The New Map Of Vancouver

in the past few months, there have been a handful of violent gay bashing incidents in vancouver. in the last few weeks a handful of cowards began tagging racist pro-white anti-chinese garbage in Richmond, a majority Chinese populated suburb of Vancouver. i'm disgusted by this filth and was inspired to use this Map of Vancouver to declare this city a hate free zone.

Also, The New Map of Toronto.

Vancouver Street Heart on Beyond Robson

I am stoked to share with you that i have a new column on Beyond Robson.
The column is aptly titled Vancouver Street Heart, you can check it out here...

http://www.beyondrobson.com/author/jerm/

BANKSY WASN'T HERE

jerm IX & Vegas collab.
photo also by Vegas.

"as Banksy decorates North American cities co-inciding with the release of his film, and the media follows and reports each stencil in every city he hits, we can't help but feel that Vancouver was overlooked by Banksy and his people. we wanted to communicate this invite directly to Banksy, as well as make the point that there are a handful of innovative and unique street artists in every nook and cranny of these cities that Banksy is hitting and it is a shame that the media is focusing in on one british artist, and not showing the same adoration and support for their own local talent. for example, with all of the attention placed on Banksy's trip to Toronto, there was no mention whatsoever of artists like Poster Child or Fauxreel, or any other Toronto artists that play a large role in the street art world. In every city, this intregal part of the story is simply not being told.

to do this, we decided to rework Banksy's classic balloon girl image, in our depiction the girl is now a woman, and she has released the balloon in lieu of pasting up this BANKSY WASN'T HERE banner."

-jerm IX

supersized

word(s) up

death scrolls

last night i sat and made four pieces, in preparation for this mornings mission in PoCo with Open5. the first piece i made, which i didn't put up, is a Neitszche quote. it reads... "in heaven all the interesting people are missing."
for some reason i stuck rigidly to that theme of death with the three poetry scrolls that followed.





edit: the Neitzsche quote went up the next day...

shedding skin

last thursday jerm found himself in an abandoned factory along the fraser river in south vancouver, for hours, with his homies Vegas and Open5. the razor blade lips seen in the first photo were sprayed by Vegas, dozens of them. the last photo is of the character done with aerosol and acrylic by Open5.