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Saturday, July 12, 2008
[This is a reprise of an article written on July 4th]: PlanetBears needs a new logo as well as banners. It's very simple - just make something incredible - you have 720x90 pixels (example) to play with for the banner and 250x250 pixels (example) for the logo. It must be in either .JPG, .GIF or .SWF (Flash) format.

This is a contest so the winner will get $100 as well as a lifetime membership to the PlanetBears Gallery and Video section. However ~ all those who send something in will get a year membership to the site, so just by participating you're going to win something (note: your work needs to be approved first).

This contest will run until the middle of August 2008. Send all entries via email or use the contact form. You can apply as many times as you like.

I am going to look for some sponsors as well so maybe I'll be able to give away some DVDs too. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate (or the legal age within your district).
 
Have fun with this one, be creative, make something cool. Logos help define a site so try and help me define PlanetBears ~ an international Bear news site with Bear galleries and videos.

As for the banners, if you want to make it a bit sexier, you can use any of the photos that I've chosen here for this contest.

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Friday, July 4, 2008

PlanetBears needs a new logo as well as banners. It's very simple - just make something incredible - you have 720x90 pixels (example) to play with for the banner and 250x250 pixels (example) for the logo. It must be in either .JPG, .GIF or .SWF (Flash) format.

This is a contest so the winner will get $100 as well as a lifetime membership to the PlanetBears Gallery and Video section. However ~ all those who send something in will get a year membership to the site, so just by participating you're going to win something (note: your work needs to be approved first).

This contest will run until the middle of August 2008. Send all entries via email or use the contact form. You can apply as many times as you like.

I am going to look for some sponsors as well so maybe I'll be able to give away some DVDs too. You must be 18 years of age or older to participate (or the legal age within your district).
 
Have fun with this one, be creative, make something cool. Logos help define a site so try and help me define PlanetBears ~ an international Bear news site with Bear galleries and videos.

As for the banners, if you want to make it a bit sexier, you can use any of the photos that I've chosen here for this contest.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Once again I scoured my archived files and came out with a few pictures of David (gallery - profile) and Eric Z. (gallery) which I never got around to adding to bear-pics, so I'm adding them here today. They were taken on a hot May morning in '05. We were all just sitting on the upstairs balcony and I took a few shots. We later went downtown and I took a few more there as well. View these pics here.

I didn't add them because I didn't think there was enough pics in order to make a set, and I guess there isn't actually that many pics, altho you do get a good view of David's legs. However I'm adding them because I'm accompanying these pics with a little 4 minute video... and this too I never added to bear-pics. This was taken in November '05 - it was around 9:30AM or so and my job was to get David and Eric up since we had to be somewhere for 10AM. They were sleeping in the guestroom that had my aunt's bed in it at the time (I refer to the bed being faggy)... they were slow to waking up so I decided to tickle them out of it. It's nothing more than a cute video (meaning - not sexual).

You can view this clip here (.wmv format - 45mb - you can right click to save) however it's much easier to view it via the net on PlanetBears' Video page (view it here).

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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.

Click here for a preview.

Read more here.

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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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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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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.

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