Zack's Blog (1,003)

'tis the season, i guess; another Add and Pass finds it way to my mailbox... along with a VIP pass, some smiley stickers, and a silent scream. always great to get mail, but please, no more A&P in the future; thanks. 

check out that postage stamp - 100 years of Art Deco - the cat's pajamas! and on the back -

Medusa + a mini-Banksy image: Sea Rescue is not a Crime. merci mon ami et a…

this ATC seems like a relic that Wall-E might have recovered, maybe an ID badge from some creative steampunk enterprise? Karen also sends along this lovely cutout couple (material for some future project) - …

from the happiest country on the planet 

from the Harry Smith School of Metaphysics 

from the End of Tape Research

a booklet featuring imagery from (the) Magnetic Bardo -…

deconstruct this! this choose-your-own-adventure-origami with treasures lurking in the folds brings to mind what we used to call cootie-catchers. haven't thought of them in ages, but i guess the inner child never forgets. merci!

this postcard arrived way before the fires on the mountain, but it's hard now not to see it as a before and after view... of course, i prefer these colors. thanks Rachel; see you in the mail soon

upper left is the back of the envelope, which conveyed three terrific drawings and -

- postal oxytocin…

palimpsest painting collaged onto a pair of flaming

printed on wallpaper (note the texture), this is by far the most articulate piece of Mail Art i've ever received

is this ATC a kind of roof-schach test? 

frips also sends along three Add and Pass pages -

for those who might be similarly inclined to keep me in these loops, please note: 

my…

Coco writes that four things can be true at the same time, or, maybe, all of the above?

and now i'm imagining a remake of Inside Out not by Pixar but by Muchmore Productions.

thanks for these faces, these…

took me a while to figure out who was behind Suburban Utopia Projects (special thanks to Zorica O, whose blog pointed me in the right direction). lots to explore in "The Uncivil Society"... oh and yeah i like your hat ];-)

oh, i like Bob, as he can be happy even when he's blue. i'll try.

DdM's playful spirit seeps into the envelope. this end up? no, rather, upend this! grazie amico…

wow - i hit the jackpot! (or should i say Zackpot?)

four completely different pieces, all crafted with care (design = dasein?).

hey Medwolf - Maxie's done the research and has cleared the zackoon from alleged trash crime ha ha ha.

i love how what goes around comes around. danke schön…

some very cool prints from SB - going clockwise, i'm thinking:

Dr. Strangelove / Les Parapluies de Cherbourg / Titanic / ...a short film by Harry Smith...?

gracias por todos!

Jokie's been sending actual photos (rather than postcards) for a while now.

of course they're still all stamped up on the other side ];-) 

was it M. McLuhan who said that information overload results in pattern recognition?

i think awyn is on to something here. so well expressed. merci mon ami 

such a cool painted (printed?) postcard. the camera simply couldn't capture the lovely effects of matte paper and dark rich color. so yeah, i've made it a little more blue than IRL. very soothing... thank you

a pair full-page collages featuring vintage imagery. Jim also sent along some pages from a Big Little Book (i think) and a whole herd of giraffes - 

thanks, Jim; see you in the mail…

a trio of plastic-wrapped ATCs; these will endure ];-)

MM wrapped 'em up in a page from a funny old cookbook, and sent 'em off with some companion art scraps. of course postcards are…