Chris in Beijing set this one up, we believe this is gonna rock all the kids in the capital city! Mademoiselle Yulia and DJ KYOKO will be taking control, don’t miss out if you will be in Beijing by any chance!


I’ll be there, see you there?

I just walked home from a movie, and everywhere was like this on the streets… yup, firecrackers. Yup, is Chinese New Year. Well, the exact new year day was Feb 14th, so I’m a few days late on this matter. I usually just hide at home during these holidays, ‘cos Shanghai city is usually pretty crazy in terms of crowd control during these occasions.

I did caught up with my sleep though, which is quite nice.
We rarely get snow here in Shanghai, but 12am of Feb 14th, we saw this….

Yeah, she was happy, and that made my life alot easier.. haha

Thanks to DKE, adFunture’s YOKA Exhibition will happen again in USA, this time around, Los Angeles. The exhibition starts tomorrow, at Black Maria Gallery. There are over 200 pieces of customized YOKA figures on exhibit, they are very well done, trust me. The collection was previously shown in SDCC, and this will be its gallery debut. If you’ll be in the area, please go check it out and help me congratulate the gallery on the show.

Black Maria Gallery
3137 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323.660.9393

http://blackmariagallery.com

Was at PUMA ARCHIVE UNCOVERED music event last nite in Shanghai. They had that club packed. It was also nice to see some dope kicks from the PUMA collection.

VEIL’s SU Tan was also up on stage spinning for a bit.

I had a tough time making a way around the club inside, so crowded…

Beda was keeping scores at the door. Nice to see you as always, Beda!

Ran into Caster Dance Studio’s Denson rocking our eyewear as he was walking around “checking it out” in the club. Hope you saw something you liked…

Like the varsity jacket that SU was wearing last nite. If that’s any indication of the quality and design of this season’s VEIL products, then I think we are looking at a winner here. Keep up the good work, SU!

Was down at Magda’s gallery last nite for a preview dinner. She has this amazing street art exhibition in Shanghai’s Bund18 tonite. Lots of great pieces are being exhibited by legendary graffiti artists such as SEEN, Ms. Van, Crash, Obey, Jonone, Sic, and last but not least, my personal favorite, FUTURA.

Only took a few shots, if you want to see more, you’ll have to check out the exhibition yourself.

Pieces by the Godfather, SEEN.

This FUTURA piece was from 1983.
Magda… X’mas gift from you to me?? No?! Ok…

10 days, was quite busy in between. Let’s catch you up to speed.

Got invited by PUMA to their custom tote bag making event in Shanghai.

Tim Wu and a few other friends were there as well.
Tim is still working hard in preparation of his upcoming album.

VEIL’s SU paying full attention to details even if it is just for a tote bag.

STEPPERs, definitely like these colorways. Got the pink variant somewhere in the stack of shoe boxes out in the studio. Haven’t got around to rocking them yet.

Skull. Who doesn’t like a good Skull sculpt around their necks?! Love it!

Went to Beijing, for an event held by KAPPA and YOHO Magazine. I was surprised when I realize they put the venue inside a huge stadium.

A snap of one side of the crowd. Crazy attendance that night. Crazy screaming fans from all around.

In front of them, I was awarded “Toy Designer of the Year”…. (this was the actual award trophy)

Frankly, they should have asked adFunture to produce these trophies… haha and I actually said it to the organizers after being awarded (in a nice manner, of course). I found the title and this trophy, together, a bit ironic. I was a bit overwhelmed by the view when I got onto the stage, but it was fun.
After that event, I caught a flight over to Hong Kong.

Yoyo and her Bumble Bee ride.
You thought it was a photoshop when I showed this bike a few months ago, didn’t you?!

Mike Lamborn

Hugo from DAWN (GZ)

The Shanghai Alleycat was successfully completed, thanks to everyone’s support to this event. We had about 130-140 bikes out there on the streets of Shanghai racing against time that day. It was pretty fun, even if you were just there watching it as it unfolded. This Alleycat was a bit different, because we opened this event up to “anyone with a bicycle”, no matter what type of cycling you are into, you were welcome to join the race. It was able the fun, the ride, and the meet.

This nice couple took part in the race, and actually went home with 2 awards: Second Fastest Female and the Coolest Bike Award. Note the gentleman’s ride.. it was a self-built tri-cycle. In our eyes, he was cooler than the boyz with the shiny new bikes. It was great seeing folks from all walks coming together that FREEZING afternoon. Once again, on behalf of the Shanghai Alleycat crew, big thanks to PUMA for supporting us do this, and thank you very much for coming out, and let’s do this all over again soon.

As we are getting closer to the actual Shanghai Alleycat event, sponsoring brands are rolling out the goodies. None of these items are for sale, but produced to be given away to the participants and winners from the day’s race.

adFunture will be giving away 100 of these Shanghai Alleycat YOKAs to those registering to race that day.

While ONEWAY will drop its newest messenger bag item, and to start things off, 10 of these especially made variants will be awarded to the winners of the different categories in the event.

I held one of these tonight, and must say I like the quality of it.

For its regular season, I know for a fact that ONEWAY will have like 5 other colorways of this design, without the Alleycat logo and VEIL’s logo of course. I wouldn’t mind a red one myself. K, you get my hint~~

www.shanghaialleycat.com

This event is for anyone with a bicycle, no matter track bikes or fixies, if you are confident to hit up all check-points faster than anyone else, we won’t care if you ride a heavy metal broken down bike! You are welcome to join!! Forget about acting cool, just come out and play.

Some friends from other cities have already booked their flight to come to this Shanghai event. Get on it, man!

www.shanghaialleycat.com

ICONIC-1 was used as Clot’s JUICE STAND Pop-Up Store for the past month and a half. Today, we turned it into an exhibit venue for Bee Wong’s FIRE PANDA 10th Anniversary Exhibition. This exhibition is split into 2 showrooms; ICONIC-1 Store and its next door neighbor SOLEGOODZ Sneaker Boutique. I haven’t curate an artist exhibition for a long time, about 2 years. Setting up an exhibit one night before the opening, well, haven’t done that in a while….

Bee Wong arrived this afternoon, and we immediately went to work.

K from ONEWAY came to Shanghai for our friend’s anniversary exhibition opening. I actually met both of these guys on the same day almost 2 years ago. Is nice how the three of us worked very closely ever since.

Setting up. Crack opening each exhibition pieces. We were like kids opening up our X’mas presents.

Li Ming aka DAYBREAK. Veteran FIRE PANDA member, impressive illustrator in his own rights as well.

So what does this exhibition entails? Why both Iconic-1 and Solegoodz?

Paintings and illustrations. Of course, FIRE PANDA’s forte.

Customized figures. I just can’t help myself…. Each FIRE PANDA member customized one FIRE PANDA vinyl.

Customized PUMA shoes. Thanks to the support of PUMA.

adFunture usually drop a new item in each exhibition, how can this time be different? Especially with it being FIRE PANDA’s 10th anni.

So, let’s drop the big one.
I bought a FIRE PANDA 5″ like 8 years ago. Loved it. This time around, we made it big. I mean like 14″ big.

I’ll post more images after the opening. Better yet, if you are in town, swing by and take a look for yourself.