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Light-up shoes - version 1

It seems that I'm not very good at blogging in October.

Anyway, there's some new things in my shop and James and I have been working on a project: shoes that light up when you walk. I have an old pair of shoes with pockets on the sides and we've started by putting circuits inside these pockets to see how much space an LED, a battery and a switch takes up. Not very much as it turns out.


The hall floor is filthy, isn't it? The stains are motorcycle oil. Nothing will remove them.

Armour

This is something of a counterpart to my last post where I was applying a textile technique - knitting - to metal. Today I've taken a construction method normally used on metal and applied it to textiles. The end result is armour made out of felt.

Non-traditional knitting

Last year I did some knitting with unusual materials for my constructed textiles piece, Stem. Recently I've been experimenting again with some non-standard yarns.

Ohako at the ICN gallery

Entry: Free

A new gallery – the ICN Gallery – has just opened on Leonard Street, with a mission to show “new works which use Japanese culture and sensibilities as their base”. I missed its first exhibition, but managed to catch Ohako, its current show, last week.

Apparently, ohako means two things in Japanese: it can refer to a person's best skill or to a box for preserving tea leaves. For this show 30 Japanese artists working in a variety of disciplines were each given a tea box and asked to use it to showcase their best skill – an ohako inside an ohako.

Graffiti

Judge Dredd piece on Great Eastern Street.



I think he wants a hug.

Shop opening announcement

This is my 100th post and I'm pleased to be able to use it to announce the opening of my shop on Folksy. You can find it at: http://www.folksy.com/shops/birdskullbuttons

I'll be adding more stock to it over the coming weeks. Skeleton prints will feature heavily!