re: oh canada, or kanata!?

hello lovers,

it's been a week or so, sigh, never enough time and best laid plans and all that.....i've got 6 new works on the go. yes dear fan, foe, friend and the like. in my daily rummaging on the internet i found some cool art, and searching for inspiration. also, been doing some work on my technique. dave mckean was doing stuff 16 years ago on a mac i can't figure out today.

imagine the nervousness he must have felt in rendering files. get the art prepared, save it, and then hit render and wait until morning to see how it looked or if it crashed. nowadays, i wait 30 seconds i get impatient. technology spins us round and round, but is anything improving?

yes, no, maybe. haha.

well, i've got some work to do, hope you are ready for the holidays, and all is well in your world.

born a native in canada means you are born an activist whether or not you're willing to accept it, is another question. as an artist, i believe that i have an opportunity to kick in the door of oppression, and expose light and injustice into darkness and darker times. there's a lot of talk about what's going on in Attawapiskat, northern ontario. it's a native village, that's gotten national attention recently, but it's no different from a lot of reserves in canada. people don't understand an Indian Reservation was created to conveniently put us out of sight and out of the picture. we weren't allowed to leave without the authorization of the Indian agent. we couldn't own vehicles, or sell crops or anything to white people. we couldn't buy farm equipment. we couldn't get an education besides residential schools. we couldn't work off reserve. we couldn't vote. basically, we had no rights and were prisoners on our own land. and white people dare to bitch about us? yeesh. talk about official and collective denial.

here's a couple images of Attawapiskat reserve and the housing crisis they face, ironically, the de beers corporation have a diamond mine 90 km away. how bittersweet.

talk about remote living? i bet everything starts at $20 in a place like this.

money and poverty.

and now, check out this little gem of canadiana. nice.

words fail me.

what do you think?

and finally, a couple images, one of a residential school, and the other of stephen harper.

crazy hey?

well, i've been busy, sorting through a lot of art, film and stuff. doing some research and spending time with my kids as it is the holiday season. hope all is well in your world,

adios,

cb

re: deck your ass with boughs of bose!

haha,

hi friends, fans, foe, lovers drinkers, sinners, saints and the like,

here are some more deck designs i'm working on. guh, plenty of things going on in coyote bose country, it's been a weird, fucked up year. i watch young coyotes and cardinals rise, i do too, but my rise is slower and a perhaps a bit more steadfast.....i dunno.

in the meantime, let me do my work, enjoy some new deck designs. i've finally written out ten songs worth of material from my demo pages on soundcloud and will work on those songs for the new year, amidst fifty other things i'm working on.

christ.

anyways, much love and see you around lovers,


cb

It wouldn't be fair to let you know what's going on, coz i barely do, and there's more fun and adventure in it if you don't know! hahah, suffice it to say i'm kicking 2012's bitch ass.

hugs,

cb

re: dig it, coz i'll win!

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers, or, saints, sinners, drinkers and gamblers,

i'm working really hard these days, creatively, i don't know why. driven. bored. isolated. going crazy. sick and have cabin fever. not really sure, but enjoy the fruits of my labour.

gonna work on a seven deadly sins series over the next, you guessed it, seven days! omg!

here's the second one: pride.

the skull of jesus coyote all prettied up, kinda looks like a cake eh? yum!

anyways, i also found this dope song, by this dope singer!

http://www.hannielkhatib.com/

Hanni El Khatib.

dope!

well, i'll be posting a lot of stuff this month. wish me luck! i want to break last year's record for posts. yikes.

until next time lovers,

cb

re: love and lady

hello lovers,

just worked on this all week.

meet this babe.

until next time lovers,


cb

re: one more, coz it's so dope!

hell-o friends, fans, foe and lovers,

okay, one more deck, i just had to, it's the first time i'm excited about anything in awhile, and now i've got to figure out how to get them printed onto decks? i'll doing a lot more of these bad babes and you'll hopefully love them.

i should do a series of snowboards too, since we're in BC and it's snowboarding capitol and all that, and they've got cash. ooooh that was crass......haha, like i give a damn.

mouths to feed and all that,

whoa, deja vu......

in the meantime, enjoy this dope ass deck i call "deck the halls" in the capitalist christmas spirit.....

