re: a new whip.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i've been busy, which is good. i enjoy it, and being occupied is good, it keeps me out of trouble. speaking of which, the 1st photo, sure looks like dealing to me. plastic caps. in baggies. when will this be illegal? 

dealing.

my new whip. well, one day.

bender rodriguez, my hero.

well, that about wraps it up boys and girls, stay out of trouble.

cb

re: the empire and crushing rebel scum.

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i love star wars and the empire, when i was a kid, i wanted to run away and join the empire so i could get a cool stormtrooper costume, or be boba fett with the cool jet pack. sadly, it never happened, but i get closer to the dream every day.

in the meantime, check the victoria boba and darth vader, as well as some revisions of WW II posters in a star wars sense.

cheers,

cb

re: acceptable grey......

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i saw this and thought it was awesome! knew i had to share it!

to me, it represents the idiocy and lack

of vision graffiti task force vandals have, because 

yes,

they are vandals, facists and thugs even

painting over art

is like burning books.

never, paint over good art.

bad art, meh, go for it.

hahahahahahahahaa.

enjoy

Cb

re: sexy.

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i am back to making art with my hands, pens, cans, markers, pencil, brushes, paint and of course, the ever trusty mac computer. evil concubine whore that it is, i am it's servant.

anyway, here's an assortment of images i'm digging.

until next time, i'll post something new,

all the bets,

cb

the above image, would have been 

great fun to do!

handies, tags, whatever.

a dope, fresh burner!

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a little something i drew for my kids.

jamming.

get away bitches!

i don't really care what she's saying

i just thought she was sexy

in a dirty hippy kinda way.

you know it!

this is sexy.

jamming.

how america see's the world.

daddy wants!

oh yeah baby!

get inside the van!

huhhhhhh!

tight work.

sure, whatever you say baby.

i want my studio

like this

my very own studio.

you guessed it!

sweet visuals!

i want a shirt

from this store!

cool phoenix/skeleton thing

in the middle.

gotta love Tool.

re: fair warning.......

Greetings friends, fans, foe and lovers,

working on some new art, jeez, what a surprise, but also listening to this album, "Fair Warning," by Van Halen. I remember buying it over 30 years ago, because of the art, which is trippy and violent, even though I knew about Van Halen already, i knew this album was going to be different based on the artwork. and holy shit was it ever different, dark, trippy, heavy, and at times evil and scary.

it's stood the test of time, and is one of my favourite albums.

anyways, i just checked online and the artwork was done by a Canadian named William Kurelek, and the artwork is called, "The Maze."

there's even a film about it.

so there you go, a little history lesson for you, and some of what inspires my art.

until next time,

all the bets,


cb

I was sold on the album art.

front and back cover

i bought the record, i think it was a lot

like 20 bucks or something,

i could be wrong though.

a dope ass guitar!

the original art.

re: new ideas.....

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

I just came up with a dope idea.

I'm going to shorten the name to "ARBOR COLLECTIVE" in case anyone gets confused, the trip AAAC is cool, but brevity is cooler. AND, i'm going to work on an artist in residency program where we get an artist, and work together as a true collective somewhere out at Shuswap lake, and build a barge/houseboat, create art, display art on the vessel, learn water safety, create ecological awareness of the impact of thousands of people living near the water, the land, the aquatic wildlife, float around the shuswap doing out-stallations (outdoor exhibitions) and workshops, as well as working on community gardens and creating awareness of food solidarity before floating down the South Thompson river and having an exhibition in Kamloops at the End of Summer.

how cool is that?

i'm gonna make it happen.

in the meantime, i've been drawing and painting again i am stoked.

here's a sketch i did the other night when i couldn't sleep. norval morrisseau rocks!

all the bets,



cb

re: no rest for the artist. or wicked.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers, ex's too.....

i couldn't sleep. i have my kids, it's awesome, we've had an exciting weekend, and so instead of sleeping i made art. i feel happy, the fair is in town, so we went to that, i had a storytelling gig yesterday, we did that and it was great fun, and today, i'm not sure what we'll do, but will make the most of it.

anyway, i made some art, it's totally a norval morrisseau knockoff, but so what, i enjoyed making it, and thought i might as well post it. enjoy!

cb

re: open letter to the task force.....

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,


This is a letter i wrote to the graffiti task force, they know i do graffiti workshops and supposedly were trying to get ahold of me. they did, sort of, but not much dialogue has happened. only these kinds of things. near pointless facebook messages and phone calls from me to an answering machine anyways, check it out. graffiti and public art and art in general are things i believe in a great deal. the letter speaks for itself. 


