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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.

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Christmas, Austin-style | December 22, 2007

Holiday carolers from local theater singing "Mr. Grinch", swinging peace signs and Our Lady of Guadalupe manger scenes. A life-size dreidel dangled from a tree at the original house that started it all. (Yes, a dreidel is Jewish, y'all.) This...... [read more]

green girl, or not? | February 3, 2007

Well, after about 6 months now I am considering removing my 'green girl', as I like to call her, from the site. Every time I log on she looks greener and greener. She is happy, for sure, and free. But...... [read more]

Fullness | April 19, 2005

In the Tate Modern in London there is a sculpture called something along the lines of “The day after today”. I was inspired by seeing time in such a physical form. The passing of time is so often represented by...... [read more]

young art edition | August 16, 2004

Derek and I have a friend in Berlin who, several years ago, started a publishing house called Down To Earth... It has been an uphill adventure, as most publishing is! She is bridging worlds that haven't really been bridged before,...... [read more]

the boy and the mountain | July 27, 2004

..a time for strengthening the spirit, and other times to reintegrate the soul. Knowing which you're in is basic... there are these old chinese prints i like where a boy is trying to find a mountain. there are three images...... [read more]

torahs, bibles, and trees | July 25, 2004

I keep a copy of the hebrew scriptures just by my bed. I do this for several reasons. For one, if angelic forces come to take me like Enoch into the third heaven in the night, they perhaps will carry...... [read more]