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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
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5:04 pm - 67 000 Евро ($106,000) за марку
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kalendarini
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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
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8:26 am - MailArt Austria is online now
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| Sunday, January 18th, 2009
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12:16 pm - Mail-art call "Ticket to Jerusalem"
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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
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8:52 pm - Know any queer rural zines? x-post (if this doesn't belong/breaks rules, sorry; tell me&I'll delete)
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| Friday, October 10th, 2008
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10:45 am - richmond zinefest this saturday!!!!! xposted
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When: Saturday Oct 11, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Where: Gay Community Center of Richmond 1407 Sherwood Ave. Richmond, Virginia|47 23220 United States View Map
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
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8:13 pm - collaborative visual diary - OhMi
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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.
      
more & larger imgs @ traveling sketchbooks blog. collaborative traveling visual diary by: nicci (Ohio) & mcdc3s (Michigan).
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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11:17 pm - Mail Art Invitation
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| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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10:07 am - Art from Women of Afgahanistan and Women's Caucus for Art
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| Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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6:45 pm - Mail Art Archives
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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
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12:28 am - jumping back on the mail art train!
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| Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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6:58 pm
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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
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11:18 am - a bookmarker project to help the library
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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
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10:08 am - Sticker Dude Universe Show NYC
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 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
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1:24 pm - here's an interesting one!
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parisnowandthen
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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
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9:11 pm - Get it while it's hot!!
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laurajkhalil
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(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
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9:27 am - mail art call: Georges Brassens
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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
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11:11 am - Call for postcards
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honoriartist
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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
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4:15 pm - Philosophy Day Call
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honoriartist
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 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
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12:04 pm - your mail art postcard is needed!!
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vidaliasparkle
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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
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1:49 am - Mail Art in a Resume?
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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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