re: travels.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

just a quick hello to you, and thanks for coming. i'm working on some big mural projects, solo, and will contemplate posting them.

or at least, detailed close ups.

i've been traveling, down to penticton, kelowna and vancity, sort of my usual route. i love it.

but my last trip to vancity was so dark and ghetto.

i got off the longest greyhound ride ever, well, not really, 5.5 hours, but still cramped up like sardines with only 1 rest stop (10 minutes!) was not fun! plus, i when i got to vancity, it was PISSING rain and of course my feet were soaked within minutes.

but, i went to my favourite, or one of my favourite comic stores, RX comics and bought a shitload of art books and stuff. that was cool, the type of stuff you cannot get in the loops without ordering it and it taking forever to get here. example, my david choe book took a month, i shit you not, to get here. drives me crazy.

so, anyway, i hoof it back down main from broadway to the skytrain station, i think it's the science world station, ANYWAY, i did that and went downtown and checked out graf paint supplies and stuff. then caught the Hastings bus. that was brutal, the Hastings bus should not have cloth covered seats. at all. why might you ask? Well, because they become the most urine and shit stained seats ever. the bus reeked of puke and piss. the guy beside had shit breath. it was brutal. then, i saw this hardcore meth-head get on the bus with the cutest native toddler ever, which concerned me. this meth-addict had ground her teeth down, so it looked like nothing was left, just gums, and she of course, was super haggard and ancient looking. looking after this super cute native toddler. it was a reality check, and made me appreciate getting home more than ever. i just saw so much weird, sketchy things.

but, i've got work to do, and so i have to keep on, keepin' on!

until next time,


cb.
ps: here's a few photos of the trip. plus a video.

i loved this graff! hahaha! STEVE!!

re: disgowski. viva.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i hope you are well, and life is treating you well.

everything is picking up nicely, and i'm stoked. but, you know, i wonder if i should have been an investment banker, made a hundred million, and then dedicated my life to anarchy and art. at least that way i would have had the cash to do it proper.

sigh.

it's sort of a gamble, what i'm doing, betting the show and everything in my life on the potential lie of success, instead of planning for it proper. sigh. but, i'm now on the path i've chosen, and at this point, all i can do is give'r.

as always, i'm going to continue to slog it out, and work on new art projects.

there are tricks up my sleeve, but i can't tell you anything. haha.

all the bets lovers,


cb

vancouver, bc, circa 1931?

so true.

re: closer

hello friends, family, fiends, foe, and lovers,

wow, happy new year!

another year has come and gone, and i've lived WAAAAAY longer than i ever thought i would have.....haha.....and right now, i'm watching the making of the music video "closer" by NIN and the documentary is called "closure."

how appropriate.

but, what i can't believe is that this song, album and video came out in 1994.

yes, my kiddies, my friends, my fans and loves.....this video came out in 1994.

that is, 18 years ago.

holy shit.

that makes me feel old. like a geezer. i wonder how many people are dead now from that video shoot?

http://vimeo.com/3704806

lord knows how long this link will last, but here's a couple images.....

a formative video i encourage you to enjoy.

if it sounds pretty damn good now, i'm sure it'll sound good in the next ten or twenty years......

until tomorrow lovers,

cb

re: vancity show

happy new years friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i spent the past week in Vancity, as i've had a show at the UNIT/PITT gallery in 15 East Pender, as well a book launch in conjunction with the show. my good friend Cease Wyss curated the show at the gallery, and was a super awesome host, taking me around the city, showing me cool art and giving me a annotated sense of the history of vancity. it's been awesome, got to spend more time on the rez in North Van, and check out the community garden she's got going on on her reserve.

so, it's been a great week for my headspace and the show was great fun, the launch went super, a lot of people made it, and i also read at Cafe De Soleil on commercial drive with my good friend Anthony Metvier, who added a performance art element to his reading by destroying his book at the end of it. haha, it was awesome.

well, a lot of people really helped out, and i'd like to thank Keith Higgens at the UNIT/PITT Gallery, Cease Wyss for curating it, my friends many who made it to the launch and were great sports and good to see, as well as everyone else who made it to the show!

i've included some photos for you to enjoy,


cheers,


cb.

vancity at night from stanley park

at UNYA

cool!?

my friend cease wyss

dragonfly

shell

vancity by day

bracken

culturally modified tree in stanley park!

i love this orca!

my friend Tania's info for her art at Stanley park

her work. 

my chapbook.

just saw this on commercial drive, thought it was cool.

somewhere in van.

beets i helped harvest.