Art Blog/Eric Whollem

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

BOOBIE BIRD COURIER SERVICE TRIANGLE STAMPS/ Paraphilatelic Art Mail by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS/ Fantasy Stamps from Buto and Alaya

BUTO BOOBIE COURIER SERVICE

from Alaya to Buto Return Trip

Drizzlebrush Hotel Mail

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

BUTO'S BOOBIE BIRD COURIER STAMPS

Alaya, a country to the north of the Isle of Buto, was one of the first countries to be serviced by Buto's international airmail service, the Boobie Bird Courier Post. The concept of the Boobie Bird as a mail courier bird originated in Buto.

Alaya and Buto both belong to the Amphoran Postal Union, a group of states that have an agreement much like the Universal Postal Union, familiar to many of us in the Outer World.

These Boobie Courier stamps were printed by the Loyal Order of Hatchmates & Perforation Specialists. The Hatchmate concept relates to the domiciles of the Boobie Birds, who for purposes of postal delivery are trained at Boobie Bird Hatcheries in Buto.

MANCO CAPAC

stamps from Alaya

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp sheet

MAP OF AMPHORA
showing Buto and Alaya, etc.
2015
Eric Whollem
digital art
copyright by the artist

BUTO BOOBIE COURIER SERVICE

Opened by Mistake in Boobton

from Terraform Analomies to Thaddyous Qwo

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

BUTO BOOBIE COURIER SERVICE SHEET

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamps

BUTO BOOBIE BIRD COURIER SERVICE

Aquagenesis to the Boobton Thought Police

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

BUTO BOOBIE COURIER SERVICE

full sheet on cover

2015

Eric Whollem

MANCO CAPAC

stamp from Alaya

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

MAP OF ALAYA
a country to the north of the Isle of Buto
2015
Eric Whollem
digital art
copyright by the artist

MANCO CAPAC

stamp from Alaya

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

MANCO CAPAC

stamp from Alaya

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

BOOBIE COURIER SERVICE TRIANGLE STAMP

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

BOOBIE COURIER SERVICE COVER
Openened by Mistake in Boobton cancel
an overweight letter
2015
Eric Whollem
cybermail art
copyright by the artist

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SEE MORE BOOBIE STAMPS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/boobie%20courier%20post

Saturday, June 20, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC ART MAIL/ Goose Courier Service Stamps of Amorphagos by Eric Whollem/ GOOSE ROCK FIRST FLIGHT COVERS/ Faux Postage Stamps

GOOSE ROCK FIRST FLIGHT COVER

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

GOOSE ROCK FIRST FLIGHT COVER

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

GOOSE COURIER MAIL FROM AMORPHAGOS

Off the southern coast of Amorphagos, the Isle of the God of Dreams, there is an inconspicuous rock in the ocean. This rock is called Goose Rock, the home of great flocks of Geese.

These geese were trained in the art of mail delivery by the folk of Amorphagos. The covers seen here are first flight covers, some of them showing maps of the routes taken by the geese postal delivery birds. Most of these covers are addressed to the Kingdom of Delphys, a large island country to the west of Amorphagos.

The stamps of Amorphagos are usually inscribed in the Cyrillic alphabet. Seen on these regular issues of Amorphagos are relics of the ancient ceramic art of the island. The stamps of Delphys seen on these covers similarly depict an ancient ceramic amulet from Delphys.

ADDENDUM

(These ceramic items are, of course, in actuality the contemporary works of myself, Eric Whollem, the author of this blog. LOL).

(The photos of the Geese were taken by myself as well. The maps are my own creations. These are all faux postage stamp creations...contemporary paraphilatelic art, here manifest in a type of digital collage art, insofar as everything you see here is cybernetic illusionism, including the cancellations. LOL).

