Steve Random

71, Male

Raleigh, NC

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:
1982
My Website (without http://):
http://none
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
I got started in the mail with a project before I found out it was a 'thing', my External Box Project. Then I met Jean Brown and she gave me a copy of her artist listings and the rest is ancient history
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
6320 Falcon Knoll Circle
Raleigh, NC
27616-8883 USA

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  • Larry Rippel

    I've got your number! Good to see your face too, friend of my youth.

    Jul 23, 2009

  • joey Patrickt

    hi old friend and new friend. maybe put a lock on your mailbox.

    Jul 24, 2009

  • Robert Saunders

    TEST GOOD WEATHER FINALLY LIKE SUMMER SOME WARMTH & RAIN NOT EVERYDAY KALA GETTING MORE WORK SO SOME PRESSURE IS RELEASED WORK IN STUDIO IS GOING REAL WELL R..

    Aug 10, 2009

  • Elmer Elevator

    oh dear god forgive me but i hate pizza and pay almost no attention to which pizzerias thrive and which have passed away i will check on the bridge street joint the next time i go down main street.

    the pleasant street theater lives and continues to celebrate the arrogant and elitist experience du le Cinema. and boyoboy in this town does it still pack the suckers in. I think they sell snacks like arugula and pesto.

    there's a really good and really superpopular pizza-by-the-slice hole in the wall frequented by punk kidz and students on the next block down from the unpleasant street cinema.

    i am being unfairly mean to the pleasant street theater. if not for them, i would never have been able to see the widely banned "Crash" by Cronenberg. I loved that flick. What are the 2 Great Themes of American movies? Car Chases/Wrecks, and Hot Sex. So where was the harm in making a movie about people who love to have sex by getting into car wrecks? Where is the harm?

    (I couldn't stop laughing thru the movie and almost got thrown out.)

    After 26 years i'm real burned out on Northampton. It could have been Athens. But it just lost the vision. Going into the woods 0.3 miles off the grid. (But we'll still have the hi-speed Internet.)

    Elmer

    http://vleeptronZ.blogspot.com

    Aug 11, 2009

  • Stangroom

    Carlo always said there were two seasons in Maine...
    Winter and the 4th of July...

    Aug 16, 2009

  • michelle

    You typed "Greenboro?" Your fingers said one thing, and I believe your mind wanted to say Greenfield? Great area of New England with cerebral, braniacks, art, lots lots lots of great music!!!! What year did you live here? So many artists, writers, and honest to God rock and roll stars!!! A girl could get woozey just thinking about it!!! Thanks for the lovely comment!

    Aug 17, 2009

  • michelle

    Maybe???? Originally from Pa. Migrated to Ma by way of Baltimore. Miss that city terribly! !!! High School in Pa. College @ Penn Tech of Arts (penn state affiliate....) In radio and news for several yrs. Then window display/visual merchandiser for yrs. Then interior designer. Now rocknroll mall to two amazing kids! Paths may have indeed crossed. Were you at the Betty Ford Ctr in '91? Me too! Just kidding. I'll take a photo of your old mailslot and forward to you!

    Aug 17, 2009

  • Stangroom

    Steve... that'd be great...
    are you doing anything for
    "A Book About Death" ???
    I'm sure hoping to get something to them and
    attend the opening.

    Aug 17, 2009

  • michelle

    We fell in love w a gorgeous house! less than 20 min from Noho (employement) and the area is funky. Would like it to be more funky though. Dwtown is afraid of commerce. Very sad. But we love the area, close to NY and Boston. Lots of art and musical carrots just dangling for the taking. We make our own reality in this part of the woods. An added bonus, in greenfield, manna falls from heaven on tuesdays and the lolipop trees are in full bloom!

    Aug 18, 2009

  • Stangroom

    Steve...
    Try, Http://abookaboutdeath.blogspot.com/

    Aug 19, 2009

  • Stangroom

    This thing is running on European time!
    I posted the last comment at 7:18 pm , August 18 EDT
    reads 1:18 am August 19

    Aug 19, 2009

  • michelle

    Highland is still gorgeous...don't know this mystery man you speak of? Should I know him?

    Aug 20, 2009

  • Stangroom

    Steve... got the CD today... BRILLIANT!!!
    Thank you too much...
    Had tears in my eyes at times...

    Aug 29, 2009

  • Jennifer Kosharek

    Hello Random Steve... I saw ur pic of Mark B. and wanted to say that I met him at the A Book About Death Show... and we hung out.

    Sep 17, 2009

  • Jennifer Kosharek

    Yes, I did. :-)

    Sep 17, 2009

  • Steve Random

    This morning I learned of the passing of a dear mailart pal, Michel Champendal 1954-2009. Many thanks to Luc Fierens for relaying this sad info to me. That pebble he gathered for me and the polaroid he took of the Duchamp tomb and the related stories (and others) gave me a smile, to quote Marcel "see you soon".

