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Dear friends and readers,
In case any of you are still subscribed to this very stagnant blog, I am here to announce something exciting!

I am working on a new project called The Archive of Desire. Soon I will officially retire this here blog (I haven't been using it that much, have I?) and www.archiveofdesire.com will be my new bloggity headquarters. I would love your feedback on it as it unfolds. Comment away, people!

You can still see my sculptures and other art at www.amywalsh.net , too.
Love and thanks...
Amy

Scoop up a Specimen!

Hello blogland. I took a year off or so from blogging. Yep. Baby, teaching jobs, etc. Crazyness and goodness.

And now, I am preparing for an exhibit of my sculptures, and getting back into the studio, which feels VERY good. I am also fundraising to cover some of the costs of this new burst of sculpture making activity, and part of that is offering YOU a chance to purchase art from me at a very sweet price.

My Specimen prints - the series of 12 beasts comprising a Beastiarium currently for sale on Etsy - are being offered for $20 a piece for December only. Scoop 'em up for the holidays! And if you want more than 3, email ([email protected]) or convo me - I'll give you even more of a discount! Plenty of time for shipping before Christmas.

Happy and healthy winter everyone, and Hannukah and Christmas and Kwanzaa and New Year...

 

Baby love.

Julian, 2 days old.

I had a baby.

Julian Walsh Perry, meet world. World, meet Julian!

He was born about 2 months ago on July 11. We had some rocky times at the beginning in addition to the overwhelming workload of being a new parent, hence my long absence from the blogowhatsis. All's well now, he's gorgeous and thriving, and I am happily beginning to turn a bit of my attention back to art and crafting, and doing my various freelancing and entrepreneurial thingies. 

He has beautiful graceful hands, he sometimes make hilarious yodeley sounds when he eats, and he has wide, curious eyes. I'm so looking forward to seeing his life continue to unfold day after day.

eye candy DELUXE

the most beautiful art thing i have seen in a long time:

http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-of-space.html

Goodbye KickballMedia, hello AmyWalsh.

Hi folks,

If any of you have tried to go to my web site of sculpture and installation lately, kickballmedia.com, you will have found an alarming black and red page that says WARNING! ATTACK SITE! That's because my site got hacked and Malware was installed on all its pages. Trauma!!! I have spent some time trying to clean up the site and have Google re-review it and take it off the blacklist, but to no avail.

So, I decided its time to retire that URL (kickballmedia) anyway. Kickball Media Works was a company I ran in the 90's with my dear friend Han Wang (who makes amazing music with his band The Invisible Cities). We made web sites and did other neato design projects back when it was really hot stuff to know how to make a web site. Our original domain name was kickball.com, so lovely and simple, but the World Kickball Association really wanted it and I eventually couldn't refuse them (or the money they offered for it!) - so kickballmedia was born, and I have used it ever since for my artwork and design projects as they have evolved over time.

But I don't do business by that name any more, so it doesn't have much but sentimental value to me (though it does have heaps of that).

It's time for my new domain name and a whole new web presence for me, integrating my prints and 2D work with my sculpture and installation work. I finally got it all set up today, and its:

www.amywalsh.net

There is a placeholder there now with links to my shop, this blog, my Twitter, Flickr and Facebook accounts, but before long I will launch a whole new Amy Walsh web site which will completely change the world. forever. Or at least make my web presence a little more reasonable and orderly and content-rich. Bookmark it!

Eye Candy No. 12: Ted Larsen

Kind of relates to some of my own work. But different.

 

Eye Candy No. 11 : Renaud Perrin.

Just found the gorgeous web site and wonderful work of Renaud Perrin. Go there now!

The Design Alphabet

Thanks to Jo for featuring me under "w" on her design alphabet blog! I hadn't seen it before, but it just went straight into my Google Reader. Jo posts artists and designers every day, alphabetically. She chooses wonderful stuff; I am honored to be a "w"!!

Eye Candy no. 10: Sarah Sze

love love love.

Hyperbolic crochet coral reefs

rediscovered at theiff.org: the hyperbolic crocheted coral reef project. Look around in the Gallery and Exhibits sections. YUM.