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Bonjour,

Disney Studios are considering making a new version of '101 Dalmations'. ("What's wrong with the old version?" asks Snooky).

They have approached ME because they have heard of my 1001+ Post Card Exhibition -- "L'Art de la Carte Postale/Post Card Art".

(And they saw the fantastic "Do Not Open!" video that Jinny Pearce made which I wrote. Hi, Jinny! You get a plug too)

I'm waiting for Walt and his friends to come back to me.

In the…

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]…

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…

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'.…

HELP! please.......

This is one of the Exhibitions that celebrates IUOMA's 25th Birthday.

I have received about 920 postcards

I'M TRYING TO GET TO 1000 CARDS

Please send me 1, 2......... or even 80 cartes postale/post cards.

Details of the Exhibition are below.

Thank you/Merci Beaucoup.

Val

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“L'Art de la Carte Postale”/“Post Card…

Bonjour!

A number of you (well a number that is greater than 5 but smaller than 7) have asked for more information on my current Mask-Making activities.

In the absence of Jinny (who is on holiday, but otherwise might have made a Mask-Making video -- did you see her 'Do Not Open!' vid...it's a classic!) I have put a series of photos together for y'all.

Here goes....

1. Catch your Mask…

...well, one third of a Studio.

Another third is going to be used for the restoration of antiques and old mirrors.

The third third is going to be a Flamenco Dance Studio.

(NO, I am NOT getting into Flamenco dancing. NO, I will not be posting photos of me tomorrow in a Suit of Lights, or, on October 15, of me in my Birthday Suit)

All IUOMA visitor(s to Sigean will be given a Free Conducted Tour of the Studio -- come back Janine! Come back Mail Art…

...provide a postal address in their Profile Information?

Not being psychic, I can't.

Grrrrrrrr! It's a drag having to ask people for their snail mail address. And/or dig around in their web-site to (try and) find it.

If y'all want some Mail Art then surely you're going to give your postal address?

My New Return-Mail-Art Policy from now on is that if you don't provide me with your address on what you send me and/or in your Profile…

It started yesterday!

The sun was shining and the Box looked really good.

There were 63 cards in and on the Box when the Exhibition started.

THANK YOU ONE AND ALL FOR PARTICIPATING!

Here it is...folks...…

Bonsoir!

Several of you responded privately to my last Porn Star related Blog, and asked me (and I'm being polite here, as you will understand) "Hey Val, what's it like being a Porn Star? Come on, spill the beans, man!"

I feel obliged to reply, but -- as I'm sure you understand, there are certain standards of decency that must be maintained on this family-friendly site -- I have to be discreet.

Also, and please don't accuse me of being too polite but I'm not going to get…

(I thought that title would make you look at this!)

Thanks to....

* Nico van Hoorn, for his postcards, one of which contains the instruction: 'Destroy this work and return it to...'. I'm still trying to work that one out, but will send a card or something back to Nico anyway

* Christine Jones, for her postcards and the Flood article. One of the cards, made by her friend Tricia Smout, a beautiful work of art, says "It is never too late to be what you might have been".…

Look what happens when you park a 2CV in Maastricht for a couple of hours and forget to put money in the parking meter:…

Or have I got that the wrong way round?

Try again: Rembrandt in the Rijksmuseum and SuusinMokkum & Val in O'Reilly's Bar.

That's better.

The Polo Mint has recently been to Amsterdam. It was practically impossible to Polo Mint the newly-re-opened Rijksmuseum, but I did manage to take a few photos there.

And then went to meet up with Suus.

Ready...steady...go!…

This is The End of the Danish  series of Polo Mint Adventures, with photos from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen.

The Museum is so called because there is a large bar on every floor that offers visitors unlimited amounts of free Carlsberg beer, and when you have drunken a lot your tummy begins to rumble to the tune of 'Glytotek' -- the Danish Eurovision Song Contest entry in 1997.

Or something like that.

This Part of the Adventures begins with some Polo…

Mrs Cheesey Potato lives just across the Impasse from me. This morning she gave me some Mail Art that I had received during my recent absence that would not fit in the Mail Box...and so I will continue with the Collective Thank You.

I will be mailing stuff to y'all when I have raised some money for stamps by disposing of my children. The Pawn Shop wouldn't take them, alas, and so I am forced to sell them. I can offer you a Special Mother's Day Three-for-Two price if anyone is…

...I have been away again, this time for 10 days in Maastricht, the Netherlands, where I had a mini-exhibition of my Aboriginal-type art. (Photos of that follow later). When I got back home last night the mail box was stuffed full of goodies, and I just haven't got the time right now to send everyone an individual thank you, so here is a collective one.

I hope to be able to send all the people below some Mail Art back soon, but I will have to pawn the children so that I can get some…

Here we are again, Polo Mint Lovers everywhere.

This set of Adventures comes from Denmark.

At the Louisiana Museum there was an Exhibition called 'Pop Art Design' which was very good -- but not easy to Polo Mint.

(Go on...ask why a Museum in Denmark is called 'Louisiana'?)

Here goes...…

Bonjour Art Lovers of the World!

I have just come from back from Copenhagen where the Polo Mint Adventures continued.

To recap -- a Polo Mint is a small English sweet (very similiar to a Life Saver).

Here is one:

I visit Galleries and Museums, place a Polo Mint on or near an exhibit, take a photo of it, and then move on before I get…

...the following people for the Great Mail Art they have kindly sent me (with apologies for this being collective, but I'll never get round to thank everyone individually and properly, so my excuses).....

* Nico van Hoorn & the Altijd Nijmegen Radical Phone Box Collective

* Ti Ar Raden & the Martinique Beach Side Phone Box Crew

* Mute Sound 4 the Spanish Phone Card (it didn't work in France -- nor did the Last Surviving Phone Box I found)

* Carlule…