Smiles & Smirks

Art with a measure of humour is required by Walmarth Corporation for its chain of supermarkets, located in the Queendom of Retailia and in Cascadia Artpost. Through this collaboration Cascadia Artpost and Mail Art Martha are continuing to give impulse to Trashpo, the artistic vision of Diane Keys.

‘Walmarth Corporation is an entertaining and witty parody of corporate, consumer culture. Cascadia Artpost’s painstaking realization of Mail Art Martha’s ideas through detailed, special effects style models makes Walmarth Corporation one of the crowning achievements of Trashpo in the half-decade that it has been producing a large quantity of art.’
https://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/minxus-mail-bag-walmarth-advertising-supplement-by-cascadia-artpost-olympia-washington-usa-with-mail-art-martha-beckenham-uk/

In addition to Trashpo the Corporation has now expanded to include political satire, parody, comics, caricature and witty playfulness.
Your contribution is needed to fill the shelves.

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  • Mail Art Martha

    i wonder if i can post here
  • Michael Leigh

    Your up early.  Post away!

  • Mail Art Martha

    Well it worked. I am shut out of most of IUOMA ning, apparently a spammer got to my page some weeks ago. First, all pictures diaappeared then my list of contacts too, so I cannot message anybody. I have been investigating and it is (probably, I am not sure of anything now) my browser vrus defenses. I found out that a trojan can be put in your computer which is then triggered off by a bit of code in a jpg. Amazing.
    All to get to my millions it seems.
    But Trump is coming round to conceed and we are going to have several vaccines soon!
    So cheers to all and over and out.
  • Michael Leigh

    Post early for Crustmush!

  • Michael Leigh

    Sorry to hear that Martha.  Damn those pesky trojans!   Hope you are all sorted soon.  Hope we all are!  It's going to be a long tough Winter!  Still, we have our mail art to keep us warm and the new THING that never needs batteries!

  • Fleur Helsingor

    What an ordeal, Martha! I hope that everything gets cleared up soon.

  • Fleur Helsingor

    Martha, I was glad to get your message that this venue is working for you again. I've had some problems in the past, too, but they worked themselves out after a few hours. The ning platform does seem to be a bit flaky.

  • Mail Art Martha

    Thank you Fleur.

    IUOMA came back to me!

    I suppose Ruud adding a SSL certificate did the trick. My PC is full of security apps and it kept saying IUOMA is not secure. It took a while to become effective, sometimes things do not happen immediate in the www.
    I was depressed and not sleeping well which I put to the strange life we are leading but it was not that. Now I am full of zest and gleeeeee! yi peeeee!
    So you have to put up with me again!

    That is how  I felt, grounded to pulp.

    Thank you Michael you got it!

  • william S. Paley

    can't wait to receive...and mail stuff out

  • william S. Paley

    here's my addition...

  • Mail Art Martha

    Thanks William. Not sure I agree either with women being a joke on men or the other way around. Nothing funny the way humanity is behaving at present.

  • Michael Leigh

  • Michael Leigh

    Festive greetings all !   Now here's a thing we all need right now - the Deluxe Gut Suit for keeping you warm this Winter and for deflecting those pesky snowballs!  Only  £49.99  from your usual dealer.

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    Covid Era Art History:

  • Sabrina S

    I didn't visit Walmarth in a while, had some smiles and smirks again now. Some good stuff availabe there. Just come more often, I guess.

  • Mail Art Martha

    That is quite funny in a repulsive sort of way Michael! Thank you!

    Katerina, thanks!!! So clever. I am envious. Why didn't I think of it? Cos I am not so clever ...

  • Mail Art Martha

    Get the new improved Corona!

    Only at Walmarth

  • Sabrina S

    Haha, excellent, Martha! 

  • Fleur Helsingor

    That's great!

  • Michael Leigh

    That's funny in a nasty covid sort of way Martha!    Surprised that beer is still selling well!   Novelty value only!

  • Cascadia Artpost

    And, you can recycle your Corona bottles at Walmarth Cascadia - just look for the daily dumpster out back of the store!

  • Cascadia Artpost

  • Mel Anie

    I tried to buy the beer but I couldn't, so I faked it and then canned my idea. Should have gone to Walmarth.

  • Mail Art Martha

    Thanks Mel Anie and Jack in Cascadia and Michael and Fleur and Sabrina!

    It is no surprise Corona beer is selling well with all the free advertising they get.

  • Mail Art Martha

    From Hemi

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

  • Mail Art Martha

    Thanks Katerina, I mean, Santa. Very thoughtful of you.

  • Mail Art Martha

    New trashion for 2020-2021! Thank you  Sabrina. 
    This seasonal outfit with pre-worn holes and techy adaptations is only available in Walmarth. One size fits all.

  • DianeKeys

    Love this ensemble. Does the blazer have a tear away feature or does it have to be taken off manually?
  • Mail Art Martha

    I dont know Diana, we have to ask the designer, Sabrina.

  • Sabrina S

    Snap buttons, Diane. Because nobody has time for this inconvenient regular buttons when your work collegues ask you spontaneous for a "short talk". 

  • Mail Art Martha

    Thank you Sabrina por clarifying a point of law. Snap buttons are required by law in Retailia in all garments, except in straightjackets.

  • DianeKeys

    That is a great design. Is the blazer by chance reversible?
  • Sabrina S

    I am sorry Diane, the blazer is not reversible because, you know, some folks add some diy stains on their pullover for brighten up the pullover and that may ruin the whole outlook of the blazer... 

  • Sabrina S

    By the way, are you Diane the lost DK queen of trahspo?

  • DianeKeys

    Thanks for the clarification Sabrina. DK lost queen of trashpo? Is Walmarth selling Bill's fairy tale series?  

  • Mail Art Martha

    Yes she is, Sabrina, but too modest to admit it.

  • Cascadia Artpost

    Walmarth Cascadia Holiday Menu Suggestion: If you are in a quandary about what salad to serve at your New Year's Day meal, consider the attached suggestion recycled from from the Walmarth food recycling dumpster archive:

  • DianeKeys

    I hope Walmarth carries celery and mixed vegetable flavor

  • Mail Art Martha

    Lovely salad! One modification that I would make. I will use plain gelatine and add sherry it. I always do, this is the Argentinian variety I learned from my Italian grandmother. She use Marsala.

  • Mail Art Martha

    I don't know but it carries all kinds of booze.

  • Bradford

    I don't know what aspic of this idea makes me cringe the most; onions, carrots, or olives in my Jell-O.

  • DianeKeys

    The whole horse hoof thing doesn't make it pair well with anything edible to me

  • Michael Leigh

    I think the oly kind of jelly you need is the one big enough to bounce on outside -

  • Mail Art Martha

    Now that is funny Michael, thanks. I had begun to despair. 

  • DianeKeys

    Hahaha Love it Michael! 

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    It's Ali Khat from Mail Art Martha:

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

  • Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)

    opps...the cats wandered here and should be at "Cat Lovers" group, how did that happen? Well, Ali Khat must have brought them here, ha!

  • Mail Art Martha

    Oh yes  Katerina he is very sociable! They are welcome, as is your contribution of the comic, thanks.