hippitty hoppety

i'm an underground hip-hop junkie, i always have an emcee in my ear.

"i'm a product of rap, so i give it back
in the day i was rapping over everyone's tracks
just getting practice, no passion for passin' a class
or getting cash on the ave with these typical cats
the gift of gab and a love for the dj when he scratch
when i rap you can read it like you've seen it in graf
we can laugh now about emcees repeating the past
don't pop ya colla, dust ya shoulders off or lean back
ya see rap wasn't meant to be regurgitated crap
but the fact is commercialism's germinating wack
and these rappers are acting impersonating that
so you'll find me in the underground cause that's where i'll be at."

-jerm IX

Bogota Stencil Art Festival 2010

pleased to have been invited to participate in the Bogota Stencil Art Festival in Columbia, just sent a pack out, here is one of the pieces that is on it's way out. should have more pics soon. mad love to my South American homies.

...nowhere and lost...

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that's all i really want to say about it right now.
been putting this blog off for a long time and now that i'm sitting here all i can say is that i don't feel like talking about it. we all have excuses for everything.

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.

if you would like a pack of these messages to decorate your world, email me at jerm9ine@gmail.com

include these details in your message or email.
your address and the city or country you are decorating.

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

all packs are free or by donation to jerm inc.

please if possible, email any photos you get of the banners to jerm9ine@gmail.com

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...