Carla Cryptic

Hi Carla,
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment on the cube. Actually I'm particularly pleased with how it turned out myself. It was SO spontaneous the way it came together... I just grabbed some images from a pile, thought about it for about 1 minute, cut them out and glued them down in my first choice of squares. It was only after that I noticed things like the "blindfolded" cow looking at the blindfolded thinker. What you call a target is actually a red hot
stove top element. It could also be a stylised peace sign....What great fun!!
Thanks again,
Peter

You got that right.
Many of the best things in life are spontaneous.

I will put more pictures on my pages of the things in Washington for anyone in this to see. I am glad you like it.

I have a piece for your call and will post soon...
something good is going to happen to you today.....

Hello Carla,
I sent you a work for NUDITY project today. Hope you'll get soon...
All the best,
Lancillotto

HI Carla !
Do you received my atc's???

Carla greetings from Venezuela.

The 6th World's Poetry Festival 2009 will take place on june and july as a tribute to a venezuelan Poet named Juan Calzadilla (National Prize of Plastic Arts 1996).
This event will be sponsored by Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura and Casa Nacional de las Letras Andrés Bello, so my art archive willheld:

THE 5th INTERNATIONAL ENCOUNTER OF VISUAL POETRY
OPEN NOTIFICATION – NO SELECTION – NO JURY
Everything received will be exhibited – Documentation [to all of you].
NO RETURNS.
Everything sent will be part of the MAIL ART ARCHIVE KEYLA HOLMQUIST.

All the material has to be mailed to:


Keyla Holmquist
ARCHIVO DE ARTE CORREO
Apartado Postal 326
Maracay 2101
Estado Aragua VENEZUELA

DEADLINE MAY 31,st 2009

All the material should be sent perfectly packed in order to prevent damage and with a copy of a data card, stuck on the back of the package.

CATEGORIES:

DRAWING, PAINTING, GRAPHIC, PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTIST SEALS, COPY-ART, EXPERIMENTAL ART.

OBJECTS/ARTIST'S BOOKS:

Measures UP TO A4 MAXIMUM. The base or pedestal needed should be provided by the artist.

POETRY, FREE VERSE OR RHYME, PROSE, NARRATIVE, ESSAY, STORIES.

VISUAL POETRY:

Collage, visual poems, process poetry, illustrated poetry, labyrinth poems, phonetic poems, audible poems, semiotic, palindrome, holopoems, concrete poetry, video action, photo action, object poem, pseudovisual poetry, braille poetry.

VIDEO, SHORTFILM, DOCUMENTARY, ANIMATION:

All videos will be admitted, shortfilms, photography, documentaries, animations that do not exceed 8 minutes of length and they must be delivered on CD or DVD format ready for its presentation.

MULTIMEDIA EXPRESSION:

They will be admitted on CD or DVD format ready for its presentation including the credits, the photography, the list of the soundtrack that was used and the name of the author.

AUDIO FORMAT:

the audio format admitted has to be:
Wave 44,100 Hz 16 bit stereo
Mp3 from 96 'til 320 KPSS
If the expression is audible, high fidelity required.
http://holmquistartecorreo.blogspot.com/

Sent something today out for your Nudity in Mail art ... let me know if it makes it, because I sent it naked.

hi carla!
i hope you are feeling better!!! how is your mom doing? nice to see you (virtually) online at least!!! hugs, xtina

Ok, I hope for your participation friend "sounds" very interesting. You notice when you receive it. Venezuelan embrace

hey!! so glad to see you here and that you've got a mail call out! if i am feeling up to it i will try to send something out ...hope all is well with you!
<3
hugs
xtina

Feel all the good in Body and Mind Nudity
Free all the good in Body and Mind Nudity.
Feel Free.

Hi Carla. Nice to meet you.

You can include. Feel Free.

Hi Carla!
I just received all your mail art goodies, artistamps, atc's, etc. wow!! they are so great!! i love the valentine atc and the fish atc too! your carvings are wonderful as usual. hoping to send something back your way soon!!
hugs
xtina

I sent you a few things yeterday (2.13)
I do not know if they will get to you by today?
Enjoy!

Nice to be your friend. Thank you!
Lancillotto

I enjoy your photos here are a few new ones of mine.

What is your e-mail Carla. I took the pics around DC and in the National Gallery of Art. I have a Kodak Gallery site with really cool slide shows and I will be gald to send them to you. Your tax dollars at work and at my camera lens.

More

It should be there Monday or Tuesday at max, I didn't scan it but I will put something together again tonight and send you a scan this time first.

