Smiles & Smirks

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Art with a measure of humour is required by Walmarth Corporation for its chain of supermarkets, located in the Queendom of Retailia and in Cascadia Artpost. Through this collaboration Cascadia Artpost and Mail Art Martha are continuing to give impulse to Trashpo, the artistic vision of Diane Keys.

‘Walmarth Corporation is an entertaining and witty parody of corporate, consumer culture. Cascadia Artpost’s painstaking realization of Mail Art Martha’s ideas through detailed, special effects style models makes Walmarth Corporation one of the crowning achievements of Trashpo in the half-decade that it has been producing a large quantity of art.’
https://minxuslynxus2.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/minxus-mail-bag-walmarth-advertising-supplement-by-cascadia-artpost-olympia-washington-usa-with-mail-art-martha-beckenham-uk/

In addition to Trashpo the Corporation has now expanded to include political satire, parody, comics, caricature and witty playfulness.
Your contribution is needed to fill the shelves.

Location: The Queendom of Retailia
Members: 41
Latest Activity: Apr 6

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Comment by Fleur Helsingor on November 26, 2020 at 5:18pm: Martha, I was glad to get your message that this venue is working for you again. I've had some problems in the past, too, but they worked themselves out after a few hours. The ning platform does seem to be a bit flaky.

Comment by Fleur Helsingor on November 24, 2020 at 7:04pm: What an ordeal, Martha! I hope that everything gets cleared up soon.

Comment by Michael Leigh on November 24, 2020 at 6:37am: Sorry to hear that Martha. Damn those pesky trojans! Hope you are all sorted soon. Hope we all are! It's going to be a long tough Winter! Still, we have our mail art to keep us warm and the new THING that never needs batteries!

Comment by Michael Leigh on November 24, 2020 at 6:33am: Post early for Crustmush!

Comment by Mail Art Martha on November 24, 2020 at 6:30am: Well it worked. I am shut out of most of IUOMA ning, apparently a spammer got to my page some weeks ago. First, all pictures diaappeared then my list of contacts too, so I cannot message anybody. I have been investigating and it is (probably, I am not sure of anything now) my browser vrus defenses. I found out that a trojan can be put in your computer which is then triggered off by a bit of code in a jpg. Amazing.
All to get to my millions it seems.
But Trump is coming round to conceed and we are going to have several vaccines soon!
So cheers to all and over and out.

Comment by Michael Leigh on November 24, 2020 at 6:29am: Your up early. Post away!

Comment by Mail Art Martha on November 24, 2020 at 6:16am: i wonder if i can post here

Comment by Mail Art Martha on October 21, 2020 at 11:42am: A witty poem by Tiny Whisk

Comment by Amanda on October 19, 2020 at 5:50pm: The Voodoo dolls are brilliant and made me really laugh when I saw this post.

Comment by Mail Art Martha on October 19, 2020 at 1:06pm: An apprisal of the Coffe Clutch sent by Rebecca Guyver. Thank you Rebecca!

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020

Cascadia Coffe clutch - Double clutch

The public service aspect to Cascadia's mail art should be highlighted. Coffee Clutch is chockablock with important information, words of wisdom from pioneers and paragons of the mail art network, funny, and full of details to keep your mind active.

During the Covid pandemic, this is even more essential than normal. After reading the first side of Cascadia's four pages of his 'double clutch' I have identified a must contribute to mailart call, felt 'in-the-know' because i could answer some of the trivia questions and been entertained by the advertisements.

By the end I have learned about another mail artist I didn't really know about, cracked a smile about forever stamps, enjoyed the conflation of kombucha and kimchi, tested my skill on a tricky crossword, and wondered about a voodoo doll.

Enjoy the edition! I certainly did!

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