July 2013 Blog Posts (145)

This post has so many levels!  Most excellent!

The post is a response to a discussion involving politics - whereby I put forth a "I vote with…

(above is the cover to the mail art zine)

Hello my babies!

Three months ago I sent you guys a message asking if you were interested in participating in a mail-art zine. Many of you fine folks responded. I sent you a “golden ticket,” and then you sent me back some great art. This week (yesterday) I’ve put all that work together in zine form and I’m…

1. Start here, because 'I have always something important to tell you' [although 'I always have something important to tell you' sounds better to me]…

This post is titled, "Jean Claw Van Damme"

Thanks much, Michael.

The front of the envelope:…

Thanks Dan.  The reverse says, "The Banana-Rose deity seeds clouds over The Hill Country.  Rain will come, I hope."

It rained the day this showed up.  I kid you not.

The front and back of the envelope is just as fun....but without the velvety finish.…

Cover of mail-art book by IUOMA member Carina Granlund (Petsmo, Finland)

July 8, 2013 - Carina Granlund sent me this spectacular boekie that I believe represents a very successful and…

"ODE TO BLUE" was an online exhibition of works by  64 international artist in August 2012. Just click here for more…

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I have conflicting feelings about the work that they do. While I appreciate the conceptual aspect of it, I think you get into dangerous territory when you are playing with people's personal space

What do you think?

My latest Exhibition  -- jointly with the Copenhagen portrait photographer, Henrik Bronsted, under the name Den Danglish Duo -- "Samantha's Polaroids" opened at le Maison de l'Artisan in Sigean last week.

It features 13 large photos of Samantha and about 20 different Polaroid cameras.

There was supposed to be 13 original Polaroid-size photos of Samantha, but unfortunately  they got left behind in Denmark.

Here's Samantha, the Polaroids and some photos from the…

Here is just a portion of the stuff I've received since ...April? Bad, bad, Dave....(He smites brow mightily.) Maybe the oldest piece of mailart in my inbox was Katerina's birthday greeting. (Still smiting). But I think I have a pretty damn good excuse. Sorta....not so much...…

This is a piece of one of many pieces of VISPO and poetry I received from Matt Stolte! To see more visit:

http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/matte-stolte-oceans-big-gulp.html…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Nadine Wendell-Mojica (North Hollywood, California, USA)

July 7, 2013 - Nadine Wendell-Mojica sends her friends very original and very amusing caricatures and cartoon-like drawings. Given her address…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Thom Courcelle (Seattle, Washington, USA)

July 5, 2013 - I am late in documenting this extraordinary mail-art from Thom Courcelle. Now that I have, I am including it in my ongoing "New…

What a great surprise to see an envelope from TicTac in my mailbox.

"X" marks the best!Always a joy! Thank you so much, Patrizia!

She is sending very interesting cards, and a FluxBuck:…

Awwww...Is that Tweetie deep in the Aegean Sea? Haptic Werewolf approves...

also wants YOGA!

And the collage sides of the two cards from Erni in Hamburg look like this:…

ESPECISMO = RACISMO = SEXISMO

La palabra “especismo” no viene de la nada. Es un término paralelo a otros que existen para nombrar otras formas de discriminación y explotación que son más conocidas a nivel social y que han afectado y afectan de forma terrible a muchos seres humanos.

El…

Bonjour!

Look at this Massai Warrior piece of pottery I made, and then I will tell you my story:

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin.

In my penultimate year at Grammar (High) School, when I was 16, I took an optional (A level) course in Art.

There were 4 reasons why I did so:

i) I was hopeless at Art ( 'You still are, Val'.…

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