Ficus strangulensis's Blog (25)

Just found Postcrossing, an organization started in 2005 for people  trading postcards around the world in Jean Trals's IUOMA page which I looked at due to today being her birthday, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jean. There was a link there to the history of postcards and the postal system which includes a VERY LARGE collection of historical postal images perhaps of interest to some of us.

here's a link to one: …

I sense that we think of mail art as visual or perhaps textual [poetry] art but there is a whole Universe of other art, think singing, dance, instrumental music. And, with that to prime our mindset, allow me to introduce you to an amazing guitarist, Jin San Kim, 19-yr old Korean, self taught, sounds as if he plays with at least 40 fingers...

Here is a link:…

Hopefully ONE of 'em'll reach GB!

one being reposted Bleu Cat from Coco [Muchmore I presume.

and the other, the cover of her card showing a new project, 'Sardines'…

Although a mail 'artist' who can't draw, I CAN scribble and then feed it thru both Deep Dream and Meta AI to get the real Fike!

Sample 1

In the dimly lit recesses of the postal abyss, a legion of lunatic letter carriers conjure an unholy ritual to summon the Snailmail Gods. As the moon hangs low in the sky, they dance with reckless abandon, their mailbags aflutter like the wings of deranged birds. The wind whispers secrets in their ears, and they scribble frenzied notes on envelopes, imbuing the mail with the…

Just found at TEMU, postage stamp stickers for cheap!

https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?search_key=postage%20stamp%20stickers&search_method=user

YOB, Fike

Gifted and LOVING it!

especially after reading the Wikipedia article on it [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49] as I just did.

I know I read the book years ago but now, as an octogenarian, I realize that most of my life I have not paid close attention to much of anything.

Y'r ol' Bud, Fike

just got a mailart that I'd sent to ex posto facto on 29 Aug 2024 returned "address unknown"

It was addressed:

General Delivery

c/o Julie Paquette AKA ex posto facto

6120 Swiss Ave

Dallas, TX 75214

Can anyone correct me on the address, PLEASE!?

I got this WONDERFUL first issue and CAN'T find the sender's name and address. Please help!

As many of you may know, I'm trying to get google's DeepDream AI image generation application to make suitably  strange or even suggestive images for use as mailart. My thought is that an AI is NOT human and will misunderstand our language perhaps interestingly.

I hope no one is offended by this but I understand that some may be.

At first all that the app produced was what I consider Bowdlerized pix and, when queried, the google support people verified that it…

I got a blank CD from Ted Trager marked "personal bizness. Dunno what to do with it. Need his email & NEED TO UPDATE MY EMAIL ADDRESS HERE AT iuoma BUT HAVE FAILED!

kept getting no network or somesuch error message and it didn't seem to be caused by my end.

Howdy, All.

Hello, IUOMAns!

Still way behind on replying and not catching up so's you'd notice.

Had chemo yesterday and, as usual, the steroids they infuse to keep me from being nauseous seem to result in an increase of energy at least for the next day. So I'd better use summa it to pare down the backlog.

Some may have noticed that I've adopted an abbreviated [4me anyway] format with one of my photo cards used as a postcard. Since my chemo side effects seem to be…

We've moved into our new home, the doublewide trailer only a few yards from our old home and in it's front yard.

Seems like chemo and/or life has  thrown us a few curves in the form of a cold and a fungal[?] infection which are hanging on and making life less interesting.

Expecting my Angel, son-in-law Dan and his wife [our daughter #2, Mary] 2day and will probably ask him to transport me to an urgent care so I can start trying to see if I have a fungal infection from…

So here it is 2022, time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

I'm in remission from cancer discovered late 2021 and treated with chemo, a delight if you like crappy side effects but who's to compain, it's got me in remission from a colon cancer which had metastasized to a lung before it was discovered but my Turkish Delight Dr. Soley [Bayraktar] has beaten it back with metabolic poisons for which I am undyingly [at least for now] grateful.

and 2day I received…