mail art – IT IN Place

Nudes

alex — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:23:23 +0000

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Duchampian snap with UU from London.

Death Cards For Willoughby

alex — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 23:38:51 +0000

double_u UU sends cards for dead Mexican Kings my way and it made me think how much I’m playing cards these days. I’ve been spending a lot of time editing Cage with Dave S. and that feels like a poker game half the time. I’ve also been trying to storyboard Willoughby which feels like a card game too, in the sense of discreet rectangle pictures laid out like solitaire. More hands to come!

You You and Me en Paris

alex — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:48:22 +0000

Card Game

alex — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:25:03 +0000

Library project alum dou_ble_you is all set to meet up in Paris to do some cafe card drawing, etc. Here is his ten of hearts start with my portrait of him from imagination.

Jackard Male

alex — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:26:15 +0000

Greetings came in the post from Belgium by way of fripsmailart.blogspot.com/. This just as I was prepping my first found card (a Jack of Spades) to send off in a new mail art project I’m starting with DoubleYou in London. This one we might call Art Poker, Or Art Gin, Or Art Cards, or Art Shuffle or…. well we haven’t named it yet. It consists of finding a playing card in the street… something I do and collect because if it’s playful randomness… I mean how is it that you will sometimes find a random card on the sidewalk? It’s like finding a single shoe… Cinderalla of the game world. So the idea is that you alter this card in some way and then send it off to another artist to finish, or alter again and mail on… Could be interesting…. Shuffling the deck around the world as it were.

New New York Correspondence School

alex — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:19:03 +0000

This is some mail art I got these last couple of weeks from my friend Chuck Sasson at the New New York Correspondence School. I fell on his mail art Fluxus fun while doing the Library Project. He works at my local wine store and it’s nice to run into him and find that he’s been reading the blog and then find some of his mail art in the letter box…in some way I think these works are his response to some of my recent stories, etc. Anyway I can’t seem to make anything I want to show anyone and I’m sort of saving up my mojo to go into Frost Street starting Monday and knock up some large dogs and dead ducks, etc.

Hanging Myself

alex — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:52:25 +0000

Not funny really in this time of Infinite Jests, but maybe it is really exactly how I feel. I mean in the sense of eternal return, or Metampsychosis, or however you spell it and whatever Joyce was talking about…. I’m hanging the show. I feel like a worker… in the Marxist sense of that word: working on the ladders with the back into it. I mean to say that hanging a book is a physical act. I’ve been training for it like a boxer at the gym.. but my fucking thumbs are still weak for the push pins and the map pins and the pins and needles and needles and pins…..feel like a carpenter… feel like Christ crucified… stigmata on my thumb. LOL. music here is some odd Brian Wilson post Smile mid mad period song. Fucking lovely and perfect fit for my raw time lapse. More to come…

Hell's Gate

alex — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:26:33 +0000

Another Library collab with Chuck Sassoon (before and after)

In The Woods

alex — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:52:54 +0000

Working on some new Library collaborations, this one I’ve been noodling on for a while. A start from Caroline VK.

More Songs About Movies

alex — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:39:58 +0000

Here are some Collabs from Brian Raszka and The Library Project. He’s taken up my animated gif obsession and when you stack them up like this it really becomes sort of cinematc. This trio is all obsessed with Foreign and American film: Particularly the word play on French New Wave stars Goddard and Truffaut… Which is sort of like God is True or Faux (meaning “fake” in French)?. Brian’s animated finishes come right at a time where Sonja is trying to engage the group in a larger animated story. More on that idea as it happens.

Mail Vice

alex — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:52:27 +0000

This is some mail art from New York Correspondence School (which is to say the guy who works at my local wine shop). Middle periodic table one is a library collab with him and the top and bottom is two sides of his vice howl.