BANANAS

It's after midnight and for some odd reason I just found a short video of cats and bananas.  Here it is for anyone who thinks it might be enlightening -- and it will be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJG8_Qzrg44

Seriously Linda, I don't think you should be staying up after midnight any more.  Look what happen to those Gremlins!

Very funny video & make me smile to think people are stranger that we could ever be.  Thanks for the enlightening.

THINK: February 21 World Banana Day

coming soon :-)

(i looove de  kats and de bananas, Linda:-)

From Angela in Germany

(no, not the Prime Minister!)

I'm in for  Feb 21/23 banana mailing!

Banana people so far:

FinnBadger

MomKat

I'm in and a message has been sent out to the group, so more may join in soon.  Now where did I put those banana cut outs?

Oh yes, I'm in :>)

Finnbadger

MomKat

Angie

InSeine

Stripygoose

more....?

let's go bananas then...

Finnbadger

MomKat

Angie

InSeine

Stripygoose

TicTac

...getting ready for some monkey business?

World Banana Day. I'm in!

For Feb.21, in the mail today :-)

Finnbadger

MomKat

Angie

InSeine

Stripygoose

TicTac

Carina

Feb.21, for Finnbadger, MomKat, Angie, Stripygoose, TicTac, & Carina.  Still on my desk and in pieces;

When do I hit the panic button?

Busy as a bee. :)))

Well Feb. 21 is a Sunday,

thus we can receive on Monday Feb.22 and still be celebrating, oh yes!

2-out-of-6 are across the Big Pond (for us in Europe),meaning

4-out-of-6 are a ways away for Angie and Finnbadger :-(

Possibly last mailing date could be Monday, Feb.15? 

The Valentine rush will be over and surely 7 days

will get' em to their destinations?

'Nough of the mathematics...these BANANAS are on their way:

(and now to work on "Leap Time" for Clock Lovers for Feb 29! ACCK!)

They're all in the mail (Angie & Snooky's has already arrived).

ready... :-)

Welcome to YAS.  For info, Yas likes Japanese styles, so we'll see what she'll do with bananas.  I like Japanese styles too.  But if you ever had to go through a whole dinner party on your knees at a low table, "Like" tends to disappear.  On the other hand, you can't like bananas.  Unless of course there is a deadline for a banana call and you only finished one so far!

Think that was supposed to read; "you can not like bananas"

"However you cannot NOT like bananas"...

which means you LOVE da bananas :-)

And something arrived from Finnbadger today:

but not opening until Feb.21 oh yeeeesssss!

In my mailbox today from Anna Banana:

...but my banana mail art is already in-the-mail, 

so there will be no Anna Banana stamps on them :-(

There's always November, Kat!

NEWS FLASH: 2am last night and the banana cards are finished.  However they look different this morning.

'Getting ready for grand opening of Banana Mail on Sunday :-)

(some are coming "naked" hee,hee,heee)

Surprise BANANA arrived!

see blog:

From Janus project: Your Sonic Views (banana!)

Joel Cohen
9 hrs · New York, NY, United States

Please repost this to anybody who would be interested and ask them to repost also.
45 Years of of Fooling Around with A Banana: A Retrospective of Anna Banana's* Interactive Art
at Pratt Institute Library, 3rd Floor, in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY (subway directions below)

Opening March 3, 2016 6 - 8PM includes
Anna Banana Artist Talk in Conversation with Martha Wilson (reception will follow)
This exhibition will run at least through all of March

And Connect with artists around the world in Anna Banana’s

CELEBRATION OF MAILART WORKSHOP
by creating responses to 200 works sent to her
PASSING THE FLAME exhibition at the
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2 - 5PM
Pratt Library - 3rd floor hall
Maximum 30 so come early

Bring your own: scissors, exacto/cutting matt
glue stick, recycle ephemera, rubber stamps
pencil crayons or postage, what have you!
We’ll supply envelopes.
Anna brings Artistamps & Rubber stamps
and the mailart from around the world

A New York Correspondance School Dinner, all welcome, will follow this FridayWorksop at a
Local Brooklyn Restaurant to be announced. For more info on this contact raggededgepress@gmail.com

