re: 201!!!!

i had to post one more image!

next year! 2013, i'll post one every day!

it'll be the crazy year! the breakthrough year! the madness year!

wish me luck!

cb

re: 200th post!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers, as well as gamblers, boozers, sinners and winners!

this is my 200th post of the year!

yay!

i knew i could do it!!!

thanks for believing in me and my art and even being interested!

if you ever want some art, contact me and i'm sure we can make a deal!

in the meantime,

the image above is one of my father. the only image i have of him.

i made the art to only start making sense of our complicated relationship and getting over the abandonment issues i had with him. one start in the long journey of life and forgiveness.

until next time lovers,

cb

re: remembering those in the spirit world.....

above is an image of my daughter and her 99 year old grandmother, a few days before my grandmother passed into the spirit world. i'll never forget my grandfather talking to me, in 1982, not long before he passed away, that he had to leave to make room for a new life in our family. that just happened to be my younger brother tim. it was heavy. for a long time after that i was always nervous when someone was being born in our family. though i'm sure that wasn't the intent of my grandpa telling me. what he was really saying is that it this was part of the natural cycle of life.

this image is my way of making sense of it.

cb

re: fave images

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

one of my favourite images of all time. from a sept 2010 residency in saskatchewan, regina, at sakewewak artist collective. awesome! great times!

cb

re: hendrix on accordian!

backstage, rare photo of hendrix warming up for his eastern european tour, 1968!

dig!

cb

re: favourite author. one of them.

one of my fave authors.

food for thought.


cb

re: the dead horse.

hello friends, freaks, fans, foe and lovers,

a new year is upon us. time to get over a dead horse.

cb

re: here's to a new year!

x-ray centerfolds!

i cannot think of a better use of or abuse of medical technology.

here's to a fantastic new year! or should i say, nude year?

cb

re: hand of mysteries....

hand of mysteries......for your new year!


cb

re: custom cabinets!!!!!

my new direction in the new year!

new custom cabinets.

cb

re: god save the queen.....

god save the queen.

cb

re: new gear.

in the new year, i'm going to start building custom cabinets.

contact me if you want one!

cb

re: xmas with the kids.....

for all the parents,

you know what this is about.

cb

re: gems

might have posted this, can't recall.

either way. it's sweet.

cb

re: another lost gem

meh,

another lost gem.

cb

re: haha! time!

hahahah!

if only!

cb

re: christmas without the kids.

haha,

my usual typical xmas without the kids.

cb

re: art.

i love art.

and visual metaphor.

enjoy!!!

cb

re: another new old piece of art.

more new old art.

enjoy.

cb

re: new art!

hello lovers,

new art.


cb

re: old new art.

hello lovers,

part of my goal to hit 200 posts this year. for the hell of it.

i found this in the bose archives. don't think i've posted it.

enjoy.

cb

re: calmer than you are. punk.

i've survived many, many so called "doomsday scenarios." 

damn.

well, keep calm and carry on.

cb

re: new years revolutions.

above.

those are my new year revolutions.

apparently, i can do the first one no prob, but the second, as so i'm told, will be impossible.

meh.

worth a try! haha!

cb

re: r.i.p. another brother down.

damn.

you know you're getting old when you're favourite musicians are dying.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ministry_guitarist_mike_scaccia_dead_at_47.html

bummer.

cb

re: verotica.

i like this one, even though the beautiful woman looks a hell of a lot like my ex. meh, a few years ago maybe. ouch!!!!

cb

re: skulls and beauty

oh hell one more.

cb

re: everyone has a secret desire.

one more for the night!

enjoy!

cb

re: more verotic art.

jello fiends, fans, foe and fum!

why all the reotic art? i don't know. why not?

cb

re: neurotic. erotic. etc.

people act weird with a little nudity. so what? see, i put in a couple wolves for you native art purists out there, as well as some ndn's doing a ghost dance in front of a pyramid spewing fire. you know. for you.

enjoy,

cb
ps: plus a little jesus coyote for blasphemy!!! oh yeah!!!

re: unpublished jesus coyote.

this is smutty.

hahahahah.

silly jesus coyote. 

re: neurotic.

something erotic?

or is smutty?

re: one more blackout.....artists design....

one final blackout artists poster, thing, shirt design. decadent and debauched.

just the way it should be. well, sometimes. haha.

cheers,

cb

re: more blackout artists!

