All Blog Posts Tagged 'vintage' (154)

It's that postage stamp again, but within a vintage radio a-playing...

on this card from David Stafford, (though unsigned...we KNOW!)…

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So good to see Eduardo in the mail!

Always the envelope has "minimal" art, and then inside:

....always a pleasure…

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Happy package of goodies arrived from David! TOP Fashion!

How to cut 'em up and use them in mail art collages? 

or....just savor their "oldness" and keep them as treasures of the past.…

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I make my own envelopes from anything I can find magazines, flyers and leaflets. If I get more time I often decorate them.

This is was a few days ago and feels like more of crafter's style with eclectic and touch of distress. In saying this I haven't received a richly decorated envelope from crafters. I find that Mail artist have abstract, minimalist style yet full of…

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I don't really blog in here because have on at http://csab-mailart.blogspot.co.uk . Only get updated when something new is made or exciting stuff arrive in the post. I continue to make atcs and started to make a return on postcards.

Sometimes stuff gets lost in post to me and to receipt ant, this is beyond my control I make sure the address is legible.

Here are few postcards I've made.…

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I received this beautiful hand-made book from Stephanie Blake. She incorporated found scraps of paper, photos, stitching, and even burnt the edges. What a delight!

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Videogame is going to be the next medium to be considered an art form per se.

The “Insert Coin - Retrogaming 2011” exhibition, planned for the next December in our hometown Cosenza - southern Italy - features at the same time technological artefacts, modern, and more “traditional” works (paintings, installations and…

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As I've been playing with collage more in my mailart, I've been looking for snips of old text that correspond with the theme of a piece. Working in a library as I do, I have access to discarded books, but it's often tricky to get exactly what I'm looking for.

Recently I began fooling around with Google Books, and I'm falling in love with it as a source for old texts. I can do a keyword search and limit to "Full View" in the…

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Ain't Misbehaving is a movie from 1955. It's amazing how many American movies were aired in Japanese movie theaters at that time, if I believe the number of ads in those small Tokyo magazines from the 50's. Japan was still occupied by the United…

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Vintage DeLuxe Mayonnaise. Just because they're fishermen doesn't mean I can't add my goldfish...
Or...?

This one is for my friend Crystel. I see her only twice a year when I go back to Europe and I miss her. This summer we both bought a very similar pair of red shoes and it became a sort of an in-joke between us. When I saw this add for shoes in one of the vintage magazines I bought in Jinbocho I immediately felt like sending it to her.

The envelope is made from a very cheep print of a famous japanese woodblock print.

There are not so many price tags around these days, everything seems… Continue

The other day I came back from the "second hand books district" of Tokyo with a stack of vintage books and magazines for less than 20$. I could easily have spend my day in the shops. Of course not all the books were as cheep as those I have bought (and that are going to be teared apart for mail). Some of them are collectables that I can't afford and would never give a cut with scissors. But, oh my, what a gorgeous place it was!…









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