BANANAS

Banana fun from the Celestial Scribe arrived today:

Oh I like this one very much.  Very funny, but you drive.

Hey everybody! I have a mail art call on the Mail Art Projects Info.  Please check it out - http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/mail-art-projects/forum/topics/...  I want to surprise my husband with anniversary mail art cards for our 2nd wedding anniversary.  Banana cards are encouraged! :)  Thanks!! Take care.

Just wanted to let you know that some of the straggling Banana Mail I received was blogged about here:

http://trashbubblesandlifeslittlebits.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/in-t...

Wishing you all a crazy banana-filled weekend!

Celestial scribe's banana art must have languished in a post box for a very long time...

http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/celestial-banana-art.html

Some banana photos from recent travels:

CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR

GILROY CALIFORNIA

Thanks Mike.  I hope you kept throwing balls at the milk can until you won it.  Happy to see you around a bit. 

And yes, I'm ready to do some banana pieces again.

Thanks Dean,

This was found in a 99 cent store in Sacramento CA:

Dean,

Cool.

All the best,

Mike

CORRECTION: The banana slugs  were from Cost Plus and definitely not 99 cents-however, this banana saver is available at the 99 Cent Store for 99 cents. Sorry about the inconvenience:

Signed,

Mike (the big fat liar…)

I already have two banana guards, made in Canada and around 12 dollars each.

I like the slugs.  They are cute.  Why didn't we come up with that idea?

Banana snails come to mind.  I'm going to try to made a banana snail dessert.  I'm sure it will be a hit here in France!

Maybe a BANANA SLUG SPLIT…

Banana-related video of my "Stranger on the Shore" (featuring my Bananafish character) on the wall of the Blue Line Gallery in Roseville, California a couple years ago:

file://localhost/Users/mikedickau1/Desktop/IMG_0742.MOV

OK-MY BANANAFISH VIDEO IS NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME…SEE YA.

For Dean, in lieu of a Banana Hat...

Found this out in the great wide web and knew it simply must make an appearance here.

That is great Lynn.  I found this in the Saatchi Gallery in London this weekend.

Although it was on sale, I had to give it a pass.

Nice one, Dean! Too bad you couldn't pick it up and alter it for some unsuspecting recipient. Here is another one for the enjoyment of all Bananas...I would actually wear this. No need to tell me what that says about me. I'm already well aware... I'm bananas!

Hi,

Funny.

Do you still have the link for the first photo.  I wonder if I can see a closer shot.  Looks like a lot going on there.

Google: Images Andy Warhol Bananas

It will be there, I promise.

Maybe it is do to her running to the store and carrying all this fruit back home?  (The nearest store is 50 miles away.)

Dean, David Stafford blogged the Banana Hat here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/harford-radford-and-ti...

just in case you didn't get a chance to see it. :)

TicTac! Thanks for reminding, Lynn! She also sent a Banana Octopus, about which I blogged there.

Oops, sorry, one 'http' too much. The correct link is this: http://realweirdanimals.blogspot.nl/2010/10/tictac.html

Look what I found: a *Fish* in Banana art!

See this wonderful sculpture at: https://giveitaburst.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/fishes-in-the-land-of...

November 18 is coming soon?

Yes, InterNational Banana apprecation day on 18 November is here again. Taking part so far are; Katerina, Mim, Carina, K.S. Chambers, Angie & Dean.   Let me know if you would like to be on the list for this exchange of Banana Mail Art.
You can send to as many or as few people you want.  Of course, more is nicer.

You can plan to have it arrive on the 18th of November or you can post it on the 18th of November.
Like all good things, this only happens once a year!   

Need some ideas?  Just make what you normally make and stick a banana on it. Well it's a start.

Best Wishes,  Dean

I'm in!!! Been working on a few....

Sorry Dean and everybody participating, I cannot manage it this year, but have a warm, squiggy, sloppy and huge banana hug form me.

Yay! Banana Mail Art time :-)

OK! Banana art to whoever and as many as we wish, for November 18 :-)

Sending these + one to Anna Banana tomorrow! Something inside so thought I could show envelopes...

Dean, will it make you cross to make one for me too?

Dear Rebecca & Angie,

Yours look Fab.  You have now set the bar too high, and I'll have to redo all of my Banana Mail Art!!!

Looking forward to getting mine.  And yes, I'll have one for Rebecca and Heleen too.  Bravo again

 Sorry i can't join you monkeys this year. It is one of my favorite calls.

Here are a  few banana cards from the MA Exhibit in Perry Iowa that opened last Friday. More pics to follow.

Greek Banana Mail Art in the mail :-)

...and a few that do NOT require replies...

(just enjoy receiving bananas, Alicia :-)

These are the people who confirmed in taking part in the 18 November Banana Call;

Katerina Nikoltsou

Mim Golub Scalin

Carina

Keith (K.S. Chambers)

Angie COPE & Snooky (the Banana Dog)

Dean aka Artist in Seine

Lynn Radford

Heleen de Vaan

Recbecca Guyver

I liked Angie's scratch and sniff stickers idea. So I painted peach oil on my cards. (I didn't have Banana, but it's on my bucket list!)

Banana fast delivery! UK to Greece!

Rebecca's "banana" arrived in today's mail! Yay!

Beautifully stitched around, i hated to cut it open

but did...as there is a wonderful surprise inside

(I will not post it until others receive theirs too)

Thank you, Rebecca! 'Love it!

Banana mail for you is on its way from Greece :-)

Getting ready for the 18th! Thanks to Rebecca, Angie, and Lynn for very cool Bananas. My grand was with me when Angie's arrived and she had her first scratch and sniff experience. Pretty exciting!

Ooh, I didn't know to cut open the Rebecca banana!

What Mim?  You never took your Grand to that John Waters film? Polyester   I think it was called.  I think they still play it at the Lincoln Center, but I wonder if they still provide the scratch cards.

I received 3 banana cards already.  Has anyone found a good way to open Rebecca's? 

Open carefully with scissors around the lower edge, 

not too much, about 3-4 cm or 2 inches, just enough

to let the tiny boekie slip out. Lovely "story" in Rebecca's

"banana book" :-)

Hello guys, I received great banana cards from Rebecca and Jay, thank you! I sent my bananas yesterday. Hope they arrive safely...

OH sorry, was Jay taking part.  I'll have to get that banana box out again and see what Banana thing comes out.

PS Katerina, my banana from Rebecca only had a 20 pound note in it, and no boekie.  Do you think this is normal?

Oho...I'd better check every page of Rebecca's little banana boekie.

Maybe there is a 20 pound note in-between the pages??

(maybe under that one's hat??)

Oh Dean, my grand is only 19 months old! John Waters will have to wait a few more months (oh I mean years) for her to be in the audience at one of his wonderfully funny films. Still haven't opening the banana. I waiting until the 18th. I'll be sending my cards on the 18th, by the way.

I found the November 18 date from posts here for :

International Banana Appreciation Day in 2013...

although February 21 seems to be a big day for bananas too.

There is a Banana Bread Day...

and a Banana Split Day...

Then there is August 27?...which we missed, so we can celebrate now?

Big Day for Big Bananas???

Today Banana Mail Art arrived from Lynn! Yay!

So I have two, the other being from Rebecca.

We can make November 18, OUR official:

Mail Art Banana Day!

Thank you, Katerina!