re: more stories from the road.....

Hello lovers,

i hope you are well, this suite of photos finds you looking down the barrel of my life, a gun that blasts day after day, photos, and these particular ones are from the gopro hero camera. hence the crazy panoramic widescreen imagery. 

i'll tell you a bit about each photo. 

until next time lovers, 

stay clean, think dirty. 

cb

english bay, vancity, bc

with my kids

at the end of a very long day

in the sun

that's my son at the bottom left in blue.

2 of 3 of my kids chilling in front of the vancity pubic library

which was featured in the terry gilliam film, at the end, of

"the imaginarium of dr. parnassus.

i made my kids watch that film

to refresh their memories

explaining to them that tom waits 

wasn't really the devil

it's just that some of us sit

closer to the throne.

a secret spot holy to our secwepemc  territory

a place where legends and stories

are born and created.

winding down a five day long

workshop series in conjunction with beat nation

at the kamloops art gallery

that's shealagh, with fingers in her nose,

nigel z in the background looking on

and yours truly staring into the lens.

it was a graffiti workshop series

but 35 degrees out every day

and if you can't tell, we're in a concrete bunker all day.

whatev's it beats pouring concrete all day.

the sunshine coast

looking southwest towards vancouver island

and the city of nanaimo

which strangely reminds me

of kamloops, they both have that same

blue collar vibe.

i was visiting my bro bracken and deano

and it was a bro down fo sho!

hahaha! 

re: fragments in time......

Hello lovers,

hope the end of summer is treating you well, i'm enjoying the shift in the weather to the cooler temperatures these days, six weeks or so of 35c and up was getting a bit much. it was relentless and punishing towards the end of that stint. especially when traveling, it can make a trip that much more grueling. 

below are some fragments from the road, moments in time i would like to remember forever.

that's a great part of my job as an artist, i get to travel and see and do things usually only locals do, but all across the country. a person's fave pub, or swimming spot, or favourite hike, restaurant, book store, etc, etc.

until next time,

cb

a lot of traveling is also waiting. 

the above photo is the glamourous 

spot i waited to transfer buses to lytton.

i've sat in fancy airport lounges 

all over the world raiding booze fridges

before security catches me

but nothing gets more real

than being on the side of the road

it was blazing hot, behind a gas station i found shade 

and plucked away on my guitar

and sipped beer while

watching people bring their

travel dogs to the back to piss and shit

while i noodled away on the gitbox.

this was friends of mine attic space

it is exactly like my grandparents old attic

that has long since burned to the ground

so every morning when i woke up here

i was reminded of my childhood.

bittersweet memories.

this was again at my friends place

and i was sitting outside playing guitar

enjoying the cool mist of the water

and the sounds the drops made on that 

buddhist looking bell 

chiming away with the drops of water

it was peaceful and a great

way to wake up.

this was n'kemcin

where the waters meet

and not far from the spiritual heart

of our territory.

a very special place

and i woke up and walked here every morning

enjoying the sound of the rushing

waters and peaceful quiet.

re: Net-Eth: Going out of the darkness

Hello lovers,

one last post about an upcoming exhibition i'm in Vancouver for soon. come see me. read the poster below. i'll be at the malaspina printmakers location Sept 12, as well as at the Unit/Pitt "god save the queen," show at the Unit/Pitt gallery on Pender. 

come say hi! buy me a beer! haha!

until next time,

cb

ps: as my friend david mackintosh said, "it's chris bose week in vancouver!" haha! 

as always, "click" on the photo

to make it larger and legible!

re: marvin strange......

Hello lovers,

meet marvin strange, he's in the current exhibition at Arnica Artist Run Centre and will be in the upcoming Vancouver, BC, exhibition at the unit/pitt show launching September 13, with Kast and Brack Amphibian! Come check them out! I've been working as a curator on this show for a year, so it'll kick ass!!

come say why don't ya?!

until next time lovers,

CB.

re: current exhibition.......at Arnica.....Artist......Run......Centre.....

Hello lovers,

here's a graff video i worked on for an exhibition that is currently running at Arnica Artist Run Centre here in Kamloops, BC. It features a guy named Kyoti doing some painting. I hope you enjoy it's trippiness. 

all the bets,

cb

as always, click on the photo for

a larger version. 

re: upcoming show.

hello lovers,

a new film for an upcoming show at the Belkin Gallery in Vancouver, at UBC. 

Savage. Heathen.

