The blue used on the latest New Balance CM1600T is simply beautiful, but that’s not the only reason why this product was all sold out in Asia. Yup, all sold out, and this wasn’t even a “limited edition”…. Is nice to see New Balance finally getting some boost though, the brand has put out numerous great shoes as of late. The recent 997, 998, the 1300s, all very nice and well recieved by the consumers, but this 1600 took it to another level. Kudos!

So, you ready for the CAVS AJ4? I heard mixed feelings on the color combo, but really, to each his own. Call it “Air Lin 4″ for all I care, it is actually a nice looking shoe.

These kids’ rides, although old, are still everywhere in Shanghai. Weathered and rusted, I quite like the texture of them. This character is Captain Black-Cat, a Chinese cartoon series from the late ’70s. I had the pleasure of meeting its original creator a few years back when we were both on a judge panel for a design tournament. A very sincere gentleman, I’ve love to talk to him again if I’ve the chance.

Sunset-shot at the Shanghai Bund. Took this today actually, fresh~

Our Taiwan-connection, Bruce, came visit us in Shanghai this week. Really great to catch up with, as always, and of course, we went kicks shopping together.

He got the new Air Wovens on his feets walking into Shanghai though, so that was one less item to hunt for here. I decided to get myself a pair of Stan Smith, actually, my first SS ever. I opted the original colorways. Always stick to OG colors if available, that’s what I say.

Some nice G-Shocks arrived as well. I kept the all-white 6900 and the blacked-out 5600, one of each for myself. The white, I must say, doesn’t keep well, it has something to do with white resin material. Oh well, the one-tone looks nice though.

Lastly, one of my favorite shoes in the rotation lately; the JV Chuck Taylor. Like the weathered effect and the side zippers. Perfect for those too lazy to tie shoe-laces, someone like me~

It has been a good busy month with VEIL products rolled out on schedule, and moving into the hands of consumers at a reasonable pace. I now have time to turn my attention back to working closely with some media partners, hoping to launch a series of online features that will spotlight some personalities I respect in the Mainland China circuit.

New Balance’s care package arrived with this pair of USA-made 1300 inside. Really love the low-key colors, and I put them the very next day. I know there’s a grey colorway out there right now, you might want to check that one out as well.

Continued digging into my own kickz storage, I found these Fragment Design’d Nike Tennis Classics. With the Tennis Classics model seeing so much actions in the past 24 months, I forgot I have these put away. I decided to start wearing the blue colorway, and sent off the red pair to a fellow sneakerhead. All good.

You’ll see me keep digging up old releases if you follow my Instagram (id: eddiaft).

It was sometime last year, during one of my routine visits to Taipei, I was introduced to the mixed-metals works of Kopo. Kopo has his workshop set up near the university district, and sculpts his works in that very space where it also serves as a storefront. His sculpts are very impressive, and the fact that the whole production route is ran within Taiwan, I was keen on working with him on a series of items for VEIL. After a few sit-downs with Kopo, we decided on various accessories items to make for Spring of 2012. So, after a few months, we now have the goodies to roll out just in time for the season.

First, we have this skull ring we titled “VENGEANCE”. Consider it as the “part 2″ to our “ANGRY SKULL” silver ring from last year we made with Volt (Taipei jewerly maker). This Kopo sculpt has a more aggressive look to it. Unlike the silver ring, this VENGEANCE ring has an open-size, which makes gifting much more easier. The skull ring comes in 3 colorways; silver, vintage bonze, and the matte black. To some of our customers, the best about this might be the fact that due to this material used, the VENGEANCE ring doesn’t cost an arm and a leg! This was in fact one of things we wanted to make sure when we started this collection; the VEIL accessories line can be more affordable.

The Spring accessories collection consists of rings, necklaces, and bangles. Please stay tuned for the informations of the other new items.

Somewhere in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

I was at a wedding dinner, these were the legs of the best men, bride’s maids. Yup, over 20 of them, all winged-out~

I’m back at the adFunture camp this week, as we started working on a new season of vinyl figures. This is one of the projects we are currently working on. You’ve seen this before, right?

Found this Star Wars fan-flim about my favorite character Boba Fett on YouTube. The quality of this film is actually quite good. Enjoy it, fellow SW fans!

Boba Fett Chronicles: The Hunt for Varrada (part 1 to 3)

We love Star Wars, because it excited us to recreate basing on its storylines and characters. Tons of fan films were made over the years, and no matter the quality, it is evident that the hearts were there. Mad respect to those who got their hands dirty and create such wonderful spin-offs from this movie franchise.

This week we came to Taipei. First visit this year for me to this city; Always enjoyed coming over here where we have great friends. Spent a few days with our crew at the Veil Taipei Store, ironed out how we will drop the collaborations this season. If you visit the store, remember to say hi to Jil and Queenie, the ladies who manage our Taipei retail.

Met up with Jukai, of course. Caught up with what went down while I was away for the past few months. I definitely missed alot of great actions! Need to come back more often. Jukai’s Plug-In design house is also doing very well, which we are very happy to hear. Work hard, bro!

Footwear for the trip, I put on a pair of B/W Converse Jack Purcell. Dead on classic. Is time to go back to some of the older stuff.

As I continue to use the Instagram app to shoot photos as I spend my days, I now rarely bring a digital camera when I go out. So pls don’t mind I just use the instagram-photos on this blog. Well, these images reflect what I saw, so they actually serve perfectly as blog materials.

It was fun for me last week when we had time to sort stuff out at our storage, I actually stored my own sneaker collection there with the rest of our other products. So when Mandy was keeping track of the toys and apparel, I went off searching through my own “toys”. I digged up my AJ4s.

Got this Air Jordan 4 Retro (2008) out from the boxes.

Had some fun with different iphone apps to make this image. That was my feet….

Found my “Black Cat” as well.  Are you ready for your new white cement?

I still need to go back there and look for my older Dunks. The older stuff seem to be more interesting than the recent new releases….

The adFunture brand has been quiet for a minute, but we’ll be coming back this year hard. Currently working on a few new figures, most of which I’m sure you’ll dig. This is the perks of running a small scale toy company instead of a corporate, I suppose. We never had to meet any annual target nor quantity, and that allowed us to not releasing products for the sake of releasing new products for our agents, or dealers. Sure, we made quite a few misses in the past 10 years, but who hasn’t. With the economy much fragile now, we will be even more careful on deciding on what to produce. If we don’t truly truly love it, then there’s really no point of making it. I hope this simple model will sustain adFunture’s lifespan. 10 years already, let see it till the end.

Here are a few random shots I took in the past week.

City of Shanghai, Pudong district.

Went to our friend’s, Eric Chan, new space opening. Eric offers furnitures and sound systems here in Shanghai, and I found this one quite interesting.

I never get tired from looking at Parra’s works. Noticed the 2 decks Parra designed for Enjoi when I visited BoFung’s studio last week. Just saw the news about Parra collaborating with Stussy this season, looking forward to those as well.

Care package from KENLU.NET !!! Hot looking collab they did with Li Ning recently. Kenlu.net x Li Ning CONQUER. Thanks for hooking it up, guys! Having worked with Li Ning sports brand in the past, I must say that they are definitely upping their game in terms of colorways and out reach.