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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
5:04 pm - 67 000 Евро ($106,000) за марку

kalendarini
67 000 Евро - Заплатил коллекционер за редкую марку.
Эта марка, на которой Одри Хепберн изображена курящей, была выпущена в 2001 году по заказу правительства Германии.
Серия, вышедшая 14-миллионным тиражом, Однако вскоре после того, как почтовые марки были напечатаны, сын Хепберн Шон Феррер заявил,
что тираж должен быть уничтожен. Недовольство Феррера вызвало то, что для оформления марки было использовано знаменитое фото Хепберн с мундштуком.
По мнению сына актрисы, многие могли бы счесть этот портрет пропагандой курения. - пишет http://www.lenta.ru/news/2009/05/25/audrey/
http://home.suddenlink.net/news/read.php?id=17010106&ps=1003

Англоязычные источники говорят, что сын просто из-за мундштука отказался предоставить авторское право на фотографию.
Кстати в оригинальной фотографии у неё во рту не мундштук, а солнце защитные очки и развёрнута она в другую сторону.
Вобщем все марки уничтожили, однако говорят что 30 марок успели умыкнуть. Пока известно 5 копий.

Вчера в Германии прошли торги на которых марка была продана за 53,500 Евро, но с коммисией и прочими надбавками общая стоимость составила 67000.
Нормально так....за марочку. :)

Моя рефлексия по этому поводу вылилась в небольшую серию арт-марок посвящённых этому событию.


Посмотреть в полный размер, 165.92 КБ, 993x813 )



Вообще Одри Хепберн любила фотографироваться с мундштуком как я погляжу

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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
8:26 am - MailArt Austria is online now

mailartstyria
the first austria international mailart server is online from 01.03.2009
mailart artist can upload a digital card as memebr on the first austrian postart contest

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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
12:16 pm - Mail-art call "Ticket to Jerusalem"

polyarnik
Deadline: Oct 1st, 2009

Create artwork that represents your idea for an ideal airplane ticket to Jerusalem. Collage, drawing or any other media, preferably without use of computer. Size of the card should be 8x3". Final artwork might resemble a boarding pass, but doesn't have to. Put a stamp on it and mail it, no envelopes. <a href="http://www.tickettojerusalem.com">See project website for more detailed specs</a>.

All works will be featured online, best entries will be exhibited internationally and featured in a book "Ticket To Jerusalem" that will be published at the end of 2009. Every person, whose artwork is featured in the book will get a free copy.

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
8:52 pm - Know any queer rural zines? x-post (if this doesn't belong/breaks rules, sorry; tell me&I'll delete)

angstypenguin
Sorry if this doesn't belong here, but my friend Jenna (a.k.a. [info]trashcan_chica) needs some help:

"does anyone know of any queer zines about living in rural areas or going to rural areas?

any help/pointing in the right direction would be amazing. i went through the whole Queer Zine Archive and couldn't really find anything.

thanks!
jenna b

p.s. i just got a wordpress site, sassyfrasscircus.com!"


Her (AIM) away message also says: "is looking for zines about/by members of radical queer ANTI-URBAN communities, so if you know of any..."

So please comment if you can help at all; thanks. :]

-Beth

current mood: hopeful

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Friday, October 10th, 2008
10:45 am - richmond zinefest this saturday!!!!! xposted

currentlyautumn
When:
Saturday Oct 11, 2008
at 11:00 AM

Where:
Gay Community Center of Richmond
1407 Sherwood Ave.
Richmond, Virginia|47 23220
United States
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The 2008 Richmond Zine Fest will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2008, from 11am to 5pm at the Gay Community Center of Richmond, at 1407 Sherwood Ave. FREE!!


Spread The Word!!

