Other venues have followed Postcards' lead.
Drive from Dublin to the western coast and back, as I did two months ago, and you'll still find all the thatched-roof farmhouses, winding stone walls and placid sheep that the postcards would lead you to expect.
May 20: The instrumental trio Big Lazy returns after a period of hibernation, with a new drummer and an impressive, bittersweet album called "Postcards from X". Led by the elegant guitarist Stephen Ulrich, the band's new material consists mostly of dark songs featuring Ulrich's reverb-and-tremelo drenched playing backed by junk-yard grooves from the rhythm section.
Among the hundreds of exhibits are collections of Nazi memorabilia and propaganda, including beer mats, postcards, playing cards, lead soldiers and swastika lampshades.
For example, on the Lonely Planet Web site, www.lonelyplanet.com, users can click on the Postcards link, which leads to an online bulletin board where they can get information about crime and practical concerns.
A desire for bubble-gum pop in Krakow led to kiosks dealing in sound postcards: cheap, disposable records consisting of a grooved plastic laminate affixed to a colorful paper card suitable for mailing.
Mr. Scholder's dedication to his artistic afterlife has led him to design his own posters, postcards, catalogs and books.
This led to his acceptance at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, Colo., and to a postcard from one of his Beat idols.
An Internet search led me to Rasa, an airy, skylit studio near the Sorbonne entered through a massive wooden door from rue Saint Jacques and across a postcard-gorgeous stone courtyard.
The L.A. startup, led by former MySpace exec Josh Brooks, lets mobile users snap pictures on their phones (both Android and iOS) and turn them into physical postcards at 99 cents a pop and up.
