With Twitter and Instagram and Tumblr being so popular, you may have forgotten that the humble email newsletter can be a great way to annoy and outrage the people you so callously see as empty consumption machines for your shit. For example, here's an email recently sent out by Stuckist artist Terry Marks. Note that the bolded text is in the original:
From: "terry marks"<info@terrymarks.net>
Date: Jun 20, 2014 1:16 PM
Subject: FYI future art invites
To:
Cc:
I am using a new email service for my art exhibition news & invites. I recently sent one to you that was marked as un-viewed, and am writing to see if you received it, or if there was some problem on the sending end. If you have a spare minute, could you please check for me? I would really appreciate knowing what is up.
If you use gmail, it might have gone into your promotions tab, a new feature google is using to sort your mail. If that's the case, drag the email into your primary tab, and say yes when google asks if you want to do this for future mailings.
If it went in your spam folder by mistake, you can tell your email program to mark it as not spam.
Also, in order for you to see everything in the message, you have to click on view images, which is where I put photos, or gallery cards & press releases. If you don't do this part, I won't know you've seen it.
Any questions about any of this, please drop me a line.
And of course, if you don't want to receive invites & news from me, you can unsubscribe as well.
here's the email to look for:
date: June 19th, 2014
title: art exhibition opens June 19th
from Terry Marks <info@terrymarks.net> via madmimi.com
I hope you can get to see Art from the Boros II; if you missed the opening reception it's up through August.
thank you so very much!
--Terry
http://www.terrymarks.net
twitter: terrymarksNYart
Rudeness, now fully automated.
From: "terry marks"<info@terrymarks.net>
Date: Jun 20, 2014 1:16 PM
Subject: FYI future art invites
To:
Cc:
I am using a new email service for my art exhibition news & invites. I recently sent one to you that was marked as un-viewed, and am writing to see if you received it, or if there was some problem on the sending end. If you have a spare minute, could you please check for me? I would really appreciate knowing what is up.
If you use gmail, it might have gone into your promotions tab, a new feature google is using to sort your mail. If that's the case, drag the email into your primary tab, and say yes when google asks if you want to do this for future mailings.
If it went in your spam folder by mistake, you can tell your email program to mark it as not spam.
Also, in order for you to see everything in the message, you have to click on view images, which is where I put photos, or gallery cards & press releases. If you don't do this part, I won't know you've seen it.
Any questions about any of this, please drop me a line.
And of course, if you don't want to receive invites & news from me, you can unsubscribe as well.
here's the email to look for:
date: June 19th, 2014
title: art exhibition opens June 19th
from Terry Marks <info@terrymarks.net> via madmimi.com
I hope you can get to see Art from the Boros II; if you missed the opening reception it's up through August.
thank you so very much!
--Terry
http://www.terrymarks.net
twitter: terrymarksNYart
Rudeness, now fully automated.