We’re super excited — The New York Academy of Science’s “Science & the City” did a podcast and slide show about Project Walkway. Click here to look & listen.

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The Project Walkway shoes are on display at the ZER01 exhibition, and we’ll be doing a shoe hacking workshop at the Tech Museum of Innovation this weekend… please come by! DIY Shoe Hacks and Audible Alarm Workshop with Norene Leddy, Andrew Milmoe and Melissa Gira Where: On Chavez Plaza Start time: 4pm Length of workshop: [...]

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Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 1: Intro, interviews with Yvonne and Wandy Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 2: Interviews with Meisha and Blanca Project Walkway 2008 PSA Part 3: Runway show, project overview with Norene

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On the final day of Project Walkway the girls had interviewed each other while Norene recorded on video for the Project Walkway DVD. These interviews would be part of the Zer01 exhibition. We did practice walks on the red carpet runway. We stood in the conference room to do some last minute shoe repair making [...]

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The show last night was fabulous, check out our photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectwalkway/.

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Please join us for the Project Walkway runway show at Eyebeam. Thursday May 22, Runway show at 7pm Eyebeam Art + Technology Center 540 W. 21st St. NYC In addition to the runway show, there will be a book launch party for Sabine Seymour’s “Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology” and [...]

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Today we had an extra session of finishing work. More leather and decorations were added to the exteriors, including a metrocard pocket, red leather diamonds, and lots of fake fur. We also decided to leave one shoe with the electronics exposed. Finally we are ready for the runway, the shoes look great! -Norene

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Today Wandy and I did some extra work on her shoes, fixing the alarm and making some diamond-shaped holes in the leather for the LEDs. We also did some work on Adrianna’s shoes with red piping. -Norene

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Today in our session was the most complex work that we have done. The tools that we used today were plenty. There was mylar paper to make patterns and piping to make the lining of the leather look pretty. Of course there was leather, shoe glue to stick the leather to the shoes, and black [...]

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Macho Meter Kit: Electronic Goldmine Leather, fabric: G&R Fabric Inc. 239 West 39th St. New York, NY 212-997-2284 *They have lots of great leather scraps to choose from. Rubber for soles, leather punch, “shoe glue”: Kaufman Shoe Repair Supplies Inc. 346 Lafayette St. New York, NY 212-777-1700 Ribbon, piping: M&J Trimming 1008 Sixth Ave. New [...]

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