Jennie Hinchcliff

Mail art/ CAN MEAN/ many thiings/ to many /people but/ what does/ it ultimately / mean to / you!

Thank you, Jennie! My "can mean" arrived today in Greece...it is full of great stamps and images, love it! Tis 34/365, right?

Jennie, I'm so glad you liked them...This last postal history mailing I'm particularly proud of..18 different ways of a looking at a valentine (apologies to Wallace Stevens). I was sorry to end yours on a cliffhanging note but I ran out of room. I guess all good ghost stories are unresolved (see Turn of the Screw). BTW, if you have never rented "The Innocents" do so immediately.

I received your wonderful valentine today! Thank you!  I spent a good amount of time appreciating the different layers of rubber stamps.  A very cool piece!  Also, I'm visiting San Francisco later this month and wondered if you had any fun places you would recommend for finding cool paper/stickers/ephemera/flea markety stuff.  I'll also check your links to see what I can discover there. Thanks!

Thanks, Jennie. Yes, The Innocents is one of my top five movies. It's a filmed adaptation of Henry James "Turn of the Screw" with beautiful, hysterical Deborah Kerr as the governess. Screenplay by Truman Capote. Your compliment arrived just in time to buoy my spirit. I'll pass it along to Jaye.

Jennie,

I n'joyed your slideshow and artwork. My PO Box is 151, Hancock, NH 03449

All the best,

CrackerJack Kid

Yaaay!

 

Can't wait:)

Oh, I agree. I will be making him a bit of "thank you" mail as it was quite the undertaking to organize all of this.

Happy Valentines Day to you too and may the gods of chocolate hearts smile upon you;0)

Dear Jennie,

 

thank you for the cute red love mail art!!!

I got it and i would like to thank you!!!!

Georgia

Happy Valentine Weekend to you, Jennie,

may every day be a RED LETTER DAY for you!

Hey Jennie,

I'm coming to california this weekend to visit my 94 year old mom. Is there anything cool happening in the city I should know about. Mail art shows? Book art shows? Special gallery openings? Music events? Let me know...

Love your artwork! I invite you to send a piece of your art to The Face of Jesus Mailart Gallery Exhibition. Check out my profile page for details and to see over 250 pieces of art already in the Exhibit.

Jennie, did you ever get my  mail art??

Jennie,

You must know by now that I LOVE SURPRISE IN EVERY MAILBOX!

Will be watching and anticipating.

 

Cheers,

CrackerJack Kid

Jennie! The envelope I sent you three weeks ago got very unfairly returned to me. Apparently the cute little rabbit stamps fell off and it got returned for insufficient postage. But since it had already made it to the US I don't really see the point of sending it back to Japan, and after such a long time. I'm quite upset, it was one of my favorite envelopes. Last week Karen Champlin's letter arrived full of holes. What is wrong with the US postage system these days?

Anyway, I'll re-send one of these day and sign up for anger management :-))

excellent :-) looking forward to receiving mail from you :-) - swamped??? yes, its VERY mirey here too...

Hi Jennie! I absolutely love your book! I was interested in learning about mail art, so I ordered "Good Mail Day" from Powell's. I didn't think I'd actually become a mail artist, but, after reading your book, I was thinking, "Why not?!" I'm loving creating mail art! I'll probably send you something soon. Love, Erica

Hi Jennie, Thanks for your postcard (365 060): trés joli, Madamoiselle! I'll send you a card back next week; best wishes, Val Herman

Hey Jennie O,

Your postfabulous Flux card arrived two days ago, but between the mail box and the garage door I slipped

on our iced over driveway while clutching your card in my hand. Your card was prescient when you wrote,

"The New year has started out w/a bang; that means (I've fallen behind on my correspondence). And this is

exactly what happened to me dear Jennie! I fell behind on my correspondence from you). Luckily neither

kid nor kard were damaged, although there is a little splotch that bled dead center on the card. Your "Flux Card
will be well remembered!  Cheers, CrackerJack Kid 

Hi Jennie, wanted to let you know your M section arrived safely in Minnesota--it's incredibly good--the story, the maps, and of course, the mystery!

Dear Jennie,

the amazing mistery magical maps arrived to Planet Susannia! Today is a real Red Letter Day!

hi Jennie

your preciuos booklet has arrived...it brought mystery and memories, due to a happy coincidence. the story is engaging and the graphic beautiful!

thank you!

cheers

Bonjour Jennie Many thanks for those 'Zine references. I've started chasing them up, and have some way to go. I'm looking for real old-fashion, paper mail art magazines. Yes,please, I'd very much like to receive a copy of your 'Red Letter Day' 'zine -- and who knows, perhaps I might be able to contribute to the 2011 issue/edition (if you'll have me, of course!) . My address is 1 Rue de la Vieille Fontaine, F-11130 Sigean, France.

Thankyou! Merci beaucoup! Regards, Val

Hi Jennie,

I just want to let you know that I am ok with this earthquake.

Osaka had no shaking at all. It does not on the fault that laying on up north.

Bud I feel bad to see the special news coverage showing the damages dead numbers every date.

 

I also want to tell you that I sent you and Chris mails. To you to Red Letter day address. I hope you get it soon.

