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Thursday, May 14, 2009

French artist Guy Thomas (website - articles - profile) is informing us of his new exhibition which will be held at the Eagle Paris from May 20th thru August 30th. From Guy: "it will be a great pleasure to show you my latest artworks. Great sizes, more colors, drawings and feelings. Of course, the drawings are mostly about Bears & Love!". Make sure to check his site to see all of his excellent artwork.

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Christophe Jannin (articles - profile) has sent in another highly charged Bearish drawing, one that is filled with vivid colours sprinkled with symbolism. Christophe has been recently dwelling within both the celestial realm as well as the abysmal, and in this drawing, he challenges both Heaven and Hell at the same time.

From Christophe: "2009 is starting with a blasphemic drawing. I know that I am not going to make good friends with the Christian religious communities. But I don't have to offer any explanation to anybody! Here's 'Lucifer & Gabriel'. With this drawing I am showing the thin borderline between good and evil, and even how they co-exist. sometimes the difference between good and evil is a simple point of view".

Click here to see this excellent drawing in its full glory. To learn more about the semiotics that have gone into this drawing, check out Chritophe's blog (it's in French yet stick it into Google's translator, it does a really good job). And... as I always mention ~ Christophe is as cute as the Bears he pens. Here's hoping we'll see more photos of this cute French artist soon.

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

French artist Christophe Jannin (blog - articles - profile) is wishing us a 'bonne et heureuse année pleine de lumière et de paix' which translates to a 'happy new year filled with light and peace". Now, while we wait for Christophe's new site to be up and running, you can take a sneak preview of what's to come with his 7.5 version. And lastly, click here to see the full 2009 image.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Artist Christophe Jannin (website - articles - profile), has been dwelling quite a bit in the Heaven's as well in the Hell's with his latest sets of exquisitely drawn Bear pieces. The last time we mentioned Christophe's work, he had finished his ArchAngel triptych; a set of heroic and mightiest angels who look over the meek while eating the powerful... yet now he has gone to the dark side with his latest drawings of Faust (drawing) and Mephisto (drawing).

The following is from Christophe. It's all about Faust, yet to read about Mephisto, check out his blog (in French): "Here comes 'Faust' ~ this doctor who wanted to have his youth back and a sexual life which he really missed during all his life, made an agreement with Mephisto, the Devil in person. He has been damned for that! In this drawing, which is strongly darker than the 3 others I did before (the ArchAngels), the decorative frame is important because it enhances the symbolism. Faust is standing up on a profile view, wearing black leather and a long red cloak. The leather clothes (chaps, jock strap, braces, vest) are a reminder of the exaggerated sexuality, the red of the cloak evokes the flames in hell, and you can see some crowns of stars embroidered saying that the damnation is not coming from the human kind. In the back, toads with red eyes are crawling from the bottom, Hell. They are the symbol of absolute evil. In the decorative frame they are present too, as a crown, with their tadpoles. There are also apple tree branches, 'malus' in Latin, 'evil' in English. On the top, some pohutukawa flowers reminding with their red colour the symbol of Hell and a hint about the country where I am living: New Zealand".

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008

First things first - French artist Guy Thomas (profile) has a new look to his website, it's great, easy to navigate and you get to see all of his most excellent Bearish artwork. As he states in his biography: "I've never stopped drawing what I love most: big, strong, full bodies, hairy with rough or smiling bearded faces. This is my way of thanking Mother Nature for all the grace and pleasure she brings us with Bears".

Now for the news: Guy has a new exhibition at the Station B in Lyon, France. It begins on November 22nd and will run right thru until January 18th. Looks like a great place for a showing.

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Here are the recent photos of Alain, aka BearMontreal (profile). As I mentioned in the preview, BearMontreal is this 6'2'' dark and handsome Bear, born in Europe and has been in Canada for over a decade. He's trilingual (English, French and Italian) and he is of Italian descent.

He is a friend of Roger's (gallery - profile), and while chatting on TubeBear, BearMontreal wanted to have some photos of him taken. He mentioned me (Forrest - profile) and that I took pictures, so off we went into downtown Montreal for an impromptu photo shoot. It was already late so we were only able to get one set of photos in, however Alain stated he would really like a set of pics taken of him in the shower. Altho it's not been scheduled yet, we will be getting together in the near future to fulfill this shower scene.

