re: candy skulls

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

found a fun photo of my son, i think it's from last year, but still cool, i used an effect in photoshop that brought out the tones equally or something like that, either way it added more depth and texture. dig!

in the meantime, i've got work and art to do, hope all is well in your world, until next time lovers,


cb

re: words are the devil......

hello friends, fans, lovers and foe,

i cannot remember if i included this link or not, always trying to get some exposure for my creative endeavours. sometimes it works, sometimes, it don't.

in the meantime, enjoy this happy little song.

http://rpm.fm/music/download-chris-bose-words-are-the-devil/

and here's a funny thing about art i found on the intranet.

despite it all, i want at least one of my kids to be an artist. haha!

been sort of mulling things over, navel gazing or shoe gazing i guess you could say. i really feel like i'm just biding my time in kamloops. i feel very alone here, no fault of my own for sure, even though i am starting to do community stuff, sometimes i just feel like, i dunno. wishing my kids were older so i could go and figure my life out i guess? career wise and job wise, it's a tough go for a creative indian in this town. i'm overqualified for a lot of things, and i ain't getting any younger, which is what the world constantly wants, it sucks young blood. it feels like i don't fit in here. i've got to find out where i am supposed to be and get on with it. 

which is, sadly, the road, actually, it ain't so sad! haha! i love the road. 

and i'm working on new music that's gonna get me there! haha!

big love, take care peoples, buy some art, help an artist out, i've got art available right now at Arnica Artist Run Centre and The Art We Are, here in Kamloops, and online at my flickr.com site here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbose1

contact me at: chrisbose1@yahoo.ca 

if you want any art, it can be completely customized. for a price.

cheers,

cb

Greetings friends, fans, foe and loved ones,

i thought i'd do something different, something nautical and vintage. think of this more like a sketch, and i never really use these colours like this! dig!

In the meantime lovers, there's a wicked concert tonight, i've been waiting all month for, it's a band called "The Sword" and i can't wait! even though I fucked up my knee yesterday at work, i'm sure it'll be good fun! Below is an image from when they were opening up for metallica for a year!

Well, gotta run, hope you are well in your world, stay tuned for more art and fun!

cheers,

cb

re: updates updates!

hello lovers,

i am in the midst of getting my shit together, as i plan to make 2012 my bi-atch. so, in order to make things go a little more to plan, i've been organizing stuff and well, actually making plans. haha!

my flickr.com page has begun to take shape, there are 4 sets organized into little portfolios and a design portfolio of commissions, graphics, and work i've licensed out, and soon there will be galleries.

check'em out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbose1

the image above is what you should see, so do check it out! and if you want to purchase an image, feel free to contact me, i also do commissioned work. let's chat!

as well, I've been writing and recording new songs on guitar, as well as loops and beats. my plan is to record an album of new songs over the winter, and do some touring next year. we'll see how it goes. the important thing, is the songs are being written and recorded!! woohoo!

check here for the link to have a sneak peak listen to the demo process! exciting!

http://soundcloud.com/cbdemos-1

You should see the above image when you hit the link to the demo page! yay!

I've been trying to record them in ambient places, like field recordings from the early 1920's. i went to fields, parks, parking garages, alleys and other weird spots. Most of these tracks were done at night, and there was always a junkie or two that came and checked out what was going on. It was kind of strange, especially the song, "you must be high," haha! 

should be interesting to see how the songs turn out!

have a listen, download a song, share the links with your friends!

cheers,

cb

re: new canada!

Greetings friends, fans, foe and lovers,

how i miss you, i wish you were here right now, in my arms. haha, not.

okay, so the new artwork is about obviously, Les Etats Unis!

yay!

Actually, it represents the blood on canada's hands for plundering an entire country for free. the $1000 bill represent unpaid taxes to the original people who live here for thousands of years. The flag is tattered, spattered and worn, just like the people of canada. The aboriginal people are better left dead, or in museums, and the culture is on fire, coming back to life. Or something like that, you decide. 

