Initiated by: Aaron Barker
Crispin Hellion Glover
While he's never been a typical leading man, Crispin Glover has distinguished himself as one of the most intriguing personalities in the movie business. His unusual characters and avant-garde hobbies have inspired a cult-like following that has dubbed him both madman and genius.
The son of actor 'Bruce Glover' , Crispin Hellion Glover was born in New York City and raised in Southern California. He picked up his father's trade while still in elementary school--by age 13, he already had an agent scouting out parts. A lead in a stage production of _The Sound of Music_ (starring Florence Henderson) led to guest spots on the TV shows "Happy Days" (1974), "Hill Street Blues" (1981), and "Family Ties" (1982), which in turn led to roles in made-for-TV movies. The adolescent Glover felt "confined" by TV work, however, so he opted to stick to movie parts. He made his big-screen debut as a sex-starved teenager in My Tutor (1983), then followed up with a supporting role in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984).
Glover's most defining Hollywood moment happened the next year, when he appeared as George McFly ('Michael J. Fox' 's father) in the instant classic Back to the Future (1985). The whiny underdog character struck a chord with moviegoers, and for years Glover would be known primarily as "that guy from _Back to the Future_." Oddly enough, the actor delivered one of his favorite performances around the same time - playing a small-town kid obsessed with Olivia Newton-John in the indie The Orkly Kid (1985)--but the smaller film was completely overshadowed by his commercial success. Glover did, however, receive critical praise for his next indie role, a starring turn as a high-strung murder witness in _River's Edge (1987)_ . Excited by the chance to explore more adventurous projects, he turned down an offer to reprise McFly in Back to the Future Part II (1989). The producers brought the character back to life by splicing together archived footage and new scenes (using an actor in prosthetic makeup). Glover, who hadn't given permission for his scenes to be recycled, sued _Future_'s producer, Steven Spielberg, and won. The case prompted the Screen Actors Guild to devise new regulations about the use of actors' images.
In 1990, Glover teamed up with fellow eccentric David Lynch to play the maniacal Cousin Dell in Wild at Heart (1990). He filled the next decade with similarly quirky, peripheral roles, including a turn as Andy Warhol in The Doors (1991) and a cameo as a train fireman in Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man (1995). His small but memorable appearances in films like What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) often outshone the main action.
When he's not stealing scenes from Hollywood hotshots, Glover pours his considerable energy into other creative endeavors. He wrote his first book, 'Billow Rock', before age 18, and since then he's gone on to create a library of peculiar titles (several of which have been published through his family's Volcanic Eruptions press). Among his most famous volumes are 'Rat Catching' and 'Oak-Mot', both Victorian-era stories updated with macabre illustrations and cut-up text. In 1989 he released an album of spoken word readings and cover tunes (including a rendition of "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'") entitled "The Big Problem [does not equal] the Solution. The Solution = LET IT BE."
In 1995, Glover began shooting his directorial debut, _What Is It? (2000)_ , a surreal film populated entirely by actors with Down's Syndrome. He later pulled footage from the film into a touring one-man show, "The Big Slide Show," which also incorporated snippets from his books and albums. The artist in Glover claims to be inspired by "the aesthetic of discomfort," a theme which has carried over into his public behavior. During a guest stint on David Letterman's NBC show in 1987, Glover emerged wearing a wig and platform shoes, then delivered a swift kick toward Letterman's head that prompted the producers to cut to a commercial. The actor has kept a relatively low profile over the last few years, but fans may have more wacky antics to look forward to as he slips back into the public eye. Late 2000 saw him hitting the multiplex with roles in Nurse Betty (2000) and Charlie's Angels (2000), and a handful of other Glover projects loom on the not-too-distant horizon.
April 25, 2005
April 24, 2005
Cult of Ray Johnson
Initiated by: Aaron Barker
Ray Johnson
"The most famous unknown artist in New York" - this is how Grace Glueck, a New York Times reporter, characterized Ray Johnson after his collage exhibition in 1965. He was called the father of mail art, one of the first performance artists, a precursor Pop Art, and he is rarely absent from studies of fluxus. His connections extend beyond even these movements through his global postal performance, the New York Correspondence School. Despite his fame and also due to his decades long, non-stop work spiralling towards an anonymous position in the art world, even now, two years after his death the recurrent question persists, who Ray Johnson was, and what his role was in the contemporary art scene.
He was born in 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, to Finnish immigrants. A world of possibilities was opened to the gifted student when he spent three years in the liberal atmosphere of Black Mountain College, a progressive institute in North Carolina, where he studied with Joseph Albers, Robert Motherwell, Mary Callery, and Lyonel Feininger. It was Albers who influenced him the most, encouraging his development in the direction of the Bauhaus-like, elegant abstract.
But at Black Mountain he also became acquainted with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and their influence can be seen in a freer form of expression that allows for "chance", as expounded by Cage, and that goes beyond the severe forms of the Bauhaus.
In 1948 Johnson moved to New York where he painted with intricate geometry, and where he showed with the American Abstract Artists group. He chucked abstraction only in the mid-fifties, when under the influence of Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly he started to produce the hundreds of small collages that he called moticos, which were in fact a combination of irregularly shaped ink drawings, newspaper clippings, and portraits of stars. Many people see the iconography of these collages as prophetic of the great Pop Art myths, although Johnson didn't respect the conventions of advertisement art in his compositions.
He continued working with the collage, finding enough inspiration in it for the following two decades, while at the same time this genre fertilized another domain of his activity. Johnson developed a specific kind of collage technique: first he cut a coherent image into strips and then rearranged them either using the strips as constitutive pieces or layers for new collages, or by sending them to friends and acquaintances. The idea of this alternative distribution of art work quite possibly generated the most durable invention of Johnson: the New York Correspondence School (NYCS). The Correspondence School was a more or less ironic - although not completely frivolous - denomination for the correspondence of a network that comprised artists in both loose and strong contact. Its origin, according to Johnson, stretched back to the period before Black Mountain College, when he had already begun to use the post as an artistic medium in his correspondence with his friend, Arthur Secunda. But mail art, built as a parasite of the postal system, which in return influenced its instruments and its ideology, began to exist as an autonomous form of artistic expression only at the beginning of the sixties. The characteristics of the mail art genre, its favouring communication over artistic originality are the direct influences of Johnson's personality.
The basic concept of mail art is bilateral communication in the most sincere sense of the words, why the letter carrying the personal message is at the same time an art work sent as a gift. Johnson played variations on the theme of giving. Sometimes he demanded that his partner take part in the collaborative creation with the command "Add to and return to...", resulting in a shared artwork that challenges the most carefully watched criteria of classical aesthetics: originality. Sometimes he forwarded the parcels to his correspondents through an intermediary. This third participant was sometimes an onlooker, a professional voyeur in the process, committing an infraction of privacy in communication, while another time he would play an active role in the formation of the art work.
Johnson's personality defined the policy of the mail art exhibitions as well. The exhibitions were public forums for the artists involved in the correspondences, but they differed greatly from classic exhibitions. Everybody was free to announce such an event, anybody could determine the subject, but all received work had to be shown, and the documentation of the exhibition had to be sent to all participants. The most remarkable mail art exhibitions of the NYCS were those in the Whitney Museum in 1970, and at Western Illinois University in 1974.
People put various dates to the inception of the NYCS. Mike Crane dates it from 1962, according to Johnson, it already functioned in the fifties. But the name, given by Ed Plunkett (New York Correspondence School), gained recognition only at the end of the sixties, mostly due to the increasingly regular meetings organized by Johnson. In the fifteen years between 1968 and 1983, Ray organized more than fifty meetings, heterogeneous in aspects and goals. These were usually assemblies dedicated to legendary artists and media stars (like the "Paloma Picasso Fan Club Meeting", the "Shelley Duvall Fan Club Meeting", the "Marcel Duchamp Fan Club Meeting", or the "Meeting for Anna May Wong"), but the events based on conceptualist ideas were also essential (like the "Snakes Escape", the "Stilt Walk Meeting", or the one titled "Oh Dat Consept Art"), as well as the events where nothing happened besides being together (Johnson called these "Nothings", in response to the happenings of the fluxus artists).
Though Johnson wrote a NYCS obituary for the New York Times in 1973, the school continued its activities under the names of different clubs and universities. The Buddha University and the Taoist Pop Art School were the most important among its incarnations.
In addition to his mail activity, Johnson continued to make collages, but simultaneously, he was careful to run contrary to the few exhibition forums and traditional art venues still open to his "serious art". Maybe this explains why his life work was not presented in contrast to his correspondents working in the field of Pop Art and fluxus. Johnson's public was gradually restricted to his correspondences and the meetings under the aegis of the NYCS. He retired to live in the privacy of his Locust Valley house, where he spent ten to twelve hours a day sorting the letters received and assembling his own mail. Reflections - sometimes blent with offended overtones - on contemporary art became a recurrent subject of the meetings. In his mail and phone conversations of the eighties, he was occupied with travesty, fakes, and subversion. His last important exhibition was during the mid-eighties in the Nassau County Museum of Art. As he gradually departed from the official art scene, he organized more and more Nothings, and encouraged the spread of his rumoured death. It's symbolic that one of his last possible public appearances - Michael Corbett, without Johnson's knowledge, had entered their shared work entitled "Condom Man" in the "In the Spirit of Fluxus" exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum - was disallowed through censorship. "I'm often killed", he wrote in his piece for the Uppsala Mail Art Display in 1994. In December 1994 he announced the death of bunny, the figure which had almost become his travesty.
On January 13th, 1995 he executed "the greatest performance in his life", he jumped into the water from a bridge in Sag Harbor, New York.
Ray Johnson
"The most famous unknown artist in New York" - this is how Grace Glueck, a New York Times reporter, characterized Ray Johnson after his collage exhibition in 1965. He was called the father of mail art, one of the first performance artists, a precursor Pop Art, and he is rarely absent from studies of fluxus. His connections extend beyond even these movements through his global postal performance, the New York Correspondence School. Despite his fame and also due to his decades long, non-stop work spiralling towards an anonymous position in the art world, even now, two years after his death the recurrent question persists, who Ray Johnson was, and what his role was in the contemporary art scene.
He was born in 1927 in Detroit, Michigan, to Finnish immigrants. A world of possibilities was opened to the gifted student when he spent three years in the liberal atmosphere of Black Mountain College, a progressive institute in North Carolina, where he studied with Joseph Albers, Robert Motherwell, Mary Callery, and Lyonel Feininger. It was Albers who influenced him the most, encouraging his development in the direction of the Bauhaus-like, elegant abstract.
But at Black Mountain he also became acquainted with John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and their influence can be seen in a freer form of expression that allows for "chance", as expounded by Cage, and that goes beyond the severe forms of the Bauhaus.
In 1948 Johnson moved to New York where he painted with intricate geometry, and where he showed with the American Abstract Artists group. He chucked abstraction only in the mid-fifties, when under the influence of Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly he started to produce the hundreds of small collages that he called moticos, which were in fact a combination of irregularly shaped ink drawings, newspaper clippings, and portraits of stars. Many people see the iconography of these collages as prophetic of the great Pop Art myths, although Johnson didn't respect the conventions of advertisement art in his compositions.
He continued working with the collage, finding enough inspiration in it for the following two decades, while at the same time this genre fertilized another domain of his activity. Johnson developed a specific kind of collage technique: first he cut a coherent image into strips and then rearranged them either using the strips as constitutive pieces or layers for new collages, or by sending them to friends and acquaintances. The idea of this alternative distribution of art work quite possibly generated the most durable invention of Johnson: the New York Correspondence School (NYCS). The Correspondence School was a more or less ironic - although not completely frivolous - denomination for the correspondence of a network that comprised artists in both loose and strong contact. Its origin, according to Johnson, stretched back to the period before Black Mountain College, when he had already begun to use the post as an artistic medium in his correspondence with his friend, Arthur Secunda. But mail art, built as a parasite of the postal system, which in return influenced its instruments and its ideology, began to exist as an autonomous form of artistic expression only at the beginning of the sixties. The characteristics of the mail art genre, its favouring communication over artistic originality are the direct influences of Johnson's personality.
The basic concept of mail art is bilateral communication in the most sincere sense of the words, why the letter carrying the personal message is at the same time an art work sent as a gift. Johnson played variations on the theme of giving. Sometimes he demanded that his partner take part in the collaborative creation with the command "Add to and return to...", resulting in a shared artwork that challenges the most carefully watched criteria of classical aesthetics: originality. Sometimes he forwarded the parcels to his correspondents through an intermediary. This third participant was sometimes an onlooker, a professional voyeur in the process, committing an infraction of privacy in communication, while another time he would play an active role in the formation of the art work.
Johnson's personality defined the policy of the mail art exhibitions as well. The exhibitions were public forums for the artists involved in the correspondences, but they differed greatly from classic exhibitions. Everybody was free to announce such an event, anybody could determine the subject, but all received work had to be shown, and the documentation of the exhibition had to be sent to all participants. The most remarkable mail art exhibitions of the NYCS were those in the Whitney Museum in 1970, and at Western Illinois University in 1974.
People put various dates to the inception of the NYCS. Mike Crane dates it from 1962, according to Johnson, it already functioned in the fifties. But the name, given by Ed Plunkett (New York Correspondence School), gained recognition only at the end of the sixties, mostly due to the increasingly regular meetings organized by Johnson. In the fifteen years between 1968 and 1983, Ray organized more than fifty meetings, heterogeneous in aspects and goals. These were usually assemblies dedicated to legendary artists and media stars (like the "Paloma Picasso Fan Club Meeting", the "Shelley Duvall Fan Club Meeting", the "Marcel Duchamp Fan Club Meeting", or the "Meeting for Anna May Wong"), but the events based on conceptualist ideas were also essential (like the "Snakes Escape", the "Stilt Walk Meeting", or the one titled "Oh Dat Consept Art"), as well as the events where nothing happened besides being together (Johnson called these "Nothings", in response to the happenings of the fluxus artists).
Though Johnson wrote a NYCS obituary for the New York Times in 1973, the school continued its activities under the names of different clubs and universities. The Buddha University and the Taoist Pop Art School were the most important among its incarnations.
In addition to his mail activity, Johnson continued to make collages, but simultaneously, he was careful to run contrary to the few exhibition forums and traditional art venues still open to his "serious art". Maybe this explains why his life work was not presented in contrast to his correspondents working in the field of Pop Art and fluxus. Johnson's public was gradually restricted to his correspondences and the meetings under the aegis of the NYCS. He retired to live in the privacy of his Locust Valley house, where he spent ten to twelve hours a day sorting the letters received and assembling his own mail. Reflections - sometimes blent with offended overtones - on contemporary art became a recurrent subject of the meetings. In his mail and phone conversations of the eighties, he was occupied with travesty, fakes, and subversion. His last important exhibition was during the mid-eighties in the Nassau County Museum of Art. As he gradually departed from the official art scene, he organized more and more Nothings, and encouraged the spread of his rumoured death. It's symbolic that one of his last possible public appearances - Michael Corbett, without Johnson's knowledge, had entered their shared work entitled "Condom Man" in the "In the Spirit of Fluxus" exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum - was disallowed through censorship. "I'm often killed", he wrote in his piece for the Uppsala Mail Art Display in 1994. In December 1994 he announced the death of bunny, the figure which had almost become his travesty.
