Ruud Janssen's Blog Posts Tagged 'Janssen' (72)

A lovely surpise I got in the mail last week from Heleen de Vaan. Will use it on outgoing mail.....

with the mail today a special parcel..... What could it be?

It reads "t.a.v. Findings dpt.", and on the backside it indicates that it is a Ruud finding:

So guess what Heleen de Vaan has found for me and sent by traditional…

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.…

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.......…

After returning from Germany I found this E in the P.O. Box. A surprise and gift from E in France. It is now part of the TAM-Archive. Thanks so much E!…

Well, exactly 50 grams went into this painted envelope for lancillotto. He returned some of the stampsheets and since he produces a lot os stmps he got this envelope filled with new sheets, some cards and a little surprise...

A card from Picasso Gaglione (Chicago - USA) with on it Alison Knowles, Darlene Domel and Myself. A performance we did in April 2010 at the Stendhal Gallery in New York Ciry. He took this photo. Very nice to see these memories back in the mail with the funny rubberstamp attached to it.

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some new rubber from E in France arrived. I already printed it onto some envelopes that will go out next weeks....…

Heleen de Vaan sent me this envelope with the lovely IUOMA rubberstamp in it. Thanks so much. What I do with a gift like that? Use it on all the new envelopes that go out connected to the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and the first one goes out to Heleen:

Thanks…

A large envelope arrived from Erni Bär in Germany. The stampsheets I sent him are returned in this large envelope full with messages. You won't see me angry when someone sends a gift like this. The Erni Bär Fan Club stamps are now formally in the TAM Rubberstamp Archive in Breda!

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Since Val measure the weight of his collection and threatens to exhibit it I dared to send him yet another painted envelope after he filled my archive also with this card: What he has to deal with is this envelope. No, the content I won't reveil....…

Nancy Bell Scott (USA) sent me this wonderful envelope with beautiful IUOMA stickers on and in it. I will use them on the outgoing mail-art for sure. ALready sent her back an answer. I am a bit behind in answering my mail-art. Actually I can't even answer all the mail I get in. Not with the time and money that is available...... …

This week the folowing original Foam Rubber arrived by mail without any problem:

thats…

As you can see, this last week "E" send me a really impressive load of mail-art. All kind of envelopes, stampsheets, even original rubber to use, and you name it.  Thanks for this privat exhibition "E" !…

For celebrating the 3rd year on NING for IUOMA the next card is being printed right now and will start to go out next week when we are 3 years on NING.

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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…