until next time young cardinals,


much love,


cb

re: skateboard colour options.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers, as well as drinkers, sinners, gamblers and the like....

so, i'm sick at home with pneumonia, want to go out, know that if i do, it could get worse. feeling about 6 out of 10, like i might have mentioned earlier, i felt like 0 on the weekend.

anyways, listening to "Alexisonfire" album "Old Crowes and Young Cardinals," and love it!

inspired to do some skate art, which i want to have my own skate decks and apparel, but also a "jesus coyote" gambling kit. you know, deck of cards, table, chips, mugs and the like.

in the meantime, i've worked on these mock ups this afternoon of some deck ideas. I mean, the options are limitless, coz the colours of my art can be manipulated soooooooo easily!!! and endlessly!!

wait, didn't i just say that, see, i'm not all there yet. ugh.

in the meantime, enjoy!

the one deck series below could be called "everything goes to hell anyways."

cb.

ps: here's the album cover for the band i love right this moment, especially the song "young cardinals," coz i feel like an old crow in some ways, and i watch the young cardinals rising all around me, and i even got me own turn in at the hat. bastardos. 

great band, pity they broke up, i think it's coz dallas's band and chin got too big to be in the band. 

Dear friends, fans, foe and lovers,

here's a card, i'm working on a deck, it'll be a long haul project. ace of spades "jesus coyote" style. i reckon a character, especially a hybrid character like "jesus coyote" would be a gambler, a bit of a carouser, and a bit dangerous. being a messiah and a trickster would do that to you. so, it only seems natural he'd have his own deck of cards for games of chance! haha!

i'll be posting them time to time throughout 2012. it's challenging maintaining focus and drive, it's the end of a tough year, and i want it to end quickly. sorting through things, next year will kick ass come hell or high water.

well, i gotta go, more art to do, i sort of feel i'm cheating if i don't bust my ass all day, every day doing art since i sacrificed everything to get here. be careful what you wish for kids, coz sometimes when you get it, you realize what you gave to get there.

big hugs,


cb
ps: still feeling sick from pneumonia, it really kicked my ass. part of the downtime, i'm watching lots of movies. i need to be inspired. one of the films i'm watching is bruce mcdonald's classic "hard core logo," and it's one of my faves. i love the scene when they all drop acid at bucky haight's place, trip balls and sacrifice a goat. epic! makes me laugh out loud every time. i love it, pipefitter the next day "i killed a fcuking goat!?" with this bewildered look in his eye, followed by billy talent saying to him, "pipe, we all drank it's blood!" haha, solid acting, production and directing.

I can't wait to see Hard Core Logo II woot!

in the meantime lovers, take care, the holiday season is upon, and i'm already apologizing for things i'll say and do over them....haha....

Oh yeah, i'm working getting my art onto skateboards, check it out!

will also be posting those randomly next year. 

Until next time lovers,

cb

re: jesus coyote......returns........

Greetings friends, fans, foe and lovers,

how goes it in your world? i've been sick as hell, went to the emergency room last thursday, difficulty breathing, blah blah. turns out i've got pneumonia, they did x-rays, the doctor showed me where the gross stuff was accumulating in my lungs. Been on anti-biotics since, and tripped out hard on this stuff called "emtec" which was totally wicked. I spent the past 4 days in a weird limbo state, catatonic, brutal stuff. 

Anyways, i managed to crank this one "Jesus Coyote" image, and am surprised at howmuch i got done even though i was sick. hell, i worked until last monday. did a poetry reading last wednesday. i'm bored as hell, but weak right now, hard to move and walk around much without running out of breath. you know, i need to get outta here, in some ways, an escape. i dunno. got work next week, make some cash, get ready for the holidays. i dunno, i'm bored in this town, i feel i ain't got no peers, or none to hang out with, and i ain't interested in any relationships with the fairer sex! haha! anyways, blah blah blah, enjoy the art.

below is a cd set for a mark ryden show called "Blood." i love the design.

Me reading at a gig last year in Prince George, thankfully i've lost some weight since then. 

construction work is good for something anyways! haha!

until next time lovers,

CB

re: los amigos.

