To All:
If any of you would still like to participate, I am reposting
details. Cutoff (deadline?) date is 5 May 2000.
CHART OF TECHNICAL DETAILS
Issue: Fluxstamps
Activity: The making and submitting forth of art stamps
Email me an image, or,
snail mail me an image to scan.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Snail: P.K. Harris
137 Sixth Street
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
USA
Artists: You know who you are
If you wish to gaze upon stamps to glean inspiration, you might
want to visit some stamps of Robert Watts:
http://www.faximum.com/jas.d/asg_32.htm
or, in the alternative, for sheer aesthetic quality, the U.S.
Postal Service:
http://www.stampsonline.com/collect
Images: Anything you want, photos, drawings, thumbprints,
toeprints, collages of refrigerator ephemera, a scan of
your underwear, whatever. You can overlay it with numbers if you
wish (kinda like the postage amount, just don' put
an actual currency sign on it), or text or whatever, in fact the
stamp could consist of only text. Obviously, these
images will be used to complement those of the postal service
rather than substitute for same, but, who knows......
Image area/size: Ultimately, the size of the stamp should be:
Square: Image size, 1.075 x 1.075 in/ 27.31 x 27.31 mm
Vertical: Image size, 1.41 in. high x .84 in. wide/35.81 x 21.34
mm
Horizontal: Image size, .84 in. high, 1.41 in. wide/ 21.34 x
35.81
mm
If you wish to send larger images for me to resize, just make
sure they are in the ballpark - i.e. ultimate size multiplied
by 2, etc., for me to scale down.
The format for the sheet of stamps, once they are gridded
together, would be a row of the squares, a row of the
verticals, a row of the horizontals, whatever, depending on what
I get. The end result would be a sheet of fluxstamps
of different images.
What will you do when you have all the images, Patricia? I
will put them together in a grid in Photoshop, thus producing a
sheet of stamps. I have been given the address of a lovely man
who will perforate them, if he agrees to do so, and I can then
snail mail you sheets if you send me an sase. In the
alternative, I can email you the sheets and you can cut and paste
them on all of your important documents winging (crawling?)
their way through the postal service.
Images have been received from Don Boyd, Alan Bowman, Ana Capuli,
Narvis & pez, Michael Leigh, Owen Smith, P.K. Harris (moi), Reed
Altemus, Robert Fontenot, Roger Stevens, Heiko Recktenwald and
Sol Nte. If you would like me to send you this imagery (the
stamps in contact sheet format, not yet gridded) by email, I can
send you a .gif file or a zipped file. If you want a .jpg file
for resolution, I can send that too, but it's almost 1 MB and
takes a while to load.
Date of Issue: Hopefully, soon.
Questions? I live to serve.
Best,
PK
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they
fly by. "
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