re: clouds and the city.......

hello lovers,

i bring you some cloud porn. i love the blue skies and clouds. hopefully you will get off as much as i do with these photos. haha. 

and then some flicks from last summer in vancouver, at english bay with my kids and then one of those little boat tours in vancouver that takes you to granville island. i don't post a lot of photos of my kids because of personal and privacy reasons. 

i could live in vancouver, but it'd have to be downtown and i'd have to be a millionaire. that city is fun, but expensive. 

there you go,

cb

re: T'kemlups pow wow arbour statues......

hello lovers,

i hope you're well, these are some flicks of the T'kemlups Pow Wow arbour statues......they're massive and imposing. 

go check them out yourself if you're ever passing through town.

until next time,

chris bose. 

re: the loops at dawn......

Hello lovers,

some flicks i found while going through assorted files looking for art. it's funny how this blog occasionally turns into a journal. these are some photos of sunrise, i would guess last spring, on an ipod i've lost. this is something i'm an expert at, losing ipods, phones and other expensive high tech shit. and the last two photos are of my friend shealagh rocking out on a couple of my guitars and my stack. loud.

well, i'll keep posting photos and i hope you enjoy them. i think the sunrise photos show the beauty of the loops. 

until next time,

cb

re: workshop and cops.....

hello lovers,

here are some workshop photos from a recent arbour collective workshop. we were printmaking and painting on the walls. it was fun painting on the walls. i love it. anyway. it was a good workshop and i love building community and community arts based projects, they're so rewarding and awesome. it's hard to explain, but i often tell me i'm over myself as an artist and get more out of helping others. weird eh? haha. 

and then after the workshop, i saw a weird scene with cops and fire dept. attending to a passed out native dude on the sidewalk. they knew him by name, which made it more sad, or tragic. but they were nice to him and treated him like a human being instead of garbage, which is what i'm used to seeing aboriginal people being treated like by most. sigh. 

that's the effects of residential school, the destruction of aboriginal families, culture, language and community. it pisses me off when non-aboriginal people ask me why "we can't just get over it." think about the stuff i just said in this paragraph. i suffer from post trauma syndrome, i've seen a lot of horrible things in my life growing up, and i'm struggling to overcome this stuff every day. it's complicated. 

anyway, until next time,

chris. 

it was weird to go from an awesome workshop

to this scene on the way home.

at least the cops and the fire dept. treated

this poor aboriginal man well

and with dignity.

it made me sad to see him

on the streets like that. sigh.

re: a flurry of activity......

hello lovers,

so, about the flurry of activity on my blog, well, i'm not a hundred percent certain as to why. maybe guilt? but at least i'm posting now. haha. 

it was beautiful out today, as so often the case in kamloops, bc, it starts off amazing and then goes for a shit by about 1 pm, so i headed out early, around 9 am, i was up at 5, but had to get the kids ready for school, so cut me some slack! haha. 

anyway, i went downtown and walked across the red bridge over the T'kemlups indian reservation and walked along the river all the way to the train bridge and back. it's kind of a ritual really. it's quiet over there and i can chill out and relax. so here's some flicks from an average walk. and true enough, by the time i walked back to town, it was shit out. haha. 

chris.

re: nice weather a couple days ago, then it snowed.

hello lovers,

ah, weather be damned, it was nice the other day, blue skies and weird showers, then it snowed. argh.

just thought i'd show you some flicks.

until next time

c.

i have a large collective of art magazines

and books, mostly low-brow stuff as

it is tended to be called

but it's what i love.

so i guess i'm low brow. haha

anyway, that's my juxtapoz magazine collection

in comic book plastic

because i've got kids that spill

stuff all the time.

a rare selfie

i took recently.

i also cut off my hair

it was quite long.

a bridge remnants

or logging boom?

i know we've had 2 other bridges on the

south thompson about 100 years ago.

this abandoned penguin

struck me as sad

because it was along

a sketchy part

of the river 

where homeless people

set up "bum camps,"

and live for about 4 or 5 months

a year.

crazy isolated showers

are common here, this is looking East 

up the South Thompson river.

I turned around

and caught this other isolated storm

looking West on the South Thompson river

on the Red bridge in fact.