We will have approximately 40 zine tablers, and 8 readings/workshops.

http://www.richmondzinefest.org

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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
8:13 pm - collaborative visual diary - OhMi

nicci
for several months now, an artist friend and i have been exchanging 2 sketchbooks. once a month, usually near the beginning or middle of the month, we pop these journals into priority mail boxes and ship them to each other. we are both working artists. maralena favors acrylic painting, and i generally use watercolor. we both draw and often use stamps of some kind or another. there is also some stencil work in the journals.

images below are taken from both of the journals, one will eventually return home to her, and one to me. there are no rules, and each is allowed to do anything--write, paint over, etc on any other page. what you see becomes a layered non-linear journal of our techniques, processes, and thoughts, as well as play off of each other's work.

we have a blog of these books, showing work in progress in both journals. the last time we swapped was july 25. below are images from various stages in the work.


collage stars - detailinky three - detailnj_53_nicci_1detailnj_19_nicci_1detailnj_09_nicci_1detailmj_06_nicci_2detail2nj_04_nicci_2detail


more & larger imgs @ traveling sketchbooks blog.
collaborative traveling visual diary by: [info]nicci (Ohio) & mcdc3s (Michigan).

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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
11:17 pm - Mail Art Invitation

honoriartist
mail art invitaiaonMail Art Invitation: for more information http://www.zonapostalmailart.org

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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
10:07 am - Art from Women of Afgahanistan and Women's Caucus for Art

bonniemac


Please look at images of our opening:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20418941@N06/

(The squares were mailed from all over to be assembled into this amazing quilt.)

Women Helping Women: Stitch by Stitch and Environmental Distress
May 1st - May 31st - Wilmington Delaware
Louis Redding Art Gallery
City Government Building, Wilmington Delaware
Opening Reception: May 2nd from 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Also showing Environmental Destruction, Art work by Philadelphia WCA members,
Uzbek Suzanis from Afghanistan, displayed by Afghan Women's Fund
and Performances from Temple University's Sigma Alpha Iota Women's Music Fraternity

Next up:
June 1st - June 30th
Grace Episcopal Church-Merchantville
Art & Faith Space
www.gracechurchmerchantville.com
7 E Maple Ave
Merchantville, NJ 08109
Also showing Selected Photographs from Afghanistan

August 1 - August 26th
Exhibited with WCA- Florida member Betsy Bohrer (as part of a solo exhibition)
Arts on the Park Members Gallery
Upstairs Gallery
Lakeland, Florida

Interested in seeing the Collaborative Quilt come to an area near you??
We are ready to book show locations from September 2008 to December 2008.
Contact: phila_wca@yahoo.com

The Women's Caucus for Art, Philadelphia Chapter
http://phila-wca.blogspot.com
http://home.earthlink.net/~philawcamembers/index.html
http://www.marycrowley.com/rubia/ (Collaborative Project with Rubia)
http://www.inliquid.com/wca/framset.html

current mood: accomplished

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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
6:45 pm - Mail Art Archives

honoriartist
Dear S,

Thanks for your letter about your mail art collection blues.

Chuck and David did contact me about David’s archive before he died.  Then an archivist working with David also contacted me.  

I do not have any personal information about collecting, donating, or securing mail art archives, although I think Chuck Welch thinks I do.  When I was doing my doctoral research on mail art one of my main findings was that mail artists of a certain age were very concerned about the safety of their archives and wanted to find them a home in an institution.  

Here is what I learned and it may be helpful to you.

John Held Jr. a professional librarian with a well-organized archive has sold parts of it to various institutions such as the Smithsonian National Archives and the Getty.  John has received a lot of flack for selling mail art, but in fact, that’s a way to get a large institution interested.  If you are giving away an archive then it has no actual value to the acquiring organization such as university, library or museum.

Judith Hoffberg also a professional librarian donated her archive of artists’ books to her university library.

I would start by talking to these two mail artists about their archives and how to get yours secured into an institution.  Then publish how you did it on the web at mailartist.com.  Send your solution to me and I will post it there.

