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Red Letter Day

@redletterdayzine.bsky.social
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Words & images keep me up at night; I write about mail & art & artists books. I’m Director of Exhibitions & Artist Programs at San Francisco Center for the Book.

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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I don’t even need to caption this. Head over to @coolcatcollective.bsky.social if you’re interested (how dare you even THINK about passing up this oppurrrrtunity?!?! What are you, a dog person?) #zines #catsofbluesky #zinesters #cutandpaste
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hard at work today on my artist book project for the Hand Bookbinders of CA members exhibition, opening in May at the American Bookbinders Museum. A handful of us are creating work incorporating the Castro flag, which proudly waves over the Castro neighborhood in SF.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“Musk’s lieutenants wanted more control over the USPS than DeJoy was willing to allow, a source familiar with the matter says.” ➡️ DeJoy resigns as PMG: time.com/7271271/loui...
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Exclusive: Louis DeJoy Resigns as Postmaster General
Louis DeJoy has resigned from his role as Postmaster General of the U.S. Postal Service, according to a source familiar with the matter.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Thanks @marc-fischer.bsky.social, Half Letter Press, and the Temporary Services gang! I’m a fan of all your publications, and these postcards really hit the spot!
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It’s a very good Friday. #pinksprinkles #donuts #donutsrulewverythingaroundme
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anitaLovesWheatens @anitammartinez.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Let’s DO This! #IdesOfTrump
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Re-appreciating this gem of a catalog from the exhibition “Ray Johnson: Painting and Collage 1950-66” at the Craig Starr Gallery last year. A (2024) birthday gift from @nonarchival.bsky.social. #mailart #collage #moticos #rayjohnson #goodmailday
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
New project afoot in the studio, a new artist book underway for Hand Bookbinders of California’s upcoming exhibition.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Stories and catnip and musings about the general state of things. #lulucatsf
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#dailyfeels
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com · 21/02/2025
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A (hilarious) combination of “Choose Your Own Adventure”and the inherant power of naming things. Plus: I love that MapQuest is having a moment! gulfof.mapquest.com
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Gulf of Map Explorer
Create and share your own custom Gulf maps with MapQuest
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is resigning. Read this article first: apnews.com/article/unit... And then read this one to see what might be in store for the USPS: www.thedailybeast.com/postmaster-g...
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US Postal Service head DeJoy to step down after 5 years marked by pandemic, losses and cost cuts
In a Monday letter, Postmaster General DeJoy asked the Postal Service Board of Governors to begin looking for his successor.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Wrapping up the Year of the Snake Lunar New Year edition this weekend — taking far longer than planned, due to additional perforation and rubber stamping.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Valentine’s Day at @strandbookstore.bsky.social —> a couple weeks ago when I was visiting NYC, but super adorable as a photo post today!
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
GAH. So many beautiful collage zines and postcard sets at @nonmachinable.com right now! shop.nonmachinable.com
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NONMACHINABLE
We're NONMACHINABLE, est. 2022 — we specialize in zines and artist publications featuring collage, visual poetry, abstract comics, stamp art,...
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, whose writing and work I have long admired. We can all do something in long or short term ways; the goal is to be participating. choosedemocracy.us/what-can-i-do/
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What can I do to fight this coup? - Choose Democracy
If you look, there are people resisting at every level. Blockades of freeways. American Bar Association urging an end to...
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Testing, 1…2…
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Still experimenting with @flashes.blue (Flashes). Here’s a handful of #lulucatsf doing her thing.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A first post here, using the (beta) version of Flashes (@flashes.blue). Pretty good so far and comparable to “that other photo sharing platform”.
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Tofu @tofuart.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Let's celebrate 50 years of Walter Landor's iconic MUNI logo. The absolute best transit agency logo ever. And always, in the orange and brown! #SanFrancisco
San Francisco MUNI logo in original orange and brown
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/02/2025
The “Missing Post Office” is a repository for 60,000-plus pieces of mail: letters, birthday cards and New Year’s greetings sent from all over Japan to those with no forwarding address. Lost friends and pets; past and future selves; and, most frequently, the dead.
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The sorrow, hope and longing of Japan’s ‘Missing Post Office’
An old post office in southern Japan has become a destination, both tourist and postal, for people who are not yet ready to let go of their loved ones.
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 07/02/2025
Last call: if you're free for lunch today (11am central, noon eastern), We'll be exploring zines as tools for political communication, culture-shifting, community-building, etc. for @sarabandebooks.bsky.social's "zine lunch" series. Registration is free: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
In case you missed this: hyperallergic.com/986030/nicol...
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The Artist Printing Emblems of Immigrant Resistance
Nicolás González-Medina's woodblock designs amplify the fight for immigrant rights amid Trump's sweeping crackdown on undocumented people.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’m excited to host SFCB’s online event “From the Bench” with artist Gino Robair! Very few spots left; sign up for this free event ASAP! sfcb.org/civicrm/even...
