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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Some people cannot stand graffiti, yet I've come to appreciate this urban art. It's like they are invisible warriors, changing the landscapes of cities yet nobody notices them working. One morning you have a blank wall, the next morning... art.

One thing I have never witnessed is Bear grafitti... not until I came across the work of the Spanish artist Yotto Bano. He calls his stuff (fittingly) 'Graffiti & Urban Bear Art', and I had mentioned his work in the past here on PlanetBears (articles), and he even quoted something I said on his blog site UrsuLaLaLa (the quote...? That his work is so cute you just want to hug the walls he's painted).

Since then, he has created a great profile on TubeBear, adding photos of his work and also a hot banner (every time I see the banner show up, it's like someone graffitied my site... it's very cool). He has also contributed a piece of his work to the ongoing TubeBear art gallery (for more on this - click here and find out how you can add your work to the gallery as well). Lastly, I notice he has some great looking jackets with his work sewn on the back... not sure if those are up for sale or not, you'll need to contact him for that.

Lastly - you gotta love this graffitied belly, and click here to see an incredible piece he created on the wall. I kept it at very high resolution just so you can see the amount of detail that went into it. I love UrsuLaLaLa.

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Mike Dreyden is one busy Cub (blog - MySpace - articles - profile). He began his tour on the weekend and he's booked up until the holiday seasons. Right now he's touring New York City however he's happy to say that he just might make his way over to Toronto and Montreal.

On November 22nd he will be appearing and performing with Eric Rhodes at the 'Cruising / Bootleg' party. Then on the 26th, you can find him at Daniel Nardicio's Horn-O-Plenty. There will be no jock straps, shorts, undies, nada, nothing.

Also, keep an eye out for his latest films - 'Fire Island Cruising 9' and 'Big Bang'. He promises you'll be shooting tons of loads with him while watching these flicks. To contact Mike, send him an email.

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Friday, October 31, 2008

Have you ever seen a real good looking Bearish man wearing pink and then you say to yourself - hot damn, that man is hot... in pink...! I believe not everyone can wear pink and have it work, but the men that can pull fuchsia off always seem to be the best looking Bears.

This brings me to the following blog ~ Bear Delights. Now don't let this pinkish webpage fool ya into thinking this isn't a man's man site. This site is all fur, muscle and Bear... it's actually quite hardcore in relation to the other Blogspot's I've come across. Most of the men on this site are these tight MuscleBear kind of guys ~ something like Colt and ButchBear, so if that's your thing, then check it out. And remember - real men wear pink!

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Friday, October 17, 2008

The other day (article) PlanetBears informed you that Got Fur? is once again running their 'Best of the Bears' ballot - in which you guys first nominate then later vote for who you think are Best of the Bears. Well this year they added a new category "Bear of the Year": "This is the Bear or Cub who gives time and again to the Bear and GLBT communities, proudly presents the Bear lifestyle, and embodies the spirit of the ursine brotherhood". Check out their blog for more info.

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Monday, October 6, 2008

Have you been following the Bear Degeneration chronicles...? I hope so because we are now up to #10 in the English series. See it here - page #1 - page #2 - page #3 - page #4. In this episode, Doctor Puzak meets up with DarkDom, the evil police captain of Fatterland. If he doesn't like you, you're forked.

Bear Degeneration is the creation of the ever so cute and huggable Italian artist Perdido (website - profile). He has been creating these cartoons in Italian and he's up to episode #17 (and his drawing technique have been changing and improving all the while). So if you're good in Italian, then check out this page from his Blog. When I saw the cartoons, I was seriously curious what the story was about, so I have been helping Perdido with translating the toon over into English, and so far we've done 10.

If you haven't read a single one of these, it's best you start at the beginning - episode #1 - episode #2 - episode #3 - episode #4 - episode #5 - episode #6 - episode #7 - episode #8 - episode #9... and for today's update - episode #10.

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Friday, October 3, 2008

Here's a new drawing from the Spanish Bear Yotto Bano (article). You can see more of his 'Graffiti & Urban Bear Art' over at one of the coolest Bear blog names yet - it's called UrsaLaLaLa. Yotto even sent in a 'TubeBear drawing' awhile back, and so can you. Check out this article which will explain on how you can have your artwork displayed on TubeBear as well. You don't even need a profile nor a website... just the art.

