Nothing

A Mail Art Call

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Moan Lisa's Art Akademie

Theme: Nothing

Due Date: December 31, 2019

All tests will be graded and handed back.

Send to:

Moan Lisa

4220 87th St.

Urbandale, IA 50322

United States

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Mark Rossmiller

4220 87th Street

Urbandale, IA 50322

United States

blessed.is.mary@gmail.com

Spring 2019

It's that time again. 

Lots been happening but not much of great interest.  I did, however, have a play accepted for the Short and Sweet Festival in Sydney this year.  That was pretty great.  It was earlier, in February, and I went up with my family to watch it be performed.  It was taken as a Wild Card and went up against 6 or 7 other plays to see which one would go on.  Mine didn't, but it was fun being up there all the same and actually watching something you'd written on paper come to life. 

I've culled a lot of my books from Lulu; just kept the ones there that seem to keep being read on Smashwords.  So, instead of 18 books, I'm now down to 3.  Much more manageable. 

Still writing, but trying to get things published through regular publishers now; magazines and the like.  I did get an almost acceptance of a book that I sent out earlier this year but it was, apparently, a bit short, so I wrote some more of it, sent it off and am waiting to hear back about it. 

That's about it really.  No art to speak of.

How's everyone else's art going?  Good I hope.


Well, happy summer everyone and Merry Xmas very soon!!

Oh yeah

It's Spring 2018 and I'm posting my regular, once a year update.  What's been happening?  Well, you know I'm a writer and I've been writing.  Publishing books on Smashwords and Lulu, as it happens.  I now have 18 books on Lulu - all available for purchase, of course.  I have another ready to go, but I've already published three books this year, so I need to save something for next year.  I'm writing an experimental memoir at the moment, along with a "fictional" account of my non-life as a musician.  I'm using it as a bit of a 'how not to do it' self-help book.  Hence the fictional in quotes. 

It's Spring, as I said.  It's been a cold, dry Winter; one of the coldest I can ever remember.  Surely, that means that Summer will be hot and firey.  Though, they say every year that this year's fire season will be the worst but it never quite eventuates so, we'll wait and see.

Here is the link to Lulu, if anyone is interested in checking out my work or - cross fingers - even purchasing some. 

At the very least, you'll find out my real name.

Thanks for reading and see you again some time.  Keep the fires burning!!

I don't know

Scarica la puntata dell'25 luglio 2014 cliccando QUI

Coxo Spaziale prosegue il suo originalissimo percorso estivo con una puntata dedicata alla manipolazione affettiva, durante la quale il non-conduttore DJ Paglione conclude in diretta un esperimento psicologico sul suo amico Valid, ignaro di esserne la cavia gigante.

Manipolazione affettiva

Prendete una persona e comportatevi con essa come a costei piacerebbe che voi foste, siate costantemente presenti con lei, colmandone i vuoti quotidiani, e preoccupatevi di essere sempre affabili con i suoi amici e parenti, quindi isolatela progressivamente dalla sua rete relazionale, e quando intorno a sé non avrà altri che voi, invitatela in radio e fatele ascoltare due ore di NoFX: un nuovo fan sarà nato!

Per saperne di più sulla manipolazione affettiva:

Del sadismo morale, ovvero il vampiro narcisista.

A chi non è capitato?

Menzioni

Domenica 3 agosto 

NOFX + AGNOSTIC FRONT + THE OLD FIRM CASUALS

Idoli indiscussi della scena punk i NoFX saranno protagonisti di un nuovo evento estivo a Milano. Insieme ad Agnostic Front e The Old Firm Casuals, il meglio del punk-rock e dell'hard-core internazionale suonerà insieme per un appuntamento unico sul palco del Carroponte di Sesto San Giovanni, alle porte del capoluogo lombardo.

Trent’anni di lunga e onorata carriera fanno dei NoFX i paladini indiscussi dello skate-punk-rock californiano, da sempre amato e seguitissimo in tutto il mondo. Con oltre 6 milioni di copie vendute in tutto il mondo, la storia dei NoFX muove i primi passi negli anni ’80 sulla scia di band come Ramones e Misfits. Ma è con la decade successiva che la band raggiunge la vetta  all’interno del panorama musicale mondiale in un continuo crescendo di popolarità e successo. Partiti dal punk-hard-core più violento, per approdare ad una originale formula di hard-core melodico, i NoFX hanno pubblicato 12 album in studio, sempre con etichette indipendenti, e un infinito numero di singoli, extendend paly, live, compilation, raccolte e documentari.

