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| "Happy Birthday" song written as postcard message on other side, along with apologies for being late! |
About The 70 Project : John M. Bennett, poet and head of Luna Bisonte Prods, turned 70 in October 2012. John likes skulls and October is the month for All Saints’ Day/Day of the Dead/Halloween. John performed his poetry with other sound artists & we displayed this mailart on his birthday in a gallery. 70 PROJECT mailart is all documented here. THANKS to all the artists listed in labels at the right for contributing mailart to/for John's 70th birthday bash!
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Late arrival from Susan McAllister in Berkeley California
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
Birthday Candles were lit on Oct. 12th
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| Sugar cookies by C Mehrl Bennett Idea for "70" skull eyes from Andrew Russ (endwar) artistamps |
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| Digital manipulation by C Mehrl Bennett |
Mailart posted from Greece on Oct.12th - John M. Bennett's Birthday - by Periklis Costopoulos
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| Click image to view LARGE. (Hit ESC to return to same place.) |
Thursday, October 18, 2012
HOMO ERECTUS JOHN says, "THANKYOU ALL for the Wonderful Art!"
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| CMB & endwar |
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| "Thank You" from John M. Bennett |
Monday, October 15, 2012
David Greenberger sends Special Issue of The Duplex Planet
CLICK for blog devoted to"EARNEST NOISE" |
| Ernest Noyes Brookings - Poet & King for a Day December 12, 1898 - July 16, 1987 |
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| David says, "Oct 12 was also the birthday of Larry Green, of Duplex Planet renown. He'd always say to me, back around 1979-82, "October 12th, 1910 - how old does that make me?" I'd tell and he'd always be surprised. |
Eberhard Janke sends Fine RegARTs in form of two books
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| Front cover of first book |
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| Packaged in plastic sleeve for mailing from Berlin, Germany |
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| Published by Aurel Scheibler, Berlin 2011, this 2nd book was nestled inside a recessed rectangle cut into cardboard placed inside the back cover/ stamped "JANUS ARCHIVE"/ & inscribed to JMB on inside cover. |
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| Label inside back cover of first book |
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| Back cover of first book |
Mscl. 70 Treats
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| photo by CMB altered by JMB |
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| photo by Jeff Chenault- 70 skull yellow stamps by Andrew Russ- mini-muffins and flags made by CMB for event on Oct 12th (Click on ENDWAR in labels section to view his artistamp sheet) |
YES & NO from Paul T. Lambert
YES & NO
Pig Champion
lead us out of
the fires burning
across the state
hog wallow herds
crossing Texas
heading to Ohio
award winning
discipline practice
happy sir pigstaff
for birthday lunch
it is free free free
yeah and oh wow
y~e~a~h and n~o~t
d~o~w~n~t~o~w~n
w~a~l~k~i~n~g
breathe yes
breathe no
yes and no
Pig Champion
lead us out of
the fires burning
across the state
hog wallow herds
crossing Texas
heading to Ohio
award winning
discipline practice
happy sir pigstaff
for birthday lunch
it is free free free
yeah and oh wow
y~e~a~h and n~o~t
d~o~w~n~t~o~w~n
w~a~l~k~i~n~g
breathe yes
breathe no
yes and no
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The70Performance VIDEOS from Jeff Chenault
Click HERE for a link to a YouTube video of John M Bennett performing with Larry Marotta, Byron Smith, Ryan Jewell, Jeff Chenault, and Dan Rockwell at It Looks Like Its Open gallery on Friday, Oct.12, 2012 -- John's 70th Birthday! OH -- and HERE is another video from THE SAME.
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| Photo by Reid Wood shows three of the preformers - From left to right are Ryan Jewell, John M Bennett, and Jeff Chenault |
70 poem by JMB with MANY THNX to ALL
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| Photo by Reid Wood of JMB's FORK LINT performance Friday evening |
Facebook photos from Oct.12,2012 event
CLICK HERE to view a Facebook album of John's photos at It Looks Like Its Open gallery, Columbus OH during THE70PROJECT PERFORMANCE / MAILART EXH. / THE LAST VISPO visual poetry anthology & CD by Byron Smith/JMB release & JMB BD party
IN ADDITION: Musician/Sound artist Jeff Chenault performed AND managed to take photos as well:
CLICK HERE to view Jeff's Facebook album called "John M Bennett's 70th Birthday Bash".
Jeff Chenault and Mike Shiflet performed earlier in the year at It Looks Like Its Open gallery and we heard their performance, some of which is documented HERE on YouTube
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| Photo by Reid Wood |
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| Click to view LARGE - photos by Reid Wood of performance by John & Cathy Bennett during intermission Friday evening. |
Rain Rien via FB post on JMB's BD - altered JMB 5 million poem
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Ryan Agnew painted this during last night's event on JMB's 70th Birthday
This is the press release on http://www.thelastvispo.com/ for
LAST NIGHT'S EVENT:Columbus, Ohio Gallery Event October 12:
LAST NIGHT'S EVENT:Columbus, Ohio Gallery Event October 12:
A release
party for both THE LAST VISPO ANTHOLOGY, 1998-2008
AND for an audio CD - PICO MOJADO, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2012
AND for
THE 70 PROJECT.
ON EXHIBIT: Mailart from the70project.blogspot.com and selections from The Last Vispo
Anthology, 1998-2008. Eds. Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill. Seattle, WA:
Fantagraphics, 2012.
DATE:
Friday,
October 12, 7pm-9pm
LOCATION:
It
Looks Like It’s Open gallery,
13 East Tulane Rd., Columbus, OH 43202
PERFORMANCE:
Oct.12
is the 70th birthday of poet & visual poet, John M Bennett. He
will perform his poetry in collaboration with sound artists & musicians:
Jeff Chenault, Larry Morratto, Ryan Jewell, Mike Shiflet (Dan Rockwell substituted for Mike), and *Byron Smith.
DESCRIPTION:
Poet John M. Bennett
and his spouse, artist C. Mehrl Bennett, both have images selected for
inclusion in The Last Vispo Anthology. C. is also one of four contributing
editors. She did research at The OSU Avant Writing Collection, for which John
is curator, to research visual poetry to recommend to Nico & Crag and to help
develop her essay in the book. (Profits from book sales will be for the gallery/studio
collective’s benefit.)
*Also for release that
evening: PICO
MOJADO by Byron Smith & John M
Bennett, an audio CD published by John under the imprint of Luna Bisonte Prods.
Byron had saved 1990’s recordings (not previously released) of himself
performing on synthesizer and trumpet with John performing his poetry. Byron is
the sound engineer for this CD, as he was for their classic recordings AX
TONGUE and THE BLUR.
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