Am in Shanghai right now, actually, am in Shanghai most of the time. This is an amazing city, ever changing. Still have much to “improve” on, but is slowly getting there.

Sometimes, I do forget where I am though. I mean, the business that we do, the lifestyle we try to introduce, are still very green in this country. Grinding at our work everyday, sometimes I forget that most of the people in the country, in the city, see us as “odd”.


Taken from a local resturant, the moment I saw this wooden window frame, I paused. Yeah, I’m in “China”.

Because most of where I usually go in Shanghai, has new structures.

So much new grounds still in development. This is one of the spots I recently visited. Very nice, very clean. I wouldn’t mind putting our office on this street. (very expensive though, so, no.)

Most of the time, I look at Shanghai after the sun went down.
When the sun goes to sleep, another side of Shanghai awakes.

G-SHOCK’s SHOCK THE WORLD event came to Shanghai again. This one was even better than last year’s. Great party, met up with lots of old friends at the venue. As the watch for youths, even in Mainland China, G-Shock is second to none.

This was me with Chai from G-Shock, this was before I got drunk. Luckily, I am never a mean drunk…

Yoyo was rocking her pink Baby-G! Nice to hear that her JING Dance Studio is doing great.

Always a plus to any event, Sam Lee from SUBCREW was spinning at the event~

Young Kim (aka SUITMAN) was in town last weekend for Art Labor Gallery’s exhibition “2nd Impressions”. It was great catching with him. He put on quite an impression for the visitors that night, as always.

Apart from designer vinyls, I continued my involvements with clothing label VEIL. It is still relatively a new brand, we are just getting into our second season. SU and I wanted not to start another t-shirt brand, and we wanted to focus more on cut & sew items from the get-go. Our first drop back in Winter of 2009 was quite fun. Especially fun for me as I got the opportunity to revisit some classic cuttings such as M-65, varsity jacket, etc. Adding, modifying modern classics, that’s the route we are taking. Doing this out of love is key for me personally, as I already have a few day jobs!

Next week, we’ll be dropping 2 new Oxford Shirts. Again, with a little change to the tradition. Hope you guys like what we are doing.

Peep the website to see what we did in our first season.
HTTP://WWW.VEIL.HK

Went silent on you again for a while, but I was working hard all the way through….

In between official YOKA Series production, I did a small capsule for SIZE Magazine in China, an edition of 30pcs all sprayed by yours truly. I was never a real artist myself, but I think these came out okay.

New Balance sent over something that they knew I was waiting for ever since the tradeshow! The MA-1 inspired MT580, due out this A/W. Love the color combo and the Gore-Tex outter doesn’t hurt neither. Much much thanks to da boyz. I love it!

Shanghai. After all these years, how do you think it looks like? Still a farm land of sort? Nah.

Check out how Shanghai looks like at night.

Rosa, a great help from our studio. She gave me the bad news about her having to leave the company, BUT, the great side to that was that she’ll be going to Italy to continue on with her education. That, I absolutely support!

I went to Cheng Du City last month, this is one of the shots that I took, one that I like more. These were made with cow-skins, these were used as light-puppets from decades ago. Pretty nice.

You’d want to see more designer figures in this blog, huh? Sorry. You wait, my friends. Just wait.

Been here in Shanghai for 8 years, and tonite was my first time going into Shanghai Stadium to watch an event. How slow am I??

DIAMOND LEAGUE, that was the event.
Usain Bolt was running the 200m race. That’s why a bunch of PUMA friends went, and I was lucky enough to get a ticket from them. I must admit, I’m no fan of track events, but this was a good experience。

Stay busy, Armin!

Jeter being interviewed after her win. Needless to say, she is FAST~~

Here’s the reason why we were there.

I missed my shot~!
He didn’t.
Set a new record for Shanghai’s 200m.
19.76 seconds, that’s all he needed to cover 200m.

Usain Bolt. 200m.
19.76secs.

And of course, there was Liu Xiang for 100m Hurdles event.
Crowd favorite, being in Shanghai and all.
However. No, shouldn’t say that. I should say: Hey, he came in 3rd!!
Congrats~!

Thx Julian and Armin for your kind invite.
I had fun~

ADIDAS ORIGINALS did a new mural at our ICONIC-1 Store in Shanghai. This was part of a 7-stores-take-over project. Over one night, 7 stores in Shanghai got painted up. Each one looked different, by different graffiti artist. Ours was done up by SiNic & his crew. I quite like it. This will stay up there for a month or so. I like it so much I might actually keep it up for much longer~

New Balance’s M1300 JP special model officially drops at SoleGoodz in Shanghai tomorrow. We are stroked to get the rights to offer this gem to sneakerheadz here in the Mainland. Ming was in time to get the new renovation done, and the new fittings sets off this pair of M1300 perfectly.

Frankly, I’m glad this finally goes on sale tomorrow, ‘cos I’ve been getting calls daily from friends wanting to cop this. Okay boyz, come grab them tomorrow and stop calling me!!! haha

JonOne and Mai were in town for the weekend. Really nice catching up with these two wonderful individuals. The trip was too short though, not much time for sight seeing and such.

Why was JonOne in Shanghai?

He was there, with Madame Magda, hosting an art performance in this amazing art house in the city of Shanghai. Inside an old house, you wouldn’t know what it is unless you walk in there. Beautiful place Madame Magda got there. Anyways, what was the performance? John did…

a little voodoo practicing… (yeah, black magic in Shanghai, good choice of location, John)

a little painting, with chinese ink.

and a little crying on the ground….

Ok ok, you are getting this from a guy who surely doesn’t know too much about performance art! But for those who knows JonOne, you know he did something really good.

John and Mai, see you next time when you visit! Great seeing you!

So much going on these 2 weeks, is getting me all excited~~
A few new lines I’ve been working on will come to fruition soon, very soon.
And new toys will also see the light in May. You won’t disappoint, I assure ya!

SoleGoodz got its new shipments of both Puma and New Balance, we were a busy tied up with those for a bit. Hot stuff though, gotta check them out. With all these talks about the Shanghai Expo, I’m sure some of the visitors are sneakerheadz and vinyl-headz. Hey, you know where we’re at! Swing by to adFunture-Land~ haha

SoleGoodz
351 Zi Zhong Rd.
Shanghai PRC