On January 13th, 1995 he executed "the greatest performance in his life", he jumped into the water from a bridge in Sag Harbor, New York.
April 23, 2005
John Wayne Fan Club
Initiated by: Tom Schaefer
Marion Michael Morrison — a.k.a. John Wayne — a.k.a The Duke
His father Clyde was a pharmacist with a lung condition which required him to move wife Mary and son Marion to the warmer climate of southern California where they tried ranching near the Mojave desert. Until the ranch failed he and his younger brother Robert swam in an irrigation ditch and rode a horse to school. Next the family moved to Glendale where Marion delivered medicines for his father, sold newspapers, and had an Airedale dog named "Duke" (the source of his own nickname). He did well at school both academically and in football. When he narrowly failed admission to Annapolis he went to USC on a football scholarship 1925-7. Tom Mix got him a summer job as a prop man in exchange for football tickets. On the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom, among others, he began doing bit parts, some billed as John Wayne. His first featured film was Men Without Women (1930). After more than 70 low-budget adventures, mostly routine, Ford cast him in Stagecoach (1939), the movie through which he emerged as a major star. He appeared in nearly 250 movies, many of epic proportions. From 1942-3 he was in a radio series, "The Three Sheets to the Wind", and in 1944 he helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, later becoming its President. His conservative political stance was also reflected in The Alamo (1960) which he produced, directed and starred in. His patriotic stand was enshrined in The Green Berets (1968) which he co-directed and starred in. In September 1964 he had a cancerous left lung removed; in March 1978 there was heart valve replacement surgery; and in January 1979 his stomach was removed. He received the Best Actor nomination for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and the Oscar for his role as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). A Congressional Gold Medal was struck in his honor in 1979. He is perhaps best remembered for his parts in John Ford's cavalry trilogy - Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950).
Marion Michael Morrison — a.k.a. John Wayne — a.k.a The Duke
His father Clyde was a pharmacist with a lung condition which required him to move wife Mary and son Marion to the warmer climate of southern California where they tried ranching near the Mojave desert. Until the ranch failed he and his younger brother Robert swam in an irrigation ditch and rode a horse to school. Next the family moved to Glendale where Marion delivered medicines for his father, sold newspapers, and had an Airedale dog named "Duke" (the source of his own nickname). He did well at school both academically and in football. When he narrowly failed admission to Annapolis he went to USC on a football scholarship 1925-7. Tom Mix got him a summer job as a prop man in exchange for football tickets. On the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom, among others, he began doing bit parts, some billed as John Wayne. His first featured film was Men Without Women (1930). After more than 70 low-budget adventures, mostly routine, Ford cast him in Stagecoach (1939), the movie through which he emerged as a major star. He appeared in nearly 250 movies, many of epic proportions. From 1942-3 he was in a radio series, "The Three Sheets to the Wind", and in 1944 he helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, later becoming its President. His conservative political stance was also reflected in The Alamo (1960) which he produced, directed and starred in. His patriotic stand was enshrined in The Green Berets (1968) which he co-directed and starred in. In September 1964 he had a cancerous left lung removed; in March 1978 there was heart valve replacement surgery; and in January 1979 his stomach was removed. He received the Best Actor nomination for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and the Oscar for his role as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). A Congressional Gold Medal was struck in his honor in 1979. He is perhaps best remembered for his parts in John Ford's cavalry trilogy - Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950).
April 22, 2005
(sigh) So Beautiful
Well I picked up the post office boxes this afternoon... and they are totally awsome. Each box still have the last names of the people they used to belong too. I forgot to ask the previous owner where they originally came from, but I think after I get a better look at these things i'll know wether it was a housing complex or an actual post office. I'll post a picture or two of them on here later today. Haveing people over to have a few drinks and check them out.
I was up really late last night cranking out the correspondences for the Texas show. The last day I will mail will be this coming monday. I will have a total of 16 pieces to send that are all the really super crazy works for the entire grouping of works sent. I seriously doubt that half of these will even make it out of Atlanta. But hey... the theme was to challenge the system, so I'm definitlly staying on track with that. I've got cards with metal nuts and bolts coming out of them... some with coca cola cans and lime slices attached... and a pair of flip flops... not to mention the other 10 cards. If all of mine and Barkers work actually makes it to the show, it'll be amazing.
I was up really late last night cranking out the correspondences for the Texas show. The last day I will mail will be this coming monday. I will have a total of 16 pieces to send that are all the really super crazy works for the entire grouping of works sent. I seriously doubt that half of these will even make it out of Atlanta. But hey... the theme was to challenge the system, so I'm definitlly staying on track with that. I've got cards with metal nuts and bolts coming out of them... some with coca cola cans and lime slices attached... and a pair of flip flops... not to mention the other 10 cards. If all of mine and Barkers work actually makes it to the show, it'll be amazing.
April 21, 2005
100 Post Office Boxes — Artist Statement
I know many of my correspondents are upset that I am getting these amazing post office boxes. For you... my dear friends all I have to say is...
100 Post Office Boxes are mine!!!... bhah ha ha...
But alas.... they are all of ours... today I offer a plan for these beautiful pieces. Any time any of my correspondence friends want to do a postal show... or even, lets say a Ray johnson 'Nothing' these boxes will always be available to you for whatever you need as long as the function is related to postal art.
An interesting side note that I didn't realize until I sat down and stopped thinking about everything. The previous owner of these boxes was a Mr. Johnson... I believe our 'Cult of Ray Johnson' (begun by Barker) is staring to have an effect on the things we deal with in everyday life and the work we produce. I would like us all to take a moment and remember Ray and the certain interims of him that have motivated and touched each of us.
Viva the 'New York Correspondence School'... viva 'The Shelley Duvall Fan Club'... viva 'The Blue Eyes Fan Club'... viva 'The Brue Eyes Fan Club'.... and most importantly... viva 'The Cult of Ray Johnson'...
I compel us all to take a moment to reflect on the current state of Modern Art — (pause)
I understand that not all of us follow the current trends. I heartily embrace this fact. I believe the most important movements have come to fruition in ignorance to the post... to the past. I now lay down the challenge for us to move beyond our current ideals and convictions and move toward something our children's children will idealize and act upon. I know it is possible... I have seen the great new renaissance. I have envisioned it since I was able to color with a crayon. We are sitting on the fringe my friends.
The Young British Artists only touched the far escapes of this ideal. Damien Hirst has helped to open the doors, but still as much as I admire the man and the people that work under him, he has failed on so many levels. The YBA's are now what is current... I say bull-ocks to this. There is more to explore... more to reveal.. more to disgust, disclose, disguise, declare, and divulge.
The great teacher Joseph Albers taught his students at Black Mountain — " Art is a s'vindle (swindle)". Ohh how true it is... and yet it is more than that. I think what Albers was truely teaching was the impact of modern culture on post modern arts aesthetics. A modern cataclysm of old world ideals meets the cathode ray tube. He was pushing his students. No, he was assaulting his students — trying to force them into a fight or flight response... but he was too ahead of his time. Some of his children pushed the threshold... Raushenberg - Johnson. These two geniuses pushed art to its limits, but age, old world method, and caution got the better of them. Their effort was not in vain, but the works and aesthetics they inflicted on my generation are only heard by the tired, the sick, the questioning, and the self-tutored.
The time is now... and the time is ours. The events that unfold for us over the next 20 years will either move modern art or stiffen it. I myself say fuck to it all. A grand fuck to all the lessons of the past and the present. I have read book after book to lucubrate and indoctrinate myself as have countless other for centuries. Now I want us to write our own books. I see a grand orgy of new ideas so brobdingnagian that the new renaissance will have no choice, but to be born a premature birth... left only to be nurtured an cradled until it can breath and sustain life on its own.
I see something better than a profaned golden road ahead. What I see is something untouched by man. Some have called it god, heaven or the holy ghost... I say bullshit. This is same ideal that stopped man from reaching the pinnacle we are currently at some 1000 years ago. I say what is coming is unlike anything anyone has ever written about or had the chance to taste. What is ahead is light... pure white unexpurgated light. Not god... not the devil... not the future... not our destiny... not the present... not the past... but ours.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 21, 2005
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CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Herry Monster—Lavender (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Telly Monster—Carnation Pink (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Warren Wolf—Salmon (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.21.05 Formal Letter (letter)
100 Post Office Boxes are mine!!!... bhah ha ha...
But alas.... they are all of ours... today I offer a plan for these beautiful pieces. Any time any of my correspondence friends want to do a postal show... or even, lets say a Ray johnson 'Nothing' these boxes will always be available to you for whatever you need as long as the function is related to postal art.
An interesting side note that I didn't realize until I sat down and stopped thinking about everything. The previous owner of these boxes was a Mr. Johnson... I believe our 'Cult of Ray Johnson' (begun by Barker) is staring to have an effect on the things we deal with in everyday life and the work we produce. I would like us all to take a moment and remember Ray and the certain interims of him that have motivated and touched each of us.
Viva the 'New York Correspondence School'... viva 'The Shelley Duvall Fan Club'... viva 'The Blue Eyes Fan Club'... viva 'The Brue Eyes Fan Club'.... and most importantly... viva 'The Cult of Ray Johnson'...
I compel us all to take a moment to reflect on the current state of Modern Art — (pause)
I understand that not all of us follow the current trends. I heartily embrace this fact. I believe the most important movements have come to fruition in ignorance to the post... to the past. I now lay down the challenge for us to move beyond our current ideals and convictions and move toward something our children's children will idealize and act upon. I know it is possible... I have seen the great new renaissance. I have envisioned it since I was able to color with a crayon. We are sitting on the fringe my friends.
The Young British Artists only touched the far escapes of this ideal. Damien Hirst has helped to open the doors, but still as much as I admire the man and the people that work under him, he has failed on so many levels. The YBA's are now what is current... I say bull-ocks to this. There is more to explore... more to reveal.. more to disgust, disclose, disguise, declare, and divulge.
The great teacher Joseph Albers taught his students at Black Mountain — " Art is a s'vindle (swindle)". Ohh how true it is... and yet it is more than that. I think what Albers was truely teaching was the impact of modern culture on post modern arts aesthetics. A modern cataclysm of old world ideals meets the cathode ray tube. He was pushing his students. No, he was assaulting his students — trying to force them into a fight or flight response... but he was too ahead of his time. Some of his children pushed the threshold... Raushenberg - Johnson. These two geniuses pushed art to its limits, but age, old world method, and caution got the better of them. Their effort was not in vain, but the works and aesthetics they inflicted on my generation are only heard by the tired, the sick, the questioning, and the self-tutored.
The time is now... and the time is ours. The events that unfold for us over the next 20 years will either move modern art or stiffen it. I myself say fuck to it all. A grand fuck to all the lessons of the past and the present. I have read book after book to lucubrate and indoctrinate myself as have countless other for centuries. Now I want us to write our own books. I see a grand orgy of new ideas so brobdingnagian that the new renaissance will have no choice, but to be born a premature birth... left only to be nurtured an cradled until it can breath and sustain life on its own.
I see something better than a profaned golden road ahead. What I see is something untouched by man. Some have called it god, heaven or the holy ghost... I say bullshit. This is same ideal that stopped man from reaching the pinnacle we are currently at some 1000 years ago. I say what is coming is unlike anything anyone has ever written about or had the chance to taste. What is ahead is light... pure white unexpurgated light. Not god... not the devil... not the future... not our destiny... not the present... not the past... but ours.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 21, 2005
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CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Herry Monster—Lavender (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Telly Monster—Carnation Pink (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Warren Wolf—Salmon (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.21.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 20, 2005
Post Office Boxes You Will Be Mine
Check out these fancy little number's I'm working on getting my hands on.
Thats right... real post office boxes. Too cool!! Don't hate me because I'm beautiful...
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UPDATE:
The post office boxes are mine. I will be picking them up friday at lunch time and transfering them to their new home. I'm extremly excited about the possibilities these two beauties will bring. I have all sorts of wonderful ideas for their use in our postal art gallery shows.
Here is another detail pic from the owner.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 20, 2005
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COTELIA - Sugar Bunnies 07 — White Spot (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Biff and Sully—Violet (Purple) (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Poco Loco—Mauvelous (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.20.05 Formal Letter (letter)
Thats right... real post office boxes. Too cool!! Don't hate me because I'm beautiful...
—
UPDATE:
The post office boxes are mine. I will be picking them up friday at lunch time and transfering them to their new home. I'm extremly excited about the possibilities these two beauties will bring. I have all sorts of wonderful ideas for their use in our postal art gallery shows.
Here is another detail pic from the owner.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 20, 2005
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COTELIA - Sugar Bunnies 07 — White Spot (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Biff and Sully—Violet (Purple) (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Poco Loco—Mauvelous (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.20.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 19, 2005
Pope Benedict XVI — FINALLY... A GERMAN
Keeping things brief and spelled incorrectly.... very tired — very late.
Finally cut lime slices and poly'd them to to only two coca-cola can correspondence for the Texas show. A can of Diet Coke with Lime and regular Cooke with Lime. letting them dry overnight. i will see what their status is in the morning. I know they will need several more coats as well as adequit time to cure before I leave their fate to the febal hands of the USPS. God speed my hand-crafted children.
Added buuble-wrap backings to the Power Ranger correspondence for the gallery show as well. Added some black striped paint to them and to another seres of cards for Barker, but I can not elaborate on those any further because Barker is a reader of this blog and gets pissed when I talk about my work (his work) before he recieves it.... understood.
Cut out three 3 x 5 pieces of matte medium that is about 1/8" thick. I plan to attach a paper strip backing and mail them to the shows before sturday as well. Saturday is the last day I will be mailing work to the show... anytime after that and it runs the risk of missing the accepatance dates... of course I'm sure the USPS will screw things up with out my knowing on several of the correspondences I've sent. I related to both Barker and Kanka over the phone tonight that I am running the chance that none of my work will be recieved at the show. the only record... if they arrive too... will be the formal letters to the curator containing color copies of the works. If this is the case, I still think I will be pleased with the out come.
Created another last minute set of correszpondences for the show as well tonight. Fpound a pair of paper thin flip-flops in the streets of Atlanta while walking home from a Braves game last weekend. I afixed paper strips to the bottoms of the shoes and will add more materials to them tomm. and thursday. The plan is to sent them Fri. or Sat. I have a feeling that I will have about 15 - 20 last minute works to se4nd to the show these days.
Corresponded via e-mail several times this week with A. Vinson about mail art and what i is all about. She sent me a beautinful card earlier this week and I've sent her an original in return. She and C. Vinson will be great correspondents in the future I just know it.
Schaefer out —
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 19, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 16 (FINAL) (postcard)
BARKER - Variant 06 (postcard)
COTELIA - Sugar Bunnies 06 — White Spot (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 08 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 06 (postcard)
VINSON - Variant 09 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Salesman—Cadet Blue (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Prairie Dawn—Wisteria (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Dr. Nobel Proce—Purple Mountain's Majesty (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Susan—Blue Violet (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.19.05 Formal Letter (letter)
Finally cut lime slices and poly'd them to to only two coca-cola can correspondence for the Texas show. A can of Diet Coke with Lime and regular Cooke with Lime. letting them dry overnight. i will see what their status is in the morning. I know they will need several more coats as well as adequit time to cure before I leave their fate to the febal hands of the USPS. God speed my hand-crafted children.
