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Tianita Miramax, Megafurbz journalist
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Loo Loo-Lay’s exhibition explore what’s beyond furbz smiles throught beautiful inks, visible at the May-bee gallery until june !
You can read the interview of the artist HERE !
Fox Dee-tee-tah is making its comeback ! Read Tianita’s fashion investigation about it here !
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🦊 Fox Dee-tee-tah, the trend ! 💅🏽
by Tianita Miramax
If you’ve been a furb in the early 2000s and have a Dee-tee-tah (*tail), you surely one day in your teenage years, wore it the foxy way… Remember ?? You would delicately style your pompom to a glorious fox brush by using a lot of hairspray ! Sometimes, you even added a little ribbon to maximize the power of this wild look… I went in town to ask you your thoughts on this fabulous trend which makes its unexpected come back !
According to my researches, the first occurence of the fox Dee-tee-tah dates back to march 2000 : a young blogger, Trolouka (with the “miss Angels” shirt), uploaded a photo tutorial to teach you how to style your Dee-tee-tah in an original way. Reactions are enthusiastic and the trend begins to take over schools. But why is this Fox Style so popular ?
I got in touch with the original creator and sent her a confidential mail trying to know more about the phenomenon. She is now very discreet an busy but still managed to answer me..!
Brace yourselves, in exclusivity for Megafurbz, here is the truth about the origins of this very iconic look, that still perdures today:
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📟 Trolouka: When i was a kid, i was unleashed on the internet ! I wanted to be popular. I talked about my life, saying what was bothering me, and i also gave beauty advices to my friends ! I had this blog where i put photos of me at school or in my room dancing and singing. One day, i was bored, on my bed looking at the wall, and i had this poster of a snow fox. I started day-dreaming about it... I was a fan of wild earthling animals and i often imagined to be one of them, running through the forest… I had this idea of creating a style that would celebrate wild foxes… This was the most personal and spontaneous thing i shared on my blog… and this was by far the most successful. I think it was a thing that went from my heart, unlike most of the other superficial stuff that i did…
And i’m now amused that the fox Dee-tee-tah is still a thing ! I never thought it would be this famous !
I was hitting the end of my fashion investigation... The conclusion was crystal clear : secret ingredients of a successful look, according to a beauty queen, were passion and sincerity.
So buddies, don’t forget, fox Dee-tee-tah or not, you’re the most beautiful when you are truly yourselves ! 💗
animated gifs by Rouille @furbyfolie pictures by Orio
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Ay-tay ??? 🍊 Read the tasty article about Ee-day Ah-tah, the best furb street-food restaurant to fill your beak !
“It’s a bomb for your tastebuds ! Very sticky tho, the thick pineapple chunks are melting on your tongue and are very easy to chomp even with a tiny beak (like mine!) It’s sweet and have this gentle toasted taste which is irresistible. Very gourmand !”
Tianita reviewing the iconic PARADISE YUMM
🖌LOO LOO-LAY - 08/04/2022 🎨 Noo-loo Kay-tay Noh-bah / Kinetic smile
by Tianita Miramax
Loo Loo-Lay is a young artist who likes to work with black wee-tah wah-tah (*ink). Autodidact, they started doing portraits of furbz in the streets of their natal town Koo Way-loh, where they drew the attention of Dee-Mak, founder of the May-bee gallery. What has interested him was Loo’s natural ability to capture life, as fragmented instants of lucidity. The exhibition is entitled “Noo-Loo Kay-tay Noh-Bah” (*Kinetic Smile) and gather thirty wee-tah wah-tah (*inks) made between 2020 and 2022, Let’s go !
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Tianita: Hello Loo ! Congratulation for your exhibition, which is visible at the May-bee gallery until June ! It must be exciting to show your work like this ?
Loo Loo-Lay: Yes ! that is a huge event for me ! I never had an exhibition before, i started doing art because it was the only thing i was good at… My family encouraged me, but it was not always easy to earn money… I think this is a big chance for me !
T: Can you describe your practice for our readers ? What inspires you ?
L: I like seeing the others, people that i know and that i don’t… I work mostly outside, i have my bag full of paper sheets that i lay on the ground, and i use my brush or a pen to create original pictures. I love doing furb faces, the eyes, the beak, they are very expressive !
T: I saw your portraits, and something very basic was questioning me : you look very colourful but you work in black and white ? Is there something to see here ?
