Mail of the Living Dead

Zombies have invaded our popular culture!!

What is the meaning of this obsession with the living dead?

 

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  • Svetlana Pesetskaya

    Greetings the Superhero!!! Very beautiful work at you!!))))
    Tell please, and it is possible to participate in the book of the Zombie № 2)))
    Very interesting theme and ridiculous it is possible to play pranks and open the imagination!!)))) I could think up new verses for the book of the Zombie № 2 it so interesting and thanks you for your fantastic project the book of the letter of the Zombie!! Yours faithfully Svetlana Pesetsky good-bye

     

  • yes, svetlana!

    i would love to have you participate in the second book!

    you've been most productive.

     

    due date will be October 31 (HALLOWEEN) ;-D

  • i liked the zombie surfers enough to incorporate them!

    and so i dug up these beautiful submissions from dewi to include as well:

     

    http://deadmailart.blogspot.com/2011/05/three-zombies.html

     

  • Svetlana Pesetskaya

    WOW! WOW ! Grazie Superhiro!!!!! Halloween - Cool!!!)))))
  • Neil Gordon

    Superhero>Your zombie surfers remind of the misfits, you could be a misfit! Neil
  • sometimes i feel like a misfit ;-D

    but then i just remember.

    i want to be a dentist!

  • i created the front of the flyer for the add & pass zombie encyclopedia,

    it's non-project specific so i can re-use it in further Mail of the Living Dead projects as well. I'll put the specifics on the rear, along with signature boxes, so we know who contributes to each chapter.

     

  • Neil Gordon

    SH: Do you want to be a dentist or steve martin? Love the zombie encyclopedia art project! Your a zombie machine!
  • stole the words from here:

    www.fieralingue.it/documenti/lbzp.pdf

  • DKeys

    SH-I'd like a crack at the zombie encyclopedia if possible.
  • yes ma'am.

    anyone else?

  • De Villo Sloan

    DK would "like a crack" (snicker, snicker)

  • DKeys

    Friend of yours DVS? I really hope they were drunk when they decided to get this tattoo
  • De Villo Sloan

    you should see her feet
  • is that where erni found the socks?
  • Neil Gordon

    Have you ever woken at the crack of dawn? When all the birds are chirping.-Neil
  • De Villo Sloan

    Get cracking on the Zombie-Pedia!
  • De Villo Sloan

    Butt I'm cracking up so badly.
  • Marcia Cirillo (Fifi LePew)

    You're all cracked!
  • Karin Greenwood

    Maybe smoking crack?
  • De Villo Sloan

    I hear there's a crackdown on public butt kissing
  • Marcia Cirillo (Fifi LePew)

    Step on a Crack, break your mama's back.

     

  • De Villo Sloan

    public or pubic? my spell chick blew a gasket
  • De Villo Sloan

    snap-crackle-pop
  • De Villo Sloan

    stop making an ass of yourself!
  • to get this discussdion back on crack track:

     

  • i've got maybe 30 envelopes to go out.

    maybe half have addresses, the rest are still blank,

    so if anyone wants one, please let me know!!

  • Neil Gordon

    Its so romantic to see zombies dancing cheek to cheek! Neil
  • DKeys

    She really should have thought that through. Now anytime anyone sees her naked they are going to be laughing
  • who said it's a "she"?
  • DKeys

    You make a good point SH, I shouldn't have assumed it was a gemale. could have been a cracker
  • for DW's pleasure, here are his shoes:

  • Karin Greenwood

    That looks like " CRACK  O  TOE O "
  • Amy Irwen

    love all the work by Erni, Karin and Super HeRo.....
  • i found this blog entry on the web:

    11 Reasons Why Zombies are Sad.

     

    I contacted her, and she is interested in sending an entry for the project!

     

    i don't think she's actually a mail artist, but i did get her to give me her address,

    if any of you want to help give her a warm welcome, please send her something!

