Christine Tarantino/Words Of Light Mail Art: 2009

Friday, July 17, 2009

Ending this blog activity

I will no longer be administering/posting to this blog in order to spend more time making art away from the computer. Many thanks to all who have contributed to the success and joy.

You are invited to visit http://www.fluxusa.blogspot.com/ and http://www.wordsoflightart.blogspot.com/ two other blogs I administer, where I continue to post my works, quite often mail art related,
and most recently http://tarantinonewnewart.blogspot.com
Christine Tarantino
tarantinochristine@yahoo.com

Thursday, July 16, 2009

MASSIMO MEDOLA, Italia

Ciao Cristine ! Here rarity old moto :

Oldtimer bikes for historic race Bologna – San Luca.
05 July 2009.
Original pictures by Massimo Medola

JOHN MOUNTAIN, Spain

DAVID BAPTISTE CHIROT, USA

DoDoDaDa-ian?, Bologna ITALIA

MUDHEAD Reynolds, USA

Bash Bish Falls, highest in Massachusetts

C.T. and Dawson

Bash Bish Falls is a waterfall in southwestern Massachusetts, in the Taconic Mountains. The waterfall is the state's highest.

Paul Tiililä, FINLAND

Hello,
I enclose this invitation; I`m going to Penang.
Ciao,
c´è una grande mostra internazionale a Penang in Malaysia. Son stato invitato e ci vado.
My best greetings to all mail-art friends, saluti cordiali ai tutti amici d´arte postale.
Paul
paul.tiilila@pp.inet.fi

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

CHEVALIER DANIEL C. BOYER, USA

Wm. GRUTERS, USA

RICHARD CANARD, USA

SERENDIPITY, USA

highest point{[on earth] in Massachusetts} - Mt. Greylock

By the mid-nineteenth century improved transportation into the region attracted many visitors to Greylock. Among them were writers and artists inspired by the mountain scene: Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Herman Melville, and Henry David Thoreau.[12]
In the summer of 1838, Hawthorne had visited North Adams, Massachusetts and climbed Mount Greylock several times. His experiences here, especially a walk he took at midnight where he saw a burning lime kiln, inspired his story, originally titled "The Unpardonable Sin".[13] Hawthorne had not written tales since 1844 when he wrote "Ethan Brand" in the winter of 1848–1849.[14]
Melville is said to have taken part of his inspiration for Moby-Dick from the view of the mountain from his house Arrowhead in Pittsfield, since its snow-covered profile reminded him of a great white Sperm Whale's back breaking the ocean's surface.[15] Melville dedicated his next novel, Pierre, to "Greylock's Most Excellent Majesty", calling the mountain "my own... sovereign lord and king". Thoreau summited and spent a night in July 1844. His account of this event in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers described his approach up what is today the Bellows Pipe Trail. Scholars contend that this Greylock experience transformed him, affirming his ability to do these excursions on his own, following his brother John's death; and served as a prelude to his experiment of rugged individualism at Walden Pond the following year in 1845.[16]