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Friday, October 3, 2008
It's Friday which means there is always something new to be found over at BearBound (preview). This site is one of the very first webpages that devoted itself to seeing the cutest husky Bears being tied up in a bunch of interesting ways, with new videos and photo shoots every Friday. The site is maintained by Dart (website - profile). And look at the articles PlanetBears have written about BearBound in the past. Can you tell we dig this site? If you have a site and would like it to be mentioned here in the news, just contact us.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Click Here to see a short video that Roger (galleries - articles - profile) and I (Forrest - profile) made one summer day (click here to see a list of all the videos). We tried something a little different when it came to binding feet; we also bound Roger's toes together, as in - his big toe bound to his big toe right down to his pinky toe being bound to his other pinky toe. It was then that I realized just how flexible his cute stocky feet are.

There's no sound to this video and it's a little short - about 3 minutes or so, but it's still fun to see. Here are a few quick snapshots as well (photo #1 ~ large - small) (photo #2 ~ large - small) (photo #3 ~ large - small).

There's some unrelated bad news, but there's a bit of good news as well. The bad news is that the external harddrive that I have all my videos of Roger short circuited, actually blackening the circuits, all because I plugged in the wrong AC adapter (they all look so alike). So I brought this external HD to the computer shop, and not to get into any technical details, they are working on it. The possible bad news is that I might have to spend a lot of money to extract the data, which would suck something seriously. The good news is that I still have most of the master copies on MiniDV cassettes so if they are going to ask for a bundle to extract the data, I'll just spend a couple of days loading all the videos into another external harddrive.

So, if you need to learn something today, learn from me: Buddha Bob says use the right plug for the right box, unless you enjoy the smell of circuits frying in the morning.

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Friday, August 22, 2008

They have a great deal over at BearBound. They are having a 'double your membership sale'. From their site: "Sign up for a 3 month membership and we will give you an additional 3 months free! Or sign up for a 6 month membership and we will give you an additional 6 months free! That's 1 full year for just $59.95. Sign up for a 12 month membership and we will give you an additional 12 months free! That's 2 full years for just $99.95!".

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Friday, August 22, 2008

It's been awhile since I mentioned anything from BearKink (website - articles). I just checked in and there's new videos as well as new photos (here). They just came back from a holiday in Denmark which consisted of spending some time in a SM camp. They state on their site that they have many stories from their many sessions. And wow, is Master Vaan ever tall. Incredible.

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Friday, August 22, 2008

My buddy Teddy of ButchBear and BEAR Mag told me to check out this artist named Steven Miller (website) because ~ well ~ since Teddy knows I like Bears in bondage, he said that there's a cool little set called 'Bound' (set - photo) that Steven made. It's very interesting indeed as well as all his other sets.

There's very little about who Steve is (just a resume, no bio, no photos) which has the observer wanting to know more about whom this artist is. He does, however, have little write-ups about his sets, and here's a snippet about what he has to say about his 'Bound' set: "Bound, rope symbolizes the mental, physical and spiritual ties that bind. Materially, the subjects are bound to self, others, and inseparably the unknown. The tied ropes are constricting or loose, a representation of the various connections and disconnections between friends, lovers and strangers. Ropes around the subjects' heads act as a metaphor for how we're wrapped up inside our perceptions and simultaneously, by emphasizing yet obscuring the face, the viewer is encouraged to consider other aspects of the body". Very, very interesting.

Head on over to his site. I'm not sure why he has 555 in his domain name ~ smiller555.com ~ but it makes me think of this song by Slipknot (if you're 555 then I'm 666)... and Bears? They are Jackpot honey Heaven 777.

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Friday, August 15, 2008

Over at BearBound, you get to tie up 2 Bears for the price of 1. They are having a 'double your membership sale'. From their site: "Sign up for a 3 month membership and we will give you an additional 3 months free! Or sign up for a 6 month membership and we will give you an additional 6 months free! That's 1 full year for just $59.95. Sign up for a 12 month membership and we will give you an additional 12 months free! That's 2 full years for just $99.95!".

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Over at BearBound, you get to tie up 2 Bears for the price of 1. They are having a 'double your membership sale'. From their site: "Sign up for a 3 month membership and we will give you an additional 3 months free! Or sign up for a 6 month membership and we will give you an additional 6 months free! That's 1 full year for just $59.95. Sign up for a 12 month membership and we will give you an additional 12 months free! That's 2 full years for just $99.95!".

