Ruud Janssen's Blog (307)

Stamp from E (France)

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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Added by Ruud Janssen on October 15, 2011 at 5:55pm — 2 Comments

Surprise from Marie Wintzer - Japan

I know that a lot of people enjoy very much the sendings from Marie Wintzer. I was one of the lucky ones to receive this piece (above) in my mail-box and with in it the two cards I made photos of for you to see (below).

Thanks Mary!

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Added by Ruud Janssen on October 3, 2011 at 6:43am — 3 Comments

Mail from Guido Vermeulen - Belgium

Mail from Guido Vermeulen (Belgium) arrived last week. A beautiful painted envelope (large) in which he included some details of his work and also a photo of his working place where you can see how he makes his envelopes. Seems he like to use a lot of ink. Also a…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on September 26, 2011 at 7:09pm — 2 Comments

Mail to Arttower - Germany

A present for Attower is on its way now. He likes faces, so he gets two from me communicating with eachother.

Added by Ruud Janssen on September 11, 2011 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment

IUOMA bumpersticker from Nancy Bell Scott (USA)

Nancy Bell Scott (USA) sent me 2 of these lovely bumperstickers she designed. They are now part of the growing collection of IUOMA PR-materials. One of these days they will form a beautiful exhibition. When I have things digitized I also publish it on the IUOMA logo overview!

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Added by Ruud Janssen on August 21, 2011 at 8:09am — 4 Comments

From Frieder Speck - Germany

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Added by Ruud Janssen on August 20, 2011 at 3:51pm — 2 Comments

2 Calls from Venezuela

Added by Ruud Janssen on August 19, 2011 at 9:12am — No Comments

Mail from the Noth Pole?

Your chance to get mail from and to the North Pole....!

Added by Ruud Janssen on August 19, 2011 at 8:58am — 1 Comment

Mail to Keith A. Buchholz - USA

For his Kaunas Biennial I sent this envelope to Keith (USA):

Added by Ruud Janssen on July 10, 2011 at 11:58am — No Comments

Superhero - here you go....

Thanks Superhero for your mail-art! As a reaction this is on its way to you with inside some fluxus too!

Added by Ruud Janssen on July 9, 2011 at 1:20pm — 1 Comment

Mail to J.F. Chapelle - France

Some more fluxus rubberstamp sheets to J.F. since there are some new creatings in Merignac which I hope will be archived in the collection.

Added by Ruud Janssen on July 9, 2011 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Participate in Anna Banana's research

In Maastricht Anna Banana handed me a research form which she asked me to fill in. She gave me an extra form to digitize and to ask people to print it and fill it out to to return to her. The more responses, the better the research will be. On the first page you find the address to send the sheet back to. Hope you will join in.…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on June 22, 2011 at 11:34am — 6 Comments

Fluxus Words (sentence) for Matthew Jankoshi - USA

Another envelope for Matthew Jankowski (USA) for his mail-art project about WORD MAIL ART. Don't forget to send him something. I published the project on the Mail-Art projects blog too.

Added by Ruud Janssen on June 19, 2011 at 6:05pm — 2 Comments

Research Project for Anna Banana

Finished the research questions that Anna Banana gave me in Maastricht and put them in this colourful envelope to be on its way to Canada. Will try to scan a original survey form so I can place it here online so others can take part too.!

Added by Ruud Janssen on June 19, 2011 at 6:02pm — No Comments

Jankowski does it again!

Added by Ruud Janssen on June 2, 2011 at 8:18pm — No Comments

My stampsheets are still in New York, I want them returned.....!

Greetings from Dadaland was an exhibition at the Stendhal Gallery in April-May 2010. I sent in a selection from the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and went over myself doing a lecture explaining my views of the network. One year later I am confronted with a real problem connected to this exhibition. Harry Stendhall, the Gallery owner of Stendhal Gallery , has yet to return the 670 stampsheets he has in New York. I have asked him often, also asked John Held as a currator to help me on this but the…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on June 2, 2011 at 8:00am — 7 Comments

From Erni Bar

wonderful 3D postcard with a real 5 cent coin that arrived intact here in Breda! Thanks… Continue

Added by Ruud Janssen on May 26, 2011 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Surprises on its way

The first sets of stamped envelopes are out now. In them some stampsheets, but also a set of the new IUOMA cards that were printed. We will see how the cards fill the network...... The postal workers have to work again this week.

Added by Ruud Janssen on May 16, 2011 at 6:55am — 2 Comments

Loflu mail to Cecil Touchon - USA

As most painted envelopes, I document them just before sending. This Loflu envelope goes to Cecil, whom I met last year in NYC.

Added by Ruud Janssen on May 5, 2011 at 6:12pm — No Comments

Outgoing Mail-Art May 2nd 2011

An overview of the outgoing Mail-Art that was sent out this mondag, may 2nd 2011. Some people surely had to wait some time for a reply. Sorry for those who I still have to answer. I am not able to reply all my incoming mail-art I am sorry to say.

Added by Ruud Janssen on May 2, 2011 at 8:22am — No Comments

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