Got my fluxstamp package yesterday. Fabulous. Great project. Great
package. Love the "Perforations by John Held, Jr. & P.K. Harris"
piece...it's leaking all over my house. Love looking at these
stamps...many of which are reminders of other cool FLUXLIST projects,
related projects, or activities and projects of many talented FLUXLIST
participants.
Patricia, you obviously suffer from the same sort of
obsessive-compulsiveness that has been behind much great fluxus work. I
salute you and thank you.
>Hi All,
>
>Some final notes on the stamp kits, which were mailed yesterday,
>and which most should be getting within a week:
>
>I editioned the stamp sets, so they are numbered in an edition of
>36 at the bottom of the page. They are yours to use as you
>wish. Some of you might want to just use them on mail art, some
>might want to keep them intact and frame them - John Held, Jr.
>has a beautiful collection of framed stamp sheets.
>
>Their are two sets of two stamp sheets. The first two are dry
>gummed - like stamps "used to be" if you wet the backs, they
>stick. These sheets have a title on the upper right. The other
>two sheets are not gummed, but they are printed on white
>ultramatte paper and thus have better resolution than the gummed
>sheets. These sheets have a title on the upper left.
>
>If you do want to keep the stamp folder intact, the second
>sheets, with the better resolution, would be ideal for color
>copies....one can just get copies made, then cut around the
>individual stamps and past them on mail art , with a good
>application of glue stick on the back. Or, if you decide to use
>the second set as stamps, again, the application of glue stick on
>the back, or whatever adhesive you prefer.
>
>The folder is organized with other ephemera in translucent
>plastic corners. Feel free to rearrange as you wish and remove
>any of the plastic corners, or not. I also affixed plastic
>corners to the sheets at the top to keep them from sliding around
>and bending in transit.
>
>The night before I mailed everything out, I decided to make a
>stamp with my "mug" on it, and I used a frame of a rubber stamp,
>"Post Flux" that John had given me. As I enthusiastically
>decorated outgoing envelopes with art stamps, etc., I noticed the
>bottom of the "Post Flux" stamp frame I had used bore the
>numbers, 7 and 11. And yesterday, the day I mailed them, was
>7/11. So, I guess we can call it a commemorative envelope. Dam,
>I should have mailed them at 7:11 but, I confess I mailed them at
>6:30....wasn't thinking.
>
>All the envelopes are garishly tarted up except for Italy and
>Venezuela (due to possible hostile postal workers). Input from
>you on how the stamps are canceled when they arrive would be
>appreciated. Did they cancel just the "real" stamps, or the art
>stamps as well? Also, I'm interested to know if they were
>postmarked 7/11/00.
>
>Oh, and if I made any mistakes, don't let me know. Just fix it
>on your end. : )
>
>Best,
>PK
