Dean aka Artist in Seine

'Shredpo" arrived in Greece today. Many thanks for a great card...back and front! Big smile on my face, and it came along with fun stuff from Val and David, too. going to blog ya awl!

Lots lying in the Greek streets these days, but no Eiffel Tower :-(

Maybe I will just have to come up to Paris to get it handed over personally???

(But then, is that mail art or hand art?)

Dear Mother Bored and Father Brake Fast at the End of the Boulevard, I got your incredible circuit board card, and all the parking credit cards (don't send me any parking fines that you get). I'm amazed that you manage to send this stuff through la Poste.

I'll mail you an extremely modest vegetable/philatelic bingo card type thing back in a day or so.

If you Google 'Dean Marks' and then 'Images' you find some very, very strange folks there. they can't all be you. Or can they?

Are you gainfully employed yet?

Regards, Val

Has my identity been cloned, I wonder?

"I am you, and you are we, and we are all together."

As to why didn't you think of gunpowder before, it could be because you were experimenting with enriched uranium.

The Eggman

Well, if you are me for a day, would you like to pay my 'Start of the month bills' that I haven't round to paying yet? There are still some 9 hours left of today

Hold on to the uranium, but send the ladies.

And as to re real estate, well, that's got me worrying.

Who are you going to be next? Google 'Dean Marks Images' and you'll find lots of name-a-likes.

Regards, Val

I think you probably did, Dean. That was a fun project, wasn't it? So much humor around the number 5. I haven't heard of any project about 11/11/11 though. Anyway, I posted something you last week, so watch for it in your postbox:-D

Love your new avatar, by the way. Lol!

It's HERE! xxx Thank you, Dean!

And it is even BETTER  than the first one...this is a REAL Eiffel Tower (Made in China?)

Also...did you know that you used my old map of Paris that I had marked off my IBIS hotel near the Pullman Hotel ? Perfect! xxx

Hi Dean, thank you for the champagne cork egg carton RK performance art documentatoin piece I received from you. I truly hope it is NOT the last of the RK series as the story of its' creation is quite inspiring. Thank you so much. did you ever receive the paper plate?

all the best

DK

FANtastic!

FANtabulous!

FANcy receiveing a FAN in the post

From a FANatic

In FANcy dress no doubt

For his FANdango with Vanessa

From your FAN

At your FAN club

Val (who will be mailing you soemthing back in the enxt day or so).

Hope you enjoyed your mini-hols

Hi Dean...did I write that I got your Eiffel Tower in-a-bubble? Yes, of course! But I enjoy it so much, that I feel like I "receive' it every day...(or is that a senior moment? hmmmm)

In any case, I was at the post office today to mail you on this great day: 11.11.11 , a "tower"-in-a-bubble, too! I hope it arrives safely in its UHU-banana-bubble!

As the Eiffel Tower is the symbol of Paris, so, too, does the City of Thessaloniki have a tower as its symbol. The White Tower stands at the sea front,a reminder of the great sea walls and city walls of the Middle Ages, dating back even to the Byzantine Era ( when there were not Chiquita bananas ;-)

Dean! your scrap sando arrived. I love it thank you!

thank you, Dean...I also received what I call your "sandpaper tower"! It is a beauty, and I so understand the hard work that went into WEAVING sandpaper strips! Oh my, that was quite a task...and hard on th finger tips! Wow! But it does have the shape nd the sone color of Thessaloniki's "White Tower", so I am sending you one in-a-bubble ;-)

My Blue Mouse looooves your woven sandpaper. xx thnks!

Thessaloniki's "White tower"...like your "sandpaper tower" ;-)

Bo.nsoir! We (Bianca, Trouble et moi) have decided that you are well and truly NUTS. Thank you for them...and the olive stone/pit.

Bfeore you discovered mail Art, and besides long-distance running, what on earth did you do to keep yourself busy?*

I'll be mailing you something back in the next day or so...if you provide your personal ID no, of course.

Thanks again! Bestest, Val

*I almost wrote 'to keep yourself sane', but well I'm not sure that's quite what I meant.

Bonjour! What's your non-IUOMA email address, please?A couple of things I've sent recently to deanandvanessa etec have bounced back, and i might have got the address wrong. Ta. Val

The only thing better than getting mail art from you, is hearing the story of how you went about creating it. I LOVE the thought of you asking for a piece of tire, cutting it, and the worker rolling his eyes. Your piece is hilarious and I appreciate the tire tread to RK all my future mail art. You are the best-your imagination is appreciated. Love and art

DK

Dean, dear boy, Don't make a "spectacle" of yourself, Pleeeeezzzzee change back to your other romantic, handsome, and beguiling portrait photo, please. You are scaring us here at IUOMA with your new "glasses"   ;-0

AND thank you for the very special "trashpo" Eiffel Tower, all the more special where and how you found it! I thought it might have been broken "in-the-mail"...so like it the more this way: ruined, discarded, saved, recycle, and created into ART! xx

The Diary of a Young Girl
Theme: a Mailart exhibition dedicated to Anna Frank and to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27th, 1945: death camp Auschwitz was liberated
Size and technique free
No jury, no returns, no fees
Exhibition in 2012 in Giulianova, Italy
Documentation online gallery and catalogue to all participant if it will possibile (because of sponsor)
All works via post, no email please.
Info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com o image000@libero.it
Deadline to be received January 2nd, 2012

Isabella Branella
via Giardino 12
I- 64021 Giulianova Lido
Teramo
ITALY

Bonjour! Another free.france message was refused today...and it was a reply to one you sent me yesterday. Have you thought of being a yahoo.fr dean'n'vanessa duo?

