mabb

Dear Mary-Alice,                                        

Welcome to IUOMA!

It's a great bunch of folks and I hope that you enjoy exchanging Mail Art with us: like you, we all love Mail Art.

I'm your Mentor, and if I can help to ease you into IUOMA in any way, then please don't hesitate to ask and I'll try to explain what's going on and how IUOMA works.

If you haven't already done so, I suggest you take a look at the 'New to IOUMA' page (4th from the left at the top of the IUOMA home page) where you'll find a 10-point Introductory Guide that should give you an insight as to what is going on.

Would you like to exchange some Mail Art with me? If so, send me something to 1 Rue de la Vieille Fontaine, F-11130 Sigean, France, and I PROMISE to send you something back.

Hoping you enjoy your IUOMA days.

Regards, Val Herman

Dear Mary-Alice; This is a friendly welcome to the network, from a friendly mail artist living in a friendly country. A good starting around here seems to be snail mail art exchange.  I would like to be the other side on this very beginning with you at IUOMA.  Your  envelope should read as follows:

Patricio Duprat

Av. Paraná, 1489 apto. 1004

Curitiba-PR

825210-000

Brazil

I look forward to see your piece arriving on the mail.  I will send mine to you after receiving yours.  It’s my promise.  Patricio

Hi mabb!

I liked seeing your postoffice and all the outdoor mailboxes that you posted at "365"!

Thank you for the nice comment on my sandpo card, too. Soon something in the mail coming your way from Greece!

mail art coming your way!

mabb, i got your comment and it reminds me of a scene from a movie i watched, but i'll have to hunt down the title.

it's a GREAT scene, and it portrays through a simple dialogue how nobody can ever really "know" anyone else, no matter how hard they try, there is always going to be a distance.

the best we can ever do is close that distance, and the more we close it, the closer we are to people.

it's a very beautiful scene, i'll have to try to remember what the movie was!!!

also i have some old poetry, very extremely personal, if you like to read:

http://moomoosuperhero.blogspot.com/2011/06/old-poetry.html

it's not unusual for people to not know quite what to do with me, if that's what you mean! ;-D

i don't know it, but if it's catchy i don't think i want to.

i like to keep the room inside my head calm, still, and "tidy."  ;-D

i don't believe in "intellectual property," use what you like,

we are ultimately all one mind.

we just run our own individual tasks on our own sub-processors. ;-D

(use what you like)

as my friend richard canard (also on iuoma) says:

do not hesitate to plagiarize the holy & the genuinely creative.

you add as little or as much as you like, sign one of the 12 boxes, then send it to someone else.

it's "add & pass",

when all twelve are signed, hopefully it will find its way back here.

you don't need to fill all the pages!

the papers are for inspiration / collaging.

use them if you like, or just discard them.

i left a comment on the post you commented on,

also looked up the ovie i mentioned way back when - it's in that comment.

Thank you for ALL, Mary Alice! Your mail art is on display in my olive tree ;-) Both cards have arrived and i like them very much! They are in a blog on the Main Page : Mail Art arrives at seaside...

Thank you, thank you!

Bonjour Mabb!  June, July, August...it doesn't really matter because all I am doing is sheltering from the heat and playing with the cats. What a busy life we French Mail Artists lead!

Now, I'm not sure that I can help you with your Blog problem for two reasons. The first is that I don't really understand what your problem is, and that could be because you haven't explained it very well (try again?), or, and more likely, because I am stupid and don't really understand this blog business...as I have other things to do in life (like play with the cats).

Secondly, it could be a 'technical' problem linked to the way the IUOMA database (its called NING -- honest, it is) works, and I have no idea whatsoever how to NING or NONG or whatever. If it is a technical problem, you'll have to ask Ruud Janssen to sort out for you -- but in the meantime try and explain it to me again.

Sorry to be so useless (but that is one of my defining characteristics). Regards JE Sweefoo

Phew!

Well all of us here can go back to what we do best, which is nothing much these days -- well I'm waiting for some acrylic paint to dry. I DO understand English most of the time ...and French, and Dutch, and other languages too, and when I get stuck I have a Persian cat and a Siamese cat to help me with more exotic languages BUT I don't know nothing about computers and all the mysteries that they talk to each other. And I don't want to know nothing about them anyway.

Anyway this isn't really relevant as you (with the help of Angie & Snooky) have solved your problem. That's what mentors are for: getting other people to solve things.

Perhaps I should get a corgi too: any thoughts?

Blog on, baby!

Regards, JE Sweefoo

Youre sometime-but-uselss mentor asks: Why?

Why are you called 'Mabb'? First name? Last name? Nickname? Accronym?

Regards, JE Sweefoo

Hi Mabb

Doing fine. Lot of branches to cut and move.  We had heavy rain and winds. No power for 4 days. The internet is super slow. So i'm back slowly but fine. Thanks for caring. Hope everything comes ok at NY. Best wiches.

Hi neighbor, love your Seamus and hope you send more pictures.  I hope you all are untouched by the flooding rivers.    Elizabeth and L. in Troy

Good morning Mabb,    it took me a long time to find the friend request thing.  It's on the person's IUOMA page, on the upper left, under their picture & name.  If they're not "friended" yet it says "add as a a friend"."  You most likely already know that part. 

   When the next window opens to add them, in red letters it says "add a personal message."   The first time I saw this was yesteday when I did yours!

hi mabb, here is a link for you: 

Hi, Mabb

The artist Jean-Francois Aillet invites you to collect your sample of sand from a moraine, from next to a waterfall or beside a river, along the shore of a lake or a stream, in a desert or on the border of an ocean. One should not, however, send him sand from a construction site. You are asked to document your collection of the material with a photo, taken as you are pouring the sand into a container. For an example, kindly visit his home page at www.aillet.com . English : http://www.aillet.com/traductions/anglais.htm

See you to take part in this international project.

Jean-François Aillet
Sculpteur / Designer
10, Allée des Tilleuls
14860 Amfréville
Normandie / France

http://brunocassaglia.blogspot.it/

Thanks for the comment on my blog post about the Free Image Exchange! I'll send one your way today :) Happy corresponding!

~ Mah Nu