Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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: crucifix in a death hand.....redux.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

ahhhh, life is temporarily good. looking back on last year, a ton of hardship, lessons lost, lived and learned, and whatever the hell cliche you wanna throw on the fire. i survived and never want to go through anything like it again. i'm getting too fcuking old for such brutal struggle, strife and hardship.

plus, i've got too many kids and i gotta get preparing for their future.

argh, agh, spleck, the thing called "responsibility" is a fcuker. goddamnit.

anyway, i've been strolling down memory lane and thought i'd post a couple old images.

enjoy.


cb

a drawing i did in high school
wow, i wasn't always a fcuking hack.
i'm not fishing for compliments, but damn!
that drawing is TIGHT!

yours truly circa 2006.
now i'm fat elvis. haha.

Some old morbid pomes. what the fcuk was i going through to write such stuff? yeesh. i'm much happier these days. life is good. 


Death rattles:
I hear them at night
Calling me like wolves
And I crawl out of bed
And step onto a floor of black widows
Gently I pick up a handful
Wincing in pain as they bite
Eating one after another
Black bulbuous sacks of poison exploding 
Red In my mouth


In the next room are piles of black scorpions

And I feel them jab at my feet it’s like walking over beds

Of cactus

I feel tired 
And keep moving into the next room full of soft
Pink worms



Here I collapse as scorpions crawl on my face and worms

Shudder beneath me

I can see out the window

At one lonely star in the night sky
I feel a scorpion climb
Into my mouth and it stabs away at my soft red flesh
Everything fades to black
As I crash crying out of some woman’s womb 
trapped to begin this deadly cycle again.




If you fear dying:

A crow sows my eyes shut

While a cougar licks my arms and torso

A thick velvety tongue slurping against me

I pray that I can see her insane letters one more time
So when I go
I know it was all worth it
And I wasn’t wrong
And I wasn’t a coward
As I laid my body down
In the soft dewy grass
Feeling the sun bleach my rib bones
While coyotes tear at the flesh
I hear bears fucking in the distance
A full moon
A sharp knife
A decidedly dumb way to go
But I can feel her move beneath me
The mother of all 
Pumping and pulsing
One more day
As I grin a broken jawed skeleton grin
Laughing a silent laugh as crows peck at my eyes
And I know it was worth it every penny
To go like this again.





Death is a museum:
My body stares up at the lights
Glowing as some guy tugs at the flesh
With a scalpel
We have never met
We have never talked
We never will reminisce about the past
Or old hockey games
Concerts or drunken stories
He just diligently cuts away
At my chest
And breaks out the bone saw
While his hand moves across memories
A past
A lover’s caress
A kiss
Long forgotten
Tube suck out my blood
As he scoops my stomach
Intestines, lungs and other organs
I stare down at my body
And scream at him
That I am not dead
And this is all just a bad dream
As he begins cutting open my skull
A light spills across the room
And I think of my children.



The sun is tangled like death in black branches:
Crows dance on the wind
Ravens dance on the bones
I smell the sagebrush and taste the dirt
Handful upon handful
As I fall off the cliff
Towards a red earth
Screaming every profanity I know
Cursing everyone who has cut their names
Across my chest and back
Arms and legs
Flames erupt across the sky
And I drink gasoline
Waiting to explode
Before I realize I’m already dead
Sitting at my desk
Answering a phone and taking a message
While behind me a coyote laughs
A wheezing, gasping laugh
I cock a rifle
Put it towards my right eye
And pray all I need is one good eye
To find my way through
The spiritworld
And no one is waiting for me.





I the resurrector of the dead:
I cock the gun
And put it into my mouth
Sweat pours down my forehead
I think of a thousand different things
And wonder if I’m doing the right thing
But I know there is no other way
Out of this situation
She calls my name from the bed
And this distracts me
I should have known better

I think of flying
And staring at the ground
From 36000 feet
Sipping a beer and feeling it tingle
Across my tongue

She calls my name again
And I stretch my body like a hide
Waiting to be tanned
Under a hot sun
And sharp knife

I have fought countless wars
And the medals are stitched
Across my chest again and again for no reasons other than stupidity.



Fuck Death:
I crawl from another womb
One more time
Spitting out afterbirth and placenta
Again
Disgusted at this ritual over and over
Until I know I get it right

I don’t cry this time
And the doctor shakes me
And spanks me
And I put my finger in my mouth
Bored

Confused
He hands me to her
And I suckle at a breast
One more time
Trying to remember the last time I was here
And how I got it all wrong
And fucked up enough
To end up
Here one more time

Waiting and wanting
The secrets of the universe
And to be pure light escaping this hideous place one last time fuck death.

Sunday, May 13, 2012

re: little monsters

have some monsters and get out and enjoy the weather!

cb






re: coyote rock.