For some previews, click here - preview #1 (small - large) - preview #2 (small - large) - preview #3 (small - large) - preview #4 (small - large).

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

This is just a quick note to mention that I will soon be updating the Gallery as well as the Video section. First off, in the gallery section, I will be adding BearMontreal's pictures in a couple of days. He is one seriously tall, dark and handsome Bearish man with a European French accent, however he also speaks English and yet... he's of Italian descent... there's just all kinds of possibilities there. Make sure to message him.

Also, in the video section, I am working on the 'Ben's Hotel' video, starring Ben Goodman (gallery - profilearticles). It's taken me a bit longer than I expected simply because I have been pulled right, left and center. However I am working on this week and I should have it ready by Friday.

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Monday, August 4, 2008

Claude Martin (website) aka mARTin is this most highly talented French Canadian cute Bear artist who lives in Quebec City. He has so many talents it would take awhile to list them all, however what you will find on the short list is that he's a painter, a muralist, decorative painter, singer, songwriter, teacher, info-graphic designer, photographer, plays many instruments... and can you believe he's actually shy?

Claude has not been on stage since the dissolution of his rock band Cendres in 1992, however he is still composing and you can actually download his latest work from his site. The CD is called 'Docteur Bill Board' and you can grab it free here. Claude has a very unique style of his own and his music is quite classy.

He is recently back from Europe and he says he was very inspired. He had an exhibition of his work in Nice entitled 'Portraits on Extasy' as well as displaying a series of erotic drawings in Amsterdam... he is now back and already working on his latest project of cityscapes called 'Velo City. And don't miss his next abstract show 'Fresh Paint' or 'how to protect a surface from bad weather while exposing it to critics'. He will be celebrating his 20th anniversary as a painter with this expo.

Last but not least, make sure to check out his fresco webpage - Atelier Fresco - to see his most recent decorative works.

ok... that wasn't the last thing... Claude is also one of the organizers of BEARmuda (website - articles)... an event that brings together Bears to Quebec City. Their next get-together will be from August 29th thru the 31st as they plan on celebrating Quebec City's 400th anniversary in style.

mARTin is looking for an agent to represent him. Every interested person is invited to contact him by email.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
The other day I mentioned of a Montreal based company called BJ Bear Design (article) run by Jean-Maurice & Jean. What I forgot to mention is that they are looking for models to showcase their goods. The link is here and it's in French, however what it states is that they cannot offer money but you do get a t-shirt, a hat and a $50 gift certificate, and the fame of being a Bear model. For more info, contact them.

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

It's high time you familiarize yourself with the excellent art work drawn by the French Bear artist Christophe Jannin (website - blog - TubeBear profile - PlanetBears articles). Now I know I mention the fact that Chris is as cute as his artwork, the simple fact is that it's true.

Christophe sends in his newest artwork. From Chris: "I have just finished 'Gilles de Rais arriving in Orleans' (click here to see the full version). Gille de Rais is flamboyant here. He was a real historic character, marshal of France and a Joan of Arc companion with whom he liberated the city of Orleans during the 100 years war against the English in he first half of the 15th century. You might know him under his nickname 'Blue Beard'. He was condamned and hanged for the crimes of felony, murder and sodomy. Yes he was gay!

As for my upcoming schedule, I have 2 upcoming exhibitions in France, one in Lyon from July 25th thru August 15th at the StationB, and the one one in Orleans at the cinema "Les Carmes" from September 23rd until October 12th for the Gay and Lesbian Films Festival. The title of this is called ' From Auckland, Bears, at the end of the world...".

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Sunday, February 10, 2008

'Blog, blog, blog it all... blog it if it's big or small... blog at the cineplex... blog while you're having sex'... some lyrics from the Ritcher Scales song Here Come Another Bubble... however it's true, blogs are taking over the internet. Everyone but everyone blogs, even if they try it once and haven't updated their blog in 3 years and tell themselves they 'must' update their blog so they can be the next big site... blogging is everywhere.

You can actually spend your whole entire life either blogging or reading other people's blog trying to keep up with who is fucking who and who is fucking over who... however thank God for the French because there's a great blog called Senior et Gay. You need not know one word of French to enjoy this site. It's just filled with pics of older guys and a lot of them are of the husky Bearish kind. So bloggez bloggez away, my friends, and clickez clickez while checking out tons of pics from that blog site which is almost a year old.