I nostri, ancora oggi sono in giro per tutti i palchi del mondo (sono stati anche in Cina!), sudando e faticando come se fosse la prima volta. I NoFX sono famosi per i loro live show incredibilmente vivaci che si sviluppano tra siparietti, scherzi e messaggi a dimostrazione dell’importante impegno politico e sociale che da sempre li caratterizza.

Musica

Losers (feat. Riz MC & Envy) – Flush
NoFX – Kill All the White Man
NoFX – The Death of John Smith
NoFX – The Longest Line

NoFX – Reeko
NoFX – Scavenger Type
NoFX – Philthy Phil Philanthropist
NoFX – Freedom Like a Shopping Cart
NoFX – Bleeding Heart Disease
NoFX – Lori Meyers
NoFX – Jeff Wears Birkenstocks
NoFX – Punk Guy
NoFX – Happy Guy
NoFX – Reeko (de novo...)
NoFX – Whoops, I OD'd
NoFX – The Separation of Church and Skate
NoFX – Falling in Love
NoFX – It's My Job to Keep Punk Rock Elite
NoFX – My Vagina
NoFX – Herojuana
NoFX – Cokie the Clown
NoFX – Straight Outta Massachusetts
NoFX – Fermented and Flailing
NoFX – Codependence Day
NoFX – My Orphan Year (Acoustic)
NoFX – Seeing Double at the Triple Rock
NoFX – We March to the Beat of Indifferent Drum
NoFX – The Marxist Brothers
NoFX – The Man I Killed
NoFX – Benny Got Blowed Up
NoFX – Leaving Jesusland
NoFX – Getting High on the Down Low
NoFX – Cool and Unusual Punishment
NoFX – Dinosaurs Will Die
NoFX – Thank God It's Monday
NoFX – Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't)
NoFX – The Decline (X2)
NoFX – The Bag
NoFX – Please Play This Song on the Radio
NoFX – Warm
NoFX – Eat the Meek

2016 - whoa!!

Yes boys and girls, it's 2016 and we're still here, drinking beer.  It's summer, it's been 35-39 degrees most days and I'm at work tomorrow.  But hey, that's the way the pig flies.  Have been doing a lot of writing lately; in the throes of a new experimental novel style that I'm calling 'particleism.'  For want of a better word.  Inspired by Cubist art, I'm trying to write the basic blocks of a novel and leave out the rest of the crap.  It'll be up on Smashwords when done.

till then

I remain

couldbeanyone

I Stole This Blog, but DeVillo Sloan Stole My Life!!

He cloned me, he turned me into a remote controlled Stepford Wife. My clone plays twister with pigs. My clone has an Uncle Ramone who drinks Tequila and gets sloppy at dive bars. My clone is not me. My clone mocks me. My clone is a stereotype. I fight against her. I resist her, yet she is strong and determined like me. He has made me into a monster and stole my life. I do not know if it is stole, stoled, stolen, or stealed. Before DeVillo Steeled my life, I wouldn't have know.

My Blog was Rated #1 by the HuffNPuffington Post!

 Please read and comment. Seriously, I'm on the ledge at least once a day based on # of visitors

http://thetelepathtelegraph.blogspot.com/

Cats and Artists Can't resist mysterious portals

Fluxus ?

So, are blogs not functional anymore?

It seems as a blogger that more and more people move into the social networks, and the visiting of blogs is declining. On the other hand people need structures to find things, and the social media are loosing thje structures more and more because they want to earn money from us and try to distract us with activities that bring them money......

Wow

Yeah, it's still here.  And this is my first post for the year, maybe even two.  And it still isn't all that interesting, but it is at least, another post.  Things haven't been much different since the last one, except I'm a poet now.  Put out heaps of stuff in the last few months, just waiting on replies, rejections and acceptances.  My Smashwords site is going pretty good; I've made everything I've put up free so lots have been downloaded.  Whether any of it has been read is debateable but you never know.  Will keep you posted on further developments.  Keep changing!!

it still works

glad to know this experiment still works. It is a kind of conceoptual artwork that keeps changing....

