Very Interesting project by Claudio Romeo. Send him your portrait in an envelope. Include a portrait. He'll make a sheet of the portraits and will publ;ish this and the works in his photogallery. Details on this image taken out of his recently updated gallery. 

This is how I resent the envelope to Ross Priddle. It included two mail-interviews with Guy Bleus. It seems he will put one up at E-bay. See the blog of TAM-Publications of how to get one...... 

Bruno_Cappati (I) made these selfportraits of him wearing a "Ruud" mask.  

Received mail from DOV (Classwar Karaoke) in UK. He read I don't have his new address and sent me information he will be moving again soon. Still no address. He made a thesis on mail-art I would like to read, but I don't have the text. Will have to wait till I can contact him. Maybe he will wait untill I have moved too. 

new card - WOI 

new card - WIX 

new card - WISZ 

card from Vanessa Holt, UK. 

new card - EYE EYE 

new card - ROSL 

Mail from Johan van Geluwe and Guillermo Deisler to Simon Vinkenoog. The receiver, a wellknown poet and writer who is frequently on TV. Also this card shows where Guillermo Deisler lived originally: in Bulgaria. He moved later to East-Germany (and sadly died years ago). 

new card - XIU 

new card - PLOX 

new card - PIX 

Collage-card by Matthew Rose (Paris, France) that arrived today. 

POLLS at Yahoo! groups

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iuoma/ is the group that I moderate. Today there are 337 members in this group, so quite a lot of people come there now and then. I have placed there several POLL's , little questions that show what kind of people are active in the current mail-art network and how they think of the network, what they do, and more details.

Most polls are started by me, but also polls are done by others. I am really a fan of these polls since they give insight to what the group that calls themselves "mail-artists" thinks it is all about.

If you are interested, view the polls, Why not start one yourself?

Ruud

explaining things.... 

Going through the Archive

Going through my own archive is a time-consuming event. Seeing all that mail-art from the 80-ies and 90-ies again, and realizing that nowadays the Internet is an even larger archive. My BLOG has been online for 11 months now. Especially in the last months IU have put a lot online. On a search-engine like Google I can even see all the entries, and the number of visitors is substancial. How long will this digital archive live? Google owns the BLOG's and they aren't asking money for it. But when it gets popular the advertisings will be added. Some collegue bloggers already added the Google-adds and hope to make some money this way. For me this makes the blog less interesting. And eventually all information will be....... where?

Ruud

Aha, my card to Mick Boyle arrived. I forgot to scan it, so now I have it back in digital form. 

"DOM" is actually Dutch for "stuppid". And WOP seems to be 'not such a nice word' in American slang. Strange how we put meanings to letters. 

The cards without postage stamps actually arrived. That is fun.....! 

STAMPED letters by JOSEPH. W. HUBER

Stamped letters by Joseph W. Huber - DDR in 1986. For R.F. Cote I went through the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and found some of Joseph's stamps. I sent the e-mail to R.F. for his special blog about Joseph, which can be found at: http://josephwhuber.blogspot.com/ so look there for more!

Official Fluxus Object - card by Allan Revich 

OVO wants new contributions.... 

Card from Allan Revich - card side. 

Envelope I prepared for the answer to Anna Banana's letter. The things inside this envelope will be arranged soon and this envelope will go to the Sunshine Coast in Canada. 

Mail from Anna Banana (RR2, 3747 Sunshine Coast Hwy, Roberts Creek, B.C. Canada VON 2W2). She enclosed her newest Banana Rag, lots of new printed Artistamps (if you want yours printed, you can order them. Ask for details!), and a personal note. Mail art has always been interactice is her reaction to my note "Mail-Art got interactive". She also explains she doesn't do much online.....