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It arrived like this.  Yes, this is a real 3D handmade old fashion triangle trivet.  I remember my grandparents having one just like this one.  Unfortunately one day my mean grandmother threw it at my nice grandfather while saying something in German, and it broke.  Then my…

Ti Ar sends CLOCKS, a real clock lover :-)

One clock card was with birthday greetings and this TIME a RED Clock for Feb 14!…

I got this envelope from Finn Badger today. Check out the clock, the spokes coming out from it might be the word "February" in a bajillion different languages!

Unfortunately it specifically states on the back not to open it until Leap Year Day.   Luckily,…

Why am I doing this correspondence art thing? I'm not going to write out my entire life story, but I will hit some highlights.

When I was a younger man, I occasionally gave art away to friends. Somewhere along the way I stopped doing that.

I went to a design school for my undergraduate and became extremely uptight about keeping work in pristine condition... the idea of putting an unprotected postcard with art on it in the mail would've been horrifying a couple years…

I nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw this.  Does he know what he sent me?, I thought.  I mean, this is an original vintage Pan Am waste bag. (They use to be called…

Mail art by IUOMA member Robert Ridley-Shackleton (Oxford, UK)

February 19, 2016 - Musician Robert Ridley-Shackleton’s compelling (anti-)art has captured the fancy of the Eternal Network where he is…

Stunning torn strips as only Jay can do

I removed the address, to see the full effect...

...also revealing a mysterious drawing underneath:…

Pastel drawing full of color!

A cup overflowing...

Thank you, Pascal, MERCI!

Something in the mail to you ...it's on its way!…

I'm definitely for the Paper Man.  Come on everyone, sing along; "The Paperman, The Paperman, I am for The Paperman, The Paperman, The Paperman, who lives on Darwin Way."

     Thank you Marie, if the Paper Man can, then I can.

FYI: At the risk of appearing to be a mean s.o.b. (I've been called worse, so, pfft), I am not here to piggyback umpteen little causes. I am not a college kid with ridiculous amounts of energy. I am an artist who, while trying to think as young as possible, realistically, is at the foothills of old age. I'm here to "drink beer (and) kill war" as Bukowski said so eloquently. Mainly, I am here to make great friends without pressure of any sort, to create mail art on postcards, envelopes, and…

And when is rubber stamp day, while we're at it?…

Look at all this stuff!…

For more info, see: https://trashbubblesandlifeslittlebits.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/a-piece-of-the-puzzle/

After my recent creative destruction of his destructive creation, Dean the inSeine has sent a metallic postcard: does he imagine that this is proof against further remodelling?

Royal Mail delivered it despite the dangerous-looking circuit board attached to the back, and the fact that it was understamped (over 100g, more than 5mm thick, should have cost £1.19, not…

Number are my thing.  The total of all the number here is 952,858 and the average is 79,405.  But that's not exciting.  Exciting is when you take the standard deviation of these numbers and it falls exactly at 186031.06.  (You guess it, the number of minutes until my next…

That's right, the David Bowie Exhibition is now in Amsterdam and I hear the closing date is being extended.

     This Mail Art is not about Ziggy Stardusk and the Spiders from Mars.  It's about the Old Boys Band.  It could be The Temptations, The Jackson 5, The Village People, The Fingers, or that new group, No Direction. 

     I'm having trouble spotting the lead…

Always an excellent documentation from the projects of Eberhard Janke:

...a few of the participants:…

List of participants:

and my contribution...

It's Greek to me and not quite the "bitten apple" of APPLE,…

Ex Posto Facto sends more funny money!

Always organized and tallied...a real accountant :-)

An add 'n pass was…

Yes, Ladies & Gentlemen, send from Greece without an envelope.  It can be done!  The only thing is that it took ten days to get to Paris.  But that might be the Greek strikes.  I hear that even the Greek Goats are refusing to be milked now.…