We added 3 new galleries to BearFoot. You can see them here (they are entitled 'Bakin' 'n Restin'' - 'On The Dock' and 'Muddy Beach'). Now the only way to see these galleries is you need to have a PlanetBears membership. BearFoot is not open yet and only PlanetBears members can see the gallery section. We are still working on BearFoot and we're hoping to have it open soon.

So in order to see the BearFoot galleries, you will need a temporary username and password. For more info on how to get one, check out this article and watch the video.

Click here to enlarge that thumbnail of Roger (profile) and his muddy feet. BearFoot right now has over 1000 photos of Roger, many of them focusing on his legs and feet.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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...

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).

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.

[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.

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.

Here are a couple of short video clips for you guys to check out. Members click here and then click here. They are videos of James (gallery) when he came to do a shoot with me. I was going through my files and realized that I didn't add these 2 videos, so here ya go. James is this super cute rugby playing Bear with big blue eyes and he stayed with me one weekend and the product was some really great pictures of this handsome young man. James had done several photo shoots for BearBound prior to working with me, so it was only fitting that we do a bondage set, and these videos compliment that set very well. I discovered he has a wonderful laugh when I was tickling his stocky feet.

2ndly... again going thru my files... I noticed I forgot to add some TarotBear photo sets. So what I decided I am going to do with these sets is that I will be adding them but I will also be making them public. So click here to see this public set and to see all of TarotBear's photos, click here.

For recent video/pic article updates, click here, here and here.

Awhile back I asked you guys to find a 'secret' profile that was hiding somewhere on TubeBear, and the idea was for you guys to find it (article - newsletter). I also mentioned that the hint could be found on Roger's profile page. Well the secret profile is called 'BearFoot' and you can see it here (you're going to have to join TubeBear in order to see the gallery). We are still working on the new site BearFoot... we had it actually almost ready but Roger and I decided to rework the galleries so we're redoing it, however we are more than hopeful that we will have this site up by the middle to the end of May.

Now for all those who sent in their answer (and as an aside - all those that did send it got it right) - I will be giving you guys a free month membership once BearFoot is up and running. I will email you guys your membership once we're ready. For now, you can see some of Roger's pics in his gallery page (and here's a larger image of the thumbnail... check out the BearFoot Pic of the Day section).

In TubeBear's Newsletter #3, I mentioned that Roger (photos) has a hidden gallery somewhere on TubeBear, and the idea is to find it. Can you find Roger's hidden gallery?

The gallery can be found on a profile page on TubeBear. So how to find it ~ The first thing to do is go to Roger's actual profile which is here. From there you will get a better idea what to search for (a big clue: check out the name of his new website which he will be opening up soon). Ok once you have done that, then click the search button on TubeBear and in USERNAME type in a keyword or two that you think might be the name of the hidden profile. If you find it - email it in (or use the contact form). I just might give away a small prize for those happy hunters.

PS - I've already gotten several responses already since I posted this article already in the newsletter, however continue to send in your answers and I will call out some winners by the end of the week (which means on Friday, April 8th).

Some new pics of MBACub and a new video as well (members click here)... well... they aren't really new because we took these pics and vid back in the fall of '06, however I never added them online before so I consider all this to be new.

This was the 2nd visit from the seriously cute and cuddly MBACub (TubeBear profile). He came up to Montreal for a visit and a photo shoot, and we worked on several things, one of them being the stuff you'll see in today's updates, and he also helped me work on my little ACTV project that I was working on at the time (see the clip with MBACub in it here). To see the pics, click here - it's the latest gallery on the second page (members, click here - there's over a 100 photos). You'll see some pics of MBACub in his dark suit visiting a small town, walking around, and we ended up in a cemetery, he takes his shoes off, relax, and then we get back to my place, and him still in suit, I decided to tie him up a bit on the bed and tickle him and his stocky feet. He truly has one of the best little laughs out there.

To see some previews, click here.

Here are a few gallery updates including a small video clip. Starting with the photos, I added 2 sets to Daniel's gallery page. Actually, I made 1 gallery public which you can all see here, and I made the 2nd one private for members only (click here). These pics were taken during the fall of '06. I was still in my house back then (which I sold the year later), and I remember adding a few of these pics to the old bear-pics site (the public pics) yet I never added any from those I added today in the private set in which Daniel is tied down to a bed by Eric Zoonino (galleries here and here). We also made a video however... the video I made was on an external hard drive which fell to the ground and since then I have not been able to retrieve any data. Eric made a video as well so maybe I will be able to get his copy.

The video is a short one of a Bear who is tied down and has his feet tickled (members click here to see it). There is no sound but it's still a fun little video. I will be adding some more video very soon - some newer ones from Frank - The Lost Videos series. You should see a new one by the beginning of the new week, and that's no April Fools'.

