De Villo Sloan

I think the list is an original! Its signed on the backside!

Thanks for your words in the book group! Good for newcomers too! But how I understood its to late to send some lettermoney?

But many times my english is too slow, wrong!

Sometimes I am too slow, wrong again!

My english and me, we are most times too slow to understand fast enough what to do!

I send you some Bennett money to top Jefferson?! Or did you wanted the Jefferson shopping list?

Maybe is it possible to send selfmade money, mailartmoney?

Ok I understood you don`t like money. I will send you bills!

Thanks for the feedback. That was fast! Can't understand how your postal system works, sometimes very fast, sometimes very slow. Sorry, I'm European, I realize that. Your country is a huge continent and sometimes I forget that despite I travelled there twice!

Guido

Hi De Villo

Thanks for the kindness. Glad you like the postcard. Sorry I haven't finished the "Windmills of the mind" project yet, but I had an operation on my left arm and it is slowing me down. I'll have something before too long though. See you in the mail soon - again! 

Happy Spring - Test!

Got your work in the mail today, thanks so much. It may take me a little time to get one back to you, but I shall.

thanks for the pill.

i'm enjoying FLUXUS more

the more i understand it.

i'm a big open source fanatic,

and i can see a lot of similarities

between the two.

but i feel i am still merely cracking the surface,

and there's a whole world inside, waiting to get out of me.

free as in freedom.

i'm really bad with history and movements and all that,

my wife, on the other hand, is a walking encyclopedia!

she knows a lot more about fluxus than i do,

but everything i have is based in the manifesto

which it would seem is left blatantly simplistic,

and is meant to pull the carpet out from under the aristocracy

and democratize art. am i right?

i then suddenly am very interested in FLUXUS and copyright law.

Hey thanks for the kind remarks - I appreciate them greatly. And thanks for all the stuff you get 'rolling' here with the IUOMA folks too. You make things fun, I like that! Cheers, Test

Dear De Villo,

received today A & K! Thank you so much!

i've been thinking on the FLUXUS thing pretty deeply.

i propose "FREE ART" as a replacement for FLUXUS.

it is more self-explanatory, and only two extra characters.

i've been trying to fuse some of the ideas of open source and

FLUXUS in my mind since our previous conversations,

and thi jumped out at me. personally, i like it better than FLUXUS.

it's more blatant, direct, and in your face.

most of my thoughts are based in this, which i think MLAAC gave me the link to.

as i said before, i see this as an elaborate way of saying: "Democratize Art."

or more simply, "Free Art." but i really like that free art has a double meaning there,

first FREE ART as in set it free, but second as in, take one, it's free!

with the current state of technology, it could stand in as a sort of copyleft logo.

i'm a huge fan of the GPL and what it's done for software, i'd like to see more liberal copyrighting in art. also, their mentality of "release early, release often" and think i could be applied to art, meaning get stuff out there, even if it is incomplete, a scrap of paper with an idea on it, whatever. get it out there and let people see. don't worry about fleshing it out. RAW IDEAS are more important than finished product.

which is what this is, so perhaps it could make a good start for a manifesto.

Ciao,

Do you want to send to me your A?

I need only A S U to complete 26 project.

If it is not too much for you.

Thanks

and i'll stop posting these here after this, you get the idea! ;-D