Tomoe

Great stuff here

ありがとう、ジェニーさん。

I don't remember when I sent you, probably last week, so you should be getting mail soon. (^_~) Is it almost spring break at school?

Tomoe

hi, dear jennie, i like the book good mailart day, i bought it last year but recognise you just now, it is a wonderful book, i enjoy it very much!

i'd glad to exchange mailart with you, it will be of great fun:)

Amo

Thank you Jennie...Got yer card today...quite appropriate for my life at the moment. Did you type your text on a typewriter? I'm so envious. (I put the card up in the photo section). Thanks again. David

Oh, no thank you but I appreciate the offer. Actually I was just thinking that you might enjoy some of these old Time Magazines from the early 50s. Would you? I still have a lot left and if you like bulbous cars they're just the thing. You can never have too much ephemera, can you?

 

Mmmmmmmm, no sign of "M" ;-(

We shall be patient and see what the mail brings on Monday.

If nothing, then, I fear, Jennie, that your M has one around to Figi Island!

What a fun journey it must be having! We shall give it time, it might 

arrive in Greece one day, and it can tell us of all its adventures!

 

Hello Jennie!
I have received your M. Wonderful adventure. I love it!
Thank you very much
I am happy to have shared with you this interesting project

Dear Jennie,

Thank you so much for 'Red Letter Day' which arrived here safely.

I found it fascinating -- it took me right back to my student days of roneo/mimeograph printing and publications that were sometimes almost samidzat in style.

I do miss these type of publications. I hate the internet because it has wiped out so many things of an earlier existence from our cultural/social/personal/economic/etc lives. While I do acknowledge some of it's achievements, I'm personally located in a space filled with real postal mail, vinyl records, pens and inks, cassettes and Walkmans, and videos. The only 'e' or 'i' piece of technology (sic) I have or ever will have is an iRon.

(I have to work out how to see what's on Red Letter's CD: that will be a technical challenge for me.)

I strongly urge you to put together another issue, and would be only too pleased to help in any way I can. I'll be going to the 'Mail2Maastricht' exhibition next month, and could -- if you liked -- report on that and/or interview Ruud Jansen or one of the other speakers; (But I'm new to Mail Art, so you might have to provide some questions for any interview)

A couple of things have occured to me about what another Red Letter Day might look like: i) it could be roneod (a machine must exist somewhere in San Fran) to give it a really authentic look; and ii) it could be based on a Mail Art call themed 'Black and White' -- then you wouldn't have to worry about colours.

Do, pleaee, publish another one.

It is avidly awaited here in France.

Regards, Val

Hola!!

Tengo tu M

gracias!!!!

besos

Samuel

Hi Jenny! Did you see the Fanzine showBW Budapest posted very recently by Plagium2000? It seems very relevant to your Red Letter Day zine, and well worth a look. Regards, Val

Received yer card yesterday. Thanks, Jennie...Loved the backstory. I posted it in the photos section.

Bonjour Jennie! If you have ever read 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' or one of the other " books in the 4-volume trilogy, you will know that the answer is '42', ie the Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. Which is to say, many thanks for the Fluxy card you sent me, especially the end of the note you penned that read, "A question: what is a..." And then there was no more: not even a question mark. So the answer to the incomplete question is 42; or perhaps 43; or it just might be 19. Or even a ?

I'll be mailing you something back at the end of the week.

Thanks again and regards, Val

Hello Jennie,

We must officially make "M" = Missiing in Action. It never came in the mail to Greece :-(

Also, Heather Miller in South Africa didn't get a copy either . 

You could scan all the pages to your discussion for Chapter M at Collaborative Books,

and we could print out and assemble the chapter that way.

Or let us know if you are able to  send us another?

Lost-in-the-mail....check my address and post code too:

Katerina Nikoltsou

Glinou 20 Harilaou

Thessaloniki 54249 GREECE

Your card arrived today, thank you.  Next time you pass through Vallejo we'll have to meet up.  The post office is just two blocks from a coffee house at our waterfront.

Thank you for the rad postcard!  It totally made my day.  LOVE IT!

you have bamboo coming in the mail! ;-D

Jennie!

 

i thought i'd let you know i'm using your "FLUX &." postcard to make a FLUX kit along with the box Lisa @ Skybridge Studios sent me! i'm giving it to the teacher at my daughter's school who i helped to make mail art with the kids!

 

i really, really, really liked the postcard, and the box; but when i put them together it's way more cool than both were by themselves!!

 

i hope you'll send me a new FLUX postcard sometime, because i really like it. i will miss it a lot. :-(

 

superhero.

if you send something, i hope it gets here by the 1st so i can GIVE IT AWAY!!!

 

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thanks! ;-D

It has it has! What a nice treat(s) to come home to!

Just posted pics of the invite you sent me along with a detail of a very cool stamp you put on it. Where do I get my hands on those? I saw your sample books at Press on 22nd street last week, too. Excellent. Good luck with your first course. Looks like it will be fun.

Bonjour!

How are you?

How's the Red Letter doing?

How about sending me a copy (or more than one if you really, really insist!)

hope you are well.

Bestest, Moby