Hello Carla! Know just the world of post and admit that I'm finding good. It 'nice to share with so many opinions, surprise, approval or protest using their language. I hope to receive your work on my project "LOTUS". Thanks and see you soon

Thank you for adding me to your list Carla!
I like your work!
Fraternal greetings from Brazil

Hi Carla
I have a small question to ask of you, a favor really...if i send you a photo, can you photoshop someone out of it for me?? thanks darling!
anxiously awaiting a reply
xtina

Hello Carla, I see your Berkeley address and wow, does that bring back memories for me. My best friend had a studio which we used constantly in the late 70's through the 80's on Haste St. a couple of doors down from Telegrapgh Ave. Made a considerable amount of experimental music there and it was our headquarters for many happy and glorious years. Not sure if that building is still there or not. If I am not mistaken, weren't you the author of the notion: "Black as a yellow shoe"? I thought that was pretty cool. Forgive me if I am wrong here (it has been a while). Anyway, I am going to send you something and I hope you shall respond in like fashion. I would be honored. Nice to be your friend. Test

Hi Carla!
ohmigosh! i can't believe that you still have not received the mail i sent out...especially since i sent it out to the McBryde addy....although i noticed that i bill that i sent out at the same time has yet to come through my acct either....i guess the mail is running so much slower, although i am getting intl mail ok....
when i get a chance i will send you the file with the photo shop pix(there i a story behind it my dear, that i will explain to you in a pvt email....) and if i feel well enuf i go to the meetup in alameda, but i have been struggling so badly with my health and eyes and mobility i go only 1 out of 4 times...scary i know. i am sad that you still haven't got the atc's!!!! =(
especially since i mailed them from the post office!!!
hugs xtina

Hi Carla.
If Cody's Books is still on the corner, then across the street and to the left about 2 doors. There was a sort of apartment building house with some strange, troubled, loud people in the front part of the lot that was eventually torn down. The building behind that, an older, more interesting bigger apartment style building stood. That was where we held court quite often for nearly a decade. Made a lot of serious noise there. Right behind that was the funny shaped white Church (forgot what kind). Bought a lot of beer from Fred's liquor store on Telegraph and a lot of records at Rasputin's and hamburger's and pizza at Kip's and great food all over that place! I haven't thought about that city for a long time. I loved Berkeley, it was so great back then. Have no idea how it is now. Anyway, I do remember that mail call you mentioned, but I don't remember participating (Sorry)! Thanks for your note and something will be in the mail for you very soon. So great to meet you Ms. Cryptic. Cheers, Test.

Hi again,
I didn't say I lived in Berkeley, my best friend did, I actually lived in SF at the time or in San Leandro later on. My best friend lived in Berkeley and we had a sound studio there. I had been hanging out in Berkeley a lot of the time since the sixties though. Peoples Park and all that stuff. "Welcome to Prague" sign still in my head after all these years. Saw lots of cool shows there too at the Keystone, Berkeley Square, Greek Theater, Bears Lair and hung out at the Radio station (can't remember the call letters, but usually a little party goin on there late at night). Okay , thats enough. Gotta get off this memory lane before I bore you to tears. Also, you do look familiar to me too, just for the record. Test

Hi C.C.,
I lived on Sutter St. between Jones and Leavenworth and later moved basically about one block straight up the steep hill to Bush St. and that wasn't easy. Carried everything by hand because it was so close. Ugh! After that I moved accross the Bay to San Leandro. Lot of SF memories. More actually than Berkeley even. One other Berkeley memory though (you had me thinking about this all day). Remember "Top Dog"? I think it was on Durante, but not certain. That was always so cheap and yummy and crowded. And the big Theater on Shattuck, before they chopped it up into a bunch of little theater rooms? Same with the California. Also the Grand in Oakland and the Alexandria and the Golden Gate Theater in SF. Those monstrous Theaters were awesome! Ever go to the Paramount in Oakland? Wow! One of my first jobs was to exchange all the Ushers uniforms to almost all the movie theaters (Syufy and United Artists and Pussycat and most of the independents) in the Bay Area, which was almost all of them. So I saw all the great theaters (the crummy ones too). I had the keys to all of them (huge rings of keys, one for each day of the week)and would go into them starting at 5 AM right up to about noon, but boy, walking into those giant old theaters with only a single flashlight was creepy and cool and the dressing rooms were always way in the back, upstairs, behind the screen area. Kinda spooky. No wonder I live in Heebee Jebeeland! Test

Hi Carla
No worries about the emails, how fun to have a friend visiting!!! Take your time, my dear...i'm not going anywhere <3
hugs
xtina

I send you

I can send you by email if you want

I have an other project it's the artist book
you can see my blog
http://artpostal28.over-blog.com

I believe your work will arrive soon after journey.:-)
Good Luck!

Carla received your wonderful work.
I was very honored to receive their work.
I'll post it in blogger so photograph it.
Thank you very much!

I am preparing material for you too!
Greetings from Brazil

Alexandre

Hi Carla Cryptic!
Welcome! :)
I'm happy to do mail art with you.
Looking forward to your chair.:)

Hi Carla.
The last week I saw in concert a singer from Berkeley, Antonette G. Do you know her? I loved her show.

I hope you receveid the email with the " maillot"

Hi Carla Cryptic,
Thank you very much your nice mail art.
It arrived yesterday.
So Beautiful:)

I'll send you some postcard, please wait a little.

Thanks! I'll be sure to send you something in return.

Hello Carla, Today I have received your documentation of Nuditys in the Mailart. It is fantastic. Very well published. Thank you very much and thank you for the cover.
All the best

Yes, that iguana photo is from my own camera - I was there in the moment!

Hello my dearest Carla
i've received my first five package, and i must say i was moved to tears at your generosity....i am still gathering up mail art to send to you..its been a crazy couple of weeks but i am sure to post it this week !!!!
thank you, thank you, thank you
my dear friend
love
xti