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

had an interesting night last night, went to a reading/music/art event last night here in Kamloops. It was part of the John Freemont Smith building downtown, which is 100 years old. Ashok Mathur was the host, Trefor Smith played guitar and sang, Cecily Nicholson read from a chapbook she wrote during a day residency for the celebration, and I read at the "Art We Are" open mic night.

Actually Paul Liddy and I both read from our upcoming chapbook "No Soul Cellphone" and "A Moon Made of Copper." It was great fun, I read three new poems and then went upstairs to the art event. These events are rare and deserve to be attended because if we don't go out and support live events, they will not happen.

Anyways, have some new art to post, and a lot on my mind these days, the bills, the rent, the usual. I'm really wondering what I'm doing in this town, so, i've got to figure that out. What I really want to do is just hit the road, play live, read live and get paid for it. haha. dream job right? Well, i've got to go, enjoy the new art and keep you posted. The new "Black Keys" album is coming out, "el camino," is coming out and i look forward to it.

take care lovers,


cb

I'm not sure if I like the frame in the image above partially obscured, but thought I'd try it anyway.

and here are some cool photos of the Black Keys. Dig!

re: candy skulls

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

found a fun photo of my son, i think it's from last year, but still cool, i used an effect in photoshop that brought out the tones equally or something like that, either way it added more depth and texture. dig!

in the meantime, i've got work and art to do, hope all is well in your world, until next time lovers,


cb

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

Greetings friends, fans, foe and loved ones,

i thought i'd do something different, something nautical and vintage. think of this more like a sketch, and i never really use these colours like this! dig!

In the meantime lovers, there's a wicked concert tonight, i've been waiting all month for, it's a band called "The Sword" and i can't wait! even though I fucked up my knee yesterday at work, i'm sure it'll be good fun! Below is an image from when they were opening up for metallica for a year!

Well, gotta run, hope you are well in your world, stay tuned for more art and fun!

cheers,

cb

re: updates updates!

hello lovers,

i am in the midst of getting my shit together, as i plan to make 2012 my bi-atch. so, in order to make things go a little more to plan, i've been organizing stuff and well, actually making plans. haha!

my flickr.com page has begun to take shape, there are 4 sets organized into little portfolios and a design portfolio of commissions, graphics, and work i've licensed out, and soon there will be galleries.

check'em out!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbose1

the image above is what you should see, so do check it out! and if you want to purchase an image, feel free to contact me, i also do commissioned work. let's chat!

as well, I've been writing and recording new songs on guitar, as well as loops and beats. my plan is to record an album of new songs over the winter, and do some touring next year. we'll see how it goes. the important thing, is the songs are being written and recorded!! woohoo!

check here for the link to have a sneak peak listen to the demo process! exciting!

http://soundcloud.com/cbdemos-1

You should see the above image when you hit the link to the demo page! yay!

I've been trying to record them in ambient places, like field recordings from the early 1920's. i went to fields, parks, parking garages, alleys and other weird spots. Most of these tracks were done at night, and there was always a junkie or two that came and checked out what was going on. It was kind of strange, especially the song, "you must be high," haha! 

should be interesting to see how the songs turn out!

have a listen, download a song, share the links with your friends!

cheers,

cb

re: new canada!

Greetings friends, fans, foe and lovers,

how i miss you, i wish you were here right now, in my arms. haha, not.

okay, so the new artwork is about obviously, Les Etats Unis!

yay!

Actually, it represents the blood on canada's hands for plundering an entire country for free. the $1000 bill represent unpaid taxes to the original people who live here for thousands of years. The flag is tattered, spattered and worn, just like the people of canada. The aboriginal people are better left dead, or in museums, and the culture is on fire, coming back to life. Or something like that, you decide. 

I have a couple things coming up soon, the 2012 pictoprophecies will be launching in Penticton, BC this coming weekend, I've got an image in it, as well as an installation projection featured in the exhibition as well. It will be traveling to Kelowna in February 2012 at the Alternator Centre, and Kamloops at the Arnica Centre in summer 2012. 

Here is one of 7 images for the show:

The theme of the Picto Prophecies, is roughly, reinterpreting the past for the future, mainly the some 120 pictograph sites that are not protected at all by Heritage Canada, asses, and should be because they document the presence of the First Nations people of the Interior of BC.

