October 2011 Blog Posts (228)

I think Thom is a Keeper of Words. He guards the gate to their destruction.  Most of you who know Thom know that he is a Lexical logophile.  At the pen of Thom these separate units become flowing sentences that build to a river of beauty. The World is a Town is no different. …

JE TE SALUE

PLANCHE DE SALUT

Recently there have been several great blogs about mail art related to Memories and Memory. The piece that Nancy is sending me breathes the same air of Reminiscence. It comes with a wonderful letter, relating sweet childhood memories, freewheeling days at her grandparents' farmhouse. A child's universe, a lost world, but how come ever so present in the adults…

Works on Paper Exhibition

1st Mail Art Festival in Malaysia (2006)…

Well, it's dark, but with a colorful (and Spanish) interruption: Still, the black by itself speaks. As if this weren't mysterious enough to receive--including the fact that I've had no previous contact with the obviously whimsical Mr Halbritter--the other side took much longer to understand:…

BANANAFISH PUBLICATIONS IS RELEASING THE CD/PDF EDITION FOR COMPUTERS, TABLETS, AND SMART PHONES. THE PLAN…

But wait… There’s more.  Domestic mail artists have been prolific with their artwork, too, proving that Americans produce garbage just as colorful as their overseas brethren.

From Marcia Cirillo, in Texas, a treasure map to where some fantastic Trash might be located for our next trash treasure hunt…

From Michael Orr in Cornpone land (that’s…

Mmm, Mmmmm, Mmm! We’ve been having fun with Lady Ga-Garbajo’s Group of Trashpo enthusiasts. And I have recently received some spectacular examples from abroad (..a WHAT??!!) I mean some friends from international locales:

From the Haptic Werewolf, Erni Bär, some vegetarian bratwurst et frites. I love how the card says “UHU,” which I’m sure is text phone lingo…

Beautiful done by Mr. Colori in Holland, and many color photos of the participating artists.

Here is John M. Bennett, Lancillotto Bellini, and others:

Another page: Rod summers and Judy Skolnick...…

Look carefully. Around the Taj Mahal there is a circular glue mark. sob, sob, sob.

It's gone, it's gone...the Eiffel tower that pounced around in a bubble is gone! sob, sob, sob.

Dean and I worked together on some mail art in a little Paris Cafe. and he made this card for me.

But the postal machine monster ate the Eiffel Tower!!!

Well, happily,…

It is called "SCREAM", but too many greens and pastoral scenes to make me scream. Great collage from Herr Haptic Eri, and a surprise treasured besides the collage:

SANDPAPER!!! Yay! and RED...look, Cheryl, look. Really RED sandpaper!

(and a few…