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BORING POSTCARDS

This Group celebtrates Boring, ordinary, dull, commercial Postcards that feature aspects of our everyday life – such as streets, roads, houses -- and are, in a strange way, interesting because they are so uninteresting. Join in and share your Postcards of our Boring world.

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INTERESTING POSTCARDS!! 41 Replies

From time to time we have outbreaks of whether a Postcard is Boring, or not.“Yes it is”. “No it isn''t.”“All Postcards are Boring.” “All Postcards are interesting”.And so on, and so forth.So, LET'S TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENTAnnouncingINTERESTING…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Francis Lammé Aug 17, 2022.

DULL AND/OR BORING? 15 Replies

DULL OR BORING?I am a member of the British-based Dull Men's Club (DMC) – which also includes women, and, indeed, claims to…Continue

Started by Valentine Mark Herman. Last reply by Gerald Jatzek Nov 27, 2021.

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 19, 2020 at 3:49pm

ANOTHER 3 FROM MIKEL

ANOTHER THANK YOU TO MIKEL!

1. Q. What are they all looking at? A. 'The Slope of Lok Ma Chau (China)'

2. Captain James Cook Memorial, Norfolk Island, South Pacific

[ Bali Ha'i! (from 'South Pacific')

"Most people live on a lonely island
Lost in the middle of a foggy sea
Most people long for another island
One where they know they would like to be
Bali Ha'i may call you"]

3. Fields in the suburbs of Chengtu (China)

(with water buffalos in the right foreground)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 12, 2020 at 2:28pm

THREE MORE FROM MIKEL.....AND THANKS AGAIN, MIKEL

1. Combined Harvesters, China

2.  Damn

3. The Church of Vik, Streymoy, Faroe Islands

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 5, 2020 at 5:26pm

TWO BORING HOTEL POSTCARDS

1. The Watergate Hotel, DC;

"Overlooking the Potomac and just minutes from the White House and Kennedy Center. The Watergate is Washington's Preferred Hotel"

(I think the last sentence is a quote from Richard M Nixon; My 'Preferred Hotel' [with capitals] in Washington is the Hay Adams)

2. The Sheraton Hotel, Lima, Peru

(I could find no evidence that the 'Plumbers' were there)

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 4, 2020 at 9:15pm

Welcome Toni.

Do send us some Boring Postcards.

Thanks.

Val

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 4, 2020 at 3:53pm

BORING POSTCARDS 101: THIS WEEK'S ASSIGNMENT

Compare and Contrast the approaches to Boredom by Peter Toohey and Eva Hoffman. Which did you find the most Boring? Why? Is such a thing as 'A Lively History of Boredom' possible?

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 4, 2020 at 3:48pm

THREE MORE REALLY BORING ONES FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA (to whom, once again, Many Thanks!)

1. Lagoa do Pogo (Portugal)

2. Muskos i Sdr Stromfjord (Greenland)

3. Slovak Karst -- the Domica Caves, Slovakia

Comment by Richard Canard on March 3, 2020 at 9:54pm

03.03.20.....just doing my boring job.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on March 3, 2020 at 7:47pm

Yawn.

60's  Fluxus? I recognise your knowledge of (Mail) Art recent history Ben and Tony and Uncle Tom Cobley, but... Yawn again.

Perhaps we could get back to Boring Postcards in March 2020?

G'night

Comment by Richard Canard on March 3, 2020 at 3:55pm

03.03.20 ...."idee originale: Tony Mazzocchin"---...."Who dat?"  Surely everyone knows this is a 60's Fluxus item by Ben Vautier entitled "Postman's Choice" ??? 

Comment by John M. Bennett on March 3, 2020 at 1:19pm

Ha!  one should address and stamp it on both sides, and let the post office decide which address to send it to!  not boring to me, but sdurely boring to some folks. 

 

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