David Alan Goldberg

Male

Charlotte, NC

United States

Profile Information:

Mail-Artist since:
1985
My Website (without http://):
http://dagdoodles.blogspot.com
Why I am involved in Mail-Art:
I created a steady stream of handmade postcards from 1985 until 2002, mostly under the pseudonyms of Blackbeard and DAG. Mail art 'zines such as Beatniks from Space, MalLife, and Outre provided my inspiration back in the 1980s.

I love writing to friends, acquaintances, and total strangers. I love to create conversation pieces with my own two hands.
My Mail-Adress (snail and/or E-mail)
David Alan Goldberg (DAG)
Peripheral Theater
2916 Marlowe Avenue
Charlotte, North Carolina
28208
USA

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  • MUSEUM OF MAIL ART

    Jun 9, 2016

  • Bruno Cassaglia

    http://brunocassaglia.blogspot.it/

    Aug 20, 2016

  • De Villo Sloan

    Hi David, just came across your interesting message and am compelled to respond.

    Well, today you qualify as a tested veteran of the Golden Age of Zines due in part to the simple fact that you somehow have managed to survive and can thus provide a presence and testimonial here in the New Order of things.

    I think you just had some bad beginner's luck. BFS and Neither/Nor was an anarchist press w/ an agenda and group of people they wanted to promote. I believe they ran into money and labor problems and ceased to function. At the same time, a big small press guide featured them and I think they were buried in submissions they could never hope to publish.

    Factsheet 5 - great publication - was another high visibility piece and Gunderloy would use you if you fit his purposes, but there was hardly an open or fair editorial policy there. Don't get me wrong. FF5 was important served an important function.

    There were SO many zines. You probably had work appear places and you didn't know it. But the primary approach, even during the zines, was direct one-on-one w/people. So you probably did better than you think.

    And now you're here to tell your own story. You should. We're all trying to patch together what actually happened back then.

    Regards. DVS

    Aug 24, 2016