I know I've seen the machines that make hello Kitty stickers with your image
on them in Sanrio (Hello Kitty, Inc.) stores in various malls around the
country.
Alex, prefers Badtz-Maru over Hello Kitty, and is man enough to admit that
he has an informed opinion on the matter
>From: "Sol Nte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: stampyourface
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:46:40 -0000
>
>Hi all,
>
>PK wrote:
>
> >If you see one of these "stamp club" machines in your area,
>go for it. For $5 u.s. it can produce a self-inking rubber
>stamp of your face (or whatever) in postage stamp format
>within 5 minutes. Several different colors of ink. It can
>even incorporate up to 7 letters of text; i.e., fluxus. We
>found one in Japantown in San Francisco and used props
>(hats, flowers, masks) - had great fun and got some nifty
>stamps.<
>
>I can verify the fun obtained from these machines. There was one in the
>photographer's gallery in London a couple of years ago as part of a special
>exhibit so we got a couple of stamps done. They're not that high-quality
>but
>pretty cool from a machine. I was hoping to see some of these machines in
>Tokyo when I was there at Christmas but I didn't see any despite our
>trawling many many arcades in the hope of finding one...we did however find
>various sticker machines including a Hello Kitty one and one which put
>your
>picture next to a picture of the giant buddha at Kamakura, also we found
>another machine that made trading cards with your image on them...of course
>all the instructions for these machines were in Japanese so it was a case
>of
>trial and error to get the background/photos we wanted..a lot of fun
>though.
>
>PK are there a lot of these machines in your part of the US or only in
>Japantown and other venues like that? The related "Print Club" sticker
>machines like NeoPrint etc. are in a lot of places in England.
>
>cheers,
>
>Sol.
>
>
>
>
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