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I received this out of the blue.  The blue in this piece is blue velvet.  I would call this NeoTrashpo.  Latex Free!

Thank you Larry!

Mail-art by IUOMA member Not Hi Ng (San Pablo, California, USA)

July 19, 2014 - In my ongoing archival efforts, I came across a box of mail-art received in early 2013 that was never blogged or documented. Some real treasures…

Fantastic postcard and stamp from Adanaland.

Thanks, Alan!…

Beautiful envelope from Richard. The added fragments of paper add amazing texture.

Thank you, Richard.

http://www.estrepublicain.fr/loisirs/2014/07/18/sa-feuille-est-la-terre-et-sa-plume-une-salade

Charles was a postman ! go on Charles !

written for Google earth !

is Spiral jety better ?

Who's iuomartist can compete with earth & salads ?

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Mail-art by IUOMA member JOB (5Blanks) aka Jurgen Oliver Blank (Worthsee, Germany)

July 18, 2014 - Previously, I have had the great pleasure to post work by Cristina Blank. Now, belated as ever, I…

Note the lovely edge. Thank you, Dean!

Mail-art by IUOMA member E - Ambassador of Utopia (Guivry, France)

July 17, 2014 - E - Ambassador of Utopia presents his mail-art persona as a phantom: He is very mysterious, appearing and disappearing, absent but then…

I have been blogging like mad at my various blogs and barely dipping into IUOMA but wanted to post a few pics of some of the work I've had for Maritime Mail Art from IUOMA members!  You can (of course) see all the work I've received at the dedicated blog.  In case you don't know, I am having two exhibitions of work I receive in England and on Cranberry Island.  The first one will be next Wednesday, running for a week at the Cranberry Island Historical Society.  I carried the pices I received…

I hope you can see how awesome this piece is...deep layers of red/orange/pink fading into blue with a wonderful top layer of copper...LOVE IT!

my scanner is not picking up all the color variations....Outstanding Jurgen...thank you *!*

  Thank you Laurence,

  There will be a mail- art for you in the box, next week !!!

Chere Laurence, je suis tres heureuse de recevoir une telle piece de mail-art !!!!! Thanks a lot for sending me such a wonderfull mail-art ! so nice and personal as always !

is the title of a not very good, sort of Mail Art article by Harry Wallop in today's, 17 July, (UK) Daily Telegraph -- telegraph.co.uk

It is helpful in explaining how post codes work in the UK, and how the Post Office tries to deliver seemingly undeliverable mail.

However, Wallop and the bloke he is writing about seem to think that they have discovered Mail Art...and puzzles in the post, citing Harriet Russel's 2008 book 'Envelopes'. But, and it's a big 'but', it completely…

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but the “A Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card seems to be a fake  the NY…

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I'm not sure if you ever tried to make one of these, but it is very…

A very small envelope, but with a big impact.

It was loaded with performance enhancing mail art; Inflatable hand (which we'll see again at a later time), a picture of Bruns (a speed-obsessed snail), a Tour de France souvenir stamp, the king of spades, and a…

Straight from the front lines of the Tour de France comes this card.

I like how Val puts the words and images upside down.  It pushes the eye to see more then there really is.…