Le Shouvre

Good Lord, it has been a long time since Le Shouvre was updated. It’s all bubbling under the surface these days, so there’s not much finalised content to share. However, I have slowly been keeping up the shoe-painting…

… so slowly, actually, that this pair took me about a month to finish, due to a boatload of other commitments. Whoops! But they’re done now, and looking… well, old? The point was to make a pair of slip-ons that resemble an old pair of lace-ups; an optical illusion of sorts. As such, they are one of the few pairs that will actually look better after they’ve been worn for a few weeks, and have accumulated a sufficient amount of dirt and grime. Not for everyone, I know.

More pics here

This is partly to show people that I haven’t just been sitting around not painting shoes for the past month. Well, I have indeed not been painting shoes… and I have indeed been sitting a fair amount, in various places… but for good reason!

My friend Jules and I embarked on a musical journey, the product of which I can now reveal: Royal Native. Thus far only the Myspace is presentable, but a website is almost finished, and numerous other seeds have been planted amidst the varied soils of the blogosphere, too. All songs were written, performed, recorded and produced by the two of us, as well as any artwork. As more Royal Native stuff is finished, I will no doubt want to show it off here as well. In the meantime, however, I’ll let the selection of songs speak for themselves…

(And for the audiophiles amongst us, higher quality versions of the songs can be found on last.fm)