Bar codes are going MAD - from Dean Marks

 

Dean went MAD, and so went the bar codes. Lucky them. He says he made this card during a flight. I'm wondering, what does he bring on board? Does he collect all the bar codes beforehand and then assembles them in flight? Or does he carry piles of... what exactly, I can't even figure out where they come from and he won't tell. They look so nicely similar and different enough to make a great patchwork, leaving only un coin de ciel bleu, a patch of blue sky. A lot of work, I am sure, for a very poetic outcome and high visual impact... Well, the flight attendants must have found it a little less poetic, I know he left a mess of little bits behind him with all this chopping up of bar codes. Luckily, someone took care of that. See this interesting story here.
Dean, I think you will never come back from MAD, but this is all benefit for us, really, so all is well. I'm so happy to be the one who got the MAD tag, thank you for yet another amazing card!

 

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Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 11, 2012 at 4:12pm

Ah, modern high tech language! We are "mail arting"...and "emailing"...and that has to be the English wording, even when speaking Greek. Though there are Greeks who would be  strict to say "ταχυδρομική τέχνη' for "mail art" and here's another mouthful: "ηλεκτρονική υπολογιστή" for computer. Still...I clearly understood Janine's French about "Photoshop", "Publisher et Powerpoint" ...in all the languages we adapt now to high tech. Soooo, we tech-it-easy and we can understand the "universal" language of friendship and art! ;-)

I love your "invented words", Janine! And now I shall ask Dea, the Blue Barcodeur , to sent more bar code snips and snaps and blue or whatever color :-) xxx

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on April 11, 2012 at 12:11am

The night owls are out tonight.  I know that e-mailez is a french verb, but I didn't know that mailarter was a french verb.  So is "nous mailartons" correct?

 

Comment by Marie Wintzer on April 10, 2012 at 11:58pm

Excellente idée!! J'adore.

Comment by Dean aka Artist in Seine on April 10, 2012 at 11:41pm

Katerina,  Wow am I happy that you got them and not me.  Of course Angie got the other bag from the return trip, so watch out, you may get some more.  What's that I hear Katerina; "OH yes yes, send me some more barcode scraps!"

Carina, now calm down girl.  These are only bar codes!  Although I must admit that the blue ones are rather sexy.  But it's not like I know how to draw or paint or do real art like you.

Comment by Marie Wintzer on April 10, 2012 at 11:32pm

Janine, c'est toi qui a publié le livre? J'adore!

Comment by Carina on April 10, 2012 at 8:17pm

Great stories, as usual, and I'm MADly in love with the blue barcodes!

Comment by Louise Kiner on April 10, 2012 at 5:10pm

Those "Kats" will eat anything. I guess I should have written a warning about that one...oh well...

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 10, 2012 at 4:37pm

How fortunate that MomKat is loved by them Kats! AACK!

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on April 10, 2012 at 4:34pm

You know all those bar codes that Dean MAD had on the plane? And on the flight when he still had scissors, (aack! terrorist on board!) he also had Phat Kat and Zombie Kitty Kawai with him. And as we learned from Louise Kiner's blog, while Dean was snapping and cutting and gluing, he made a mess on the MAD flight, but when he went to clean up all the snippings...they were GONE! One of the MADkts ate 'em and then...needed the flight barf bag. Well, I got a bag from Dean recently, and fortunately it was clean...BUT

then today, Louise was kind enough to send me the contents that Phat Kat had left:

Comment by cheryl penn on April 10, 2012 at 1:47pm

Being a frequent monkey flier - no, um, hostess, I'm in full agreement with you there - mine could NEVER make these - the airline stole their scissors too... 

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