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: intergalactic.....

friends, fans, fiends, foe, lovers, leavers, sinners and winners.....

i give you thee intergalactic warrior. post-apocalyptic.

enjoy.

cb

re: honey bunny II.....

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers, leavers, sinners and winners,

honey bunny. who has not heard those words and instantly thought of the opening sequence to the movie "Pulp Fiction"?

forever, i will hear that dialogue and see that opening when i hear the words "Hunny Bunny."

except, this one is infinitely hotter. haha.

a cold has finally caught up with me, and i'm feeling like my head is a balloon floating above my body. or it could be the cold medicine. one can never truly tell. 

until next time lovers,

cb

re: behind the veil II.......

Friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i bring you the second image of "Behind the Veil."

this has some colourization to it. the previous one is black and white, but i wanted to add some tones of red to it. to add some lust. some desire to the fire.

i love digital art, which has a bad rap, a lot like digital music. do i give a damn. no.

when i did "traditional art" such as painting, drawing and illustration, under which i laboured well over a decade, people back then would talk smack about my art. people talk smack about my art now. the difference is now i'm able to create the images in my head with a camera, and a collection of images, and my skills on a computer. sometimes i'll do a good old fashioned cut up, like the brits love to do. but digital is where it's at. i also do a lot of outside art, painting on walls, tunnels and bridges, which is all about the moment and the process. that is hugely rewarding as well. will i post it? eventually. i managed to get up on walls from Victoria to Montreal this year, which is about 8 or 10 cities, and it was awesome meeting other artists and just having other people to talk to in the struggle of art. haha. like it's a rebellion or something, but in many ways, it is a movement, a struggle and criminalized. so indeed, it really is a rebellion. haha.

oh, the other difference between the people talking smack about my art ten years ago and the people talking smack about my art now, is it's a new group of people, most of whom don't make art for a living, while i continue to make art for a living. that is what is important. that is what i do not forget.

until next time lovers,


cb

re: the hermit.......

friends, fans, foe, lovers, leavers, sinners and winners.......

i bring you the hermit.

and a warning. never sell out. you may get cash, but what you will lose is even more valuable. credibility. once you lose that my friends, you may never get it back.


until next time,


cb

re: lady death.

hello friends, family, foe, lovers, leavers, sinners and winners,

i bring you lady death. 

for too long death has been personified as a male. i demand equality amongst the immortals!

thus, lady death.

when i go, i pray it's her that reaps my soul,

until next time lovers,

cb

re: the constrictor.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i bring you thee constrictor.

of love. of death. of life. of everything.

enjoy,

cb

re: the oh my god particle.

hello friends, fans, freaks and lovers,

here is the god particle. kinda busy the next couple days. if the art slacks. i apologize. haha.

enjoy.

cb

re: the martyr.......

hello winners and sinners, lovers and leavers,

hope all is well in your world. i'm doing fine in mine. i bring you the martyr.

throughout history there have been innumerable martyrs. for a cause. for politics. for a system. for love.

i'm really stoked on this series of cards that i've started by pure fluke accident. it's been great fun again to make art. and i'm working on a series of limited edition vinyl toys that will be coming out soon. each one, a one of a kind work of art.

keep you posted!

until next time lovers,


cb

re: marvin strange.....

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers, leavers, winners and sinners,

above is a collaborative artwork. the skull is a photograph from fellow kamloops artist Marvin Strange. we have an exhibition together this year at the Arnica Artist Run Centre. he has a very, very cool website. it's the kind of website i actually wanted, but when i first saw, i wasn't jealous, i was impressed and felt no ill will towards this strange man. as you go through the website, change the channels and click on the image to make them larger. i know it seems like common sense, but we do live in a world where common sense is regarded as pure genius.

click on the link to go to his website: http://marvinstrange.com/

a screenshot of his website.

do check out his website and read his strange story and buy some of his art. it's from another world. literally. he even can make you custom game controllers. his work is both sculpture and machine. a post-apocalyptic hybrid demon bringer, this guy is is definitely strange. help adjust your own reality and check out his work. 

stay tuned for some more collaborative images, if you are interested in purchasing any images, email me  and i'll send you the info for the wire transfers to my swiss bank account in zurich. you will then receive instructions on where you may receive your artwork. passwords, safe words and directions.

until next time lovers,

cb

re: Lilith 2.0

hello friends, foe, lovers, leavers, sinners and winners,

i bring you Lilith. it seems, every artist does something with this lovely lady.

go online and find out why she's so inspiring.

until next time lovers,

cb

re: card tricks.....