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
It was just last week that we got some news from Mike Dreyden (blog - MySpace - article) and he is sending in some more news about his latest movie he's starring in. It's entitled '264 in Progress' and it's made for Smoking Hunks (whoever said it's best to have a smoke after sex never visited this site... it's all about having a smoke 'during' sex). The video will be up soon, and it co-stars Manuel Torres (website). Here are some pics from the shoot (pic #1 - pic #2 - pic #3 - pic #4 - pic #5).

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

His name is Mike Dreyden (photo) and he's one hot muscle Bear Cub from Brooklyn, New York. Tight 'n hairy in all the right places. Mike has a super fun blog page which he has been updating regularly, and he has a MySpace page as well. He states that his own website will be going live by the holidays so make sure to keep an eye out for that.

He is a dancer, performer, a go-go BearBoy for the band Nekked who perform, and he is also becoming an international porn star with roles in movies like House of Leather (by Bear Omnimedia - cover - articles) and All Out Assault (by Knight Stick Films). I just read on his blog that his reign as King Stink of the pits is coming to an end soon and that he'll be passing his crown to the next winner... that's gotta be something to see... I know a lot of guys really dig pits so try and make it to Uncle Ming's in NYC if you can.

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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Once again, put on your space boots and take a flight with the hot cartooned gang that make up Bear Degeneration. This time artist Perdido (website - profile) and I (Forrest - profile) have translated episode #9. In the last episode, we left corporal Slutton to deal with Reverend Beef and his fanatics, and now we follow Doctor Puzuk as he transports onto a strange planet that forks its inhabitants...

Check Episode #9 here: page #1 - page #2 - page #3 - page #4. This cartoon is more than great, and Perdido has already done 17 issues which you can see on his Blog however they are all in Italian, and we are working hard on translating them to English. The only setback is that we have not put all of the English episodes onto one page, so you're gonna have to do a bit of digging to get caught up, but I did my best to make it easy as possible to follow this most excellent adventure. If you've never heard about it before, then start from the beginning - episode #1 - episode #2 - episode #3 - episode #4 - episode #5 - episode #6 - episode #7 - episode #8 - and for today's update - episode #9.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

There are 112 million blog sites on the net supposedly, and there's more and more Bear blog sites, and quite a few of them are photo blogs. There's one I came across, and I believe I mentioned it before in an article (check archives for blogs), but I'm pretty sure I didn't give it its own article. If you like lycra or spandex, then make sure to check out the Bears and Dads Spandex Fun site. aka 'see how far you can stretch that material'.

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Sunday, August 3, 2008

The truly cute Perdido (website - blog - profile) has added another episode to his Bear Degeneration. This is episode #17. Now this is just to let you know this cartoon is in Italian, however we (Perdido and I) have been working on Englishifyizing (I made that up) his cartoons... in other words, we've been translating them, and I am working on #9 (coming soon). To see the others in English, click here (they are in the archives pages, so start from the bottom of the page)

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Monday, June 9, 2008

Once again it's time to visit the husky brothers of the Deep Dark Hole as their misadventures continue in Bear Degeneration, a cartoon drawn by the Italian hunk Perdido (website - Blog (Italian) - TubeBear profile which he recently updated his photo gallery).

We are now at episode #8 in the 'English' version of Bear Degeneration. Check it out here: page #1 - page #2 - page #3 - page #4 ~ however if you're fluent in Italian, you can click here and you'll be able to read up to #16. Perdido and I (Forrest - TubeBear profile) have been translating his work over to English... we'll catch up soon.

Instead of spoiling the story, why not read the series yourself. Follow these links and you'll be caught up too: episode #1 - episode #2 - episode #3 - episode #4 - episode #5 - episode #6 - episode #7 - and here's today's episode once again - episode #8.

Read more here.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

I got word from Cubs Out Loud (COL) that they are hoping you guys will start sending them news 'n stuff their way. From COL: "we're looking for Bears, Cubs, Otters, Chasers, et al. from around the US, hell, the world to blog on COL about the Bear Community. COL Bloggers who also have a podcast can post their podcast on the site as well. I really do want to make this the One Stop Bear Shop for the entire Bear community. All you have to do is email me (Jeffery)".

