Hi Andy. Here is my tribute to My Real Wall. And there is a drawing in the
picture. I just didnt want to take it down.
From: Bryndís Þórhallsdóttir
Date: 2009/11/29
[my Postcard is the Black and White Beatles one there – Remember that if you have a postcard from me, stick it up on your wall and send me an email of it and I’ll put it up right here in the your REAL wall section of the site! Andy]
It’s Friday and we’re back on my REAL wall in my bedroom in Goldhawk Road. Tomorrow my REAL wall is off to Munich for the weekend, and most of the cards on the wall now will be coming with us.
Only 2 more weeks of this view, as me and Elena are aiming to move into our new place by the 11th of December. I believe the new place has better lighting, so that’s something to look forward to.
I’ll be sending out the new address on a postcard (obviously) to everyone who has ever sent me mail soon.
Obviously this may take some time, and I never like to discourage people from sending post of course but for now, if you could all hold back until we get to our new place then flood us with new post for the new wall that would be great!
In a move to widen participation and variety on my REAL wall, today we bring you our first ever guest photographer REAL wall from my best mates Stalex.
Guest photographers get a pile of postcards that have been sent to me and can put them up wherever they choose. I’m really keen to see other people’s interpretations of my REAL wall and as you can see from the notes (click the image and go through to the flickr site to see these) I am rather enjoying playing the "Guess that card" game myself here!
This first wall is in Stalex’s gaff (house for those of you not from London), showing their gecko along with appearances from a host of established mailartists that won’t be surprised to find themselves up on the REAL wall again.
In order of appearance (from the top left going anticlockwise) are mhmedia, Boo Cartledge, Stalex, a postcrossing, Dumpsterdiversanonymous, Felisha, Another postcrossing from Singapore, Tim McCool, Rebecca (Y)our Sky, Goodnight Little Spoon, TicTac and in the centre, Rachel.
It’s November 19, 2009 and we all know what that means don’t you?
Today is WORLD TOILET DAY! World Toilet day is organised by the World Toilet Organisiation, which is is a global non- profit organization committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide.
Apparently poor sanitation kills 1.8 million people a year, so the organisation aims to raise awareness of the importance of this sort of thing, so why not go through to their site and then consider yourself aware.
That was one free plug, and I’ll try and keep free plugs to charities on my REAL wall. As you all know this is a non-profit organisation!
Another plug I want to put in today is for The Plains Art Museum in North Dakota, who sent me and Elena a pair of free tickets and a load of postcards in thanks for the REAL inspiration that my REAL wall has given them for a mailart gallery. Personally I can’t wait to see what the dudes at the museum come up with, and I love the idea that people may have a public gallery for their mailart, so I’m dead proud of myself. Hopefully I’ll get to use these tickets one day (just as soon as a big airline picks up on my REAL wall and decide to nick it as well…)
Oh by the way if you look really closely, you’ll see a piece by a great new mailartist I discovered on IUOMA the other day from Korea called Cross Ryu. I believe she uses Indian Ink to create the most fantastic colours in her art and visiting her Pics on IUOMA sent shivers up my spine. Here’s onoe to watch in future I would say!
It’s been a while since I took a shot in the bathroom, so today’s REAL wall was put up in our shower.
As many of you may already know, my REAL wall is moving house very soon as I managed to buy a house! I have to say, I won’t miss the skanky black mould on the shower walls and I leave behind a legacy of blu-tac all over the bedroom walls too.
Today’s best postal surprise came from Okadascat, my REAL wall’s resident knitting correspondent, who sent a knitted flower through to Elena, which made her squeal with delight. Elena says thanks a lot and continues to squeal with joy.
Note to Okadascat – Elena has put this little trinket in her personal top 1, joint first place with this piece from the mighty Ubon, which is a hell of a statement! Nice one!
Elena scores the points for this one, having changed the calendar at about 11:55 on November 15th, while I was uploading the REAL wall from Vienna, then sneaking into bed and pretending to be asleep while I threw a tantrum.
Apparently changing the calendar date before midnight is ok if she does it I’m told, but NOT ok if I do it. I’m not really sure I understand the rules but if Elena says so then it must be true.
Today’s REAL wall features contributions from Courtney S, Pizzacat, Beenebag and AmyMC, the prolific swap-botter!
It was so refreshing to be in a city so rich in culture and so friendly.
As an example, when we were at the Parliament building, we just strolled around and posted up your postcards on the wall without any hassle whasoever.
Oh H&F; council would have hated that.
Elena and I had just arrived in Vienna and made our way to our hotel, just to the north of Westbahnhoff, the Western main train station.
As we tend to do when arriving in a new country, we looked around innocently for a nice place to put your postcards, all the while looking for our hotel and wondering why there were so many martial arts shops and sex shops in the area.
When we reached Burggasse Stadthalle station, we noticed a long flight of stairs leading upwards to a point above the city and we mounted these, knowing that a good shot awaited us, but not really knowing quite where to point the camera.
So we set this one up and shot it quite innocently, not realising that the magnificent artistic capital of Austria that the world knows was behind us in the opposite direction. What we actually shot as the backdrop was Austria’s red light district.
Whoops.
I find it strange that tube stations can be completely empty in zone 2, but Goldhawk Road station, which is just next to my house is often a ghost town. I think most days it has one person working on the ticket office, who goes home at about 6pm, leaving the station empty and operated by robots.
So when you roll up to Goldhawk Road, your announcement is done by a recording, which tells you to mind the gap and all sorts. I can’t help but feel when a pre-recorded announces that your train is late that they sort of expected it, and can never quite shake off this idea that in some way the pre-recording of an announcement that your train is going to be late is somehow responsible for it being late.
Because the station was so automated and inhuman, I felt a need to inject a bit of human contact into the surroundings and that’s how this wall was born.
Over lunchbreak I decided to get in a REAL wall showing the grounds of where I work. I think that the university has really excellent grounds, and one of the reasons I chose to work here is that I came here myself to do my degree and fell in love with the grounds. It’s easy to see why.
Mainly on show today are mailart pieces, they just happened to be at the top of my pile, so appearances are made by StudioN, Jennifer Zoellner, HeebeeJeebee, Eduardo Cardoso, David Berube, Barbara Cowlin, and Dummpsterdiversannonymous among others.
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