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3 October...2018!
What's twelve years between friends (or Funhouse fans)? Yes, the Funhouse was offline for way, way
too long while I attended to other projects, but bowing to popular
demand the Funhouse has returned! Yes, quite a few of the site's links
are broken; restoration will be an ongoing project. (Please feel free
to contact me via the above Email link if you come across any broken
links I may have overlooked.
FYI, almost all of the art here dates back to the
first decade of this new-fangled century/millennium we find outselves
now emeshed in; my more recent art - transformation and otherwise - can
be found on
my furaffinity page
13
August 2006
Well, here's the one TF picture
I've managed to do since I've gotten back from AnthroCon - enjoy, because
it'll probably be a while until I get around to the next one - sorry!
24
June 2006
Back from Pittsburgh and AnthroCon - whatta blast! Met with an assortment
of TF folks, including a long-overdue face-to-face with Drake Duck and his
buddy Randy Morpher (who showed up all dodo-ed up; photograph evidence of
his avian antics coming soon). This year's jam is on the page you just came
from (last year's can now be found on the Miscellania
page) and here's a who's who for your benefit:
A bunch of other TF folks were there too who unfortunately didn't get a shot at the jam. Next year I'm going to bring several pages & have a bunch of mini-jams instead of one biggie.
Haven't been doing much drawing lately - lots of real-life stuff keeping me busy, as always. I HAVE been dabbling in Photomorphing & enjoying it immensely. Here's the pic I put on the signs announcing our TF jam:
Pretty scaly, huh? It's the icon I'm currently using on the TF Board, also. I have 1 or 2 photomorphs already in the Funhouse and the next new pavilion I'm planning will have those & several others gathered together in a single location - hopefully sooner rather than later.
Speaking
of new pavilions & updates, I've decided from here on to skip listing
the specific pictures I'm adding on this page - just too many links &
cross-references. Starting with the next update, that info will only
be indicated by a 
or 
icon next
to the pavilion on the attractions page - you'll have to
go to the pavilion itself to track down the new pix. This page will henceforth
be reserved for gabble gabble & such. Oh, and no more counter updates
- or have I mentioned that already?
11
February 2006
Two (count 'em, one and two)
brand new pictures in Pig Out! - with
a very interesting story behind them.
The pictures were done as a trade with GrandStorm and feature his evil DreamMaster character. I found myself really getting into the idea and putting a lot more work into them than I normally would, considering the very little amount of time I have for TF stuff these days.
When I was done, I immediately uploaded them to TransFur as I normally do with my TF art. TransFur is the best place for the most people to see new TF art the quickest. Within seconds, however, my pictures were taken out of the New Additions gallery and banished to limbo of 'Sketches and Fragments' where no one would ever see them.
Some correspondence with ShadowChaser followed, and I discovered he's now enforcing very strict 'quality standards' for Transfur. I'm not making any claims for my art being better than it is - I'm the 1st to admit my shortcomings in the talent department. However, I believe these pictures were my best TF art in a long time. I was hurt and offended by this deletion and the denial of letting people see and judge my pictures for themselves.
I asked ShadowChaser to delete my entire archive from TransFur and he obliged. I also posted our correspondence on the TF Board, which led to a vigorous discussion there about SC's classification policies. This discussion seems to have led to some changes on TransFur that evidently allow people to view recent additions no matter how they're classified. I'm glad that my action triggered those changes, and I'm grateful for the support I got from people on the TF Board during this little tempest. However, from here on & until further notice, the Funhouse will be the only place to see my art.
14
January 2006
Happy New Year, TF fans! No big update, just a few additions to Real
World (?) Transformation.
If anyone's curious about why the Funhouse's URL is switching from www.circes.us to www.circesfunhouse.com, well, it's a long story... the short version is there are unforseen complications involved with holding onto the old URL that make it far simpler to simply ditch it and start anew. Sorry for any confusion. Hmm, maybe I should start with a new counter, too...
8
December 2005
Had to add some concept art from the
1996 Pinocchio live-action feature sent to me by a Funhouse fan.
(Wish they had done the TF like this in the movie!) By the way, anyone desiring
to see a cornucopia of Pinocchio donkeys should go to either Chica
or Drake Duck's
Pinoke pages.
14
November 2005
Talk about synergy; Kintaro's
Saurina story has inspired a Funhouse fan
to provide a sizzling pic to accompany
the tale of growing tails. Couldn't wait to post this one.
Oh, and as for the Funhouse counter: someone must've dropped a neutron bomb on it, because for the last week or so it's read a (truly) unbelievable 2,082,812,590 (sure, sure...); until I can figure out what's going on here, I'm not going to bother posting the count for the duration.