    Sep 30, 2009

  • Rod Summers / VEC

    Deaf Ine 8lee, restablish contact with YouTube Steve, even if you have to register anew.

    Oct 1, 2009

  • Lancillotto Bellini

    Thank you Steve... I'm very tired thi evening (here's 9:50 p.m. ...) But I'll come back here to see your work...

    Oct 2, 2009

  • Diane Sipprelle

    Good to hear from you. I am well? Hope you are too!

    Oct 12, 2009

  • Rod Summers / VEC

    I bet that put you off your smoked salmon sandwich! Yes... or perhaps No... I don't remember, I did look at the other video but it was no match for the punky chicken

    Oct 13, 2009

  • Bern Porter

    Oct 16, 2009

  • Bern Porter

    Miekal And is compiling book of interviews with Bern Porter. He will publish photos of Bern in the book--would you send him yours for consideration?
    Send to Miekal And at: dtv@mwt.net

    Oct 16, 2009

  • Bern Porter

    bounce...bounce...bounce...bounce...bounce...bounce

    Oct 16, 2009

  • Rod Summers / VEC

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    Chicken Little in Madrid, beats pie Ella... a bit of a poser your poulette.

    Oct 17, 2009

  • Robert Saunders

    HUMMMMMM! BIRD LOOKS LIQUID YES R

    Oct 19, 2009

  • Rod Summers

    Groan! even bigger GROAN! my main desktop computer crumbled, ate two monitors, a video card, a system hard disk and my nerve endings... I have to go and buy a new computer (groan) and then instal all the software I use... double groan... AND I will loose all my back emails... fortunately I backed up all my data files onto an external hard drive last week and managed to pull to the sound files I am working on for next months performance off onto a memory stick. the groany thing in yon corner... that's me.

    Oct 23, 2009

  • Carlos I. Botana

    Subject: Octopus...


    Collective book of mail art.


    Send 18 works of size 14.8 X 21 cm (A5 vertical), numbered and signed,
    for making up a series of volumes with different artists in each. Each
    volume will contain a minimum of 14 artworks, one per artist. Modify
    each copy in order to make them unique originals. All techniques:
    printings, drawings, paintings, photographs, collages...

    Each participant will receive a volume.

    Deadline: october, 2010.

    Send your art works to:

    Carlos Botana
    General Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
    15006 A Coruña
    Galicia - España/Spain

    Greetings.

    Carlos Botana

    Oct 25, 2009

  • Medwolf

    have a happy christmas old friend

    Dec 17, 2009

  • Clifford Duffy

    the many delicate shapes of design thought and beauty in your work i am just discovering

    Dec 30, 2009

  • Medwolf

    Happy birthday my friend

    Feb 16, 2010

  • Byron Allen Black

    Carl the Painter (nope, it doesn't sound nearly as good in English) was indeed a hell of a guy. I forget which postcard I had sent him that became a pinup. If you want to see my postcard sampler take a gander at Byron Allen Black in the Stuart Gallery section of Saatchi. Cheers

    Jun 19, 2010

  • Ficus strangulensis

    Hi, Steve. You're the first to mention recognizing Jarry's pic.

    Jul 15, 2010

  • Sztuka Fabryka

    Hello Steve,
    > thanks for adding us as your contact // some nice stuff can be found at your page here //
    > we can be found on facebook also / if you wish to keep updated about our activities from time to time we give away some pieces for free to our facebook friends //

    > facebook fanpage / www.facebook.com/pages/Sztuka-Fabryka/90087775369?ref=ts /

    > sztuka fabryka /
    > www.sztuka-fabryka.be /

    Jul 15, 2010

  • Byron Allen Black

    Oh yeah, now it all comes back to me. That was just before my pornograph got clogged up and the turbo-encapsulator broke down.

    Hey if you're interested have a look at some of my playfulness in the Saatchi student section:
    http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/stuart/StudentArt/ast_id/22026

    You wouldn't happen to remember which mailartist coined the magnificent (sort of Stalinist) credo of PLAY TIME FOREVER by any chance? I've appropriated it; I think it's a grand expression and sums up my feelings and attitudes perfectly. Fuck I'm almost 70 years old but when I say that it sounds like a lie - like a line from a high school play (powder in my hair and greasepaint wrinkles). Anyhow what's up in Raleigh. Well, apart from lighting up, that is. I'm a cigar smoker myself. Like Mark Twain was alleged to have put it: "Having been cruelly deprived of the pleasure of smoking cigars up to the age of 8, I have made up for this by not ceasing to smoke them ever since". Ah.

    Jul 15, 2010

  • Steve Random

    Aug 2, 2010

  • Celestino Neto

    Hi Steve,

    Sep 7, 2010

  • evie satijadi

    OPEN CALL :

    2nd MAIL ART EXHIBITION , " A JOURNEY TO THE EAST "
    www.JourneyToEast.blogspot.com

    an International Mail Art Project 2011 for Peace to the world
    host west java, Bandung, Indonesia.