A Kickstarter Project for a show in London, UK

 

 

 

Artist and curator KAZ asked me to join him for an exhibition in London in July, at Kingsgate Gallery. I will be showing new work, together with some musical sculptures that I will be playing at the opening of the exbihibition, on July 4th, 2013.

Funds for this show are scarce, so we decided to try out Kickstarter to raise funds for this project. At the moment we raised already over a third of what's needed for the show, and we are confident that with your help we will be able to get the show going.

Kickstarter works that you either get the whole project funded, or nothing at all, so I am asking you to promote this project and let all your friends know about it.

 

This is the link to paste on Facebook, Twitter, or to make a donation:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1386218559/floating-world-art-exhibition-in-3-parts

 

Even one pound can make a difference.

 

Thank you very much!

 

Stefano

 

 

PS: You will receive original artworks from a pledge as small as UK £ 10!

 

 

 

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News of the week

so, i've become a writer again.  i sort of gave it up a while ago but, as it always does, it pulled me back in.  i'm writing another novel, have written a few short stories and some poems and presently have a tonne of things out there, just waiting to be rejected.  i'm trying to be positive but i usually set myself up for failure and, guess what?  it generally eventuates.  not always but mostly.  i don't mind though, i'll keep sending things out and seeing what happens.  published a couple of things on smashwords though. 

here's the link if anyone is at all interested:

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/davidfrancisjeffery

and that's about it. 

December

And so it's nearly Christmas, which means, as all things must, that it's summer time. Yeah, the weather has really been heating up around here and today is no exception. We're going to take our daughter to the Aquarium today, which means a good hour's drive in this heat. Thank God for A/C.

So, another year almost over and another few posts on this blog by me and various others. It's still looking really good, even though I occassionaly get a message that someone tries to change the password but, what the hell, if you want to, you certainly can. What do I care? It's here for anyone to do what they want with it and if that means shutting it down, then go right ahead.

Personally, I hope no one does because it's just starting to really move forward.

How do I know?

Wait till next year.

Projekto Sendecida by Projekto Sendecida - steal this music

steal this music

New password

As I thought, some smarty has changed the password.  I was going to leave it but I thought, no, I'll change it again.  So I've now put the new password on the front.  Whoever changed it, you'll need to do better than that.  

Autumn

I haven't written anything in this blog for ages and ages but I see someone has pretty much taken it over and done great things with it and, for that, I'm very happy.  It's starting to become what I envisioned when I first created it; a site for people to do whatever they wanted.  I notice it's pretty much devoted to Mail Art and Art in general but that's not a bad thing.  I mean, a paedophile group or Nazi sympathizers could have taken it over and I might have got into some real serious shit.  But no, people who understand have been contributing and for that, I'm awfully grateful.  I'll try to post a bit more regularly but I don't even on my personal blog so I wouldn't be holding my breath or anything.  I'm really interested to see if this becomes any more popular as the years wind on.  It's quite exciting really.

Two exhibitions on friday and saturday // Keep being in my emailing list



 

Hi, I just wanted to let you know about my next exhibitions. If you wish to continue receiving updates on my shows please read the end of this email, thank you!

Stefano

tanatosi

e del sonno (a)

adriano persiani, enrica berselli, simone rondelet, christian rainer, caterina morelli, ascanio tacconi, claudia collina, stefano w. pasquini, anna lisa bondioli, andrea belfi, gilda scaglioni & francesco petroni, andrea sessa, roberto papavero crusca, emanuela ascari, silvia forese, colette baraldi, chiara soldati, giulia ferrarese, francesco martinelli, elettra mallaby

vernissage Friday 24^th February 2012 7 PM

curated by patrizia silingardi and sonia schiavone

thur/sat 3-6 PM and by appointment, until 21^st April 2012

thanks to viabizzuno for the lights

melepere | via sottoriva 12 | verona | italy | +39 045 8015353 | +39 335 8359128 | p.iva 03471660237 | info@melepere.com

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Cartabianca

Project curated by Silvia Cini

with the collaboration of Francesca Serrati

Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce

OPENING Saturday 25^th February 2012, 6.00 PM

Cartabianca refers to a contemporary and multi-participant art-project which sets out to interact with the museum's collateral spaces and the services that it offers. The intention is to spark off relational dynamics, which in turn would involve the very city hosting the museum. Interlacing connections with the major Italian cities will be developed through diverse exhibitions, the latter aimed at describing the emergent and the vital within the contemporary art framework.

