re: hallowe'en!

 

I can't believe it......they've made a teevee series out of the walking dead comix........i just downloaded the first show and am gonna watch it........as i've been traveling lots lately, i have had opportunities to discuss viral type zombie things........a lot of people seem to be of the opinion, that it's just a matter of time.....zombies are one thing.....but viral creatures are worse.......think back to the movie '28 days later' by danny boyle........gross and fast and evil........

anyway, i'm gonna watch it, and i just watched the new "30 days of night, dark days" film, and was disappointed......obviously a straight to video watch.........i usually like watching "sleepy hollow", as well as "monster house" with the kids......"corpse bride" and "coraline" to top it all off for a family hallowe'en treat.......alas, i don't have my kids this holiday for the third year in a row.......to be fair 2 of those years i was on the road.......and this year i was supposed to get them, but was double crossed at the last minute........the world is a cruel mistress........

well, friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i'll post something later specifically for hallowe'en..........it's 2:34 in the morning, and i wanna watch some scary movies......

cb
ps: the original 30 days of night film was freaky as hell......and i love the graphic novels.....

pss: i thought i'd also throw in some art by my favourite influences...dave mckean and ben templesmith......

re: there's no way out of here.....

i'm wrestling with a new style............it's kinda obvious......spent the night doing research for a variety of projects..........

keep you posted kids!

and if you wanna buy any of the art in this blog, email me at:

chrisbose1@yahoo.ca

and i can do it to your specs........

coz i wanna sell some art! ha ha!

rent!!!

anyway, stay tuned for some new directions in my art.........

cheers,

chrisbose.

re: rumours.......

ahhhhh the rumour mill.......i love it.........lately people have been saying i've died lately, or perhaps that's what they're wishing! ha ha!

anyway, i worked on this tonight........not finished, but thought i'd post it anyway.........

i am at last, working on songs.......got a set list and everything........

well, gotta go, can't ruin any surprises.......

cb

re: dreams of death........

i've been having really weird dreams lately, about my death, about underground water chambers and streams and the sky cracking open........

cb

re: the apology......

here's a couple examples of the apology and a favourite image of a coyote i took a couple years ago.......it was on T'kemlups Indian Reserve........the skelep wasn't even scared of me.........she just kept watching........

anyway, i'm thinking it's time to move on.....or put serious thought to getting out of here......each time i come home from the road, i begin the usual scramble for cash.........and wonder, is this it? is this as good as it's ever going to get? i feel tapped out here, that i've gone as far as i can go from a remote location, now i need input and collaboration and stimulation........

i mean, i've been struggling here for years, and though i'm at a level where i catch a lot of planes and collaborate more, unless something incredible happens, is this it? will it be scrimp, scrounge and save until i die? keep living cheque to cheque? should i give up? should i teach? i just don't know.......

i also watch other artists on the road, and wonder why we do it? a push to create something, art, music or writing, or are they just markings on the wall?

no offence to where i live, coz in many ways i love it here, but when i come home, i keep wondering why i'm here........

i don't really hang out with anyone, and really just count the minutes until i head out of town for the next gig, or until i can see my kids........

not much of a life really........

cb

re: the laurier memorial........

here's a couple images of the laurier memorial commission i had from the shuswap nation tribal council.....

i totally undercharged, as an artist, i realize now, i could have gotten five times what i was paid......

they spent big cash promoting the even, not much for the art......live and learn i guess......this whole ordeal is starting to wear thin.........i've got too many kids and responsibilities to keep going on this road forever.........gotta figure out something......to bring the dough in.........

being an artist is weird, because people either expect nothing from you, or a whole lot for very little.....

it's stressing me out too much! ha ha!

plus, this last stretch on the road was quite a while, and my kids were going a bit crazy missing me, and worried if i'd ever come back.............i gotta figure out something........

in the meantime, i'll keep learning and living, hope for the best and try to figure things out.......

cheers,

cb

re: kid a...............chris bose and a decade too fast......

at last, i'm home, the past five weeks, i've been home for five days. i'm kinda tired, kinda happy to be home, but as i walk around the streets of kamoops, i think back to a decade ago, when an album came out that was trippy, calm, beautiful and strange all at once.......Radiohead's opus, "KID A". It seems difficult to believe it's been ten years since that day i woke up and ran down to "Spinners" record store and paid $25 for the CD, ran back to my place across from the park, watching orange, and gold leaves fall from trees, and listened to the album excitedly. time has passed too quickly i think........

i hadn't heard anything like it, and loved it. off and on over the years, i go through phases where i listen to this album, and the radiohead catalogue. it's powerful stuff, and if i listen to too much of it, i get depressed! ha ha!
it's so beautifully bleak, and captures a kind of melancholy that is soothing, gripping and deeply dark. then i'll listen to slayer to bust the depression! ha ha!

anyway, what i think i'm trying to say about this album, and this period of time, is that i was at some kind of milestone, and ten years later, i'm looking back and trying to figure out what i've done with my life the past ten years. i think i'm definitely a late bloomer, and i'm going to start writing and recording some new songs to hit the music road for awhile.

a decade has passed unbelievably quickly, and now i've got responsibilities, and children i love so very much, but i still struggle to find my way in this world. waiting for an answer, a reason, or a door to open, something....anything......ha ha!!! so i keep slogging it out, creating new art, i'm writing some new poems, and i've got a couple films to get done........time is ticking past, sometimes silently at night, beneath a sky full of stars in the summer, and sometimes time roars forward, like a jet rushing towards the runway, screaming towards the sky and everything else.........

until next time friends, fans, foe, lovers and the like.......


chrisbose.

re: time passes.........

galiano inspired new art i worked on........
the ultimate little hippy pad i'd love to live in.......

