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IUOMA postage for Europe and worldwide

After The stamps for inside the Netherlands, there are now also postagestamps for Europe and Worldwide. They will be used for the outgoing mail-art…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on October 20, 2012 at 8:30am — No Comments

Preparing for 2013 : the IUOMA postage

Preparing for some outgoing mail-art in 2013. With IUOMA-postage off course. You will see for yourself when they hit the network......

Added by Ruud Janssen on October 17, 2012 at 2:24pm — 1 Comment

Cheese Art from Katherina - Greece

Look what I got for breakfast this morning:…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on October 5, 2012 at 6:02pm — 7 Comments

From Russia

print and use......

Added by Ruud Janssen on September 27, 2012 at 6:59pm — No Comments

Jack Latteman & Marnie in Netherlands - Europe - Breda

Last weekend we had a lovely visit from Jack Latteman and Marnie who were in Europe and visited us in Breda too. besides the visit also some…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on September 22, 2012 at 9:08am — 2 Comments

IUOMA postage stamp from Heleen

Heleen de Vaan is using the formal IUOMA postage stamps issued by the Dutch Postal office for her envelope she sent to me. Looks quite lovely. Inside another rubberstamp sheet for the archive.... Thanks Heleen!

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Added by Ruud Janssen on September 15, 2012 at 3:39pm — 6 Comments

819 from Ryosuke Cohen

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Added by Ruud Janssen on April 4, 2012 at 5:33pm — 1 Comment

Statement

Added by Ruud Janssen on February 18, 2012 at 6:17pm — 5 Comments

Rudi Rubberoid died

John Calvert Palmer

March 16, 1927 - January 15, 2012…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on February 14, 2012 at 5:41am — 3 Comments

Mail from Tamara Wyndham (USA)

Tamara Wyndham (NY, USA) sent me some wonderfull booklets she produced lately. I already saw her work on het websitem but having the original colour printed booklet in the collection is wonderful. Tamara Wyndham isn't active here on IUOMA, but active on Facebook and also in art and mail-art (see:…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on January 29, 2012 at 4:55pm — 1 Comment

Mail from Bear

I was lucky to get this envelope. As it seems Bear almost didn't send it, and even asks if I would like to send it back. First thing to do is share the work with you all......…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on January 10, 2012 at 6:11am — 2 Comments

An E from E in France

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!…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on January 7, 2012 at 4:16pm — 5 Comments

IUOMA Postage Stamps 25 Years

Today I received a wonderful gift from Heleen de Vaan (Netherlands). She used the IUOMA design to order a special sheets of original dutch Postage Stamps. The sheets itself is just beautiful. I will send a photo to the designers of the logo too so they know what is happening with their design.…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 23, 2011 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Mail to Lancillotto belini - Italy

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...

Added by Ruud Janssen on December 22, 2011 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Mail from Picasso Gaglione

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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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 18, 2011 at 8:38am — No Comments

New rubber from E - France

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

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 17, 2011 at 7:37pm — No Comments

ZOLIP and ZALUP arrived

The echo of my two words arrived back from South Africa. Thank you …

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 17, 2011 at 1:40pm — 2 Comments

Mail to and from Heleen de Vaan

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…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 17, 2011 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

New book by John Held Jr. (2 Parts) - USA

Part – 1 (page 1-439) and Part -2 (page 440-919) of the book “Where the Secret is Hidden” , Collected Essays, 1979-2011 containing 106 essays written over 30 years on the 20th Century cultural avant-garde including Duchamp, Cage, Mail Art, Fluxus, BiY, zine and artist publishing, international cultural networking, performance art, rubber stamps and other artistic mediums the mainstream considers marginal. Each essay is illustrated with the publication in which it first appeared or an…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 10, 2011 at 6:08pm — 9 Comments

new proposal for logo IUOMA 25 years

After some advices the students came up with this logo (new font and white letters on the red mail-box. What do you think?

Added by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 9:18am — 3 Comments

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