Mail from Roland Halbritter (D)

Discovered this image on the blog of Roland Halbritter in Germany. Seems another piece of mail is on its way to me. Also from Breda another envelope is on its way to Roland. No scan though, so it will be a surprise...

Archiving a Blog

Because the Internet is a changing world I tend to archive also the digital things that I produce. The complete IUOMA blog is now archived at:

http://www.iuoma.org/iuomablogarchive.html

There you will find .PDF files of evey month that I have published. I will try to keep this archive up to date.....

Ruud

Mail-Art received by Joli - Utrecht.

Again an envelope with "little things" was received. This is how it looked like on the scanner of Joli. She also started with he wonderful domainname: www.mail-art.net. Just have a look at the growing collection.

Mail to Kat van Trollebol arrived.

The online Mail-Art is fascinating. I sent an envelope to Tilburg and documented it on my blog. The content was not published. Now my mail has arrived and the receiver made among others this digital image of the content. A beautiful collage of what I sent. Hopefully she reads and uses the things too....

Mail to Joli - Netherlands

This is my reply to the card below. An envelope, filled with lots of things, and a second contrbution to het project...p>

Mail from Joli - Utrecht - Netherlands

This is the frontside of a card I received back from Joli in Utrecht. I sent her a contribution for het project "Little Things".

The backside of the card.

Project by Roland Halbritter

This image I received by mail from Roland Halbritter. He is doing a special project where he askes you to intergrate this image in a piece of mail-art and then send it to him. For details see: http://andreas-hofer.blogspot.com/

Mail from Wilhelm Schramm - Austria

This enveloppe from Wilhelm Schramm (Bludenz, Austria) arrived today. He sent a contribution for the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and in invitation for his magazine /project.

More Incoming Mail Published

As you will see below, I have been updating this blog quite a bit. A lot of the incoming mail has been digitized and more will be published soon.

Fluxus People #3 and #5

One more card - Fluxus People #3 and"#5. I will send them out into the network in the coming weeks..... Who wants one?

Publishing Visuals

Because I have been keeping this blog for some years now I have always experienced the difficulty of publishing visuals in it. I have used the programm Hello for that in the beginning, experimented with Flickr when things went wrong, and decided I didn't want to be depending on some free server to host my images. The solution?

I am now hosting the images in a special portfolio on the IUOMA-server. That way I have full control over the images. Enough space too. 1000 Mbyte should be enough for a few years.....

Circilaire 132 - Canada

To my surprise I received a copy of this handmade magazine called Circulaire 132. Insode all kind of original works from several wel knowm mail-artists.

Parastamp - Hungary

From Artpool in Hungary I received this beautiful catalogue about 40 years of Artistamps. It is very well done, includes historical samples and texts and has now joined the TAM-Archive (after reading offcourse).

Two booklets arrived - John Mountain

Two Mail-Art Modeling Kits booklets by John Mountain arrived some time ago. He asked me to especially menion the StickerDude from New York, who made the pblishing possible for him! In the booklets he has transformed some well-know mail-artists into artworks..... Nice job indeed.

Mail from Dale Roberts - Canada

Mail from I. Bunus - France

Card from I. Bunus - backside

Card from I Bunus - Frontside

Mail from Charistos - Austria

Card from Charistos - backside

Card from Charistos - Frontside

Received card from Anon - Australia

Beware of Fish that dream of......

Card from Anon - backside

Card from Anon - Frontside

Fluxus People #6

One more card - Fluxus People #6. The series of cards on this theme grows. I will send them out into the network in the coming weeks.....

Ruud

Terry Reid - Australia

Terry Reid from Sydney, Australia, had a hard time trying to get this envelope to me. But guess what, it finally arrived here! It travelled the long distance from Australia to Tilburg, and then back. Then again from Australia to Breda..... A very valuable envelope. Now I have to think of something to send back......

New Card - Fluxus People

Here is a new acrylic painted card I produced yesterday. Theme: Fluxus People. It is part of a larger series which I will be sending out starting this week....

Mail from Geof Huth

Geof Huth (USA) sent me mail again. His typical cards I always recognize immediately. In return I sent him some painted cards.......

Mail-Art History

When people write about the history in mail-art, I always think of this image created by Guy Bleus (wellen, Belgium), that tells what happens:

Envelope for Kat van Trollebol - Tilburg

On the Mail-Art blogs I discovered that there is a relative new mail-artist in Tilburg. Kat van Trollebol. Her address is very near to where I used to live years ago before I moved to Breda. To send her some more details on what I am currently doing I prepared this envelope for you which will go out next week.

Yes, I started to paint a lot again. Also because it is summercacation. The acry paint is always fun to work with. Kat collects things with the theme BRULESQUE. So that is why those exra letters are on the enveloppe....

Old TAM Bulletin 1984

When you look at the blog Mail-Art Projects one remembers how mail-art information was spread in the 80-ies. I run the magazine TAM-Bulletin, and just found one of the covers which I digitized for you.

Cards that went out this weekend

A card that went out to Roland Halbritter in Germany for his Socks Blog:



A card that went out to Joli in Utrecht for the project "Little Things" (oops I wrote her namw wrong and turned it into Juli):





A card that went out to Nicole for her PIG project:

Mail-Art on YouTube

When you look on YouTube for mail-art you find some nice surprises as well.

(hint: click on the link:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mail-art&search=Search )

A sample video:

121 Mail Art Blogs

Just updated the link-list on my blog and counted 121 mail-art blogs (not counting my own, which I listed seperately). Seems like the mail-art worls slowly moved to the Internet and is documenting all the snail-mail in a digital way....

Besides posting your visuals, do'n forget to go throught the other blogs now and then....

Ruud

Fluxus & Blogs

As some of you know I am also involved in Fluxus. After being part of http://fluxlist.blogspot.com I am now also part of the http://fluxlisteurope.blogspot.com . If you are also involved in Fluxus, have a look and take part in the discussions. For mail-art projects I created a new blog myself at: http://mailartprojects.blogspot.com . The advantage of the blog is that you can go through the list by the labels, and therefore could select specific projects. Also there are now several active mail-artists filling the blog, so that will grow quickly. If you want to be a contributor, just send me an e-mail, and I will add you to the list.

Ruud

Back from Athens

During the month July I was in Athens (Greece), so that explains why there were no entries in the previous month. I collected my mail-art from the P.O. Box and will try to get started again.....

Ruud