http://blog.converse.com.sg Just another Converse weblog Tue, 13 Jul 2010 02:06:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After one month of secret work, the huge mural we invited Zhan Pan to paint is finally finished! It is a dreamlike underwater world where dreams and reality tease each other. For Zhan Pan, guitarist and lead singer of Gar, it was a wonderful painting experience. And for the audience, ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/07/13/zhanpan_painting/ Zhan Pan Male, early post-1980 generation, Genuine northerner, Hair length changes all the time, Lots of ideas and lots of action. Tell us about yourself. I was born in 1982. My father is a soldier and we came to Beijing. I first set my sights on being a football player. I got in touch with rock ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/zhanpan/ Xiao Tianyu Girl/ Aka G-fly Skater/ Fashion Fever/ Shop Owner/ New Designer Age 22 Little fears and Big ambitions What’s your story? I was born in ‘88, now is my last year in FuDan University, I major in Advertising. I started to skateboard in 2004. In 2006, I built my own fashion brand HALF, I am ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/xiaotianyu/ Madi and Xiao Gan, a photographer and a musician. Converse invited them to show you Beijing in their eyes, the good and the bad, likes and dislikes, to give a different look at the city where so many young creative people long to be. Beijing is a very special city, bad ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/madi-xiaogan-beijing/ addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Ulises_orig_465.png",""); addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Coacalco_Ulises.flv",""); writeSlideshow(); Ulises Zarazua Munoz is a composer. His music bears a worldly, inspired feel that brings the edge of Rock & Roll to traditional Mexican song. The son of Mexican parents born in Maryland, Ulises, himself, spent his childhood in the states, but currently lives in Coacalco, ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/ulises/ addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Talita_orig_465.jpg",""); addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Porto_Alegre_Talita.flv",""); writeSlideshow(); Growing up in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Talita is inspired by her environments and finds her ideas in the things she encounters there: situations, people, nature, behavior. “My ideas come from the things I see and keep with me,” Talita explains. And although she draws at home ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/talita/ addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Sak_orig_465.jpg",""); addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Florence_Sak.flv",""); writeSlideshow(); Hiruma’s story is unique. Born in Japan, he has been pursuing age-old Italian craftsmanship in Florence, Italy for nearly a decade. Choosing to immerse himself in the historical home where Renaissance and industrial design have converged for centuries, Hiruma’s unique and modern sensibility blends with his ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/sak/ addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/okok_orig_465.jpg",""); addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Berlin_OkOk.flv",""); writeSlideshow(); Sarah & Nadine are a young DJ-team from Berlin who search for music to make you dance different. In their beautiful sets between romantic and clubhit there’s always some space for samples from 80s-tv-themes, Italo and Cosmic disco, beloved synth-sounds and featuring the likes of young ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/okok/ addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Luam_orig_465.jpg",""); addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/Luam.flv",""); writeSlideshow(); Luam puts inspiration to motion. Based in New York, Luam creates through a process of trial and error. She knows when she gets it right and believes that this understanding is contagious, inspiring those she teaches. “I know I’ve hit the perfect movement when we start ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/luam/ addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/larua_orig_465.jpg",""); addSlideshow("" + "http://blog.converse.com.sg/files/2010/05/LAURA.flv",""); writeSlideshow(); Laura is a youthful, avant-garde fashion designer from Barcelona. Her first collection, inspired by the video-art of Lucifer Rising of Kenneth Angers, “breathes a magical environment full of symbols [like] mythological gods and places,” Laura explains. This collection has two faces–the defined side works in leather and ... http://blog.converse.com.sg/2010/05/18/laura/