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=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

To make a pair of shoes
 * Research Component


 * week 1

Pick the style and time period of shoes choose my shoe (research through all weeks)
 * week 2

Gather materials and tools (leather, thread, and strong needle)
 * week 3

Create mold of my foot (use ink and paper to accurately define shape and pressure points of feet)
 * week 4

Cut out patterns for shoe and cure (final design cutout, then glue base parts and press overnight)
 * week 5

Sew sole of shoe (cutout and apply custom instep)
 * week 6

Sew sides and tongue of shoe
 * week 7

Add finishing touches to outside (laces, ect...)
 * week 8

Research history of shoes prep my project

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
I have chose the sculptor artist ( if you can call him that ) Roy McMakin and his untitled work made in 2004 consisting of cast concrete, bronze, and steal with porcelain enamel. I have chosen this work because of my raw hatred of it, and the purpose of my assignment. I have stood in the presence of a great artist, I have seen great art, I have even felt and herd great art but, untitled is none of these. I have walked by it, I have stood next to it, I have stared at it, and still I had no clue it was meant to be art. It was not until I saw the podium scribed with the artist’s name, his work, and intentions that I had fully realized that was in fact art. The artistic talent expressed through his “ visual and physical humor” surpassed our posterity, and was overtaken by a city janitor, for his job has more purpose and putrid art. In my search to better my opinion of McMakin I researched more of his art through the world wide web, and to my dismay I discovered that he was not the sculpture artist shown in the park. So a new title is in order he is a designer nothing more, nothing less. Furthermore, I now understand why his art is so terrible, because he is not an artist. ( so help me, if he himself or another man, woman, or child would consider him an artist I can and will fight them tooth and nail to prove them wrong in their judgment and mental state as a human being.) On a lighter note, I do not hate this man, but make no mistake I do hate his art in any other form than interior design.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
1. Red Robin's spice ingredient label: instead of simply stating ingredients they place "The World's Best Ingredients" with common table salt as the first one among other less then great spices. to me this is shown as a blatant lie.

2. Cheerios claims to "help lower cholesterol", if you stay active, eat less, and oh, eat some Cheerios. They are taking credit for other methods used to lower cholesterol.

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
My project of making a pair of shoes is going as planned, slow and difficult. Before I even started I already know what the most difficult takes would be, it was making the second shoe. Although my cut out patters for the style and shape of show are working great, I ran into the problem of it being too short, but I was able to fix it by adding some additional leather on the sides. As I construct my shoe I continually hit road blocks including but not limited to: Difficulty sewing, weak material, and the shape of the soul, but I have also made ongoing fixations. Overall I believe I have ultimately failed in making pair of shoes, and succeeded in making awesome house shoes.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

< > Creating a pair of handmade leather shoes.
 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site:Wisconsin Historical Museum. Web. .
 * 2) Book:Vass, Laszlo. HandMade Shoes for Men. S.I. Langenscheidt pup Inc., 2008. Print.
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc):Discovery.com. Web. .


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

In the sense of accomplishment, I have become biased in several ways. If I was a caveman these shoes would be the early day Air Jordan's, but looking at them now compared to my Chuck's i would say i failed. So in a better sense I met my goal with partial standards. I would however say that I accomplished a taste to achieved new goals.


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well was I was able to make a pair where able shoes with no prior experience in the art of shoemaking. Although recourses where limited they where stretched over a long distance. Some tools that would have been difficult to come by, where easily replaced with lesser duplicates. I was able to manage my time very well getting the project done on time, with maybe a few nanoseconds to spare. I felt that I was supported well with my family and friends backing me to finish my task, and thanks the thriftiness of grandmothers I had everything that I could ask for. What also went very well actually has nothing to do with shoes. What I have learned is that want to actively pursue achievable goals in the future; things that I might not do every day. My next goal is to play the harmonica, badly or well.
 * 2)What went poorly was the overall final product of my shoes. Although they would be conceded shoes by appearance, they would not meet today’s standards. I felt that I picked a goal that was gilded, and in actuality it was incredibly hard. Though I did have the tools to make shoes, I did not have the tools to make them easy. The one thing I was not able to accomplish, which was no fault of my own, is that I was not able to make a decent soul; I simply did not have the resources to do so. And as much as I liked the outcome I feel that I will never where the shoes because, they are unfit for outside use and I don’t like indoor slippers.
 * 3)In the future I would want to pursue goals that seem a little more achievable. And if for some reason I was to pursue shoemaking again it would be with much more patience and practice. Even though I considered my outcome less than what I was expecting, the overall process of making goals and going about them has inspired me to make more.