more than a detail

Ryosuke Cohen (Brain Cell Fractal #634 (detail))

well, i guess this is a bit more than a "detail": it's a whole half of BCF 634! (full dimensions: 42 X 29.5 cm) i won't try and guess who all did what here (but i do see Billy Mavreas, buZ blurr, the Haddock, etc.) but i particularly want to point out: "an index to 1496 o729..." that's the cover logo &c. from jwcurry's index to my old VAN zine (here's a scan of the cover: http://bentspoon.blogspot.com/2005/09/jw-curry-did-i-miss-something.html) & here's the vanlist: http://www3.telus.net/van364/Vanlist.htm

anyway here's Ryosuke Cohen:
3-76-1-A-613
Yagumokitacho
Moriguchi-City
Osaka 570
Japan

golden toner

Susan Gold

well, it does not show up too well on the computer here, but wow! i don't know how she has done it, but Susan Gold wins the Golden Toner Award for this: those red patches are the shiniest golden red "toner"! what's the trick?

ivanhoe artists mosaic

Ron Emolo, Don Kommit & Alexis Facas

http://ivanhoe-art.tripod.com

cascadia uber alles

Cascadia Artpost

new address:

Cascadia Artpost
2649 NW 64th Street
Seattle, WA
98107-2456
USA

Mike Dickau (1528 40th St., Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA) 

Jim Hayes (Po Box 1459, Marietta, GA, 30061, USA) 

Mark Sonnenfeld (ISBN: 1-887379-82-7) 

Ficus strangulensis "Faces..." (from Lee Thorn's 'zine (vol. 9, no. 1))

here's more from Lee Thorn:

http://search.blogger.com/?as_q=lee+thorn&ie=UTF-8&ui=blg&bl_url=bentspoon.blogspot.com

HAT HITS 100!

here's the complete list:

http://www3.telus.net/van364/hatlist.htm

Hat is my little photocopy broadside-type zine... most issues are a single 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of white paper folded in half: giving 4 pages (or so)... Hat is a continuation of Van: http://www3.telus.net/van364/Vanlist.htm which i produced out of Vanderhoof, B.C. & itself was a continuation of Mo' Gumbo which i did in Victoria, B.C. at the end of 1999? (2000?) (only 23 or so issues)

anyway, if anyone is interested in picking up any of the issues they are all available as reprints (at an atrocious price!) plus some of them are still in stock (the most recent 10 or so) [i only make 50 copies!] & subscriptions are available too (for future issues) ...

hat hits 100!

i was going to finish up that list this morning, but i thot it would be more fun to do this:

http://hatzine.blogspot.com

(more to come)

HAT hits 100!

i've been working on updating the hat list:

http://www3.telus.net/van364/hatlist.htm

(more to come)

Escargot Cult Award - $400

Laurie Dunn "Window Box"

the [mailsnail] gang scraped together a "modest cash prize" ($300? $400?) as a sort of lifetime achievement award for the Canadian poet Andy Suknaski... (this is the second attempt to award one to one of our heroes, the first one was turned down! (by Gerry Gilbert))

Andy is famous for dropping poems from airplanes & leaving them on mountain-tops, etc. & has quite a few books to his credit (even some concrete/visual poetry!)

next year: The Babynous Cult!

Jamie Reid 

State of Being (Oberlin, OH) 

Sheila E. Murphy (Phoenix, AZ) 

sunset or sunrise?

John R. Barlow "Moulin Rouge"

this is the interior of a mailing by John Barlow: couple of nice readymades: "one drop does it" (reminds me of something else) & gotta love that numerological delight:

808
343

plus if i'm not mistaken that a collaboration with Jim Leftwich there (but is it a genuine or a fake collaboration? if barlow spills a beer on a leftwich piece does it make it a "collaboration"?) ... & i wish i could say that was some poetry bucks there, but i guess we'll have to confess that they're hockey bucks! john's got his priorities straight!

Madison Morrison blog

i've been working on this for Madison Morrison:

http://madisonmorrison.blogspot.com

Hektograph

from Dale Speirs (Opuntia 59.3)

you can find dale's contact info here:

http://bentspoon.blogspot.com/2005/08/ruggero-maggi-via-dale-speirs.html

"Holiday" Broadside

Alison & Theodore Enslin (& Charles Burchfield)

this is the Univ. at Buffalo (S.U.N.Y.) holiday broadside (1500 copies!) Alison Enslin did the "Fox" (painted terra cotta: 6 X 8 X 5 in.) Theodore Enslin wrote the poem & Charles Burchfield did the wallpaper! (Wallpaper design # 3960 for M.H. Birge & Sons Wallpaper Co.) (Watercolor on paper)

ask Volker Nix

Dan Waber

i'd love to share my version of "Merry Xmas" with y'all but... (okay, here's how it ends "...6mas" guess the rest or else ask V.N.)

the evils of mailart

i asked the transamoebae consortium (formerly known as the babynous cult) about the evils of mailart, this is what he wrote:

http://transamoebae.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-mailart-is-evil.html

let's call this zaum

Jim Leftwich

1999

Akenaton Doc(K)s

Ted Warnell (http://www.warnell.com ) lent this to me: it's more than an inch thick! it's sort of a portable slice of the internet ca. 1999... chock full of cool stuff!

here's the link to akenaton:

http://www.sitec.fr/users/akenatondocks

politics

Jokie X Wilson "Governator Carnage"

cheque made out to "Fluxus Canucks" 

ReSite #3

David Dellafiora

just got my copy of ReSite #3 from David Dellafiora in Australia (here's the call: http://fivemilcopiesproj.blogspot.com/2005/07/resite-david-dellafiora.html )
i have posted a few of the works below:

Vittore Baroni (from ReSite #3)

http://www.lutherblissett.net

Benjamin Bohm (5 Cheddars Lane/ CB5 8LD Cambridge / UK) [from ReSite #3] 

Schoko Casana Rosso

http://www.schoko-casana-rosso.de

Angela Stadthaus (from ReSite #3)