So Banksy declares street art dead and apparently nobody was listening. JermIX certainly wasn’t. Working with UK import Vegas – a stencil artist of remarkable skill – Jerm has launched what many consider his most aggressive campaign ever. VTARP, it’s called. Vancouver Transit Adspace Reappropriation Project. Which sounds like a black line item in the […]
Tag: The Blue Light Project
Rabbit Receiving his own Information
On a gig for Western Living Magazine, I toured the Willamette Valley recently. Lots of gems to discover there, like Whole Hog Wednesdays at the Dundee Bistro. And of course several hundred small, high-craft wineries that produce the amazing fruity, farmy pinot noirs of the region. But I particularly enjoyed “meeting” the mascot of the Scott Paul Winery. […]
New Cameraman: The Coin of the Realm
Brilliant street artist Byron Cameraman hits “Granville Rise” again. What I love about this piece is it’s power to demonstrate just how beautiful filthy lucre can appear. If we did not find it beautiful – that is, if we didn’t exalt money aesthetically and otherwise – you could argue, “Granville Rise” itself would not exist. Up close, the hugely magnified silver dollar reveals all […]
Notebooks: The Blue Light Project – A01
A01 is one of the artists I followed around during the writing of my new novel The Blue Light Project. His work impressed me hugely in a number of different ways. The first and most obvious way related simply to how prolific he was. The photo above is from a series called Local Photo Posters. At the time […]
Notebooks: The Blue Light Project – Take5
Take5 was one of the first street artists I became aware of, during the writing and researching of The Blue Light Project. He was doing a serie of these beautiful chief’s head posters and stencils in the neighborhood around my office. There were many more than the map shows, but this reflects my dawning awareness that […]
Candahar Photo Show: 22 Feb 2010
I’ll be reading at the Candahar, 22 Feb. I’m presenting photographs of “wall art” by the local street artists who inspired me during the writing of my upcoming novel The Blue Light Project. The show starts at 7 with a reading by poet Gregory Betts. I’m on around 8:30. Stay after my presentation for a screening of Murray […]
Notebooks: The Blue Light Project – JermIX
JermIX is one of the artists that inspired me during the writing of my new novel, The Blue Light Project. It’s possible to know about JermIX (aka Jerm, aka Jerm9ine) and not even realize you know about him. That’s because he is one of the most prolific and dedicated street artists I’ve encountered. I’ll be posting lots […]
Soft Skull signs The Blue Light Project
The Blue Light Project will be published simultaneously in Canada and the US by Knopf Canada and the brilliant, edgy American independent Soft Skull. Trade announcement: Timothy Taylor’s Blue Light Project, a literary thriller that uses a four-day hostage siege in the not-too-distant future, during which a city unravels and three disparate lives intersect, to […]
Street art by Byron Cameraman and Rich S
The streets and walls of Vancouver’s downtown eastside have effectively been my notebooks during the writing of The Blue Light Project, my new novel coming out next year with Knopf Canada and Soft Skull in the US. I’ll post pictures of various artists here. But if there were a single image that started the book […]