Hello and welcome to the new and improved Mikepaws website! … Here you will find my blog and thoughts, in a space where they are free from the social media algorithms and I can write as many sentences or paragraphs as I require. You will also find my old posts from my Wordpress site when this URL was hosting that as well. A new feature of this improved website is a photo gallery where I can…
This is the beginning of 2018, often at these times we reflect and also post our hopes for the upcoming year ahead. A few years ago I made a resolution to start writing more and made this blogging site to be place I could publish those written pieces for myself and anyone else I wanted to show it to. There has been a distinct lack of activity on here for over a year now. I blame this partly on…
I made a New Year's Resolution a few years ago that I would maintain a blog and try to write in it regularly for my own sanity. 2016 was an interesting year in that was plenty that I could have written about, but at times it seemed to smack you so hard that I felt I didn't have time to sit and let it process or find the reliable sources that I wanted to construct an argument or make a solid case…
On Saturday 22nd August 2015, an aircraft crashed at Shoreham Airshow. This is my eyewitness account from the day. It was a hot, bright sunny day in summer. The wind was calm and the skies were a lovely deep blue with very few clouds, perfect flying conditions. Such good weather was the reason myself and my housemate had decided only 48 hours earlier to attend the Shoreham Airshow. There were…
Tomorrow the Government will release its Green Paper on the future of the BBC, here I want to write why we should keep it strong and independent. The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded on the principals to “inform, educate and entertain”, in October 1922. Since its early days it has pushed forward the mediums of radio, television and developed new technology, blazing a trail…
I was a big fan of the Jurassic Park films growing up, so how does the new one compare? … Jurassic World – Colin Trevorrow … Science Fiction/Adventure … Released: 11th June, 2015 … … Christmas 1996, that was my first time watching Jurassic Park, I don’t think I watched all of it, I was too frightened to sit through the whole film, especially when the Velociraptors turn up. However, it left…
Does the Furry Fandom take photography for granted? Here’s some thoughts and personal photo tips! I was sat at the LondonFurs monthly meet-up the other week, on a table with GreenReaper who is associated with a variety of furry websites, in particular, two art sites, InkBunny and Weasyl. We were discussing in particular Weasyl as I had recently setup an account there as a backup incase…
Tomorrow, Britain goes to the polls. The 2015 General Election is under-way and the outcome is far from certain. … If the polls are accurate, then we are facing the likely possibility of a Hung Parliament – when no party has a majority. When this happened in the 2010 General Election, it was the first time since 1974 so it could be dismissed as a one-off. Now it could be about to become a…
President John F. Kennedy famously said about choosing to go into space that it was a goal worth accomplishing, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” In the last six months we have been reminded that the road to space remains fraught with danger and that its still not anything routine. The loss of the Virgin Galactic test flight, SpaceShip Two, reminds us all that disaster and…
Last week, a friend on Twitter asked a question, “Who does the copyright on a fursuit photo actually belong to?” … As a professional photographer, and member of the furry fandom, I thought that it was a perfect opportunity to do some research on the law, the copyright of photographs and rights of models/subjects. So here I present to you my thoughts and opinions on photography rights…
Today in the United States is the Midterms, all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested; along with 38 state and territorial governorships, 46 state legislatures (except Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia). The naming of the elections as “midterm” makes it seem like is have less weight…
After a successful crowd funding campaign, the virtual face motion-capture software Facerig has gone on beta release on Steam for around £10. Although not exclusively a furry piece of kit, the inclusion of at least 5 different anthro and feral animal avatars to pick and customise from at the base level is an interesting note in how the fandom’s presence is beginning to move out of the…
Come Find Fox playing at Abbey Road in his latest album. … Come Find Me – Fox Amoore … Orchestral/New Age … Released: 4th July, 2014 … The IndyGoGo campaign made sure that this album was very well anticipated and pretty hyped before it even got recorded. Now the musicians have played, the technicians have mixed and mastered and the listeners get to play it to their hearts content. But is it…
What should furries do about mass media? So there is yet another trash television show trying to get members of the furry fandom to appear and be frowned on by those who uphold what they perceive to be normal in society. “Dr Phil” is a US talk show hosted by Phil McGraw, a clinical psychologist, tries to help people with ‘life strategies’. Personally I don’t think…
A recent governement defeat reminds me of what I value in our unelected upper house. … This is an subject which I had not been planning to write about quite so soon, however I found a friend gathering opinions on Twitter in the aftermath of a government defeat on a controversial bill currently going through Parliament. … The bill in question was the ‘Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing…
Beginning the New Year with a New Outlook. … So I have waved goodbye to Livejournal, I blamed the falling numbers of people using the site as a reason that I didn’t write in it any more. But that isn’t the entire story. When I read some of the last posts I wrote to Livejournal in 2011, I feel that I was a much more open and honest. There were links to videos and why I wanted to share them, news…
Wolfgun voyages across a universe of sounds in his new album ‘Lights’. Lights – Wolfgun … Electronic/Drum & Bass … Released: 29th December, 2013 … I shall admit that I don’t listen to much electronic music, a lot of it seems very bland and harsh to my ears. However there are some exceptions that I feel really show what is possible with the medium. Wolfgun is…
Welcome to Paws for Thought, a message from Mikepaws … Hello and welcome to my personal website, where I can place my thoughts, feelings and write about the subjects that interest me. For a few years I have been suppressing a lot of my opinions and I feel this has been bad for my personality. I do love the quick-fire of Twitter and other social sites but I wasn’t comfortable with using it as a…
