Valentine Mark Herman

Oh Val, I just love your new do!  You look ready to dance the tango at the drop of a red rose!  Also, I'll break one of my mail art codes and tell you to expect something from me soon that was supposed to be for your envelope themed show, but it is not on topic at all.  It is also not the proper size.  I didn't know when the show was opening, so I sent something posthaste without reading the prompt very well.  So if it works, well great.  If not, I'll be ever in your debt.

As you wish, Val! I thought your upstairs room was your artspace? That doesn't sound very peripatetic to me? Join and leave later, that's ok.

 Do you need any help with your exhibitions? Anything I can do from here? I'll send another envo if you like.

Bonsoir Val! Your West Side Story card has arrived to Finland, thank you so much! Long time since I saw a musical, perhaps it's time... :) See you...

Glad to see that you received my Tina Turner and UFO cards.  Sorry that I haven't gotten back to you before now, but I had dental surgery last Friday (March 23, 2012) and felt bad for a few days.  Today is the first day that my mouth hasn't hurt since seeing the dentist.  I had a bone graft put in, and the dentist has me wearing a "flipper" to fill in the hole where the missing tooth is.  In 3 months, I will get an implanted tooth.  I'm adjusting to the flipper, but it's not easy. My daughter tells me that the little girls on "Toddlers and Tiaras" wear flippers to replace missing baby teeth. I don't know if they have  "Toddlers and Tiaras" outside the United States or not. It's a reality show on television about young girls in beauty pageants and their demanding Mothers.  Here in this country they have this program on a network called The Learning Channel.  Honestly, I can think of lots of other things I'd rather learn about than these pageants.

As for my "booboo_babies" name that I go by on Flickr, Postcrossing and some other places.  Well, I have a daughter who will be 21 on May 24 this year, and a son who will be 12 in September.  They are 9 years apart and both of them were surprises (the best kind of surprises, more like a gift from God).  Hence, my lovely children are "booboo_babies". - Gail

I am indeed a Monty Python fan, although I don't know if American fans have the same depth of knowledge as British fans would. I also enjoyed the Fawlty Towers series. More fun!

Oh Val! I think I had a stamp-a-gasm!!  I am preparing for you a package tomorrow.  My two uncontrollable obsessions...stamps and currency.  Anything in particular you are looking for?  I so thouroughly enjoyed your link and will visit it often for a warm fuzzy fix!

-anna

Γειά σου, παλικάρι Valentine!

You are adorable in that Greek cap! In the Spirit of 1821 and the

Greek Independence! Wear it well, wear it proud! xxx K.

Congrats to Your new hat! I also congrats You!

Nik

Mail just came, and brought more linocuts from you that I was hoping for--thank you very much, Val, you're a peach! You've had a lot going on lately, i know, so you were nice to send them at all. Merci merci merci ... I love them.

flopy the enveloppe ! the invisible art made visible !

Have I thanked you for your most recent mail gift?  I hope so, because the southern belle in my brain spanks me when I forget.  And she's really strong, so it hurts.  So Thank you!  Also, I'll be visiting London in May with my parents.  We are calling this (our third or forth trip to London) our Nerd Pilgrimage.  We will be spending lots of time in museums and libraries.  Any suggestions you might have would be amazing.  For example, we want to see William Morris' home and the museum of science and nature.  We have already done the main tourist things, so this trip is really all about the British Museum and the National collections, as well as Soane's collections though they may be small.  Just wondering if you have any wisdom.

Glad to see you got #966...and don't worry, I will not "retire" from mail art. I have already sent out #1001 ...and a few more  "beyond 1001"...so I continue at a merry pace. Now, however I stop numbering. Amen. Just making :-)

Best of success with your exhibit...don't work too hard. enjoy! xxx

Thank you for the "Maltese Falcon" card!  Just received it today (April 4, 2012). - Gail Anderson

Very Nice!!! Congrats my friend, the panels look wonderful!!! Nice job Val or is it "Mark" now!!!?!!!  I will of course be sending my 1 envelope to cover my fine that was halfed and a couple extras to cover any future transgressions although I hope to not have any or at least not too many  ;)  xoxo

Val,

This just proves that great minds think alike! I'd already jotted down your address and had begun to plot out your piece! Probably won't go out until next week, but rest assured, it will be on its way shortly!

:D

Bravo, Val, excellent exhibit and your display is marvelous!

I understand that you a busy with this exhibit, but still...

From one thing to another, but your hat is similar to mine, Val!

No, sorry no pom poms here ... just warm socks .. :)

hello, val...this work is on his way to sigean...it's an anvelop in other anvelop...

                                        greetings from romania

HeeheeeHeee...I did it, my dear Valentine! Your Artspace is now at Artspace ! Well, just a tiny piece of it:

Hi Val!

I already signed up!

Have a nice week!

Dear Valentine!

   I have a proposition. I have a hard time finding slides. Do You have 4 slides that I can trade with You? What do You wan't in return? I have old old old Swedish stamps and a cool authentic cancellator (I know it is not the proper word for it but a better one that I propose everyone should call these so callet cachet's or whatever).

Pleas don't hurt me! Nik

-Val!!!!!

