Don’t know where to go this Saturday afternoon in Shanghai?
Check out the exhibition of FIRE PANDA at SOLEGOODZ.

10 years into comic arts, Bee Wong and his FIRE PANDA will be celebrating at SOLEGOODZ with a handful of paintings and customed PUMA kickz.

Paid Hang Zhou City another visit this past weekend. This time it was for one G-Shock event and also had to shoot a segment for Beijing’s Travel Channel.

West Lake at night.

Chai is one easy going guy, now just chillin’ before the G-Shock event kicks off at nite.

Mr. Nie Zheng, mostly known for his fashion photography works in China, but you should talk to him about sneakers. G-Shock is curating a photography exhibition for Nie Zheng, and it will be sometime next month in Beijing. I’ll definitely fly over there to check it out!

Shannon relaxing after our Travel Channel shoot, she is the director, and basically just went nutz listening to my Mandarin (that’s not my first language…) She got tired out from screaming “CUT!” “AGAIN!” “Good, now can we do this all over again with Eddi actually speaking Mandarin?!” Haha, sorry, Shannon. We worked together before, and this time around she felt comfortable enough to actually tell me off when I make a mistake…. Definitely one of my favorite gals in Beijing! Don’t work too hard, Shannon!

VEIL’s designer SU. We pulled through 2 all-nighters discussing about the new collection. Got alot of work done in those 2 days. Can’t wait to see some samples!!

Subcrew’s Sam Lee and the whole crew were in town as well. We had time to confirm a drop date for our next collabo. Can’t say what it is for now, but you’ll see it soon enough. We had the opportunity to see the Autumn Collection of Subcrew that night, and I must say, the catalog was very nicely expanded. Subcrew was known for trucker caps, but they are much more than just that. Stay close to these boyz as they kick off their 5th anniversary celebration.

Hiroshi from F430 doing his thang.

SOLEGOODZ officially opened 2 weekends ago, didn’t have time to show some pics until today.

Thanks to everyone who came out to support us that rainy day. Much appreciated.
SoleGoodz will be bringing you special selections down the road. Hope this store can present the sneakers differently than how you see them in the corporate branded stores.

If you ever make it out to Shanghai, hit us up.
SoleGoodz is at 351 Zi Zhong Road, right next to Xin Tian Di.

Days before the opening, I’m sure there are tons of things not yet covered, but then I don’t feel the panic yet. Wait til Friday nite, it’ll hit me hard. Always a last minute guy..

Had to take mug shots this week, Neil did a great job and made me look half decent.

Was asked to make a YOKA for the opening, and decide to draw inspiration from the gradient 580.
Nothing crazy, just looks cool.

These will go into goody bags for the Saturday opening event.
SOLEGOODZ, come check us out if you are in town.

SOLEGOODZ Sneaker Boutique will officially open on Aug 1st, 2009.
Nothing too fancy, just the opening of yet another sneaker boutique in Shanghai. What makes this one different is what we will do with it down the road. If you love sneakers, come check it out.

Located right beside ICONIC-1 Store, SOLEGOODZ is on #351 Zi Zhong Lu, Lu Wan District, Shanghai.

A few of us in front of our booth after Filter017 and Wade’s signing sessions.
Left to right: Jukai, Wen (Filter017), Enzo (Filter017), Wade of Revelator and some blind dude.

K from ONEWAY was helping out all weekend. Mad thanks, brother.
Lot of folks walking around the convention rocking ONEWAY gear, that put a smile of K’s face.

Our helpers; Da-Jing and Yu-Jean.
Hardworking, sincere, these two youngsters were the best helpers we’ve hired, EVER. They worked so well, K ended up hiring them full-time for his ONEWAY Taipei Store. Good!
Thank you very much.

Flying Förtress will be having his solo exhibition at Genuine Artikle Gallery in Lake Ronkonkoma / NY in July. Opening on July 18th 2009. Make sure you go check out our friend’s work if you are in town then.  If you collect our TEDDY TROOPS, then I’m sure you will love his works!

Dragon Dance Studio hosted CIRCLE2.0, an underground battle, at Guandi last weekend. We were invited by Yuan of Chairman who was one of the collaborators for the event. It was a packed venue, but the event was much shorter than I’d imagined. We were off to the next spot within 2hrs.

Hopped over to Ms C.’s birthday gathering. Hope she had a good time as we partied til 5am. I walked home after that, the venue was quite close to home anyways.

Shanghai is such a busy city, I rarely pay attention to the scene in the early morning hrs. Is definitely a different feeling when you can see emtpy major roads of Shanghai city.

This is Yan An Road, definitely the most important road of the city. This part here was right outside the cross-river tunnel. Not a soul…. 5am, my friend.

Another street that leads to City Hall…

Streetwear outfit INVOKE threw a party at Club DKD last weekend.
Minimal placements, kept it quite lo-key.
A few logo hits here and there, that’s it.
Nicely done by Mr. Box

Our good buddy Tim Wu took the stage to perform for the crowd.
His new single sounds like a winner with the crowd.

INVOKE, another fresh collection to watch out for in the Mainland scene.
MC Tim Wu, he has enough fans to pack this place as it is.
Can’t wait to see his upcoming album in summer.

CUT & PASTE Digital Design Tournament Shanghai took place this past Sat.
This was the first time the tournament came through China in its 5 years history.

I was asked to be on the judge panel for the 3D part of the competition, and I had no idea what to expect walking into it.

Each participant was given 15 mins to compose a 3D piece following one given theme. 15mins, to me, is not alot of time, and to do this LIVE in front of about 400 people, I can’t even imagine the pressure the participants had to bare during the competition.

All 4 participants performed amazingly well. It was a pain to rate them with simply a 1-4 scale. But that was the deal, and ranked them we did.  My attention didn’t really went to the final piece,  but more towards the work process each of these 4 designers had, their behavior.  It was fun to watch.  They all had 15mins to use, all shared the same theme/topic, it was up to them as to how they use that time wisely.  One person spent about 3 mins to fidle with his iPod before he started work while the others jumped right in there. And still, he was able to finish his amazing rendering under that 15mins mark. He didn’t win, but he ranked right up there, I can tell you that!

The event was well recieved.
Attendance was very good. I can see that many had a great time watching the competition unfolded. I take my hat off to the organizers (Panthea, Beck and the rest of the crew) and of course, the brain behind CUT & PASTE, John Fiorelli.

See you in Shanghai again soon.

(Photo credit: Kosuke Sato.)