And no fair copying anyone else's idea.

Unsweetened Lemonade With Just a Twist of Lime No Ice in Frosty Tumbler

Hello Valentine,

Thank you for your mail art.

I want to send a personal message, but since we haven't connected as Friend, I write you here.

I thank for many kind message, mail art on "Solidarity with Japan". I have been thinking how to get though everyone message directly to the victim of Tunami. I found some Japanese artist via twitter @kadowaki who live in Sendai (Miyagi ken) and work as to connect art and society.

http://www.kadowakiart.com/

I asked him if he has any idea how to show "Solidarity..." member's message or send mail art to them. He was busy for watching out people in his community, but now he replied to me that there is some Art NPO in Sendai who is hooking up art and Earthquake Aid. 

＜MMIX Arts Fund＞ Sendai Miyagi

http://mmix.org/mmixlab.htm  (japanese site)

Kadowaki san said, he can send the link of "Solidarity..." group to them with their permission, and by the time, he finds the place to show send or show your mail art, he will let me know. If it is for you to give the link of the group, I tell him "yes" to him. Please reply what ever the way to me. I think it is better to send you the information directly to you, instead of writing on the group site.

Tomoe

Thank you for your reply.

May be you miss understood a little.

My question to you is that is it ok to send the "Solidarity" group link to ＜MMIX Arts Fund＞ Sendai Miyagi?

My question was that since "You project" is good, but they do not know where to show your mail art yet, and I am concerning how to get all of your group mail art directly to victim. I see it is more suitable that I connect with art in a place like Sendai. Sendai is a capital of Miyagi, but has not distracted much. But it is a part of Miyagi prefecture that has a lot of damages in many cities by the oceans. So right now, the NPO art groups there stood up, and do something for themselves. I think it is a good idea to send your group link to them, and eventually they may find some place to show or give your mail directly to the victim at the evacuation centers. I can create a new call on behalf to connect your group and Miyagi, if they get some idea where you can send mail art to. (on IUOMA "call" site)

I am busy myself to make my own living to get out of poverty, so I don't have time to do other things. Besides, I need to save money to travel to San Francisco for my graduation, and eventually need to move there to get together with my partner. But I started doing internet sells, both selling my art works and other recycle stuff in different sites, and as I sell, some of my profit goes to the donation. I just sold two of my paintings to a new buyer in Canada, so as soon as I get money from her, I donate some portion to the aid bank.

(I figure local government fundraising reach them firster than Red Cross. The news said that Red Cross has not decided how to distribute money yet, because there are still missing people, so they cannot figure out how much goes where....)

Also, I joined Jimmy's benefit show which is happening in San Francisco and just sent my photographs as donations.

Tomoe-

Thanks Valentine for the long message.

I sent the link to him, and I hope they might get some idea to contribute....

Yes, you guys are far away, and I noticed that they may have more news of nuke than life of victims in overseas. My computer was just down and I have been fixing and recovering my softwares and files at a moment, and I think in fresh and decide to post link on my blog in IUOMA (and twitter) about the information that you cannot get over there. So please check if you are interested in.

Yes, origami sounds nice. I used to teach how to make paper crane every time I travel overseas. I wish I had more time though. I wonder and asked the group guy, because he asks people to send cranes to the US, but since I am in Japan, I wonder if I can send the paper crane directly to where they are sending to in Japan, instead of my crane travel round trip to between Japan and US.

I graduated at the school where Jennie teaches. Got BFA from AAU San Francisco. My major was photography and fine arts. I was taking half online from Japan though. I was in the US 89-93, and 2000-03. I have had my health and financial reasons and it took me 2 decades to get the degree and I went different schools for literary art, film, photography, and fine arts. I was helping my father's management consultant job, but he was too nice that he got involved too much with the store that it was already bad, so his business went bad...

Someone says it will take a while to build a free temporary housing, so people who are in evacuation centers need to stay there 6 months to 1 year. I think money and food come first, but we can take time to help people in thought and mind for art, music, sports and other form of culture that they can be relaxed.