Once again, that link to see the public set of Dan's pics - click here.

I have been working on the Video section for the past couple of days here on PlanetBears, mostly cleaning up and converting video files. It's a lot of fun converting the video files to FLV files (Flash files). I'm only about halfway done and I should have the other half done by tomorrow.

However while I've been cleaning up the videos, I've also been finding video clips that I never added to the site before - not PlanetBears nor bear-pics. I found a BusBear video (it's #2 on the Video page - BusBear's gallery is here) which never saw the light of day so I've added to the site, and I found 3 Cub & Dad videos which I added as well (the videos are #4, #5, #6 - here is Cub & Dad's gallery). I'm not sure if I'll find more but if I do I will definitely add them.

Once I am done converting all the video files I will then add a Frank video (Frank's gallery). So far I posted #1, #3 and #4 so this weekend I will add #2. Check back on Saturday. I also have this small video that Frank sent me from our photo session - I remembered I made a couple of movies with his camera so he sent me the videos that came from it. Now the resolution from this video is a bit wanting, but it's still neat. I'll add this one tomorrow.

Update [Saturday, March 8th]: It's an update for the Video Update article. I could have written a whole new article, and I will write a new one soon, but it's just to tell you guys that I've been working on the video page today as well, and I am right now adding some of Frank's videos. There is a new one - it's #9 - it's grainy and it has the lowest resolution quality out of the whole bunch, but it's still a fun 5 or 6 minutes so it's worth checking out.

Anyhow, added #1 and #9 - which means I have many more to go... so patience as I edit these clips and upload them to the site.

It's been awhile since we posted any news about BearFoot, the site that will be featuring the very handsome Roger and his cute feet (Roger's TubeBear profile and his PlanetBear's gallery).

We are almost ready to open the site; we have a ton of pictures as well as videos that are already on the site which means we are fully stocked once the front doors open. Now the site does focus on Roger's feet but there's a lot of full bodied pictures as well of this extremely sweet and debonair mature Bearish man.

Something you might not know is that Roger is a professional pastry maker and baker. He is also loves computers yet he's in the learning phase (but aren't we all). Roger has been taking night courses and one of the things they have been learning is PowerPoint. He made this slideshow for BearFoot so you guys can get a little taste of what is ahead (you can download either the 2007 slideshow for PowerPoint or the 2003 version - and if you don't have PowerPoint you can always get OpenOffice which is free to download).

There's a new section on PlanetBears - it is the Bear Videos section, and it's for PlanetBears members. There's 40 short videos that we made during the 'bear-pics' days (bear-pics was the site I used to run before PlanetBears from '01 to '06 until we said bye-bye to it).

What's great about this section is that the videos can be played from your browser, just like you see the videos on YouTube... so what's even better about this is that soon we will be implementing this video-browser device to your TubeBear profile, which means that you guys will be able to add your own videos to your profile. It's all so very cool. We'll keep you informed about when we have this feature installed and ready for use on TubeBear (to see an example, go to Forrest's profile - you will see his video message - it's about halfway on the page) but for now, get all nostalgic by viewing some bear-pics videos done a few years back (and as a sidenote... with your membership you also get to see all the galleries which has something like 13,000-14,000 high resolution pics).

GimpBear (gallery) came to me wanting to do a photo shoot however he wanted to keep his identity a secret. I had already done a photoshoot with another cute guy who wanted to remain anonymous, and that was with BearX (gallery). However with BearX, he just wanted his feet photographed, but GimpBear was more interested in full body shots. So out came the mask and in no time we took a bunch of photos. Now the more we went along in our photo shoot, the more I realized the kinkier side to GimpBear. So out came the leather, the handcuffs and the rope and we tied him pretty good, including his toes. GimpBear has a great Bearish body and he's also truly cute, however sworn to secrecy his identity shall forever remain classified. Now just as a note: these pictures are a few years old however I have never added them to PlanetBears so they are new to this site. Also you will still see them all in 1600x1200 pixels just like all the other photos in the galleries. 

You need a membership in order to view these pictures, however a membership gives you access to all the galleries including all the videos.

[Members click here] Hope you are having a good weekend. This is the 3rd installment of the 'lost Frank video files'. I've explained already how these video clips were lost and then found in article #1 and article #2 so there's no need to explain all that again.

In today's update, Frank grabs deeper into his bag of goodies to produce even more interesting things that we attach to his body. You also get to see Frank in his black leather boots and harness. Frank has a really cute Bearish body and such a cute face to go with it. So members visit the Video Clips section and grab the latest video (you need a membership which also gives you access to thousands of pictures in the Gallery section). I will be adding another new video in the middle of next week - somewhere between Tuesday and Thursday, and click here to see some pics from the video clips (not the best resolution but do remember that these clips are a bit old).