Added buuble-wrap backings to the Power Ranger correspondence for the gallery show as well. Added some black striped paint to them and to another seres of cards for Barker, but I can not elaborate on those any further because Barker is a reader of this blog and gets pissed when I talk about my work (his work) before he recieves it.... understood.
Cut out three 3 x 5 pieces of matte medium that is about 1/8" thick. I plan to attach a paper strip backing and mail them to the shows before sturday as well. Saturday is the last day I will be mailing work to the show... anytime after that and it runs the risk of missing the accepatance dates... of course I'm sure the USPS will screw things up with out my knowing on several of the correspondences I've sent. I related to both Barker and Kanka over the phone tonight that I am running the chance that none of my work will be recieved at the show. the only record... if they arrive too... will be the formal letters to the curator containing color copies of the works. If this is the case, I still think I will be pleased with the out come.
Created another last minute set of correszpondences for the show as well tonight. Fpound a pair of paper thin flip-flops in the streets of Atlanta while walking home from a Braves game last weekend. I afixed paper strips to the bottoms of the shoes and will add more materials to them tomm. and thursday. The plan is to sent them Fri. or Sat. I have a feeling that I will have about 15 - 20 last minute works to se4nd to the show these days.
Corresponded via e-mail several times this week with A. Vinson about mail art and what i is all about. She sent me a beautinful card earlier this week and I've sent her an original in return. She and C. Vinson will be great correspondents in the future I just know it.
Schaefer out —
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 19, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 16 (FINAL) (postcard)
BARKER - Variant 06 (postcard)
COTELIA - Sugar Bunnies 06 — White Spot (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 08 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 06 (postcard)
VINSON - Variant 09 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Salesman—Cadet Blue (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Prairie Dawn—Wisteria (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Dr. Nobel Proce—Purple Mountain's Majesty (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Susan—Blue Violet (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.19.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 18, 2005
Same Ol' Grind
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 18, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 15 (postcard)
BARKER - Variant 05 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Grover—Cornflower (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Barkley—Blue (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Bruno—Indigo (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Snuffle-Upagus—Blue Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.18.05 Formal Letter (letter)
APRIL 18, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 15 (postcard)
BARKER - Variant 05 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Grover—Cornflower (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Barkley—Blue (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Bruno—Indigo (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Snuffle-Upagus—Blue Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.18.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 17, 2005
April 16, 2005
Road Trip
Hung out at Kankas last night. we had a few drinks and talked the talk. We decided that today we were going to head out on a road trip to North Carolina to surprise our friend on her 30th birthday. She has no idea we are going to come and has probably been bitching about us and our lack of 'do-anything-ness'. So this morning I woke up early and got some work done... cleaned myself off... packed some things into the car and headed over to pick up Kanak, where I am writing this entry right now. the trip in itself isn't a long one... only 4 hours. That time will go by really quickwith alot of good music and such.
I didn't mail any correspondences today... to busy with other nonsence. So come monday i'm gonna have a pile of mailings to go out. Ohh well... time to hit the road. I won't be able to post the blog tomm. on account of my trip. But I'll still write something as usual and post it later in the week.
Viva the Road!!
I didn't mail any correspondences today... to busy with other nonsence. So come monday i'm gonna have a pile of mailings to go out. Ohh well... time to hit the road. I won't be able to post the blog tomm. on account of my trip. But I'll still write something as usual and post it later in the week.
Viva the Road!!
April 15, 2005
I Have A Bug Bite!
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 15, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 14 (postcard)
BARKER - Variant 04 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 05 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 07 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Forgetful Jones—Yellow Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Bob—Granny Smith Apple (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Gordon—Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Count—Cerulean (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.15.05 Formal Letter (letter)
APRIL 15, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 14 (postcard)
BARKER - Variant 04 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 05 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 07 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Forgetful Jones—Yellow Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Bob—Granny Smith Apple (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Gordon—Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Count—Cerulean (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.15.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 14, 2005
April 13, 2005
Damn Secret Service
This is a really interesting postal art situation... check it out:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_re_us/secret_service_exhibit_5
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 13, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 13 (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 05 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 04 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Linda—Spring Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Honkers—Sea Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.13.05 Formal Letter (letter)
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_re_us/secret_service_exhibit_5
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 13, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 13 (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 05 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 04 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Linda—Spring Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Honkers—Sea Green (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.13.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 12, 2005
I Have No Hair!!!
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 12, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 12 (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 04 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 03 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Guy Smiley—Yellow (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Betty Lou—Green Yellow (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.12.05 Formal Letter (letter)
APRIL 12, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 12 (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 04 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 03 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Guy Smiley—Yellow (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Betty Lou—Green Yellow (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.12.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 11, 2005
I Feel Good!!!
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 11, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 10 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Bert—Apricot (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Ernie—Dandelion (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.11.05 Formal Letter (letter)
APRIL 11, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 10 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Bert—Apricot (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Ernie—Dandelion (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.11.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 10, 2005
April 09, 2005
April 08, 2005
April 07, 2005
Lazy Day
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 7, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 11 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 09 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Viperous Vivacious Vixens 03 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Busby Twins—Yellow Orange (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Two-Headed Monster—Macaroni and Cheese (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.07.05 Formal Letter (letter)
APRIL 7, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 11 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 09 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Viperous Vivacious Vixens 03 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Busby Twins—Yellow Orange (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Two-Headed Monster—Macaroni and Cheese (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.07.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 06, 2005
First Drafts Complete
I finally finished the first drafts of the correspondence books. I've created a volume dedicated to the works I have mailed Barker, as well as a volume dedicated to the work Barker has mailed me. Each book is 8" x 12" and features well over 100 works each. All work is reproduced at actual size unless too big to fit the page, in which case there will be a fold out page to accompany the works dimensions.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 6, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 09 (postcard)
BARKER - Black Steno C (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 03 (postcard)
SKOREPA - Black B (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 09 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Viperous Vivacious Vixens 02 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Luis—Red Orange (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Maria—Orange (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.05.05 Formal Letter (letter)
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 6, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 09 (postcard)
BARKER - Black Steno C (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 03 (postcard)
SKOREPA - Black B (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 09 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Viperous Vivacious Vixens 02 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Luis—Red Orange (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Maria—Orange (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.05.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 05, 2005
I HATE TUESDAYS... I just want to paint!!!!
For a long while I thought I was madly in love with Ingar Bergman. But now I've realized that I'm in love with someone else... someone even madder. I am madly in love you Frances Farmer.
Rest my darling... rest. Your revenge shall be grievous.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 5, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 08 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Amazing Mumford— Red (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Mr. Hooper—Scarlet (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.05.05 Formal Letter (letter)
Rest my darling... rest. Your revenge shall be grievous.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 5, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 08 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 08 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - The Amazing Mumford— Red (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Mr. Hooper—Scarlet (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.05.05 Formal Letter (letter)
April 04, 2005
More Mondays... Sesame Street Is Out
Began work on coke can correspondences tonight.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 4, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 07 (postcard)
BARKER - Black Steno B (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 02 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 07 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 02 (postcard)
SKOREPA - Blackened Christ A (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 07 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Viperous Vivacious Vixens 01 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Cookie Monster—Violet Red (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.04.05 Formal Letter (letter)
SESAME STREET SET: COOKIE MONSTER—VIOLET RED
to: Cards From Beyond the Edge
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 4, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 07 (postcard)
BARKER - Black Steno B (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 02 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 07 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 02 (postcard)
SKOREPA - Blackened Christ A (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 07 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Viperous Vivacious Vixens 01 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Cookie Monster—Violet Red (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.04.05 Formal Letter (letter)
SESAME STREET SET: COOKIE MONSTER—VIOLET RED
to: Cards From Beyond the Edge
April 03, 2005
The Sesame Street Correspondence List
Correspondences for ' Cards From Beyond the Edge'
Sesame Street Set
01. Cookie Monster—Violet Red
02. The Amazing Mumford—Red
03. Mr. Hooper—Scarlet
04. Luis—Red Orange
05. Maria—Orange
06. The Busby Twins—Yellow Orange
07. Two-Headed Monster—Macaroni and Cheese
08. Bert—Apricot
09. Ernie—Dandelion
10. Guy Smiley—Yellow
11. Betty Lou—Green Yellow
12. Linda—Spring Green
13. The Honkers—Sea Green
14. Forgetful Jones—Yellow Green
15. Bob—Granny Smith Apple
16. Gordon—Green
17. The Count—Cerulean
18. Grover—Cornflower
19. Barkley—Blue
20. Bruno—Indigo
21. Snuffle-Upagus—Blue Green
22. Salesman—Cadet Blue
23. Prairie Dawn—Wisteria
24. Dr. Nobel Proce—Purple Mountain's Majesty
25. Susan—Blue Violet
26. Biff and Sully—Violet (Purple)
27. Poco Loco—Mauvelous
28. Herry Monster—Lavender
29. Telly Monster—Carnation Pink
30. Warren Wolf—Salmon
Sesame Street Set
01. Cookie Monster—Violet Red
02. The Amazing Mumford—Red
03. Mr. Hooper—Scarlet
04. Luis—Red Orange
05. Maria—Orange
06. The Busby Twins—Yellow Orange
07. Two-Headed Monster—Macaroni and Cheese
08. Bert—Apricot
09. Ernie—Dandelion
10. Guy Smiley—Yellow
11. Betty Lou—Green Yellow
12. Linda—Spring Green
13. The Honkers—Sea Green
14. Forgetful Jones—Yellow Green
15. Bob—Granny Smith Apple
16. Gordon—Green
17. The Count—Cerulean
18. Grover—Cornflower
19. Barkley—Blue
20. Bruno—Indigo
21. Snuffle-Upagus—Blue Green
22. Salesman—Cadet Blue
23. Prairie Dawn—Wisteria
24. Dr. Nobel Proce—Purple Mountain's Majesty
25. Susan—Blue Violet
26. Biff and Sully—Violet (Purple)
27. Poco Loco—Mauvelous
28. Herry Monster—Lavender
29. Telly Monster—Carnation Pink
30. Warren Wolf—Salmon
April 02, 2005
Experiment Returns & Deliveries
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 2, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 06 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 06 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 06 (postcard)
RETURN ADDRESS EXPERIMENT 02 A — (delivered)
RETURN ADDRESS EXPERIMENT 01 A — (unreturned)
APRIL 2, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 06 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 06 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 06 (postcard)
RETURN ADDRESS EXPERIMENT 02 A — (delivered)
RETURN ADDRESS EXPERIMENT 01 A — (unreturned)
April 01, 2005
Long Long Nights
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 1, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 05 (postcard)
BARKER - Black Steno A (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 01 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 05 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 01 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 05 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Sisters A (postcard)
KANKA - Sisters B (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.01.05 Formal Letter (letter)
APRIL 1, 2005
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BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 05 (postcard)
BARKER - Black Steno A (postcard)
COTEALIA - Sugar Bunnies 01 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 05 (postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 01 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 05 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Sisters A (postcard)
KANKA - Sisters B (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.01.05 Formal Letter (letter)
March 31, 2005
Last Component Purchased
Picked up the safety pins I need to complete the 'Sesame Street' set (30 consecutive works) for the gallery show. I'm going to attach the crayons and add the card fasceners. I do hope these all find their way to the show. I am considering getting a return address ink stamp... we'll see.
Will be ready to move onto the "Coca-Cola Classic/Coca-Cola Diet Can Correspondence with Limes". Tonight I will coat the works with their first coat of materials. Then I will paint things out white on each and finally poly actual lime slices onto the flat surface of the cards face. I can't wait to add the limes... should be really fun.
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Will post a picture of a'Sesame Street' piece later.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 31, 2005
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BARKER - James Dean Monument 04 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 04 — variant(postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 04 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 04 (postcard)
ROBERT BLAKE
to: Aaron Barker (group mailing)
Will be ready to move onto the "Coca-Cola Classic/Coca-Cola Diet Can Correspondence with Limes". Tonight I will coat the works with their first coat of materials. Then I will paint things out white on each and finally poly actual lime slices onto the flat surface of the cards face. I can't wait to add the limes... should be really fun.
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Will post a picture of a'Sesame Street' piece later.
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 31, 2005
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BARKER - James Dean Monument 04 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 04 — variant(postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 04 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 04 (postcard)
ROBERT BLAKE
to: Aaron Barker (group mailing)
March 30, 2005
Cranking Out The Work
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 30, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbean Flowers 05 (postcard)
BARKER - James Dean Monument 03 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 03 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 03 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 03 (postcard)
MARCH 30, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbean Flowers 05 (postcard)
BARKER - James Dean Monument 03 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 03 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 03 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 03 (postcard)
March 29, 2005
Lack of Sleep = Tons of Great Work
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 29, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbean Flowers 04 (postcard)
BARKER - James Dean Monument 02 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 02 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 02 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 02 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 03.29.05 Formal Letter (letter)
MARCH 29, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbean Flowers 04 (postcard)
BARKER - James Dean Monument 02 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 02 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 02 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 02 (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 03.29.05 Formal Letter (letter)
March 28, 2005
Gallery Work Mailing
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 28, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbean Flowers 03 (postcard)
BARKER - James Dean Monument 01 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 01 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 01 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 01 (postcard)
BARKER - Return Address Experiment A (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Return Address Experiment B (postcard)
BARKER - Coin Postage Experiment A (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Coin Postage Experiment B (postcard)
MARCH 28, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbean Flowers 03 (postcard)
BARKER - James Dean Monument 01 (postcard)
BARKER - Bazooka Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 01 (postcard)
KANKA - Paralyzed Lysergic Acid Diethylamide 01 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss November / Miss June 01 (postcard)
BARKER - Return Address Experiment A (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Return Address Experiment B (postcard)
BARKER - Coin Postage Experiment A (postcard)
CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - Coin Postage Experiment B (postcard)
March 27, 2005
March 26, 2005
March 25, 2005
Playboys Need Play Girls
Yesterday I hit up as many people as I could to get old issues of Playboy magazine... I need the centerfolds for postal and paintings projects. So far today less than 24 hours after asking I've been given around 40 back issues of the magazine. Thank you Jackson and Reilly... you will both be rewarded.
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Went to Kankas last night to begin work on yet another set of correspondences for the upcoming gallery show. I have to say the 2 works I began last night are absolutely amazing. I took 2 large cardboard corner braces (the kind used for shipping) and covered the front sides with 1/4" strips of Playboy centerfolds — over 100 hand-laid strips to be exact on each. Each corner brace is 35" tall and 8" in width. However each brace is folded in half on a 90° angle to form a corner 4"x4". The brilliance of the works is in the relationship between the materials and that fold - that 'centerfold'. These works are in fact called 'Centerfolds' and feature 2 centerfold girls 1/4" cut and stacked in alternating order, there are 2 centerfolds on each side. Last night I completed the 2 outer sides of both corner braces. One with Miss August/Miss August and the other with Miss January/Miss February. I plan on completing the insides this evening. Postage and address will be placed on the bottom right edge.
