend (who is a guitarist in a metal band) told me, that his band is building up a little recording studio in the next months, and that I'm welcome to use it!!! Finally, he also offered me to borrow me one of their microphones for some home-recording.

And so this beautyful day ended. It was definitly my happiest day since I joined FA and probably the must joyful day since YEARS!

Edit: Oh, I almost forgot to mention the great avenue-musical cover of  holmgren13. That mady my day, too!!! (Listen to it and be amazed!!)

Along time ago, once there was a famous painter, lived in a peaceful kingdom.
One day, the king himself called the painter to come to his palace.
The arts of the painter were well known throughout the whole kingdom and beyond, so the king requested him to paint a canvas for him, showing flying ducks in the sunrise. The painter agreed and told him, that it would be an honor for him to do it. To address the issue of time the painter apprised the king that it will take him 5 years to finish the picture. The king was a bit astonished, but he approved it after a short period of cogitation.

After the 5 years have been elapsed, the king visited the painters studio to view the picture of the flying ducks, that he had requested. However the painter hasn't completed it yet. In fact he didn't even start to paint it. The king was very peeved about it and was on the verge to arrest the painter for this disappointment but he granted him a reprieve as the painter assured him to have done the painting in about two hours.
The artist started drawing. He swung his peint-brush with ease. Each of his brushstrokes seemed elegant and very skillful.
As he finished, the king was enchanted and very pleased with the outcome. He completely forgot about his anger just two hours ago.
"Why did you tell us, that you need 5 long years to finish your painting, if it only took you that short ammount of time?", the king asked him with a astonished mien.
"I will show it to your majesty."
The painter opened a door leading to a store room, which rather looked like an unarranged gallery. Dozens of paintings with ducks in any pose were stored in this room.
"It took me 5 years to get the right swing in my hand to paint these flying ducks just as i liked them to be."

This tale was told to me by a good, wise friend on mine.

Why am I telling you this? (..and why do I hope, that you read so far?^^)
Well, I just received my WACOM-tablet today! (Hooray!!!)
But I think I will need some practice before dropping artworks one after another.
Furthermore I don't have plenty of time at the moment due to my work at my brothers gastronomy for the next 2 weeks...
There are also 3 little music-projects I am working on, so it will take me some time to submit my first digital, visual artworks.
Allthough I will submit some sketches to the scraps-gallery, so stay tuned and thanks for reading!

P.S.:English is not my mother-tongue, for that reason I hope you can forgive me my english with (probably) many grammar and spelling mistakes. It's also funny for me to see, when someone tries to write sentences in broken German^^.

ey everybody, a new transformation themed site created by  makaio has opened today, and for those in to that, please visit http://tfuniverse.socialparody.com/ and support this new place^^ *gargoyle grunts*

Personally I love some features like the chance to separate your artwork by folders or post links to extrenal stuff as vids of files.

Enjoy!


That message I forwarded from  Dan_the_Bear

I've been tagged by  draco-rex

This is a big bunch of questions, so my answers will be quite short!

here are the rules
you must fill out all question
you can not tag back or you have to do the penity of doing gift art for the retager :P
you have to anwser the following questions
and you must tag a total of 10 people when done
okay here they are:

BOOKS
1 do you read books - Yes, seldom.
2 if you read books what type - Fantasy novels only.
3 if you read books any favorites - The Legend of Drizzt (from D&D, 6 parts).

TV
1. do you watch tv - Yes, unfrequently.
2. what are your favoirte tv shows - Scrubs, M*A*S*H and The IT Crowd!
3 if you could, which show's realtiy would you live in and why - None!! (and I don't watch them, too^^)
4. which show do you wish would get canceled or put back on the air - M*A*S*H should be back on air, definitely!

MOVIES
1. which movie are you looking forward to seeing - Transformers 2
2. which movie did you see most recently - Ice Age 3 in 3D
3. which movie was the best - The 1 VERY best? That's hard to tell.... let's say: Pirates of the Carribean Pt.1
4. which movie was the biggest let down - There was one, but I forgot about it (fortunatly^^)

FURSONA
1. what is your fursona's name - Firebrand. C'mon, thats obvious!)
2. what specie(s) are/is your fursona - Gargoyle.
3. male or female :P - Male.
4. do you want to meet your fursona face to face - Not when he is angry^^
5. is your fursona just like you or: (check all that apply)
A. fater - Depends on the "Crest" I use.
B. taller - same as above, but I haeven't thougt about that clearly
C. stronger/more muscular - Yes.
D. shorter/ thiner - I don't think so.
E. different gender - No.
6. Does your fursona have a back story? if so post it here : http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/760762/ - Just look it up @ Wikipedia or Capcom's Site.^^ He was part of several CAPCOM games.
7. do you have more then one fursona - Not yet, but I intend to create another.
8. what groups does yoru fursona belong to? (in example, draco is a part of lamplight labs) - Uh, not any yet.

LIFE
1. are you happy with your current life - Yeah, quite. A students life is full of joy.^^
2. do you have a pet - 1 dog and 3 cats (and maybe some cockroaches^^)
3. are you a teenager, 20-29, 30-39, 40-49 or 50-? - 25. I don't make a secret outta that.
4. what did you eat for breakfast - Cerials.

epic question (you must make an epic question to be anwsered by the people you tag, can be anyting)

My epic question: TO BE, OR .... - okay, just kidding.^^
Have u ever seen any LONGER question-tag-thing like this??^^

I TAG... (I hope no one is getting annoyed by this )
 Thecaptainfoxx
 kirihito
 Mustoshi
 Crytus
 Lioncourt
 WoolyMoogle
 KugaUK
 truckthepolarbear
 Dan_the_Bear
 nickwolf

150 pageviews so far...after 6 days!

Thanx to the furry community! <3

It seemed to me like several weeks, as I've met so many kind people and I've seen (an heared) so much good art!