Oh Yeah!
It's #marty-mail time, again!
Barely two months have passed since I made the first #marty-mail post. I was the lucky winner of a @steembay auction for one of @marty-art's wonderful paintings. It completely made my day back then to receive the letter and so I quickly made a little post about it. I picked the #marty-mail tag just because it had a nice sound to it, I didn't think much about it really, but now... Maarten actually made it a thing!!
I'm humbled that he decided to send me the first official #marty-mail. And yesterday I came home to find the envelope sitting on my doorstep. Luckily, the mailman didn't leave it three quarters flapping out of my mailbox like last time. I think the current weather conditions would have turned this into a very sad day!
But alas, no! Everything is hunky dory! My dear friend "Zygmunt", the Popular, but Crazy Mastermind, always wearing his Mask of Cooperative Contemplation, arrived dry and safely cushioned in two layers of bubble-wrap.
And he didn't arrive alone either, along came "Mable", the Clumsy Chaperone from The Land of Make Believe.
That all probably sounds a bit weird, crazy weird, I know. I will try to explain what's going on, but let's take a second and first admire my new homie Zygmunt in his whole glory as he's proudly wearing his Mask off Cooperative Contemplation, on my living room wall:
Zygmunt, the Popular, but Crazy Mastermind, with his Mask of Cooperative Contemplation. [source]
@marty-art organises the wildest and weirdest interactive online analogue art exhibitions you'll ever find, right here on steemit. And everyone always gets a chance to put their creative juices into the pudding, too.
And so, it was actually me myself, who had the chance to name this Vagabond: Zygmunt. It was also me who determined that he'd be a popular but crazy mastermind, albeit there might have been some randomness and potentially gravity involved, but I did explicitly decide that he'd be always wearing a Mask of Cooperative Contemplation.
But then again, that wasn't initially the case either, because @sudong had actually already named him "Zilong" and I had to twist and bend the fictitious metaverse around @marty-art's work, creating glitches in the matrix and playing my best cards to eventually give him my chosen name.
And after that, it all gets even much weirder and wilder when these crowd created characters develop a life of their own in the communally written epilogues... It's simple fun actually, but it's way too complex to explain it all here right now.
Just follow @marty-art and be there when the next event starts. I can guarantee it's going to be weird, mysterious, crazy, awesome and potentially hilarious... all in the best ways possible!!
Mable, the Clumsy Chaperone from The Land of Make Believe. [source]
Mable has an adventurous history, too. She had received her beautiful name from the wonderful @hazel420. I'm really proud to give her a place to hang around in good company, too.
Not only do I have an amazing little collection of Maarten's awesome paintings that I love so much, I also have a little bit of steemit history, created by some of my dearest virtual friends, at my humble home!
my private @marty-art collection
Now then, then now, do you want some #marty-mail of your own?!
Check out his post!
He's making #marty-mail available for everyone!
P.S.: As almost always on my blog, this post does also contain a secret prize worth 1 SBD!
The prize has been claimed.
fraenk loves you!
Love this post and of course @marty-art and his amazing art too. By the way I spy with my little googlyeyes a googlybot in the last photo ;)
hehe... indeed, @googlybot is there.
unfortunately @marty-art himself found him and claimed the secret-prize he was hiding already. ;)
Ah ha I missed Marty's comment above ;-)
Awesome sauce @fraenk! Nice to see your art collection growing, looks beautiful!
Meanwhile I am sitting here, looking at my wallet & keeping my fingers crossed nobody takes my girl Shelly ^^ but I'm getting there!!
hahaha... awesome sauce indeed!
You'll get there! The dream will come true!
I just found this GIF... it has steemit written all over it lol... I'll have to use that more than once I think!
hahahahaha brilliant! this might be helpful every once in a while :P
wow, I didn't know you like the art so much :)
those look great :)
the names, those names are just precious :)
hehe, yeah... having interactive adventures with these characters does create a bonding effect I guess, especially when you've named them, too!
You should join in the next adventure. Even @cuddlekitten got actively involved in the last one ;)
This style really gets the imagination going, love it!
yeah... these hazy mysterious characters are practically inviting us to imagine their real selves :D
the walls are looking so good with these art :)
ah hell yeah! I love it!
That looks like an awesome corner: art, books, plants and googlyeyes :D I'm glad to see my paintings there, you've made a great composition with them, the weirdo's of Niflheim. Simply awesome to see, thanks! :)
And I am looking at it every day now, lucky me! THANK YOU!
Awesome, no: THANK YOU! And is that @googlybot in there? :P
BLEEP BLOOP BLOPP
[you found the secret prize!]
/α ._.α\
Yes, i know, you were involved in all the shenanigans, too, I couldn't have done it without you, but the post was already getting a bit long-winded without going into that layer also.
cuddletime!
=γ α½γ =
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