re: new digital works............

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i'm watching season 2 of the HBO series "Deadwood," and it's pretty damn good. i picked up season 2 for $8 at value village and the 3rd Herman Treasury by Jim Unger, which is hilarious for $2. finally a decent score there. I love Ian McShanes character "Al Swearingen," because i'm a lot like that, haha.

I made some new digital art, first one in a long time, and i'm happy with it. but i'll be pushing the boundaries a lot more, but i had to go on familiar territory until i get my skills back up.

check it out,

all is well lovers,

see you soon,

cb

re: desert city queen.....

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers and leavers,

i bring you the desert city queen.

the other night some friends passed through town and some hijinks ensued. it was great fun.
but what it really did was remind me i'm somewhat isolated up here in the interior of b.c.

the night life consisted of running a gamut of crackheads and meth junkies between the three or four pubs that were open. 2 of which were total dives. haha.

and still, everything closed at 1 a.m.

i'm not part of the young, hipster art crowd, most of which is university driven of course, in fact i'm quite sure if i showed up at some hipster art gathering, arguably, they'd wonder whose dad i was! haha. and the rest of the various art cliques in this city, i am also not a part of, so where does that leave me you might wonder? usually at home making art! haha! which is more fun anyway.

i also watch "vice guide" on youtube, which is hilarious. vice was a magazine that came to prominence in the 1990's and was the cool magazine people loved because it was free. well, they're still around, and probably stronger than ever, and have their own youtube channel, which is chock full of hilarious and informative things. check it out. it's what helps keep me sane in this dust blown somewhat very redneck town while waiting for my kids to get older so we can leave. haha.

also, i curate art shows and work to build up the Arbour Collective, the group i co-founded with Nacoma George. we're really kicking ass and working hard to create our own arts and media centre here in kamloops, bc. and help represent urban aboriginal people with art shows, festivals, workshops and the like. why? because no one else is doing it.

there are many more reasons, but for now, i've got to go and pick up the art book/catalogue (i designed and worked on forever) from the printers. will post pictures and if you want a copy, private message me and i'll send you one.

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.

re: sacred beasts........

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

one more before i get some sleep, been working on these ones for some time, they haven't been easy, and spent most of the year working on them. but that's the beauty part,

until next time lovers,


cb

re: crow crazed.......

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers and evil doers,

i salute you all.

life is good, i'm busy making art and the world keeps on spinning.

check this one out, it's time for crows......

love'em.

cb

re: crow woman

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here's a couple new images, one about crow woman, and the other, the statistics on my blog.

thanks for stopping by, enjoy!?

cb

Crow Woman

Stats on my blog.

26,000 views! 

holy moly!

re: occult + the cult = southern death cult

hell-o friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i hope all is well in your galactic worlds. things are busy in mine, but i'm happier that way. when i was younger, uhm, much younger, i used to think that haggard, worn out cliche, "live fast die young," was cool.

well, now that dying didn't happen early, i'm much happier being alive. haha.

plus, technology caught up to what i see in my head, versus, what i could technically accomplish on my own. now i can make the art i want, play the music i want and make the films i want without having to be a millionaire.

not that i don't want to be a millionaire, because hey, let's face it, if anyone of us was given the option to be a millionaire, i don't think we'd turn down that opportunity. some of us would buy stupid, status symbol, expensive crap, i'd buy art supplies. and guitars.

haha.

well, this latest occult image that i've been working on, one of many, is an homage to cheesy 1970's occult movie posters. ah the 1970's, so bad, and so good simultaneously. i was just a wee kid back then, and i listened to AC/DC, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, KISS, Jimi Hendrix, Ted Nugent and the first Def Leppard album. my favourite album was "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap." i was a headbanger back then, i'm a headbanger now. my dad listened to those albums, and i remember looking at the album art, and wondering "wow, what made them make such crazy album covers?"

sadly, this is something i think is lost in our modern age, unless you count video game covers as the new "album" for kids to check out. lame-cakes.

but i remember the Merritt theatre always had posters and i would also check'em out, and i loved the beautiful women in the 1970's posters, they were hot, busty and scantily clad. what boy or perhaps even girl wouldn't like those posters?!?!

(people with a rant about sexism, exploitation and other important issues, please feel free to leave now.)

so, there you go, the inspiration behind this image, which isn't finished, but it'll do for now.

all the beast,


cb

re: portals........

