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bureau edinburgh of the seven seas tristan da cunha tdcu 1zz south atlantic ocean have you ever sent mail to a dreamier address than this imagine not even a country but an ocean for an address it s almost as good as sending a letter to peter pan second star to the right and straight on till morning n b tristan da cunha is part of the group of islands known collectively as the british overseas territory of st helena ascencion and tristan da cunha there is a settlement known as the settlement and a post office on the island although they have internet the post and the arrival of the mail is still a very important aspect of everyday life look at these recent postage stamps hitting the gong heralds the news that the long awaited post is ready for collection by islanders in the prince philip hall post office staff read out recipients of mail and a family member comes forward to collect it the mail art project is to send some artwork to a permanent exhibition on the island for the locals who live there and for all who visit the island no limitation on themes size or number of works just send mail art it s very different from penpals or letter writing clubs you re not writing a letter and the point is not to get to know anyone although after some time friendships are built on a steady backing and forthing of mail art best think of it as an open and inclusive art exchange made possible by the international postal network where art has no price tag or monetary value and money is not a motivating factor at all for a feel of what mail art is you can browse wikipedia s mail art or iuoma s start here page if you re curious about the mail art scene this is a great first call to respond to unfortunately you probably won t get mail art back unless some local gets it in his her head to reply well you never know and a fantastic address to write to imagine the locals looking through what you have sent and imagine the few visitors to the island enjoying the fact that somewhere in the tiny post office there is this exhibition of postal art from around the world go on make something and send it to the village of edinburgh of the seven seas you know you want to p s despite the badge and all this talk of membership anyone can join iuoma all welcome no experience necessary iuoma spread the lurve share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading post office radio silence image january 30 2019 january 30 2019 smallestforest there s a big black spider hanging over my door can t go anywhere anymore joanna newsom have one on me i won t be posting a paid post today or charging your payment methods the letter that you should have received by now paid end of december only just went out a few days ago the one i should be sending in a week s time is just being made i guess i needed a break but wouldn t accept that i needed a break so i broke instead despite being a die hard cat person i became someone whose only pet was a big silent black dog that nobody else could see depression to me has always been something that happens to other people and so i didn t recognise it when it padded in on heavy furred feet and took up residence in my soul luckily i like to face these things head on kris was a huge help bearing the brunt of my crazy 3am sobbing sessions and not pushing me to get out of bed or off the boat when i just couldn t i m annoyed that it has messed up my schedule but these things have to be acknowledged and given room to run i believe i am out of the woods the thing has run itself out of energy anyway but there will have been no letter in january and the one you ll be receiving in february is a month overdue we resume our regularly scheduled program of the scarlet letterbox with a paid post at the end of february thank you for understanding spread the lurve share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading start of year check in image january 7 2019 january 7 2019 smallestforest it was crazy busy in the weeks that straddled the new year i was sitting a unit for somebody and hurriedly trying to finish letter 9 before the country shut down printers and post offices when the unit owner announced her surprise return on new year s eve and i had to pack everything into suitcases willy nilly clean the unit from top to bottom organise transport and move back onto the boat i still can t find half my tools and things disrupted there hasn t been time till now to sit back roll a metaphorical cigarette of contemplation wishing it were the real thing and watch the good and bad of the old year dissolve like chocolate scented smoke relax this photo s old the habit is one of the things i left behind in 2018 still miss it though every morning it haunts like the phantom limb of amputated youth when did i get so tame so inoffensively middle aged so mindful of my health where did my claws and fangs go when did i lose my invincibility and become afraid to die along with my chocolate and cognac infused tobacco habit i quit my job in october to see if i could manage on art and love alone so begins my acquaintance with the demons of anxiety that countless other do what you love freelancers have spoken about i have met as well the real difficulties of having no money of not being able to get hold of money when needed and of not knowing when if ever money would come i mustn t exaggerate though it s not the paralyzing situation that it could have been there are no debt collectors standing over us nobody threatening to take our home away kris earns a little from selling his books and doing a bit of carpentry here and there i earn a little from my patreon letter subscribers and we don t need much i am saving 320 a month simply by not smoking we own our house such as it is and don t pay real estate rates or power bills we don t have a car the houseboat runs on solar panels we row and don t buy burn fuel for any kind of engine got no kids nor even pets at this stage no serious illnesses no active addictions no debts or credit cards no loans no mortgage and we never touch our travel savings either so this whittled down lifestyle still feels like a choice and not a trap the simplicity still feels like a distillation not poverty we re still going traveling this year but i found myself drawn nonetheless to the glowing aura of success on instagram and thought it could not hurt to brush up on how to become a big budju malaka on social media and promote my patreon monthly letter subscription to a wider audience my ig following sits at 200 people mostly personally known to me there s a 4 year old on instagram with 200 000 followers and she s just a cute kid not out of this world but cute as kids are with an aptitude for posing and a precociously narcissistic little ego that everyone adores she doesn t seem particularly talented they hang clothes on her i thought the secret must lie in a system of regular posting some hashtagging skills a tight photo aesthetic and some sort of reciprocal etiquette how hard could it be my occupy instagram project coincided with sitting my friend s unit i had lots of time alone kris refused to leave his boat for the