Picture Phone 03

KANKA

Picture Phone 02

EVIL BITCH

Picture Phone 01

A. BARKER

Show Day in Dallas... Errrr Six Hours Away

Time to shrug off this hang-over and get driving. Time to leave and stop bickering... well the bickering is needed... but let's go. Today is the show.... woooo!!! Working it out...

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 14, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 04 (postcard 4x6)
KANKA - ATTENTION! (postcard 4x6)

Friday The 13th

I DID REALLY BAD THINGS LATER THIS NIGHT... I'M BACK TO TELL THE PEOPLE OF THE PAST... SOMETHING HAPPENED AND THOMAS ARTHUR SCHAEFER WOKE UP NAKED AND WITH WET SHOES ON THIS NIGHTS FOLLOWING MORN.

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In Texas... visited Art Pros. today and drank beer with the boys. More later...

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 13, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 03 (postcard)
BARKER - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 01(postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 10 (postcard)
KANKA - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 02(postcard)
KUTZBACH - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 03(postcard)
VINSON - Yellow Glitter Puzzle 04(postcard)

Road Trip To Texas

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 12, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 03 (postcard)
BARKER - Kennedy Family 02(postcard)
KANKA - Cheese 09 (postcard)

I AM STILL ALIVE – On Kawara

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 11, 2005
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BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 02 (postcard 4x6)
BARKER - Kennedy Family 01 (postcard 4x6)
KANKA - Cheese 08 (postcard 5x8)
KANKA - Kennedy Family 03 (postcard 4x6)
KUTZBACH - Kennedy Family 04 (postcard 4x6)
VINSON - Kennedy Family 05 (postcard 4x6)

Picture Phone D

KANKA

Picture Phone C

TAYLOR & KANKA

Picture Phone B

A. VINSON

Picture Phone A

C. VINSON

Happy Birthday

2005 BIRTHDAY CARD

Late Late Night

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MAY 05, 2005
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BARKER - Francis Red Dot A (postcard 4x6)
BARKER - Pretermited Jughead 01 (postcard 5x8)
KANKA - Francis Red Dot B (postcard 4x6)
KANKA - Cheese 07 (postcard 5x8)
SCHAEFER - Birthday: Daryl Schaefer (postcard 5x8)
VINSON - White Williams Kung-Fu Habits (postcard 5x8)

Cards From Beyond The Edge V

EFFERVESCENCE POWERED GHOSTWRITER - A

Cards From Beyond The Edge IV

FROSTED FLAKE STRATIFICATION - A

Cards From Beyond The Edge III

ASK ANDY: WHAT IS THE STUDY OF ANIMAL BEHAVIOR? FLIP-FLOPPED

Cards From Beyond The Edge II

THE BARE SKELETON OF NEW COLA CONSUMERISM SLICED, SPLATTERED, AND FLAYED - A

Cards From Beyond The Edge I

PENNY INFUSED POSTCARD

Final Cards For Texas

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 29, 2005
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CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE (all the following)
- Penny Infused Postcard (experimental postcard)

- Classic Coca-Cola Punctured To
Near Bisection with Lime (abstract postcard)
- Diet Coca-Cola Punctured To
Near Bisection with Lime (abstract postcard)

- Effervescence Powered Ghostwriter - A (abstract postcard)
- Effervescence Powered Ghostwriter - B (abstract postcard)
- Effervescence Powered Ghostwriter - C (abstract postcard)
- Effervescence Powered Ghostwriter - D (abstract postcard)

- Frosted Flake Stratification - A (abstract postcard)
- Frosted Flake Stratification - B (abstract postcard)

CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.29.05 Formal Letter (letter)



CLASSIC COCA-COLA PUNCTURED TO NEAR BISECTION WITH LIME

More Cards For Texas

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
APRIL 28, 2005
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CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE (all the following)
- Never Even Saw You In A Bikini (postcard)

- The Bare Skeleton of New Cola Consumerism
Sliced, Splattered, and Flayed - A (abstract postcard)
- The Bare Skeleton of New Cola Consumerism
Sliced, Splattered, and Flayed - B (abstract postcard)

- Ask Andy: What Is The Field Of Social Science?
Flip-Flopped - A (object)
- Ask Andy: What Is The Study Of Animal Behavior?
Flip-Flopped - B (object)

CARDS FROM BEYOND THE EDGE - 04.28.05 Formal Letter (letter)



NEVER EVEN SAW YOU IN A BIKINI

Artist In His Studio

USPS Lawsuit Fan Club

Initiated by: Tom Schaefer

United States Postal Service

On July 26, 1775, members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, agreed:

That a Postmaster General be appointed for the United Colonies, who shall hold his office at Philadelphia and shall be allowed a salary of 1000 dollars per an for himself and 340 dollars per an for a secretary and Comptroller, with the power to appoint such and so many deputies as to him may seem proper and necessary.

That a line of posts be appointed under the direction of the Postmaster General from Falmouth in New England to Savannah in Georgia, with as many cross posts as he shall think fit.

This simple statement signaled the birth of the Post Office Department, the predecessor of the U.S. Postal Service and the second oldest federal department or agency of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General. Under him and his immediate successors, the postal system mainly carried communications between Congress and the armies.

America’s present Postal Service descends in an unbroken line from the system Franklin planned and placed in operation. History rightfully accords him major credit for establishing the basis of the system that has well served the growing and changing needs of the American people.

Crispin Glover Fan Club

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.

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.

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).

(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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

Party Bus!!

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 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)

New Varients Created

No mailings today —

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)

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)

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)

Correspondence For Barker

Saturday At Jigger Bar

No Mailings Today

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Very Productive Day

Sesame Street Correspondences

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)

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)

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

I Don't Have No Pocketbook

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 11, 2005
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BARKER - Burgerhead 03 (postcard)

Get Off Me

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 10, 2005
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BARKER - Burgerhead 02 (postcard)

Tear Off the Top

MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 09, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 20 (postcard)
BARKER - Burgerhead 01 (postcard)

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)

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)

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

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]

What's A Cleveland Steamer?

It's a cheeseburger. Saved by the path.

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)

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)

Month 3

FACE EXPERIMENT 01
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MAILING TRANSFERRAL
MARCH 1, 2005
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BARKER - Omitted Jughead 15 (postcard)