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Thursday, November 6, 2008

[members - click here] I've been an FOGB for years... what... you don't know what an FOGB is...? It stands for 'Fan of GagBear'... which I've been. Actually, I've been an FOGB for well over a decade... drooling over GagBears' photos and videos that he's produced.

His name is Jim Grrowl yet he's better known as GagBear. I first came across his pictures online back in '95 or so on this wicked site called 'Big Ad'. Now Big Ad was first a magazine with ads from Bears and Chubs, and they were one of the very 1st companies to try and market their product online. They had a great site which they updated every so often with photos of cute guys that were in their mag. Unfortunately the site, as well as the magazine, went defunct (reasons unknown), however I did copy/pasted those photos of Jim GagBear and kept them on my hard drive because these pics were some of the very first 'Bear bondage' photos that I saw on the net.

It wasn't until '02 (7 years later) when I came across more of Jim GagBear's material. This time he was working with a couple of guys who made a few videos under the company name 'Realman Kink Video'. I contacted Jim for the 1st time and he turned out to be one of the nicest and coolest guys I spoke to online. I asked him if he was the same guy from the Big Ad spread, and he said he was, and that's when my admiration for this man began.

At the time I was working on Bear-Pics so I helped him promote their videos, yet the company didn't last long and they ceased production. However GagBear went on to a spread in Beef Mag, photo shoots for BearBound, and lately he has been making his own videos which you can purchase from his site BD Bear Studios.

GagBear has sent me many photos which I used to have up on Bear-Pics and I decided to bring them over to the PlanetBears Galleries. You can see them here (there's just over 200 photos). On a personal note: I've always hoped to work with him on a photo shoot, and we were supposed to meet up at one point in '02, however his schedule didn't permit it, and since he's 3000 miles away... well... sometimes things aren't all that easy to organize. For now, I'll just have to admire GagBear like the rest of y'all; thru the pics he puts out on the net, and thank Heaven for that.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

"Once upon a time a Bear wanted a special t-shirt... and Fat 'n Furry was born. This site was designed with Beary blokes in mind..." and so begins the Beary Fairy tale of this new site which designs t-shirts for Bearish men. Right now, the shop isn't open up quite yet. They are working on making sure everything is in order. However if you want to know when the site is open for business, email them and they'll let you know.

Make sure to check out Britain's Next Bear Model episode #3 and you'll see a 'Fat 'n Furry' photo shoot with the 8 contestants. On their main page you'll see the shots taken from that shoot. I'm hoping they will post more pics of those cute UK models and in a bit more higher resolution.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Back in '05, I had the chance to spend a day with René, aka OneDragon (galleries - profile). In that day we were able to take an incredible amount of photos, and our first stop was in a field near a sand mining factory. This field is pretty huge with a man-made lake next to it. There's also a lot of abandoned areas here and there, as well as a bunch of industrial junk lying around.

Anyhow, the photos from that shoot turned out great, so much so that one of the pictures inspired artist Brent D. Marr (website - articles - profile) to draw one of the photos - here is Brent's drawing and here is the original picture.

It put a huge smile on my face to see that image, and so I decided to make this photo set public. You can see all 69 images here. They are 800x600 and members can see the 1600x1200 ones (including all the other OneDragon photos).

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Friday, June 27, 2008

[PlanetBears/bear-pics members - click here] When I first opened up TubeBear, I started featuring profiles of guys I thought were cute and had great photos. One of the very first gents I featured was a cute guy with the nickname Thudd (profile). His name is Ben Goodman and he lives in Ottawa with his equally cute partner Furry Fukker (profile)... fast forward a couple of months and Ben emails me, saying he's coming up my way for the opening of a new Bear bar in Montreal and would be interested in doing a photo shoot. It had been a long time since I've done a shoot (I mean, I've been taking photos of Roger for a year straight, but nobody else)... so let me rephrase, it's been awhile since I did a shoot with someone other than my partner, but luckily Ben and I worked really well, he's truly photogenic, cute, and we all had a good time over the weekend, especially when Ben's partner would crack jokes.

There's 2 sets added today in the Galleries - the 1st set is of Ben in Old Montreal, and the 2nd set is him in the hot tub at the Big Boys Guesthouse. I have one more set of photos left which I will add next week - it's him in (and out) of his business suit chatting on his webcam and laptop, and there's also Video that goes along with it.

I'm hoping that we'll all get together soon to repeat the process because I truly enjoyed working with Ben. He's a real good looking Bear, has a gentle smile, soft brown eyes, and all the while is funny, witty, energetic and intelligent.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

This upcoming weekend, I will be getting together with Ben aka Thudd (TubeBear profile) for a photo session. We were also going to do some video, but I broke 2 digital cameras in the past week, but I still have one left so if I don't break that on by Friday, we might be able to get some video in.

Ben lives in Canada's capital city of Ottawa, which is just a couple of hours away from my hometown of Montreal. He is coming here with his partner Furry Fukker (profile) to check out the opening of a new Bear bar called Woof Bistro. I saw Ben's profile awhile back and featured him in the news. A short while later he contacted me requesting to have some photos taken for the Gallery section, and as I mentioned, we might also do a few short clips for the Video area. You might even see Ben online if you check out the LiveStreaming page every now and then as well.

Should be a lot of fun this weekend and I'll have the photos up by next week. To see a few pics of Ben (photos not taken by me), click here.

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