Colin the male dominatrix

Today me and Jerry were ripped apart by Colin during a early morning grump-fest.  This was a typical colin thrashing, nothing to get all hurt about.  Unfortunately, my slide deck was set up somewhere in the middle of a ligit presentation and the required "up to date outline of your progess" hitting neither on the head and receiving criticism on a lot of useless points.  Never the less Got a few good snippets of infomation.

Then thank god, we left early to go over to North Face with Mike Caroselli to meet Gabriel Phillips- a CCA alum and designer in the shoe department at Northface.

Talking to Gabriel was most helpful.  It was great to see the behind the scenes design work at Northface and to get a sense of his process.  

Gabriel has a real passion for sustainable design (although limited to its application) and suggested I look into some shoes that have been produced in Portugal using coconut fiber.   These shoes supposedly use natural Latex or water-based rubber that comes straight from a "rubber tree."

More research suggests that rubber trees can be found going in tropical climates like western africa.  It is unknown as to whether rubber is exported to eastern Kenya but I think Ill try some experiments with coconut rubber soles anyways.