I’ve probably got around 30,000 of them filed away now…

September 3, 2006 7:25 AM

During his downtime on early worldwide tours with DEVO, Mark Mothersbaugh began illustrating on postcards to send to his friends, which he still creates, and has been creating every day for over 30 years. It's an obsessive habit/hobby which still yields anywhere from one to a couple dozen new postcard-sized images per day.
posted by furtive (11 comments total)

I had the chance to see some of these prints at Osheaga and although I admit to being nonplussed by some of the pieces I must say that the sheer volume and number of gems made for an impressive exhibit.
posted by furtive at 7:31 AM on September 3, 2006

I really, really like this stuff. So far this is my big fave. But I think I'm gonna have to go through and look at Every. Single. One. of these. Thanks for a great post.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 7:35 AM on September 3, 2006

Nice. Thanks.
posted by dobbs at 7:37 AM on September 3, 2006

[furtive, you might want to change your first two tags to 'MarkMothersbaugh', without a space. Otherwise, they show up as separate tags.]
posted by mediareport at 8:06 AM on September 3, 2006

Oh, and thanks for the post. Mothersbaugh's collages have been some of my fave art for a while now; they can seem tossed-off but there's almost always more going on in them than you first think. Great stuff.
posted by mediareport at 8:16 AM on September 3, 2006

If you like such mail art you might like the Electronic Museum of Mail Art and the work of the Crackerjack Kid.
posted by ?! at 9:26 AM on September 3, 2006

Excellent post. Thanks. I love this kind of thing - I still look at 300 Love Letters a fair bit, and then there's Indexed, which is pretty cool as well, as is the well-known PostSecret site.
posted by TheDonF at 9:52 AM on September 3, 2006

Cooool. And -- He's got 30,000 of these? I want one!! He's gotta have just one out of 30,000 for me. How to make friends with obsessive artist, hmmmm .... (goes off to ponder, also to look at new links provided by the commenters)
posted by ClaudiaCenter at 11:00 AM on September 3, 2006

Mark Mothersbaugh is God. Just called me another one of the DEVOted.
posted by Aquaman at 12:24 PM on September 3, 2006

Funny this post should hit on the same day I was cleaning out some ancient VHS tapes and ran across my copies of "The Men Who Make the Music" and "We're All Devo".
Cool.
posted by Thorzdad at 3:05 PM on September 3, 2006

meh. meh. WOW. meh. meh. meh. WOW.meh....
posted by R. Mutt at 8:18 PM on September 3, 2006