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When I was still living on Long Island during the 1980s, I used to meet a lot of 'furry folks' at monthly Saturday meetings inside the Polish Democratic Club in lower Manhattan (where we'd get to see animated fare from Japan and the USA). I would meet local anthroartists from the NY/NJ area, as well as the occasional guest from the West Coast...
One person I'd made friends with was Richard Concepcion of Queens, NY, who had a public access cable television program ("The Rapid T. Rabbit Show") - which still has quite a following after all these years. Recorded in upper Manhattan, Concepcion would portray the lapine character, either as a hand puppet (or 'pawpet', as they're called nowadays) or in a full-sized costume (or 'fursuit'). I even got to visit the studio and watched the taping of one such episode of the show.
One day, in late 1991, Richard invited me over to his apartment in Queens, where I got to meet another 'fursuiter' by the name of Joe Ekaitis, who (I would later find out) is both a 'fursuiter' and an anthroartist. At the time, he had an Internet site with images of his main character 'T.H.E. Fox' (The T.H.E. standing for 'Thaddeus Horatio Everhart'). So, when I got the chance of meeting Joe in Queens, I also got to meet 'T.H.E. Fox' in person - in the form of a 'fursuit' of the character.
Bringing along my 35MM camera, I took a number of pictures of Richard and Joe. (Oddly enough, I'd thought I had a picture of me taken with the duo, but apparently that wasn't the case.) This 'photo-op' of Richard (left) and Joe (inside his 'T.H.E. Fox' costume) - which I'm sharing with you - was the best one of the bunch.
Since that moment, I've kept in touch with both of them via E-mail and 'snail-mail'. Richard still lives in the NYC area, occasionally attending all sorts of events in his 'Rapid T. Rabbit' outfit; Joe left the East Coast for California, where he'd made a name for himself now as an author - with the success of his first book "Collinsfort Village" (a modern-day fantasy about an anthropomorphic duo - a bear and a griffin - sharing the same lodgings in a rural Colorado town).
I'll have a few more 'photo-ops' to show off, as this current 'sweeps month' (September, 2012) continues...
One person I'd made friends with was Richard Concepcion of Queens, NY, who had a public access cable television program ("The Rapid T. Rabbit Show") - which still has quite a following after all these years. Recorded in upper Manhattan, Concepcion would portray the lapine character, either as a hand puppet (or 'pawpet', as they're called nowadays) or in a full-sized costume (or 'fursuit'). I even got to visit the studio and watched the taping of one such episode of the show.
One day, in late 1991, Richard invited me over to his apartment in Queens, where I got to meet another 'fursuiter' by the name of Joe Ekaitis, who (I would later find out) is both a 'fursuiter' and an anthroartist. At the time, he had an Internet site with images of his main character 'T.H.E. Fox' (The T.H.E. standing for 'Thaddeus Horatio Everhart'). So, when I got the chance of meeting Joe in Queens, I also got to meet 'T.H.E. Fox' in person - in the form of a 'fursuit' of the character.
Bringing along my 35MM camera, I took a number of pictures of Richard and Joe. (Oddly enough, I'd thought I had a picture of me taken with the duo, but apparently that wasn't the case.) This 'photo-op' of Richard (left) and Joe (inside his 'T.H.E. Fox' costume) - which I'm sharing with you - was the best one of the bunch.
Since that moment, I've kept in touch with both of them via E-mail and 'snail-mail'. Richard still lives in the NYC area, occasionally attending all sorts of events in his 'Rapid T. Rabbit' outfit; Joe left the East Coast for California, where he'd made a name for himself now as an author - with the success of his first book "Collinsfort Village" (a modern-day fantasy about an anthropomorphic duo - a bear and a griffin - sharing the same lodgings in a rural Colorado town).
I'll have a few more 'photo-ops' to show off, as this current 'sweeps month' (September, 2012) continues...
Category Photography / Human
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 500 x 707px
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