Alek Idle
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Ray Johnson Bunny Show

Download the basic paper or any variation already in the group. Alter it (digitally, hardcopy, or what you like). Place the new image back in this group.  All visuals will be collected and will be added to a video that will be the final result of this project.So go through the group and find a starter for you where you add your version of the Bunny and publish it here again.See More
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Profile Information

Mail-Artist since:
1979
My Website (without http://):
http://www.archives.gov
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
Neoism. My friend Karine Elliott got me involved.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
Currently on a couch.

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Gang Psychology

Posted on May 4, 2016 at 1:00pm 3 Comments

I wasn't on the IUOMA for 24 hours before I got this.

Dear Alex Idle, I apologize for having confused you with a correspondent of mine I call the Lone Gunman Neoist. That is just some fun we were having. I am too trusting, and I did not realize something else was going on here. I have removed the blog here at the IUOMA and at M-L. I request you and I have no more contact. I also apologize to IUOMA-Ning for having attracted this vermin. The part of your mail to me that I did not…
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Real Artists

Posted on May 3, 2016 at 11:00am 11 Comments

1. Don't have fun.

2. Don't have jobs.

3. Don't have mortgages.

4. Don't get a marriage licence.

5. Don't pay income tax.

6. Don't pled guilty just to get probation, only bitches cop a plea.

7. Don't have petty-bourgeois values.

8. Don't have "friends", they have comrades.

I AM A REAL ARTIST, ARE YOU?

To My Bourgeois Critics

Posted on May 2, 2016 at 2:00am 4 Comments

Opposition to my art is characterized by the following features:

1.) a disdainful attitude toward theory and an inclination toward eclecticism;

2.) disrespect for the tradition of their own organization;

3.) anxiety for personal “esthetic” at the expense of anxiety for objective truth;

4.) nervousness instead of consistency;

5.) cowardice

6.) readiness to jump from one position to another;

7.) lack of understanding of revolutionary technique and active… Continue

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At 9:23am on January 28, 2019, Bruno Cassaglia - mailartist said…

Ciao Alex Grazie!!! un abbraccio, b

At 12:13am on June 2, 2016, Mail Art News said…

At 11:06am on May 8, 2016, Bruno Cassaglia - mailartist said…
At 3:23am on May 4, 2016, Jessica Manack said…
Pittsburgh, yes...in PA, not TX, though!
At 1:18am on May 4, 2016, Lynn Radford said…

Thank you for saying so, Alex. He is a dear friend, a very talented poet and artist and I am happy to support him. He has done the same for me, as well. :)

At 8:14am on May 3, 2016, Carlos I. Botana said…

MAILART PROJECT

Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez
Size: Free
Technique: Free
Deadline: August 15, 2016
Exhibition: September, 2016
No sales. No jury. No return
The work is publisehed in the "blog": mailartlasmeninasdecanido.blogspot.com
Send your work to:
Carlos I. Botana
C/. Javier López López
Nº 11 - portal 2 - 3º E
At 10:17pm on May 1, 2016, Luis Drayton said…

Hiya Alex! Thanks everso for the friends request- though I should point out music is what I'm really doing these days... You'll find my current album "Inner Life" on iTunes, amazon, spotify, GooglePlay etc - but there's lots of free stuff at my bandcamp... http://luisdrayton.bandcamp.com/

:)

Luis XXX

http://luisdrayton.com

https://www.facebook.com/Luis69Drayton

At 5:38pm on May 1, 2016, Lynn Radford said…

Thanks for the request and the compliment! :D

At 3:20pm on May 1, 2016, Mail Art News said…

Thanks Alex Idle.

 
 
 

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