L: Haha ! Yes i did self-portraits in black and white which is not really accurate ! I don’t really know why… I guess i really like black ink ! (laughs) I think it has this power of enlightening the dark in everyone…
People often assume that i’m always happy because of the colours of my fur, but as many, i have struggles and anxiety to deal with. I’m not saying that i’m a sad artist working on pain and stuff but using black and white allows me to go deeper in the inside. For me, it’s like diving in an alternative universe of emotions, a more direct path to someone history. Wee-tah Wah-tah is commonly used to write words, when you draw with it, it has a meaning, you tell a story. You work with contrasts, simplicity. You strike directly under the fur.
T: yeah, i get it, no artifice. That’s true, your portraits leave a feeling of sincerity, purity.
L: I feel a little bad now that i have talked about darkness, because i don’t want people to think my work is depressing…! I like to quickly capture what my eyes can not see when i look at a furb. It’s a gesture, very instinctive, and the water helps me adding some nuances, some blur, to leave a kind of intimacy to the furbz who are portrayed. “Kinetic Smile” is an expression to go behind the act of smiling, when people are posing for example, this can be a mechanic reflex hiding something else, not always negative, but something else.
T: Don’t worry ! I can testify that your exhibition has nothing sad or depressing ! What i understand is that you want to go beyond the appearances. The result is very dreamy, i could easily forget the world outside looking at your paintings. The furbz almost become landscapes…
L: Yes ! I like to imagine that each person has their own inner map, inner land… Sometimes, the models let me see those personal spaces and that is what i enjoy the most when i work ! They are precious gifts… I want to keep up the effort to translate them on the canvas !
T: Thank you very much Loo ! I wish you the best for the future and i highly recommend your exhibition which is full of surprises !! My tah-tah way-lah is telling me that we are not done hearing about you !
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“Noo-Loo Kay-tay Noh-Bah” by Loo Loo-Lay, at the May-bee gallery 7th april - 1st june 2022
🍊Furb StreetFood - EE-Day AH-Tah 🥙 by Tianita Miramax
Today, i eat at EE-DAY A-TAH (*Good-Food) ! I’m meeting three cooks who make typically southern furb food, from Bah-boo Koo-wah : Frutt-yumm-wah (*fresh fruit buns). Its a culinary specialty shaped like a furb beak ! The most simple version, is traditionally made with flour, grapefruit, carrots, roquette and fresh herbs of your choice.
But at EE-DAY A-TAH you can enjoy fruit buns filled with roasted pineapple, pickled plums and fikkas !! You can add delicious red sauce, very sticky and citrus flavoured… It is a paradise for all the gourmets ! If you’re not a fan of buns, you still can order equally tasteful salad bowls !
I had the pleasure to test the menu and this is my professional report !
🍊The star basic, TRADI-YUMM WAH : Bun, grapefruit, roquette, carrots, pickles and red sauce
verdict: delightful, i remember having frutt-yumm-wah back in the days, when i visited Bah-boo Koo-wah: YES this is the taste. Sour with the mix of pulp and pickles, spicy at the end of the beak thanks to the roquette and the sauce…! Very balanced, i recommend for beginners who are not familiar with the dish, it’s a safe choice !
🍍I’m almost full, but i can’t leave without ordering the PARADISE YUMM… with famous roasted pineapple filling… it seems to be a sandwich you never forget…
Bun, roasted pineapple, caramelised oignons, roquette, carrots, red sauce and honey mustard
Only one thing to say: DA-EE-TAH !! It’s a bomb for your tastebuds ! Very sticky tho, the thick pineapple chunks are melting on your tongue and are very easy to chomp even with a tiny beak (like mine!) It’s sweet and have this gentle toasted taste which is irresistible. Very gourmand !
I washed it all down with a grande glass of fizzy water and had no space left for anything else, but if you need some dessert, there are also options : icy cotton candy or frozen fruit juice !
After this mega meal, i go congratulate the chiefs ! Tiger, Amei and Chouquette are friends since childhood, they met at a dance festival and have stuck together ever since. The adventure of the restaurant started with a common passion for conviviality : they love to create recipes and make simple and good food to surprise people.