     

    SOFIA

    JBC SJO 12628
    2053 NW 79 AVE
    MIAMI, FLORIDA 33122

     

    thanks! ;-D

  • back when i started work on the digital stuff, i was playing with zipf's law and creating what i called asemic texts using computer generation. i've finally gone back to it, hoever temporarily, today - using names of computer virii for input "words" to the generator. I did this because i had the idea of paranoia of computer virii being one of the many, many possible mass-paranoias which can be "mapped" onto zombie films and zombie stories. much the way children use fairy tales to work out their inner mental structures, their conceptions of the world at large. certainly we have many of these mass-paranoias, swine flu epidemic being one of the more recent ones, the economy is very present as well. can you think of any others???

     

    1077Acme Ant-Cow Angelina Arab 1260 A-403 4K Ghost Boot Elvirus Abraxas
    Malign AirCop 1260 Albanet Anti-Daf C Ah Armagedon The Greek Anninja Basil
    Grunt Arma Alcon Abraxas AI Blackjack Collor de Mello Lahore 4K 5lo
    Evil Genius Anti-Pascal II Elk Cloner Lahore Black Monday 4K Parity B Atom 5lo Banana
    Actifed 1260 Bad-389 Ajax 5lo Abraxas Amstrad Abraxas 1260 5lo
    1260 1260 Andromeda 1260 SVC 5.0/6.0 1260 1260 Bad Sectors 1.2 Bad Brains AI
    Bow 1260 1260 Willow Hi A and A 5lo V1-Not 1260 1260
    ANT Armagedon AI Ninja USSR 711 5lo Armagedon Acid Bad Sectors 1.2 A and A
    AIDS Acme Basil ANTI Ash Arriba Prime Evil B AIDS Cara Malign
    Butthole 1260 AIDS Mutating Interrupt 5lo A and A Anninja Ancient Clust Atas-400
    4K Manola USSR 394 Beware 5lo Browser Enhancement AIDS II Ah Agena Bit Addict
    LockJaw 1260 Error 412 virus Andre2 A-403 Ada Armagedon The Greek Arab McWhale Actifed
    1260 Marzia Actifed Atomic2A Liquid Code - 2 Vootie Gotcha 9e Bad-389 Caz (c)Brain
    Disk Killer Anti-Pascal II Arma Highland Ambulance Ash 1260 1260 Penza August 16
    Real PvP Flava 1260 Back Time Flex Angelina Sadist Ada Big 2000 Ajax Frogs
    Ada Incom Invader A-403 Fu Manchu Ancient Ah 1260 DOS 4K
    Ada A and A 4K 1260 (c)Brain 4K Lahore AI AusPar A and A
    Fvhs-B Com16850 A and A Anti-Tel Ada 1260 5lo 4K Cabanas Clust
    1260 1260 Ah 1260 4K MCWH1022 Willow Blood Rage Harm Night Grawler
    Bat 1260 Flu-2 Ada A and A A and A 1260 Gedza 5lo A and A
    4K CDEF Holland Girl 1260 1260 Atte-629 Acid Andre2 Black Knight Atom
    4K Abraxas Basil A-403 1260 5lo Davis Acme ANTI Cossiga No Grazie
    Ajax Banana 1260 AIDS II 1260 Michelangelo II 1260 Byte Warrior 1260 Anti-Pascal II
    AntiCMOS 4K Silver3b Byte Bandit Arma 1260 Diablo Atas3321 Hitchcock Chasna
    Basil S-847 Arusiek Amstrad Ein Volk Back Time DKid Reklama 4K Monxla
    DigiDeliver Chcc Romanian Ant-Cow 1260 Armagedon The Greek Abraxas Actifed Albanet Alcon
    Civil War V 4K Actifed 1260 ETC CaroEvil Arma Agena Back Time Actifed
    Abraxas Anti-D 1260 Actifed CkSum Coffee Shop Casper 4K Germ Demon
    A-403 5lo Casper Com16850 E1ectr0n Anti-Tel Chaos Acid 1260 Bad-389
    Internal 4K Atomic1b Beta A-403 Year 1993 1260 1260 AIDS Com16850

  • Marcia Cirillo (Fifi LePew)

    How do I fear? Let me count the ways.....