I am somewhat concernered about how I will get these into the postal system... but as with the theme of my works for this show the challenge, for this set, is less about the correspondence making it once it's in the USPS hands. The challenge is getting the USPS to ship them unwrapped and naked. Very exciting... I will post pictures this weekend after I weight them and figure postal rates.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 25, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbeam Flowers 02 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 03 (postcard)
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Went to Kankas last night to begin work on yet another set of correspondences for the upcoming gallery show. I have to say the 2 works I began last night are absolutely amazing. I took 2 large cardboard corner braces (the kind used for shipping) and covered the front sides with 1/4" strips of Playboy centerfolds — over 100 hand-laid strips to be exact on each. Each corner brace is 35" tall and 8" in width. However each brace is folded in half on a 90° angle to form a corner 4"x4". The brilliance of the works is in the relationship between the materials and that fold - that 'centerfold'. These works are in fact called 'Centerfolds' and feature 2 centerfold girls 1/4" cut and stacked in alternating order, there are 2 centerfolds on each side. Last night I completed the 2 outer sides of both corner braces. One with Miss August/Miss August and the other with Miss January/Miss February. I plan on completing the insides this evening. Postage and address will be placed on the bottom right edge.
I am somewhat concernered about how I will get these into the postal system... but as with the theme of my works for this show the challenge, for this set, is less about the correspondence making it once it's in the USPS hands. The challenge is getting the USPS to ship them unwrapped and naked. Very exciting... I will post pictures this weekend after I weight them and figure postal rates.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 25, 2005
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BARKER - Sunbeam Flowers 02 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 03 (postcard)
March 24, 2005
Let Her Die Already!!
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 24, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 25 (postcard)
BARKER - Sunbeam Flowers 01 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 02 (postcard)
MARCH 24, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 25 (postcard)
BARKER - Sunbeam Flowers 01 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 02 (postcard)
March 23, 2005
Mail Your Little Heart Out
Mailroom dropped off my stack of Robert Blake cards this morning... some of the address labels were starting to peel because of the humidity, so I am affixing new ones and taking them to the post office. I'm thru sending things thru my mailroom. For starters I sent the Blake cards on friday. Why did it take until today for them to bring them back (thats unacceptable... and I let them know it too). Secondly Barker has informed me that most of my correspondences to him (some 75%) have not had their stamps hand canceled which is the the entire purpose of mailing them in the first place. Stupid mail room... I'm never using you idiots again. Going have to use the lunch hour every day to hit the post office. So for everyone who has asked me where are the Blakes... well they are being sent today.
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Just recieved 2 new books that I've been waiting on for a while today. Dieter Roth: Books + Multiples which is one of three large retropective books put out by the Dieter Roth Foundation (it was the last one I needed) the other two volumes are Graphic Works and Unique Pieces. The other book I recieved today is Ray Johnson: I Am So Sad Today which features page after page of his hand typed letters (full size) and other various correspondences. This book is more about his writings than his paintings, even though it does have a healthy share of color plates in the back. Can't wait to dig into these books.
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Finished up a set of 5 new cards for Barker tonight. They are nasty, nasty, nasty. Also worked on the Zimmerman correspondences... they are going to be really cool... I think that tomm. night I'll be able to finish up a few of them and be able to send them out end of this week and the following. Zimmerman sent me a really cool set of balsa wood postcards a day ago... they are really awsome. I was just upset that she sent all 4 on the same day. I think the messaging would have been more impactful if I had to wait on it. Anyways, I was really excited when I pulled them out of my box.... they totally rock.
Talked with Barker tonight, he clarified the concept of his gallery series for me — Under the Influence. Yup I knew it was something like that. They are gonna rock.
Figured out how the 'Frosted Flake' correspondences will work. I'm going to attach with string the following components.
- Plastic Spoon
- Carton of Milk (small school size)
- Plastic Bowl
- Baggie of Frosted Flakes
I'm not sure how the hell I'm going to send this monstrosity yet, but I'll figure it out this weekend. It will be rancid as all hell... I can't wait. Ohh yeah Barker also reminded me that the theme for this gallery show is “Cards From Beyond The Edge”... as Barker said... 'Man they don't know what they are getting themselves into.'.... and how!
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 23, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 24 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 01 (postcard)
BARKER - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
KANKA - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
NEWMAN - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
WEISS - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
YORK - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
BARKER - Robert Blake (postcard)
DROZD - Robert Blake (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
KANKA - Robert Blake (postcard)
KANKOVÁ - Robert Blake (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
KUTZBACH - Robert Blake (postcard)
NEWMAN - Robert Blake (postcard)
SKOREPA - Robert Blake (postcard)
VINSON - Robert Blake (postcard)
WEISS - Robert Blake (postcard)
YORK - Robert Blake (postcard)
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Just recieved 2 new books that I've been waiting on for a while today. Dieter Roth: Books + Multiples which is one of three large retropective books put out by the Dieter Roth Foundation (it was the last one I needed) the other two volumes are Graphic Works and Unique Pieces. The other book I recieved today is Ray Johnson: I Am So Sad Today which features page after page of his hand typed letters (full size) and other various correspondences. This book is more about his writings than his paintings, even though it does have a healthy share of color plates in the back. Can't wait to dig into these books.
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Finished up a set of 5 new cards for Barker tonight. They are nasty, nasty, nasty. Also worked on the Zimmerman correspondences... they are going to be really cool... I think that tomm. night I'll be able to finish up a few of them and be able to send them out end of this week and the following. Zimmerman sent me a really cool set of balsa wood postcards a day ago... they are really awsome. I was just upset that she sent all 4 on the same day. I think the messaging would have been more impactful if I had to wait on it. Anyways, I was really excited when I pulled them out of my box.... they totally rock.
Talked with Barker tonight, he clarified the concept of his gallery series for me — Under the Influence. Yup I knew it was something like that. They are gonna rock.
Figured out how the 'Frosted Flake' correspondences will work. I'm going to attach with string the following components.
- Plastic Spoon
- Carton of Milk (small school size)
- Plastic Bowl
- Baggie of Frosted Flakes
I'm not sure how the hell I'm going to send this monstrosity yet, but I'll figure it out this weekend. It will be rancid as all hell... I can't wait. Ohh yeah Barker also reminded me that the theme for this gallery show is “Cards From Beyond The Edge”... as Barker said... 'Man they don't know what they are getting themselves into.'.... and how!
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 23, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 24 (postcard)
KANKA - Variant 01 (postcard)
BARKER - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
KANKA - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
NEWMAN - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
WEISS - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
YORK - Your New Love (stuffed envelope)
BARKER - Robert Blake (postcard)
DROZD - Robert Blake (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
KANKA - Robert Blake (postcard)
KANKOVÁ - Robert Blake (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
KUTZBACH - Robert Blake (postcard)
NEWMAN - Robert Blake (postcard)
SKOREPA - Robert Blake (postcard)
VINSON - Robert Blake (postcard)
WEISS - Robert Blake (postcard)
YORK - Robert Blake (postcard)
March 22, 2005
Killer Correspondence
Talked with Barker last night... his correspondences are having something to do with excess/indulgence or something like that. I'll have to reclairify that here after I talk with him again, don't want to mis-state him. But what he is doing is multiples of the work or creating 2 identical correspondences, which I think is really clever. One he is sending to the gallery and the other to me. I'm really excited to see what he does - the materials he is using and especially what he writes. His stuff is always so so good.
I'm not able to work on my gallery cards tonight... I just can't get in the zone. So instead I'm going to organize my future mailings and see what kind of postage and address label I need to create for them.
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Ended up creating a set of 3 'Variant' correspondences for Kanka tonight... I think he'll like them. Also started to do 2 more cards for the gallery show on the backs of tiny Frosted Flake boxes. however i'm still not sure what the hook will be with these. If i can't tie them in i'll mail them to someone else.
I'm not able to work on my gallery cards tonight... I just can't get in the zone. So instead I'm going to organize my future mailings and see what kind of postage and address label I need to create for them.
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Ended up creating a set of 3 'Variant' correspondences for Kanka tonight... I think he'll like them. Also started to do 2 more cards for the gallery show on the backs of tiny Frosted Flake boxes. however i'm still not sure what the hook will be with these. If i can't tie them in i'll mail them to someone else.
March 21, 2005
No Work - Work From Home
Felt like crap today... my eyes are killing me so i stayed home. Was up all night because I couldn't sleep, so I slept in late today - 2PM. Finished making all of the 'Sesame Street' correspondences, but only the base level of them. I went out to grab a bite to eat with Kanka around 7PM and figured out the solution to these correspondences. Since part of these cards features cut and reassembled coloring book pages I'm going to attach a crayon via a string to each card. I'm not sure if these will make it throught the postal system, but thats the fun of it all isn't it. One of four things will probably happen:
1. The correspondence will arrive unscathed
2. The crayons string will be severed and only the card will arrive
3. The entire corresspondence - crayon included - will be placed into a bag (this has happened before)
4. Nothing will arrive at all
I'm excited about these possibilities... I think the theme of my cards is starting to show itself... complication, chance & challenge. All of these correspondences are going to be trouble... I'd be extremely pleased if nothing showed up, because then that would be the work. That would rock. I'm definitly going to try and do the baged air correspondences. Initially I had a dilema as to whether place postage on the outside of the bag or on the inside card. Now the answer is evident. It has to be on the inside. This again will complicate things. Heres what could happen:
1. The correspondence will arrive untscathed with hand canceled on the outside of the bag
2. The correspondence will arrive untscathed with no hand cancelation
3. The bag will be popped, discarded and only the card will arrive hand canceled
4. The bag will be popped and placed with the card into a bag
4. Nothing will arrive at all
Now I just need to figure out what to do with the white coke sign correspondences.
1. The correspondence will arrive unscathed
2. The crayons string will be severed and only the card will arrive
3. The entire corresspondence - crayon included - will be placed into a bag (this has happened before)
4. Nothing will arrive at all
I'm excited about these possibilities... I think the theme of my cards is starting to show itself... complication, chance & challenge. All of these correspondences are going to be trouble... I'd be extremely pleased if nothing showed up, because then that would be the work. That would rock. I'm definitly going to try and do the baged air correspondences. Initially I had a dilema as to whether place postage on the outside of the bag or on the inside card. Now the answer is evident. It has to be on the inside. This again will complicate things. Heres what could happen:
1. The correspondence will arrive untscathed with hand canceled on the outside of the bag
2. The correspondence will arrive untscathed with no hand cancelation
3. The bag will be popped, discarded and only the card will arrive hand canceled
4. The bag will be popped and placed with the card into a bag
4. Nothing will arrive at all
Now I just need to figure out what to do with the white coke sign correspondences.
March 20, 2005
New Correspondence for Gallery Show
Ended up drinking at the Earl with the Vinsons till about 2AM last night. It was really good seeing them again... plan on it more often. As usual the Vinsons were chock-full of great stories. I wrote several things down, but looking back at them this morning, nothing really seems to strike me as something I want to attempt for this show. I grabbed a bunch of old Sesame Street childrens books from my archives and started shreading them and reassembling them onto 30 — 4"x7" cards. I'm going to try and get both sides totally covered and then see how I want to proceed from there.
I pulled out an old plastic coke sign Kanka had handed me a few years back from R.A. Millers yard. Kanka said here make something out of this... well I am finally. Cut the thin banner into 7 — 5"x8" cards. These things are filthy... going to put a coat of clear spraypaint onto them to seal in the dirty goodness. not sure what I'm going to do to them yet, but these will be another set of cards to send to the show. I'm also toying with the idea of sending them some postcards that are in sealed bags filled with air. The same kinda thing you see used in packaging now-a-days. Have to figure out a good system of making these though.
Not going to bug Barker today because I know he too is busily cranking out postcards as well. I'll call him this next week to see how he is doing. I don't think I'm going to be able to get cards out this coming week. I'm gonna plan to finish the bulk of the cards during the week and begin mailing them in mass monday the 28th.
I pulled out an old plastic coke sign Kanka had handed me a few years back from R.A. Millers yard. Kanka said here make something out of this... well I am finally. Cut the thin banner into 7 — 5"x8" cards. These things are filthy... going to put a coat of clear spraypaint onto them to seal in the dirty goodness. not sure what I'm going to do to them yet, but these will be another set of cards to send to the show. I'm also toying with the idea of sending them some postcards that are in sealed bags filled with air. The same kinda thing you see used in packaging now-a-days. Have to figure out a good system of making these though.
Not going to bug Barker today because I know he too is busily cranking out postcards as well. I'll call him this next week to see how he is doing. I don't think I'm going to be able to get cards out this coming week. I'm gonna plan to finish the bulk of the cards during the week and begin mailing them in mass monday the 28th.
March 19, 2005
Postcard Mania – Out With Vinsons
Spent most of the morning working on postcards for a gallery show Barker and I are entering out of Dallas. Show opens May 14... yeah road trip. Barker figured we had a window of 30 days to mail materials to the show before dealine. So that basiclly means one correspondence a day monday — saturday for 5 weeks. I started pulling out materials this morning and spread them all over my floor... but I'm at a lose for what to do.
Mr. Vinson wrote me this morning... he recieved the 'Love Foiled' mass correspondence today and was the first to reply. As a reward, as I had planned he will recieve the original painted comic. Yeah for him. I'm going to go out for drinks with them later tonight... should be really fun. I haven't seen the Vinsons in a while. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with some good ideas for this gallery show. I'm sure something will hit me later tonight.
Mr. Vinson wrote me this morning... he recieved the 'Love Foiled' mass correspondence today and was the first to reply. As a reward, as I had planned he will recieve the original painted comic. Yeah for him. I'm going to go out for drinks with them later tonight... should be really fun. I haven't seen the Vinsons in a while. Hopefully I'll be able to come up with some good ideas for this gallery show. I'm sure something will hit me later tonight.
March 18, 2005
Mail-Mail-Mail (New European Correspondences)
Very Excited... today I send mail off to my new european correspondences, both live in Prague, Czech Republic. Postage for Europe is $1 for postcards. I'm interested to see, how they react and see what I will get in return. Both contacts were given to me by Kanka... he assures me that i will defiantly get something back from Drozds, he's done correspondence and mail art before.
Hung out at Kankas loft last night and was able to pump out about 40 postcards. Finished a brilliant set for my main correspondent and postal lover Barker. Then got some postcards started for my new european correspondences... I'm really excited how these are going to turn out. Should have them completed by the weekend.
I will post a revised correspondence list later today.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 18, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 23 (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 10 (drawing)
BARKER - Love Foiled (postcard)
BEASLEY - Love Foiled (postcard)
BEDARD - Love Foiled (postcard)
BRAINERD-STOUT - Love Foiled (postcard)
BUTTREY - Love Foiled (postcard)
COTELIA - Love Foiled (postcard)
DROZD - Love Foiled (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
DURAN - Love Foiled (postcard)
GALASSO - Love Foiled (postcard)
HARL - Love Foiled (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Love Foiled (postcard)
KANKA - Love Foiled (postcard)
KANKOVÁ - Love Foiled (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
KIDWELL - Love Foiled (postcard)
KUTZBACH - Love Foiled (postcard)
LINTON - Love Foiled (postcard)
MEJIA - Love Foiled (postcard)
NEWMAN - Love Foiled (postcard)
OLIVE - Love Foiled (postcard)
PEARSON - Love Foiled (postcard)
REYNOLDS - Love Foiled (postcard)
SCHAEFER - Love Foiled (postcard)
SCHRIER - Love Foiled (postcard)
SHERRILL - Love Foiled (postcard)
SKOREPA - Love Foiled (postcard)
SMITH - Love Foiled (postcard)
STANFORD - Love Foiled (postcard)
STATTS - Love Foiled (postcard)
STEEGER - Love Foiled (postcard)
STOUT - Love Foiled (postcard)
SYLVESTER - Love Foiled (postcard)
TAYLOR - Love Foiled (postcard)
VINSON - Love Foiled (postcard)
WEISS - Love Foiled (postcard)
WINDOM - Love Foiled (postcard)
YORK - Love Foiled (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Love Foiled (postcard)
Hung out at Kankas loft last night and was able to pump out about 40 postcards. Finished a brilliant set for my main correspondent and postal lover Barker. Then got some postcards started for my new european correspondences... I'm really excited how these are going to turn out. Should have them completed by the weekend.