GOOSE ROCK FIRST FLIGHT COVER

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

GOOSE ROCK GOOSE COURIER STAMP

2015

Eric Whollem

faux postage stamp

GOOSE ROCK FIRST FLIGHT COVER

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

GOOSE ROCK GOOSE COURIER STAMP

2015

Eric Whollem

faux postage stamp

GOOSE ROCK GOOSE COURIER STAMP SHEET

2015

Eric Whollem

faux postage stamp

GOOSE ROCK GOOSE COURIER STAMP SHEET

in English

2015

Eric Whollem

faux postage stamps

Thursday, June 18, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC ART MAIL/ Official Stamps and Covers of the Binklish Empire by Eric Whollem/ PELICAN AND PARROT COURIER MAIL/ Faux Postage Stamps/ THE COAT OF ARMS OF IMPERIUM PSITACHUS

OFFICIAL MAIL OF EAST MERRMINDE

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

COAT OF ARMS OF THE BINKLISH EMPIRE

2015

Eric Whollem

THE BINKLISH EMPIRE

The Binklish Empire is composed of three colonies, founded by Scarabeus Binkel. Barbaru Frie Stajt is located along the Barbaru Coast of Eastern Amphora. To the south of this one can find Binklish Vuyana as well as East Merreminde.

The Coat of Arms of the empire features a crab. In the center is the regal crown of the Emperor. Scarabeus Binkel is the first Emperor.

Sometimes the Empire is referred to as the Empire of the Parrot, or Imperium Psitachus. Binkel always took his Latin grammar with him in his travel to help communicate with the natives of regions that he explored.

One might note that Pelican Undersea Delivery stamps are used to communicate with subaquatic addresses, while addresses on land are serviced by Parrot Post.

OFFICIAL MAIL OF EAST MERREMINDE

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

EMBOSSED SEAL OF THE COAT OF ARMS

of the Binklish Empire

2015

Eric Whollem

OFFICIAL STAMPS OF THE BINKLISH EMPIRE

2015

Eric Whollem

cyber edition

OFFICIAL MAIL OF EAST MERREMINDE

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

SEE MORE PARROT COURIER STAMPS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/parrot%20courier%20mail

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC ART MAIL/ Parrot and Pelican Cooperative Mail Courier Services of the Binklish East Merreminde Company/ A Cyber Edition by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS

PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST

mailed out of East Merreminde

2015

Eric Whollem

paraphilatelic art mail

PARROT AND PELICAN BIRD POSTAL COURIERS

After Scarabeus Binkel colonized East Merreminde he established the Binklish East Merreminde Company to oversee his domains. He had already explored the Barbaru Coast and founded colonies in Barbaru Frie Stajt as well as Binklish Vuyana.

Finding that he had mail to send to suboceanic addresses, he could no longer rely solely on his loyal parrot to deliver his letters. So he conscripted a group of amiable Pelicans, assuring them of payment in ship's cracker for their troubles. Pelicans are among the most expert of divers and Binkel believed them suitable for communications with indigenous mermaids, as well as the hybrid half-human, half mermaid members of his crew who had remained behind in Binkel's Landing in Barbaru. The Parrot would make an excellent postal navigator, but always complained when he got his feathers soaked in salt water.

Finding that his cook had become ill with an unusual ear ache after reporting that he heard a horrible wailing noise coming off the starboard bow. Thus Captain Binkel went ashore and took up lodging in a mysteriously unoccupied hotel in Merre Town, a room with a kitchen.

PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST

mailed out of East Merreminde

2015

Eric Whollem

paraphilatelic art mail

Captain Binkel wrote this letter to Narrie A. Kaer, a mermaid he thought he could trust back at Binkel's Landing. He knew that many members of his crew had been converted to the worship of Aphrodite by the Mermaids with whom they had intermarried. He also wisely was using this opportunity to test the mettle of the Pelicans in his service. Binkel was a circumspect Postmaster General as well as Captain.

BINKLISH EAST MERREMINDE COMPANY

overprint on stamps of Merreminde

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamps

Finding that every town he came to in East Merreminde was quiet and comletely absent of inhabitants. This made conquest of the region amazingly easy. He found these stamps in the post office drawer in Merre Town, and using the typographic press aboard his ship, the Flower of June, he quickly went about overprinting some of them for use by the Binklish East Merreminde Company.

PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST

mailed out of East Merreminde

2015

Eric Whollem

paraphilatelic art mail

Alarmed by the increasing sounds of mysterious wailing from the depths of the sea, and finding that many of his crew were becoming sick or jumping into the sea, Captain Binkel quickly wrote to his cohorts at the Bottom of Binkel's Bay back in his colony in Barbaru. He apparently needed reinforcements and any help he could get.

