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Very informative article:

http://www.utne.com/media/ray-johnson-zm0z14wzsau.aspx#ixzz3NgPRpTFZ

Lovely mail-art came in last week with some actions needed on my part.

The envelope:

the envelope, that looks lovely, has a rubberstamp by Moan Lisa in it:

A stamp that I want to use on outgoing mail-art, so I mounted it on a piece of…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Carina Granlund (Petsmo, Finland)

March 9, 2014 - Carina Granlund has made this impressive entry in the MinXus-Lynxus Who Has The Best Hair Contest. The concept seems to be a hair…

Borderline Grafix: traditional binding with recycled plastic thread. Interesting collages on heavy paper.…

Today I received a lovely reward from Sweden:

more details you can find on: http://www.theshapethatchangedtheworld.com/#award

They write about the reason for the award:…

So good to see Erica again, been a long time! Now Time-to-PLAY!

Lovely mail art with dots and colors, beautifully textured!

Always good to see Erica's art!

Thank you, girl!…

a new set to create chaos with

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…

made this stamp to print on outgoing envelopes to remember Rain Rien:…

received this wonderful mail today:

with inside some more surprises which I will pass on for sure!…

Great stamped envelope and add-and-pass-on-printed-matter from Ruud!



I always wonder how Ruud succeeds in printing his stamps so well: you can see that all stamps are colouring completely!. While mine almost always leave some white (and when I try to solve it by using more  ink, there appear extra spots :-) ) !

Thank you very much, hartelijk dank,…

Well, Erni Bär sent me a set of sponges, and I promissed to stamp with them. Here is how that goes.

First you need to prepare the sponges for the formats you want to stamp. These sponges are tough to cut, so I needed an industrial siccors to get that done. The first letters of Erni Bär to start with.…

Heleen de Vaan sent me a lovely package. Included were some PR-materials for me to use. Proud to have such a creative advisor...... 

A small thank-you note is already sent. Also I am using the rubberstamp she sent (IUOMA since 1988)  on all outgoing mail-art…

Beautiful day with snow and sun. Lil Red Bag goes for a walk in Amsterdam. This is the Westerkerk with Westertoren. Slippery pavements, careful!

Very long queue... What are all these people waiting for so early on a sunny…

Sad news from John Held Jr. today. He informed the network through Facebook that Shozo Shimamoto died 3 days ago. It was 3 days after Shoso turned 85 years old.

John Held is currently working on a Gutai exhibition in San Francisco and that will be a special event now for sure. I met Shozo Shimamoto in 1990 in Köln when he was doing the NetRun, and took this photo…

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The long announced letter finally arrived on Dec. 5th.

Mijnheer Ruud Janssen has sent nice things and written nice words.…

Because I got the question I had to do some digging in the archive, As it turns out I found the starting month back in one of my own publications that I wrote in 1990:

This booklet was published in 1990 to document my first 10 years in Mail-Art. I still have the originals here. In it I wrote about the start of the IUOMA. It turns out to be AUGUST 1988. Later in…

Great mail from Erni Bär (Germany) last week. He sent me a typical envelope with his portrait on it and the envelope itself had a special size.......…