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A bubbly and colorful card from Viviana Cernjul, with paint, pen and very cool stamps. My very first mail from South America, thank you so much Viviana!

This blog is FOR arttower, it is some of the beautiful "BLUE" mail art that he has sent me,and it is a call for YOU to send some mail art to him!

Arttower cannot see this blog because around the end of December he had a computer melt-down. About the same time, I also…

Hanging from the poet tree is a ripe piece of fruit called Fred Wilder's Poetry of Filth. This new book from Wilder is a collection of putrefying filth & poems presented for the dark hearted and cruel minded. I must warn you though it is a bit ghastly what with there being sexually transmitted ideas and strange fluxus imagery that will turn your marmalade bitter…

Herr Haptic Erni just sent me ChocoMailArt that arrived yesterday, and whalaa, todays comes yet another surprise package and this time it has a great A4 collage, but that is not all.

Although the collage is amazingly "handsome" and I must get a…

ejva and nsva sent me a most intriguing mail art package that came in my mail box today (along with ANOTHER do-it-yourself Haptic thiing from Germany!) Here is the Haptic packet from China...with instructions:

The green base is really a folded..."something"…

After rooting around in old houses this weekend, I picked up a pantograph and some fountain pens to add to my art supplies.  These two pen-shaped things were among my purchases.  Anyone know what they are?  My guess on the red one is a) a burin of…

I really want to get a tattoo, but I want it to be very special. I am looking for some one to design a tattoo for me. If any one is interested please contact me to discuss more details.

I know I just started here but if anyone is interested please contact me.

Mail Art Received Last Week of January 2011.

How fantastic to place a codex sticker for The World is a Town project on Indonesia. And it came in my favorite format - a boekie.  A small book made of beautiful paper - do you know that one of the tests of good paper is the sound it makes? This paper has a wonderful timbre. 

Within the stamped paper folds are tiny…

Its a heart wrenching  sight let me tell you.  When I wake on a strange Monday morning in  deletist Thought Police mode, all my books scramble for cover. They KNEW, just KNEW today was the day. Selected for recycling and make over is Bones of Contention.

This book was over 10 months in the making believe it or not.  It began life as a treatise on bones used to support…