PARROT AND PELICAN COOPERATIVE COURIER POST

mailed out of East Merreminde

2015

Eric Whollem

paraphilatelic art mail

Some of his crew in Barbaru were beachcombers, but Bo'sun Blaine operated a Salvage Yard at the bottom of the sea. He was a 'Bottom Scraper' as they say among the Mermaids. Binkel needed materials that he could not find in East Merreminde. We do not have the letter that was enclosed in this envelope, so we cannot be sure; but it seems that perhaps Binkel needed scrap iron, perhaps for shrapnel. Was there a war going on in East Merreminde? We hope not, for that land has been a peaceful realm of Mermaids for many centuries. Perhaps Captain Binkel knew nothing about any of this....but if he had only asked his Pelicans, they could have filled him in. LOL

SEE MORE PARROT STAMPS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/parrot%20courier%20mail

Sunday, June 14, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC FANTASY STAMP FROM BINKLISH VUYANA/ Parrot Post Stamps by Eric Whollem/ FAUX POSTAGE STAMPS/ Cybermail Art

BINKLISH VUYANA FANTASY STAMP

2015

Eric Whollem

THE DISCOVERY OF BINKLISH VUYANA

The map below shows the routes followed by Scarabeus Binkel to the Barbaru Coast. Binkel, famous explorer known for his exploits in these dangerous waters, ventured south of his headquarters at Binkel's Landing, in what came to be known as The Barbaru Frie Stajt, to the unknown city of Vu in what Binkel called Binklish Vuyana. Vu, capital of Vuyana is located on the Sea of Glass, a body of water feared by sailors, as the perpetual doldrums, wherein the winds failed to blow for many days, was known to bring many a vessel to ruin. Thus Vuyana has remained unknown to the Outer World for centuries.

Scarabeus Binkel, hurriedly created these crude stamps for a letter to Thomas Blood. His regular perforating tools were left in camp at Binkel's Landing. And his cancellation devices were left behind as well. So he had to make do with what he had on hand, a old typesetter and inks made from the distillation of tar, gathered from his ship's hold. Seen on the regular issue is an image of Binkel's ship, the Flower of June.

A MAP OF SCARABEUS BINKEL'S EXPLORATIONS

ALONG THE BARBARU COAST

2015

Eric Whollem

THE BEGINNINGS OF THE BINKLISH EAST

MERREMINDE COMPANY

Scarabeus Binkel, who hailed from Binkel County in Western Amphora, always longed to explore the unknown reaches of Eastern Amphora. He set up three colonies along the Barbaru Coast: the Barbaru Frie Stajt, Binkish Vuyana, and lastly, arriving in the territory of Merreminde, claimed the southern part as his own, as the cities he found were mysteriously vacant. All the people were gone. This made his operations easy. He called this new land East Merreminde and his expeditionary operartions, the Binklish East Merreminde Company.

His first mate, Jack John, commented that he had established a new Empire. Binkel dubbed his holdings as the Binklish Empire and set himself up as Emperor of his new domains.

The letter below is a rare cover that remains from this relatively unknown period of history. LOL

Seen here is the use of Parrot Post delivery stamps. Binkel had trained his parrot to carry his letters.

There have been pigeon posts in history....our of places such as New Zealand and the isle of Herm, in Britain. So the use of bird couriers is not unknown. It is believed that the Amphoran region also was known for Boobie Bird Courier services out of the Isle of Buto, and also Goose Courier mail out of Amorphagos. Binkel may or may not have heard of these bird courier services. He was operating out of immediate necessity.