*Anna Banana has been organizing and producing inter-active events, both live and through the mails since 1972. She is committed to actively engaging the public by making them part of the show/action. For example, the 1975 and 1980 Banana Olympics staged in San Francisco and Surrey, BC is a parody of the olympic games, with "foolish" race events such as the Bureaucrats' Marathon, the "flip & catch" banana event, etc. Members of the public participated as the "athletes."
Postcards and later letter size sheets with a drawing of a bare tree were sent to her mail-art network, with the instruction: "Leaf out this tree with banana stickers," resulting in over 150 responses from mail artists in the USA, Canada, Europe and South America.
Parody and humor are the mainstay of her work, whether performance, public events or mailart. She began this approach to art as the Town Fool of Victoria, BC in 1971 and continues today as Dr. Anna Freud Banana of the Specific Research Institute, moving from physical comedy to more ironic humor.

How to get there:
Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus
200 Willoughby Ave, in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn,NY
is best reached by subway. Take the G train (front car) to the Clinton-Washington station. Use Washington Avenue exit. On Washington, walk one block north to DeKalb Avenue. Turn right onto DeKalb and proceed one block to Hall Street/Saint James to the corner gate of the Pratt campus. The Library is the Red brick building in front of the entrance.
There is no campus parking for guests, if you come by car, you'll have to park in the neighborhood around the campus, which may be difficult.

Happy Banana Day to you all!

Many thanks for the Banana Mail Art that has arrived:

(see blogs:)

• Banana Day, Feb.21, from Stripygoose

• 

• Banana Day, Feb.21, from TicTac

• 

• Banana Day, Feb.21, from Carina in Suomi

(more to be delivered during the week perhaps?;-)

Happy Banana Day...and the first to arrive in Greece,

was Banana Mail Art from Finnbadger:

see blog:

Banana Day, Feb.21, from Finnbadger

IUOMA is going bananas :-)

Banana in snow, thanks to Artist in Seine!

(Makes me wonder: who of you practises skiing and ever has been transported in a banana - 'banaan' is the Dutch word for rescue sled :-) ??)

Creating a piece of banana to-be-mailed art on 21 February 2016 Banana day to send to someone I didn't send Banana mail to so far, to be sent by the 3rd Wednesday in April (= next Banana day, is it?) 2016.

That is, if I can finish it. Iever I'd find back this #$*% needle!

Carina

Katerina

Stripygoose

FinnBadger

SPLENDID!!! Thank you very much to each and all!!
http://tac-tictac.blogspot.de/

Some really wonderful Banana mail for breakfast brightened up my gloomy sunday! Thank you, Finnbadger, Patrizia, Stripygoose and Katerina!

Thanks for posting Carina - by the way, on the toothbrush birdie please do release him from those yellow elastic bands!

Just a hint!

Alright - Oh, now I see the elastic bands are shaped as bananas! :)

Thank you everyone - not a great photo, but great mailart!

What a haul for World Banana Day.  Thank you allFinnBadger

Stripygoose SuePC (TicTac)Katerina NikoltsouCarina Granlund

Thanks to TICTAC and Angie for their banana mail that arrived this week. I'll have a full report once the remainder show up. Also thanks to Scott for his bonus banana postcard.

Great to see all banana mail art!

Although I didn't join today's banana day call officially I was surprised by wonderful banana mailmart, too. Dean's winter landscape Banana I posted here already previously. And this great envelope was created by one of my biggest artistamp heroes:

Thank you very much, Ptrzia!

One of the Banana stamps traveled by train today:

Wow, huge mail day today.

My banana haul just got a lot bigger with mail in from Dean, Carina and stripygoose.

Here's what the pile looks like with TIcTac, Angie and Scott's:

Kat, your banana is still on the way it seems, however your tiny valentine arrived in today's big celebration (and your Leap Day mail arrived last week already). I am amazed you were allowed to mail that little envelope, I think it would be too small for USPS to send, so I am glad they delivered. 

Thanks, everyone! 

Dean, your fab card just arrived! thank you!!

forgot to mention these...so cool Stripygoose!

Good to see that my package arrived, Finnbadger! Took awhile, althought I thought I was on time...

"Hello Banana" arrived yesterday, from Dean! (blogged it too)