    I do see a strange kind of paranoia concerning food. There are whole cults out there advocating the consumption of only "pure spring water" since any water with additives is not "natural" to the body. Of course the source of these groups is usually someone benefitting from the sale of the so-called pure water, but it's unnerving to see folks I always thought of sensible driving 50 miles or more with their "pure glass" containers to purchase unadulterated water. Or having it delivered 1200 miles across the country. Some of these same people have got it in their head that foods or liquids derived from unfamiliar South American plants are more healthful than any fruits grown in the U.S. because of commercial fertilizer, corporate farming techniques, etc. I don't think I've seen a well-plotted story based on this particular paranoia yet - it would definitely overlay well with zombies.

    Me personally - I'm terrified of the ubiquitous "telephone elbows" and "rear view mascara applicators" I see every day on the way to work while cruising at 70 on a crowded freeway.

  • it appears the word virii is a virus in and of itself! ;-)
  • marcia, i know what you mean!

    not just water, but nearly any sort of food intake has the ability to take on these sort of cult followings. soybeans, grains, even vegetables. there's people my wife was telling me she read an article about who insist on eating a diet of nearly all meat! and i agree, they are something like a virus. people read an article or two and it seems to get inside your head and even if you think it sounds crazy, it still runs circles through your mind now and then i think. it reminds me of the japanese snow monkeys who have a very social way of dealing with food. they copy one another in trying new approaches with dietary habits. i think when we watched a documentary on them it was focused on one monkey dipping his food in the salt water, and then the others started doing it as well after watching the first.

     

    i tend to stay out of the car, but even there i agree with you after almost being run over on my bicycle several times due to cell phone users. :-/

  • Marcia Cirillo (Fifi LePew)

    I think I saw that thing on snow monkeys. Recently heard about some virus or bacteria that infects the brain of an ant - makes it stop "following the herd" while said virus eats its brain, then the ant dies. Not sure how it's transmitted.

    The "food cult" stuff makes me think of a scenario where everybody thinks the fluoride is turning you into a zombie (some think so already) so people en masse turn to some other source and later it turns out the new source is the real source of zombieism(?) and the fluoride was actually the vaccination against it. Bwa Ha Ha. Or maybe it's the glass container that's got the virus. And then the virus in the cel phone attacks the body not through the ear as first suspected, but begins control with the hand, spreads to thumbs (texting), then to elbow (holding against ear), then to shoulders and neck (cel phone photography) Example  - who's controlling who in this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-izIwqrBGjY&feature=player_embedded

    (I have to entertain myself somehow on that boring commute every day)

  • if it's the thing my wife told me about, it's actually a fungus i think.

    and it "reanimates" the ant after it dies, it crawls around for a while but isn't alive anymore.

  • i think that video was a lot trippier before the final message. they should have left it off, and just had the film speak for itself!
  • DKeys

    Great zombie mail from SH--using them to help me stay awake

     

  • you realize they fit together, like your mail to erni?
  • zombie boy on the left, the mouth in the middle and the dancing girl on the right:

     

  • also notice he's got 3D glasses, just like your shopping list!!!
  • DKeys

    oh duh, okay now I get the order:) I had it sort of right, but sorta doesn't count anywhere. Excellent piece. Is it printed in all one piece and then divided? This would look great as a huge poster-should really be a movie poster . now I see the 3D glasses-which should ship within the week I like the dude with the flip top head and guyliner. your digital pieces are really excellent have to look very closely to catch all the details.  Also SH-got the encyclopedia today this is going to be fun. I've never made zombies before--just lived with one for a lot of years:)
  • who is nancy?

     

    i split it up digitally.

    the actual image resolution is 12x6, then split into (3 * 4) x 6 fo printing on 4x6 sheets.

    i played with double panes, then tried triple and i like the format so i may stick to it for a while.

    it's possible i'll try a 5 piece sometime, but i will probably need more computer memory for that!

  • DKeys

    SH am I to fill up all 8 pages? so wish I had  printer like you do most of my zombie material are photos. 

    Yeah, Angie who is Nancy?