RECEIVED: Street Art Moniker (Mao Bansky Refill) and Mail-Art Prints from Brent Leopold (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Brent Leopold (Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA)

 

February 15, 2011 - One of my earliest IUOMA friends, Brent Leopold, sent me a new round of mail-art that includes the image above of a spray paint can (or is it a cell phone?). This pop-art nod is a great emblem for street art, which so naturally finds its way into the mail-art network. Brent and I are both in the Northeastern United States where graffiti and street art are overlain across gritty urban exteriors you encounter like a real-life visual poem. Moving further west, Detroit - from some amazing photos I've seen recently - is becoming just one giant street painting.

 

Brent's spray paint can might very well be a suggestion we find what inspiration we can in street art. (Might as well paint "The New Reality" with "toxic derivatives" provided by the same corporations that gave us this nightmare in the first place.) He also sent along some of his signature prints. I am always interested to see how that work is evolving:

Brent always sends a note, and he has something going on with a Google profile that probably has more information about his work. I need to take a look too. Brent has been sending some messages about a magazine project he is starting as well as other work, and it is great to have him in the network:

Many thanks again, Brent. Looking forward to many more trades.

 

MAIL-ART PSYCHIC

Stepping into a different role is cramps Taurus but if you are Pisces you will meet a Virgo who knows a Gemini who turns out to be pretty tame material. Why did you cross this one out Snooker? Very strange; today's prediction has been crossed out with blue ink. Lucky numbers: 43, 48 (other #s for today were crossed out so these must be special)

 

Mail-art Color for the Day: Peach

 

Mail-art Word for the Day: Gestalt

 

Mail-art Typo of the Day: IU OM JA (IUOMA - mantra? - jai guru dev or rasta? ja?)

 

Mail-art Contest: Who has the worst scanner? Mine is a real contender. 

[De Villo Sloan]

Woh Snooker, you're racing around the blogs like you have cabin fever. Tell Angie to let you out.

[De Villo Sloan]

Snooker! I received your mail-art on Saturday. Thank you! It's been too long. You know, people ask me about the identity of the mail-art psychic. They really do. Now, those predictions you might not recognize because they've been through the Da Da warbler. But an envelope FULL of predictions fell into my hands, and that's what I use. And all I will say is the mail-art psychic used to work in a Chinese restaurant in a great Midwestern state of the U.S. Enough said about that. Yeah, you know Brent don't you from pretty far back? I did like the "Hello My Name Is" badge.

[De Villo Sloan]

Skybridge, that's a beauty. Brent told me he did somewhere around 1000 individual prints last summer. I gather the very top image is a spray can. After messing up Matt Stolte's cell phone piece, I'm a bit uncertain. I had this panic attack today that what Brent really sent me was a picture of a baby bottle. I looked again, and I think it is spray paint. It would have a pacifyer (?) right? I don't see one. Baby formula isn't purple, right?

[Jen Staggs]

I just received one as well, he has such a variety of styles, really expressive and inspiring.  Thanks Brent!