re: street art........

hello friends, foe, fans and lovers,

here's some cool art by some guy named 'kyoti,' i'd say each piece is 7 x 15 feet in size. is this graffiti or street art?

thoughts?

should it be illegal?

until next time,

cb

re: street art and murals......

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

getting some youth inspired and working with kobra cans for the first time on 4 x 8 sheets of plywood, new mediums to explore and express themselves. when i do mural or graffiti workshops, i lay down the unwritten rules, or laws or codes of street art. once they know the rules, tagging and nuisance graffiti stops by 99% in the schools where we go, and people get more serious about the art and technique and using legal walls or making their own walls at home. 

vilifying and criminalizing a means of creative expression never works. people have been drawing and painting on walls for nearly 30,000 years, i don't see it stopping anytime soon. providing safe places for a creative means of expression is the way to go. instead of making our kids go to dangerous places crawling over broken bottles, needles and other hazardous things to just paint on a damn wall is ridiculous. ottawa has open walls and spaces to do graffiti and it's awesome. if people in kamloops think we have a graffiti problem, they've obviously never left this city and been across canada. i've seen cities that have graffiti 'problems,' and believe me, kamloops is about the safest, most beige city i've ever been in my entire life.

re: first day of snow.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

the snow has hit the loops, kamloops, bc that is, and it's coming down like crazy. which is both good and bad, i like it, because it isn't so damn gloom and doom because in the fall/winter this place is unrelentingly grey. i can't take it. the snow makes it brighter, which makes me happier. i think i need to move to new mexico or somewhere warmer and sunnier. i ain't talking tropics, but mountains and sun. i've spent my whole life living in the mountains and whenever i've lived elsewhere, i can't handle it. 

anyways, just a quick update, i've been working on new songs for 'the monster project,' and we'll have an album ready to go in the next couple weeks. it's heavy, groovy and haunting!

i'll post more stuff later!

cheers,

cb

re: a moon moon made of copper

Hello lovers, fans, friends and foe,

how's it going? here's a new video offering, a video poem for my new book called, "A moon made of copper," featuring music by yours truly and my old pal Sean Luciw. We recorded this in about 2003, but i think i wrote it back in the 1990's.

making some good changes in my life, and will be continuing to upload new things as times go on and i get on with it.

cheers,


cb

re: street legal.....

hi lovers,

here's some street art that myself and KAST painted recently at a local high school in Kamloops, BC. after several years of doing FREE workshops in high schools, it feels good to finally get somewhere. although now, there's plenty of competition whereas there once none before. we started a good thing, and now others are getting on the workshop train. it's crazy. we're trying to show people that street art is vibrant, colourful, a safe means of self-expression, not gang related, not vandalism if done legally and properly. 

we did this in about an hour and a half. when we get going we can crush it out quickly.

enjoy,

cb

as you can see, we start with 6 sheets of plywood

at 4 x 8 feet in size.

they were from an art show we had at Arnica Artist Run Centre

we never buffed the wood, we just painted over them

at this time of year, buffing a wall means waiting over an hour

for the paint to dry before you can start painting.

I did two new fun characters and KAST wrote

some fresh new letters.

literally it is an explosion of colour.

Juxtaposed against the bland wall

of the high school, it just leaps out

adding much needed colour and life.

re: 1001 posts

hello friends, family, ex's, lovers and fans,

hope all is well in your world, i'm doing alright in mine. just painted a bunch of murals across canada, starting in montreal at a 'decolonizing street art,' festival, the 1st year, then i was in prince albert, saskatchewan where the indigenous people's artist collective commissioned me to paint a large mural for their 2 story cafe festival. i also did a book launch there for my new book, 'a moon made of copper,' then i went to vancouver and victoria for art, book launch and a gig with "the monster project," the band for the grunt gallery's 30 anniversary party. things didn't go as planned, but i still had fun in vancouver. then i was in boundary country where i ended my little mural tour across canada and had a lot of fun and met a lot of great people.

so, for now, here's a few photos from the boundary country mural i did with the grade 11/12 class, and something for you to check out. as well as some graff i did here in kamloops at a local high school with my bro KAST. it's nice to be able to finally paint stuff legally and have fun, while bringing art to the streets and the students. opening minds and ideas to street art, proving it can be fun, safe and non-gang related. i'm going to breathe some life back to my blog and start posting again.  been through a lot the past year or two, and was burnt out and tired, but i'm finally feeling good. taking a bit of a break from the art world has been great. the band i'm in, "the monster project," is exciting and fun, mixing heavy guitars, atmospheric guitars and with dj beats and live visuals by Deano Hunt and Bracken Hanuse Corlett respectively.

well, we'll talk more soon and i hope you come back and keep checking out the blog and art, and adventures!

cheers,

cb

the concept sketch

the concept sketched in on the wall

the tarp to protect us

and the mural from the elements.

first gig with scaffolding

putting the kids to work!

get'r done!

painting.

ladder painters

the art teacher was 6 foot 9

we used kobra cans

for the waves

but ran out.

and ordered more

they arrived on the final day

of painting.

whew.

the finished mural!

took 8 days, at about 10 - 12 hours or so

in total.