October 2011 Blog Posts (229)

Richard does have a point. He always has a point, a thought to ponder. Let's not stockpile anything. Let's run out of stuff and see what that feels like. Liberated, if we're lucky. Richard also sent me some terrific buffalo logos:…

I know that DVS has already posted CPs Asemic #5 pages, but they are just so wonderful - and you can't see enough of them!!

Here's the envelope:

And a few of the great pages: …

One of Theresas cards with a dancing Halloween skeleton - very funny, thanks a lot Theresa!!

A few days ago I asked Frieder about a special kind of quill (?) with five forks, used in other times to draw the five lines for music notes. I have such a pen and couldn't draw more than 2 centimeters ... So he sent me an example with drawn lines and a little picture of a pet. It's wonderful like everything Frieder draws. 

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Thank you Michalis

Thank you Angie, back from Spain in Sweden, here it is cold already,

Above you see the upperside of the stamp that E carved for me from FOAM. Below you can see how the carving looked like. Off course I has to test the printing (see other photo) on a first set of envelopes that is going out today.

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The dancing skeleton on the envelope

only hinted at what was hiding inside ...

and NO, I'm not talking about the

bubble wrap.

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Mail-art by IUOMA member Erni Baer (Hamburg, Germany)

October 14, 2011 - Recent challenges to the very foundation of Trashpo have raised serious questions about whether this practice will endure in the eternal network. Issues…

Big surprise in my mailbox. My first DK mail, yeeey! Two postcards on carboard. Could it even be very personalized mail? Did DK see my Chance/Choice picture and is sending a reply to it? Is it Chance or is it Choice? The characters on both cards are all blinded with the word Chance, Kings of which Kingdom, we will never know. The cards include numbers of…

Lesley is sending me a very precious little book. A book full of Wisdom. I keep turning its pages, I keep asking questions with the hope of a Revelation. Who knows. It looks like this boekie could tell me a few things indeed. Each page unique, minimal (minimalist? I never know the difference), full of treasures. I'll let you appreciate it's beauty through the…

It is an honor to receive my first mail art from Richard Canard: which features, on the back, some insightful, humorous, and thought-provoking philosophy and truisms about mail art and people: His thoughts here (and everywhere else I've seen some, actually) are…

Thank you, Lindall, for this unexpected and welcome mail art. The collaged face/mask print/stamp (I really know my stuff) and mysterious text with strokes of red really appeal to me. I like the thought-provoking simplicity of the composition. And the…

Erni says of this magazine, "NEST magazine did interest me only because of Fort Thunder that doesn't exist anymore. They had the pure TRASH…