8
November 2005
A great guest story from Kintaro
premiering in both the Bog of Delights and As
Seen By Others (or you can just click on the link right here): "Saurina’s
Close-Up, Or How I Learned to Love the Bog." This story is so good
it couldn't wait for a larger update. As you'll discover, Saurina's snake
buddy - who's gone unnamed all this time - is actually known to his friends
as... well, read the story and find out. (You'll also discover he can perform
a very nice - or two - TF without Saurina's help, by the way.)
Tonight's count: 163,329 - up 823 in two days. Yes, the Funhouse is rocking again!
6
November 2005
A few more recent pieces added on: A new pig-ture in Pig
Out! and a quickie con (FurFright '05) sketch in Miscellania.
And the update: 162,506.
5
November 2005 - Late Afternoon
I suddenly realized an entire Funhouse pavilion had somehow vanished
at some point in the past! I checked the files & all the images &
the pavilion's html page were intact, but somehow the listing for The
Dragon's Kiss must've been inadvertently removed from the Directory
of Attractions. That grievous error is hereby corrected. My apologies
to all the dragon fanciers among the Funhouse enthusiasts. (And I don't remember
for sure, but I'm pretty sure I drew these pictures before that lady dragon
showed up in Shrek.)
It also looks like the Funhouse counter has made a return at 162,317; go figure...
5
November 2005
At last, after months of not being able to update, then a few weeks of the
Funhouse mysteriously vanishing, my password works AND the Funhouse is back
online. (Now if only someone can tell me why the counter was replaced with
a dummy permanently reading '1' after the real one was up to something over
166,600, if memory serves me correctly...)
Well, what's new? Bigger, better and clearer pictures of Mr. Airwick, The long-promised Acupuncture Clinic and a few new pix in That's Transformation, including (just in time for the movie) restored links to those Narnia TF pictures. There's a bunch more stuff backed up in the pipeline (sounds like I need a laxative, doesn't it?), so as the rest of my life permits I'll be a little bit more active here again from here on. In the meantime you can always visit Transfur where I've been posting images while the Funhouse was inaccessible.
Just a little more info on the TF Jam still gracing the Funhouse entrance: this past July at AnthroCon in Philadelphia, an incredible number of TF artists were in the same place at the same time. We found a big, unused table at the end of a hallway where we all went to work. A few people squeezed in at the last second - next year I'm bringing a bigger piece of paper - 8.5x11 just won't do! I should sit down and do one of those outline keys to who did what, but frankly I've forgotten who half the folks are. I may have some notes around here, but it's already 4 months ago...
27
September 2005
Finally got a password puzzle solved, so here I am back online. Been posting
my pics onto Transfur for the last few months. Hopefully as time goes by I'll
be moving that stuff over here. In the meantime, enjoy the TF Jam from this
past July's AnthroCon in Philadelphia - and if you're at Furfright in Hartford
CT, don't miss the TF panel!
29
April 2005
Yet more new stuff in As Seen By Others and
Real World(?) Transformation; plus finally, a
long-overdue peek at last year's AnthroCon TF
Party; meanwhile, in one day the count has gone up to 147,048.
28
April 2005
Some miscellaneous updating in As Seen By Others,
Real World(?) Transformation and That's
Transformation! As a time-saving measure (for me, that is), I'm no longer
linking to new items from this page. Sorry, you'll just have to go directly
to those pages - or to the Directory of Attractions
- to see what's new. And tonight's count:
146,928.
17
April 2005
Just to let you know I'm not dead, here are two porcine
commissions I did recently for a Funhouse fan. (Did I mention I'm now
taking commissions?). More new stuff in the pipeline, too - please be patient!
The count: 145,663.
2
February 2005
Is this
better? Two of those photomorphs I mentioned, one in The
Camels' Tent and the other in Mr. Airwick's Perfume
Garden. Tonight's count: 137,722.
30
January 2005
Hey, what's
six months or so between friends? What can I tell you, real life has been
a b***ch and half lately. Plus I've been working on some other creative projects
that unfortunately take precedence over the Funhouse. (Yes, it's true, there
are other things in my life besides the Funhouse...)
Just to let you know I'm not dead, here's a couple of additions to the front page: a cartoon gag I've been working on forever, and a self portrait taken after a visit to the Dessert Parlour. I've been playing a bit with photomorphing as of late; look for more of those along with a new sequence (& some other goodies) next time I have a chance to do a real update (which hopefully will be sooner than 6 months from now!)