 

Here's some new art, i've been trying to load ALL week but couldn't find a computer to do it properly.....and the coolest house i'd love to live in.....i think i'm a bit of a hippy in that way, that i could live in a little cool shack like that and be totally happy........instead of paying the outrageous rent i pay right now for a place i'm never even at most of the time......anyways, there's also a couple photos of THE most amazing sunrise i have seen in a while, on the North end of Galiano Island, Dionisio Park......wow, words fail me......and i was there with some cool peeps......Tee Louttit, Deek Rodgers, Chuck Walkem, Julian Maree, and yours truly........the road is an amazing place, traveling, making art, films and writing, plus being able to collaborate with other great people is one of the main reasons why i take this open journey.......seeing incredible places, having great times, and living instead of existing........

until next time friends, foe, lovers, haters, and the like,

cb

re: sometimes it feels like..........

i was listening to a song by Tamara Nile last night as i was working on this artwork, it was from her "Cabin Song" EP, actually i was listening to the title track, and thinking about my own kids, they're all so small.....out of the five kids i've got, four are under the age of seven......and four are girls.......

i'm on the road all the time, it's been about two years solid now, well, i mean i get to go home for a week or two, but for the kind of art, or film, or music, or writing, that i do, i can only make a living on the road......and canada is so vast, so it entails a lot of traveling........i can't go back to construction work, i've been charting this course a long time, so i'm starting to realize, i want to start taking them on the road with me.......and i want to head over to europe to do my thing........just need some representation or as i tend to call it, i need "the door" to open, which is a metaphor for an opportunity, a chance encounter, a lead, or what have ye......and it'll happen, it does all the time, it's just a matter of being at the right place at the right time........

anyway, i'll get to see my kids soon enough, and for the first time in two years, i'll be home for halloween! woot! woo!! WOOO!!

oh, where i was going with the song i was listening to, "the cabin song" is that i'm starting to wonder what my kids will remember about me, or what they will say.......which means i've got to be home more or they've got to come on the road with me.......

well, until next time boys and girls, friends and foe, lovers and haters,

see ya!


cb

re: galiano island.........

hello friends, fans, lovers, foe and others........

i'm still on galiano island, it is a gem, a really amazing place that gives and gives.........it's beautiful, quiet, the forests are incredible, the bluff, montague bay, shell beach, sticks alice, man, there are so many wicked places to explore......

this is the second time i've been here, both times for the Gulf Islands Film and Television School (GIFTS) which runs some cool "BootCamp" type film courses and such........i feel really lucky to be here, mentoring Aboriginal youth from all over BC, sharing with them hi-tech skills to become digital storytellers, and to be able to bring back new knowledge and skills back to their communities........what this actually means is, that we are able to tell our own stories, and document them ourselves without worrying about traditional knowledge or cultural history being hijacked and used inappropriately (i.e. monetary gain!)

perhaps for the first time, many communities, some isolated and smaller, are able to tell their own stories, and to record them for future generations, because let's face it, we're losing elders every week, and the traditional knowledge they hold is priceless.......

so, i'm pretty stoked to be here, there are a lot promising, aspiring Aboriginal filmmakers, so it's great to be involved, and great to be a part of GIFTS.......i'll always remember my time and visits here.......

until next time kids,


cheers,


chrisbose.
ps: i'll post some new pictures later today......or tomorrow..........

re: chilling on Galiano, working on a variety of videos......

found this cool/interesting looking comic called "City of Dust" and really liked the music.......i'm going to get back into music more.....i miss live gigs and touring.......well, that kind of touring........it's different from the rest i've been doing......anyway, check out the link.......dig the tune..........



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ASR1HDKq10&feature=fvsr

so i'm on galiano island, it's amazing here, i love it......met Tamara Nile's mum, had a great chat, bought Tamara's E.P. and just continue enjoying the vibe that is Galiano Island.......went to a few more stores, found a cool KISS shirt at a thrift store for $3 BUCKS!!!

i love this place, it's so close to the city, but might as well be a world away......

gonna try to do some art tonight......

all the bets,


cb

re: on ze road again.........

hello friends, fans, lovers, foe, and the like......

i'm on galiano island, mentoring at the GIFTS school

one of my favourite places to be....

because you meet a lot of cool people

like minded people

people who want to make a difference

who want to make films

and it is an environment of collaboration

and ideas shared

and knowledge shared

and it's good for the soul

ultimately

my blog as of late has been a travel blog

but that happens, i'm on the road

all the time now

and little time to create art

because sometimes 

no often times

you have to experience life

in order to continue to create art

and right now

i'm experiencing life

and the art is percolating always

just beneath the surface

so worry not friends

i'll be back at it soon enough

refreshed and revitalized 

after a summer of being fed upon

by malicious energy suckers.

until next time 

i'll bring you my love

cheers,

cb

re: had enough........

as

i've been on the road a couple weeks solid, it's been great, i love it........the above photo was when i got home, and the art is stuff i did while i was on the road at Sakewewak in Regina........

tying up some loose ends and getting ready to head out for another two weeks, this time to Galiano Island to do some stuff at the GIFTS film school......always excited to go there, one of my fave places to be.......

in some ways i've had enough of the status quo, and i've had some good opportunities to meet really cool people on the road, see other inspiring art and film, and i've come to realize that my art and ideas are received a little better in other places than home......go figure ha ha!!

anyways, in november i'll be in prince george the first week, at the UNBC literary festival, and in vancity a couple times this month and next.......after that, i don't know what's up......

until next time friends, fans, foe, lovers and the like,

cheers,


chris bose.