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I wonder if there might be enough interest in Gyotaku, Japanese fish printing, to have a group or maybe a sub-group of Ruud Janssen's Rubber Stamping group?Y'r ol' Bud, FikeContinue

Tags: japanese, gyotaku, fish, stamping

Started this discussion. Last reply by Jenn Miltenberger Aug 2, 2020.

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DeepDream! Wow! This is an online, image manipulation service which takes your file input and changes it according to arcan rules [???] apparently using imagery it finds online. So far it seems to…Continue

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"there is something more interesting, now MH//A has associated me. In 2012, for a few months, I dreamed (I mean a real dream/sleeping/dreaming.) I dreamed dreams in English. Nothing special, usual things, everything normal. natural. After I…"

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"It was like the first time i was in London... suddenly i felt as if i couldn’t speak any English at all, because everyone was talking so fast and with such strong accents"

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"It doesn't matter. I function better with energy communication. ❣️❗❣️"

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"the only time I could talk here on IUOMA with Rack C. (he is no longer on the platform) without the help of a translator, he speaks that English that we here know from movies and music."

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"if you were to listen to people speak in a coffee bar in Serbia, you would know 50 percent of the words, because they are English. But you wouldn't be able to know what they were talking about. Here, English words are used in a completely…"

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"the translator carefully translates when someone writes to me from the German, French, Italian area in English. When someone writes from the USA, Canada, the context is weak. English from English is the biggest problem."

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"to always use a translator. and I'm never satisfied. and in private, when I have people translating, there is always a conflict, because they say something similar and not exactly. The explanation is always the same "that's what they…"

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"Big thank you, Fike! I am so far fine with your English too, but I think Zorica is using translator of some sort to communicate in English, and there may be times the translator thingy do not work for her perfectly and thus she has to guess the…"

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"any help mailarting can be in that I'm MORE than happy to be a part! Perhaps unfortunately including whimsical non-standard English."

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Mail-Artist since:: 1990

My Website (without http://):: http://the 'blog' here at IUOMA

Why I am involved in Mail-Art:: I like to see what people are doing as art and share what I am doing. I like to meet people and get to know them. [DISCLAIMER: tho I am called a mail "artist", I 'cannot' draw due to a lack of proper mindset.]

My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail): 538 Hanson Hollow Rd.
Charleston, WV 25311-8025 usa

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At 5:59am on November 9, 2025, Kiki said…: Fike ! My mail art will start flying to you tomorrow !

Cheers,

Kiki 🙋🌸🍀🦔🌺🦦

At 2:04pm on November 5, 2025, Kiki said…: Happy Belated Birthday, Fike! My father is same age as you !

At 9:44pm on November 2, 2025, awyn said…: HAPPY BIRTHDAY FIKE!!

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At 3:28pm on October 17, 2025, Kiki said…: Hello Fike!

I received a fun and creative mail art from you with your nice letter - thank you! 🙋 i will send you my mail art again ☺️🍀

At 12:30pm on October 17, 2025, MH//ANTIPODE said…: Thank you so much for this banger of an envelope Fike!

At 11:12pm on October 3, 2025, Zorica Obradović said…: letter arrived, thank you...🎵🎶🎵

I will post photos of it soon so others can enjoy it.

Greetings from Serbia🦠🍉🐞

At 4:58am on September 13, 2025, Medwolf said…: your envelope full of great mail art blew in today.. Thank you I love it

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Teaching Meta AI and how to save an entire web page using Fireshot

Posted on September 30, 2025 at 9:32pm 1 Comment 1 Like

This is maybe way too long and uninteresting to those of you who are REAL artists which I consider myself NOT -BUT- for anyone who is interested in using AI as image generator and who as I was puzzled by how to save an entire web session to help memory, here is a PDF record of my session.…

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She's mailing herself to IUOMA!

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Tom Cassidy posted 2 collages on Facebook and I submitted them to Google's Deep Dream

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HAPPY Morning everyone!

Posted on May 25, 2025 at 9:38am 0 Comments 0 Likes

I just watched this ol' [1935] Disney 'toon and it's started my day with a smile. So... here 4U2 it is at Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRB2YlQOSBI

Y'r ol' Bud, Fike

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