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers, 

the warm weather is upon us. it is heavenly. i love it. spent the day traveling yesterday with friends to Coyote Rock near Savona, BC. it was awesome. it was nice to hang out with other NDN artists, and we got a lot of sun and could feel warming up my old bones. here are a few photos. life is good. i hope all is well in your world. 

cb














Friday, May 11, 2012

re: showtime!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it's showtime.

things have been hectic, but whatever, it's all good. here's a few new pics of some graffiti art i've found while wandering around. i travel and wonder a lot. if only i could document what i've seen. but for now, snippets will have to do.

peace, and wish us luck!


cb









Thursday, May 10, 2012

re: mark of the beast.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

enjoy some QR codes, or the "mark of the beast" as some zealots have called them. haha.

all i know, is this was a pain in the ass to make.

enjoy!

cb


let me know if any of these work.
click on photo to make larger.

Wednesday, May 09, 2012

re: my very first film ever.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

my very first film, from around 2005. enjoy.

cb




Adventures in Wonderland
Get More: Adventures in Wonderland

re: one of my first films from years ago









angels and alcohol
Get More: angels and alcohol

re: dr. choe

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

dr. david choe is living it about as large as an artist can live. it's disgusting and opulent and i feel a bit guilty for being a bit jealous. his eco footprint is disgusting. but lavish. it's interesting to see a living, breathing artist have so much unbelievable "success" instead of some corporate C.E.O.

i like it.

plus, it's proof you don't have to suck ass your entire life and really, if you work hard, and make the most of opportunities, almost anything can happen.

almost.

well, enjoy these images, and see you real soon kids!


cb

his jet

his "studio"


spray painting barbara walters!
haha
when she interviewed him
about the $200 million
in facebook stock he had
making him one of the richest living
artists in the world.

dope mixed media piece

sweets

dope graph.

pimpin' rides.

his own action figure with his cousin Harry Kim
based on season 2 of "Thumbs Up"
which i suggest you watch on Vice magazine's website.

all in all not too ssh-ssh-shabby for a prince of the art world.

until next time lovers,


buy my art.


cb

re: you guessed it!



i know i'm in trouble
when my demons become cute!

bite my shiny metal ass.

dope!

creature
or sometimes i feel this way.

my how lovely.




Sunday, May 06, 2012

re: sunday bloody sunday......

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

it's 5 in the morning, closer to 6 am now actually, and i've been up getting coffee ready, doing regular things on a sunday morning. i've got a bunch of plants started to have my patio garden, the usual, tomotoes, snap peas, beans, herbs like oregano, sweet basil and the like. even some strawberry plants. some trees, i think they're douglas fir, i'm going to plant with my kids, so they'll have something like a legacy project to keep checking as time goes on when i'm gone.

life is good, i've got work to do, for some reason i was remembering some time on the road, and sitting in a pub in cache creek b.c., it was empty, the afternoon and i was shooting pool by myself listening to crappy country music, chatting up the female bartender. asking her about the town, what where the busy nights, and how it was going?

regulars streamed in, mostly retirees just waiting and running down the clock, having a pint with tomatoe juice, watching sports updates or playing keno.

the hills surrounding it are beautiful, actually, one of my favourite drives is from hope to kamloops on the transcanada. the scenery is amazing. i suggest you do it sometime. anyway, highland valley copper is the big employer in that town, as well as ashcroft, and they'll disappear when the mine closes in some 20 years. ghost towns. you pass through a lot of them when you drive across canada.

well, i gotta go, i've got a shitload of new digital art waiting to be finished, and i'm experimenting and having fun with drawing, painting and the like. dirty hands are hard working hands.

in the meantime, i've got music to make as well, firing on all cylinders these days and i'm gonna burn it bright. i have a new gibson explorer, and i'm going to make that guitar sing and scream. i will post a video later of me messing around on it. haha.

all the bets,



cb









Thursday, May 03, 2012

re: upcoming exhibition

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

well, it's that time again, gearing up for another exhibition, this one is the Picto-Prophecy, i call it version 3.0, as it has been in Pencticton at the Enowkin Centre, in Kelowna at the Alternator Centre, and now here in Kamloops at Arnica Artist Run Centre.

next it'll be in Vancity, but not sure when.

in the meantime, come visit and check out the show.

cheers,


cb


re: metal!

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

i just got back from a blitzkrieg trip to vancouver, and it was fun, but those less than 24 hour trips are taking their toll. considering 11 of those hours are traveling. lame-cakes.

but it was for the Ghost/Mastodon/Opeth show at the Orpheum and it fcuking heavy metal!

it was awesome, even though, the Orpheum should not have metal shows because you cannot go crazy and mosh, so you're stuck in your seat for the whole show! yeah! i barely broke a sweat headbanging. it's weird standing their headbanging. it was slightly surreal, and i filmed some of it actually. haha.

anyway, the show was good, and Opeth were so awesome. great onstage banter and interaction with the crowd. i've noticed over the years that frontmen are either like Phil from DOWN/Pantera, screaming interaction, or like the dude from Opeth, calm, cool and collected, but hilarious as well.

check it.


cb