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Kodachrome Basin

On Halloween I'll be moving to southern Utah. This place is heaven on earth. So much color that your eyes will bleed. 8 gazillion acres of wilderness, arches, sandstone pipes and washes to explore. Next time you are in the area, stop by and say hello. You can find out more about Kodachrome Basin by reading the blog: kbcabins.com

Somebody HELP ME Please! :-)

I need intervention now! I'm spending way too much time in my new virtual world.... but hey where else can I fly like superman and meet super-cool people (mostly artists)???

Only in Second Life Baby...

A sample of my madness:

Smoking the Fox Pipe at Felowen's Gallery

The Lovely and Talented Sculptress Fau at her Beach Studio

A Day of Surfing At Sebastian's Place

In Front of My Exhibit at Felowen's Gallery

Chilling At Siggy's Waterworks, Home of the Best Surfing in SL

*** Just DON'T try to tell me it's not real! :-)

Shout outs to all the SL folks on Myspace including the most excellent artist Scott Brooks.

Janny's Cards

Received some cool ATC's in the mail the other day including these from Janny of the Netherlands. You can see more of her cards here on Flickr!

Unreality Zone

Took a tour of the land that is Second Life. This virtual world is a fun place to explore and chat with your fellow virtual peeps. I had fun making my avatar and designing his clothes. You can make your own toys and even build a house. One thing they need there is a Mail Art museum. If you choose to visit (it's free) then please IM me: Kiyotei Xi and let's have a drink in the Moonshine Casino. Click the image to see my avatar chilling downstairs in the club . . .

Mail Art at Flickr

Haven't been on Flickr.com for a while and I must say I'm impressed. Lots of new features to play with. I like the interface which allows you to jump from profile to photo to group and it helped me make some great contacts.

You can also tag your images and post them to del.icio.us with a single click!

I was able to hook-up with some folks I know from around the net and I set up four ATC and Artistamps swaps.

I also uploaded some of my ATCs, photos and artistamp designs for your perusal.

tags: mail art, artistamps, artist trading cards, atcs

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From the Blog Lab

Young Scientist Sam is back! This techno-savvy mailartist from Spokane, WA has been busy with life and out of the network for a few years, but he's back in touch with a killer blog. Check out his great resource: Mailart.org and don't forget to feast your eyes on the mailart calls list with over 239 projects (ongoing and with a deadline). So get busy and send some art to a networker somewhere in the world.



tags: mail art, artistamps, artist trading cards, atcs

Too Old To Be Doing A Zine

Received Phantom Conversation #8 from Rick Yates of Longview, Washington. This publication is chock full of deep conversations and age old questions like " Is punk philosophy compatible with art?" This prankster DJ says he's too old to put out a zine and if you check out his Myspace page, you'll read that he only sends these zines (and I quote) "to people who don't want it... It's my way of saying, "UP YOURS" to all the people that won't pay attention to me."



I guess I'm on his sh*t list because I think this is the 2nd issue I've received and I haven't replied yet. I intend to rectify that today by sending out a batch of useless ephemera to him today.

If you want to participate in the Phantom Conversation, send something (a photograph, a poem, a drawing, a collage, a book or music or movie review, a drunken rant on audio cassette) and if he likes it, your item just might end up in the next issue.

Send your stuff to:
Phantom Conversation
2808 Florida Street
Longview, WA 98632 USA

More Viral Infections

Sent out my sixth set of ATC documentations for the Virii Mail Art Swap last month.

Today I received two more submissions:

The card on the left is from Rael Mail of Holland and the second card is from Szanto Andras of Budapest Hungary. Both ATCs were created using a fine point pen and the card from Szanto is partially done in watercolor.

This brings the total of individual cards received for this ongoing call to: 310 from 10 countries.

If you are not familiar with ATCs (Artist Trading Cards), you can learn all you ever want to know from this directory.

You can also view more of Rael Mail's fine art here.

tags: mail art, artistamps, artist trading cards, atcs

MA Directory

The Mail_Art_and_Artistamps directory at DMOZ has just been updated and incudes over 200 mail art sites in several categories. Check it out and be sure to "Add Your Site" if it isn't already listed.

tags: mail art, artistamps, artist trading cards, atcs

Fluxlist: Fluxus (white and black)

Fluxlist: Fluxus (white and black) - love it!

S:L:K

Received great docs and other goodies from Guy Bleus for the highly successful mail art project SCENTS:LOCKS:KISSES. This project got gajillions of responses from around the globe. Check out the online documentation and be prepared to browse for a few hours.

P.S. - kiyotei's kiss is number 672.

Roll Dem Bones

The Day of the Dead Artistamp swap has begun to trickle into my mailbox.



Here are the first 6 artistamps I received:

1st row - Alchemy Post, Paint Rock River Valley Postal Authority and Karen Winters of Azubia.

2nd row - R.F Cote of Postscriptum, The Island of Ailurophilia and Pictia Poste.

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tags: mail art, artistamps

Fastback Mail

One of my very favorite things is a frisbee (synonomous with flying disc). I spent many a lunch hour during high school in the back parking lot flinging a disc with my buds. Sometimes forgetting to go back to class after the bell because some trick seemed almost in my grasp. A frisbee is a wonderful thing. It can be used for sport, dinner plate, doggie water dish, seed sorter, or just hung on the wall as art.

So it was with extra pleasure that I found one in my P.O. box last week.



Scott Thomas of Lexington, Kentucky sent this wonderful piece unwrapped through the mail with three 37-cent stamps attached. I've received other great work from Scott and his little fairy-toons are very recognizable. He calls this model a "Humphrey Flier" not a frisbee and I remember we used to called this style of disc a "Fastback." I agree with him that it has better flight characteristic than a standard Frisbee and I found it to be most excellent for under-the-leg or behind-the-back tosses. It seems like the thinner shape allows it to correct its tragectory and go from a wobbly side angle and still end up flying straight to the target.

Thanks, Scott for the excellent mail and I hope we can toss a few discs (and beers) in the future.

Torben Doose is Loose!

I've been seeing some great stuff by this mailartisan around the net.
Just received my first handmade postcard from Torben and it is awesome.



This artist from Paris, France has been extremely busy lately and you can find more examples of art here, here, here, here, and here . . . to name a few.

Sushi Art

Off topic - but fun:

Bento Boxes as Art



* Don't miss the Powerpuff Girls!

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