The cartabianca_bologna first phase is carried out by the curators Roberto Daolio, Massimo Marchetti and Anna Santomauro. It will involve eleven artists and groups: Alessandra Andrini, Emanuel Ascari, Claire Bosi, Giulia Cenci, Curandi Katz, Anna Ferraro, Antonello Ghezzi, Luciano Maggiore, Stefano W. Pasquini, Chiara Pergola, Emanuele Serafini.

The artistic contributions above will range from specific projects through to minimal and small displacements, avoiding predetermined paths and models. They will be established as "collateral spaces riqualification operations", areas not specifically assigned to the exhibition activity, but which become fundamental elements to the Museum's life, encouraging involvement and establishing new paths for sharing.

www.cartabiancaitalia.com

info@cartabiancaitalia.com - staffmostre@comune.genova.it

fb Carta Bianca

Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce 

Via J. Ruffini, 3 - 16128 Genova 


Tel. +39 010 580069 / 585772 
Fax +39 010 532482 

 The event on Facebook

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Advices

Be yourself. Fall inlove. Forget the past. Hold no regrets. Follow your dreams. Smile. Tell yourself you can do it. Because you can. Listen to your heart more often than your brain. Don't hate - it burns the soul. Care about yourself. Take risks. Do things for others. Cultivate your mind. Fight for justice. Be free.

Projekto Sendecida en vivo Patio Andén - Esperanza - Santa Fe - Argentina

Professor's brain....

labandeapersonne@gmail.com free use mail box for artis(t)ik project. Password Cacapipi
Please if you're use it add your contact on the list and send to all

thanxxx

La bande a personne

The Secret Lives of Mail Artists

Some mail artists dedicate ALL of their time to mail art.  Some others incorporate mail art into their lives as nothing more than a hobby, or even as a one time thing.  Then there are mail artists who include mail art making and curating as a part of a myriad of artistic activities over several years .  Dom Fetherston falls into this category.

Check out his drawings paintings and sculptures AND some postal art at  http://cautionstudio.ca

BIZARRE VINTAGE ADS!

Excuse me, sir...

AIDS Awareness Posters

The Walking Dead!

I watch the Walking Dead and think it is great! It is a a refreshing take on the zombie genre. Feel free to discuss your views on this show.

Childhood

Do you remember :

1) when kids use to play outside?

2) when cell phones didn't exist and yet kids survived walking to the store alone?

3) when parents allowed their kids to walk to school unsupervised?

4) when a kids' broken bone was an "accident" and not a reason to raze all playgrounds due to liability and lawsuits?


I do.

-Concerned for the next generation

Fear

Cuts tongues

silences the sheep. 

Refuse to be herd.

Bark as loud as you want. 

SeizeThisDoma.in

http://www.SeizeThisDoma.in

Going to the dogs

Creative people cure society.

There's nothing new under the sun.

So, long live hipsters, because cliche's piss people off.

-Petriv

Who am I? Who are you!!!

I am no one & yet I am everyone. I am an artist & i am not alone. I am unemployed & yet I am happy. Creative expression is a medium that transcends race - color, beliefs... It is not up to us to say what is art - it is only important to view it. Seek Enjoy Experience most of all - do not apply criteria to it

Stolen PoststsoP

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly

During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It has become mathematical. The question now is, not whether this or that hypothesis is better or worse to the pure thought, but whether it accords with observed phenomena in those consequences which can be shown necessarily to follow from it, if it be true 

— Augustus De Morgan

In Augustus De Morgan and Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (ed.), A Budget of Paradoxes (1872), 2. 

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Mr. Hillaire Belloc has pointed out that science has changed greatly, and for the worse, since it became popular. Some hundred years ago, or more, only very unusual, highly original spirits were attracted to science at all; scientific work was therefore carried out by men of exceptional intelligence. Now, scientists are turned out by mass production in our universities. 

— Anthony Standen

In Science is a Sacred Cow (1950), 23-24. 

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Join in

It is getting more difficult to enter this blog. Security questions, also not supporting the browser I use. Geezzz, life on Internet gets difficult.

