Thursday, March 30, 2006

My Muse is a Gecko.

I have another lot of silver on order.

I've been sketching furiously the designs that are sitting in my head, trying to get them to look just right. I know what I want, I can see the finished product, but ... here's the part when I remind the world just how bad my drawing skills are.

But I don't care. I'm having fun. I'll make a few prototypes in clay before I get stuck into (waste?) the silver, perhaps working with a larger scale model and shrinking it down, fine-tuning it as I go. I know I can do it, and I should be able to get it to look how my mind's eye sees it.

I haven't felt this creative in a while. Let's not jinx it.

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Kinky Boots

Went to the movies with Charissa last night. We saw Kinky Boots.

Inspired by the true story of a man's fight to save a family business, Kinky Boots stars Australia's Joel Edgerton as the Oxford Brogue-shod Charlie Price stepping up to take the helm of the generations-old family shoe factory after his dad snuffs it.

When he realises there is no market for the thousands of shoes in the Northampton storeroom, and he's threatened with having to sell the place, he pounds the pavement back in London to find a buyer, and there he meets his angel in six-inch stilletoes: Lola the drag queen cabaret singer.

Lola's footwear becomes a source of inspiration, and soon she is installed at the shoe factory as the designer of not just boots, but "three feet of tubular sex" in time for the Milan shoe show.

A heartwarmingly, touchingly funny film in the style of Billy Elliot, touching on issues such as prejudice, tradition, duty, and materialism, filled with fabulous footwear and real, likeable characters.

A fun film. :)