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Sunday, August 3, 2008
If you like a little rope play, bondage, kink and what not when you're playing with your Bearish friends, then you'll definitely dig BearBound.com (articles). It's the best site out there when it comes to Bears and Bondage. They have been running the site for many years now and they have an extensive gallery and video list, and lately they have been adding some great GagBear videos (GagBear is aka Jim Grrowl - website - articles).

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Thursday, July 3, 2008

To all those who have a membership with PlanetBears (and those who still have their membership since the bear-pics days) - please email me or use the contact form and I will give you a temporary username and password to the BearFoot Galleries which has almost a thousand photos of Roger.

Now I posted this very same article back in the middle of May (here) and I was expecting a lot of you guys to email me. However, I didn't even get the fraction of emails I was expecting... which says to me that a lot of people don't read what's on the net... and well... I know I don't read a whole hell of a lot so I guess it's understandable.

In other BearFoot news: when I wrote that article back in May, I got an email from someone who was interested in buying the domain name. Now this was not the 1st time someone wanted to buy BearFoot but this was the 1st serious offer I received... well... it turned out that it wasn't so serious after all and this guy was just leading me on... I don't think he had any intention on buying the domain name, and we negotiated for a month and even when he got his asking price, he declined, which tells me he was a scam with too much time on his hands.

So... whatever... he's a donkey and I wasted my time. The bad news is that I wasted a month when I could have been working on BearFoot. The good news is that I get to keep the BearFoot domain name.

Anyhow... back to the article... to all those who presently have a membership with PlanetBears, please email me and I will give you a password to the site. It is a temporary password but at least you will get to preview the site. But once the website is finished and we're ready to go live, the password will no longer be good.

So please - contact me... I have something good to give you... honest.

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Monday, June 23, 2008

These photos of Eric Z. (photo sets) were taken back on December '05, however they were never added to the Gallery section. It was while digging thru some files that I found them then realized they weren't on the net, so I decided to add them and you can see them here.

These pics were taken at Eric's home which he sold just recently. It was this big old house in Gatineau, much too big for Eric, so he finally got around to selling it and is now living in the Ottawa area. I don't see Eric much at all these days but we do stay in touch over the phone, and looking at these pics it reminds me of the fun we use to have at times.

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Added a few clips to the Video page. First there's a couple of Rocky (Gallery - TubeBear profile). The 2nd time Rocky and I did a shoot, he brought his guitar with him, so he sang a couple of songs and I recorded him singing. Check the videos here and here. Also, I have a couple of videos for those who like the bondage. The 1st one is all about the straight jacket, and the 2nd one is all about the stretching.

Now if you're new to PlanetBears, there's also a Gallery section. And if you want to see all the updates that have been going on, then check out the PlanetBears Update section. It'll give you the lowdown.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Digging through my archives I found that there were a couple of photo sets that I did with Steve, aka MogwaiCub (Gallery) that I didn't add to the PlanetBear's Gallery page.

These sets are old, from November '02, and I remember the little camera I used for these pictures... or most specifically... I remember I was very limited on the amount of kb space I had on the memory cards that came with the camera, and these being outdoor sets, I had to lower the resolution a little. Still, they are fun sets, and I added one online for the public - view it here - and there's a set in the members section - so members, go here (it's a bondage set in the woods).

ps - I have no clue where Steve is today. I know he wanted to go to Japan to teach English as a 2nd language, but that was 5 years ago. Steve and I worked together 2 times and he used to like to say that we need to work together 1 more time to complete the trilogy. That might be too much 'The Lord of the Rings' talking, but it would be great to see Steve today... see what he looks like.

Read more here.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Here's 2 sets of photos that I took with Mjollnir (gallery) and Eric Zoonino (gallery) that used to be on bear-pics and someone pointed it out that they remembered seeing them on the old site but not on PlanetBears. Therefor I added them (they are #5 and #6 in Mjollnir's gallery). Set #5 has Eric giving Mjollnir a shave... shaving his head, that is... and in set #6, Eric ties Mjollnir to a chair.

Once we finished the photo shoot, I looked at my digital camera and noticed I had about 2-3 minutes left in my memory slot. At the time, I was only working on photos but the camera I was using did have video so I thought - why not. It's just a short clip of the 3 of us fooling around, with the very big Bear Mjollnir of 6'4'' and easily 350 pounds tied to a chair. We discovered he's quite ticklish. This footage never made it onto bear-pics so it's the 1st time on the net. You can see it here in the Video section, and here's a few previews (here, here and here).

