56 seconds with some real v.i.p.'s

kids, i've heard it said that they "choose" us as parents.....which makes me try even harder to get it right with them.....do the best, and try to help them along as much as possible.....

i love'em......

the wall

the wall.....i've hit it......creatively.....or at least visually.........

i've had a lot projects on the go, and am now down to just three.....

this one.....editing my book........and a series of interviews of people i'm going to do over the next three months........

as an artist, it's easy to become a work-a-holic, because creativity doesn't feel like work.....i've worked, for years in construction and shitty dead-end customer service, retail type jobs....and factories, and everything else in between......so now that i do art full time, i do art full time......'cause i know if i stop, the factories, the dead-end jobs and that whole hell are waiting....so when i hear other artists bitch and moan about the muse, i fight my temptation to give them a piece of my mind, because it won't make a lick of difference, and we each got our own experience's to sort through........

12 seconds in my world

i'm starting to learn a little bit aboot stop motion films.....here's a quick shot at it......

too thin.....

gah, i feel like i'm spreading myself too thin these days......working on a variety of projects, and not giving enough time to my visual arts......

but, i'm nearly done one project that is eating up a lot of time, and should be done the next couple days, which means i can get back into visual arts.....

until then, i'll try to post something new.......

know your history.........

yesterday was 'aboriginal day' and father's day.......

i don't really know my dad. but as an indian, i know every day is 'aboriginal day'

every man has a secret part deux: aurora bose

this is a photo of my daughter aurora bose. on my status card. she's 8 months old.

the happy couple......

god, i know people will read too much into this......so what.....

every man has a secret.......

the nuclear family

mothra attacks!!!

haven't posted any video for a while, and after talking to a friend in the art world, he said "Film is officially, the new crack for exhibitions and galleries."

i have great respect for my friend, he's fighting an uphill battle in the world where he works. so full of games and pretension.

i'm starting to like my little city a lot more, because i don't really have to play too many games, i can just sit and make art. sneak off to a major centre to do a project or something and come home without having to get into the politics and all the "he said/she said" crap.

my friend also said it's so ridiculous the power a few non-artists have over the art world, a few academics, a few writers, a few galleries.....most of them he said probably couldn't do art to save their lives, yet they're the ones shaping the reality of the art world.

i told him it's probably like that in everything, politics, music, etc....

anyways, i'm working on new stuff all the time, and sometimes, i forget to post, and i'm on the rez, pirating the internet off someone, so it's not that reliable to upload stuff........i know, weak excuses, but i'm always working on stuff........

all the bets,

chrisbose.

the adoration of the coyote

recently i was in lytton, b.c. and went looking for st. george's residential school.....where my mum AND dad went, and i couldn't find the ruins, 'cause it burnt to the ground mysteriously in the 1980's........from what i understand, it was one of the worst in canada.......the church was still standing, and though i didn't take any photos of it, it was one of the most sinister looking churches i've ever seen.......a combination german style 'keep' and cathedral.

things have changed, lytton doesn't seem as bad as it did in the late '80's.......there's an almost peaceful, propserous vibe there......buddhists have a temple there, hippies love it, and there seems to be a more positive community vibe........

anyways, this is how i imagine the stain glass to be like inside that creepy church.......

High Priests

wot a strange picture? the priests all clapping as one of theirs gets ordained a 'higher priest'
and that barbecued jesus in the background?

fairly sinister i thought, so brightened it up......with some hot man to man action.......jesus and judas making up.......

son of morningstar.....

custer, what a arrogant bastard......died like he should've
at the hands of many pissed off indians, and on fire.....into eternity.....

people ask me why i'm so pissed off.....why do think?

such a stupid question, thoughtless, ignorant, arrogant question....

i pissed on custer's grave, just as a tourist bus pulled up, my little bro johnny laughing as a bunch of guys were building
this huge scary, pointy imposing, iron fence around the cemetary and cenotaph.....

the americans, damn, they sure know how to worship their dead....

if you gotta go at the hands of several thousand pissed off indians, little big horn
is as good as any.......'cept now you probably gotta pay ten bux to see it....after you
go to the 'little big horn casino' and drive through the bombed our remains of a dead rez town to get there..........good luck.....

re: right!

awright, the apologies then.....listen, they mean a sorry fricken ass worth of shite to me.....no matter what stephen harper says in his best robotic, cold, artificial heart tells me, or the fackin' pope......none of it means crap.....because every time i see a post of something someone from my people goes through via the courts, the cops, a news posting on the internet, or the crap system, i see nothing but ignorant, racist, bigoted stupid shite saying the dumbest things dregged up from the bottom of their shallow, corrupted scum.......canada has never learned to 'deal with' it's 'indian problem' and i've come to realize, and fucking accept that no matter what taxes we pay, how much we pay for our education, how strong our people stand, we will never be fucking accepted, the propaganda runs too deep, the hatred and stupidity from the lumpen proletariat runs too fackin' thick and that's all there is to it......so now what? throw ourselves into the fire? prove them right?

fuck no, we'll have to continue to slog it out day after fucking day, smiling that shit eating grin, and do whatever it takes, to the 'ruling class' that we're worthy, and really, without us, they'd been dead and done a long fucking time ago, and deep down, these simple shites, really fucking know it.........