Binkel's pet parrot he named after himself, 'Binkel.' This is said to help preserve his 'modesty' when it came to place names among his discoveries. LOL

BINKLISH VUYANA COVER

featuring a Parrot Courier Post stamp

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

BINKLISH VUYANA PARROT POST STAMP

imperforate with cancel

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

BINKLISH VUYANA PARROT POST STAMP

imperforate, showing selvage text

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

BINKLISH VUYANA PARROT POST STAMP

imperforate, showing selvage text

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamp

BINKLISH VUYANA PARROT COURIER STAMP SHEET

2015

Eric Whollem

cyberstamps

SEE MORE PARROT STAMPS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/parrot%20courier%20mail

Saturday, June 13, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC CYBER ART MAIL/ Parrot Post by Eric Whollem/ PARROT COURIER MAIL/ Faux Postage Stamp Covers/ VIRTUAL STAMPS

PARROT POST STAMP COVER
Barbaru Frie Stajt
2015
Eric Whollem
cybermail art
copyright by the artist

A MAP SHOWING SCARABEUS BINKEL'S ROUTE TO THE BARBARU COAST
2015
Eric Whollem

SCARABEUS BINKEL'S VOYAGE TO THE BARBARU COAST

SCARABEUS BINKEL, renowned expert in the stamps of the Barbaru Coast, writes: 'When I first landed in Barbaru, I was tired and exhausted from a long journey at sea. The fogs had lead me into dangerous reefs. But the folk of Attulio soon came to my aid and provided me with grog and ship's biscuits. Despite the age of the biscuits my parrot was most pleased to share my repast. So I named the bay where we landed Binkel's Bay. Of course, a wise sea farer always names his parrot after himself to preserve modesty. '

Binkel developed a unique innovation: sending mail by parrot. Thus the Barbaru Parrot Post was born.

Barbaru was an uncharted region in the east of the continent of Amphora, before Binkel took it upon himself to explore the region. LOL.

PARROT POST STAMP COVER

Barbaru Frie Stajt

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

PARROT POST STAMP COVER

Barbaru Frie Stajt

2015

cybermail art

PARROT POST STAMP COVER

Barbaru Frie Stajt

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

Saturday, June 6, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC CYBERMAIL COVERS AND CANCELLATIONS/ First Flight Covers for the Boobie Bird Courier Service by Eric Whollem/ MAPS OF THE ROUTES OF THE BIRD COURIERS/ Virtual Stamp Covers

FIRST FLIGHT COVER FROM DELPHYS TO BUTTONIA

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

CYBERMAIL ART

Mail Art is well known today as a movement that began in the 1960's and 1970's. It involved exhibitions of contemporary artistry of various sorts, collage, artistamps, rubber stamps, drawings and paintings etc, on covers. Mail Art is, of course, physical.

Cyberstamps or Virtual Stamps appeared on the scene after computers became more popular. A cyberstamp, according to one definition, is a stamp that is created on the computer as an image file. Such stamps may be considered to be primary layouts for stamps that can be printed later. Cyberstamp creators thus developed a broad range of techniques of adapting virtual or cyber perforations to their artistry. Cyberstamps, thus defined, are, of course, not physical.

It is only natural that faux stamp covers would arise as an art form. These we could call 'cybermail art' or ' virtual paraphilatelic covers' or 'pararphilatelic cybermail art,' etc.

It is true that the terms 'cyberstamps' and 'virtual stamps' are used with various defintions by people with different approaches. For example the Cyberstamp Club is a group dedicated to virtual stamp collecting, which is to say the accumulation of stamp images of all kinds from internet sources. The stamps thus 'collected' are not limited to cyberstamps as I have defined them above, which is to say stamps created as image files.

FIRST FLIGHT COVER FROM DELPHYS TO COLD CANYON

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

CYBER CANCELLATIONS

For many years now the USPS as well as postal services of other nations have used 'digital cancellations' to frank the mails.

However, from the standpoint of cyberstamp covers as I have defined them above, virtual cancellations such as those seen on the covers appearing here are something a bit different. These cancellations only exist as image files, not as cancels on physical faux postage stamps.

Yet to complicate matters, cyber cancellations are also quite possible to apply to physical covers from the computer by digitally cancelling the covers on digital printers, much in the manner of addressing covers by cybernetic means. These cyber cancellations are physical, and parallel the conventional digital cancellations of regular mail services. The digital cancellations thus created by an artist, either on computer file covers or physical covers could be called cyber art cancellations, or digital art cancellations, faux postal cancellations, etc, etc.

Perhaps we could reserve the term 'virtual cancellation' only for those cancellations that appear on cyberstamps, insofar as a cancellation is no longer virtual once it is resolved physically.