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

portals.

we either ignore them or go through them. right now, i'm screaming for a portal. life is and isn't going as planned. things could always be better, perhaps that is part of the human condition. the perpetual want.

anyways, here's a piece about portals. as to it's exact meaning, fcuked if i know. although i do know i made this after reading some backslapping bullcrap about native artists. people need to get back to earth, into the trenches. i am in the trenches all the time, in fact, i'm even literally underground making art, for art's sake. maybe that's part of the problem, i need to get out of the trenches. the trouble is, when i'm in a room full of backslapping phonies and people who way over-intellectualize art, to justify their MFA and PH.D's in art, or philosophy or whatever the hell people were selling that year, my ass twitches, my spine aches, my brain begins to get sucked dry from all the hot air being blown around and i simply either get liquored and freak out, or i have to leave before i vomit. i can only stand so much bullshit, and the older i get, the less i can stand. i've been doing this a long time, toiling away in obscurity. meh. that said, i am looking into getting my M.F.A. at a university. haha. watch me eat my own words.

haaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaanom nom nom nom.......

maybe now i'll get the attention, fame and fortune i so richly deserve.

bwahahahahahahahaha. kidding about the fame. stuff the fame. the money i'll always take.

haha.

until next time lovers,


cb.

i think this is about the 2face nature of the art world

perhaps, the world in general.

king for a day

fool for a lifetime.

re: the goddessesessesesssss

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

someone asked me i had given up on digital art. go to hell i replied, christ i need a break, and it ain't even a break because i've got a bunch of digital art on the go all the time. can't a guy experiment? haha!

truth is, i needed real time art, as in, "get your hands dirty," art instead of the clean world of digital stuff.

plus, i'm writing, playing music and generally working on a ton of other things. life is good and busy, and it's not even as busy as i want it to be, so there.

funny things happen when you get off the sauce, you rub your eyes, and see a lot of time has passed by in a blur. so, right now, i'm reading lots, writing lots, working on grants, projects, art, film, music and all sorts of good things.

well, all the beast to you then,


cb

the goddesseseseseses...

new art for you.

i think this is inspired by the art of "the shining"

and scatman crother's had 2 paintings 

of these african goddesses behind him

on his wall at his house. 

i wonder. huh huh.

1st world problems

affecting the rest of the world.

bart is right.

secret places.

re: new art....digital art......

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here's some new art just for you. i hope you dig it!

peace,


cb

ps: don't ask what it's about, i have no idea, but i like it. and the girl kinda looks like me ex. weird. nothing freudian about that though, seriously.

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

re: happy holidays from Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art!!!

Hello friends, fans, lovers, and the like,

happy holidays, i hope you are enjoying the season with friends, family and good cheer!

i'm adjusting to life at the Alternator Centre, but it's great and we're going to have a fun year coming up!

a new city, a new gig and a new life,

what the hell, let's have some fun and blow some minds!

cheers,

cb
ps: it's sad to see Jen Pickering go, but she'll always be close and we hope she has fun in mexico! and props to my new workmate, the one, the only Heather Martin!!!

do come see us at the Alternator in the new year! Kelowna, Rotary Centre for the Arts Building.......

re: there's no way out of here.....

i'm wrestling with a new style............it's kinda obvious......spent the night doing research for a variety of projects..........

keep you posted kids!

and if you wanna buy any of the art in this blog, email me at:

chrisbose1@yahoo.ca

and i can do it to your specs........

coz i wanna sell some art! ha ha!

rent!!!

anyway, stay tuned for some new directions in my art.........

cheers,

chrisbose.

re: sometimes it feels like..........

i was listening to a song by Tamara Nile last night as i was working on this artwork, it was from her "Cabin Song" EP, actually i was listening to the title track, and thinking about my own kids, they're all so small.....out of the five kids i've got, four are under the age of seven......and four are girls.......

i'm on the road all the time, it's been about two years solid now, well, i mean i get to go home for a week or two, but for the kind of art, or film, or music, or writing, that i do, i can only make a living on the road......and canada is so vast, so it entails a lot of traveling........i can't go back to construction work, i've been charting this course a long time, so i'm starting to realize, i want to start taking them on the road with me.......and i want to head over to europe to do my thing........just need some representation or as i tend to call it, i need "the door" to open, which is a metaphor for an opportunity, a chance encounter, a lead, or what have ye......and it'll happen, it does all the time, it's just a matter of being at the right place at the right time........

anyway, i'll get to see my kids soon enough, and for the first time in two years, i'll be home for halloween! woot! woo!! WOOO!!

oh, where i was going with the song i was listening to, "the cabin song" is that i'm starting to wonder what my kids will remember about me, or what they will say.......which means i've got to be home more or they've got to come on the road with me.......

well, until next time boys and girls, friends and foe, lovers and haters,

see ya!


cb

re: space bison

bison bc is a great band, east van style, heavy and loud, and a killer show live.......

i recommend them anytime!

cb