October 2011 Blog Posts (229)

GOTIJ…

Two more gorgeous vintage  ATCs from Karen with her unmistakable style, carefully crafted. And another special cardboard work, with I think a piece of Karen's asemic nightie sewn over a bedtime story.... Thanks Karen, I love all 3.

A close up of the nightie....…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Cheryl Penn (Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa)

October 10, 2011 - The envelope containing Cheryl Penn's contribution to the fifth edition of the Asemics 16 collaborative mail-art book project…

Hi there,

I have started my new A-Z of The U.K. mailart project/competition on the Positively Postal website as follows:

http://www.positivelypostal.co.uk/

There are two places I am still looking for mailart contributions for and they are Blackpool Tower and Edinburgh Castle. Could anybody here maybe produce some mailart tied around either of these two, write a short piece about them along…

O sistema e a terra, este planeta em que o ser homem, se exige a si próprio um "auto - Poder" em que se absurdam "Os princípios da coexistência. Afinal a inteligência e os instintos sobrepõem-se de forma plasmada, de tal modo que nos ...leva a pensar que o instinto e / ou uma inteligência se interconjugam E que a lógica do instinto é uma verdadeira estrutura mental de defesa da nossa existência. Por absurdo cria-se uma da lógica da continuidade e existência no mais primário dos seres e as…

A piece of mailart that is composed carefully with sketches from envelope to inside, thank you very much, something is on the way.…

A card from Svenja Wahl arrived and it says in two languages that it might be possible to make a change. Maybe once upon a time I will... That gives me hope! Thank you Svenja!

Great postcard from Jon Foster. Someone is happy about spilled milk, no homogenized mild! Thanks Jon, I like it very much!

Received two wonderwonderwonderful pieces from Nadine Wendell. This old photo with a family who looks very earnest. I love to think about what was on their minds, what future was waiting for them? 

And a postcard with a picture from Grand Wood, I knew only his famous pair of farmers, this one, Woman with plant, was new to me and I like it very much. Nadine…

Last weekend, I participated in The Life Long Burning Question Project in Toronto as part of Nuit Blanche. It was a mail project run by the Toronto School of Art. The idea was to send out as many postcards randomly to as many people as possible and they would  return  them with their Life Long Burning Question. The postcards were then hung up in a gallery space which allowed the public to read the questions and answer them. The postcards would then be sent back to the participants after Nuit…

Thank you Douglas

Not a machine for the masses, I'd say. Using this thing requires skill, sobriety, and a penchant for knowing which way is up in order to avoid getting your eyebrows singed, fingers cut, and all the good will this world can muster fried in the Drone Zone. A masterpiece if there ever was one, Monsieur Herman. Merci!…