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Comment by Mick Boyle on June 29, 2015 at 2:19pm

Comment by Ruud Janssen on April 17, 2015 at 6:35am

received more scans from Steve Random (USA) with memories from Robin Crozier which I published online at: https://www.facebook.com/memorandommemory?ref=hl

Comment by De Villo Sloan on April 6, 2015 at 1:59am

good article about Picasso Gaglione by Denise Domel. (Thx to Tomoe Nakamura for the share.)

http://stendhalgallery.com/?page_id=3572

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 31, 2015 at 10:07am

IUOMA member allison anne sent me some info on a very good book:

Unofficial Release: Self Release and Handmade Audio in Post Industrial Society by Thomas Bey William Bailey.

The book includes interviews with Rod Summers, Vittore Baroni and GX Jupitter-Larsen, among others.

Basically it covers cassette culture and the uses of the network to circulate music in pre-internet days.

allison anne is very interested in music and the network and a good researcher as well as a good correspondent and artist.

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/fab-art-post-industria...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on March 23, 2015 at 9:01am

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE has put together some fascinating documentation & commentary about Smile zine & related variants. Adds a lot to the emerging picture of Smile, I think:

http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/SMILEs.html

Connections are made between Smile & Vile by Anna Banana & Picasso Gaglione, among other things.

Comment by borderlinegrafix on October 11, 2014 at 3:19pm

Thanks for the link, Sloan - I like the format and it is a valuable archive.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on October 11, 2014 at 10:17am

Found a link to this archive via Sinclair Scripa - some classic work posted including Crozier, Zack, Cantsin & much more:

http://www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk/

Comment by De Villo Sloan on August 13, 2014 at 1:08am

Via Bob Black (anarchist networker & author of "The Abolition of Work") I was doing some research into a mail-artist in the 80s - Gerry Reith - who committed suicide circa 1984. Reith's book "Neutron Gun" was published by Neither/Nor in Arbor (1987), Michigan. Anyway, I came across this item in Black's Wik. entry concerning the Church of the SubGenius I did not know about. In a court case, Black claimed a member of the Church sent him a bomb via the mail! I am trusting this is true & not some Neoist hoax, but it is a totally, totally bizarre story:

Church of the SubGenius controversy[edit]

According to two accounts by Black, he received a bomb in the mail at his street address on November 22, 1989.^[3] Black claimed it was a member of the Church of the SubGenius, John Hagen-Brenner, who sent him an "improvised explosive device consisting of an audio cassette holder wired with four cadmium-type batteries, four flashbulbs, and five firecrackers",^[4] as described in the charging document filed in Federal District Court. According to Black, he thought the package looked suspicious, then on impulse "threw it against the wall. There was a flash (the flashcubes) and a puff of smoke, but the firecrackers did not go off."^[4] Black turned the device in to the police. Black believes that the device was sent to him because of criticism he had made of the Church, and he has repeatedly brought up the incident in his writings concerning the Church.^[3] Ivan Stang and other members of the Church have denied any involvement in this incident, and no one else was charged. One of Black's texts was reposted and dismissed on the SubGenius mailing-list.^[5]

Comment by De Villo Sloan on August 11, 2014 at 3:12pm

The new Ray Johnson book was reviewed in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/books/not-nothing-tries-to-captur...

Comment by De Villo Sloan on August 4, 2014 at 5:43pm

Here's a great piece of irony for all you (us) SMILE zine fans. This is circulating on FB. Remember SMILE's commitment to plagiarism? A high-end fashion company has made a SMILE tee-shirt using one of the old zinecovers (I think 1984). They're selling them for $180 apiece! Stewart Home is not pleased, claims he owns the copyright & did not grant permission. Personally, I side w/ SH here. They are trying to make a profit on this. Interesting, as Neoism was all about plagiarism. These things can and do happen.

http://www.openingceremony.us/products.asp?menuid=1&designerid=...

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