BORING POSTCARDS

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Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 19, 2021 at 6:00pm

Guido, Bradford and Richard...Please, gentlemen, comrades and fellow mail artists, this group is about BORING POSTCARDS, not postcards in general, not international mail rates, not carbon footprints...just BORING POSTCARDS;

All other discussions, Guido, belong somewhere else...and I suggest you look at the evolution of this Group...yes all 42 pages of it -- to see what we are trying to do...and why. Then, hopefully, you will understand what's going on.

Val

Comment by Richard Canard on May 19, 2021 at 5:23pm

(Sir Guido Bondioli)...yes, the "BIG" barf is impressive.....but, if I may: the modest little  postcard has served humankind well over  the past century  & while it is true [at least, here in the U. S. A.( b.,c., etc.)]  that  the  international rate for sending a postcard & or an envelope  are the same they both have distinctive advantages in  their own separate characteristics ---as well as for the personal reasons & choices that an   individual might prefer. & you're right about the the "large carbon footprint" as well. It's high time we put an end to all this "mail art nonsense" & utilize email more effectively .Then maybe we can concentrate more  on contributing to all that space junk & satellite debris floating above our heads.

Comment by Bradford on May 19, 2021 at 5:21pm

Don't be arrogant, Guido.  A postcard is a generous, thoughtful way to correspond.  I take pride in the ones I make, often from a photograph I've taken.  I've received some amazing work that was totally drawn in ink on both sides.  I also draw some cards on occasion.  Bigger is not necessarily better.

Also, you're quite presumptuous to say that it costs the same as there is a postcard rate in many countries that is less than the prevailing letter rate.  So in that sense, you're wrong.

Try to be more appreciative of Mail Art, even if it's just a postcard.

Comment by Guido Bondioli on May 19, 2021 at 4:29pm

Post cards are the most expensive way to mail an image. It is so thoughtless to limit the size of an artist's response to a call for mail. It is so thoughtless to choose an impossibly small size to work. I seldom have a response so small. And It costs the same to mail the nothing as to mail a much larger response. It leaves a large carbon footprint. Someone did not think it through. 

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 19, 2021 at 9:18am

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 19, 2021 at 9:16am

Bon Jour Val!

heeheeheee

...maybe because the Mail Art Call to Puerto Rico

is asking for "postcard"  *10x6 inches size entries?

(English translation :-)

"VOICES: IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC" The year 2020 left us, 
among so many things, a pandemic experience. 
It had not occurred in Puerto Rico or other parts of the world 
more than a hundred years ago. Like any major global event, 
the COVID 19 pandemic provokes various reactions to this 
historical situation. 
We see it in all areas of knowledge and from each of these spaces 
we hear diverse voices that tell their story of gain or loss, 
of new horizons. In the art world there are also voices that are expressed 
from different disciplines. 
For this reason, the 2nd International Mail Art of the Association of Plastic 
Artists of Puerto Rico (known by its acronym AAPPR) was created,
 entitled "Voices in the midst of the pandemic." 
There will be total freedom of media or support

*remaining within the 4 "x 6" mail art format (10.16 cm x 15.24 cm) 

DEADLINE TO RECEIVE THE WORKS: Thursday, JULY 15, 2021 
DATE OF EXHIBITION: IN CELEBRATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL ARTIST DAY
 ON OCTOBER 25, 2021.
Send to:
AAPPR
Association of Plastic Artists of Puerto Rico,Inc.
P.O.Box 8608
Fernandez Juncos Station
San Juan, Puerto rico 00910-0605
 
Exhibition will be documented in the official Blog of 
"VOICES: In the Middle of the Pandemic" 
and there will be a face-to-face Expo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 
Then we will inform the day and place of the exhibition. 
Visit our page on Facebook Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de Puerto Rico, 
Inc.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 18, 2021 at 6:12pm

Hello and Welcome to our new Puero Rico Plasticienes...to whom I have a question --:what, if anything, has your 'Voces' posting got to do with Boring Postcards? It is far from obvious( to me at least) -- please explain. Thank you. Val

Comment by Asoc. de Artistas Plásticos PR on May 18, 2021 at 3:50pm

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 15, 2021 at 11:05am

TWO MORE FROM MIKEL UNTZILLA (Mikel: sorry for the delay in posting these, but I lost them for a few days after cleaning up my study)

1.Central District, Hong Kong

Four boring skyscrapers and one interesting colonial-style domed buiding in front of them.

Does anyone know what the Chinese writing on the red banner says?

2. Calle Carmen 4 (Puerto del Sol), Madrid, Spain

This is a Postcard handed out by the Hotel Europa and Café Europa which are in the building front right

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on May 15, 2021 at 10:54am

FROM MIKEL UNTIZILLA -- thanks Mikel!

Gare du Nord, Paris (Fraance, not Texas)

A nice view of the front of the station. But look what happened in 1895...

The train crash photos are NOT postcards, but I thought a' before and after' view of the staion might ake Mikel's Postcard a bit less Boring...and even Interesting

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