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Last mail delivery for 2014, and here came 2 (TWO!)  from the Off-Scene Akademie Hamburg!

Nice birdie for Wildlife in the City: chiep, chiep? or chirp, chirp? or tweet, tweet!…

The postman finally brought the "last-of-the-mail" for 2014...

and Edmund displayed it on our "blue" placemat :-)

All will be blogged over the New Year Weekend surely,…

New Years Resolution: It's time for a new PAW...in fact this will be a P-PAW!

In 2008, 2009, and 2010 I participated in an exercise in self-discipline that had been started by some online photo friends on one of the Leica groups. It's called "Picture-a-Week," and the idea is simple: make at least one good photograph each week, no matter what, without fail, no excuses. Doesn't have to be prize-winning, but it should be one that I am happy to show off to some sophisticated phot…

If you have sent me something in the last few weeks a response should be on its way to you this afternoon.

Today's trip to the post office brings my total pieces sent in 2014 up to 151. I have sent mail art to 12 different countries including the UK.

I hope you all have a creative, mail art making…

Baked beans, collage and add & pass. New blog here ->

Just got back from Diane Keys new show at the Elgin Museum of Modern Art (EMOMA). Wild stuff. I was surprised to see my name in the Catalogue:

Keys continues to burrow into the layer of duff on the urban floor, a sediment rich with meaning "para aquellos con los ojos." (Trans.: For those with the prescience to find the vision of seeing…

The International Day of The Banana is now in the rear view mirror but even though I didn't enter the mail art call I did receive some entries including a Banana Surprise from Stripgoose who has never sent me anything before. Surprise! Thank you,…

Mail-art by IUOMA member David Stafford (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

December 28, 2014 - The inclusion of a pipe-bedecked David Stafford in the holiday card he sent me this year puts me in a mood for a bit of puffery as…

For those few of you who missed Nadine's One Person Show at the Burbank Museum of Unnatural History, here's a quick review from the Burbank Gazetteer:

Wendell-Mojica's stinging portraiture produces a laugh and a wince when we realize balloting may be going on behind our own backs. Through January…

From the Catalogue:

Like Diane Keys and Nadine Wendell-Mojica, Bruns is a culler of culture, a diva of detritus who captures the zeitgeist daily in scraps of ephemera. The gestalt of the assemblage IS the art, a snapshot (or scrapshot, if you will) of a flailing culture amid which we flounder, up to our eyes in the onslaught of imagery that…

I had admired Linda Faye French's series The Theory of Buttons. Each piece is subtitled, and, for me, the titles enhance the work.

Completely unexpected, The Theory of Buttons Solar, Electrical appeared in my mailbox.

Many silvered and blackened orbits, against a cosmic green and mauve firmament. With suns, planets, moons tightly…

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Tiffany Bahan (Urbana, Ohio, USA)

December 27, 2014 - Thanks to Tiffany Bahan for sending this beautiful, postcard-size collage. She certainly brightens what was a bleak, grey December…

Every once in a while -- well, every day-- I find my way to Google Translate to decipher a word, phrase, or conversation. Type in the text, read the Google translation. But oh my! I'm certain that some parts of the translations are not what the original writer intended, since they make no sense. And I'm sometimes wondering how Google Translate is butchering my American English. Advice to self: steer clear of idioms. I have a really good example of this phenomenon:  Google Translates "All I…

Threnody for a Forgotten Plague, Christmas…