I will post a revised correspondence list later today.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 18, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 23 (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 10 (drawing)
BARKER - Love Foiled (postcard)
BEASLEY - Love Foiled (postcard)
BEDARD - Love Foiled (postcard)
BRAINERD-STOUT - Love Foiled (postcard)
BUTTREY - Love Foiled (postcard)
COTELIA - Love Foiled (postcard)
DROZD - Love Foiled (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
DURAN - Love Foiled (postcard)
GALASSO - Love Foiled (postcard)
HARL - Love Foiled (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Love Foiled (postcard)
KANKA - Love Foiled (postcard)
KANKOVÁ - Love Foiled (postcard) INTERNATIONAL
KIDWELL - Love Foiled (postcard)
KUTZBACH - Love Foiled (postcard)
LINTON - Love Foiled (postcard)
MEJIA - Love Foiled (postcard)
NEWMAN - Love Foiled (postcard)
OLIVE - Love Foiled (postcard)
PEARSON - Love Foiled (postcard)
REYNOLDS - Love Foiled (postcard)
SCHAEFER - Love Foiled (postcard)
SCHRIER - Love Foiled (postcard)
SHERRILL - Love Foiled (postcard)
SKOREPA - Love Foiled (postcard)
SMITH - Love Foiled (postcard)
STANFORD - Love Foiled (postcard)
STATTS - Love Foiled (postcard)
STEEGER - Love Foiled (postcard)
STOUT - Love Foiled (postcard)
SYLVESTER - Love Foiled (postcard)
TAYLOR - Love Foiled (postcard)
VINSON - Love Foiled (postcard)
WEISS - Love Foiled (postcard)
WINDOM - Love Foiled (postcard)
YORK - Love Foiled (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Love Foiled (postcard)
March 17, 2005
Green Mean Day... Where's My Guiness and Scotch
Started reading Hermann Hesse's 'Steppenwolf' last night around midnight and found myself at page 184 a few hours later had to finally put it down so i could get some semblance of sleep. I think I'll have it finished in the next day... what a great book. Kanka gave it to me for my birthday. After I finish it I'm going to start reading the Marc Eliot's new bio book on my hero Cary Grant... I'm really excited about this one. I've been struggling to do a few sets of work on grant but just can't find the right footing to start it. Hopefully this will help. Also picked up along with my new Cary grant book, Patrick McGilligan's 'Alfred Hitchcock : A Life in Darkness and Light'.... should also be a good read (Hitch is the greatest director of all time.. we should clone him).
Also just finished reading John Gribbin's 'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality' and am going to move on to another work of his called 'Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries'. I really like Gribbin's books, he has a way of dealing with extremely complex ideas in a matter-of-fact kind'a way. There is a hell of a lot of math involved with these books... so I'm having to teach myself algebra, geometry, calculus, and trigonometry (should have paid more attention in high school). This is all working out extremely well for me though. I have been trapped working on the '100 Small Works' series 'Hot, Young, and Eager on 25¢ a Day' for well over a year now. Concepts from quantum theory as well as several sets of number theories I've been working with, are all being utilized in these works are finally starting to make sense and a chaotic pattern is finally beginning to take shape. Just as I had hoped for. It'll be another year before I finish the works due to their intense detail... plus i have to make a trip to Vegas with them to put on the final touches.
Plan on going over to Kanka's tonight to have a Patties Day drink... no bars far me. To many wacko Jacko's around... plus days like these are as my father always says 'amateur night'... I'd have to agree.
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Just created a small set of postcards to mail to a select few... Robert Blake victory correspondences. I'm really happy with them... hope all who recieve one enjoy. I'll be mailing them tomm.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 17, 2005
BARKER - Omitted Jughead 22 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 05 (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 09 (drawing)
Also just finished reading John Gribbin's 'In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics And Reality' and am going to move on to another work of his called 'Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality: Solving the Quantum Mysteries'. I really like Gribbin's books, he has a way of dealing with extremely complex ideas in a matter-of-fact kind'a way. There is a hell of a lot of math involved with these books... so I'm having to teach myself algebra, geometry, calculus, and trigonometry (should have paid more attention in high school). This is all working out extremely well for me though. I have been trapped working on the '100 Small Works' series 'Hot, Young, and Eager on 25¢ a Day' for well over a year now. Concepts from quantum theory as well as several sets of number theories I've been working with, are all being utilized in these works are finally starting to make sense and a chaotic pattern is finally beginning to take shape. Just as I had hoped for. It'll be another year before I finish the works due to their intense detail... plus i have to make a trip to Vegas with them to put on the final touches.
Plan on going over to Kanka's tonight to have a Patties Day drink... no bars far me. To many wacko Jacko's around... plus days like these are as my father always says 'amateur night'... I'd have to agree.
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Just created a small set of postcards to mail to a select few... Robert Blake victory correspondences. I'm really happy with them... hope all who recieve one enjoy. I'll be mailing them tomm.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 17, 2005
BARKER - Omitted Jughead 22 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 05 (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 09 (drawing)
March 16, 2005
Shi'etee Wednesday
No postcards from Barker today, but I did recieve a new postcard from Kanka... good stuff — white spider on blue background. I was totally caught off gaurd when i p[ulled it out of the mail box. Kanka came over around 7pm to watch the Ray Johnson documentary (that he didn't get to see yet) and see the new South Park.... god damn hippies. We kept laffing our asses of during the Johnson documentary every time Norman Solomon was being interviewed. That man has the strangest interviewing style and the best dead pan look ever... very creepy. After Kanka left I worked on a new set of correspondences for Barker. A little something old/something new kinda deal. I have been holding off on these ones because I wasn't sure how to approach them, but last night I decided to dive head first right into them.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 16, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 21 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 04 (postcard)
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 16, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 21 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 04 (postcard)
March 15, 2005
Robert Blake Look What You've Done
Still can’t get a damn thing to post on this site outside of my headlines which makes it look like I haven’t written a damn thing. I think tomorrow they are gonna release the Blake verdict... I got hint of it off of some web blog out there. Man if they convict him that will be fucked up — especially considering how much of a fucked up bitch his wife was. She was a total scumbag. I support you Robert.
Forgot again today to bring my mailings with me... another late night of reading. Lots of reading and research.
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Worked on some of Barkers postcards earlier this evening and made some headway earlier today on the Kanková cards. Since I was so facinated with Jackson yesterday i decided to send her a nice set of Jacko cards. They are gonna be really cool... but I'm sure she'll be like what the hell are these all about. Gonna get back and do a few more cards for Barker and then hit the books again.
Forgot again today to bring my mailings with me... another late night of reading. Lots of reading and research.
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Worked on some of Barkers postcards earlier this evening and made some headway earlier today on the Kanková cards. Since I was so facinated with Jackson yesterday i decided to send her a nice set of Jacko cards. They are gonna be really cool... but I'm sure she'll be like what the hell are these all about. Gonna get back and do a few more cards for Barker and then hit the books again.
March 14, 2005
Michael Jackson Look What You've Done
Looks like Jackson is going to get off... again. Opps did I say get off... ha.
Neglected to bring mailings with me this morning... had a late start this morning and a later night. Stayed up till 4 finishing up a book on physics and diving into several articles in the latest Modern Painters. Hirst is on the cover... I'd love to take a trip up to NYC and see his new paintings at the Gagosian. I was really surprised to see he went to painting until i read an interview where he explained his theory of paining.
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Interviewer: But why, in 2005, go back to oil paint? What makes this old technology worth using now?
Hirst: I decided recently that, in a way, all painting is sculpture. I've just bought a John Currin, and looking at it, I decided that layer of paint on the surface is just the same as an object in the room. You know - the deliciousness of it, the thing that makes you love the painting, is a physical thing, the building up of layers. You want to eat it...
Interviewer: The thickness of the paint also makes it optically different from a photographic print. The light passes through it and comes back.
Hirst: It's odd, especially oil paint. Crazy stuff. When we were painting the blood on those blood images I wanted the paint to pour a bit: when there's a connection between the material and the object you're representing, it's believable. Whereas if it's just like a photograph, it seems not to work.
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No wonder so many people hate him... he's a genius. People are always saying he's no better than Jeff Koons. Just another salesman and sellout. Fuck that noise. Outside of never meeting the man, I've read almost every interview ever published on the guy and own several of his gallery catalogues and artists books. The man knows what he's talking about and beyond that, he knows what he wants and how to do it. How many modern day artists can say that. Beside Koons is a hack. SNORE
Neglected to bring mailings with me this morning... had a late start this morning and a later night. Stayed up till 4 finishing up a book on physics and diving into several articles in the latest Modern Painters. Hirst is on the cover... I'd love to take a trip up to NYC and see his new paintings at the Gagosian. I was really surprised to see he went to painting until i read an interview where he explained his theory of paining.
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Interviewer: But why, in 2005, go back to oil paint? What makes this old technology worth using now?
Hirst: I decided recently that, in a way, all painting is sculpture. I've just bought a John Currin, and looking at it, I decided that layer of paint on the surface is just the same as an object in the room. You know - the deliciousness of it, the thing that makes you love the painting, is a physical thing, the building up of layers. You want to eat it...
Interviewer: The thickness of the paint also makes it optically different from a photographic print. The light passes through it and comes back.
Hirst: It's odd, especially oil paint. Crazy stuff. When we were painting the blood on those blood images I wanted the paint to pour a bit: when there's a connection between the material and the object you're representing, it's believable. Whereas if it's just like a photograph, it seems not to work.
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No wonder so many people hate him... he's a genius. People are always saying he's no better than Jeff Koons. Just another salesman and sellout. Fuck that noise. Outside of never meeting the man, I've read almost every interview ever published on the guy and own several of his gallery catalogues and artists books. The man knows what he's talking about and beyond that, he knows what he wants and how to do it. How many modern day artists can say that. Beside Koons is a hack. SNORE
March 13, 2005
911
The website I publish this blog thru is really screwed up today. It doesn't want to publish my posts... so like before I'm haveing to type these damn things somewhere else and wait till this site gets fixed to post them. GRRRR
Hung out at Kankas new place again today and utilized his huge front porch to go crazy with the Super 77. Built out something like 30 more correspondene for Barker. Starting to mix things up now... I suspect he's tired of getting the same thing everyday even though there is an interesting plot unfolding with the 'Omitted jughead' set. However I'll be pulling the plug on thos very soon. 25 will be the last 'Omitted' for a good while... have a stack of materials to send him about one foot tall and several other interesting tid-bits on the way. Barker is really close to getting to 100 correspondence sent to me... he's in the 80's right now. I think he'll hit the 100 spot before the end of the month. We need to figure out a smart way of showing stuff at HOW Conference... plus start deveoping leads for the show we'll do.
Kanka provided me with 2 addresses to correspond with from the Czech Republic _ his sister Kanková and a friend of his Drozds. I'm going to have to come up with some clever things to mail these folks. Postcard postage overseas is $1 — so I better make them good.
Hung out at Kankas new place again today and utilized his huge front porch to go crazy with the Super 77. Built out something like 30 more correspondene for Barker. Starting to mix things up now... I suspect he's tired of getting the same thing everyday even though there is an interesting plot unfolding with the 'Omitted jughead' set. However I'll be pulling the plug on thos very soon. 25 will be the last 'Omitted' for a good while... have a stack of materials to send him about one foot tall and several other interesting tid-bits on the way. Barker is really close to getting to 100 correspondence sent to me... he's in the 80's right now. I think he'll hit the 100 spot before the end of the month. We need to figure out a smart way of showing stuff at HOW Conference... plus start deveoping leads for the show we'll do.
Kanka provided me with 2 addresses to correspond with from the Czech Republic _ his sister Kanková and a friend of his Drozds. I'm going to have to come up with some clever things to mail these folks. Postcard postage overseas is $1 — so I better make them good.
March 12, 2005
What Ae You Doin'... I Don't Steal Pocketbooks
Nothing to interesting to report today. I slept in really really late 4:00pm and then piddled around a cleaned house and reordered my studio space. Worked on some more correspondences for differnt people. Almost wrapped up with a small set of correspondences for Newman which i think he'll really enjoy. Also put in some work for some new shit for Kanka.
March 11, 2005
March 10, 2005
March 09, 2005
Tear Off the Top
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 09, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 20 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 01 (postcard)
MARCH 09, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 20 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 01 (postcard)
March 08, 2005
Building Tommorrow Today and Other Nonsense
Hung out at Kanka's last night and glued together about 50 new postcards for Barker. Kanka made fun of me... he said something like 'You disgust me... you make like 50 things in no time.. you are crazy production line. Your own factory.' Something like that. He had a irritated look on his face... so we had another drink.
Got a nice raise in salary at work today..
Boo-ya-casha — HARD WORK + PATIENCE = MONEY.
Have Barkers new postcards all layed out on the floor... gonna start diggin into them tonight. Lots of pretty colors I'm thinking... err maybe just Liquitex Acrylic: Brilliant Blue. Also printed the final component for the mass Valentines correspoindences this afternoon. I spent a few minutes reformating them. THEY WILL FINALLY GO OUT THIS WEEK... I think however I will get them postmarked on the Monday the 14th... just for laffs. February is my month sucka'.
Time to get to work... more to come. — 6:45PM
Found a brilliant transition from red to blue via the editors office and a sonnet to a tiger lily! Really I did... HA! I love chaos... it always works if you look for it. Barkers 'Omitted Jugheads' are now 25 strong. Yippie for omittion for omittions sake. — 12:34AM
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 08, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 19 (postcard)
Got a nice raise in salary at work today..
Boo-ya-casha — HARD WORK + PATIENCE = MONEY.
Have Barkers new postcards all layed out on the floor... gonna start diggin into them tonight. Lots of pretty colors I'm thinking... err maybe just Liquitex Acrylic: Brilliant Blue. Also printed the final component for the mass Valentines correspoindences this afternoon. I spent a few minutes reformating them. THEY WILL FINALLY GO OUT THIS WEEK... I think however I will get them postmarked on the Monday the 14th... just for laffs. February is my month sucka'.