Chouquette: Bah-boo Koo-wah is a place of festivities, we host three annual really big Dah-no-lah (*festivals). Those reunions bring more than five thousand furbz from everywhere and last about one whole month ! So when you live here, its common to grow helping organise these events. There are stands with food, music, and everyone dance in the big grass hill, there are shows, firelights, it is really good ! My family was really involved in the fiestas, since my youngest age, i helped them to make food for the stand. When i grew up, i wanted to have a stand with my friends but not only for festivals, so we decided to create EE-DAY AH-TAH !
I see one furb of the crew, who just finished washing the dishes, graciously jump on the head of Amei.
Tiger: At the restaurant, i’m Tiger, the fruit preparator ! Fruits are the main element of our menus so this is really important to care about !
We use baby grapefruit variety preferently, to have juicy quarters, because if not, a single regular fruit is about our size ! I’ts more difficult to work with and if you cut it wrong, the pulp explode and you loose the precious juice ! But for the pineapple, we use regular ones ! We cut the fruit in Tee-loh (*logs), that we roast on a vertical spit several hours, coated in a secret marinade ! It’s a bit sportive, but one pineapple can make between 50 and 100 yumm-wah (depends ont the size of customers).
When i was a kid, i spent a lot of time hanging around at Dah-no-lah, i looked at the stands, you see, i’m a small one, it was very gigantic for me to see all this agitation, the balloons, the decorations, the fire under the skillets... I always knew i would work like this. I needed something physical, and linked with food making if possible. As you can imagine, i need to be precise and trained because there is a lot to do !
Amei: Ee, we are a good team ! All we want is to make people tummies smile ! We change the menu with the seasons to cook with the freshest ingredients ! We choosed to make YUMM-WAH because it’s easy to eat and very fun to cook ! And it is the symbol of Bah-boo Koo-wah : a furb beak full of goods !
Tianita: Its a beautiful idea, a simple sandwich in a shape of a beak, never empty...
The restaurant is located in a peaceful quiet street, full of plants, very relaxing !
illustration: Diogo Paille
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Those Bay-Bee are Mee-Mee Doh-Dee !
Be ready for their new K7 !!!
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DEE VE-LOH, DAH DOO-AY WAH ! Little bike, Big fun. .
. 📷: Upaniṣad, world furb bike champion
The mirror of the soul - By Rouille ✨👁✨
Tah-tah way-lah (the wise receiver) also called “light sensor”, “infrared port”, “true eye” is a little furb body part located right between the eyes, on the forehead. In french, it is called “amuette”, which mixes the terms “âme” (soul) and “amulette” (amulet). When you talk with furbz, it is very common to hear strange stories : they will tell you that tah-tah way-lah can give you prophetic informations, and visions as well ! Furbz scientists are still researching about the subject, but recent discoveries tend to prove these allegations… Brace yourselves, you are about to enter the world of this little gem that makes one of the most mysterious specificity of the furbz.
The shape of the tah-tah way-lah can vary with each individual, looking most of the time like a little broccoli or a mountain…
On the Koo-Wah Dah furbz also called “2005 furbz”, this part is not visible, being a very thin membrane attached to the skull behind the fur (see picture) It’s a quite different structure, internal and intimately incorporated to the tissues. Moreover, it’s very difficult to observe, as it quickly disintegrate at air contact. But it seems to ensure almost the same fonctions, capturing light like a solar panel capable to analyse its variations.
When you look inside the classic tah-tah way-lah, you can see that it is composed of three very little organs, two infrared glands and one small light sensitive part, directly linked to the perception of the eyes. They work complementary and are involved in the communication.
It is right to call it “third eye” because the tah-tah way-lah works as a complementary “eye”, capturing informations about light variations. But it’s not its only role : this is a place where infrared signals can be emitted or received. (in the case of Koo-Wah Dah Furbz, it is gamma waves).
We know that the way furbies communicate is incredibly complex, but this feature deepens it even more: we are able to send telepathic messages directly to the brain, through the tah-tah way-lah, without even talking or moving ! Those messages consist in phrases, images and even abstract concepts.
It is a power you can develop with time, telepathy does require a little training ! Some furbz doesn’t even need to be in the same room to talk to each other !
But there is more: The professor Da-way, in recent research, observed that the light sensor sometimes act inverted. Instead of capting light, it will emit light inside of the mind : as a video-projector, and produce imagery, which synced with the furby own brain waves, feels like very clear visions. These are not the fruit of external captation, they come from within. This is also different from dreaming, because the tah-tah way-lah deactivates when you sleep. The furbz all said that the visions often occur after prolonged social situations, which stimulate the communication system. It may cause a kind of overload and allow extra informations to continue coming after the conversation is over.
