Wednesday, October 6, 2010

AMPHITRITE/ Mermaid Faux Postage Stamps/ VIRTUAL STAMPS & CYBERSTAMPS/ 'The Sea Queen,' a cinderella stamp set by Eric Whollem/ DIGITAL SERIAL ART





The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Amphitrite the Sea Queen

The mermaid micronation of Merreminde is ruled by Queen
Amphitrite. The links at the bottom of this post will take you
to more stamps from Merreminde. This particular issue is
denominated at 1000 Shells. The Merreminde Ocean Mail
delivery system has an Express Mail Service, where parcels
are trucked by dolphins to mermaids living in sea caves in
remote areas of the coast.

Merreminde lies in the Southeast portion of the Continent
of Amphora, and has the most rugged terrain in all of Amphora.


THE SEA GODDESS

Amphitrite was originally the name of the bride of the Greek
God Poseidon, a divinity both of the salt sea and of springs.
Amphitrite was a dolphin mermaid Goddess.

The Greeks used to call themselves the Pelopidae, or People
of the Porpoise, after their King Pelops. The Peloponnesian
Peninsula is named for Pelops.

The rites of Delphi are named for the dolphin, as delphys means
dolphin in Greek.



The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

Faux Postage Stamps
MERREMINDE POST

2010


The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST



Ocean Mail



The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST



A Cinderella Souvenir Edition



The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Virtual Stamps From Merreminde Post


These stamps from the Merreminde Post are issued in two
sheets, for eight designs altogether. They are Virtual Stamps,
which is to say, Cyberstamps, which by one definition indicates
that they exist only in cyberspace. Read more about Virtual
Stamps in my post on Sheet B from the 'Sea Queen' series.

These sheetlets of stamps are among my digital serial art
faux postage stamps, where each stamp is toned and
saturated in color varieties generated on computer software.

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Readers interested in viewing more stamps from MERREMINDE should look at:

BELOW ARE SOME OF MY
VIDEOS FEATURING
ARTISTAMPS
FROM
MERREMINDE


SAVE THE SEALS STAMPS                        

MERMAID STAMPS FROM MERREMINDE            

Those interested in SERIAL ART might want to read:

My posts about MERMAIDS can be found here:

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

AMONG THE STARFISH
by Eric Whollem
digital art
My complete image archive of FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS is on this link:

POST RIDER
faux postage stamp from Delphys
by Eric Whollem
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ARTIST STAMPS
Cinderella stamps, cyberstamps, fantasy stamps,
faux postage, artistamps,
mail art, micronation stamps;
digital art.

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'VIRTUAL STAMPS'/ Mermaid Goddess Cyberstamps/ 'The Sea Queen' or 'Amphitrite' by Eric Whollem/ CINDERELLA STAMPS FROM MERREMINDE/ Faux postage from a mermaid micronation




The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

Virtual Stamps

The expressions 'virtual stamps' and 'cyberstamps' appear
with differing meanings in their general use online today.
One definition of a virtual stamp is a stamp that exists only
as a computer image, not having actually been printed on
paper. The perforations seen in such a stamp are computer-
generated details.

Another general definition of a virtual stamp or a cyberstamp
is to indicate any stamp depicted on the computer monitor.

Confusion could arise in the minds of some due to these
broad definitions which carry very different meanings. Those
artists who create artistamps or faux postage stamps viewable
only online are making something very different from a Penny
Black from 1840. The latter is a famous legitimate postage
stamp from Britain; when seen on the computer, it could be
said to be a 'Virtual Stamp.'

BELOW IS A VIDEO
FEATURING VIRTUAL STAMPS
FROM THE MICRONATION OF
AMPHORA

                    ERIC WHOLLEM

Yet in accord with the loose definitions that are generated in
today's computer scene, a faux postage cyberstamp created
as a fantasy work of art is also a 'Virtual Stamp.'

Definitions of words are created by people. Those of us who
would like to have a limited and special meaning for a term
must bow to general useage.



The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE



Faux Postage Stamps
MERREMINDE POST

2010



The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST



Ocean Mail



The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST


A Cinderella Souvenir Edition




The Sea Queen
MERREMINDE POST
2010
by Eric Whollem
COPYRIGHT BY THE ARTIST


See more stamps from MERREMINDE on this link:

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE

SAVE THE SEALS
Merreminde artistamps

MERREMINDE STAMP VIDEO by Eric Whollem           

See my posts of CYBERSTAMPS here:

For access to my compete archive of FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS see:

To see more of my DIGITAL SERIAL ART STAMP SHEETS check out:





MUSE OF THE ISLE OF THE GOD OF DREAMS
stamps from Amorphagos
by Eric Whollem
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ARTIST STAMPS
Artistamps, cinderella stamps, cyberstamps,
faux postage, fantasy stamps,
mail art, micronation stamps;
digital art.

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