Furilla’s get frisky at SUBverts tea party
i spoke to Tory Orzeck the guy behind the crazy yeti like creature called Furilla and a few of them jetted over to join us for a SUBvert tea part.
part one
Angel: Were you interested in art as a child?
Tory Orzeck: When I was 13 I suffered this pretty bad head injury while riding a 3 wheel ATV and I lost all ability to speak and to move the left side of my body…It was pretty bleak. As my body healed, it seemed something had snapped and I could draw amazingly well whereas I had no interest in art before. The speech and the motor control came back by the time I was 16.It was almost unbelievable. In fact it was completely unbelievable. Seriously my whole family seems to have the crude innate ability to draw. So I always cartooned but never took art classes. I was more science oriented.
A: So tell me a bit about how you got into the design industry?, did you study first?
TO: My plan post high school was to be a medical doctor but I sucked in chemistry and was subject to the weed out at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I then thought rather than being accepted at some third world med school, I would fall back on my {so called} ability to draw. I transferred to an Architecture school and the summer before I went in, I talked to a bunch of depressed architects in Southern California. Fortunately I fell upon an Industrial Designer by accident. This guy, Jon Kreiger, worked for Designworks {now BMW Designworks} showed me all this amazing stuff. He told me where to go and I transferred to California State Long Beach. The two profs that ran the program were fantastic and I guess I did pretty well. It also does not hurt that I am a product of Television from the 70’s and 80’s so I am very commercial product oriented.
A: Why in particular did you decide to go down the design route?
TO: I needed to get off the street! I’m Kidding,
AD: Who or what inspires your work?
TO: Women are usually the inspiration… Seriously, usually good design solutions start with a good problem and then wanting to solve the problem in a contextually unique way.
A: What were you working on prior to the birth of the Furillas?
TO: I was working at Nike and then at FUSE doing footwear,furniture and other products.
A: Explain the history of the Furilla?
TO: Heres the true but fake story:
The first Furilla{Ernesto} was just an In Vitro Fertilization that was accidentally contaminated and then inserted and born to his birth mother, a very wealthy investor in the fertility doctor’s clinic where she was a patient. The First Furilla, was just a slight genetic mutation: extreme hirsutism, cycloptic, super flexibility, super tough and strong and fire retardant fur. Furilla was switched at birth with a “Normal” baby girl{born simultaneously in an adjacent OR}and delivered to a low income but happy farm family who understood Furilla’s differences but did not see him as anything bad just unique. They were also used to the hard knocks in life.
The Rich family went home with the perfect little girl {birth daughter of the farm family}. The Fertility Doctor is also a leading genetic scientist. His identical twin brother is also a genetic scientist and a cosmetic surgeon. He now offers a genetic therapy based cure for baldness. This brother is in it for money as his OB/GYN brother is more altruistic. They share the same laboratory at their state of the art facility
The OB/GYN brother decides he will follow this furry one eyed kid throughout his life to figure out what went wrong and see how unique he really is. It turns out Ernesto affectionately nicknamed “Furilla” is virtually fire proof and indestructible. His monocular vision{no depth perception} makes him fearless of heights as well.
Soon the Dr’ s. figure out what happened. A fly landed on one of the genetic hair therapy patients sample and then threw upon the IVF samples of the wealthy couple….
The calm before the storm (in a teacup).
part two next week, discover what happens when the furilla’s have too much sugar and what female wants some furilla love action?
For more information about Furilla and Tory Orzeck
www.furilla.com
www.myspace.com/furilla