More experiments with the blackout artists.

cb

re: more BOA stuff

hello ginners, dinners and blinners,

some more blackout artists stuff i worked on over the holidays.

stay tuned!

cb

re: 200!

hello sinners, winners, and free dinners!

i'm going to try to break 200 posts this year!

what the hell?

hold tight!

cb

some album art i was messing about for the blackout artists.

cb

re: flickr page updates!

hello sinners, winners, ginners and whatever,

what else is new artwise? OH! i updated my flickr page last night, with about 38 new images!

check it here!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbose1/8310868622/in/photostream

this chick is weirdly attractive.

i found this book before the holidays

and had a great laugh! 

tried finding this one, couldn't.

and generally have been feeling like this

a lot lately.

adios,

cb

re: hilarious interview.

hello sinners, winners, livers and lovers,

hope you are having a great holiday. i am. life is good.

just found this interview today with alexisonfire on youtube today and it is sooooo funny.

had to share.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Sx_iUSe7E

click on the above link and love it!

what else? my "Red Fang" cover band, "Red Fong" is opening up for Mastodon on the road.

and my next tattoo is gonna be by this kid!

seems legit?

oh, and here's my xmas card, albeit belated!

until next time lovers,

cb

re: one more new piece of a.........art.......

hello sinners, winners, freaks and lovers,

i was going to try to break 250 posts on my blog this year, but realized, that was too goddamn ambitious, and not realistic.

plus, i needed a break, my brain can only handle so much shit and abuse. i've been busting my ass since march of this year on the road, and it ain't easy! sure, some people think being an artist is a piece of cake, sitting in your lonely tower, creating new stuff for the world. but it ain't like that at all. there's about 30,000 km worth of hustle each year that goes into being a "professional" artist and that's a lot of cross country trips and airports and layovers and skybars and workshops and exhibitions and meet and greets and art juries and satanic presentations and festivals and conferences and interviews and whatever over and over again until you really puke your guts out. at least 150 times a year. no shit. really. it's just that simple.

AND THEN, you have to be ON every single fucking time. because god forbid, that if you are not ON that one time, people will totally shit talk you, blacklist you, blackmail you and treat like you are an intestinal parasite. because they are not out there on the road slogging it out like you and don't know what it's like crisscrossing the country like you do to pay the bills on top of everything else you do like being a mentor, a community leader, a father and so on.

anyway, i digress, and what i meant to say, is i've got some more new art for you, and new music coming soon, so enjoy! dig in! feast your eyes!

until next time lovers, sinners, and winners,


cb.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

hope all is well in your wood of the necks. things are fine in mine, but i'm bored as hell. haven't been doing art lately, self-imposed exile, but i'm back at it and excited.

and i'm looking for a drummer. someone who can play decent heavy stoner rock style like below link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuRKRFjm-HA

in the meantime sinners and winners,

enjoy some new art.

cb

re: heavy metal guitar.

this is a rare sneak peek into my private space. it's not that i don't like people, i just feel better when they're not around. haha.

anyway, in this video, at 1:50, i achieve climax, and everything goes dark after that. hahaha, kidding, that's a line from american dad.

but still at 1:50, i've had my groove on......

this was three years ago, cutting loose late at night in the studio........

adios,


cb

re: been busy.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

my apologies for not posting, i've been mad busy.

planning next year's activities for the arbor collective, such as exhibitions, publications, music, film and so on.......

anyway, here's a short video of my friend playing guitar on my gear. she's prettier than me. haha.

enjoy,

cb

re: sequence 14

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here's another short film for you, hope you dig it. i'm having some fun making them.

all the best,


cb

re: sequence 13

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

had a cabaret type event at my place this past weekend. it was awesome. i'll do it again soon.

in the meantime, i'll post a few videos from that night and give you a break from my guitar playing.

until next time lovers, and have a happy halloween,


cb

re: sequence 11

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

sequence 11, a new video for you. i'm going to record some heavier guitar stuff and upload it. too much acoustic is like too much sugar, it'll make you soft. 

in the meantime. i'll keep on keepin' on, and it's been fun making videos everyday. who knows where it'll end up. 

until tomorrow,

cb

re: sequence 12

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

a video, i'm getting things all messed up. too many videos. anyway, this one is trippy and i quite like it.

it's a bit dark, but don't be a sissy, it's got a beautiful ending!

until next time,

cb

re: sequence 9

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here is a video from about a year or so ago. i didn't remember where i recorded it until i watched it a couple times. such is life.

adios,


cb

re: new video

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

back in the day, we used to record riffs or songs onto ghetto blasters and cassette tapes. mountains of them accumulated and then we got too lazy to go through them, so we'd just write new ones. the gems would prevail though, a good riff here or there, a melody, something. now it's cyber, and i've got mountains of riffs again because i'm bored and want to tour again as a musician. i miss the stage. 

next year will be that year, finished a new book, working on new films and new music.

see you on the road!

cb.

re: sequence 8

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i hope you are enjoying these guitar videos.

they have been fun to work on, and this is pushing my filmmaking in new boundaries. 

enjoy this one. 

cb

re: sequence 6

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i'm home again and it's fricken freezing!!

in my travels i saw lots of NDN's chopping and stacking wood. so, with that logic, i'd say it's gonna be a cold winter. i asked them why they were chopping wood and and they had no real answer other than saying "it's cold and gonna be a cold one this year!"

to keep you warm, check this video.

haha.

cheers,


cb

re: a new film

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here is an electric guitar video for you. 

try not to pee your pants.