    Peace for everyone, who ever you are, where ever you are, what ever you are
    lets imagine PEACE to encircle the world. inspiring, connecting, expressing, sharing, giving and spreading more !
    Thank you for giving PEACE a chance...


    Love and Peace ! Evie Satijadi & Toni Antonius




    THEME : A JOURNEY TO THE EAST

    Deadline : 30 May 2011.
    Free technique and size. No fees. No jury. Non commercial
    No return.Anything that can be sent
    Exhibitions in 2011, SOS Sanggar Olah Seni ( www.savesos.blogspot.com )

    information : seniman_s@yahoo.com.sg

    Send to :

    A JOURNEY TO THE EAST MAILART
    Evie.S & Toni
    Kotakpos 6622
    BDCO 40116A
    Bandung - West Java
    Indonesia

    Sep 19, 2010

  • h.r.fricker

    Personal Mail-Art Invitation: 

    MOMA = Museum of Mail Art

    Letter Envelope and Artistamps

     

    Dear Networker, dear steve

     

    On the 18th of September 2011 the Art Museum of the Canton of Thurgau in Switzerland will have an Opening for the exhibition "Conquer the Living Rooms of the World." This is a retrospective of my artistic activities from almost the last 40 years.

     

    One section of the exhibition is dedicated to my activity in the world-wide Mail Art Network. I am inviting you to send me one of your typical creatively altered letter envelopes and one of your sheets of stamps. The deadline is the 10th of September. Your contribution will be integrated into the exhibition and will become a part of the museum's collection. 

     

    This personal invitation is being extended to around 60 of my "old" Mail Art partners with whom I am currently still in contact with through Facebook. 

     

    I look forward to your contribution!

     

    Yours, 

    H.R.Fricker

     

     

    Adresse:

     

    H.R.Fricker

    MOMA / Museum of Mail Art

    Huettschwendi 7

    CH-9043 Trogen

    Switzerland

     

    -----------

    Aug 23, 2011

  • h.r.fricker

    thank you for your idea how I can enclose you in the show too. yours hr

    Sep 6, 2011

  • h.r.fricker

    please send my your address because I will include you in the show too with envelope and blanc page hr

    Sep 7, 2011

  • h.r.fricker

    I just found it, sorry

    Sep 7, 2011

  • Terry Reid

    Steve, have you sent a SECREt to the Tell Me Tell Me exhibition at MoCA in Korea?
    http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/send-to-the-secret-exchange
                                                             Duchamp's not Klein Blue blue suit

    Nov 13, 2011

  • Medwolf

    ok so I had a lil ole stroke and it was a long healing road lol but the wolf is back and u will all get something from me real soon..so keep smiling peoples lol a smile is way big medicine

    Jul 15, 2012

  • James Robert Hutchinson

    Hi Steve, I can't remember if I left a comment regarding your Feb.27th remarks about 45 years later alot of water over the bridge! Here is my comment! " Where is the confounded bridge?"-LZ hutch 5/20/12!

    Jul 20, 2012

  • TIZIANA BARACCHI

    DOINGPOETRY IN THE WORLD
    Mailart project
    Doingpoetry: Poetry, Art, Society
    Free size, medium and technique
    No fee, no jury, no sales, no returns
    The show will be held in Pavia in 2012,
    November 23-25
    At Santa Maria Gualtieri during PAVIART POETRY Festival 2012
    Organization by O.M.P. and Farepoesia
    Documentation: all submissions will also be posted
    on the web sites under costruction in http://www.farepoesia.it/mail-art.html
    info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com
    Artworks should be sent by snail mail
    DEADLINE to be received
    2012, October 30
    send to:
    TITO TRUGLIA
    Via Torino 37
    I-27100 Pavia
    ITALY

    Sep 18, 2012

  • buZ blurr

    random

    Jun 1, 2013

  • David McLimans

    Hello Steve,

    Yeah, long time ago old pal. Life has been, well, the usual ups and downs.
    These days good--just finished an illustrated alphabet based on the Nato Phonetic
    Alphabet.

    What, Where, How's by you? All Best, David

    Aug 23, 2013

  • Peter Kupas

    maybe a while back i sent you something or the other way around? to be honest, no idea. :)

    Mar 9, 2014

  • Peter Kupas

    small world, especially through the mail... :)

    Mar 9, 2014

  • Ruud Janssen

    Hi Steve,

    Did you also have a look at gthe special Facebook group i made at: https://www.facebook.com/memorandommemory , there you can see all 400+ I have gathered so far. Originals. I also like to have colour scans to show online.

    with best wishes,

    Ruud Janssen

    Feb 17, 2015