Greetings, 

friends, foe, family, winners, sinners, lovers and leavers,

i've decided to embark on a quest, to create and complete a deck 

of cards, occult based, for the hell of it. 

ever since i was a child, i remember being fascinated by all the vintage

memorabilia at one of my aunt's house. her and her husband, blair, were 

definitely strange, and their house was filled with strange books, antiques

old circus posters, old magic posters and books and one of those old

pedal pianos that you loaded with these perforated scrolls and worked the pedals

and it would play whatever song was loaded on the scroll. 

i would spend hours snooping through and reading books, hiding in the cool basement

while the scorching sun baked away everyone outside, and i knew where the hiding

spots were. harry houdini was the first magician i read about, and it went on 

from there. 

so, a lifelong journey into the art world started perhaps back then? who knows?

all i can say is i feel blessed or cursed to be on this path and perhaps a bit of both?

as leonard cohen once said, "it is a path both infinitely wide and without direction."

well said.

on another note, i'm enjoying a sober course of life more than i could have expected

and my productivity is going through the roof. i could attribute this newfound zeal

for creativity and life because i've finally got some decent music gear that i can play

decent guitars, decently loud through damn decent amplifiers. it's very cathartic. as well,

i'm playing guitar at least 2 hours a day, on top of everything else it takes to build an empire.

it feels shockingly good to wake up quite early in the morning and seize the day by the throat.

and start working on art immediately, coffee cycles, my communication cycles with people,

galleries, friends, and so forth. booking gigs, looking for new things online. being reinvigorated

and inspired. this seems to be an auspicious and suspiciously good start to a new year that ends

with the numbers 13. lucky 13 perhaps?

anyways, enjoy the first of a series of cards i'll be working on for the foreseeable future.

until next time lovers,

cb

re: and done, this piece. haha.

hello winners, sinners, lovers and beautiful losers,

this piece is done. for now. i've kind of lost the plot on it. there's some energy around art and working on something. if you don't see it through, the magic gets lost. maybe that's why i have embraced digital art so much. for a decade, more than a decade i was a frustrated artist. i would paint in oils, watercolours, pastels, acrylic, i mean, you name it. i worked with it for years.

i mean, i've been making art since high school, and that was a long damn time ago. but then in 2008, i started messing around with photoshop. i had a mentor who had showed me how to use final cut studio, and so with those same skills, i began to messily sort out photoshop and begin rudimentary digital artworks. of course, my main inspiration has been ground breaking comic artist, novelist, and filmmaker Dave McKean. his work was transcendental. it was trippy. it was surreal. it was awesomely weird. of the hundreds of works i've done, only some, very few are barely even worthy of comparison to his works.

there are barriers i need to break through psychologically to get to that level, and i haven't yet, because of some restraints in my own psyche. anyway, enjoy this piece and i hope it gives you a preview into my creative process. thanks for coming, i promise more art and more crazy art hopefully.

cheers,


cb

re: the last temptation of buffalo boy.....

hello sinners, winners, losers and lovers,

some new work just for you.

i'm watching the dvd "Opeth: live at the Royal Albert Hall" or whatever it's called. it's awesome.

they're amazing live, i saw them last year on the "Heritage Hunter Tour." the show was in a lame venue, i can't remember what it's called, in Vancity, but you had to stay in your seat, you could stand, but you couldn't get up and mosh in a pit. it was fricken weird. you'd get kicked out if you tried. booh.

but Mastodon and Ghost played and were really good, yet the thing i remember the most was Opeth and how funny the lead singer was, he was a charming bastard and hilarious. in comparison, Mastodon didn't say a thing between the songs. boring. and Ghost were quite dramatic, opening with the weird chanting thing from the movie "Eyes Wide Shut," that scene where the rich are conducting a weird ceremony and Tom Cruise has snuck in and watched.

anyway, hope all is well in your world, i just realized i've been playing a ton of guitar, and a ton of heavy guitar, been recording everything too! my guess would be nearly 40 tracks. total songs, recorded with a handy little "Zoom" recorder. my style of songwriting is to sit and hammer out a song in one sitting, i play totally stream of consciousness, and let the music come through without a lot of complex thoughts and arrangements. which isn't true, because i've been playing guitar for at least 25 years, so it's kind of second nature, and after that length of time, i should be able to write a decent song or two! haha!

anyway, enjoy the new art. i'm trying to figure out new ways to display my art for exhibitions.

until next time,

cb

re: a good year lays ahead of us....all...

hello friends, fans, foe, freaks, foe, lovers, winners and sinners,

we've survived yet another doomsday, another year, more lovers, more sinners, more winners and more losers i'm sure.

in the meantime, i'm sure the chick chipping awayyyyy at the ice will be again chipping away at my heart, my head and my soul.

or not. meh.

either way, happy new years lovers, haters, freaks and geeks.....

remember, jealousy rots your soul and love does too.....

cb

re: 200th post!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers, as well as gamblers, boozers, sinners and winners!

this is my 200th post of the year!

yay!

i knew i could do it!!!

thanks for believing in me and my art and even being interested!

if you ever want some art, contact me and i'm sure we can make a deal!

in the meantime,

the image above is one of my father. the only image i have of him.

i made the art to only start making sense of our complicated relationship and getting over the abandonment issues i had with him. one start in the long journey of life and forgiveness.

until next time lovers,

cb

re: verotica.

i like this one, even though the beautiful woman looks a hell of a lot like my ex. meh, a few years ago maybe. ouch!!!!

cb

re: neurotic.

something erotic?

or is smutty?

re: new art and stuff.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

more art for you.

just finished a 212 page manuscript that i'm sending in to my publisher and hopefully they'll dig it.

organizing more workshops and getting ready to take the arbor collective to non-profit status recognized by the province of b.c.

life is good and busy. i love it.

until next time lovers,


cb

The Jesus Coyote Slot Machine is online

and available to play here:

http://coryhope.ca/slot.html

God Save the Queen?!

a riff i recorded.

re: god save the queen.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

some new art i made during a residency in sault ste. marie, ontario.

god save the queen!

until next time,


cb