Yes, if I want to do something with or without mail art, I will let IUOMA people know.

Regards,

Aha!

very well then..........

:)

Val -- thank you so much for your wonderful comments and feedback re: Red Letter Day! :-) I'm thrilled that you are enjoying it; always so much fun to make but alot of time and energy as well. Your kind offer of writing about the "Mail Art to Maastracht" project is exciting; let me do some thinking on this and get back to you...

I sent the friends in Budapest copies RLD as well, so am hoping that they will find them interesting and useful...

--JH

Hello Mission Control! I'm sorry to have taken so long getting back to you, but we were in a radio blackout for the last few days. Glad you enjoyed the bit of Canadian Space history. I actually had the fortune of seeing a mock up of the Alouette at the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa a few weeks ago:

Alouette and the Canadian Space Program would have only been a dream if not for the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin.

Over and out.

Canadian Astronautte Louise

Hey Val,

Been in the process of moving into our new space (alphabetcity.org.nz) and haven't been on IUOMA much. Thanks for the card! Great to get some mail from you. Glad to know that mine arrived safetly.

My left arm says: I'm telling you stories, trust me.

Let me know if you have any projects you'd like submissions for

Here's to a full mailbox. Cheers, Erin

Opening 29th April. 23:00

23.00 Round table discussion led by Guido, with Ger & Theo, Rod, and Inge and Torsten

The discussion will be sent to Amsterdam via Skype and web and cable cast by Raul's Hoeksteen TV programme. Maximum 10 minutes.

Opportunity to visit the presentation of films from the Agora-archive, curated by Inge

May 27/28/29 Kunsttour Maastricht

27 May from 11:00 The mail-art show opens to the public

15:00 Caroline Dumalin will talk (English)

15.30 Anna will talk (English)

followed by a performance by Anna, Rod and who ever else is there

23:00 a mail art performance (Anna, Rod and who ever else is there) will be sent to

Amsterdam via Skype and web and cable cast by Raul's Hoeksteen TV programme

Max 10 minutes.

Saturday 28th May

15.00 Bart-Jan de Graaf will talk about Maastricht and surroundings in the 1970s (Dutch)

15.30 Leen Bedaux will talk about the history of Agora (Dutch)

followed by a performance by Anna

Sunday 29^th

15:00 Ever Arts will talk (Dutch)

15.30 Ruud will talk (Dutch)

 followed by a performance by Niels?

 26 June

23:00 finisage

Performance by young artists from Hedah / Art Academy Maastricht, for instance Inge, Torsten,  Joep Vosseveld and Jörg Theissen

Will be sent to Amsterdam via Skype and web and cable cast by Raul's Hoeksteen TV

programme

Maximum 10 minutes

Hi Val,

Well, the book of Ann is becoming a book of different Ann's and this from the early start, see the entry of David Stone for instance. So you could turn this into a tribute to your own partner!

Guido

Val ... I'm still thinking about you being out and about at 7:30 in the morning!

I've been up but not out and about ... and would have done the same as you had I been...

... thank you for thinking of me (so early in a day).  

http://circulaire132.blogspot.com/

CIRCULAIRE 132

Zine sur l'art postal en général destiné aux mailartistes pour permettre l'échange d'idées, faire connaître divers projets. Pour participer, faire parvenir 20 originaux de timbres d'artiste, ATC, cartes postales personnalisées, oeuvres de format 8cm X 8cm, poèmes, annonces etc... signés et numérotés. Une copie du zine sera envoyée à chaque participants ayant fait parvenir 20 originaux. Pas de date limite. CIRCULAIRE132 - 12465 Avenue De Troyes Québec, QC, G2A 3C9 CANADA

Stamps missing my dear man, but I sincerely doubt you had little to do with that

;-) 

Quite the contrary...a virtual clowder of cat stamps ! (and one navel?!)

I thank you, Val!  very thoughtful ... purrfectly wonderful ! <3

Nikki

P.S. how does mail reach the U.S. from France in just a few days? ...makes one wonder!

