Video Stills from The June 6 Opening of the One World Postal Art Show

The opening was well-documented with several videotape cameras (and a couple of the old fashioned kind.) Watch this space for some downloadable MPEG video clips. In the meantime, here are some stills captured from the video documentation by Mark Bloch (with a couple of shots thrown in from Marya Triandafellos' TV show Success Stories that showed on Manhattan Cable June 10 and 12.) They should give a flavor of the festivities. More stills may appear here as soon as all the tapes are rounded up.

Description of the Video Stills

• View of the main room at the June 6 opening (with video projection at the top).
• Another overview of the main room.
• John Lennon makes an appearance via video projection.
• Anonymous guests make their way across the crowded room.
• Sculptor Chris Cosma and printmaker Tom Little enter the main room. Little helped create the wall surfaces for the hanging of the show.
• Originator of the Baseball Card Defacing Party Paul Kuhrman and his daughter Ivy.
• Rob Murphy, goodwill ambassador from the art web site artnetweb.com.
• Marya Triandafellos (aka MET) videotaping Clayton Patterson for her TV show Success Stories that featured this postal art show in its June 10 broadcast.
• Another shot of videogrpaher Marya (aka MET) who wrote her Masters thesis for New York University on Mail Art.
• Mail artist Steve Gustav Haaglund ascending the east stairway.
• The organizer of the show Mark Bloch, also known as The Panman.
• Collagist John Evans, AKA The Avenue B School of Art was an early member of the New York Correspondance School.
• Dada Supreme Abdada Turk LeClair, AKA Radio Free Dada visiting from northern California seated next to a local artist and mother named Margaret.
• Video projectionist Eric Miller offers some information on video conferencing.
• A man who makes mail art-type work but who never heard of the genre shows his creations with artist Terry Davidson mugging in the entrance-way.
• Two of the proprietors of The Synagogue Space, Rocky and Jeff as seen by God.
• Berlin's Brigit Marks expresses some trepidation before descending the staircase that passes by the United Nations wall.
• Artist Nicholas Bergery points to local cult figure Adam Purple's piece in the show.
• A local photographer explains how it is that her postcard was sent via mail artist Peter Fuchs in Austria.
• The southwest corner of the main room.
• The east wall of the main room.
• The west stairwell with the US mailbag in the foreground.
• Bound and Unbound's Barbara Moore moving toward the Ray Johnson wall.
• Part of the Ray Johnson wall from MET's TV show.
• Mail art fans and Lower East Side videographers Mr. And Mrs. Clayton Patterson looking down from the east stairwell from in front of the kids art.
• East stair wall in the background with anonymous artist descending a staircase.
• Joel Cohen AKA The Sticker Dude was a big help in hanging the show and is seen here operating his little mail art post office which he set up in the main gallery.
• Young Simon Bloch and his mother Amy Scarola, who organized the PS 97 part of the show (and is the wife of show curator Mark Bloch), interact with the Sticker Dude's rubber stamps.
• Artistamp TV hits the airwaves in a shot of the west wall on MET's cable TV show Success Stories.
• Hebrew writing on a marble wall in the Synagogue Space.
• Chandalier in the Synagogue Space provides some sacred atmosphere.

Thanks to everyone who attended the opening and stay tuned for more video!