Many faux postage stamp creators have developed their own styles of faux cancellations over the years.

And also, of course, paraphilatelic mail, which has been with us for many years, predating general home computers, has utilized privately designed rubber stamp cancellations for some time. A good example are the fantasy covers of Gerald M. King of the UK, the developer of the famous Alice in Wonderland stamp series. King developed a wide range of private postal markings for his mail.

Paraphilatelic cybermail art is quite an intriguing challenge to the artist. As such the covers thus produced could be considered digital stamp paintings, as opposed to digital paintings.

SEE MORE BOOBIE STAMPS:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/boobie%20courier%20post

Friday, June 5, 2015

PARAPHILATELIC CYBERMAIL ART/ Delphys Faux Postage Stamp Cover by Eric Whollem/ featuring deliveries by Boobie Bird Courier Services/ A MAP OF DELPHYS

DELPHYS FAUX POSTAGE STAMP COVER

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

BOOBIE BIRD COURIER MAIL

The Kingdom of Delphys is a large island nation to the south of the Continent of Amphora. The mail seen here represents the first 'air mail' delivery used on the island. The Isle of Buto to the north of Delphys is home of a number of Boobie Bird Courier Services.

The first two covers on this blog post show samples of Blythe's Boobie Post, a semi-official courier service that functions all across the Amphoran main.

Seen on this cover is the Delphysian 'Duck Ship' cancellation. The Delphysian stamps seen here are ones created originally in 2003 in laser editions with die cut perforations. The Boobie Bird stamps are actually cyberstamps. The entirety of the cover is a cyber edition, which I refer to as 'Cybermail Art.'

DELPHYS OFFICIAL MAIL FROM THE OFFICE OF THE NAVY

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

DELPHYS COVER DELIVERED BY THE BUTUNIAN LOCO POST

BOOBIE BIRD COURIER SERVICE

2015

Eric Whollem

cybermail art

BUTUNIA LOCO POST BOOBIE BIRD COURIER MAIL

Butunia, an autonomous region in the southwest of the Isle of Buto is one of the regions involved in the Loco Post Rebellion which started in Boobville in Buttonia, another autonomous region to the east.

Sooze M'grew, a beachcomber who lives in a cave near Moss Island Beach, here writes a missive to the postmistress of Fortuni in Delphys, hoping to acquire an interest in the Butunian Boobie Service. an outfit that competes with Blythe, who is in alliance with the central government of Buto in Templetown to the north.

MAP OF DELPHYS

2015

Eric Whollem

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

DIGITAL ABSTRACTION/ 'Labyrinthian' by Eric Whollem/ Digital Painting/ Figurative Expressionism

LABYRINTHIAN

1985

Eric Whollem

digital painting

Monday, June 1, 2015

FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM/ Mixed media drawing by Eric Whollem/ 'Bridging the Formless World'

BRIDGING THE FORMLESS WORLD

1983

Eric Whollem

India ink, parafin resist and watercolor on colored paper

drawing

Saturday, May 30, 2015

FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONISM/ A Drawing by Eric Whollem/ 'Initiation in the Dream Lodge of the Nectar of the Saltim'/ CONCOW MAIDU AND THE KUKSU RELIGION/ Insect Gods of Ancient California

INITIATION IN THE DREAM LODGE OF THE NECTAR OF THE SALTIM

1983

Eric Whollem

India ink, watercolor and wax resist on paper

drawing

THE INSECT GODS OF ANCIENT CALIFORNIA

Among the Concow Maidu Indians of California, who practice the Kuksu Dream Religion there is a high order of spirits, the Saltim. The Saltim are sometimes equated with insect spirits, who are very lucky and symbols of great wisdom.

This drawing shows the dream lodge of the Saltim.

The Kuksu Religion, which is practiced by many tribes in California, from Mt. Shasta down to Yosemite, usually involved a society of initiates of dream knowledge. Certain parallels could be drawn with the autochthonous beliefs of the ancient Australians concerning the Dream Time.

The tribal leaders among the Maidu have been traditionally chosen for the quality of their dream life.

Read more about the Maidu Indians:

http://artblogericwhollem.blogspot.com/search/label/maidu%20indians