Guido Vermeulen's Comments

nice one, but you're a tad late on the whistle! ;-D

i used what was on the back for the title.

do you have a title for the piece with the peace train and bookshelves?

it is going in my FREE ART e-newsletter tomorrow!

let me know or i'll make one up! ;-D

oh, you haven't seen this book yet?

you will love it!

roberto picked zombie tales v.2.

that leaves you with the options of:

the zombie survival guide by max brooks

best new zombie tales vol.1

the dead that walk

there is one other, but it is HUGE, and i can't afford so much postage!

sorry!

gander is like "browse".

like "look," but with a bit more energy behind it.

to pour over something.

http://deadmailart.blogspot.com/2011/07/zombie-read-and-pass.html

i'm giving roberto first pick because he helped inspire this project.

you get second pick since you have submitted the most zombies!

please take a gander, and as soon as roberto has chosen, i'll let you know which ones you can choose from!

Guido - your messages from the Rainforest arrived. WHAT A TREAT!!!! Thank you One of my favorites so far - 

Too far upstream

Mountains take the shape

Of waterbirds 

WONDERFUL! - Thank you again - I'm CHUFFED :-) X

Hi Guido, Thank you for the wonderful mailart received from you. Love your style, and Tarintina is really a beautiful cat. They say a cat chooses  the people they want to live with. Take care Karin 

Goede avond Mijnheer! Many thanks for your latest offering: "I like flying ktes at night". It's realy good, and I'm trying to guess exactly where the kites are and in which night-time sky you are flying them.

I am a hopeless kite flyer, so won't discuss that. Instead, I'll tell you that I'll be mailing you something back before the week is out.

Thanks again, and regards to you et la belle Ann, Hilton Val

Guido, your envelope was waiting in the mail box this afternoon. I took it to the porch and poured over it. You captured the essence of the 'tornado'. I have seen them only on TV because when the sirens go off, we head for the lowest level. 

Yours is the first envelope. It was nice to look inside. Yes, art related to peace and awareness i support. 

I will send you something tomorrow. 

Hi Guido!!!

I'm giving a short interview about  the “mail art” for a PDF catalog of mail art, which will publish soon in http://esserci-senza-esserci.blogspot.com.

Could you please answer these two questions:
(send: esserci-senza-esserci@hotmail.it)

1) What mean the mail art in your life?

2) How you knew the mail art?

Thanks you, hug for you!!!  =))

_guroga

my main concern is that i am running more and more toward mass copies of art, but i don't want to lose friends!!! i love you to death, you've been a great correspedencer! but i've been consumed lately with the digital art, which as i said // has no original artwork // -- everything i virtual, there is no original! ;-D

i have been networking with the art, sending out TONS of copies to many people, in hopes they will respond and see what the free art thing is all about, but i spend far more time making the art than sending, i am certainly not just sending one piece! i make a digital piece, then immediately print out about ten copies to send. sometimes they go fast, other times they sit in a stack, waiting for addressing. some arts i make a bunch more, especially the one titled "if only hitler had known about FLUXUS, none of this would have happened to us," which i'll be sending out your way (as a mass-produced copy) soon!!!

i just want you to know that i cherish your friendship!

that is all.

i can understand that, and it i've come across something similar in my own art calls when someone sent me a postcard completely unrelated to the mail call for Mail of the Living Dead. it was a promotion for their website and had nothing to do with zombies. i ended up posting it, but not with the zombies. i put it on the free art blog. but it certainly provoked some thought about what should i do with it? and if i accepted it, where should i draw the line.

i sent you a bunch of copies of my art, which were in fact for your particular mail call, i don't know if you've received them or not yet, but they were all inspired by your photocopy of ann and her mum. i have sent out multiple copies to others, but not to any other mail art call, just to individuals.

i think i agree with you on some level for the calls, it is somewhat disrespectful to make a reproduction and submit for various things which it may not even be related to, but on the other hand i think i can see leeway for acceptance of works which are done in such a way. it is art, afterall, and art rarely if ever "follows the rules."

thanks for the food for thought! ;-D