Ruud Janssen

Dear Ruud,

My son finally arrived from the US and brought me the wonderful book of yours! Thank you so much Ruud for sharing your experience and history with Mail Art. Since I am new in this adventure I had many questions, and your book is answering them one by one! Is beautiful!

Thanks Ruud, the book arrived today already, I have quickly checked it through and it looks great. I will check it more thoroughly when I file it into the archive database.
Many thanks for sending it to the VEC Archive.
rod

Hello Ruud and thank you!

Dear friend Ruud, yesterday I screwed up my courage and dared to join your wonderful social network IUOMA.
For all of us this is a great adventure, fluxus of feelings and thoughts with uncertain end, but for me a special adventure concerning my difficulties in handling the pc and my problems with my shortsighted eyes...
But I hope my grey cells will become refreshed by the news I will see, feel and think!
Thank you, dear friend!
Greetings
HeMi&Co

obrigado!

Dear Ruud! Do You have any help page about interface of this site? Can not find this... It would be useful for some members.

thanks! i found the camera, it was staring at me in the face of course.

Loved your photo flying over Greece - this is my favorite photo from the past month or two - me and my grand-daughter Maya in Portland a few weeks ago.

Hey! I'm going to be writing a mail art zine for the upcoming Chromatophore opening... would you be willing to answer a few short interview questions?? I could email them to you if you are interested.
Thanks, Jennifer Z.

Hello! And Thankyou!

Thanks for the welcome!

Thank you for the welcome, it is good to be back in the fold.

Hi Ruud,
What's up with the POP UP advertising?? Is it only me? If someone happens to mention mailart and money in the same sentence they're immediately attacked as if by a swarm of killer bees yet now every time I come on IUOMA I'm bombarded with ads for web design, jewellry, insurance, cars, etc,. etc. My POP UP blocker catches half of them but I'm constantly closing little windows and I can no longer go to any of the discussions, my computer jams right up. No fun man.
Is .ning behind this or you?
Frustrated,
Peter

Hi Ruud!
I was wondering too about the pop-ups, like Peter, if it was my computer..I have ad adware, popup blocker and Norman
anti virus but can't get rid of them. What's worse is that I cannot open any of my own pictures in my page that I get a notice box from internet explorer aborting the action and the page goes. Do you know if there are more members with this problem too? Before I have my computer checked?
Thank you!

Patrizia

Hi Ruud!
Thank you for your reply. It's all a bit more clear now. For your info, in case it helps and not to keep 'pestering' you with this topic :-)..at the moment I cannot post anything in the Funny Postcard Group I just joined. My 'action' are getting more restricted.
I can see though that this has afected only few of us since the majority seems to be doing fine, posting, etc.
Anyways I'll just wait to see what happens, no problems.
Take care
Patrizia

Hi Ruud! Thank you your two mail arts. It's my present. :-)
Best wishes, Cauli

Dear Ruud... I embed a message about the Ryosuke Cohen activity.. with some opinions and one example arrives to the Postdata Project...

I will participate in P.O Box Owners and I will respond to another links that you refers to me...

Take patience with me... I am activity in this complex Mail Art Network... Trying to answer to several calls... as you Knows... Dear Master....

Sincerely Yours +
Tulio Restrepo

Hi Ruud
The mailart begin to leave IUOMA and are gradually replaced by spammers and artists who do not mailart. You should do a little housekeeping.
Best.
Denis

Thanks Ruud, now we are friends and thanks for sending the "Cow Ear Muffs" group...I joined too. Now to find some cooooows iin Greece (lots of goats here!)

Postcard on the way from REAL wall towers this week Ruud

Hi Ruud
Hope to fine you well.
We have got a new spammer: mike silver
Best
Denis

many photos look distorded , is there a virus ?

I hope an answer thank you very much
bye

please !
is the add image twisted for everybody ? or there is a special process to load image correctly ?

U 29 = 50 Leo
I 26 = 55 Leo
Have a good one!

Happy Birthday RUUD! THanks for all the hard work you do to promote Mail Art and Mail Artists!!!!!!!

CHROMATOPHORE the art show will be opening August 27th @ Studio 620. www.studio620.org has put up some great information about the show and designed their own invite! Please check it out. Opening is 6:30-9 and will include over 300 pieces of mail art from 20 different countries. There will be interactive mail art tables featuring mail art calls, add and pass. There will be a raffle of donations from local businesses and artists including Hugo Porcaro, TestTower, Ginny Lloyd and more! There will be food, drinks and live music from local favorite--Rebecca Zapen. Check her out at www.zapen.com . And last but not least a showing of artifacts from the first open air post office in St. Petersburg, FL. So as you can see from the line up--it's going to be a great night! Admission is free and none of the art is for sale.


