Mail-Art Cafe

Yes we will in DC too.

Almost there Susan, 8:13 and counting.

Thar one minute...gone the next :-)

...and we are a-singin' and a-dancin'...
"Dancing in the dark 'til the tune ends
We're dancing in the dark and it soon ends
We're waltzing in the wonder of why we're here
Time hurries by, we're here and gone
Looking for the light of a new love
To brighten up the night, I have you love
And we can face the music together
Dancing in the dark......and saving the planet?

live volcano anyone?
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-fimmvorduhalsi/

The café opened three other locations now. There are more Café's where we can meet each other. Some already discovered the locations!

It was quiet in the Italian Café, but in the Fluxus Café I discovered some activities that seemed to be performances....

(Digital) Fluxus Score:

1. Join all the digital café's
2. Visit each digital café ones a day

Ruud Janssen, April 1st 2010

Volcano, send photos Rod

The live webcam from the Volcano is fun. Thanks for the link Rod!

Oh, beautiful blossoms!...and live volcano! thaks Judy, thanks Rod!
And where are these other cafes...somewhere under the shade of an tree or two
?

Happy Easter to all members of Mail-Art Cafe

Oh, Rod...cute sheepies!
Me thinks they made it to our Greek Easter,
Easter Monday, Easter Tuesday...etc. feasts!
Hope ya awl had a Happy Easter!
('still celebrating here...)

Dug back in my archive to 1992 for this one.

Just stopping by at the CAFE...
anyone want a mint chocolate, melt-in-your-mouth?
They came in the mail today from a friend ...all gone,
only "virtual" choco left ...sigh

Ok, Ok Katerina, your don't have to be mean now do you, maybe we can smell the chocolate since you ate it all up. Can they put smell on computers yet?

On my way to my allotment garden this morning

Beautiful, Rod...and look at that blue-blue sky!
No volcanic ash or lava-in-ice-particles anywhwere?
Ah, but high above...no flights, and I just realized that
that means no "AIR MAIL" :-(

Yes I realized yesterday there was no point in dropping overseas mail in the box until the wind changes direction. I was talking to friends in Iceland this morning as I have a performance there in June and might not be able to get there unless I start swimming now. OK so no postage stamps but we do still have IUOMA... hooray for that.

Put the mail art in the cafe if you can, I don't know if the Fluxus group that was supposed to be in NYC Thursday through the weekend made it. I think Ruud did but going home?

Our overseas mail out of Thesaloniki is heading to Milan, Italy...then to Spain, then to Argentina or Mexico ...the long way around the belly of the earth...and then up to USA and Canada. Although out-of-Athens overseas mail to the States may be going via Dubai-Singapore-Australia-Los Angeles?
Definitely "snail-mail" :-(

I just took a look and the volcano is quieter today and it is raining heavily which means a lot of the ash will be falling into the North Atlantic and not making it to the higher atmosphere. I also looks as though another volcano is becoming active but this one is under a kilometer of ice and in the past it has produced less ash but has created massive flash floods. The really dangerous volcano Katla remains quiet... for the moment. There are several test flights taking place today to ascertain just how much ash is in the flight lanes.

Good, how about a good ash-mud bath for the skin. I hope there are no dinosaurs under that ice that will awaken. Maybe new fossils to find.

No fossils in Iceland, the country is not old enough, so no dinos wandering about threatened with permanent frostbite however when I am there an ancient and venerable homo sapiens can be seen stumbling over the tundra.

You of course! A scientific marvel! How wonderful. I hope things are getting better, the news said that KLM was going to start flying today.

Chantal, come in and have a glass of tea or coffee or wine and relax, your show is magnificent.

Will do, plus Seal on the video, wonderful vocals.

I'll take a nice cup of hot choco...'tis been ugly rain here, though that might be a good thing? ...to wash away the volcanic ash that has hit the northern Greek border....mmmm, nice "parea" here at the CAFE!

I'll have a cup of that chocolate Kate, I just went out to clean and replenish the bird table and it's cold out there!

Cold and windy here too, I am having coffee.

To all of you who sent postcards to the "What is Disability" project for VSArts in Washington DC, thanks, the exhibition will be June 6-20th in the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Hall of States in Washington, DC. They received 1,200 postcards from around the world and i will go and take photos for this site. Best and thanks, Judy Skolnick

They're back!

Yeah, air mail again is "in"

Wow! Beautiful photo, Rod!
We have lift-off! The mail is in the air!

I have an old article from '82 posted on my blog at http://ginnylloyd.blogspot.com/ that includes my impressions of my meeting Rod. If anyone is curious check it out.

Find more videos like this on ART DETOX 2010

just flew back from NYC (I was quicker then the air mail I sent from the USA....)

Hey! Welcome home Ruud.

Hi Ruud, congratulations on your flight, I hope the cards I sent to Europe reach their destination before the July deadline!

Welcome back home... to Europe, Ruud.
The mail art is flying once again!

Dear ladies of the night... cafe, I need your help! For my performance in N.E. Iceland under the midnight sun on the 21st of June I want to make little cakes in the shape of sheep shit. What is the best recipe for Rice crispy, chocolate cakes (in little paper cake cups)? The writer of the recipe I choose will get a DVD with the video of the performance and a copy of the VEC audio CD 'Sheep'.

baa baaa
and poop?

Ok, Rod, ol' boy...here is the "easy" poop:
1. 3 cups rice crispies
2. 1 bar milk chocolate
Instructions
1. 10 mins melt milk chocolate in microwave
2. 1 min pour onto rice crispies
3. 1 min mix well
4. 3 mins add to small paper cups
5. 3 hours cool in a fridge

If you can get a hold of mini marshmallows, Rod,
this is the CLASSIC recipe for Rice Crispies Choco Poop:
4 tablespoons butter
2 1/2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
10 oz mini marshmallows
5 cups Rice Crispies
In a large pot over medium heat melt the butter. Mix in the cocoa powder until thoroughly combined. Melt the marshmallows, stirring constantly, until melded completely. Quickly add the Rice Crispies. Working quickly roll the mixture into sheep-shit size balls. Let 'em cool on wax paper tray. The recipe should make about 60-100 bite size sheep poop.

Well I think that is perfect Kate!
Situated on the Langaness peninsula in the far north east of Iceland the sheep farm is 15 kilometers from the nearest village Thorshöfn. We are expecting up to 50 people in the audience. Helgi and Saevi (of the Aimless Garden/Fishing team) are driving up from Reykjavik to perform with me and there will students there from the Akureri art school, my sheep farmer friends Sverrir and Mirjam have 4 children so I think I will need at least 100 cakes, the recipe you have posted here is exactly what I wanted. Thanks.

Currently inspired by Current 93 - The signs in the stars.

Currently inspired by Døheimsgard - Traces Of Reality

I hear the music!
I am currently inspired by
Rimsky-Korsakov: "Scheherazade" :-)