Vids for Designer Con YOKA Exhibition

Here are some vids by various artists participating in DesignerCon's Custom YOKA Exhibition. They are pretty cool, definitely check them out.

Rebel Traxx from Sulaiman Latiff on Vimeo.

PUMA’s SHANGHAI ALLEYCAT RACE

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.

ONEWAY & adFunture for Shanghai Alleycat

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~~

Congrats, Frankie!!

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.