Austin Wills James

Austin has been prolific lately and the special bonus with these latest two was a CD of Austin's Ska Faves. (Unheard as of this typing. Film at Eleven) Here are "Alien Asemic 4" and "Another Brick in the Wall." Alien reminds me of Burroughs' quote "Language is a virus from outer space." Free-floating Asemics coming to unspool your prose into some pleasurably noodle-shaped letterforms. Regarding "Another" I think it's a pastel-colored Xerox transfer? (Am I right, Austiin?) It's interesting that Austin and Nadine's card arrived within days of each other and each had hope tucked into a corner of the piece. Is this a coincidence or was there a "Hope Mail Call" that I missed? I need to know so I can start wondering what sort of omen this is and how I can best frame it within my godless universe.

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Comment by Austin Wills James on February 27, 2012 at 12:17am: David,

I can just picture it now, "Honey, I have a Mail-Art Convention in Vegas this weekend..." *Suspicious Glare* "...NO!, Really I do!" (Result: Most of us sleeping on our couches.)

-AWJ-

Comment by David Stafford on February 26, 2012 at 11:53pm: We really need to have a big convention where we share all our trade secrets and stuff. I'll see if Vegas is available. "MailartCON 2013" has a sort of larcenous appeal. Workshops around the clock interspersed with trips to the casinos for lessons in wonderment and decay. I can see it vividly in my mind...vats of rubber cement, bins filled with exotic ephemera, enormous ink wells and huge pens wielded by a troupe from Cirque de Soleil. Vegas show girls in their 70s using their feathers to paint wispy trails of paint. Plus lectures from Noam Chomsky and Clement Greenberg. A great mash up of culture and crass....I'll see if Vegas is available.

Thanks for the info, Austin. Thanks Marie....see you in the mailbox soon....

Comment by Austin Wills James on February 26, 2012 at 11:40pm: "Another" is actually a watercolor washed card, which was then smudged with ink by pressing a paper towel into the pad & rubbing the towel across the paper; so that the raised portions would catch it. THEN I fed it through my printer after altering a black & white photo I took of an old building in ill repair. The bricks are really just window panes, hence some at the bottom being darker, because they were broken. I darkened some of the lines with a ballpoint pen, & added the hope stamp.

The Alien Asemic was colored in a similiar fashion, although I decided to skip the watercolors & simply drag the ink pads across the card, before using markers to relay the message given to me when I was taken aboard the Mothership.

-AWJ-

Comment by Marie Wintzer on February 26, 2012 at 11:02pm: I love the alien asemics. And your commentary, David :-)) great read as usual

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