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The next batch of mail art project pieces.

‘Pond in Winter’ and a very ordinary oversized housecat by Sarah Burris

A Good Joke by Jennifer Keller

The Demons draw near by Jared Konopitski

Tau-Gu Vision by Marsh Mallow

At night, when I’m thinking about planets and moons my mind drifts to sherbet flavored robots winding their way from galaxy to galaxy by Travis Smith AKA Mr. Purty

AND Travis drew a robot on his envelope!

It’s Not What We Envisioned by Jill Allyn Stafford

by Jamie Guggino

Last week when I was in Sacramento I left this piece at Streets of London.

We did a little craft bombing in San Francisco yesterday. We hit up a bunch of tourist spots, it was a lot of fun.

Cars on the Golden Gate Bridge

A gnome at near the Presidio

A gnome in the Lombard Street gardens

A zig-zaggy ’scarf’ at the bottom of Lombard Street

Fish at Fisherman’s Wharf

Mario Brothers **squid** windsock hanging out at the waterfront overlooking Alcatraz

A dragon windsock near the dragon gate to Chinatown

This one is sad, I know. It was already knitted in the bag of yarn I got recently. It kinda looks like a sheep’s hide. I couldn’t untangle it and didn’t want the yarn to go to waste so I hung it in front of the Delfina craft fair.

I’ve photographed the first batch of returned mail art pieces photographed and here they are. I’m excited about the completed pieces. I’ve also seen a couple sneek peeks of in progress pieces. The show is looking good!

“MoneybaG”,,,w/ money by Karen Gagich

Why Not? by Mim Weisburd

Batman in Wonderland by Nicolas Caesar

I went up to Sacramento to visit SewJaboy this weekend and Saturday afternoon we decided to come up with a little craft graffiti to hang that night when we wandered around for Second Saturday. Here’s our spur of the moment creations.

SewJaboy made a bear flag.

It found a home in front of Bows and Arrows

He also made a little tile mosaic.

We placed it in the window ledge @ Vox

SewJaboy has been asking about how you make quilt squares, so I made a little 8×8 quilted square. I made it quick so my corners are not precise enough, oh well.

This little gem found it’s home in front of Old Soul at The Weatherstone.

My girlfriend and i just spent the weekend in Bodega Bay, where Alfred Hitchcock filmed The Birds. So i thought it seemed fit to put out a couple of my own. Made me up some bird windsocks, and a little stuffed bird…

i watched this one for a bit, and nobody seemed to notice. it even hit a lady in the head and she didn’t flinch. Came back a couple hours later and it was… still there. Went back the next day… gone. Same with the next one that i put up at a wind sock store haha, i couldn’t help myself.

It almost blends in! heck it’s better than that little one on the third pole from the left. I wonder what they did with it, cause it was a whole different set of windsocks the next day. That had to be a confusing moment. Next up is the church from the birds or you may recognize it from an Ansel Adams photograph…

ta-da! If only i went prepared to craft bomb on more vacations. That’s going to be my new years resolution, but I’ll try and start now. Lets see, whats my next vacation… oh! Beautiful Cleveland Ohio… yeah not a top tourist destination. But i guess i could maybe sew a guitar for the rock and roll hall of fame… (narrator voice) will he come through and do this? Stay tuned.

-SewJaBoy

First up is a sewn shark and some fish that i shoved some magnets in. I wanted to put it up by zuda yoga here in Sacramento, cause it gets a lot of traffic, and to show rachel that i am doing stuff… though not being productive on my alter egos t-shirts (i am shrouded in mystery haha). Anyway… i couldn’t get it to stick to the railroad crossing sign, so i found  a metal box down the street.

shark at Home:

shark outside (lost a fish somewhere en route):

Here are a couple construction paper gnomes. I looked like an idiot lamenting them at Kinkos.

oh and here is a random sign for a lost rhino. guess I’ll throw it on the post as well.

I got 2 more lamented gnomes in my backpack… don’t know if i’ll get back to kinkos to make more, though i do think they are fun. OK folks, hope everything is going well for y’all.

SewJaBoy out!

So most of the stuff I put up is at random locations I am unaffiliated with and usually stuff I create, however I felt I should post this.

The bike lock up area at the office
Where I work has been jeopardized. The theifs found out that our gate sucks, and some folks use shoddy bike locks. So I came up with a fool proof plan.

I purchased a beware of dog sign and zip tied it to the gate. Though it may be fairly obvious there is no dog in there, they actually might stop for a second look before barging in. That is funny enough for me. We’ll see how long building management let’s it stay up.

- SewJaBoy

We had an awesome time last night at the Lightbox SF show. And the trees of sea creatures were lots o’fun.

So I just packaged up envelope #32 for the mail art project. Which means we’ve recruited just over a 1/3 of the artists that we need. So, if you haven’t already joined in and want to, let me know. Or if you know of any awesome artists I should recruit, I would love some leads!

Thanks kids!

Hey Gang!

I’ve decided to do a mail art project. Here’s the scoop.

I have 89 pages that have been removed from an old photography book (so there are no copyright issues). Pages are printed on both sides and contain (in total) from one to five photos.

What I want from you: a piece of art (capable of being mailed back to me) inspired by one or more of the photos on your page. You can do whatever your creative heart desires.

To join in comment below or shoot me an e-mail at deeplysuperficialpeople at gmail dot com. And we’ll arrange either the pick up or the mailing of the pages to you. I’d like as many artists to participate as I can get, so please pass this along to anyone you think might want to participate.

The goal is to have the project complete sometime after the first of the new year, so let’s get cracking!

The frogs in Dolores Park have finally sprung free. Thanks to all my helpers!

iPhone photos of today’s project. More to come later!

Prep is in full swing for this weekend. Swing by Dolores Park on Sunday to see the finished result!

We hung a little knitting graffiti outside the first ever Lightbox SF Craft Hour. It was lots o’fun and the knitting stuck around all night.

A couple got dropped tonight in SF

On my way to work this morning I took a peek to see If the hand was still there… Negative. Someone is the proud owner of a new hand. Wave it for me sir.

And please if u or someone u know has claimed our stuff please leave a comment and tell us what you have done with ur free art find!

- SewJaBoy

Monkeybar after work. Strapped a crow to the stool.

I just put up my first high five on my way to work this morning on Capitol and 20th if u walk by give it a slap!

Most of the flags were still up yesterday, here’s a pic of them in the daylight.