Submitted by keith on Sun, 07/18/2010 - 15:49.
After a lot of faffing about, I have finaly come up with an idea for the shoe museum collection box. It's a nice story with lots of scope for invention.
One pound is inserted into the coin slot. A rather grumrpy shoe maker is tapping the heal of a shoe with his hammer. Next to him, as a new shoemaking machine has just been instaled into the shoe the factory, and it is obviously a threat to his job . The machine starts, and an endless stream or beautiful Spice Girls boots pours out. The shoe maker looks up and turns his head towards the new machine.
But suddenly, the robot working the shoe machine malfunctions. his whole body convulses and he and collapses to the floor. The shoe maker looks forward, shakes his head in a resigned knowing way ,and then looks down and continues with his shoe.
My idea is to show that shoe making has always been evolving, and that new machines have been designed to do certain jobs, but always as an aid the shoemaker. But the machines being made now can make an entire pair of shoes without the intervention of a craftsman and this is bad news to shoemakers (they are not called cobblers, cobblers repair shoes) There are still companies in Northampton making hand made shoes so it's important that I give them a positive image, hence the malfunctioning of the OPERATOR of the high tech machine.
This is my full size working drawing.
This is the mold that will produce the Spice girl boot. Three different coloured plastics are injected into the mold and after a couple of seconds, the boot is expelled from the mold
A beautiful Spice Girl boot, ready to be transported to the dispatch dept.
Here is the metalic red and white plastic. It's a slight bio hazard hence the wasp tape
Here is the blue solution. You can just see a Spice Girl boot emerging in the bottom right corner.
A view of the whole machine.
Spice Girl Boots, ready to go.
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