Regards, val 

Bonsoir....did the barcode and numbers arrive in Paris? Regards, Val

Sending you some good stuff as soon as I thwart the nasty rumor that I'm pregnant!

DEAN, IT ARRIVED! You probably knew it would, but one never knows around here. It's in fine shape, ring and bracelet and all, and I LOVE IT--what an uplift this omen has brought. Thank you thank you, et merci! (I laughed my guts out before even getting a good look and seeing how wondrous it is.) Man, I love how you work ...

Never mind my beret...wait until all those Sheilas see my socks!

Bonjour! Thanks for the rubber band info. I sent you a yahoo reply, but Mr Daemon Mailer refused it. Did you set up another email address?

Rubber bands and rubber gloves (to Katerina) and earlier tyres,: is there a common theme there? If so, what next: leather, chewing gum (now there's a postal challenge for you), kippers?

I have a big bundle of British red PO rubber bands. Every time I see a Postie when I go to Britland I try and scrounge some bands.

When I have 17,543 more I can turn my bands into a group, or exchange them for a drachma.

Regards, Val

Bonsoir Monsewer Marks!

I hope that you have got back from M&S safely, with loads of scones and British undies.

Mercy buckets for the 'Limit the variations on a barcode' thingy, and I think I'm honoured to get 'Op. 001' -- although it could be like David Gilmour's Fender Strat no 1 (which I can explain later, if  necessary)..

Did you get the bar code/numbers card I sent you a week or so ago?

You worry about how long you can keep the BarCode idea going. I suspect a long time.

There is, of course, another sort of BarCode that you could work on. It might require some empirical research, and, if it does, I would be only too pleased to help out. It's about a Code (of conduct) for and/or in Bars:

* choose your bar (carefully)

* enter discretely

* return acknowledgements, if any

* avoid eye contact if people appear threatening

* decide whether to drink at bar or sit down

* etc.

Give me a call some time when you hav a few minutes?

I'll mail you something back soon.

Meanwhile, Liberté, Egalité et Art Postal,

Cordialement*, Val

*Rose's Lime Juice Cordial, naturally -- probably available from M&S

Thanks Dean! I don't get all the e-mail I'm sent since billytulip was hacked into earlier this year, so do please re-send if possible. I'll be doing some Barcode research tonight, going to the ;local to watch Marseilles vs Paris SG -- in the interests of culture, of course.

I've given up sending you stuff outside of IUOMA, as everything I send bounces back as some sort of spam. Did you open another email account?

Vive Art Postal et le Revolution de M&S!

Regards, Val

YES!  Thank you!  Sorry, I've been away for Thanksgiving, so I will post it soon! I am so envious of your travels!!  I would LOVE to visit these historic castles (I've only been to Paris and Nice), the detail and craftsmanship are divine.  They do, however, need some glow-in-the-dark stars...we could start a trend!  I keep finding more and more every time I look at this piece, and it will be a hilarious addition to the not-pregnant group!  Thank you again.

Thank you, Dean, my rubber band buddy! This is amazing!!!

Will make a blog soon to show the world ;-)

Your phone piece arrived here and we look forward to seeing you in person soonish. I'm so amazed that your rubber bands arrived intact. Amazing. You rock, Dear! Or rather, You PLUNK, Dean.

Hello Dean!

Received your "228 years of Hot Air Ballooning" mail art. It was most excellent! Now I really want my own hot air balloon, except I don't think I can fit it in my backyard. And, my neighbors might object (but, really, that does not matter.).

However, I did blog about it today;

http://sisterlouisek.blogspot.com/2011/11/junk-mail-junk-mail-cool-...

Allons-y

Louise

Bonsoir! I replied to your recyling message on free.fr, but Mr Yahoo rejected that address to as being 'too long'. I don't think Mr Yahoo likes you, but have no idea why -- have you?

Regards, Val

Paul Newman + Leonardo da Vinci arrived today! Dean, you crack me up. I love it. Thank you so much. You'll be hearing from me. Your trip to the Loire Valley sounds glorious. Did you get any wine to send me?

p.s. I keep meaning to tell you what a hit your red glove is here--people are both amazed and admiring. I feel like a queen, even though Diane is the only real queen.

Dean, for you:  I am wondering if you have sent anything to the exhibition in Korea?  www.mailartprojects.blogspot.com/2011/09/secret-exchange.html

Thank you for your witty, clever bandage package!  I laughed so hard I had to show it to my neighbors at the mail boxes!  I, too, have seen many packages of sutures like this- my husband had four back surgeries in one year so we were constantly accruing little kits of this or that.  And a BIG HuGE thank you for sending me scratch-n-sniff stamps!  I've heard that these existed, but I've never had one in my own collection!  I'm totally amazed. Thank you for making my day!!

http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/2011/12/recu-de-dean-micha...