Oh,

I also found a hilarious link to "Gramptallica," a new collaboration between Grampa Simpson and the over-reaching metal band Metallica. Check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRPzElP_eSI

SOOOOOOOO hilarious!

In the meantime lovers, i miss you,



cb

re: new maps of hell.....

greetings fiends, friends, fans and lovers, ex's too.......(i know you stalk me from time to time....!)

been working on new art, as well as working, i'll include a photo or two of what i've been doing when not doing art or what have ye....

well, i don't feel like talking much, other than to enjoy this new image, it's called "New Maps of Hell"
which i thought was such a peppy upbeat little title, don't you think?

oh yeah, just started re-reading and examining the "sandman dustcovers," and still can't figure out how dave mckean did what he did back in the early 1990's on those old G3 macs......wonder what he's able to do today with modern technology? kick my ass probably. bastard.

enjoy?


cb

re: fur and gold!

Hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

hope everything is well in your world, it's getting cold here in the interior of BC, doing some construction to help pay the bills, and freezing outside!

anyways, i've been working on 3 works simultaneously, here is one of them.

layers baby, lots of'em.

until next time,


cb

re: dubious equinox silence

hello friends, fans, foe, lovers and the like,

how are you? how have things been lately? things are well on my end, a little slow in some ways, in others very busy. life is good, what can i say?

i'm back at art again, and it feels really awesome to be doing it once more. i even read at a local poetry open mic night! that was great, it has been a long time to have read at such an event, and, to see people reading for the love it was fantastic. i'll be going back every two weeks for it, now i'm on the prowl for an open mic jam night, i've recorded about 25 new songs the past couple months, and next year is going to kick ass.

being an artist, a "professional" artist is rewarding, sometimes boom and bust, but the time, or freedom i have is incredible. i've been trying to get out of my house more often because too much time in the mancave gets a little stale, a little crazy, so human interaction is the cure to the insanity that inevitably come with time away from everyone.

well, i've got a show coming up soon with the Ullus Collective, and i'll keep you posted on the details.

thanks for stopping by, will hopefully get some more art up the next couple days,


cheers,


CB

re: 3 sirens

greetings friends, fans, foe, and lovers, and ex's......


this is the 3 sirens and 3 wise men.

dig.

i'm having fun with art again. ahhhh victory.


cb

re: trinity.

Here is trinity, 

enjoy.

i'm back at it.


cb

re: 600th blog post.....

hello friends, fans, foe and lovers,

well, here we are, the 600th blog post. never thought i'd be here, never thought this far ahead before. what's going on in my life on this milestone? i'm listening to an album i bought 12 years ago and still digging it, blur's album "13" and just sort of rediscovered it quite recently. a lot of things have happened in that time, and i've stumbled, staggered, fell down and gotten back up many times.

i'm a survivor. i have to keep moving on, and certain albums, books, artwork, films and other cultural things weave in and out of my life for reasons often unknown. how this album came into my possession is kind of a mystery, i think i originally bought it at the future shop in aberdeen mall here in town, because i like the production william orbit did on it. that year, i also go pj harvey's "is this desire" and tom waits "beautiful maladies" a best of compilation from island records. don't remember much more than that from that era really. i went through a lot of hell for a couple years with women. lost it all. haven't really been the same since i think, haha!

a late bloomer for sure, i spent too many years fucking around, and i don't know if i'm paying for it, have paid for it, or what's coming down for sure.

anyways, here's something i worked on for a while, not sure if i like it entirely, but it felt good to work on, and i don't know if its done or not, but whatever, i've got stuff to do, hope you dig it, going to work on a NDN version of "paranormal activity" in the next couple weeks, should be hilarious. want to do some funny stuff in film for awhile. too serious, ain't fun.

in the meantime lovers,

all the best,


cb

"The treatment of children in Indian Residential Schools is a sad chapter in our history.

For more than a century, Indian Residential Schools separated over 150,000 Aboriginal children from their families and communities. In the 1870's, the federal government, partly in order to meet its obligation to educate Aboriginal children, began to play a role in the development and administration of these schools.  Two primary objectives of the Residential Schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.  These objectives were based on the assumption Aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal. Indeed, some sought, as it was infamously said, "to kill the Indian in the child".  Today, we recognize that this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our country."

Stephen Harper, June 11, 2008.