36 Days, One Day Without Shoes!

[epik_noodles]

Today, TOMS is sponsering a Barefoot Awareness Day.
It's to spread the message for children in proverty stricken nations that are too poor to afford shoes. These children walk for miles barefoot to get to school everyday. Walking barefoot for most of your life makes you prone to so many diseases.

Even in my country, the children have no shoes, my parents too grew up with no shoes.
For my nation and the many others suffering from proverty. No child deserves to grow up without the protection of shoes.
Today, I'm going to attempt walking around without shoes.

For more information, please visit One Day Without Shoes.

Comments

[bravelioness]

That sounds like a beautiful thing, though I'm scared to try it! Ganbatte ne! It's really wonderful that people do this thing all around the world!


By the way, I'm RIDICULOUSLY loving your animated creation!!!!

[epik_noodles]

It was an interesting experience.
The pavement and sidewalks were REALLY cold!!!
While I was walking on the campus sidewalk, pebbles and twigs kept lodging themselves to the soles of my feet. I was annoying and it wasn't helping that my feet were freezing.

When I got inside school... the floor tiles were sooooo warm. It felt so nice. Indoors is much better...

After classes my sister took me to a large outlet center near my restaurant. I was walking around Armani Exchange and there were these little kids eating chips and popcorn in the store... they were spilling all over the store. Whenever I took a step, I could feel those crumbs crunching beneath my feet. I was saying "ewwwwww" inside of my mind. I really wanted to get back at those kids for that.

Oh yeah, that was the first animation I ever made. I made it when I was a college freshman in film class. Our professor had nothing else to teach for the day, so she taught me how to animate in class. I drew it and spent some time on motion panels, until I ended up with that. It's supposed to be Ueda from KAT-TUN, but looks nothing like him.