So what do you think? I'm currently compliling a program and after the show I hope to make a zine of the event. Will probably sell it on etsy to defray the cost. Join me for a night of mail art fun!!!!

Nice job with the site. Thanks for doing this!

Jen Thomas is spammer

Been doing a lot more music than visual art the past few months - here's one of the results:
Here in America
It's my first political song there and it's also my first no 1 'hit' on the site.

Carla

KALIMERA greetings from Greece, Ruud.
You must be busy and not too easy for you to read all your messages, but I need to ask you:
is there a way to send a message/announcement to each member (all 635+) without having to message individually hitting each "add message"? The mail art call for Greece is on "Events" and at MA, and at a Discussion site, and on "my page", but most need to have a personal invite on their page, I think. Anyway, the days are counting down and I just want to spread the word to all.
Many thanks,
Katerina

Thank you, Ruud,
The mail art call is on many places here at IUOMA, so if there are those who wish to send, they probably have seen the announcements. I considered sending to each individual, but that would be hard. SKETBE was asking if we had a chance of getting art from every country in the world! Well, there is no guarantee for that, but we shall have to wait and see. Surely here at IUOMA there is an excellent representation of artists from every corner of the world, hoping that many will participate.
Many thanks,
Katerina

OK, I'm sorry!

Am online instead of sleeping, checking out other sites...so many projects on this planet....I am happy to be here...a ver que pasa. Thank you. Chepin

My turn, Ruud: HELP!
Now I have on the top of my page that
"What are you doing here?" , just like Wilma had,
and I cannot get rid of it! It says "update" and put a link,
which I do NOT have, no blogspot, nada :(
Please erase it from the top of my page .
Perhaps it is coming from ning? Dunno.
thank you,
Katerina

Hola Ruud. I didn't want to post this on the wall as it's a tech question but im not sure how to do it any other way hope it's ok.......i sent fotos via phone to the email i received to do that, but they don't show up....maybe i copied it wrong ... not sure...can you help me out? Gracias, chepin

My Experience with Art (an uncensored autobiography by an unknown art-lover) by Rafique Sulayman coming soon...

Ruud, traveling around IUOMA i stopped here because i was curious about your work. i then read about your brother...I was touched by all the beautiful flower mail art and by your loss. I lost my brother many years ago, tragically he drowned at age 9 and it still hits me like a train wreck every now and then. i am sorry for your loss. you did a great thing for him in his last days. be well and i am glad you are inspiring me, and so many others!, to tap into their own unique creativeness and send it via air all over the world (andalsotothemoon). gracias, chepín.

hi Ruud, received my mail?
all the best bruno

Ruud,
I'm pleased that Fluxus 1 arrived to you in working order. You should know that there are others in the world: The other racers in the Fluxus fleet: Angela Behrendt has Fluxus 2, and Samuel Montalvetti has Fluxus 3. I have Fluxus 4 resting on my layout table.

I will have another mailing at the end of the month. Much time over the last three months I have spent learning new software: Adobe Photoshop Elements and Corel Draw X4 Graphic Design program. More soon via postal letter. Regards to Litsa.

Ruud!!
não sei como me comunicar contigo, não sou boa para escrever ingles, leio e entendo mas escrever .....é " sinistro""
um abraço
nanapdada

I love Wackystuff's stuff!
But here's a bit of sweet sugar skulls for you, too!

Many thanks, Ruud, for all the goodies that came in the mail today. That was very FAST! I see you have two "my page"s, so I am posting at both. My rubber stamps are ready for tomorrow's mail to you...and now I shall start to work on rubber stamp designs in ENGLISH :-)
by the way....My name ends in a funny "sou"=NIKOLTSOU,
though I accept "Nikoltson"
(makes me sound Dutch or Scandinavian?)
I don't mind really.
Thanks for all,
Katerina

hi Ruud..I tried an upload of photo in your page..but there is some problem here..I left some photos for you im my page

Hello Ruud!
Many, many thanks for all you sent!
What a colorful and artistic envelope and what
fun "treasures" inside. I have already started to
print some of my new rubber stamp images,
so mail art coming back to you soon!
Katerina

I am excited!! Thanks for throwing paint my way!