Carola Von Hoffmannstahl's Blog – March 2014 Archive (3)

Mail Art Confidential

Mail Art Confidential; another handful of perps from the 200 Postcards/Got Mail Art? project. Served with a splash of vintage American Noir. Calendar girls, corruption, and epic political conspiracies. Hat tip to James Ellroy…

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Added by Carola Von Hoffmannstahl on March 31, 2014 at 12:32am — No Comments

Five More for the Road

Five more postcards hit the road– a moving part of the 200 Postcards/Got Mail Art? project.

Midwest Modern, Waterloo, Iowa, 1933: “Our YMCA is the newest and most modern in the 5 state area in Midwest.”…

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Added by Carola Von Hoffmannstahl on March 23, 2014 at 3:46pm — 1 Comment

200 Postcards/Got Mail Art?

I love the Post Office. Aka, the Church of Snail Mail. An institution reflecting the fading vision of democratic public services. Churls say the church should cease to exist. Their mantra? Privatize privatize privatize. Buttressed by claims that long distance communication by paper is doomed. So low tech don'cha know. To which I reply--

Got Mail Art?

A project to celebrate the Church of Snail Mail and its most devoted member, Mail Art. My mission: send 200 altered postcards to…

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Added by Carola Von Hoffmannstahl on March 15, 2014 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

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