Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sky Bears

Clouds share my bear obsession:

http://bellflower.elfle.com/bear-in-the-sky.html

thanks for Tim O'Connor for the link

Monday, July 27, 2009

Bears are Evolving

It's true, we are in an mental evolutionary arms race with bears. Over food. Bears are insatiable beast of eating and in the past humans have had difficult times keeping our hairy brothers out of our meat sheds and granaries. Until the amazing invention of the BearVault 500 Canister:

http://www.bearvault.com/

These amazing containers utilize space age materials with intricate locking puzzles that are only able to be opened by humans with dexterous fingers and years of study. Certainly not a clumsy, roly-poly bear. Or so we thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25bear.html?_r=1

That's right, people. Yellow-Yellow, originally though to be an average run-of-the-mill bear, has cracked our code and is now teaching other bears to do it. This bear-messiah is undoubtedly going to lead a Bearevolution against our smug attitude towards trail mix, beef jerky, fruits, chocolate bar, and other lovely hiking foods. And I for one am happy. I welcome our well-fed bear-lords. We have rested on our laurels ever since we made some rock into a knife. It's time to put in our dues and start building giant Bear-pyramids to honor our super-intelligent bear-pharaohs. You heard it here first, bears! I support you and expect your support when the time comes!

Friday, July 24, 2009

Bears in Art

For Ages, ever since an idiot caveman could smear mud on his hands and make marks on a cave wall, people have been obsessed and fascinated with bears and how to represent them in pictures. The current state of human civilization has made advances in practically all fields of human interest, and Bear Art is no exception. Here are some fine examples

1. Impressionist painting teaching young girls that bears are totally safe and make adorable companions:



2. Wall relief depicting bears' ninja-like ability to blend into surroundings to attack foes



3. Sometimes bears are huge and inquisitive



4. This illustration shows the not-so-talked-about inter-species bear warefare, which has advanced to the level of spies



5. This is, uh, well, Barack Obama naked attacking a bear from a unicorn. I, gee, I wish I knew the artist, because he's a genius.