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Etch a Day (or so)

may18
I'm in a creative mood. I thought I would upload an etch a day to Flickr, maybe comment, or maybe just use it to junk my brain. These are done online with a mouse and a flash application.
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Amy McDonald Chapman pretends to write here from time to time. This is her virtual outpost, with occasional interjections from her writerly partner in crime Derek Chapman. Aesthetics, music, comedy, film, writing, kitsch, retro, fashion, ideas, architecture, bad art/good art.

design*fashion

a new Anthropologie: authentic? | December 8, 2006

Fashiony women love Anthropologie. I have lived in 2 cities with an Anthropologie store--one in Cincinnati, one near Detroit--and at least at the time I never would have dreamed of affording anything in it, but I liked looking at their...... [read more]

new design | February 8, 2005

Hi everybody. Not quite happy with just a slapped-together layout, I spent the last week obsessing over getting this looking just right. And also making it hopefully easy to use for the folks who contribute here. It went through several...... [read more]

texan fashion | January 22, 2005

Some thoughts from the fashion correspondent: This summer the new trends are proclaimed to be: folkloric fashion boho chic mexican prints 70s casual mountain desert adventurer From European chains to the haute designers, there is a general consensus that the...... [read more]

80s help me | May 10, 2004

Now ten years ago I must have been blind when I was obsessed with the 70s. Every thrift store and vintage closet was a good one if it was stuffed with terry cloth and neon polyester. Ten years ago we...... [read more]