Today's count: 137,147
31
July 2004
Oliver,
I took your advice to heart & fixed those missing pix in Getting to be
a Rabbit; in fact, they look even better now than when I first posted them.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the HTML page containing the lyrics to
the You're Getting to be a Rabbit With Me song; restoring that link will have
to wait a while.
Meanwhile, there appears to be something wrong with the counter at the moment. Usually there's a significant jump after an update, but it's gone up a mere 2 since last night (!) to 123,528. Go figure...
30
July 2004
Yes, YES,
YES!!! Anthrocon 2004 was one of the best experiences
of my life! I opened up the Funhouse to the con & hopefully made a few
new converts. (Not to mention meeting a bunch of regular Funhouse visitors
for the first time ("You're Comus?!") The experience -
and the art I created and collected over the weekeknd - has its own, brand
new page - enjoy!
Plus, new stuff in As Seen By Others, including a pair of pix from Beast Boy and a skunk TF story from Drake Duck, plus a cool new Lion pic in guess where. Whew, I'm pooped; been meaning since I got back from A-con to do this fershlugginer update. Let's wrap it up with the latest tally: 123,526.
folks really a sequence, but a mini-mess of new pictures in an old favorite, Ride the Roo-Go-Round! Not much time to chat tonight, so I'll leave you with
25
June 2004
Not really
a sequence, but a mini-mess of new pictures in an old favorite, Ride
the Roo-Go-Round! Not much time to chat tonight, so I'll leave you with
the count as of this moment: 120,379.
3
June 2004
A small
update this time around, including some changes to The
Circe Gallery, an intriguing new item in Real
World (?) Transformation and a new addition or two to The
Funhouse - As Seen by Others: a most excellent TF
tale by Oliver, and the debut
of a talented fellow who goes by the name of Provolvere.
Today's count: 117,329
27
May 2004
A whole
new pavilion, with a twist: The Circe Gallery,
devoted to images of the goddess - not just by myself or Funhouse fans, but
by artists throughout the centuries! Check it out!
This morning's count: 116,368.
19
May 2004
Less than
a week & already another update! No new artwork from yours truly
this time, but a whole mess of stuff from the Fans of the Funhouse
in As Seen by Others, along with quite a few
additional items in That's Transformation!
Personally, I think the piece de resistance of this update is Elwood's
(as usual) drop-dead fantastic coloring job
on one of my Big House pictures. (This picture
makes me look like I'm actually a halfway decent artist!) And this morning's
count: 115,202.
13
May 2004
Hey, are
we on a roll or what? Making up for MONTHS of inactivity & the Funhouse
going into hibernation for a while there. It looks like the Funhouse is now
99.9% open. (Let me know ifyou hit any busted links, folks.) While restoring
Eala Dubh's bull transformation sequence, I came across
some new pix of his he was kind enough
to create for me a while back I never got around to posting - until now.
And tonight's count, after only 2 days at our new place of biz-niz: 114,158!
And the
12
May 2004
Well, it
looks like I'm having a wee spot o' trouble getting all of the Funhouse up
& running smoothly. Bear (or bull or bunny, as you prefer) with us until
all the bugs are worked out (sorry, vertebrates only here at the Funhouse).
Since last night, I've enriched 'That's Transformation!'
with additional additions in the (brand new!) 'High
Culture' section as well as a 'super' new addition to 'Comics',
the latter courtesy of Funhouse superfan Oliver!
Anyway, fully online or not, since opening the doors at TF Central a mere 24 hour or so ago, the counter has already moved up to 113,772.
11
May 2004
Hello and
welcome to the Funhouse's new home here on TF Central - thanx, Blackburn!
Celebrating the move with two, count 'em, two brand spanking(well, actually
no s&m here, sorry folks)-new pavilions: The
Dragon's Kiss (a long-overdue and justly-deserved reward to 'Loathsome
Dragon' for capturing the Funhouse counter landing on the magic 100K threshold)
and Circe's
Physical Therapy Clinic, inspired by a true-life experience experienced
by yours truly!
As icing on the cake, how about a mess of not-new but definitely improved
ursine TF images now on display in the Bear In Mind
pavilion, or a couple of new kids' books
in That's Transformation! ?
As for that counter, it looks as if it picked up where it left off when we signed off at Transfur, at the 113,367 mark. And away we go!
31
January 2004 - 2nd update
Well, it's
cold out today, so here's a new and improved version
of those frame captures... and while we're in an asinine frame of mind,
a long-overdue poster for 'Pleasure Island Products'
(This one has been sitting in the archive for years) by the one and
only Bob Stein in As
Seen By Others. (It's also in the DonkeyDope
Pavilion, but don't tell anyone.) And today's updated count: 107,583.