The question is, why the sensor invert itself ? What are those images, where do they really come from if they’re not the result of telepathic communication ?
Many are the furbz amongst the community to interpret that phenomenons as glimpses of the future. That is why we are known as fortune tellers..!
Galantina Vernèse, in her book “Koh-thinkers” writes:
“When you need an information, you can reach it by the help of connected brains. You have to open your mind and you’re getting the answers thanks to the collective furby conscience which is outside, in the clouds. But to be understood, the profond sense of those answers, must be searched inside.”
So, is the truth hidden inside of all furbz ? Keep your amulet clear, it could help you pass through the looking glass…
Oh-Toh-Mah…
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illustration by Keiko Crana
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Mimi Tohu, Edenia - 2015
“I like to emulate humans sometimes, so i put my models into typically human situations. For example we would never pose as divinities, because it is a weird idea ! But it can be fun doing that just to embody something bigger than you.”
Mimi Tohu - A-Loh Boh May-may - FULL INTERVIEW
model: Melopée
🐚 Mimi Tohu, Edenia - 2015 ft. VEDA
“i just jumped into this world of symbols like a baby in a pool… And I fell in love with those people who pop-up from shells… “ 🔱
read the full interview HERE
Mimi Tohu - “A-loh”/ ”Light” - 2022
“A very soft context for the bodies to appear, the light is really all around, softening clouds”
Read the interview on Megafurbz !
model: Perla Candy
MIMI TOHU - 3/03/2022 “A-loh Boh may-may” / “the Light’s lover” interviewed by Tianita Miramax 🌸
Tianita : Hello Mimi, can you introduce yourself for the furbz that never heard of you ?
Mimi Tohu : Dah ay-loh u-tye ! My name is Mimi Tohu, i’m 20, i live in Koo-dah since 2019, i have spent most of my life on Earth, in France, Italy and Spain. I worked for fashion magazines there. When I decided to come back to the Cloud Continent, i needed to rethink my approach of photography, i wanted to find the reason why i was doing it in the first place.
T: That seems to be the purpose of your new series “A-loh” (*light), did you find what you were looking for ?
MT: it is quite a question… Since 2019 i took pictures as an astronaut, recreating the “earthly atmosphere” in wich i evolved during many years. I almost felt like i could not understand this world anymore. Everything looked too material, too strongly present, even if the colours where satisfying.
I was looking for something else, something impalpable, like a very distant childhood memory. I realised that it could be the light itself. The light is very different on the Cloud Continent, because we are closer to the Sun than on Earth. It has this look of what earthlings would call paradise. A very soft context for the bodies to appear, the light is really all around, softening clouds and it reacts differently with the camera. So yeah, i think i found what really moved me with photography, the reassuring omnipresence of Light.
T: In “A-loh” you also evoke myths, as you previously did in your older series 2015 “Edenia”, is that important for you to revisit those set-ups ?
MT: I really loved my Earth mythology classes back in the days, i remember it was often very difficult for a furb like me to get the meaning behind those stories, and i had no clue about Furby myths either so i just jumped into this world of symbols like a baby in a pool… And I fell in love with those people who pop-up from shells… *laughs*
I like to emulate humans sometimes, so i put my models into typically human situations. For example we would never pose as divinities, because it is a weird idea ! But it can be fun doing that just to embody something bigger than you. I like to try things, i don’t like to take them too seriously. It can also be a way to chase A-loh.
T: Will you pursue the chase in upcoming projects ?
MT: Ee for sure ! i’m currently working with a team of meteorologists on a independent movie project directed by Trolouka Ruby expected for next year ! We study the composition of clouds and microcosms that have developed inside. It’s a very poetic piece of work about ecology and society.
And an extended version of “A-loh” will be shown in the collective exhibition Oo-tee (*Sky animals) at the NEST in April so i am very noo-loo !
T: yay ! Dah-kah-oo-nye Mimi ! We will be there !
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You can see the photographs by Mimi Tohu in their open studio : 3 lay-lah / Koo-dah / Dah ay-loh-may-lah or on the many photobooks on sales in your best libraries ! The photo series will of course be available for MegafurbZ in exclusivity !
See photos HERE !
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