Time to get to work... more to come. — 6:45PM
Found a brilliant transition from red to blue via the editors office and a sonnet to a tiger lily! Really I did... HA! I love chaos... it always works if you look for it. Barkers 'Omitted Jugheads' are now 25 strong. Yippie for omittion for omittions sake. — 12:34AM
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 08, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 19 (postcard)
March 07, 2005
Flat Tires and Suits Don't Mix Well
03.07.05:23.22
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 07, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 18 (postcard)
March 06, 2005
Sundays and Sundays
Painted more Barker correspondences today. More 'Omitted Jugheads' but now with a fun twist. A little bit of warmth to them. I have a theory that if - what is produced by my art is a reflection of my life... then what I place into the art should equaly influence the life it's supposed to imitate. Right...? Hmmmm...? I think it's just a project to see if by putting the idea of women and sex into my art, will they suddenly appear... if not to fullfill the works power then to facilitate the works continued theory and practice... a little theory of all things and pussy perhaps. — and hmmm....
03.06.05:23.12
03.06.05:23.12
March 05, 2005
Dreamy
dreamy
adj 1: dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" [syn: moony, woolgathering] 2: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: lackadaisical, languid, languorous]
adj 1: dreamy in mood or nature; "a woolgathering moment" [syn: moony, woolgathering] 2: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: lackadaisical, languid, languorous]
March 04, 2005
March 03, 2005
Big Thursday
KANON-BARKER-SCHAEFER (EXQUISITE CORPSE)
MISS MARCH / MISS NOVEMBER 02 — ARTISTS PROOF
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH, 3 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 17 (type)
BARKER - Kanon-Barker-Schaefer (exquisite corpse)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 02 — Artists Proof (envelope)
March 02, 2005
Barkers Exquisite Corpse
FACE EXPERIMENT 02
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Found 'Coca-Cola Classic with Lime' today..... it's new (we in Atlanta get all of Coke's little experiments before anyone else). Drinkin' this 'lime devil water' to death. Got an exquisite corpse from Barker via Kanon today. Going to get started on it and send it out in the morning.
CORPSE SIDE A — KANON | KANON | BARKER
CORPSE SIDE B — SCHAEFER | SCHAEFER | BARKER
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 2, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 16 (postcard)
March 01, 2005
Month 3
FACE EXPERIMENT 01
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 1, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 15 (postcard)
February 28, 2005
February 27, 2005
Flagstaff, Arizona IV
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 27, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 14 (postcard)
BARKER - Other Peoples Words: Silver Indians 02 (postcard)
BARKER - Fred Flintstone A (postcard)
BARKER - Fred Flintstone B (postcard)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 16 (postcard)
NEWMAN - Elvis Sightings (wood postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid A (postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid B (postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid C (postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid D (postcard)
BARKER - Things From Town of Flagstaff-AZ 02 (stuffed envelope)
NEWMAN - Things From Town of Flagstaff-AZ 01 (stuffed envelope)
FRED FLINTSTON A & B
ELVIS SIGHTING
FEBRUARY 27, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 14 (postcard)
BARKER - Other Peoples Words: Silver Indians 02 (postcard)
BARKER - Fred Flintstone A (postcard)
BARKER - Fred Flintstone B (postcard)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 16 (postcard)
NEWMAN - Elvis Sightings (wood postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid A (postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid B (postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid C (postcard)
NEWMAN - Twinky the Kid D (postcard)
BARKER - Things From Town of Flagstaff-AZ 02 (stuffed envelope)
NEWMAN - Things From Town of Flagstaff-AZ 01 (stuffed envelope)
FRED FLINTSTON A & B
ELVIS SIGHTING
February 26, 2005
Flagstaff, Arizona III
Woke up early again, grabbed some breakfast in the hotel lobby and headed to our 2nd photo shoot (ice rink again). Afterwards we decided we walk around the downtown area again and find a place to eat. Found a really cool little shop that sold all sorts of good stuff. Alternative/junkmans Daughter type place. Purchaced several more postcards and some colored b/w photographs 90¢ each. Also bought a ton of little button with all sorts of randon things on them (heart diagram, dance steps diagram, pigtailed little girl, Niagra Falls map, Micheal J. Fox, DEVIL in red, and a few more for friends). The real gem from this store was a wonderful book about sending mail to dead people. Yeah really cool... of course i feel the premise is total bullshit, but granted it still a clever idea and a beautiful book ($20). The ‘Flagstaff punk rock girl’ at the stores counter turned us onto a great local brewery for lunch. Really good beer and snacks. Purchaced a jug of their Dobblenag beer (double strong) to drink at the hotel.
Eat some pizza in the hotel lobby. Made a ton of postcards tonight. I'm going to send them all out in the morning... even though it's sunday. I displayed some of the post cards near the hotel fire place so as to help them dry and cause people walking by to look at them. One couple came by and sat right next to them so I asked if they'd like to add something to the cards I was doing for Newman. The girl wrote a line of text and the guy draw a toe with six toes. I told both to doo the exact same thing on each card... the toes look really funny... he totally drew it the same way each time.
Kanka and I later wandered through some party in a ball room where there were sopisticated people gambeling. I started calling out for Chrissy and even asked a few people if they had seen Chrissy... but no one replied... ohh... and I was wearing my coboy hat too. Stole a blue marker from a table and came upstairs to my room.
Eat some pizza in the hotel lobby. Made a ton of postcards tonight. I'm going to send them all out in the morning... even though it's sunday. I displayed some of the post cards near the hotel fire place so as to help them dry and cause people walking by to look at them. One couple came by and sat right next to them so I asked if they'd like to add something to the cards I was doing for Newman. The girl wrote a line of text and the guy draw a toe with six toes. I told both to doo the exact same thing on each card... the toes look really funny... he totally drew it the same way each time.
Kanka and I later wandered through some party in a ball room where there were sopisticated people gambeling. I started calling out for Chrissy and even asked a few people if they had seen Chrissy... but no one replied... ohh... and I was wearing my coboy hat too. Stole a blue marker from a table and came upstairs to my room.
February 25, 2005
Flagstaff, Arizona II
Got up early and went to our first of 2 photoshoots which ended at noon. My feet got really cold... we were on a ice skating rink for about 3 hours. Left the shoot and walked the downtown Flagstaff area untill we found a bar where we thought we could get a Guniess and a glass of Scotch. Went into an interesting Irish Pub (as usuall when traveling) and ordered a pint of Guiness. Kanka asked the waitress what kinds of single malts they had, to which she replied ok a single malt. We kind of looked at her funnny because she began to write single malt on the ticket... Kanka said “No... single malt scotch.” The waitress said she would find out. At the bar she asked the mexican bartender what single malts they had to which he picked up a bottle of J&B and said we have this. Kanka and I looked at each other, smiled, and then Kanka walked up to the bar and pointed to the large selection of single malt scotches on the top row above the J&B and instructed the mexican that J&B was not a single malt. Finally got drinks and food. I proceeded to make a piece of art on 2 one dollar bills to hang on the bars walls which were litered with thousands of bills crudly written on by local frat jerks and the everyday traveler. The bills were strategicly color black and silver and each had an american flag 37¢ stamp placed over washingtons face. I then taped the 2 bills together bottom to bottom. Kanak colored a dollar bill all black but left Washingtons head floatin in space. After the meal I got a stapel gun and placed them on the wall next to where we sat.
Dollar Bills:
L 91154423 S
I 03958929 A
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
We headed abck to the hotel and them made our way 1 hour north in search of the Grand Canyon (a.k.a. Big Hole). We left Flagstaffs 6,500 feet elevation and reached 8,046 feet at on point during the trip. Again another huge climite shift as we went from 45°F with a light snow flurry to 30°F and snow everywhere and then to 58°F with clear blue skies. We stopped off on the way there for several photo ops (Fred Flintstone). Before we got to the canyon we decided to grab a beer to bring to drink while we sat at the canyon edge. Heiniken $3.99 a bottle!!! Pricey shit... damn tourist trap gas stations. Kanka told the guy that they were really to pricey and the guy said “Hey I’m giving you a free bag”, to which Kanka replied “Ohh wow will you autograph that too then.” Really confused the guy. Made it to the Big Hole ($10.00 seven day pass) and took several pictures of us on the edge — MISSION #1. We had our pricey beers while we drove from viewing point to viewing point — MISSION #2. We pissed over the edge into the canyon —MISSION #3. The canyon rocked... ha ha. Glad we got out to it. Stopped at a little Indian trading post, Kanka wanted to purchace an authentic peace pipe. i purchaced several postcards (paper, wood, copper plate) and also bought a sweet leather cowboy hat. Finally found one to fit my big skull. We drove back and dealt with the same changing climates again. On the way up I commented that some of the snow drifts on the side of the rode where so deep you’d fall waist deep in them. Kanka stopped the car when we got back to the 8,046 feet sign to take a picture 27°F this round. He took a few steps toward the sign and feel knee deep into the drift, with each footstep shouting FUCK!! FUCK!! He got his photograph but he also got a nice hot foot.
Made it back to the hotel and went down tothe lobby bar for a drink. Decided we didn’t want to go out so we had sushi at the bar and more drinks (tons of wasabi). I worked on some different postcards for Barker. I created a set made from overhead shots of Flagstaff and affixed a cut out of Fred Flintstone. I got tired of using my hair gel to glue things together so I dumped wax from the candles on the tables to fix them to the cards.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 25, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 13(postcard)
BARKER - Other Peoples Words: Silver Indians 01 (postcard)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 15 (postcard)
Dollar Bills:
L 91154423 S
I 03958929 A
FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA
We headed abck to the hotel and them made our way 1 hour north in search of the Grand Canyon (a.k.a. Big Hole). We left Flagstaffs 6,500 feet elevation and reached 8,046 feet at on point during the trip. Again another huge climite shift as we went from 45°F with a light snow flurry to 30°F and snow everywhere and then to 58°F with clear blue skies. We stopped off on the way there for several photo ops (Fred Flintstone). Before we got to the canyon we decided to grab a beer to bring to drink while we sat at the canyon edge. Heiniken $3.99 a bottle!!! Pricey shit... damn tourist trap gas stations. Kanka told the guy that they were really to pricey and the guy said “Hey I’m giving you a free bag”, to which Kanka replied “Ohh wow will you autograph that too then.” Really confused the guy. Made it to the Big Hole ($10.00 seven day pass) and took several pictures of us on the edge — MISSION #1. We had our pricey beers while we drove from viewing point to viewing point — MISSION #2. We pissed over the edge into the canyon —MISSION #3. The canyon rocked... ha ha. Glad we got out to it. Stopped at a little Indian trading post, Kanka wanted to purchace an authentic peace pipe. i purchaced several postcards (paper, wood, copper plate) and also bought a sweet leather cowboy hat. Finally found one to fit my big skull. We drove back and dealt with the same changing climates again. On the way up I commented that some of the snow drifts on the side of the rode where so deep you’d fall waist deep in them. Kanka stopped the car when we got back to the 8,046 feet sign to take a picture 27°F this round. He took a few steps toward the sign and feel knee deep into the drift, with each footstep shouting FUCK!! FUCK!! He got his photograph but he also got a nice hot foot.
Made it back to the hotel and went down tothe lobby bar for a drink. Decided we didn’t want to go out so we had sushi at the bar and more drinks (tons of wasabi). I worked on some different postcards for Barker. I created a set made from overhead shots of Flagstaff and affixed a cut out of Fred Flintstone. I got tired of using my hair gel to glue things together so I dumped wax from the candles on the tables to fix them to the cards.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 25, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 13(postcard)
BARKER - Other Peoples Words: Silver Indians 01 (postcard)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 15 (postcard)
February 24, 2005
Flagstaff, Arizona I
Flew out to Phoenix, Arizona today with Kanka for another job related photoshooot (Special Olymics in Flagstaff). Nice long 4 hour flight. I decided I’d switch seats at the gate so I could sit with Kanka — bad idea — 4 hour flight between Kanka and the fattest woman I’ve seen in a while. Befopre the flight Kanka commented that prehaps you’ll get to sit next to apretty brunette. Dead wrong. After the flight was over I declared that it would be the only bad part of the entire trip. We grabbed our rental car and hit I-17 to Flagstaff. We stopped the car after we enter an area that was coated with cacti... hundreds of them. I don’t remeber seeing realm cactus up cloase and personal like this so we were extrremely pleaded to have the chance to get up close. Kanak shoot photographs of the landscape while I feared rattlesnake bite.
Went from desert to snow covered highway in less than an hour... crazy state. Checked into the hotel and went to eat mexican at Casa Bonita... I stole the menu cover for Kanka because Casa Bonita was a place from a South Park episode. Had a few beers and some Patron and Don Julio. Got back to the hotel and just completed a postcard for Barker.
Went from desert to snow covered highway in less than an hour... crazy state. Checked into the hotel and went to eat mexican at Casa Bonita... I stole the menu cover for Kanka because Casa Bonita was a place from a South Park episode. Had a few beers and some Patron and Don Julio. Got back to the hotel and just completed a postcard for Barker.
February 23, 2005
February 22, 2005
Get My Mail On
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 22, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 12(postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 08 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 14 (postcard)
OMITTED JUGHEAD 12
LEFT FOOT 08
FEBRUARY 22, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 12(postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 08 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 14 (postcard)
OMITTED JUGHEAD 12
LEFT FOOT 08
February 21, 2005
Another Government Holiday
Back into the grind again today... lots of travel and hotel booking... yes!! Couldn't send any mail today because of the governement holiday ohh well. Worked on a few correspondences for barker today as well as the 'Girls Valentines'. They are looking really really good. Thats it... pretty boring day. I did recieve my Ray Johnson stuff today though. Must have come last week. How to Draw a Bunny (DVD) - Ray Johnson: Correspondence (hardback book)
February 20, 2005
Kansas City, Missouri III
Flying back to Atlanta today. Woke up and had breakfast in the lobby with the boys. Packed our shit and hit the road for the airport. Had lunch inside airport and a beer... micro-brew. Got back to Atlanta and put my little boy on my hand cart as we walked back to the Kanka's car — D-61 not C-21. Alot of strage looks from people. Got back to the house and introduced the little boy to his new home. Had a few martinis and chilled with Kanka for a bit. We fly out again this next thurday for Flagstaff. Yeah... we like security!
February 19, 2005
Kansas City, Missouri II
Woke up and forced my self to eat breakfast. No one else joined me. Eventually we packed up our shit and heaed to lunch at Houstons. Wasn't really hungry after breakfast so boxed my food to go. Went to that days photoshoot. Warehouse full of junk and such. I rescued a little boy doll from a dumpster and made sure he made it to the car for eventual travel back to Atlanta. We got back to the hotel and whle waiting for the elevator a little girl say my little boy doll and gave the blankest most frightened expression I'd ever seen. Kanka saw her too and said she'd probably be mentally scared for life because of my little boy — we laffed. Went to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for dinner and had a nice big meal. Left Ruth's and decided to find another bar to drink at. Stopped in a Barnes & Nobles and purchased 4 new art books - Richard Prince: Photography/Painting - Themes & Movements: Conceptual Art - Pop Art - Ringo Stars: Postcards From the Boys. Good stuff. Ended up back at the irish Pub and had just a few Guinesses. Keeping to my pledge from earlier that day, that I wouldn't have a drink tonight until I had a drink. Another bad cover band played... but there were tons of hot girls... WOW. Kanak and i went back to hotel early. Schrier went out with his friend for a while longer.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 19, 2005
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BARKER - Other Peoples Words: White Elks 02 (postcard)
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 19, 2005
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BARKER - Other Peoples Words: White Elks 02 (postcard)
February 18, 2005
Kansas City, Missouri I
Woke up really early and ate breakfast in the lobby of the hotel. Kanka wondered how he was supposed to eat so early in the morning... I had to agree. Schrier ate 2 plates however. We headed into the bad parts of Kansas City for our only photoshoot that day and they returned back to the hotel. Decided we'd grab a drink and went back to the Irish Pub and had a few guiness. Then Schrier thought we'd head down the street to another bar and have a few drinks there and then go eat dinner. Well... we never made it to dinner... but we did enjoy many games of pool and some delicious Don Julio. They didn't have Patron but I assured the group that it was just as good. Schrier bailed out early, leaving Kanka and I alone to drink more. We left that bar, because of crazy blonde girls who were harrassing us. We ran into Schriers friend on the way out and went with him back to the Irish Pub. PACKED TO THE GILLS... and more shitty cover bands playing. Kanka and I ordered a guiness and a scotch. Crazy blonde girls showed up there as well. Kanka spilled his Guiness, I put my down (away from my stomach) and we both had about 2 sips of our scotch before we headed back to the hotel.