I have a couple things coming up soon, the 2012 pictoprophecies will be launching in Penticton, BC this coming weekend, I've got an image in it, as well as an installation projection featured in the exhibition as well. It will be traveling to Kelowna in February 2012 at the Alternator Centre, and Kamloops at the Arnica Centre in summer 2012. 

Here is one of 7 images for the show:

The theme of the Picto Prophecies, is roughly, reinterpreting the past for the future, mainly the some 120 pictograph sites that are not protected at all by Heritage Canada, asses, and should be because they document the presence of the First Nations people of the Interior of BC.

Oh,

I also found a hilarious link to "Gramptallica," a new collaboration between Grampa Simpson and the over-reaching metal band Metallica. Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRPzElP_eSI

SOOOOOOOO hilarious!

In the meantime lovers, i miss you,



cb

re: new maps of hell.....

greetings fiends, friends, fans and lovers, ex's too.......(i know you stalk me from time to time....!)

been working on new art, as well as working, i'll include a photo or two of what i've been doing when not doing art or what have ye....

well, i don't feel like talking much, other than to enjoy this new image, it's called "New Maps of Hell"
which i thought was such a peppy upbeat little title, don't you think?

oh yeah, just started re-reading and examining the "sandman dustcovers," and still can't figure out how dave mckean did what he did back in the early 1990's on those old G3 macs......wonder what he's able to do today with modern technology? kick my ass probably. bastard.

enjoy?


cb

re: fur and gold!

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

hope everything is well in your world, it's getting cold here in the interior of BC, doing some construction to help pay the bills, and freezing outside!

anyways, i've been working on 3 works simultaneously, here is one of them.

layers baby, lots of'em.

until next time,


cb

re: dubious equinox silence

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

how are you? how have things been lately? things are well on my end, a little slow in some ways, in others very busy. life is good, what can i say?

i'm back at art again, and it feels really awesome to be doing it once more. i even read at a local poetry open mic night! that was great, it has been a long time to have read at such an event, and, to see people reading for the love it was fantastic. i'll be going back every two weeks for it, now i'm on the prowl for an open mic jam night, i've recorded about 25 new songs the past couple months, and next year is going to kick ass.

being an artist, a "professional" artist is rewarding, sometimes boom and bust, but the time, or freedom i have is incredible. i've been trying to get out of my house more often because too much time in the mancave gets a little stale, a little crazy, so human interaction is the cure to the insanity that inevitably come with time away from everyone.

well, i've got a show coming up soon with the Ullus Collective, and i'll keep you posted on the details.

thanks for stopping by, will hopefully get some more art up the next couple days,


cheers,


CB

re: 3 sirens

greetings friends, fans, foe, and lovers, and ex's......


this is the 3 sirens and 3 wise men.

dig.

i'm having fun with art again. ahhhh victory.


cb

re: trinity.

Here is trinity, 

enjoy.

i'm back at it.


cb

re: 600th blog post.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

well, here we are, the 600th blog post. never thought i'd be here, never thought this far ahead before. what's going on in my life on this milestone? i'm listening to an album i bought 12 years ago and still digging it, blur's album "13" and just sort of rediscovered it quite recently. a lot of things have happened in that time, and i've stumbled, staggered, fell down and gotten back up many times.

i'm a survivor. i have to keep moving on, and certain albums, books, artwork, films and other cultural things weave in and out of my life for reasons often unknown. how this album came into my possession is kind of a mystery, i think i originally bought it at the future shop in aberdeen mall here in town, because i like the production william orbit did on it. that year, i also go pj harvey's "is this desire" and tom waits "beautiful maladies" a best of compilation from island records. don't remember much more than that from that era really. i went through a lot of hell for a couple years with women. lost it all. haven't really been the same since i think, haha!

a late bloomer for sure, i spent too many years fucking around, and i don't know if i'm paying for it, have paid for it, or what's coming down for sure.

anyways, here's something i worked on for a while, not sure if i like it entirely, but it felt good to work on, and i don't know if its done or not, but whatever, i've got stuff to do, hope you dig it, going to work on a NDN version of "paranormal activity" in the next couple weeks, should be hilarious. want to do some funny stuff in film for awhile. too serious, ain't fun.

in the meantime lovers,

all the best,


cb

"The treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools is a sad chapter in our history.

