Here I go playing mail art publishing magnate again. Mail Art News #100 is on the horizon...if you're into such things. It could be a meaningless milestone in the grand scheme of things, but it just goes to show you how efforts accumulate into something you can look back on and say that you've come a long way.
Warning: I will be including some stream of consciousness text, probably song lyrics. I will denote with: ♫ in such cases.
♫ What goes on in your mind? ♫
In the archives, I found a postcard with "boremachine.art" written on it, so I visited and there's some cool mail art there.
I debated about snarking. ♫ Let the bad guy win every once in a while? ♫ By that I mean should I let my ability to quickly get negative win? Negativity isn't necessarily a baaaad thing. Sure it's authentic or whatever, but it's not very productive. Not very industrious. After I unconfused myself a little bit, I decided I might just be interested in learning more about the above micro-moment in mail art history, where small images were blown-up in size. That would require me reaching out, which I *might* just do. It's difficult to describe the mix of excitement and nihilism when thinking about or actually attempting to make a connection with people who seem to be like they are a big name in some mail art circle.
Also on Facebook, here's something I saw on Julie Matevish's page, which was set to friends only, so I won't be linking to it.
From Shmuel to J. Matevish
Now I want to share some collage collaboration I've been doing with J. Motsch and M. Boyle. Let's look at their envelopes first, and then some of the collages.
from Jason Motsch and Mick Boyle
from Jason Motsch and Mick Boyle
from Mick Boyle
from Mick Boyle
Collage collaborations, made from starter collages and/or collage scraps sent in the mail. I am enjoying the process. If anyone else wants to do this, send me a message. Here they are without percentages of attribution or any further comment.
I received a response to my "Get off my TV right now" campaign from P. M. Wilson. I love that he has so many rubber stamps!
from P. M. Wilson
from P. M. Wilson
from P. M. Wilson
Saw this on IUOMA. No email addresses or website URLs will be published! Take note.
email from M. Untzilla
Ok. A few outgoing pieces from me and we're done. Good meeting. Very productive. Thanks for attending, everyone.
outgoing, T. Brown
outgoing, T. Brown
outgoing, T. Brown
Last minute edit:
I am happy to see Joey Patrickt sending me something in the IUOMA Mail Art News group, so I must include here:
J. Matevish , 2015 cut to ATC size from 1995/1996 30" x 22" original I am really happy to receive the above ATC from Julie Matevish. Why? I don't know...it looks like something I might make if I sat down and received the instructions to do so from some invisible muse. The style speaks one of my languages. The card was # 9 of 64 cuts from the larger original. You can see a low resolution scan of the original below, which Julie was kind enough to print and mail to upon request. To locate the original high resolution scan would require some real searching on Julie's part, and that's too much to ask. Also below is a digital collage I made, using the print of the original as a background (with colors altered). The text is a reminder to anyone about all of the experiences, "good" and / or "bad" that they've been through, are going through now, and could possibly go through in the future. Also included is a US postage stamp of famous slave owne...
postal prank from Chris Stadler, with rubber stampings by T. Brown, using the stamps sent by A. Warner Not all mail art is delivered by the postal service, though most is. Delivery by private citizens is the rarer method. For example, the package of old New In Chess magazines from one "Magnus Carlsen" showed up in the hallway of my apartment building yesterday. Further research determined the sender to be one Christopher Stadler, an associate of Mail Art News - Media Specialist, Ariel Greenwood. And then there's the set of rubber stamped post cards from rubber stamp collector, Amy Warner, which made their way to me via Tom Warner, another associate of A. Greenwood from the Pratt Library. If it's art (pranking is an artform) and it came to the Mail Art News headquarters in an envelope, it's mail art. As a reminder, we're in the process of relocating our headquarters from Baltimore to Aberdeen, Maryland. And so, as in an attempt to shake this tabasco sauce add...
City of Cascadia central post office (1:87 scale model) by Jack Lattemann The other day, Cascadian denizen, Nonlocal Variable , suggested that I contact Jack Lattemann, also known as Cascadia Artpost , a name I had seen here and there during my relatively short mail art career of ten years, and so I thought yes that would be great. I'd like to learn more about this mysterious Cascadia Artpost. What is it all about? Jack was super generous in providing information and dozens of images of his creative output, and so I present you with an overview of Cascadia Artpost, plus a few interview questions, followed by the usual weekly mail art news that you've come to expect...nay, demand! From Jack Lattemann (JL) : Between 2008 and 2014, I posted entries on a blog, “Welcome to Cascadia Artpost” (two versions), which provide some background on the first years of Cascadia Artpost. I discontinued the posts in 2014 because they were taking too much of my time, even tho...
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