February 17, 2005
Denver, Colorado II
Woke up early this morning. We shoot at 3 locations across the Denver area. Went to a cool tavern for lunch. they had what looked like fossilized dinosaurs in rock, but the fossils were actually metal screws and bolts. Very cool stuff... they also had some interesting crosses made out of metal too. Had a really good club sandwich on homemade flat bread. Was kinda pissed because I couldn't bring my doggie bag with me. Got to the airport early so we had a few drinks at the 'Cowboy Bar' at Denver International (the guiness was horrible — can). Boarded another airplane destined for Kansas City and arrived just before sundown. Schrier went to sleep as Kanka and I dropped our shit in our rooms and wandered the downtown untill we found a nice little Irish Pub — alot like Fado's. Guiness and double scotch. There was a cover band playing on the stage there. They sucked really bad and we considered throwing things at them, but didn't.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 17, 2005
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BARKER - Other Peoples Words: White Elks 01 (postcard)
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 17, 2005
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BARKER - Other Peoples Words: White Elks 01 (postcard)
February 16, 2005
Denver, Colorado I
Flew into Denver this morning with Kanka and Schrier for a photo shoot for work. The flight was a bit long... ohh well can't complain I have many more to come. Drove to Boulder to eat dinner and drink, then walked around the city afterwards. Got back to the hotel and had a few drinks (scotch) and I made a postcard for Barker.
February 15, 2005
Valentine Correspondence UPDATE
Well I have run out of time working on these Valentine Correspondences. I was not able to mail any of them yesterday. I'm going to continue to work on them, but they probably won't be mailed for a week or so. I have a lot of traveling coming up in the next 2 weeks. It's going to be difficult to get correspondences out the door. Ohh well there are many other things that need to be done as well. I'll try to send out a few postcards while I'm on the road.
February 14, 2005
Birthday Blues - Valentine Melancholy
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 14, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 11(postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 07 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 12 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 11 (postcard)
FEBRUARY 14, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 11(postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 07 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 12 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 11 (postcard)
February 13, 2005
Cranking Away
Got up early this morning and started working again in the kitchen. Still working on these special valentine correspondences for the girls. It's taking about 4 coats of acrylic paint to really get these colors to pop. Doing a nice little stripe pattern on each that relates to the contents. Originally I was going to do each one the same — same color pattern scheme. But I have decided that while each will have the same pattern each will vary in how the colors are ordered. This will give them a more personalized unique flare. I worked on the painting of these until about 3pm, had dinner with the folks and then hit the road for Atlanta at about 5. I got back around 7 and did some general stuff around the house, but plan on getting back to these girl correspondences shortly.
I watched a really great documentary last night called 'Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time'. It was really great. I've read a few things about Andy in the past and have always been interested in his work, but with this film you really get to see him in his element. The entire film follows him around as he creates his work - he's an environmental sculptor. Really fascinating philosophy about the world and his art. Check it out.
Barker, you're right.... you know your shit brother. Didn't mean to make it sound like you didn't.
I watched a really great documentary last night called 'Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time'. It was really great. I've read a few things about Andy in the past and have always been interested in his work, but with this film you really get to see him in his element. The entire film follows him around as he creates his work - he's an environmental sculptor. Really fascinating philosophy about the world and his art. Check it out.
Barker, you're right.... you know your shit brother. Didn't mean to make it sound like you didn't.
February 12, 2005
Home Again - Home Again - Jiggidy Jig
So today I drove up to my parents house to spend the weekend... err really one day. Got in about noon and helped my father build a lean-to in the back yard for storing firewood under. Took us a while to realize that even though it was level it had to be unlevel to look correct to the naked eye. Long story short we got it done. I spent the rest of the day in their kitchen working on correspondences and trying to explain postal rates to my mother. She was convinced that I wasn't using enough stamps on a particular set of Valentine correspondences so to make her happy I added another stamp to the envelopes. Barker is correct however... most times we are using too much postage... or at least myself.
I almost completed the first set of five special valentine correspondences for boys. I think the people I'm sending them to will get a real kick out of them. Even had my mother help out out with a few parts of it. She hand-lettered the little interior envelopes in red ink — looked great. Later in the day I started work on the second set of five special valentine correspondences for girls. Each of these is hand painted and is taking a lot of time. My father asked why I just didn't spray paint them so I could get done quicker. I explained to him that sometimes in art the method in which you work is as or more important than the efficiency behind the making of the object. The time you put into your work and the process of making the object is also a part of the work, it becomes ingrained into the work. Whether anyone notices or not the process is very important to how the artist works. I told him about Tom Friedmans work titled '1,000 Hours', which is a piece of blank white paper that Friedman supposedly stared at for 1,000 hours. I explained that he could have just hung a blank sheet of paper on the wall and said he stared at it for 1,000 hours and no one would know the difference... but the artist would. It would annul his working method if he lied about how it was made. Sometimes you just can not cut corners. I think he understood.
These 2 sets of special valentine correspondences are taking a little longer than I expected so I don't believe they will be completed in time to mail on the 14th. However, I'm going to complete them anyways and mail them as soon as I can. I figure it will be wednesday before I can send them. Ohh well, better late than never. Again, can't cheat the process.
I almost completed the first set of five special valentine correspondences for boys. I think the people I'm sending them to will get a real kick out of them. Even had my mother help out out with a few parts of it. She hand-lettered the little interior envelopes in red ink — looked great. Later in the day I started work on the second set of five special valentine correspondences for girls. Each of these is hand painted and is taking a lot of time. My father asked why I just didn't spray paint them so I could get done quicker. I explained to him that sometimes in art the method in which you work is as or more important than the efficiency behind the making of the object. The time you put into your work and the process of making the object is also a part of the work, it becomes ingrained into the work. Whether anyone notices or not the process is very important to how the artist works. I told him about Tom Friedmans work titled '1,000 Hours', which is a piece of blank white paper that Friedman supposedly stared at for 1,000 hours. I explained that he could have just hung a blank sheet of paper on the wall and said he stared at it for 1,000 hours and no one would know the difference... but the artist would. It would annul his working method if he lied about how it was made. Sometimes you just can not cut corners. I think he understood.
These 2 sets of special valentine correspondences are taking a little longer than I expected so I don't believe they will be completed in time to mail on the 14th. However, I'm going to complete them anyways and mail them as soon as I can. I figure it will be wednesday before I can send them. Ohh well, better late than never. Again, can't cheat the process.
February 11, 2005
Friday
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 11, 2005
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HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 06 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 11 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 10 (postcard)
FEBRUARY 11, 2005
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HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 06 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 11 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 10 (postcard)
February 10, 2005
Ants.... Ants Everywhere
Ants... a long trail of ants. This is what I discovered upon entering my house today after work. And what did they want? Goldfish... yeah Goldfish. I don't know why. Perhaps they were using them to construct a giant monument in honor of these tastey crackers. We'll never know, because a immediately vacuumed them up and took them in their new vacuum cleaner bag home to the dumpster.
Speaking of vacuum cleaner bags, Zimmerman was quite disappointed with the wonderful box she received from me. 'Heart to Heart Day Alteration AE' was a lovely little green box that contained a used vacuum cleaner bag. It's a key piece in the entire body of that work. I worked on it form July 20 - December 31, 2004. Zimmerman said she was expecting something really special when she unwrapped and opened the box (just like I felt when I received her hairball box). Another word for revenge is trots... it means shit. That's what you get I suppose. But I must reiterate the fact that 'Heart to Heart Day Alteration AE' is an important work. If not for the fact that it's a part of a larger body, for the fact that it is a Retroconsumerism piece. That alone makes it a precious piece to own, seeing as I've done only a few true Retroconsumeristic pieces thus far outside of the 2004 Fluoride Set. She should feel special... it fits in with other uncompleted Retroconsumerism works from the 'Events & Artifacts' series. I'm actually kinda sad to see it go. Ohh well, maybe one day she'll understand it once she receives the other 4 works. But i assured her that she would start receiving other correspondence pieces that aren't as complex to comprehend. Sherrill told me that Barker and her feared that Zimmerman might tear open the vacuum cleaner bag thinking their was something hidden within it. I thought that was totally hilarious.
After I took care of the ant situation Kanka stopped over and we had a few drinks. We sat around and watched some movies I had received from NETFLIX — Director's Series, Vol. 1 - The Work of Director Spike Jonze & Director's Series, Vol. 1 - The Work of Director Michel Gordry. Really great stuff... was really surprised to see how many of my favorite videos were done by Gordry. The guys a genius... simple as that.
Spent the night cutting out the back sides of the mass mailer Valentines i'm sending out this week. However i fear i will not be able to send them out until this saturday. So I think some will arrive on V-Day for some people and some will arrive the day after. Not that big a deal to me... If I were smart (now that i think of it this is a better idea) I should send them on the 14th so they have a 14th post mark on them. I'm gonna do them that way instead... it'll give me a little more time to make them look better too.
HEART TO HEART DAY ALTERATION AE
Speaking of vacuum cleaner bags, Zimmerman was quite disappointed with the wonderful box she received from me. 'Heart to Heart Day Alteration AE' was a lovely little green box that contained a used vacuum cleaner bag. It's a key piece in the entire body of that work. I worked on it form July 20 - December 31, 2004. Zimmerman said she was expecting something really special when she unwrapped and opened the box (just like I felt when I received her hairball box). Another word for revenge is trots... it means shit. That's what you get I suppose. But I must reiterate the fact that 'Heart to Heart Day Alteration AE' is an important work. If not for the fact that it's a part of a larger body, for the fact that it is a Retroconsumerism piece. That alone makes it a precious piece to own, seeing as I've done only a few true Retroconsumeristic pieces thus far outside of the 2004 Fluoride Set. She should feel special... it fits in with other uncompleted Retroconsumerism works from the 'Events & Artifacts' series. I'm actually kinda sad to see it go. Ohh well, maybe one day she'll understand it once she receives the other 4 works. But i assured her that she would start receiving other correspondence pieces that aren't as complex to comprehend. Sherrill told me that Barker and her feared that Zimmerman might tear open the vacuum cleaner bag thinking their was something hidden within it. I thought that was totally hilarious.
After I took care of the ant situation Kanka stopped over and we had a few drinks. We sat around and watched some movies I had received from NETFLIX — Director's Series, Vol. 1 - The Work of Director Spike Jonze & Director's Series, Vol. 1 - The Work of Director Michel Gordry. Really great stuff... was really surprised to see how many of my favorite videos were done by Gordry. The guys a genius... simple as that.
Spent the night cutting out the back sides of the mass mailer Valentines i'm sending out this week. However i fear i will not be able to send them out until this saturday. So I think some will arrive on V-Day for some people and some will arrive the day after. Not that big a deal to me... If I were smart (now that i think of it this is a better idea) I should send them on the 14th so they have a 14th post mark on them. I'm gonna do them that way instead... it'll give me a little more time to make them look better too.
HEART TO HEART DAY ALTERATION AE
February 09, 2005
Back to Normal... For Now
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 9, 2005
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BARKER - More Than Three Occasions 04 (letter)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 05 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 10 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 09 (postcard)
FEBRUARY 9, 2005
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BARKER - More Than Three Occasions 04 (letter)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 05 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 10 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 09 (postcard)
February 08, 2005
Rabid Responces
Still not feeling very well today. Just came back from work early.. from which I arrived at late. Go figure. Having trouble eating food still too. Went out for soup with Kanka before our 1PM meeting.. thought I'd be able to eat something. Lost cause.
Heard several people respond back today through e-mail and phone, that they recieved their 'Rabid' correspondences. A lot of confussed people. Great!! I gave them no logical explanation... only that they should watch their mailbox closely and things would start to make sense eventually.
Water... Juice... Pills... Sleep
Heard several people respond back today through e-mail and phone, that they recieved their 'Rabid' correspondences. A lot of confussed people. Great!! I gave them no logical explanation... only that they should watch their mailbox closely and things would start to make sense eventually.
Water... Juice... Pills... Sleep
February 07, 2005
Sick Again.. This is Ludicrous!!
OK ... This will be short. I'm sick again... worse than last week. Body feels like it's been broken all over. Cold as ice but sweeting bullets. Ohh and did I mention the non-stop vomit. Yeah I'm really enjoying the ones when there is nothing to give to the bowl. Feels great!
Water... Juice... Pills... Sleep
Water... Juice... Pills... Sleep
February 06, 2005
Feeling Like Hell.. What Is This
Woke up this morning feeling like death had passed over me in the middle of the night again!! Left Sherrills for home to sleep when she took Barker back to the airport. I'm going to sleep.
February 05, 2005
Barkers Here? What the F@*%!!!
Barker showed up yesterday night. I guess he flew in just for fun and drinks... which we had a few. Was extremely suprised to learn that Barker didn't know who Ray Johnson was and had never seen 'How To Draw A Bunny'. I fugured he would have betten me to it. Ohh well the gag will be slightly on him now... if he ever refers back to some of my old mailings I'm sure he be suprised to see all the little Johnson clues that have been in quite a few. We ended up staying the night a Sherrills and watch the film and had some drink.
Today I woke up early ande painted the front sides of 15 correspondences — Kutzbach, Reynolds, Schaefer, York. Just basic white paint pieces. We went on a city tour of galleries and such. Didn't see anything that was of major interest. Barker was interested in getting photos of grafitti so we toured around for stuff like that and then went back to Sherrills for the evening.
I completed a set of 5 correspondences for Newman that are interesting but I'm going to have to develope more. They just are as worked as I'd like them to be. Again, dealing with themes that he's interested in now... only the images are cropped and blown out of porporton so much that it's hard to read what they originally were — outside of a set of large colored pixels. Ha —
Today I woke up early ande painted the front sides of 15 correspondences — Kutzbach, Reynolds, Schaefer, York. Just basic white paint pieces. We went on a city tour of galleries and such. Didn't see anything that was of major interest. Barker was interested in getting photos of grafitti so we toured around for stuff like that and then went back to Sherrills for the evening.
I completed a set of 5 correspondences for Newman that are interesting but I'm going to have to develope more. They just are as worked as I'd like them to be. Again, dealing with themes that he's interested in now... only the images are cropped and blown out of porporton so much that it's hard to read what they originally were — outside of a set of large colored pixels. Ha —
February 04, 2005
Biggest Correspondence Day Yet!!!