For more than a century, Indian Residential Schools separated over 150,000 Aboriginal children from their families and communities. In the 1870's, the federal government, partly in order to meet its obligation to educate Aboriginal children, began to play a role in the development and administration of these schools.  Two primary objectives of the Residential Schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.  These objectives were based on the assumption Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal. Indeed, some sought, as it was infamously said, "to kill the Indian in the child".  Today, we recognize that this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our country."

Stephen Harper, June 11, 2008.

re: photos

hello friends, fans, lovers, loved ones and the like,

guh, must have been going crazy last night, hence the previous post, my apologies, every now and then, you go crazy as an artist. it just happens. too much time in the mancave as i call it, and it'll make you nuts.

anywho, here's a series of photos i took over the past month, and i'm getting down to some new art, i needed a break i guess, just wasn't compelled or driven to do new art for some reason. needed to recharge? refocus? do other things? probably.

in the meantime, hope you dig it!

cb

My art up at TRU in the Brown building, library or whatever it's called.

Hurtin' for cash, thinking of sell these books i found while on the road

the leonard cohen one is a 1978 1st Edition hardcover i found in Regina, Sask!

the Vitalogy i found somewhere and it's from 1930! 

a hilarious read!

Tom Waits hanging tree.

Deer Trail, up a crazy steep hillside! 

My Daughter.

My daughter.

Old Snag, following a deer trail I shot this photo.

Peterson Creek Bridge, just before i ducked under to document the graffiti under there!

Deep breathing can save your life apparently?!

me with four pieces of art that were in Montreal....so stoked to have them back!!!

buy them! they are for sale!

and this just cracked me up, i don't know how many times i went through this shit in relationships.

never again! click on the photo to read it! hilarious!c

re: karma and success?

hello friends, fans, family, foe, liars, douchebags, lovers, and the like,

success, what does it mean?

i dunno, i mean, there is never any sort of feeling that you've fucken "arrived" at successes and fates doorway, it's just a nod of the head and a continual charge forward towards fucken oblivion, really.

people couldn't fucken care less, because they're wrapped up in they're own oblivion. So, what does that mean? Well, i guess that means, if you're at the stage where you're getting paid to do what you love to do creatively, instead of swinging a hammer, crankin' a wrench, diggin' a hole, smashing a cash register full of cash that ain't yours, hearing the clang of dishes, or generally some douchebag yellin' over your volume about what a shite job you are doing, then i guess you ain't fully realizing what you're potential is as a human being.

i've never, ever had that feeling that i've arrived, no, that's a fucken lie, when i got my first book deal back in 2005, when my life changed and i only look back in trepidation, i will never forget climbing the top of a mountain and playing this song by the datsuns........ever since then, it's been hell, but a hell i fight for every day.....

it was hazy daze on my mind ever since then, but it felt good to get that deal, to get that far, when most of my life i was told i'd never succeed and i'd be a failure. fuck them, those evil twats that said that, coz i see them now, and they're life hasn't changed, and my life continues to evolve, to grow, to see, to realize many things.

once was a failure, now seen ten times, twenty times, hell, a hundred times, a thousand times more than what i thought i would and anyone else would ever see, little wonder, my first book in 2005 was a memoir.

i remember reading on tour with all these geezers, who'd say to me, what gall i had writing a memoir in my early 30's. haha, i'd already lived 10 or 20 times they're lives, once they heard my stories, they shut the hell up....

now, i slog on, and move forward, because all the momentum carries me towards a future i want, and a future we'll all realize......

cheers,


cb.

re: installation preview.

hello friends, fans, foe, and lovers,