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

Frank always gave me headaches whenever he want to do something “different”. It was like that since like 5 years ago. There were the 48 one-of-ones “I,WZL” figures, and then there was the 2-meters tall “Perk Pioneer“, etc, etc. Forget about pushing the envelope, I think Frank’s mission was simply to push ME.

Our usual conversation would go something like this:
Frank: How tall is this?
Me: 9cm.
Frank: I think this will look awesome if is bigger!
Me: …okay,… how big?
Frank: 2 meters.
Me: you @#@$%$@ kidding me, rite?
Frank: No. How long do you need?
Me: ….ah shit…

Frank: What’s the minimum if I give you a new graphic design to be put on this?
Me: Depends if its a single-stamp graphic or something messy like a camo.
Frank: Hmmm… let say a camo.
Me: To make it worth your while, I’d suggest 1000 pieces.
Frank: Ok. I’ll give you 48 designs.
Me: 48 designs??
Frank: Yes, but I only need one of each.
Me: you @#@$%$@ kidding me, rite?
Frank: No. How long do you need?
Me: ….ah shit…

You get the picture…..

A few months ago, another one of those emails arrived, with Frank’s name attached to it, and I knew, that very moment, “ah shit….”

After reading that email, however, my reply was short and simple: “OKAY”.

A sculpture, 7″ tall, the character involves a dragon and a rooster. Symbolic to Frank being born at the year of the rooster, and his new bride, Kim, being born in the year of the dragon. The character was designed for the two’s wedding event in Germany. And for Frank to always remember he can always have his ways when it comes to 3D sculptures, he wanted to have this character (no official name still) available to give to the guests attending to his big day with Kim.

How could I say no to this dear friend?

70 pieces produced, 2-piece rotocasted sculpture, Frank has successfully pushed adFunture into the business of producing wedding premiums. Thank you, Frank. Once again, you did it.

All kidding aside, it was our absolute pleasure having these at your wedding.
My sincere wishes to you and Kim.
I’ll see you soon in JP.

While I was in Guang Zhou, I had the opportunity to visit one of our best accounts in the country; Reaction Inc.

Reaction Inc., headed by Bo Fung, has 2 retail stores in the city. Pretty cool stores.

Yup, it is also the official door for New Balance, Stussy, Kikstyo and Manhattan Portage.

Of course, adFunture got itself some shelf-space in both stores. With Bo Fung working hard to rep our brand in GZ, I’m sure we are on the right track.

Reaction Inc. (Flagship)
2/f No.447 Hui Fu East Road,
Yue Xiu District, Guangzhou
PRC

Was in Beijing for a bit over the weekend, for various reasons. Here are a few pics, will explain more later.

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.

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.

Disappeared for a while, I was traveling a bit between 3 Chinese cities.
With Shanghai always being the “Point A” in the equation.
In between stops, I got to see some of adFunture’s apparel products we’ll be dropping for Fall.
Grabbed a few to wear, and some are going out to the media friends for their content use.

“SHANG HIGH 69“. One of my personally favorites from this Fall’s t-shirt collection. Wanted to step away from characters and cute stuff for this season. Vinyl figures are the back bone of adFunture as a brand, but that’s not how we live, at least not for myself. I like a little playfulness on the tees that I wear. With the slogan “Every Nite is Prom Nite” on its back, this tee hits the spot. To us, Shanghai, as a city, is full of craziness and “confusing” relationships (ahem…), like you were in high school with a not thing to care.  Everything goes, anything can happen, all depends on how you play it, …..just like prom nite.

If you think I took this from Undefeated, I can tell ya; Nope. I took this from Al Bundy’s Polk High football shirt. I watched the show growing up, it stuck.

(I’ll show the back another day)