Today is a big big day. Sending out a total of 30 correspondences - 5 unique and a set of 25 mass mailers. I'm pretty excited to see if everyone gets theirs and what the response will be from people who aren't expecting to receive the new mass mailings. Can't wait to see if anyone replies. Also today I am sending the fifth component in the Zimmerman 'Heart to Heart Day Alteration's. This one is a nice little package... err box to be more accurate.
While I was cataloging all of the 'Rabid' correspondences, I was surprised how all the different words generated for each card had some sort of meaning for each person. All the words used are related to the worked rabid in some fashion or another. Each set of words were placed in a random-ordered fashion, but as chaos has it patterns and similarities always emerge. For example - Newman has 'Rabid: hydrophobic/mad-dog' now while hydrophobic meaning lacking affinity for water may not apply to him, the term mad-dog fits him perfectly because of the 'Lost Dog' series of art works he has produced. Also - Kutzbach 'Rabid: hot/made' fits very well with his new rock-n-roll lead singer lifestyle. Hot meaning very popular or successful and made meaning successful or assured of success... perhaps I'm a fortune teller of sorts who knows. But I just find it interesting that the randomly choosen words fit so well with so many people.
Now the most interesting aspect of this first mass mailing is the Olive situation. Olive is a guy I went to college with for a short period of time... I think only the first semester freshman year. He then transferred to UMASS (home of Frank Black). All I have is an address in Connecticut that I've had around for about 8 years now. I don't know if he or any of his relatives are currently at this address, so it will be interesting to see what happens with that correspondence and future ones — whether it reaches its intended target audience and if it generates any response. We shall see... we shall see.
UPDATE: Just took mail to the post office and the guy behind the counter was giving me all sorts of flack over the Zimmerman package for several reason. First, for it's lack of a return address to which i informed him - "I never put return address. If it gets lost that's your problem." Second, for the label I put on it which states CAUTION RETROCONSUMERISTIC MATERIAL. He told me that was suspicious and could cause problems. To which i replied - "Look.. I could write SEVERED HAND on the thing... your still gonna mail it reguardless." Third, when he questioned me about the contents of the package, I explained to him what Retroconsumerism was and told him what was inside. To which he replied - "Why in the world would you want to mail something like that?" I laffed. Forth, after he had taped it and stickered it I told him I had to take a photo of it... which after explaining to him that I did Mail Art and had to document everything in case they lost it, he informed me again that I should put a return address on it and then reluctantly let me take a photo of it on the floor.
HEART TO HEART DAY ALTERATION AE
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 4, 2005
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BARKER - More Than Three Occasions 03 (letter)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 04 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 09 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 08 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Heart to Heart Day Alteration AE (package)
BARKER - Rabid: extremist/revolutionary (postcard)
BUTTREY - Rabid: fanatical/raging (postcard)
COTELIA - Rabid: fervent/radical (postcard)
DURAN - Rabid: flipped/poisoned (postcard)
GLASSO - Rabid: frantic/overboard (postcard)
HARL - Rabid: freaked out/obsessed (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Rabid: frenetic/nutty (postcard)
KANKA - Rabid: frenzied/narrow-minded (postcard)
KIDWELL - Rabid: furious/maniacal (postcard)
KUTZBACH - Rabid: hot/made (postcard)
NEWMAN - Rabid: hydrophobic/mad-dog (postcard)
OLIVE - Rabid: infuriated/mad (postcard)
PEARSON - Rabid: insane/keen (postcard)
REYNOLDS - Rabid: intemperate/irrational (postcard)
SCHAEFER - Rabid: berserk/zealous (postcard)
SHERRILL - Rabid: bigoted/wild (postcard)
SKOREPA - Rabid: bitten/virulent (postcard)
SMITH - Rabid: bugged/violent (postcard)
STATTS - Rabid: corybantic/ultraist (postcard)
SYLVESTER - Rabid: crazed/ultra (postcard)
VINSON - Rabid: crazy/stoned (postcard)
WEISS - Rabid: delirious/steamed up (postcard)
WHITLOCK - Rabid: deranged/smoking (postcard)
YORK - Rabid: enthusiastic/sizzling (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Rabid: extreme/sick (postcard)
While I was cataloging all of the 'Rabid' correspondences, I was surprised how all the different words generated for each card had some sort of meaning for each person. All the words used are related to the worked rabid in some fashion or another. Each set of words were placed in a random-ordered fashion, but as chaos has it patterns and similarities always emerge. For example - Newman has 'Rabid: hydrophobic/mad-dog' now while hydrophobic meaning lacking affinity for water may not apply to him, the term mad-dog fits him perfectly because of the 'Lost Dog' series of art works he has produced. Also - Kutzbach 'Rabid: hot/made' fits very well with his new rock-n-roll lead singer lifestyle. Hot meaning very popular or successful and made meaning successful or assured of success... perhaps I'm a fortune teller of sorts who knows. But I just find it interesting that the randomly choosen words fit so well with so many people.
Now the most interesting aspect of this first mass mailing is the Olive situation. Olive is a guy I went to college with for a short period of time... I think only the first semester freshman year. He then transferred to UMASS (home of Frank Black). All I have is an address in Connecticut that I've had around for about 8 years now. I don't know if he or any of his relatives are currently at this address, so it will be interesting to see what happens with that correspondence and future ones — whether it reaches its intended target audience and if it generates any response. We shall see... we shall see.
UPDATE: Just took mail to the post office and the guy behind the counter was giving me all sorts of flack over the Zimmerman package for several reason. First, for it's lack of a return address to which i informed him - "I never put return address. If it gets lost that's your problem." Second, for the label I put on it which states CAUTION RETROCONSUMERISTIC MATERIAL. He told me that was suspicious and could cause problems. To which i replied - "Look.. I could write SEVERED HAND on the thing... your still gonna mail it reguardless." Third, when he questioned me about the contents of the package, I explained to him what Retroconsumerism was and told him what was inside. To which he replied - "Why in the world would you want to mail something like that?" I laffed. Forth, after he had taped it and stickered it I told him I had to take a photo of it... which after explaining to him that I did Mail Art and had to document everything in case they lost it, he informed me again that I should put a return address on it and then reluctantly let me take a photo of it on the floor.
HEART TO HEART DAY ALTERATION AE
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 4, 2005
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BARKER - More Than Three Occasions 03 (letter)
HOLLENBECK - Left Foot 04 (drawing/collage)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 09 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 08 (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Heart to Heart Day Alteration AE (package)
BARKER - Rabid: extremist/revolutionary (postcard)
BUTTREY - Rabid: fanatical/raging (postcard)
COTELIA - Rabid: fervent/radical (postcard)
DURAN - Rabid: flipped/poisoned (postcard)
GLASSO - Rabid: frantic/overboard (postcard)
HARL - Rabid: freaked out/obsessed (postcard)
HOLLENBECK - Rabid: frenetic/nutty (postcard)
KANKA - Rabid: frenzied/narrow-minded (postcard)
KIDWELL - Rabid: furious/maniacal (postcard)
KUTZBACH - Rabid: hot/made (postcard)
NEWMAN - Rabid: hydrophobic/mad-dog (postcard)
OLIVE - Rabid: infuriated/mad (postcard)
PEARSON - Rabid: insane/keen (postcard)
REYNOLDS - Rabid: intemperate/irrational (postcard)
SCHAEFER - Rabid: berserk/zealous (postcard)
SHERRILL - Rabid: bigoted/wild (postcard)
SKOREPA - Rabid: bitten/virulent (postcard)
SMITH - Rabid: bugged/violent (postcard)
STATTS - Rabid: corybantic/ultraist (postcard)
SYLVESTER - Rabid: crazed/ultra (postcard)
VINSON - Rabid: crazy/stoned (postcard)
WEISS - Rabid: delirious/steamed up (postcard)
WHITLOCK - Rabid: deranged/smoking (postcard)
YORK - Rabid: enthusiastic/sizzling (postcard)
ZIMMERMAN - Rabid: extreme/sick (postcard)
February 03, 2005
First Missing In Action
Well it finally happened, I received word from Weiss today that he never received 'Miss March / Miss November 02', probably the keystone to that whole series of correspondences. We are hoping it will turn up but I'm very doubtful at this point. I told him that at the end of this set I'd mail him a color copy of the originals just so he could have it. So I'm a little depressed... that was my favorite correspondence in the entire series. It's also the first time ever that a piece has been lost (stolen) while in transit and I've been mailing stuff for about 4 years now. First with Newman, then with Barker and now this year with the correspondence list. I've had works of art stolen before so I'm not stunned, but this just goes to show why all of these correspondences need to be documented and cataloged before they are entered into the system. So here it is for all to see.
MISS MARCH / MISS NOVEMBER 02
Tonight I will scan and catalog the first mass mailer works 'Rabid'. They will be going out tomm. I'll also continue production on the 'Valentine' mass mailers.
Also yesterday I traded an old scanner for a large box of 70's Playboy magazines. These are going to make for great correspondence materials. I'll also be using them in some fashion with the '100 Small Works: Hot, Young and Eager on 25¢ a Day' series.
p.s. DEATH TO COMCAST CABLE..... you evil bastards. I still have no internet.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 3, 2005
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NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 08 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 07 (postcard)
MISS MARCH / MISS NOVEMBER 02
Tonight I will scan and catalog the first mass mailer works 'Rabid'. They will be going out tomm. I'll also continue production on the 'Valentine' mass mailers.
Also yesterday I traded an old scanner for a large box of 70's Playboy magazines. These are going to make for great correspondence materials. I'll also be using them in some fashion with the '100 Small Works: Hot, Young and Eager on 25¢ a Day' series.
p.s. DEATH TO COMCAST CABLE..... you evil bastards. I still have no internet.
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 3, 2005
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NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 08 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 07 (postcard)
February 02, 2005
Folk Art Show A Blast - Bigger List!!!
The Folk Art Show opened last night and it was awsome. Sherrill did a great job... I'm so proud of her efforts. Everything she put together was perfect. Got to the Woodruff at about 6pm and went across the street to drink martinis with Kanka before the show. Linton eventually joined us. We were seated in a window seat and I saw linton approaching the entrance from a distance... man what a crazy hat he had on. Totally 1950's style.. the kind Newman always used to were when we were in college together. I wonder if he still wears that.
Ran into some new and old faces at the show and just had to get their mailing addresses. So again the list has increased by 5. Now I'm at 30 and I'm sure it will get bigger in the coming months. This group will all recieve the Valentines Mass mailing that will go out middle of next week... hopefully hitting just before V-Day.
Barker. Aaron — Dallas, Texas
- Beasley, Elizabeth — Atlanta, Georgia
Buttrey. Kevin — Cleveland, Tennessee
Cotealia. Spring — Chattanooga, Tennessee
Duran, Dave — Savannah, Georgia
Glasso. Tracy — Atlanta, Georgia
Harl, Michael — Richmond, Virginia
- Herrle, Jake — Atlanta, Georgia
Hollenbeck. Phi — Dallas, Texas
Kanka. Jaroslav — Atlanta, Georgia
Kidwell. Martha — Charleston, Tennessee
Kutzback. Donny — Kenmore, New York
- Linton, David — Atlanta, Georgia
Newman. Scott — Savannah, Georgia
Olive, Frank — Bethel. Connecticut
Pearson. Olivia — Charlotte, North Carolina
Reynold. Tom — Powder Springs, Georgia
Schaefer. Susan — Grand Island, New York
Sherrill. Nancy — Marietta, Georgia
Skorepa, Dave — North Royalton, Ohio
Smith, Jeannette — Atlanta, Georgia
- Stanford, Chris — Lilburn, Georgia
Statts. Jason — Savannah, Georgia
- Steeger, Robin — Dallas, Georgia
Sylvester, Olie — Auburn, Georgia
Vinson. Chuk — Atlanta, Georgia
Weiss. Danny — Miami Beach, Florida
Whitlock, Laurie — Chattanooga, Tennessee
York. James — Brighton, Michigan
Zimmerman. Cassandra — Dallas, Texas
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 2, 2005
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BARKER - More Than Three Occasions 02 (letter)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 07 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 06 (postcard)
Ran into some new and old faces at the show and just had to get their mailing addresses. So again the list has increased by 5. Now I'm at 30 and I'm sure it will get bigger in the coming months. This group will all recieve the Valentines Mass mailing that will go out middle of next week... hopefully hitting just before V-Day.
Barker. Aaron — Dallas, Texas
- Beasley, Elizabeth — Atlanta, Georgia
Buttrey. Kevin — Cleveland, Tennessee
Cotealia. Spring — Chattanooga, Tennessee
Duran, Dave — Savannah, Georgia
Glasso. Tracy — Atlanta, Georgia
Harl, Michael — Richmond, Virginia
- Herrle, Jake — Atlanta, Georgia
Hollenbeck. Phi — Dallas, Texas
Kanka. Jaroslav — Atlanta, Georgia
Kidwell. Martha — Charleston, Tennessee
Kutzback. Donny — Kenmore, New York
- Linton, David — Atlanta, Georgia
Newman. Scott — Savannah, Georgia
Olive, Frank — Bethel. Connecticut
Pearson. Olivia — Charlotte, North Carolina
Reynold. Tom — Powder Springs, Georgia
Schaefer. Susan — Grand Island, New York
Sherrill. Nancy — Marietta, Georgia
Skorepa, Dave — North Royalton, Ohio
Smith, Jeannette — Atlanta, Georgia
- Stanford, Chris — Lilburn, Georgia
Statts. Jason — Savannah, Georgia
- Steeger, Robin — Dallas, Georgia
Sylvester, Olie — Auburn, Georgia
Vinson. Chuk — Atlanta, Georgia
Weiss. Danny — Miami Beach, Florida
Whitlock, Laurie — Chattanooga, Tennessee
York. James — Brighton, Michigan
Zimmerman. Cassandra — Dallas, Texas
MAILING TRANSFERRAL
FEBRUARY 2, 2005
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BARKER - More Than Three Occasions 02 (letter)
NEWMAN - Magnum Hawaiian 07 (postcard)
WEISS - Miss March / Miss November 06 (postcard)
February 01, 2005
New Month = New Methods
Since the correspondence list is still growing and I can't possibly send everyone on it a unique mailing every day or even every week I've decided that ontop of sending out the unique pieces, I will also be sending out one mass mailing every other week and on holidays to everyone on the correspondence list no matter how large it grows. This way people who might not recieve unique pieces as frequently as others will still have some form of contact from me.
The first set of cards to go out will be to the new list of 25. The correspondences are called 'Rabids' and while each of them are close to identical in nature they are all slightly unique. Each has a set of different synonyms that relate to the word rabid on the back side and a photograph of me and a dog, taken by Kanka, on the front. They all look really cool. I hope everyone gets them and enkoys them. I'm still waiting to confire 2 peoples addresses, but I plan on sending these out on friday. the trasferral listing is gonna be big.
The first set of cards to go out will be to the new list of 25. The correspondences are called 'Rabids' and while each of them are close to identical in nature they are all slightly unique. Each has a set of different synonyms that relate to the word rabid on the back side and a photograph of me and a dog, taken by Kanka, on the front. They all look really cool. I hope everyone gets them and enkoys them. I'm still waiting to confire 2 peoples addresses, but I plan on sending these out on friday. the trasferral listing is gonna be big.
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