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. 

re: grand forks.

hello lovers,

hope all is well in your world, i'm winding down a hell of a year in the arts and film, been on the road since january and have gone across canada and back. for some reason, i was in the west the most i have been in 7 years, and had over 6 exhibitions and so on. as well as about 100 workshops in the arts and filmmaking. 2 artist residencies and so on. 

just spent some time down in grand forks, bc, and it was awesome. a beautiful place, and the people were really nice. i made some new friends and had some great times and shot a great little documentary that's going to go into the art gallery along with a piece by terry jackson. there's some decent pizza at "Rumour's," restuarant that they sell by the slice in the day and have different deals throughout the week as well as great desserts. it's across from the high school. as well the "Station pub," has really good pub fare and the staff was really awesome and nice. i had lamb growlers a few times. awesome. then i asked if they could just make me a lamb burger and said "no problem," and it was kick ass. it also has a huge safe from the old days at the bar (2800 pounds, i guess 2500, pretty close!) and was the original train station in town. 

if you go downtown there's a coffee shop called "joga's," and they have great snacks and awesome coffee, as well, if you want kick ass coffee there's "Jitter's," beside the DQ and it is really good. Apparently there's a coffee wagon but i never found it, and it's a musician who supports his music habit selling the java and is very particular and passionate about it. i did have the coffee and it was the best. I went to a rock shop that was closing, sadly, bought scored some great deals on various rocks. there was also a pawn shop that was open late, i.e. after 5 pm. i also went for a couple awesome trips around town, up hardy mountain and got some great panorama shots of the valley, which runs East/West, and went to a creek/gorge (kettle creek?!) where one of Nicolai Tesla's 60 cycle tests was performed the first time. as well i went up to Christina lake for their open mic and heard some great music, including bob the lounge singer. 

anyway, that is just a bit of it, overall i had a great time, and yes, had some amazing borscht. 

peace out y'all!!!

cb

re: time lapse....

Hello friends, fans and foe,

 

 

i was recently working in beautiful grand forks, bc, and had the amazing good fortune of finally getting some decent time lapse videos done. so, will be post them for your enjoyment.

 

time lapse is without a doubt, the dullest form of video to make, but the results can be epic. some of my all time favourite time lapses were done in breaking bad. so good.

 

 

enjoy,

 

 

cb

 

 

 

 

 

re: grand forks senior secondary documentary

Hello friends, fans and foe,

 

i've been away too long. my apologies on that, and i promise to be back more frequently and update more and more. there is a ton of new content i've been sitting on and i will start uploading.

 

cb