Re: (",) "PostSecret" book-Tamara

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 05:07:52 -0700

well, whomever isn't framing themselves as a mail-artist. "PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard." or is mail art simply based on the technology of the post office? if that's the case i sometimes get mail-art novels from half.com

On 9/1/06, LaVona Sherarts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yes Michael, you are so right but i guess we have to
face the changes. I wouldn´t do that . Not respectful
in any case is it.I guess mail art like many other
things in life are going to hell. laVona



--- michael leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Maybe it's just sour grapes on my part, not having
> thought of it, but the whole thing leaves a rather
> nasty taste in the mouth when you consider he is
> obviously making a lot of money from his book and
> the
> syndication of the "POst Secret" idea to many
> magazines? ( I know of one in the U.K) and the
> anonymity of the participants allows him to claim
> all
> the credit.This is not really in the spirit of the
> mail art network as I understand it.
>
> Michael
>
> http://a1mailart.blogspot.com/
>
>
> --- mailart_manekineko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > In fact it's consistantly one of the most popular
> > blogs on the web.
> >
> > I don't like how the guy acts like he invented it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In [email protected], Fast Eyes
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Yep - I have it. Had it for quite awhile. Same
> > kind of postcards
> > in the book is on the website -
> > http://postsecret.blogspot.com/. Fun
> > looking.
> > >
> > > Now there is a fellow in St. Louis doing the
> same
> > thing (the
> > postcard thing) but I don't know about his
> > documentation.
> > >
> > > Fast
> > >
> > > Tamara Wyndham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,
> > >
> > > I saw a book of Mail Art in a store,
> "PostSecret:
> > > Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives"
> > > by Frank Warren
> > >
> > > Frank had people make postcards of their secrets
> > and
> > > send it to him. Very fancy book with lots of
> color
> > > photos.
> > >
> > > I didn't have time to look at it very carefully.
> > But
> > > it seemed that he reached out to "ordinary"
> people
> > -
> > > outside of any art network.
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen it?
> > >
> > >
> > > - Tamara
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Tamara Wyndham
> > >
> > > http://www.tamarawyndham.com
> > >
> > > "ars gratia artis"
> > > Art is the reward of art.
> > >
> > >
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