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

This is the final installment in the 'Frank: The Lost Videos' series. You can see it from the PlanetBears' Video page.

If you haven't been following, this is #8 in a set of mini movies Frank (gallery - TubeBear profile) and I (Forrest - TubeBear profile) made way back in '03 when we did a shoot. The pictures were added online but never the videos. Now rather than go into the whole history again about these lost videos, just follow these links and each one will fill you in to the story: Video I - Video II - Video III - Video IV - Video V - Video VI and Video VII.

In this video, Frank is tied down spread-eagled to the bed. He's blindfolded, collared, and he didn't know I was filming. There was a lot of talking however I edited out a lot of chatter (like talking about the series Six Feet Under) however I did keep some of the more interesting stuff we chatted about.

Now Frank had never been tied down before, so he was having a little time getting hard... but then we realized it wasn't because he was tied down... it's because he had to piss. Instead of untying him, I became very creative by having him piss in a plastic bottle. Seemed that Frank is 'pee shy'...

It's another fun video... altho unfortunately a little dark. Thing is - this was a new video camera for me so I was learning how to use it. While I was filming, I was also taking pictures with another digital camera. The problem was - I was basing the results of the pictures with what I was expecting the video to look like. Since the pictures were coming out bright and clear, I figured I had enough light while filming. I was wrong...

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Awhile back (article) I mentioned that Dart (TubeBear profile), the webmaster for BearBound (TubeBear 'PRO' profile - articles), has opened his own site called Dart's Domain. Since then he has been working on doing quite a few podcasts.

Check out his blog section as he's been chatting with friends within the leather realm. I've just finished listening to Part I of his chat with Cub Dan. Now Dan is super cute and you can see him tied up in all kinds of interesting ways on BearBound, but click here to see some previews (and here from a prior article).

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Friday, May 16, 2008

PlanetBears members (and those who signed up with bear-pics and still have their membership), you need to either email me (Forrest) or use the contact form as soon as possible. Why? It's because I have been working hard on BearFoot.com and I want you guys to preview it. Right now there are only photos galleries but there's 845 pictures... and I will be adding more this weekend.

So... all you have to do is email me - if you know your PlanetBears (or bear-pics) username and password, that'll be great... if not, just give me your email that you signed up with when you bought your PlanetBears membership. Once you email me that info, I will email you back a membership pass to the BearFoot galleries.

Now please note: this is just a preview for PlanetBears members. This 'BearFoot' membership password will work for awhile, but it won't last forever. Also, please do not email me if you only have a TubeBear username. TubeBear is a free site; PlanetBears is the one with the pay section.

I've been mentioning BearFoot for quite some time now (from what I can see from the archived articles, I have been mentioning the site since September '07). Now a lot has happened in both Roger's and my life since then, and I've also been working on a lot of projects (PlanetBears site, TubeBear site, a movie which is in the works, a book which is like 75% done)... all that while moonlighting on BearFoot. It might seem that I'm spreading myself a little thinly but for some reason I have many projects, so hopefully you can understand why it takes me awhile to get something done.

Anyhow - hope you guys enjoy the BearFoot preview.

Also - please note - very important - BearFoot will be a paysite, but we are still working on the pay section. It's not available yet so you cannot buy a BearFoot membership. Right now all you can do is buy a PlanetBears membership which will give you access to the PlanetBears galleries and videos, and for a short while the BearFoot galleries - but only for a short while. Once we have the BearFoot pay section up and available, I will be giving super rebates to prior bear-pics and PlanetBears members.

PS - The site is called 'BearFoot - Roger's Adventures' and Roger and I have been trying to write a little about our lives since we met, something so as to accompany the photos. Our adventures are nothing like Indiana Jones, but they are ours and we're sharing. And if this is your 1st time here, check out Roger's TubeBear profile as well as my profile (Bob Forrest).

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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Guess who is coming back to Montreal? It's the super cute Frank from New Jersey - the one that looks like he should belong on the Sopranos set however once you get to know him, he's the biggest teddy bear kind of guy around.

Frank came to Montreal back in April of 2003 so it's gonna be 5 years since I've seen him. However, we have been talking on the phone and now online using TubeBear's webcam chat room. Actually, Frank has started to stream live so make sure to check out the LiveStreaming page and you just might catch him on cam.

We plan on doing a photo and video shoot so it's going to be great to have some new material of Frank. He was very popular back in the day and he's done nothing more than gotten cuter over the years. He's aging very well.