31
January 2004 - 1st update
Premiering
today in That's Transformation: my first attempt
at using my computer for frame captures off
the DVD drive; they look a little small and dark, but what the hey... today's
count: 107,508.
28
December 2003
Just got
the new picture gracing the Funhouse entrance
from the fabulous Elwood.
(Now we know which pavilion Mr. 100,000 chose to enter!) Couldn't wait, had
to post it ASAP. Enjoy it folks, & thank you Mr. E! (Don't forget to visit
his superb Raccoon Page,
too!)
Just updated this update Monday morning the 29th; the count right now: 101,784.
20
December 2003 (a few hours later)
Here's
the wrap-up of today's festivities: The long-delayed conclusion to The
Big House. The count at this late hour: 100,199.
I'm tired - goodnight!
20
December 2003
Oh happy
day...
Captured at 11:22am in
a time zone yet to be determined - thank you 'Loathsome Dragon'! So it seems
Honesty Counters lays another digit
on you when you cross the 100,000 threshold; thanks to you guys too! Oh, and
by the way, anyone in the mood for a taste of Bunny
Elixir?
Come back a little later tonight for the Big House's big wrap up (still undergoing a few final tweaks). And as of 7:56pm Eastern US time, that little ol' counter now reads 100,000 plus another 138. Thank you one and all for taking the Funhouse to your heart!
18
December 2003
Now counting
down the last 1,000...
Here's something that couldn't wait: a Christmas TF Story from Funhouse Fan 'Arcticwlf,' now up in As Seen By Others just in time for Chanukah. And today's count: 99,165.
17
December 2003
Just to
tantalize everyone, 2 more pictures for The Big
House. And a big fat tease (nothing to do with the Big House, actually):
The brand new Bunny Elixir pavilion is almost ready
to open to the public -- in fact, I think opening day will be the day the
counter hits the magic number! And speaking about magic numbers, in just the
past two days the counter has lurched upwards by some 740
visitors to 98,784. See you real soon!
15
December 2003
Okay, now
it's a race against time...
I had hoped to add a bunch of stuff in time for visitor number 100,000 -- but the counter has been zooming up as of late. It seems as though twice as many people visit the Funhouse these days as before, both on an 'average' day, and after I update. So 100K will probably hit before I have a chance to add everything I wanted to. So to continue the celebration even before the big number hits, here's some long-overdue additions to The Big House, a new picture for Lion Taming While-U-Wait, and, while we're on the subject of the Big Cats, more of Jesse Guiher's tiger pix in As Seen By Others; and if you can't wait for the next, brand-new pavilion, here's a sneak peak at -- Bunny Elixir!
And the count as of this morning: 98,041; 100,000, here we come!
8
December 2003
Just noticed
that ol' counter on the front door is rapidly approaching the 100,000
mark (will another digit magically appear? will it revert to zero when the
day arrives? I don't have a clue) and figured I begin celebrating by unleashing
some of the art 'n items I've been saving up. Check out Miscellania
... In A While - Crocodile! ... That's
Transformation! ... Pig Out! ... and Grin
and Bear It! (Sorry, but I'm getting too lazy to put direct links here
to the new items individually like I used to.) Plenty more where all this
came from, too - stay tuned!
And tonight's count: 96,005(or just 3,9950 to go...)
29
October 2003
Don't even
ask; don't even ask...
But I'll tell you anyway. To be brief: fixing up my residence... 2 part-time jobs plus occasional freelance work on top of that... looking for full-time work... then throw in a few other creative projects -- & something has to give. In this case it was, for the last five (!) months, the Funhouse. I've been telling people there was a lot of stuff backing up in the pipeline & here's a bit of it: new goodies in As Seen By Others and even a picture by yers trooly in Miscellania. I'd love to stay & chat, but I've got lots - and lots - to get around to. See ya!
Oops, almost forgot the count: 91,225. (Getting close to the next turn of the odometer, aren't we?)
5
June 2003
Hey, like
the new image gracing the Funhouse entrance? I sure did - that's why I put
it there! It's the handiwork of the breathtakingly talented Lucius Appaloosius,
one of several new images that today
joins his other terrific work in
As See By Others. Like Elwood's
superb 'Babe' take-off, every now and then a picture
so perfect comes along from a Funhouse fan that it deserves to grace the entrance
for a spell. Hats off to you, Lucius Appaloosuis!
Let's move on, because it's a big update today:
