Saturday, December 31, 2005

more than a detail


Ryosuke Cohen (Brain Cell Fractal #634 (detail)) Posted by Picasa

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 Posted by Picasa

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 Posted by Picasa

http://ivanhoe-art.tripod.com

cascadia uber alles


Cascadia Artpost Posted by Picasa

new address:

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

Friday, December 30, 2005


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

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

Mark Sonnenfeld (ISBN: 1-887379-82-7) Posted by Picasa

Thursday, December 29, 2005


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

here's more from Lee Thorn:

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

Monday, December 26, 2005

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)

Sunday, December 25, 2005

HAT hits 100!

i've been working on updating the hat list:

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

(more to come)

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Escargot Cult Award - $400


Laurie Dunn "Window Box" Posted by Picasa

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!

Friday, December 23, 2005


Jamie Reid Posted by Picasa

Thursday, December 22, 2005


State of Being (Oberlin, OH) Posted by Picasa

Sheila E. Murphy (Phoenix, AZ) Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

sunset or sunrise?


John R. Barlow "Moulin Rouge" Posted by Picasa

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!

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Madison Morrison blog

i've been working on this for Madison Morrison:

http://madisonmorrison.blogspot.com

Hektograph


from Dale Speirs (Opuntia 59.3) Posted by Picasa

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) Posted by Picasa

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 Posted by Picasa

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.)

Friday, December 16, 2005

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 Posted by Picasa

1999


Akenaton Doc(K)s Posted by Picasa

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" Posted by Picasa

Thursday, December 15, 2005


cheque made out to "Fluxus Canucks" Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

ReSite #3


David Dellafiora Posted by Picasa

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) Posted by Picasa

http://www.lutherblissett.net

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

Schoko Casana Rosso Posted by Picasa

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

Angela Stadthaus (from ReSite #3) Posted by Picasa