blast from the past

in the process of organizing photo files, caged animals, buffed but not forgotten ups. thought i'd share a few of the ones that made me laugh...

free jerm inc. packs - don't buy now!

as CEO of jerm inc., i am pleased to announce that we are expanding the geographical parameters of our street art marketing campaign. hundreds of these messages have now been printed and are being sent out to secret jerm inc. operatives throughout the globe. each pack includes a recipe for a non-invasive water-based cellulose paste, for adhering the pieces. pasting is not necessary however, the pieces can be put up with tape, thumbtacks, glue or any other method imaginable.

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all packs now include 3 copies of each banner seen here.

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commercialisn't

up to this point, all of our work has been hand-made with permanent markers (or spray paint) and stencil letters on paper and stickers. i have no plans or desire to abandon this format, however, it is very time consuming. so last night we stenciled six jermalism words onto 8.5 x 11 inch paper and made 100 photocopies of each page, and sliced them into banner form. simple.
each word is intended to provide a commentary on site specific environments or objects in the urban space, much like the 'endangered species' pay phones, 'bill bored' billboards (and the 'for rent' benches, which were also photocopies, inspiring this new approach).
These copies give me the opportunity to focus on creating larger scroll pieces, while still having unlimited ammo for the streets, no longer bogged down with the little things.

journalisn't, vandalisn't, materialisn't, feminisn't, capitalisn't & badvertising, are the slogans we started with, then we walked for hours, as usual. here is a handful of ups from the first night...







more to come...

give a man a marker...

i have recently been riding freights and greyhounds around Vancouver Island with some L.A. homies and chilling with ninja, as she is currently working in a hospital in the Cowichan Valley.
luckily my iphone had just enough life left to get this photo, post it on flickr and send it to Marc at Wooster Collective before it went all john doe on me. by the time i found a place to charge my phone, the piece was on wooster and my email was bananas. the daily what called me 'the thinking man's vandalist' and some other blogger added 'the poor-man's Banksy', both made me smile, been called a lot worse. i wrote this rhyme a while back and found it in a scrap pile, or a pack of files, i forget. i still haven't quite worked it into a song, but i'm working on it. the photo was taken on the beach at Maple Bay, on Vancouver Island.

the revolution will be privatized

22.5 ft. by 2 ft. banner at clarke & 1st in vancouver.
cameraman and i have been pondering the idea of a giant banner collaboration at this intersection for quite a while, finally we did it. everyone and their mother shares their banner quote ideas with me, but sometimes people like take5 and shwAllah just hand me gold that is so very fitting for the jermalism campaign, that i just have to use it. this time it was my very good friend byron cameraman. "the revolution will be privatized" he said, as we bounced ideas back and forth. gold. done.
this piece is not a large stencil, cameraman photographed my small banner on purolator stickers and enlarged it, he then printed it on 30 12"x18" pages and we glued it up here with the help of a few friends and a few drinks.

city benches FOR RENT

the FOR RENT signs were adhered to over 200 benches around vancouver in the last month.
only a handful remain intact today. the project will resume in the near future ;)
these signs are intended as a commentary on the city's homelessness crisis and lack of affordable housing.
the homeless and street populations in the smaller pockets of the city have become quite familiar with me and my work and approach me often to shoot the shit. i put this idea past many of them for their take on it and pondered for months, with reservations about offending the people i'm trying to speak for. many of them excitedly pushed me to do it, i think i just needed to know that it wouldn't do more harm than good.

scrolls

now that i am in the process of writing and recording my first studio album, my every thought is in the form of rhyme patterns, even my dreams are on beat. my street art project has followed suit as i am putting up larger pieces of my own rhymes in the form of 'scrolls'.