adios,

until next time lovers,


cb

re: 2 git-tars!

hello friends, fans, foe and lov

re: finger riff and traveling stuff....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i'm back at it, on fire, or perhaps, "FIYAH!!!"

or something thereabout.

anyways, i've got tons of riffs i need to get out of my head and into the cosmos.

but i didn't just want to post boring old videos of me playing guitar. so, here's what i've done instead, make fruity, trippy, weird videos. so, enjoy?

cheers,

CB

re: sequence 5

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

a fresh new jive just for you.

all the bets,

cb.

re: a new film!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

another exciting new video for you. 

for the next 30 days or so, i'll be posting new riffs, songs, ideas, ramblings and the like online. i travel a shitload, so i'm using footage i've accumulated over the past four years of cross country madness.

i hope you enjoy them.

all the best,

cb

ps: they will get stranger and more experimental as i go further down the filmmaking spiral. like this video, which is very david lynch. haha.

re: enowkin jam sesh

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here's today's "Riff of the Day"

recorded a couple years ago at the Enowkin Centre, an awesome place i love to go to and teach film.

enjoy!

cb

re: riffager

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

one more riff for the road.

adios,

cb

re: riffs and art for a month.....

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i'm planning on posting a riff a day for a month, as well as new art and stuff.

riff one, below is from october 26, 2008, the year it all fell apart and fell back together. the master plan.

so, kick back and let me entertain you, here you are now.

cheers,


cb

re: moments between salvation and hell.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

one more video before i get some rest. the kids must go to school and i must pretend i fit in this stupid game one more day.

even though i may bitch about it, i'm happiest on the road. if i can't see my kids every day, then i would rather be touring every day and seeing them every two weeks.

it beats sitting around tearing yourself apart in between those moments of salvation and hell.

until next time lovers,


cb
ps: dig my "O" faces in this video or what? hahahahah! heavy riffs, i shit them out. like a riff junkie. haha.

re: selling lies disguised as truth. or trust.

if i won ten or twenty million dollars i'd take some serious time off and heal my body.

over the past 4 decades or so, i've beaten the hell out of it.

i'm starting to notice it.

in this form, this reality, i'm not going to last forever.

and i'm getting real tired of jumping through all these bullshit hoops to just do what i want to do that i would do just to cover my bills. but i'm getting older now and think of my kids more.

sigh.

i work and slave to change the cultural landscape of canada and to provide for my family. while bankers get richer, businessmen get fatter and politicians lie deeper. sometimes i just want to say fuck it all.

until next time lovers,

cb
ps: obviously, by the video, i don't take myself that seriously. but i rock. haha.

re: the dangers of art.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

just some deep thoughts from jack handy, in concerns with the dangers of the arts and art world. mainly, the lack of danger and sense of excitement. all too often lately, through my various travels, the artists i have met scare me in that i have a nearly jaw breaking yawn by hanging out with them. they seem like bean counters, dress like accountants, or business people, have become boring administrators and lost all sense of danger, enthusiasm, or excitement.

more often than not, i am the lone wild man, the lone wolf, or coyote, seeking adventures in new cities. they would rather go antiquing while i am drawn to danger, to death, to adventure and seek the thrills of discovering a new city or new places in an old city. while they look as though they would fold over in a windstorm because of the starch in their collars, i hoist the skull and bones and call out to others seeking adventure.

after several gatherings i've been to over the years, i've finally met my match, and it was on the other side of the country, at a symposium of national level artists, arts administrators, researchers, curators, educators and the like. it was mainly native or first nations, and the devil may care attitude was prevalent and refreshing. it felt so good to be surrounded by others cut from the same cloth of a pirate flag and we had charged dialogue, crazy adventures, fearsome hangovers, and amazing collaborations came about. the spirit of creativity guided us, and as a colleague suggested, "we all come from very solitary practices, so when we get together like this, of course it is going to get a little out of hand, it has to!"

i couldn't agree more.

other artists ask me how i got to where i am today in a very short period of time. (20 years!) and i have no definitive answer other than be bold. create the art that inspires you. don't care what others say. don't listen to them. don't be molded. be fearless. take chances. and be open to opportunities. this year i've had 5 exhibitions, 5 publications, organized a music festival and curated 2 exhibitions, as well as done countless workshops and an artist residency.

but this is what i wanted, and i sacrificed everything to get here. so really, there is no excuses to not accomplish anything.

until next time lovers,


stay dangerous

cb.

re: new art and stuff.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

more art for you.

just finished a 212 page manuscript that i'm sending in to my publisher and hopefully they'll dig it.

organizing more workshops and getting ready to take the arbor collective to non-profit status recognized by the province of b.c.

life is good and busy. i love it.

until next time lovers,


cb

The Jesus Coyote Slot Machine is online

and available to play here:

http://coryhope.ca/slot.html

God Save the Queen?!

a riff i recorded.

re: new art.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

god save the queen. 

again. 

re: god save the queen II

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

more god save the queen. 

cb