"Make it work!"

Suddenly the other day I was watching Project Runway 7, and I freaked out. For two reasons, the first being: I could not believe I missed Project Runway season 6!!! Where was I??? - Well if I were to answer that for myself then, a couple of places, but honestly, missing it is just RiDiCuLoUs. Period. The second reason I freaked out is because, I can't seem to figure out who might possibly be the winner this new season... Competition in the old season was fairly low if you look at how the designers are going to be judge. They have to have their own personality in their designs, be able to adjust and apply that personality into other forms of dress-codes, at the same time be creative and go out of the their little comfort zones of either draping, cocktail dresses, or costumes. Last but not least, to be capable of working well under pressure.
I was a great fan Jay McCarroll, Jeffrey Sebelia, Christian Siriano starting from their first design in that certain season. Unfortunately the other winners Chloe Dao and Leanne Marshall didn't make too much of an impression on me. All I remember is their work being consistent and well done time after time. But as far as it goes, I would support imagination and creativity any day! You can work hard on those techniques but no way can you reborn another brain...
So after watching 7, I was wide-eyed, no for any particular dress that came down the runway but at how even the competition was. Got to say tho, I like how Ping Wu's mind runs, she's got a certain "weirdness" in her designs if you would like to call it that way. But I'm worried how she could transform her ideas into real garments when the tasks become more focused and detailed.
In the end, for us its all for recreation purposes, and did lots of good for the judges I could tell. Tim became an executive, and Nina went to Marie Claire, Heidi, well, she got pregnant again. Anyway, nothing against Marie Claire, but Nina WHY WHY WHY WHY? Elle holds this special place in my heart since its where it all truly started for me, and not seeing Elle on Project Runway anymore is a bummer. A real bummer.


Right, so, I went through some of my old stuff and found two drawings/paintings I did a while ago, and wanted to post them here.

This one was done maybe in 2006 or was it 2007? I forgot. It was done in acrylic under candlelight (it was supposed to help with my vision how the lights moved and i wanted to abstract the background into a runway aisle, with heads bobbing and numerous flashlights). It was inspired by a certain designer runway show around then, and if you can't guess it then don't bother, ha ha.

This one here was done in 2008, as you could probably see scribbled at the top left corner. For some reason for a very long time I was very very proud of this simple crayon drawing, I still am. And now with my sketch book 5000 miles away from me there isn't much I could do to post more old drawings to this blog. Oh well, let's open a new chapter with a new sketch book soon.


Oh. Time for lunch, I'm starving!!!