Another avenue is to contact a school of information (formerly called schools of library science) at a university.  Offer your archive as a capstone project and let students research how to handle mail art archives.  I think this is the best idea yet.  Grad students get a unique problem they can 1) research 2) solve and then 3) write about in scholarly journals.  A byproduct would be that you would secure the works you care about.

I wish you the best of luck in securing your archive or repurposing it into new art.  I am a recycler myself so I don’t have an archive and I don’t have archive legacy issues that go with archives.

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Sunday, March 16th, 2008
12:28 am - jumping back on the mail art train!

somavenus
helloooooo!
I have been kind of m.i.a. in the mail art world and want back in! i'm off to make a batch of postcards to send to random people i find on postcardx!
you can find me here

xoxo,
s♥ma!

soma!
p.o. box 6383
portland, oregon
97228
usa!

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Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
6:58 pm

aveverumcorpus
i just thought i'd mention that, in case anyone has or had a profile on postcardx, most of the profiles have been deleted. as i'm sure some of you know, this has been an issue for awhile, but the site is down to just fifteen profiles. at its peak, i think there were probably a thousand. postcardx is a splendid site, and i'd hate to see it vanish entirely, so why not add (or re-add) yourself?

current music: two gallants: long summer day

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Monday, November 26th, 2007
11:18 am - a bookmarker project to help the library

parisnowandthen
An Open Call To all International Artists:


You are invited to participate in an International Bookmarker Art show.

The Plainsboro Library of Plainsboro, New Jersey, USA, is sponsoring an arts festival called Cultural Crossroads.
We are asking mail artists from around the world to submit a decorated bookmarker (or two!) to help us celebrate the connection and community that mail artists create by sharing their work.

We expect many participants of all ages to come see this show, and to make their own bookmarkers as they are inspired by your amazing creative addition. Lots of children from our very diverse community will both see your work, and create their own at our festival. We are thrilled to be building bridges of connection from all over the world to our corner here in Central New Jersey.

Since this theme of Cultural Crossroads represents diversity, we are especially delighted to have an international representation in this bookmarker show.

Please decorate a white bookmarker in any way you would like – drawing or painting, collage, words, or whatever moves you.
If you like, you can incorporate our theme of "Cultural Crossroads".

Please mail back the bookmark (no later than June 15, 2008) to:

Cultural Crossroads Bookmarkers
c/o Emily Townsend
19 Sapphire Dr.
West Windsor, NJ 08550 USA

We must receive the bookmarkers before the end of June 2008, in order to be included in the show.

We will be selling all the bookmarkers to help us raise funds to build a new library.

Thank you so much for your creative participation – and if you cannot help, please feel free to pass this letter and bookmarkers along to someone who might want to!

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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
10:08 am - Sticker Dude Universe Show NYC

honoriartist
mixed media postcard with Ray Johnson bunny head
honoria's mail art for the Sticker Dude Universe mail art show

Theme: The Sticker Dude Universe
Size: Maximum 5.5" x 8.5" (148 x 210 cm, A-5)
Deadline: December 12, 2007

No work returned. Documentation to all.
Mail to:
The Sticker Dude Universe
Mail Art Project
Art 101
101 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA

If you are in NY I encourage you to attend the opening that will include a Sticker Dude performance.
December 14, 6-9 p.m. at Art 101, 101 Grand St. in Brooklyn NY.

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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
1:24 pm - here's an interesting one!

parisnowandthen
THEME: “Merry Christmas”



Comment: artist Jorge Restrepo (www.jorgerestrepo.com) will make an installation in the Spanish Cultural Center , Tegucigalpa , Honduras ( Central America ). The mail-artworks will show the reality of the world, the extreme differences in religion, social classes, justice, poverty, income, access to water, languages…of different countries….of the world. While some people are partying and celebrating, gambling…vacationing…in December, others are suffering. Jorge Restrepo will create an environment of Christmas celebration at the exhibit rooms of the Center…using the mail-artworks. The observer to the exhibit will feel the sensation of Christmas decoration. When attendants look in detail to the decoration (mail-artworks simulating Christmas cards and messages) the reality of the world will appear…dramatically…in from of their eyes…



Electronic documentation to all. Please send Email address, name and postal address.

