Postcard Project #10: Lo-Fi Art Broadcast

In the past few months I've been playing around with making postcard art experiments. I didn't think it was anything artistic, but everyone else did. Maybe I just don't think I'm an artist, but that's another story for another time. This is about the next iteration in the series.

What started out as a way to goof off and see if a wooden card could survive a trip across the country has turned into a series of "postcards." With only one or two exceptions, everything has made it. All sorts of laser-cut acrylic, etched records, and bendy fabric items have found their way to new homes.

With the 10th version coming up I figured on trying something new. No laser-cutting, just going back to my roots of stencils and trying out painting with acrylic, something I'd never done before. To be honest, I've never painted before at all, unless you count poster paints in kindergarten. So I stocked up on some cheap acrylics and borrowed some old brushes from my fiancé and got to work.

With painted backgrounds and a stenciled image on top I can quickly create a series of images for the postcards that are unique and coherent. After that it's just a matter of applying some postage and shipping them to addresses around the world.

Step 1 Find Some Destinations

My hope was to have the cards travel long distances and get messed up in the process. Logically, that meant that the further it went the more scuffed and scratched it would get. So I put together a list of friends in far off places. These mostly turned out to be different neighborhoods in Brooklyn like Williamsburg, Park Slope, and Red Hook.

I still needed more names so I posted in the Instructables forum. People love free stuff and I found some new places in exotic locales such as Australia, Germany, and Nebraska. So with a total of 17 places in all I had work to do.

Comments

[Derin]

You can send it to me too.If you are interested,I will PM you my address.

[Shifrin]

Wow this is really sweet!

[royalestel]

I like you fungus. I think you're cool. You're very creative. I am a notoriously bad judge of character, however . . .

[fungus amungus]

thanks. My woman thinks I'm a pretty bad judge of color combinations, but we work out all right.

[cardboarddude]

hahaha

[bettydoes]

In the Early 90's we called this "mail art" but yours is admittedly some of the best I've seen.

[fungus amungus]

Thanks for telling me about that. I used to mail odd stuff back and forth with friends in high school. I figured that others had done stuff like it before, but had never bothered to check it out so I could have my own spin on it.

[Crash2108]

OK.

[fungus amungus]

indeed

[trebuchet03]

Well - I have decided not to tag a building with it... So, I'm looking for robotman's next address. PM me if you're far from the east coast of the the states with where you want this sent :)

I'm gonna throw this in my pack and start taking pictures for ya. This one won't be lost :D

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This picture taken in my dimly lit fallout shelter??

[fungus amungus]

Post this in the forum if you haven't heard from anyone yet. There are a few who were interested over there.