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From the Bench of Gino Robair | San Francisco Center for the Book
SFCB is a bookbinding and letterpress studio offering workshops, events, and exhibitions that promote traditional book arts and experimental book forms.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Year of the Snake postage at Haight Street post office!
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It is on the horizon, beautiful people. gizmodo.com/bluesky-is-g...
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Bluesky Is Getting Its Own Instagram Alternative Called Flashes
Instagram users not enthused about Mark Zuckerberg's pivot to MAGA have a new refuge.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Day 04: Colbert, a David Lynch type hallway, the Winter Show, and Donut Pub NYC!
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Not a good look, USPS. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
So lovely to meet up with @jocelyn-bergen.bsky.social and see @marycamp.bsky.social last night at the closing of Mark Bloch’s “PanModern” exhibit. Great show, wonderful humans! (photos are from the exhibit)
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NY, Day 02: took in the Guerilla Girls show at Hannah Traore Gallery on the LES; photos of the Guggenheim show coming next!
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NYC, day 01: a few of my favorite places (East Village edition):
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Mail art, Shozo Shimamoto, and a review of Mark Bloch’s “Pan Modern” mail art show — all in one article! japancontemporaries.com/articles/sho...
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Shozo Shimamoto in the Postal Art Network
Shozo Shimamoto in the Postal Art Network Japanese contribution to the Mail Art Global Avant-Garde movement By Kyoko Sato January 23, 2025 Above right, Brain Cell by Ryosuke Cohen. Mark Bloch (b. 1…
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“Tech entrepreneurs have launched a campaign to establish a new ecosystem that can’t be controlled by any singular person or company & puts power — & data ownership — back into the hands of users.” @hyperallergic.com reports on the “Free Our Feeds” initiative. hyperallergic.com/985244/a-new...
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A New Movement to Free Social Media From Oligarchs
The Free Our Feeds campaign, launched by a group of tech entrepreneurs, aims to put digital platforms back in the hands of users.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Excited to stop by and say howdy to Mr. John Casey next week. He’s on the LES of NYC, a fantastic maker of rubber stamps, and damn near a national treasure. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ULdN...
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Manhattan rubber-stamp shop preserves whimsical art form
YouTube video by Localish
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
First #risograph project: artistamp sheet for Lunar New Year. Ready to perforate and mail out. #mailart #goodmailday
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
NPR explains how digital book licenses work for public libraries; you might be surprised by how expensive that e-copy of “The Midnight Feast” -actually- is: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aC2Y...
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Why is your Libby hold taking so long? How can you be "in line" to borrow a digital library book?
YouTube video by NPR Podcasts
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Hope @hopeamico.com · 22/01/2025
💖💖💖
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Hope @hopeamico.com · 22/01/2025
monochrome collage? yes! of course!
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Guerilla Girls exhibition just opened at the Hannah Traore gallery in NYC: hannahtraoregallery.com/exhibition/d...
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Discrimi-NATION - Hannah Traore Gallery
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 09/01/2025
Some helpful info and resources. Stay safe.
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Chy @chyhere.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
LA restaurants offering free meals to fire evacuees: Yeastie Boys (Multiple locations) Bar Etoile (East Hollywood) Fiorelli Pizza (Venice) Bé Ù (Silver Lake) Danny Boy's (Downtown + Westwood) Oy Bar (Studio City) Sunday Gravy (Inglewood) Dudley Market (Venice) LaSorted's (Silver Lake)
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Hi LA County friends, just got a heads up through the wires and don't have a place to write it up so I'll put it here instead - the city of Rosemead is providing free N95s and KN95s to the public which can be picked up at the Rosemead Chamber of Commerce on Muscatel Ave between 12-4pm today...
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
NYU’s #mailart exhibition “Panmodern!”, curated by Mark Bloch and Nicholas Martin, is reviewed this morning in ArteFuse: artefuse.com/from-zines-t...
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From Zines to Cyber-Mail: Mark Bloch’s Panmodern! Illuminates a Lost Era of Art and Activism, NYC - ArteFuse
Mark Bloch: Panmodern! Curated by Mark Bloch and Nicholas Martin New York University Bobst Library, 2nd Floor By appointment: special.collections@nyu.edu September 17, 2024-January 28, 2025 “Panmodern...
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Last book read in 2024 (finished yesterday!): Murakami’s “The City and Its Uncertain Walls”; first up for 2025: “1974” by Francine Prose. Looking forward to this one, as it takes place in #sanfrancisco
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
On the exhibition horizon (2025/26) at the California Museum of Photography: “Transgresoras: Mail Art & Messages, 1960s-2020s” —> ucrarts.ucr.edu/exhibitions/...
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Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s - UCR ARTS
Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, 1960s–2020s surveys artworks made and exchanged by Latinx and Latin American women artists from the 1960s to the present.
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Red Letter Day @redletterdayzine.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A nice write up from Hyperallergic re: the passing of Anna Banana: hyperallergic.com/976206/mail-...
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Mail Art Pioneer Anna Banana Dies at 84
The artist’s playful adoption of the banana motif transformed an everyday object into a vehicle for social interaction and anti-market exchange.
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