bunting and TLP (trashy little pamphlet)

[stripygoose]

Katerina has sent wonderful bird bunting and here it is decorating my desk where I work make stuff. Thank you - I love it! And only yesterday I favourited your TLP Meeting Notes and today one such pamphlet arrives. Is the greek post awesome or are you psychic? 

[stripygoose]

Fantastic upcycling!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

...and hundreds of these too (when in-season?, when on sale :-) :

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

The little birdies...were in the upper corner of ad flyers for a supermarket

that are thrown at the bottom of the stairs of my apartment building.

No one picks the ads up...except me ;-)

A great source of mail art omens...also good for:

[stripygoose]

I love 'em Katerina - where did you find those little blue birds? 

[stripygoose]

I remember the punk zines dvs ;-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Thanks for the blog, Sue,

...yep, favor-a-TLP, get-a-TLP :-)

I am liking the idea of calling them TLP = Trashy Little Pamphlets!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Wow...birdies have arrived already????

Now that is faster than any EU mailing so far! 

They all must have been flappin' ....real "air mail"!

[De Villo Sloan]

Right you are, Stripygoose, the zines, pamphlets, chapbooks, etc. etc. have been intertwined with the mail art network at least since the 60s. I have seen assembling zines - like those done by Cheryl Penn - in archives from the 60s.

The zines that were so prominent in the 80s often seem to have evolved out of Punk rock fanzines. They often had a music focus but also ran collage, poetry, fiction, etc. They used mail art received to provide content.  For example, I first saw mail art by CrackerJack Kid in a fanzine.

There has always been some political messaging, but I gather it was more pronounced in the 60s and 70s.

[stripygoose]

DVS (which I think stands for De Villo Sloan) I thank you for your kind and informative response. I'm always learning something new on here. I guess there's a whole history of zines and other self/marginal publications - some are political, some arty, some both?  :-)

[De Villo Sloan]

Oh - and in a recent discussion about TLPs I saw there was some conjecture the term is taken from Frank Zappa's song "Dirty Love," which is entirely possible.