Do you want a 25-years card?

Because the 25-year jubileum year is coming closer (25 active years in Mail-Art) I prepared some of these 25-years cards. Normally something is changes compared to the normal number 25. If you think you are entitled to one of these cards. Let me know why. Maybe you'll get one

MailArt Man has gone a-travellin' and an artistamp has been issued to commemorate his trek.

Unfortunately, he left without packing his overcoat, and word is there's a Blue Norther headed our way. Please keep an eye out for MailArt Man's overcoat.
These daze, one must ALWAYS wear protective gear.

dADa Vark
po box 542913
dallas, tx 75354-2913 usa 

Experiment: Who wants this card?

O.K. Here is an experiment. I made this card, and it is ready to be sent out. Who wants to receive it? Tell me what you will do with it when you get the card. In the comments below this entry you will find out what happened with this card and where it went.

Card made for Geof Huth (NY-USA). He was in Chicago recently since he send me a card from there. This will be a surprise for him (if he doesn't discover it here first) 

Card sent to Roy (NY-USA). Another in the 25-years series. 

Today the card that Roy Arenella sent me. Not really mail-art, since it is a personal New Years card from Roy and Martine to Litsa and me. But like always, Roy prefers the Photomail format. Lately I have noticed lots of cards by Roy in the different BLOGS. Nice to see how active Roy is. Somehow he should succeed in exhibiting all his cards somewhere. 

Artistamps from Mike Dickau - USA

Another envelope from Mike Dickau arrived today (152E 40th Street, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA) , e-mail: captbio@aol.com. Again filled with wonderful artistamps. So, instead of scanning the envelope I scanned one of the sheets so you can see what he makes. A great gift from Mike. Will have to find time to send him an answer.

The new drawing for FHC

Today a large envelope from Heidelberg arrived. In it the latest drawing made by Litsa Spathi for the Fluxus Heidelberg calendar. You can access it straight at: http://www.fluxusheidelberg.org/nov2004c.html. This is already the 12th drawing of the series. Going through the calendar is quite a challenge. The collages and drawings are mixed, and also there is a link from every drawing straight to a part of the site connected with that month.

Ruud

Mail from Lancillotto - Italy

Again mail from Lancillotto (Italy). He sent me some colour-copies, and this small paper with samples of the many rubberstamps he has carved. he also confirmed receiving of my two envelopes of which he sent digital images by e-mail.

Mail to Nico

A card I made for Nico van Hoorn, who runs the www.trashlog.org blog. Found out he lives in Nijmegen, so this card will reach him soon.

Surreal Cafe - New York

Envelope I made for the Surreal Cafe, a mail-art project started by Joel Cohen, New York, USA.

My reply envelope for the Museum of Temporary Art. The content....... Maybe you will see it on their site. 

Photo of Shozo Shimamoto. I met him & Ryosuke back in 1990 in Koeln, Germany. They were participating in the NET-run event then. His bold head was used by Shozo to do his performances.  

TRASHLOG mail

Got a nice card from Nico van Hoorn. He runs the www.trashlog.org site that is highly praised by mail-artists because of the original concept. A pit he didn't leave a snail-address. There isn't one on his site as well, so I can't sent him something in return

front side of card by trashlog (Nico) 

Mail from Jim Hayes

Jim Hayes sent a nice photo of an original RUUD furnace. He writes the photo didn't work out that well, but still I enjoyed it very much. You can reach jim at jim.jimhayes@gmail.com The photo was taken backstage at a club called the Drunken Unicorn in Atlanta on December 5th 2004. Even before I started the BLOG of TAM and RUUD findings at http://tamruud.blogspot.com

Mail from Ed Giecek - USA

Ed sent me one of his typical collage envelopes again. Lots of stickers on the outside. Even so many that the postal workers didn't find the postage stamps to cancel. Ed is making PR for his blogs now as well in the snail-mail world, and he included lots of calls for his Bob Dylan project. Yes, will pass them out and will try to send him something as well.

Ed's envelope front side 

Gik Juri sent me a nice envelope again. He started with making collages of the mail he receives and sends out these computer prints. On this one I am included and also a still of the Russian National TV, they showed a fragment of the exhibition of Gik Juri and TAM that was held in Moscow recently. I hope Juri gets a chance to send me the press-coverage soon, because then I can finish the catalogue I made of the TAM Rubber Stamp Archive. I want to include this press-coverage so it is complete.
 

Two cards by Jukka arrived today. I already saw them on his blog, but now I can see how the postal office did the cancellations. 

Museum of Temporary Art - CATALOG

Benjamin Boehm and Debby Rebsch started the Museum of Temporary Art. They sent me the very well done catalogue of a special exhibition they held at their museum with 33 obscure objects by Guenther Ruch. A very nice set indeed, of miniatures of some famous mail-art publications. A lot I recognize because I have them in the TAM Archive as well. Please visit the museum and maybe send them something as well. Go to: www.museum-of-temporary-art.com A sweet note included as well by Benjamin. Yes, will say hello to Litsa for sure and expect another contribution for your museum soon.

Ryosuke Cohen has been very active with his BRAIN CELL project. Because I sent him the poster of the TAM Rubberstamp Archive exhibition in Moscow I automatically was included on the print and the address list. This project is very loved by the mail-art network, especially because with every 2 weeks a new sheet is produced. And that since 1985, quite an achievement. I know Ryosuke does this at the school he works for. I included the address-list here. If you send something to Ryosuke you are automatically included with a next print, so it is a nice experiment for you as well. The address-list is also used by all the others to reach out for new contacts. I must have about 300 of those sheets in my archive. Including that #1 with which it all started.
 

the envelope from Ryosuke Cohen. Click on it to read his address if you want to contact him. 

Ed received the envelope that came from him, was sent to A1. A1 (Michael Leigh) sent it to me, and I returned it to Ed. The recycling of an envelope. What will Ed do with the envelope now? Have a look at his blog (link in the linklist beside this text) 

Metafilter

The link from: www.metafilter.com/mefi/37803 caused already a lot of hits. Someone there wrote an article on mail-art and it causes reactions on all these sites as will. Here below you see how the statistics are till now, and the day has still about one hour.....

The collection grows quickly

A great succes of my new blog at http://tamruud.blogspot.com/ , already more then 50 entries of TAM and RUUD findings are registered. And that in anly one day! Send me more at r.janssen@iuoma.org