Jennie Hinchcliff

"I Remember These Places When They Used To Exist the second in a series of one-shot zines created by Carolee Gilligan Wheeler and Jennie Hinchcliff of PodPodPost.

Similar in feeling to their prior zine Kimagure No Dowa Hon, this zine explores the relationships we have with our memories and the passage of time, and how we try and reconcile the two. By incorporating found images along with cut and paste text, Remember These Places reminds us that our personal histories are malleable things we are constantly recreating/rewriting for ourselves and anyone else who will listen."
http://zinewiki.com/I_Remember_These_Places_When_They_Used_To_Exist… (lisätietoja)

"I appreciate fine art and skilful illustrations, and have immense reverence for the written word and a nicely turned sentence; I like the hot and heavy poetry and the occasional lewd joke-- Once in a while, I see a zine so complete, so well-crafted, well-thought of, creative and appealing – in a 'whole package' kind of way – a zine so full of love and originality that it simply makes me go WOW! "Kimagure na Dowa no Hon" is such a zine: I love it, love it, love it! 'This one-shot reflects the notebooks kept by two magpie collectors during a recent trip to Japan,' we learn on PodPodPost.com. 'Within you will find sidewalk rubbings, capsule bars, fortunes, crows, and ryoshu: the loneliness one feels when traveling or on a journey.' The zine features page after page of luggage tags, boarding passes, commentary on airline food, photographs of odd signs and strange packaging (chicken butt, anyone?) It is a whimsical collection of stamp art, travel journal entries, photocopied hotel stationery, reports of overheard conversations, and a surprise, glossy postcard featuring mailboxes. Be sure to check out www.podpodpost.com for more wonderful mail art tidbits – including the duo's exciting mail art bento box. Pod Post is fantastic! This is what mail art should be. (Andree Lachapelle)"
http://www.brokenpencil.com/view.php?id=3047… (lisätietoja)

Innovative, bright ways to re-invent your junk mail and build relationships via the old-fashioned art of correspondence wait for you in this book. Gone are the days of the pony express, sadly. Yet we humans still loiter around the mailbox, rallying our hopes if the postal worker's bundle looks interesting. If I received any of the resourceful and occasionally stutter-inducing missives pictured in Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art, I'd probably give Phillip a hug. I'm not sure he would like it, but there it is. Mail as an art outlet is definitely the kind of mail you want to receive.

Enter this book. Authors Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee Gilligan Wheeler cover almost everything you might wish to know about paper salvaging and minimal skill, down-and-dirty crafting, leading into hardcore artistry. Included are tips for careful mailing, postal regulations that might affect your creative boundaries, guides for building envelopes and keeping your delivery person happy, even some starter postcards and "mailing seals" (I call 'em stickers) in the back. Those newly pondering a stamp-based relationship can even find a pen pal and kick-start a friendship by post, all within the bounds of this book.

Good Mail Day offers a scrapbook-style design, brightly-lighted photographs, scads of information and backstory, and puffy clouds of space to let the ideas drift straight off the page and into your brain. In back, a gallery by name, but, really, it's a museum of shiny ideas that didn't quite make it into the how-to section. Don't be frightened if there are umpteen things you want to make immediately.

What's fantastic about the book is how simple the ingredients are for such complex, memorable mail. Around 95% of the materials are free, gleaned from old cards, labels, catalogs, anything made of paper and then other things as well. Think of the book as a jumping-off point, portable inspiration for a lifetime of postal interchange. A primer indeed.… (lisätietoja)