December 2013 Blog Posts (122)

The sound of a cork popping out of a bottle of fine wine!

Haven't finished this yet but some lucky dog will find out what happens next...(as soon as I do)....

FOR ALL OF YOU OUT THERE:

 Merry ,merry Christmas to all mail-art friends and mail-art lovers and art lovers !!!!!!

It's that time of year again... (yes, card utterly different than last years...)…

Thank you Heleen for your interes in My daddy's birthday projekt !

Something about him..

He used to be an economist and he  is fond of art...he still makes some little drawing and pastel paintings...he likes to make stillifes and landscapes ,he likes all the colours...he likes horses...my grandparents used to have horses,cows pigs,rabbits  and cickens...that was like a story...

He likes clasical music, he used to play to the violin...we still have one in his…

Dan, in the first moment Isaw this title, Ithought it was a new projekt of yours !!! think about it !!!! it could be as good as this one you made...

  Reguards

This wonderful box arrived from the USA.  Will document the content soon.......…

I have been 'monitoring' those IUOMA members whose Birthdays have appeared on the 'Birthdays Today' part of this site. I started this, because I did not recognise many of their names, and wondered if they were indeed active members of IUOMA?

This led me to try and define what an 'Active Member' was, and to see how many of those whose birthdays were listed are indeed active.

I found that about 1 in 5 of them…

I wish the international community of mail artists great holidays, a continued positive creative spirit and health, happiness and pursuit of all our dreams in the New Year!

Bonne année from Montréal!

What is it about this time of year?  Do other artists "shut down"? Is this a common problem amongst those who create?

Shortly after the stores begin decorating for the holidays, before the first Christmas carol on the radio......my muse, my desire to create, leaves. Its just GONE. Phoof!  

Oh, I try. I try hard. So far I've made the ugly-est Christmas Ball you've ever seen. Followed by a even uglier candle holder, etc, etc.  It exhausts me.  This may be "Holiday Depression", or…

Who like this kind of pictures ?
Who want to receive from France a mail art with some of them?

Tell me ! Laurence

On the left an envelope with watercolor of the Mexican eagle and on the right the illustrated letter which went inside that envelope.

A watercolour on a postcards mailed to my friend in Malaysia from my home in Mexico.

Plus loin que la préface de Gabriel Marcel ( le 21 janvier 1933 du Journal de Métaphysique  sur le nécessaire engagement de l'être " aux prises avec un destin non seulement à subir , mais à faire sien , à recréer par le dedans , sur quoi Sartre va construire la mise en scène du garçon de café ) ,

p145 ,

- ma montre s'est arrêtée , dit il , tu veux me dire l'heure père ?

- c'est la 25e heure

- je n'ai pas compris dit Lucien…

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A new electronic experiment featuring music, poetry and video from the three of us. The initial idea came from Eduardo who suggested that he and I pass music tracks back and forth, adding new layers until we both felt that the track was finished. We then asked our friend Yannick to create 3 videos. The first was "His Catatonic Solutions", a poem by liketelevisionsnow. The second was "Untitled Winter Poem", written by Eduardo. You can listen to all 13 tracks and download them for FREE at the…

From "CornPone"

Add & Pass from CZ Lovecraft…

New mail from Mariana Serban and her students!

Bako…