Altered Junk Mail Trashpo Scam by Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK)

June 24, 2014 - Wearing her Trashpo hat and serving as a member-in-good-standing of DKULTUK, Rebecca Guyver sent me (aka "MINKRANGER") this ingeniously altered junk mail announcing I am eligible for a substantial prize. This seems to be sponsored by DKult Suffolk and the Nayland chicken farm.

Following the financial disaster of the Who Has The Best Hair Contest and still uncertain of the outcome of my $40 million lawsuit against Empress Marie Antonette for copyright violation, character defamation and breach of contract, I am seriously considering the offer.

These pieces have a greenish tinge, no doubt reflecting the quality of the original junk mail, as if one were looking at them submerged in a brackish pond through an algae filter.

Actually, I would consider myself lucky just to receive the free soil testing kit.

The repetition works very well in this panel (above), I think. The prize material was enclosed in this envelope and passed through the mail encased in cellophane:

The reverse:

A lovely piece of free-standing (or floating) Trashpo by Rebecca Guyver was also included:

And the reverse:

Well, Miss Becca, I learned long ago that on the long dusty trail there is no free lunch. All the same, I do deeply appreciate this thoughtful work!

[Valentine Mark Herman]

Free Beer?

Here's no 26, in my "We hold these truths to be self evident" series

[De Villo Sloan]

Not even a f---g comb. Like the guy in Ginsberg's "Howl" who jumps off the Brooklyn Bridge: "not even a free beer."

What I 'm wondering, is how did you get the lettering to look so authentic? MINKRANGER

[Rebecca Guyver]

For love of money, DKULT, trashpo, plastic... I couldn't join up against the Empress. Besides, I can't really see the difference between Etsy and those vending machine things DK sanctions- stocks. Didn't you get a comb?

[De Villo Sloan]

I noticed the irony of the date 1984. Ah yes, Publishers Clearinghouse, but who is the Trashpo Ed McMahon?

To recover your dollar, you might want to join my $40 million class action lawsuit against Empress Marie to compensate Who Has The Best Hair Contest participants over the theft of prizes & to ban the sale of Trashpo on Etsy.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Well DVS, you are heartily welcome!  I actually had to pay for the original of this junk mail at the Needham Market Car Boot Sale. Not much, under a dollar, obviously, but I was taken back to my youth when I spotted it in a box of someone's personal effects - those publisher's clearinghouse things would arrive and I would ache to win, even though I was programmed to know that that wasn't going to happen. The envelope is an early example of Altered Crumpled Trash. It was actually trash, a bad printing of the thing I sent you inside, as I recall.Although DKULT Suffolk has been shamelessly silent of late, we are flying the banner in a fashion. What would we buy for the cause if we had that money?

[De Villo Sloan]

Thanks, DK. A lot of exciting things coming from DKULTUK these days. I thought you would like the use of the junk mail: an area of Trashpo not yet fully explored.

[DKeys]

nice!!  the altered Dkult buck is my fave