Make sure to check out his PlanetBears' gallery as well as his TubeBear profile. And check out the PlanetBears Video page (click here for more descriptions about the 'Lost Video Files'). And lastly, click here to see some previews from the set of pics we worked on back in '03 - and click here for some more previews.

Read more here.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

[Members click here - become a member - previews here] If you've ever visited the bear-pics website I used to run before I closed it down, you just might recall of a shoot I had with Orlando aka Eito. Orlando was very popular and had a lot of online fans. He came up to my place from New York in September 2002 for a weekend and we had a great time, we took a lot of pics and I have a lot of fond memories of getting to know this handsome man. Once the weekend was over, we promised to keep in touch a lot and we even spoke about doing another shoot in the future. However... once he left, we really didn't keep in touch at all. I sent him the occasional email seeing how he was doing and how life was going, and his emails to me were just as scarce. The last email I got from him was March 2003 and he wrote "Hello Forrest, I never forget about you. Here for you" and with it he attached a set of photos he took so I could add to the site.

Exactly 3 years after that shoot we had, in September 2005, I get an email from a friend of his saying that Orlando is very sick and that he's in the hospital. I emailed this friend back asking if there was anyway to contact Orlando. I got a reply with a phone number. Unfortunately, I never called him, and 20 days after his friend initially emailed me, well he sent me another email, this time saying that Orlando had passed away. He was 42 years old.

At the time, I posted an article about Orlando on BearFoot (which at the time was a message board for guys into Bear feet), and holy smokes did I ever get a ton of email replies of guys sending in their condolences. It was really only then that I realized just how many people that Orlando had touched. He was truly a fantasy Bear for many many men.

Also at the time, I was torn - do I take his pics down out of respect or do I keep them up online...? I asked a few friends about this and they all said the same thing: Orlando is cute, he took great pics, he's turned on a lot of men so let him keep turning them on. What they said made sense, so I kept Orlando's pics alive.

However, I have a ton of pics Orlando sent me, and with his permission he told me to post these online. I kind of forgot about all of them (around 240 pics), but going through my archives I came across them and I decided to post these as well. So head on over to Orlando's gallery and check out the last 4 photo sets.

It's still sad to think that he's gone. Just like his pics, he was truly all what a Bear should be - nice on the outside and nice on the inside.

Click here to see some previews - there's some pics from the sets I added today plus there's a few pics that Orlando sent of when he was a younger Bear... and there's 3 quick pics of Orlando in handcuffs. Wish there was more but that's all that I got from him.

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Friday, May 2, 2008

Once again, I'm going thru my bear-pics folders and came across these little gems. The guy is named Q and I'm pretty sure he's 100% straight however he was more than cool in sharing his photos with us.

Q really digs bondage, so much so that he even enjoys self-bondage, as this set of pictures will prove that. Here's the photos of Q showing us how to tie one's self up. Let's just hope he doesn't fasten his binds too tight or he might be stuck there for awhile. ps - I love his socks... also I added a few 'full bondage' pics... these ones Q had some help being tied up.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

I can remember the evening I was sitting down at a bar with the prez of the now defunct Bears of Montreal... it was late November '98... and I decided then and there that I wanted to run a news site for Bears ~ however I didn't know the first thing about HTML. Well the prez referred me to another Bears of Montreal member, one who was running their site at the time. This is how I met François, aka Pugsley.

We started working together in Dec '98 on a site known as BearPress. Well, to make a long story short, we were just not compatible when it came to work. Pugsley was busy with a lot of projects, so we never got around to actually building that site together. In March,  we parted ways and I picked up a couple of HTML books and built BearPress on my own.

Altho we weren't able to work together, we were able to remain friends over the years. And in 2005, Pugsley was working on many different Bearish projects, one of them being the 1st ever Montreal Bear run. We took this opportunity to model him in and out of his t-shirts, and these photos are the result. I never posted these pics before... and for the life of me I don't know why, but never know matter, here they are. They are no nudes... and again I'm not sure why we didn't do any nudes because François has done nudes with others... but there are some light bondage pics so that kind of makes up for the lack of nudity.

What is Pugsley up to these days? To be honest, I'm not really sure. He was running several Bear sites but none of them are up at the present time. I'm sure he's working on something tho - François was never one to idle his time away.

For a preview - click here, and members go here to see the sets of photos in the gallery section.

Read more here.