Rebecca Guyver's Trashbubble sets new Postage Due Club record (Cranberry Island, Maine, USA)

[De Villo Sloan]

Mail-art by IUOMA member Rebecca Guyver (Cranberry Island, Maine, USA)

June 3, 2014 - Is it a reflection of the global economy? Will mail-art become a pastime only of the affluent due to escalating postal costs? I'm not sure, but I can report an outbreak of postage due notices when I visit the post office these days. This piece from Rebecca Guyver has set a new record. Ironically, she has left her beloved Suffolk chicken ranch and is visiting the state of Maine in the USA where she mailed me this Trashbubble. Perhaps she has forgotten how to navigate the USA postal system.

First, profuse apologies for the wretched scan. This is a 3-d, haptic Trashpo piece. I believe it is a Trashbubble (invented by Lynn Radford (Pennsylvania, USA). The contents of a plastic and cardboard container have been removed and replaced with trash assemblages, a very interesting piece actually. I am very pleased to have it at such a reasonable price but due believe that it is, as they say, a sign of the times.

[De Villo Sloan]

Theoism.

[Theo Nelson]

De Villo - Use your phone or camera to shoot 3-D. If you have neither of these, find your neighbor’s kid. They will be able to bring fine imagery to your blog post. :)
Yeah, I know, I am a snarky old fart. It is actually in my job description these days. Hey, I get paid to be old...
...and thus, bring my years of experience to everything I touch...

[De Villo Sloan]

But it's usually customary to blame Grigori Antonin for anything that goes wrong.

[De Villo Sloan]

Many thanks for the photo, Rebecca (close enough). It's been added to the M-L blog where DK & someone calling themselves "blackcat" have been registering complaints about the original scan. Wow, you have supporters. We're now calling the blurry scan a "scannerpo Fluxus collab" between you and Dark wall.

Lynn Radford has been making something similar called "Trashbubbles." I thought that's what you were attempting.

Eileen again? Eileen messes up everything.

[Rebecca Guyver]

Great blog, DVS, LOL and all that! So that's a trash bubble!  I just had all these plastic things that spoke to me - from buying erasers at the dollar store at the bottom of the ariport road in Bangor, although I think this was from some toothpicks my mother brought me from her dollar store in Florida!

Here is a photo I took.  I probably added to it? I usually take photos before I am really done. 

As far as the overdue postage, blame Eileen! She's my friendly adorable postmistress on Cranberry who has sabotaged many of my offerings, not on purpose, but everything is always cheap when she calculates it and what am I supposed to do.  Is that competitive?

[De Villo Sloan]

Carina, maybe someday you too will become a member of the Postage Due Club. Too lazy to pick up stamps? No prob. DVS will cover it on the other end. It's bad enough that via Trashpo I receive the contents of the world's wastebaskets. Too lazy to go to the dumpster? No prob. Just mail it to DVS.

So as to be absolutely clear: This is all in fun. Given Rebecca's competitive nature, she would want to be a member of the PDC.

I also wanted to let Jessie Edwards know she is far from being the only one.

I've already gotten one comment on M-L about the really bad scan of the Trashbubble. It's not intentional. I'm limited to a scanner right now. I intend to get the camera going this summer.

Thx Carina

[Carina]

Sign of the times :)