1. The Largest Grizzly Bear ever recorded was 1190 lbs.

    The Largest Grizzly Bear ever recorded was 1190 lbs.

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  2. The Bear 71 installation at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

    The Bear 71 installation at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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  3. Several hundred moose are killed by trains in British Columbia each year. Watch Bear 71.

    Several hundred moose are killed by trains in British Columbia each year.

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  4. The majority of grizzly bear attacks are related to encounters between a person and a protective sow with cubs.  Watch Bear 71.

    The majority of grizzly bear attacks are related to encounters between a person and a protective sow with cubs. 

    Watch Bear 71.

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  5. Creative Applications Networks’ article on Bear  71: …Bear 71 is not only gorgeously executed (tip of the cap Aubyn Freybe-Smith and Jam3) but the writing is just incredible. One sequence brilliantly draws a connection between a ‘rub tree’ (where bears ‘deposit’ their scent and communicate during breeding season) and a hiker making a Facebook status update. Another highlights how bears are able to harness their keen sense of smell to navigate the landscape and this registers as an oblique counterpoint to all the imaging technologies being relied upon to deliver this narrative. Beyond elegant conceptual framing and a poetic consideration of surveillance, few interactive works carry the emotional weight that this piece does – watch this loud, on fullscreen and undisturbed. Read more here. Watch Bear 71.

    Creative Applications Networks’ article on Bear  71:

    …Bear 71 is not only gorgeously executed (tip of the cap Aubyn Freybe-Smith and Jam3) but the writing is just incredible. One sequence brilliantly draws a connection between a ‘rub tree’ (where bears ‘deposit’ their scent and communicate during breeding season) and a hiker making a Facebook status update. Another highlights how bears are able to harness their keen sense of smell to navigate the landscape and this registers as an oblique counterpoint to all the imaging technologies being relied upon to deliver this narrative. Beyond elegant conceptual framing and a poetic consideration of surveillance, few interactive works carry the emotional weight that this piece does – watch this loud, on fullscreen and undisturbed.

    Read more here.

    Watch Bear 71.

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  6. We can smell the caribou, must be half a day away. Got to run. Got to eat. – Brian Keegan Watch Bear 71.

    We can smell the caribou, must be half a day away. Got to run. Got to eat.

    – Brian Keegan

    Watch Bear 71.

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  7. Who needs a pack anyway. And I’m leaving with my head and tail high. I’ll lick my wounds later. -Tara Tyler Watch Bear 71.

    Who needs a pack anyway. And I’m leaving with my head and tail high. I’ll lick my wounds later.

    -Tara Tyler

    Watch Bear 71.

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  8. Mashable Entertainment features Bear 71 on it’s list of 4 Inspiring Examples of Digital Storytelling. Blurring the line between the wired world and the wild world, the National Film Board of Canada’s Bear 71 is a multi-user interactive social narrative that observes and records the intersection of humans, nature and technology. Launched with a live, interactive art installation at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program, the storyworld of Bear 71 is a fully immersive, multi-platform experience. Participants explore and engage with the world of a female grizzly bear via animal role play, augmented reality, webcams, geolocation tracking, motion sensors, a microsite, social media channels and a real bear trap in Park City. This project is the most recent example of how the NFB is changing the face of cinema. Read more here. Watch Bear 71.

    Mashable Entertainment features Bear 71 on it’s list of 4 Inspiring Examples of Digital Storytelling.

    Blurring the line between the wired world and the wild world, the National Film Board of Canada’s Bear 71 is a multi-user interactive social narrative that observes and records the intersection of humans, nature and technology.

    Launched with a live, interactive art installation at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival New Frontier Program, the storyworld of Bear 71 is a fully immersive, multi-platform experience. Participants explore and engage with the world of a female grizzly bear via animal role play, augmented reality, webcams, geolocation tracking, motion sensors, a microsite, social media channels and a real bear trap in Park City. This project is the most recent example of how the NFB is changing the face of cinema.

    Read more here.

    Watch Bear 71.

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  9. Up to to 75% of newly born moose calves are be eaten by bears in the first 8 weeks of their live. Watch Bear 71.

    Up to to 75% of newly born moose calves are be eaten by bears in the first 8 weeks of their live.

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  10. When I saw the bits and pieces – the fur, the bones, the soulless eyes staring up from inside a box, I knew I had stumbled far too close to a place no wolf should come upon in life. The door had been left wide open and the smells emanating from that shack were sickening and peculiarly human, as no animal could create such dense and toxic odors. And then I saw my sister and my brother (who had been missing for weeks), standing there, stiff, staring into space unmoving, with those soulless glass eyes. – T. Reed Watch Bear 71.

    When I saw the bits and pieces – the fur, the bones, the soulless eyes staring up from inside a box, I knew I had stumbled far too close to a place no wolf should come upon in life.

    The door had been left wide open and the smells emanating from that shack were sickening and peculiarly human, as no animal could create such dense and toxic odors.

    And then I saw my sister and my brother (who had been missing for weeks), standing there, stiff, staring into space unmoving, with those soulless glass eyes.

    – T. Reed

    Watch Bear 71.

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