"hi _______, i tried getting a hold of ronnie, no luck, again, the public art issue is out. 


i think kamloops graffiti "problem" could be described in 3 ways. 


there are taggers, who tag everywhere. like that's ever gonna stop?! 


there are burners, who do those complex "wildstyle" pieces, that are actually REALLY hard to do, it takes a lot of time, money and patience to do those. 


there are a people who do characters/mural type stuff. few and far between. 


i think kamloops should promote murals and get graffiti artists doing them. even wildstyle pieces, there's a few around town that have never been hit, for example, the one by the BC lotto building was done 5 years ago, a legal wall and has never been buffed by other writers. 


please go buy the new issue of Juxtapoz magazine, it's got some geezer playing guitar on the cover, it's the "public art" issues and has key interviews with people who organize street art festivals in norway and southern italy, both with interesting challenges and successes. 


there's also an interview with 2 of my favourite artists Saber and Revok, from LA and they are incredibly sharp and insightful on their situation, as LA has declared war on graffiti. it's interesting to hear their point of view.


either way you look at it, art improves the quality of life in people. it's in hospitals, mental health institutions, prisons have artists programs, and so on. 


when i drive around town and see many potential walls for murals and i just see the KGTF painting them over in battleship grey or monkeyshit brown, i get a little sad. 


potential artists and creativity are being crushed and rolled over in a weirdly totalitarian way. 


a great wall to hit would be the derelict building above the blue bridge, on the left hand side, above the car dealership, hell the canada games pool even, make on cohesive mural or do a lotto draw of squares to artists. 


i find it ironic this town has tens of millions of dollars for sports, but fuck all for arts. you can apply for a $1500 dollar grant from the city? get with the times kamloops. 


we are so indoctrinated into believing graffiti and street art is bad, and will be bad for business, it started in the 1980's in New York, and the mayor Guliani blabbing about his "broken window" theory. it's crap and been disproved many times over, but there's money in graffiti removal, not a lot in this town, but in a major metropolitan area, lots of money.


money for contractors, clean up crews, administrators and so on, and the demonization of graffiti creates a large bureaucracy that sucks money that could otherwise be going to schools or art programs. 


all over some people with spray cans? come on. 


the task force will never, ever win, it's like a war on jealousy, at no time with the task force ever be able to say, "well, that's it, we got'em all!ever. 


i challenge the task force to pick up a can and try to do something with it. spend a couple hours or even an hour after your next meeting trying to do even a simple throwie. and not with cheap cans too, use the cans graffiti artists use, ironlak, fresh paint, or rusto. none of them are cheap. 


i was a bit let down when i got the answering machine message at the task force, it seemed to me like 'business as usual. well, i'd rather meet and talk with you to be honest, i've got a feeling i'd just get a runaround.or we can dialogue like this if you like. 


all the best,




Chris Bose.






well, there you have it, they wanted my opinion on the matter and i gave it to them. will they do anything with it? doubt it. 

                                 


                    

i love art.

it should never be criminalized. 

or seen as a "nuisance."

or bad for business.

re: updates!

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i hope this post finds you well on the intranet and the world around you. things are going well, it feels good to be creating art in the real world and the virtual world. the warm weather is arriving, so i find myself out more often, hiking, walking and climbing around town and in nature. the green is coming back from a dormant winter and it's amazing. 

working on a garden project too, so my kids can see where food comes from, not just a grocery store, so i've got all kinds of veggies sprouted from seedlings and we'll be transplanting them this weekend. good times. messy! fun! i suggest you do the same!

it's good to see people smiling again, winter takes so much energy out of people, it really drains them and you can see the vibrancy of life seeping back as the weather gets warmer, the days get longer and the sky seems bluer. 

i'm really enjoying it. anyways, i'm working on a few things, and will keep you posted, in the meantime, check out these images that are inspiring, enraging, engaging and what have ye. 

until next time lovers,

housing is on my mind.

i want my own house.

i want a place my kids can come visit and stay

anytime they want.

this man is scum.

evil, manipulative, controlling and then

there's his bad side.

i love david choe's art and lifestyle

he's a crazy one man art mafia

conquering the world

and he inspires me

like crazy.

proof you don't have to suck ass

to get where you want in life.

i have no idea what this is about

but i thought it was funny and weird.

some days, i feel like this kid.

later lovers,

chrisbose.