A FILTHY MIND LEADS TO A FILTHY BODY.
Filthy the Bear was born in a cave near Heidelberg in Germany's Schwarzwald region. Though it seemed to have skipped a generation with his father, Filthy's grandfather, if photographic evidence from the times can be trusted, was also a bear suited man. Originally seeing himself as a musician, he joined a travelling band in Bremen and toured the German countryside until the band's eventual breakup. The other musicians were all much older than Filthy (Known then as Schmutzig der Bär) and had simply grown tired of life on the road. Filthy then lived for a time in a commune based on beds and breakfasts, the original Bed and Breakfast, but found commune life difficult once his private stores of porridge were being emptied without his permission and the other members of the commune did nothing to stop a young golden haired harpy from declaring his bed as her own. Filthy left the commune after just 5 months.
Berlin became a great fit for Filthy. He was welcomed in the city and lorded for his avant-garde poetry and freestyle jazz sessions. At the city's Moki Efti "Coffee House", Filthy became known as "the mascot of the Neue Renaissance" and was linked to Anita Berber.
For reasons lost to time, Filthy suddenly turned his back on those heady days in the Weimar republic and "fled" to other lands.
In London he became known for his murals in the grand houses around Hampstead, and for his high score on Soul Calibur at the Oxford Arcade across from Benjy's, but London was never truly a great fit for Filthy and so he headed north to Edinburgh in Scotland. "I learned to like paint," Filthy once said of his days in Edinburgh. Strangely however, he only ever painted one piece while in Edinburgh. A small watercolour abstract that he called "Monday Morning Scottish Sidewalk", an exploration of the pseudo-digested contents of the modern Scottish stomach as found any monday morning in the city centre. He did this painting to cover his rent but when the credit eventually ran out it was again, time to move on.
TO BE CONTINUED
Filthy makes short travel videos of his adventures called "Have Bear Will Travel' which he posts to his Youtube channel.
So anyway if you see Filthy, come up and say hello. He is always happy to chat but can sometimes seem surly. What would be even better though, is if you get yourself a costume and just get out there and brighten things up a little.
Berlin became a great fit for Filthy. He was welcomed in the city and lorded for his avant-garde poetry and freestyle jazz sessions. At the city's Moki Efti "Coffee House", Filthy became known as "the mascot of the Neue Renaissance" and was linked to Anita Berber.
For reasons lost to time, Filthy suddenly turned his back on those heady days in the Weimar republic and "fled" to other lands.
In London he became known for his murals in the grand houses around Hampstead, and for his high score on Soul Calibur at the Oxford Arcade across from Benjy's, but London was never truly a great fit for Filthy and so he headed north to Edinburgh in Scotland. "I learned to like paint," Filthy once said of his days in Edinburgh. Strangely however, he only ever painted one piece while in Edinburgh. A small watercolour abstract that he called "Monday Morning Scottish Sidewalk", an exploration of the pseudo-digested contents of the modern Scottish stomach as found any monday morning in the city centre. He did this painting to cover his rent but when the credit eventually ran out it was again, time to move on.
TO BE CONTINUED
Filthy makes short travel videos of his adventures called "Have Bear Will Travel' which he posts to his Youtube channel.
So anyway if you see Filthy, come up and say hello. He is always happy to chat but can sometimes seem surly. What would be even better though, is if you get yourself a costume and just get out there and brighten things up a little.
