Its been a hectic week this week been getting ready to shoot an advert, whist working on a comic book and doing some stuff for a video game with the guys at Graffiti Games which is buckets of fun and I promise will be an absolute blast when it comes out.

The game will premier at the Tokyo Game Show which is wicked because they're actually dragging me along for that one, and if there is one place I like to go every now and again its definitely Japan (especially Harajuku in Tokyo!). That coupled with the fact that as a kid I used to read about it in video game magazines makes it a tad bit surreal as well.

I snapped a pic of the exhibitors manual which was like "whaaaa thats cool!" (at least from my perspective).



Other than that the Digidude Toy by Counterf!t is nearing completion, we've gone through about 6 different samples, every time working on textures, what paint we wanna use, and dimentions of the toys mold.

I was gonna post up pics of it but I figured it would be more fun to somehow do it in a more interesting way later down the line.

So no pics of digidude for now.

My last bit of rambling would simply be about Aiko (an Italian brand distributed by Makimi) which was in Touch Magazine YAY!

Workin on "Sushi the Robot"

Stories, got lots of em, but writing scrīpts and sending em to production companies
always seems to take too long. For one I'm sick off falling into the situation of people buying em and not making a film OR running into the classic situation where you get called into some office like 7 times only to then get told "nope I don't get it" by some guy who himself usually wrote  some REALLY bad, uncreative, screenplays that failed both financially and artistically (because in the film industry you can apparently only fail upwards).

Soooooo when someone asked if I wanted to turn one of the Counterf!t characters into a comic book, I was like yeah! Cool! now? ok!  (and went home to write the story like 5 seconds later).

Foon Wong will be doin the drawings for all of the comic which rocks because he's well daring and drew the original characters, which makes his involvement total sense. (Go bug him about about the previous comic book stuff he did, its worth it).





I'll try and post some pics of the comics up in the future, hopefully people will like it, its basically a mix of robots, hip-hop, Hong Kong and ice cream, so that should be fun.


Other than that the calendar is creeping up on me for the Counterf!t toy so I'm pushing to get that done BUT I've managed to get the distribution rights for Toy from  design studio Hanazuki, so hopefully I'll find a cool retailer for it.



Finally I can't believe someone made an energy drink based on the designs of the old energy capsules in the Megaman games. Gotta love Japanese pop culture, I really should go there again sometime soon...

http://kotaku.com/5038137/mega%20man-energy-canned

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inast3BGa_Y

Was surfing youtube and found this hihi. Something from a while back.

Obviously I'm not that big of a blogger but I figured that right now, I'd just chuck in an entry for the heck of it.

The last few weeks have been well insane, a mix of Fashion, Vinyl toys and music have been rushing by, and there is a wicked new video game company coming around that is truly gonna be doing some wicked things in Hong Kong (and its about time that someone did so as well).

Fashion wise we just did a launch for the brand Aiko (from Milan) about 2 weeks back, which rocked, we did a press thing at Delay No Mall (Milk and some other mags were there so there may be some magazine exposure coming out soon), plus Jin rocked up and we gave him a bunch of gear which worked out so nicely (the guy works real hard, performs regularly and even wore it on TVB) that we plan to hook him up more so in the future. That and his management are a breath of fresh air.

Here is a pic from Face Magazine that recently came out regarding all that.


Toy wise we (counterf!t) almost finished the Digidude Toy which we'll be launching on the 15th of Sep. I'm really excited about this, the design is good fun, and we got it ready to sell at some truly cool retail points. The box design came out cool too, we literally went through that one a few times but now we have something we really like.


Later on I'm playin a live gig here in Amsterdam (where I'll be till the 17th) which looks to be a blast, I've been writing a lot of acid, electro, IDM based stuff which I think will work live, so here's hoping. I may wanna do the similar sets in HK when I get back. I've been listening to lots of early detroit techno (like Derrick May), as well as  Aphex Twin, Plaid and Autechre records and I really think its some of the best stuff ever written, the arrangements and sonic pallets are amazing and I'm truly a fan of futurism, which basically seems to be the focus of much of the stuff that was written back then. Below is a pic from my Ableton Live set up, love this program to bits!



Finally here is a link to Graffiti Games who I think are gonna be doing some really cool and creative stuff in the future. Keep an eye on em!

www.graffiti-games.com