The security question that you will have to answer is also everybody


so now i am here taking over this blog , nor really sure what i wanted with this , in fact i wanted to write about negative product placement and started to read about mail art , a rather big thing in the 60 and 70 , but it died a slow dead because of the internet . Have been wondering how it would be possible to get people to use normal post again , like in sending letters or gifts.

Dr. Martens

Mass amounts of Dr. Martens littered the fluffy snow

Canvas and leather

Oxblood never looked this good on white

- Petriv

From:  BoneFarm Scripa Sinclair

bonefarmproductions@yahoo.com

BoneFarmOfTheOblique@Blogger

To:
Mr.  Abbie Hoffman
83rd Dead Zone
TheUniversalMorgue


DEAR ABBIE,
You were right:"DEATH IS BETTER THAN THIS VISION".
But its interesting!
      Think about Duchamp with that urinal way back in 1903.  He came from France to shock and mystify the NYC art world with a urinal!  A urinal!  Right there and then he made a move that convinced people of the objects indifference to art.  Now, art can be anything declared to be art, at least if it is declared by an artist.  It was as though he made art reality and reality art.
Sincerely,
Scripa Sinclair aka MotherHuckster

The persistent gaze (view from the emperor)

Locked
Entangled
I behold the vortex
I stand on the edge
I realease my anger.

just because you made it doesn't mean people will pay attention. creative efforts require EFFORT, yo.

Please stop writing whiny blog posts about how hardly anyone is contributing to the blog. This does not inspire sympathy, it inspires contempt.

Some ideas to get more traffic to this blog and potentially more contributors:

• Paid advertising (might work, might not)
• Posting something daily or at least consistently: this is a matter of math. Search Engine Optimization. More content = more searchbots locating your content = showing up in random searches.
• Tweeting the blog address.
• Something about facebook.
• DO NOT POST blog posts about blogging or engage in public whining. Passive aggression is not an attractive trait and are much more annoying than you realize.
• Putting the blog address on postcards, bookmarks, business cards, community bulletin boards with tear-away blog address strips, craigslist, etc.
• Develop a marketing plan (see above)
• Do not believe that internet success relies on random luck. It's math and hard work. Just because you have built it and you think it's an awesome idea does not mean everyone else will also think the same.
• Write a press release about it. Do this often (see "Develop a marketing plan"). Your local public library should have books about marketing, SEO stuff, how to write a press release, etc. Or you can just steal the books you need from your local bankrupt bookstore.

 

Twelve months on....

and this blog is still sort of going.  No one's really posting though so, maybe it really isn't.  I'm going to keep it up though. 

Who knows what another year might bring?

Probably not much.

And the world looked on in horror

I'm wondering when this headline is going to be front page again.

How to become a successful porn star

For women: go to the gym, get breast implants, fake orgasms convincingly, enjoy being exploited, convince yourself you aren't being.

For men: be born with an enormous penis.

Motivation

I've been getting up early the past three months, to go running before work.  I've been pretty consistent and have lost about 5 kilos because of it. 

This morning, however, the rain was pissing down.  'I'm going to stay in bed,' I thought and turned over.  But my body had other ideas.

'I need to go to the toilet.' 
'Let me sleep.'
'But I need to go to the toilet, NOW.' 

So, sighing, I got out of bed and went to the toilet.  As I was listening to the rain, I remembered reading an article from a personal trainer about motivation.  She said there was no real such thing.  It was just a matter of doing.  One sentence I clearly remember, was her writing, 'Do you think I'm motivated when I wake up and hear rain on the roof?' 

Such was the morning.  What could I do?  I felt guilty.  So I put on my gear and went running.  It wasn't bad.  Not too cold and not too wet. 

Came home and felt better. 

Motivation.

"Yay" Us...Not "Boo" Them

Why is it that people feel like they need to knock the other side down in order to bolster themselves?  Giving politicians a pass (whether they deserve one or not) there's no need for it in sports, advertising or...well, life.

Researching women in computer science, I see a lot of the Men vs. Women attitude.  Who's better?  Are you kidding me?  Can't we all just get along?

Acknowledging that many men are damn good programmers doesn't take away the fact that many women are damn good, too.  Saying that University of Oregon Ducks ROCK as a football team doesn't mean that the OSU Beavers suck.

Here's my question.  Why is it that we have this inherent need to trash the opposing side?  In sports, isn't it a little more powerful to say that *they're* good, but *we're* still better?

it still works

posting is still posible. Great!