Kobb Laboratories

Kobb Laboratories latest 'zine featuring video and 'zine reviews etc. Also includes postcard, Fluxus Buck and mask. Send something for review to Dr. William Kobb, PO Box 30231, Pensacola, FL 32503, U.S.A.

Great Midwestern Correspondunce School

Grigori Antonin curated show "John Cage - 100 Years" in Minneapolis this year. 30 page full colour catalogue - here featuring the front cover byPedro Bericat and the back by Bruno Chiarlone.

Flip Books at Printroom

Festschrift for an Archive by Jason Simon (US) & The Flip Collection III An international collection of flipbooks by artists. Featuring: Spin by Martha Colburn (US/NL) This presentation is part of the programme of the 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam Opening reception: 25 January 2013, 7 – 10 pm Schietbaanstraat 17, Rotterdam The exhibition runs until 16 February Festschrift for an Archive is a set of books commemorating the demise of the much-loved Film Stills Archive department that the Museum of Modern Art ran for decades. In his publication project Jason Simon has reproduced the judgements of the National Labor Relations Board regarding MoMA’s decision to ship the museum’s massive Film Still Archive off to cold storage as a response to a strike led in part by the archive’s associate curator. Simon has individualized each book with a film still representing some aspect of labor struggle. Ranging over film history these include stills from “Car Wash”, “The Crowd”, “I’m All Right Jack”, “Modern Times”, “Nine to Five”, “The Organizer”, “Salt of the Earth”, and “Strike”. Rarely has the connection between labour and cinema quite been so material as in the story of the FSA The Flip Collection III The Flip Collection is an international, growing collection of flipbooks, part of PrintRoom’s travelling collection of publications by artists, designers, photographers and theoreticians. A flipbook (also called thumb cinema) is a booklet that, for a short moment, becomes a film. Spin by Martha Colburn PrintRoom invited Martha Colburn (US/NL) to transform a selection of her film material into a flipbook. See for yourself, in just a few seconds, what a seductive lady and a spider have in common. Contributions by: Ghenadie Popescu (MD), Maike Hemmers (DE/NL), Gözde Türkkan | Mimiko (TR), Georg Traber CH), Elena Gilbert (US/DE), Max Senden (NL), Rachel Sender (ES/NL), Antje Van Wichelen (BE), Lawrence-Olivier Mahadoo (US/FR), Han Hoogerbrugge (NL), Sarah Vanagt (BE) & Katrien Vermeire (BE), Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva (NL/RU), Esther Urlus (NL), Bas Fontein (NL), Gloria Glitzer (DE), Quinten Swagerman (NL), Scott Blake (US), Ricardo Leal Gomes (PT), Roger Bygott (UK), Alice Rice (US), Jenny Suhonen (FI), Loes Verstappen (NL), Ernesto Morales (MX), Terhi Ekebom (FI), Andre Pielage (NL), Jenni Rope (FI), Mariana Zanetti (BR), Kati Rapia (FI), Samuli Otto-Henrik Saarinen (FI), Anne Roecklein (US), Marieke Verbiesen (NL/SE), Derek Parker (US), Lise Duclaux (BE), Jan Voss (NL), Com Amoras (PT), Maurizio Montalti (IT), Tomas Schats (NL), Michael Leigh (UK), Guilia Garbin (IT/UK) among others.

Ed Varney - Documentation/envelope

16 page photocopied catalogue sent from Canada from Ed Varney who curated the Mayworks show 2012. 225 participants from 33 countries. Next years Mayworks show is accepting work now . Send to Ed varney, 4426 Island Highway South, Courtney, BC, V9N 9T1, Canada. The theme is The Artist at Work/ Self Portrait. Postcard size, any medium. No fees, no returns. catalogue to all. Deadline April 15th, 20013.

Ryosuke Cohen - Brain Cell

Ryosuke sent this today although I am not featured in this edition of Brain Cell No.842. Gocco print all the way from Japan.

D.C.Spaulding - Artistamps

D.C. Spaulding (What Is This Artist Doing?)sent this from Lomita CA USA today.

Monocassette/A1/others - 'zine

Get yours while stocks last! At ETSY. Just Out! Brand New Material. Comic Strips/Cartoons/Collages/Illustration Features: Status Quo/Pinhole Paparazzi/Blitz Kids/Fashion/Tom Jones/ Rat's Corner West/Collages/Chocolate Teapot and more. 24 Pages A4 - Full Colour Covers - Black & White Inside Autumn 2012 - £3.00 inc. P&P UK £5.00 inc. shipping everywhere else.

Henry Denander - Envelope/book

Henry in Sweden sent this recently - hand made book with printed watercolour paintings of cats he found in Greece. This imited edition book is number 117. Also enclosed two artistamps on the same subject and a hand written note.

A.1. - Collage

A page that is NOT in the latest 124 page paperback The Best OF The Christmas Catalogues on Black Scat Books.

A.1. Waste paper Co. Ltd. - Shameless Plug

Some old mail art here amongst these 124 pages of festive nonsense. Available from Black Scat Books and Amazon (USA and UK). Please feel free to give a review as this helps the book's profile.

Creative Thing - Envelope

Collaged envelope with Halloween mask and mail art stamps - enclosing artistamp sheets and stickers etc. Sent by Creative Thing (AKA Leslie Caldera)in CA. USA.

John Evans 1932 - 2012 RIP

Sad news about John who passed away yesterday. One of my earliest mail art contacts back in 1983 or so. I think it was Michael Scott who gave me his address and told me how wonderful and enigmatic his letters and collages were. He was a friend of Ray Johnson and In the Pop Art book by Kablick? he is mentioned by Ray at a stilt performance in Central Park "Will John Evans tattoo his stilts?" referring to Johns tattoo of a bleeding dagger he made himself in High School.Excellent interview HERE that Ruud Janssen did with John a few years ago.

Henning Mittendorf - Catalogue

Henning initiated and advised on this mail art show on the theme of "Dragons" in Germany 2012. Full colour catalogue of 32 pagesd. Head of exhibition - Heike Wider .Managing Board - Peter C. Woitge. 270 artists from 39 countries took part.

Mail Art Mekka Minden - Postcard

New project invite from Germany.

Phil Mead - Envelope, postcards, ephemera

Invite from Phil about Issue 25 - enclosed postcard to be returned, diagram and ephemera.

PLG - Postcard

PLG sent this from Germany recently.Recycled card via Switzerland.

"Blaster" Al Ackerman

Blaster sent this from San Antonio TX in 1984.

Carlo Pittore - Flyer

Carlo sent this from New York in 1984.

Post The Psalms - Documentation

16 page photocopied catalogue for the Post The Psalms mail art project in Florida organised by Bobby McGee or R.I. Luce? back in 1984. My collage appears on page 14.

Ryosuke Cohen - Flyer

Gocco printed flyer from Japan. 1984