Format and medium: free . All work be exposed. No returns.

Deadline: December 5, 2007

Curator: Carlos Lanza



Send to:

Jorge Restrepo

POBox 93

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Central America

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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
9:11 pm - Get it while it's hot!!

laurajkhalil
(It's pretty much hot forever, but the sooner the better!)




Entropic Tendencies, Issue #3: So Many Beautiful Parts
28 1/4 pages
$1.00 or 3 stamps

Laura J.
PO Box 6
Berkeley, CA 94701-0006

PS- Issue #1: Life Starts Here and Issue #2: Words for an Implicit You both still available!! (also $1.00 or 3 stamps!)

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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
9:27 am - mail art call: Georges Brassens

honoriartist


Theme: the french singer, Georges BRASSENS
Please send me any medium that deal with any technique.
Info: turlure@gmail.com Deadline to be received: October 12, 2007
Jean-Luc TURLURE
125 rue Castagnary
Paris 75015 France

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Friday, September 21st, 2007
11:11 am - Call for postcards

honoriartist
mail art with Ray Johnson style bunny head by Honoria


Incoming Mail
Media: mail art postcards
Size: 6" x 4" or smaller - must be vertically oriented.
Documentation: a full color zine will be created following the show with the art postcards sent in and some other items from the show, and every participant will receive one!
Photos of the exhibit sent before the zine is published. Please include your postal address.
Info: msfilms@hotmail.com
Deadline to be received: October 2, 2007

The Ephemeral Mailbox Museum
c/o Morgan Lane Gallery
1603 Morgan Lane
Austin, TX 78704 USA

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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
4:15 pm - Philosophy Day Call

honoriartist
mail art drawing by Honoria Starbuck
Honoria's philosophy day mail art

Philosophy Day - 21st November
1st International A4-A5 Mail Art Thessaloniki
Please send any mediumm any technique.
Size: from A5 to A4.
One work per Artist.
Exhibition will open on November 21, 2007
info: goteetotum@yahoo.gr
Deadline to be received: September 30, 2007

Teetotum
Ioanninon 44
Thessaloniki 54639
Greece

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Sunday, September 16th, 2007
12:04 pm - your mail art postcard is needed!!

vidaliasparkle

if this is not appropriate to post here, I understand if it needs to be deleted.
x-posted and please x-post

hi all!
I'm very excited to be having an art show this and next month at the Morgan Lane Gallery here in Austin! One room is all mail art, and includes a particiapatory exhibit called Incoming Mail that I wanted to invite you to be a part of.  

I realize this is very short notice, since I need postcards to be here by October 2. So if you can, please take an hour in the next few days and put something together for me. I know it will be extremely appreciated by everyone who will attend the public reception on the 3rd! The only real constraints are that it be 4x6" or less and vertically oriented, since the display I have only fits postcards vertically. otherwise, anything goes!
below is a little flyer about it, please do pass it on to mail arty friends of yours! Details are below.

*** documentation will be provided!! in other words, a full color zine will be created following the show with the art postcards sent in and some other items from the show, and every participant will receive one! SO, please include your address for me, or feel free to email me with it! I will also send photos of the exhibit so you can see all the postcards before the zine is made at the end of the show. 

mail hearts!!!!
Niku

Incoming Mail
mail art postcards
deadline: must receive by Oct. 2
specs: 6" x 4" or smaller
must be vertically oriented

questions? e-mail me at msfilms@hotmail.com


mail your piece to: 
the Ephemeral Mailbox Museum
c/o Morgan Lane Gallery
1603 Morgan Lane
Austin, TX 78704
usa
 

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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
1:49 am - Mail Art in a Resume?

staticegg
Have any of you ever included your mail art things in your "art resume"? Specifically things that were part of exhibitions?


If so, how do you document it?

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