Something i've been called many times in my life, and now that i'm overcoming all that hate, slander and racism, as well as impossible odds, it feels good. damn good. to finally be able to take over cities and kick ass. all that work, endless nights of making music, or writing or making art, are finally starting to pay off. where it all goes, we'll have to see. until then, i've got more work to do.

i'm exhausted, but there's more work to be done.

until next time lovers,

cb

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the above film is at the above gallery. 

re: introducing beastabrook.....

hello lovers,

meet my friend beastabrook.......creator of hybrid creatures and new forms of beasts.......

myself, beastabrook, kast and marvin strange an exhibition going on at Arnica Artist Run Centre, downtown Kamloops, BC, in the old courthouse.......come check it........

cb

re: new videos for arnica artist show!

hello lovers,

some new videos are done for the show at Arnica Artist Run Centre. part of the "Underworld: the Underground Art of Kamloops," exhibition currently on at the Old Courthouse, Arnica location, on 1st and Seymour. 

check your head!?

cb

re: one more for the road! post #964 on this blog! woot!

hello lovers,

this is post #964 since i started this blog back in 2008. how much has my life changed? so damn much. i'm doing everything i wanted to be doing and living life more or less the way i wanted and want. 

a couple million bucks wouldn't hurt though! haha!

anyways, these are the last random images i'll post today, but don't worry there's more to come as it's been a helluva crazy 6 weeks that just roared past. 

until next time lovers,

enjoy,

cb

the bullfrog!

my reading in Lytton, BC

organized by the TNRD, and Two Rivers Farmers Market!

best coffee and espresso in Lytton, BC!

Kevin Loring being a fan!

cloudporn over lytton, bc.

gordon of Two Rivers Farmers Market

and his awesome coffee machine!

papparazi in lytton, bc!

re: graffiti workshop for beat nation!

Hello lovers,

i keep rolling out the hits, i feel like i'm boxing again! one, two, three, knockout! haha. kidding.

some photos from the graffiti workshops we did at TRU last month, it feels like forever ago already. damn. 

we painted 80 feet of wall 5 times in 5 days. these kids were maniacs! thanks to the kamloops art gallery and marlaina buch, i hope i got your name right, for coordinating that shit for us. it was hella tight and lots of fun! the kids slayed it!

until next,

cb

some kobra cans. nice and bright!

some graffiti

the usual suspects!

re: a few more......

hello lovers,

a few more from the valley,

cb

re: botanie valley.

lovers,

i bring some photos from the beautiful botanie valley. 

it's nice to be home for once in the summer. i mean, i was on the road, but not like usual. no jets. no cross country trips. home.

cb

re: more images out of my head into yours!

hello lovers,

more images out of my head into yours. it's been a crazy 6 weeks!

cb

coyote always there for me! 

haha!

re: residency update.

hello lovers,

so the arbour residency is over. done. finished. how do i feel about it? okay. life is for living and learning, and what should have been a more one on one community based residency with adrian stimson was sort of blown up into a crazy monstrosity of 10 other artists. it wasn't what i was expecting.  it was perhaps a bit too much? it somewhat lacked curatorial leadership. it lacked more time on the land. hahahahaha. kidding. it was fine. it was fun. what am i being passive aggressive? haha. no, but you know, it was a fantastic experience, and i had some great conversations with some of the artists. that said, i did a similar large project a couple years ago with the Enowkin Centre, which became a great touring exhibition called, "Picto Prophecies," and to me, it had better results. we were more focussed. we spent more time on the land. on reserve. what i should have done was nut up and step up and taken more of a leadership role. meh. live and learn. i know more for next time. 

don't get me wrong, i had a good time. but i also can't really be around people for great lengths of time i've discovered. people need to create drama. need to create weirdness. and there were so many people in and out of my own place, workshops, upcoming exhibitions, visiting friends, colleagues, cohorts, conspirators, raconteurs, scoundrels and the like that for the past 6 weeks, i haven't had much alone time to reflect and think about all the incredible things i've seen and been a part of. 

now, i've got a couple weeks downtime, finally and thankfully, i can defragment my mind and contemplate all the things i've been through and process and make sense of things!? hahaha! 

but what i really want to do is catch up on a lot of missed sleep, lay on the couch, watch breaking bad, drink beer, fart, belch, sleep a bunch more and hide out in my man cave from the rest of the world. this is day three and i'm already feeling better. 

the human mind can only take so much abuse, overloaded visuals, information and crap. i've been on super high stimulation for so long that i am deeply enjoying waking up and staring at the walls in my bedroom for about an hour, stretching and thinking about life before i even get out of bed. incidentally, the walls in my bedroom are full of art. cheesy art. my kids art. heavy metal album art. all kinds. and blessed blank spaces i can stare at for some time. daydreaming. what a luxury. 

anyway, enjoy some photos from the residency. 

until next time,

cb

guess who's installation for the exhibition?

me and adrian stimson.

peter morin