Oberdada Jr.'s Blog (10)

These came today.

Telephone on landline was a really good idea. You didn't have to write text messages, no stupid apps to stalk your whereabouts, and inside it had real bells. 

Thanks Kiki!

You may have already seen their call for postcards. I sent them this:

Dans le cadre de cet événement, un appel à participation est lancé : pendant une période déterminée,…

Zine #454 arrived yesterday. Delicately scotched and glued together, a beautiful document.

https://circulaire132.blogspot.com/

You realise that 25 copies is definitely mass communication when you make those copies by hand, like a monk in a medieval monastery. 

And also the catalogue from Lutz Anders' Change / Veränderung exhibition came yesterday. 

I'm beginning to recognise a few…

This is part of the Wrong Biennale which just opened a few days ago. This year's theme is AI, which I'm a bit weary of, although I do participate with mail art and a so-called math poem here:

https://space.rochallyi.com/

And I recognise at least one other IUOMA member among the contributions.

What kind of a forgery is this supposed to be? Reminds me of that study by Bruner & Postman (sic) in 1949 where they briefly flashed incongruous playing cards, such as black hearts or red spades. That really messed up the test subjects' colour perception.

Thanks Richard! A letter is on its…

Still a few days till the deadline for sending prints to Balikesir University in Turkey. 

One of those rare opportunities to get rid of some prints ... such as this etching.…

This one came last week. If you're out of glue just stitch it together with thread!

These two postcards arrived yesterday. Thanks Richard, if you're here!

An invitation to an exhibition that opened fifty years ago ... well, I suppose it's closed by now. Below is the whole family.

These stamps of linocuts came with a letter earlier this summer. I suppose the idea is to put the stamps on letters and pass them on.

I myself have printed original linocuts directly on a bunch of envelopes, or as much of them as fits on the…

This was the first mail art I received, maybe in 2006 or 2007. Can't remember how it happened, someone just contacted me with a request to exchange something. Then I had nothing to do with mail art until last year.

Post card.…