burbs chlorinated spas and air conditioned bedrooms fail to excite him other people s homes are all wrong and their bookshelves are contemptible i on the other hand am allergic to sandflies i suffer terribly from both the bites and an eczema in reaction to all the bites during the summer so this hiatus beckoned like skin sanity rehab i watched hours of video each night enrolled in skillshare subscribed to social media coaches on youtube followed recommended successful influencers in order to see how they did things when i felt ready i downloaded the half dozen apps recommended by all the different experts installed them on my phone and looked at what they could do for me the hashtagging app generates 25 lines of hashtags prompted by one key word but of course the algorithms are based on what has already been tagged ad nauseam usually when i typed in one of my words i got sorry can t find anything that matches your search the next app sends stock comments to everyone who has interacted with your feed it s quite likely that the blander less specific comments you receive from others are sent by the same app you can set up bots to do the work of distributing pre made messages badgering others for likes and indiscriminately liking everyone else statistics apps show you lists of everyone you ve followed that day who followed you back and a button to unfollow the list of people who didn t reciprocate lists of all your new admirers lists of people who used to but then stopped following you presumably the app will also send a missile to their gps locations and blow them to kingdom come the pretense and automation of nearly every aspect of becoming a social media boss exhausted me by the third night i was allergic to instagram facebook even twitter if i was oblivious before to the likes and the numbers i felt hostile to them now because most of it was just apps talking to apps it felt self abasing to care about any of the statistics or to do anything in an attempt to influence those numbers at all to sink to the level of an app around this time brandon stanton the extraordinary human behind http www humansofnewyork com published a space to create on his patreon site where he wrote about social media and how it is failing artists and people who want what they do to still hold meaning integrity authenticity substance to be a real contribution to the world content has become more bite sized more consumable and less nuanced in a world of decreasing attention spans brevity is seen as the only way to compete importance is placed on the quantity of output rather than quality many social media gurus teach that success is frequency of contact publish or perish either you constantly remind the world that you exist or you will be forgotten i ve spoken with a lot of artists on the internet who feel burned out by this dynamic they feel stifled by the treadmill of daily content social media tells you to go quickly art tells you to go deep social media tells you to replicate what works art tells you to experiment social media tells you to always be visible art tells you to disappear figure something out and come back with a discovery worth sharing it s not an easy puzzle for artists to solve because social media is the lifeline to our audience and artists can t survive without an audience brandon stanton the space to create on http www patreon com humansofnewyork for a few weeks i was tempted to do something drastic like delete all my social media accounts i ve calmed down since i uninstalled twitter buried instagram and facebook inside a folder on my phone turned off all notifications from these apps so i have to open them to see updates it s a good start i d like to delete the facebook account eventually mainly because of security breaches leaks and their misuse of personal information meanwhile i m cool with using instagram like a photo album the way i do use flickr but hardly any of my friends are on flickr is your purpose to create art or is your purpose to create an audience ibid i m just not looking to social media to promote anything that i care about anymore and i am dropping all efforts to improve my popularity or build an audience through these channels instead of wasting all day grooming superficial stuff on social media pour your energy into mastering a difficult skill the solution rather than trying to endlessly spruce up your website and social media posts is to put in the hard work get up early or stay up late honing your skills john p weiss i ll be withdrawing time and energy from all the social media s m stuff and pouring it back into writing and by extension this blog into producing exclusive posts for my patreon subscribers into the monthly letters and into having an exhibition this year i m going to immerse myself in whatever i feel is worth my time and be less visible to the people on social media most of whom don t get or like what i do anyway to end on a cheesy note that ll have you hating me for hearing this song in your head for the rest of the day back to life back to reality back to the here and now yeah back to life by soul ii soul spread the lurve share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on x opens in new window x more share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email like loading can t believe i m doing this again so soon image november 29 2018 november 30 2018 smallestforest letter no 8 http www patreon com scarletletterbox a letter about the sudden compulsion to buy a bus ticket to new york what a lark what a plunge when i probably should have been visiting all my relatives in virginia listening to the clan gossip and diplomatically dodging any pointed questions about my family this letter s print run was the same as last month s that s okay since i can t add anyone on at this point i had just enough printed to send to current patrons as i warm to the idea of doing this full time and to using patreon as my homebase my ideas for future letters are getting bolder more heavily illustrated and more experimental in format http www patreon com scarletletterbox i can t do back issues because of patreon s system print quantities are for current patrons you must be signed up before the 30th of the month and the mail goes out on the 5th of the following month it waits for nobody comes back for nobody repeats for nobody this is not a drill it s a rocket to mars baby if you missed this one and don t want to miss the next issue please consider subscribing for the price of a coffee break you get a beautiful letter in the mail illustrated and i hope i try well written with calligraphy and postage stamps and wax seals and little gifts included each month and you don t have to write back sign up for as long as you like unsubscribe at any time you can even ask me to send the letters to someone that you should probably be writing to but just can t seem to get around to doing it it s not the same as a personal letter that you wrote but it can still be very exciting to receive a beautifully addressed envelope knowing that each month s letter is a present from you all right that s enough i 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