I put up a comment over at the 5 conversation, describing my desire to cogitate over your ideas. 

It is now gone. Is it deleted?

Rose

Thanks for the heads-up.

Gotta run. If I don't keep juggling these various balls marked "family/home life," "business," "blogging," and "mail-art to friends," one's sure to wind up on the floor.

In haste with messy smear of mustard at one edge

Rose

Ha!  No comment on my national identity, but you'd be correct in assuming something in between Russian and American.  You may be able to check with the Department of the Army, they might have some record of my identity...

Oh, the the 'Forever' label on the Reagan stamp has nothing to do with the president, it is a special postage rate that is now available on some US stamps, allowing them to be valid regardless of future postal rate increases.

Salut!

-strelnikov

Hi Val,

Yes you can open the envelope! Don't talk about hospitals, it's my present nightmare. I was in one last night for an oxygen mask (suffer from sleep deprivation causing heart problems and even my diabetes would be the result of this). New night in the hospital scheduled on May 11. In hospital I don't paint, I read horror stories to pass the time (hihi). I read Malpertuis by Jean Ray (turned into a movie by Harry Kumel, including Orson Welles)

Guido

çok teşekkür ederim! ευχαριστώ!....DELIGHTful mailart came today...'love it xxx

Old Constantinople...as it is know here in GrecoLand. Many thanks!

Mission Control,

Received your truly awesome card today. My spaceship will now be able to do one more rotation around the earth in happiness.

Over and out.

Canadian Mission Astronautte Louise Kiner

Hello Val I'm working on somethings but will not tell you. Because I read that you like to be surprised.

Hello Val,

I'm in such a period, watching also horrorthriller movies. I am discovering for instance the movies the Italians Mario B. and Dario A. made, great stuff. These movies were a reaction on Italian neorealism at that time (love this as well) and they are more rooted in psychoanalysm and surrealism. It depends how you look at these pictures or read these books, that's all.

Guido

Your mail. My IUOMA blog. Now.

;)

Sincerely,

Spinach frittata with parmesan and veggies (and garlic!)

I collect music (vinyl, cds), movies, mail art, comics, too much really!

thanks for the message, ciao

vittore

LOL! You character! So glad it got to you in one piece--and so quickly, as well! It's been only 5 days, from my reckoning. That's a new wind speed record! Maybe they shipped it via the Concord!

O la-la! That rose' idea of yours sounds delightful! Too bad you won't be able to make it to the States for Easter, but at least we can mail things back and forth. 

Happy Eastertide to you from all of us Possum Affiliates here and around the U.S. !!!!

Sincerely, 

2 Cadbury Cream Eggs with a side of Lemon Sponge Cake

P.S. Your next two color choices, please? And no fun repeating! The past is over. Let's move on!

;)

What do I win for playing?

:)

1.)  c

2.)  a

3.)  c

4.)  a

As for the Purple with Orange, haven't we already used both your chosen colors? Ah, well, no matter. I'll let it go--this time. This would mainly be because that happens to be one of my favorite color combos of all time. Believe it or not, I enjoy that pairing. This will give me another crack at playing around with the colors I like, so you're lucky! This time, anyway.

Bon Voyage and hiccup

One Slice of Toast with Bilberry Jam

Hi Valentine

Thanks for your mail  art piece to the mail art call "Planet earth is a large island with a huge ocean around"

!namaste!

Hi Val! Thanks so much for the Royal Mail!! I loved it and it is so generous of you! I laughed and laughed! I really didn't know that the British had such a sense of humor sometimes.

cheryl h.

Hello ol' chap, as you came to the UK for the royal Wedding, I assume a mail piece will arrive in my mail box also...as royally as it did for Herr Haptic Erni? I did see you, oh great-by-appt-Conceptual-Artist in the crowd outside the palace..

.'did wave but you did not wave back ;-(

I am devastated (has I have stated at blog site)

Princess Kate