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

His name is Chris Knight Capone and at a very young age, he discovered something most of us would be too freaked out to even imagine. He found out that he is the grandson of the notorious gangster Al Capone, also known as Scarface.

Chris has written a book about all this called Son of Scarface: A Memoir by the Grandson of Al Capone. Check out the great website SonofScarface.com for more info about the book, a bio of the author and some scrapbook photos. You can get to know Chris a little better by checking out his blog, and here's a great article about Son of Scarface on Wikipedia. From Wiki: "Son of Scarface is the true story of a 13-year-old who discovers at his own elusive father’s funeral that his grandfather was none other than the infamous Chicago gangster, Al Capone (aka Scarface).

The autobiography by Chris W. Knight (Chris Knight Capone) chronicles the author's broken childhood as he tries to uncover family secrets that his abusive mother violently forbids him and his sister from pursuing. In this stranger-than-fiction story, Chris Knight Capone is not allowed to have any friends or to even to leave the family compound as a child.

Only as an adult is Chris Knight Capone able to uncover the dark secrets of his grandfather Al Capone and of his own father, William Knight, a man who had a fraudulent birth certificate and lived under an assumed identity.

After years of meticulous research, the help of private investigators, genealogical research, and a courage to face the truth of his own identity, Chris Knight Capone confirmed that he was in fact the offspring of the world’s most notorious gangster".

And... what's completely interesting about all this is that this very handsome and debonair Chris Knight is a Bear. He will be at Bear Trek this upcoming weekend (May 1st thru the 4th), an even held by the Bear Albany group of New York. Chris will be presenting a one hour Q&A session about his book and his life as the grandson of Al Capone and he will be selling autographed copies of his book at Bear Trek and donating the proceeds to the Bear Life Fund to benefit charity.

Here are some pics of Chris. I repeat... very handsome. He definitely inherited Al Capone's looks.

Read more here.

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Friday, March 14, 2008

This week we would really like to feature Tom aka OHBeary ~ here's his TubeBear profile. Now Tom is this super cute Bear from Ohio and, as his profile states, he's a "Partnered chubby hairy techie Bear living in NE Ohio looking for pals and chat buddies".

Tom runs a blog called Jokie's Cafe which is a "collection of unimportant, mostly uninteresting and irreverent, thoughts, opinions, rants and raves on his life, our culture and society". Now Tom is also a chef, and he runs this excellent site called Bearly Edible which is "a recipe and entertaining blog for Bears and their admirers. We invite members of our community to stop by and visit. We have recipes, food and entertaining tips and other topics of interest to the domestic Bear in all of us.

If you are a Bear cook, we would love to have you join our panel of Bear bloggers. You can submit your favorite recipes and cooking news to the blog. We also host a weekly recipe challenge where cooks are encouraged to submit a recipe. So, join this new Bear community and widen your recipe repertoire at the same time. You can also subscribe to us by FeedBurner".

Lastly, Tom has also been recently featured on Chewin' The Fat, a newsletter run by The Complete Bear. Check out the interview here.

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

His name is Roger Baptist and he's part of a band called Rummelsnuff. From their site they state that their music is considered Elektropunk which to me sounds a bit like a watered down version of Rammstein - but that is not necessarily a bad thing. Actually, you cannot but help keep your eyes on this massive 'bodybuilder gone Bear' singer. It's all in German and I can't understand a word but from I read he sings about power in the wrestling ring, the men on the high seas and the Schwerstarbeitern underground (which I have no clue what it is since the translator didn't do it's job). You gotta check out his videos, especially if you dig seeing a huge guy in the ring butt naked, in the shower, or from I can tell coming alive from a fountain to become an executive. I love his videos, this guy is great and his band is a ton of fun (they also have a MySpace page).

Thanks to Perdido for the word-up about this big brute singer (website - blog - Bear Degeneration - articles - TubeBear profile).

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I cannot say for 100% but I'm like 99.99% sure that the following sites are all maintained by the same guy, and if that's the case, then he sure does have a passion for Chubby Bearish men. They are all blog sites, all of them with a ton of pics, so click and enjoy the eye candy - Chubby Bears - Big Bulge Club - Chub Sports - Chubs in Politics - Chub Daddies - Fat Actors and Chub Visage. There's others, just follow the links on the right hand side.