I hadn’t planned on going to Yogyakarta, but needed a stop from Ubud on the way to Jakarta. A friend had suggested I might like it, but when I first arrived and saw a bland concrete jungle I wasn’t impressed. After taking some time to wander the streets, I began to discover Yogyakarta’s charm – the hustle and bustle of everyday life that seems to have art leaking out of the cracks. There’s amazing graffiti that makes you feel like you’re in Berlin rather than Indonesia. Yogyakarta is renowned for it’s beautiful Batik painting style and it was really fascinating seeing how they hand make them. I was only there a few days and spent one of those at Borobudur, but I felt like I could have easily spent weeks longer there discovering something new.
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Nice photos 🙂
Thank you 🙂 Yogyakarta is surprisingly photogenic 😉
You have two options here.1. Find a qtuaily postcard printer, have the postcards produced at your own expense, then find yourself places to sell them online or in stores. More work for you, but the work stays your own.2. Submit your work to postcard publishers. Should they decide to carry your designs, they will cover the production and marketing costs, then pay you a percentage of the sales.
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1. If you have a coffee table, diinng table, or desk you can have a piece of glass cut to fit. Put the postcards on the table (some upside down if they have good stamps and fun messages) randomly at different angles like they were just scattered there. Toss in some ticket stubs or other interesting flat things. Put the glass on top. Since you don’t glue them down, you don’t destroy the postcards. Change when you feel like it. It’s fun to make a theme a place, a country, plants, food, anything that makes the cards into a story.You can also put down a map or decorative paper that speaks of the region the postcards come from as a background. Fold the extra edges under and flatten down with the side of a pen if you don’t want to cut the map and put the post cards on top of that. 2. Get a large frame with glass and do the same thing for a wall picture. 3. Get stretcher strips at an art store and build a big frame. On the back, string rows of wire tightly and staple down. Hang postcards from tiny binder clips as a sort of gallery. Also changeable according to your whim and doesn’t destroy the cards. You can paint or cover the stretchers with ribbon, staple down a fabric backing, whatever you like to make it decorative.4. If you want to destroy the cards, you can get some decoupage glue and permanantly put them on furniture, suitcases, closet doors, any flat surface. But I like non-destructive ways as you can change the cards around.
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