   I would give You the Kingdom (of Sweden) if I could but I wan't to give You a "surprise". And it is not even a ticket to the next Nobel Price banquet but a much more humble trade than that. Your Ferrari is orange, that I have seen on pictures and much more lovelier than it's Italian brother. I am glad for any slides so You choose, everything is a challenge though a paper slide... ;)

   I will show You the Cancellator within a week....

   The Best to You,

Nik

p.s. I'll be in the Carousel so please tell the biker-gorillas that stands outside my frontdoor to go away!!!!!

Thank You my friend, much appreciated!

   The bikers were gone this morning, I thought they were a threat from Arty slides int. but I was wrong, they just got the wrong house, those bikers are also opponents to modern technology and hence do not have a gps.

   I have seen Your house in Sigean on photos, where do You keep all the goats, sheeps and camels?

   Something as a trade is posted. (I know I did not have to but it is more fun that way)

Cheers

Nik

   Ha ha ha! I thought You mad a joke about the African Reserve but when googling it up.......hmm...or did You just make that internetsite while writing to me?! ;)

   Now... off to the drawing table. (It turned out that the bikers were just a three year old boy waiting outside with his tricycle bike, probably smelled the newly baked cinnamon rolls from our appartment)

Oui. C'est moi....

Well, I didn't find it per se....I made it up...The actual album is a very funny Mantovani record which seems to be inhabited by miniaturized people. And yes, there is a record inside which you should be able to access by taking an exacto knife and running it neatly down the edge. Alas, it's not Abbe Lane but I'll let you discover what it is on your own. Abbe Lane, btw, is still alive as far as I know. I'm glad you enjoyed it and I hope the exhibition was a big success. 

Your friend in Santa Fe,

David 

 please tell me where to find the carousel . and i would like to have the candidates stop by for coffee . . . . . . . rock and roll . . . . . . . 

Hi Val

Thank you for your advice, very much appreciated, although I must add that I am concentrating completely on the art and I never compromise my creativity for the sake of commercialism. Sure on my website I offer some work for sale (as do you) but this is only done as a means to support my creativity. Anyone is very welcome to partake in my latest project and receive some free artwork. However some people out there are not mail artists and may be more interested in simply buying some work or helping to support my material costs.

As for the 'security' theme of my latest work, this is my artistic take on the security industry informed by my experience as a security guard based in an art studio. It's not meant to be taken completely seriously and my humour is rather tongue in cheek.

I would a shame if I were to get banned from IUOMA as I am truly interested in international creative exchanges and I see mail art as one way of giving something back to the world in which I'm fortunate enough to practice something that I love.

I hope you understand, and thank you for your time.

Kind Regards

Tomo

Ya like the "new" me, eh? Dean Marks forced me at gun point to display my "age"! If i had a French beret, i would probably look younger? xxx 

Bon weekend? Me waiting for midnight to start Greek Easter celebrations which will go on all week as usual...lots of "souvala"...lamb,wine, goat,wine, kokoretsi,Easter bread, wine...all this goooood stuff! 

Glad you got ALL the mail art:-) And are you off to the UK, again?

Well, no hurry to reply, just enjoy your trip to Darlington (?)

And we'll see about the Val Fan Club :-) xxx

Jean Pierre Leaud was an amazing actor, I love him in all those Truffaut films, but there's a picture of him online that scares me to death. Anyway, thanks so much for the card, it's nice to see the movie poster in French.

Gracias amigo, thanks for the welcome! NHN

No worries Val, I'm sure i can forgive you a little misunderstanding. That's a lot of stamps. They're just about to put the price up here in the UK, as I'm sure you've heard, not the best news ever. Not too much to be done about that, just make some art I suppose...

Catch you again in the future no doubt and good luck with your exhibition.

Tomo

Sent another Sigean envelope last week to cover my fine and will be sending my third sometime this week to cover any future infractions...it'll be like $ in the bank ;)

See? You should have a longer tassel like Lakis...from Dean-the American-in-Paris.

Sorry, I'm Greek!

Sorry, yes, yes..."size does matter"! Smaller tassel...smaller... Ooooooh, you were comparing "tummy" size, not: big tassel ...big.... :-)

I'm glad you liked the trains.  I am quite fond of trains myself, so it was nice to be able to send to someone else who appreciates them.  

Thank you, Valentine, hug for you, my friend!!! 

Pink ali baba...where did you go?

You have gone blond, Val, it suits you, it makes you look much younger.

OOOOh! Je suis tres emouve, Val, mercie et remercie pour ton Comment en regard le STG.

Mais oui, Val, je serais tres contente de show ton art , envoie moi une postale par escargot-poste

you could have your nails done at a salon.They can paint pictures on them, with diamantes and full colour, on purple would be nice.

Hello my dear Valentine! Great card in my NEW mail box! And it fits (as the other box only can take letters and postcards) Will make blog ;-) Also, last night was the opening of the Gallery of Colors" and there were your colorful and full of colors...lino prints xxx thanks!

Hello! You can contact me via Real Mail at:

Marguerite Keen, 1709 Wilson Avenue, Lancaster PA 17603, USA

Thank you!

Thank you, my dear Valentine xxx

Definitely a GREAT sketch of a Flamingo...with a real Flamingo feather!

Super nice, it arrived today and I shall give it to SKETBE for display on May 27,

our International Sketching Day!

For now, I'll let Andy Warhol and friends take a look at it :-)