Concise Bad Words

Allen C. of Adrian MI sent in this postcard.

BUSH is a Bad Word

This image was submitted by lindall. It was created by cutting up and rearranging pieces of free postcards.

Bad Words on cute card

Janelle Hernandez of Tallahassee Florida drew some bad words on a "way too cute" postcard. I have overlaid a bit of the front so you can see it too.

where are you Tamara?

I sent a letter and Bad Words ATC to Tamara Wyndham in NYC but it was returned address unknown.

Not your Daddies stamps

We received several sheets of perforated stamps
from h.r. fricker in Switzerland.

He also included a postcard showing some of his enameled metal signs. It is placed on top of his envelope which was also perforated.

Rob Nussbaumer of Clarkston, Missouri sent us
the two cards show below.

Title: New World meets the old.

Title: Sucks to be you

BRAIN CELL FRACTAL #696

Ryosuke Cohen of Osaka Japan sent his latest mail-art edition to our Bad Words call. He assembled work from over 50 artists to create this piece.

Click on these to see a larger image.
Check out his cool project!

More Bad Word mail-art floods in

This postcard came from Dietrich Schneider in Germany.

These three cards came from Dan Wager of Reno Nevada.

This photograph came from Hulya Kupsuoplu of Istambul, Turkey.

This postcard came from Scott Randall in Sacramento, Ca.

This postcard came from Batgirl in Sacramento, Ca.

Happy 2008

This is one of my "pimped" cards.

The end is near

Today is the mailing deadline for the Bad Words Mail Art call. I will continue to post pieces that arrive in January 2008. I have been kicking around some ideas for my next project............. stay tuned.

This hand painted tattoo inspired design was sent by JOONTIKI of Bowen Island, BC. I also scanned the back of the envelope it was mailed in.

I would like to say a big THANK YOU
to everyone who participated in this project!
Mail Art Rules.

His other bad word is "but..."

Dewi from Toronto sent us this ace postcard.

BAD WORDS DO NOT EXIST

That is the bold assertion of José Manuel Figueiredo,
an artist from Sintra, Portugal.

Mary Jones of North Quincy Massachusetts sent us two examples of commercially produced bad words. The South Park TV show is the motherload of Bad Words!

Keith Buchholtz is a St. Lousi based artist.
He sent us this bold black and white piece.

Thanks to all the far flung artists who are contributing to this project. We still have a few more weeks to mail in Bad Words.

Bad words / In other tougues

This is a photo taken in Huescar, Spain by Tamara Wyndham. Now that is patina or maybe ghost words. Thanks Tamara!

This piece was sent by Maurizia Carantani,
an artist living in Bergamo, Italy.

Latin Bad Words from Italy

This card arrived from Michele Stuppiello. As you can see, MS is a Mail Art Knight. Do they still use Latin bad words in Italy?

4 more cool postcards

The mail has been arriving steadily. We have another month and a half until the December 31st deadline for this Mail Art Call.

This postcard was created by Linda Bundrant, a member of our local Victoria ATC group. Thanks Linda.

This vintage card was contributed
by Mary Jones of North Quincy, Massachusetts.
A good example of 60 year old Bad Words.

This collage lost some of its bits to the postal gods.
Dave from Sterling Colorado needs to find some stronger adhesive.

The back of Dave's card has a cool watercolor drawing.

My scan doesn't do justice to this black on black card sent in by Ian McAllister of North Bay, Ontario.
It is titled Dark Words, from 1998 by Ian Patrick.
Vinyl letters were applied to illustration board.

insanebrainpain gets right to the point

Above is the card that was hiding
in the clear envelope below.

Thanks to insanebrainpain of Highwood Illinois. I love the type on your card. It reminds me of Haight Ashbury posters from 1967.

It's Not Easy Being Bad

We received two bold postcards today, both from Canada.

This one from Jelena Djurkic of Toronto. There appears to be more words obscured by the red frame.

RF Côté sent this piece from Québec.
Below is the back with cool artistamp.

Surprise in a clear envelope

We received this innocent looking piece of mail in a clear, handmade envelope from insanebrainpain. The bad word was hiding behind the address. Unique!

The F Bomb and Testicles Back

C. Gattuso sent us the clever F Bomb postcard above.
This is an original digital print.

Mary Jones of Quincy, Mass sent us a commercial card and an Art card that she modified.

I can't find the Bad Words. Can you?

I don't speak Italian or Dutch, but I sure as heck can't find any bad words in these 3 pieces of Mail Art. They are marvelous and cool anyway!

The small painted card above was sent in by Adriano Bonari, who has been making Mail Art since 1980. Exquisite!

Giovanni and Renata StraDA DA sent us the above Da Da sheets. I love the self made stamp too.

The hand painted postcard above (shown front and back) arrived from the Netherlands. Again, it is way cool but I can't find anywhere that stax is a "bad word".

Who says it's not ladylike?

That is the title of this card we got from Amanda DeLauder.

Very ladylike indeed.
She found us via postcardx. Thanks Amanda!