Dai Fu Lou

Happy 2011 everybody!!!

2010-12-31T10:49:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to all my Dai Fu Friends, here is a short greeting video with an awesome background filmed with exploding Dai Fu Lou shaped fire works!!!

Hope to see you all soon in 2011 and have a wonderful 2011!!!

Merry Christmas

2010-12-25T12:49:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays, am pretty busy with allot of stuff was planning doing a Christmas animation but came short on time and have to save it for next year maybe would make one for the New Year though!

Halloween!!!

2010-10-30T13:01:00.000-07:00

Today is Halloween!!! Have fun and be careful, you never know some ghost might be real!!!

Look out!

2010-10-22T03:59:00.000-07:00

My father past away last night, wasn't any one else to blame what happen. He didn't look after himself, ate too much and didn't want to follow healthy diets. Have to look out cause being healthy and able to live a longer life is a great joy and able to achieve more goals in life. Also it pains losing loved ones and people so close, you can never expect when it could happen.

Who is the real Dai Fu?

2010-10-17T13:18:00.000-07:00

Having tons of shampoo, lotion, showergel, afterlotion, bodylotion, bathfoam, handsoap, soapbar, its just too many soaps in one place!

I feel bloated

2010-10-14T16:08:00.000-07:00

I feel bloated. Cause you ate Strawberry? Nope, cause of my belly is full of....

Dai Fu Lou Z

2010-10-13T16:51:00.000-07:00

Big Fan of DBZ but not sure would like to wear spandex and huge wigs as cosplay/costume for Halloween though. Try doing as much of this plus trying to get first animations done.

Halloween ready yet?

2010-10-13T03:38:00.001-07:00

Halloween is around the corner so Dai Fu Lou getting ready trying all kinds of suits. Also do you spot what is wrong with the picture?

~Misplaced~

2010-10-09T15:47:00.000-07:00

Have few time my shirts gone misplaced, one day found my dad wearing my Slipknot shirt :(, I was like WTF. Was the best Slipknot shirt I had too. Also not sure but I think bikeshop replaced my saddle, I remember my bike having total old look and today realized that is a total new saddle on it. Had like a pretty old but still nice leather saddle now there is a cheap ass plastic sadle on it. Not sure he changed it on the wrong bike or he wanted my saddle, can't really say anything cause I don't have a photo or really remember the original saddle.

True story!

2010-10-08T11:21:00.000-07:00

I donno why it happend but it really happend I weight myself in the morning took a dump, did not ate or drink anything and weighted again and gained weight?!? So today was exercise day was playing Wii for few hours and able to lose 0.4kg by playing Wii for 1.5 hours.

Technology is exciting!

2010-10-07T03:24:00.000-07:00

All kinds of new gadgets are fun and everyone wants to buy one and you also get affected by friends or people who have like a new iPad of iPhone. But you have to asked a question to yourself if you really need to have one at all.

Doctor's checkup!

2010-10-05T05:29:00.000-07:00

Today have my time to time check up at the hospital, nothing to worry about. But have to say always ask a doctor if you are sick sometimes could be worser than you think and also become worser if you don't go to the doctor at all. Had few time I had gotten infections and spread all over my body, should had gone to the doctor much earlier could had cured it before it spreaded. So be save and healthy and ask a doctor plus I don't believe in any Chinese mambo jambo cause it never did anything for me than making me sicker.

Its fall and yet not!

2010-10-04T11:19:00.000-07:00

The sun shines which feels nice and warm but when there is a breeze its pretty cold and might easily catch a cold.

Summer its over!!!

2010-10-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

It's October but in Holland the temperature is still around the 20 degrees still nice and hot, still feel like summer and spring.

Happy Easter everybody!

2010-04-04T17:23:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter and may everybody have allot of eggs and candies!!! And don't forget your egg warmers to keep your eggs nice and hot!!! Try some egg undies for hiding some cracks and keeping it hot in style hehe ;P

Dai Fu Lou Toon Exhibit

2009-10-15T13:48:00.000-07:00

From 14th till 20th at Prologue on Cameron Rd 8 in Tsim Tsa Tsui, is an exhibition by Dai Fu Lou showing an impressive book designed by Jona Lam. This book includes a special design so you can see animated images inside the book, with out it using lenticulars or even electricity. The book contain a collection of Dai Fu Lou animations with a set about a stinky underpants that get washed dried and ironed. Also inside the book are information about the technique used to make this animation and explained how you can also design it yourself, to inspire designers to make use of this technique. The books are for sale and get them before they are gone, it is a truly special book to get inspired by or just to see the funny animations.

After this exhibition will be all about Toys with Dai Fu Lou again, all new toys from Dai Fu Lou which are hand made by Jona Lam and truly limited. Will show all plush toys of the characters of Dai Fu Lou which will be used later for stopmotion animations in the future.

Night before the opening I made this around 3 am and next day in the morning it was already gone the people pasted exactly the same posters back but then over my piece of artwork.

3T Dai Fu Lou exhibit @ Prologue Workshop

2009-09-24T02:54:00.000-07:00

Exciting news next month the 14th October will be very first exhibition of Dai Fu Lou in Hong Kong @ Prologue in Tsim Tsa Tsui. It will be a 3 weeks exhibition with all 3 weeks having different themes. First week on opening will be all about animations with super special new designs and also a special animated book which is extraodinary special. Second week is all about toys will be showing plushes and vinyls which are limited sold and which are all hand made. Third and final week will be about clothing and accessories. Special tshirt will be made for this exhibit which are all limited sold and could be either bought at Prologue or be ordered online.

Dai Fu Lou @ International Original Design Fair

2009-09-21T01:41:00.000-07:00

It was the very first booth at a fair for Chung Dha and we actually choose to use this booth with few other designers instead of using it all for Chung Dha Design. The booth was shared with Cotton Candy from Prologue and DimSum who is an illustrator and Dai Fu Lou the other side of Jona Lam.

The fair is a great promotion and given away allot of business cards plus stickers and for sure know that we had allot of people viewing our works and also gotten some interest.

For sure also learned a few things cause one very sad thing happened is that the small Dai Fu Lou hand made character got stolen even though he was ugly. And also need to write down what they can take and what not people think to fast that things are for free.

At least we have shown our works at China and done some good publicity and made few interesting contacts. And hope to see you all at our next exhibit @ Prologue in TST Hong Kong on Cameron Roar exit C2 on 14 October.

Dai Fu Lou @ Esprit Friends

2009-08-26T11:20:00.001-07:00

Saturday 22 August 2009 Dai Fu Lou had an interview at Esprit Friends and talked about a serious subject what is friends. Do you really have to know everything about the other person to be friends with. Or just knowing and feeling of a friendship is enough. Everyday you can make a new friend without knowing them at all, which might be better then if you knew all the information about them instead. Friends could be friend however between all of them there lies also people who tries to mislead you or people trying to be your friend to get something from you. Always make clear the difference between a friend and business, both can't happen at the same time. Jona talked about his past experience how he got hurt by a friend he trusted and came to Hong Kong with fully having trust in their friendship, having later known that he had a hidden 3 year plan for Jona with out him knowing it. Also in talked about how Jona and Alan met in Hong Kong and from totally not knowing about each other and still able to become friends and setup Dai Fu Lou. Watch the interview and vote for use here.

Please support Dai Fu Lou and vote for us, so Dai Fu Lou and exist and do more exhibition and finance our business. Also if we win we would like to give a shirt away to one of the voters, tell us if you have voted and tell friends, family and others to help voting.

Yandy Birthday Party vid

2009-08-09T01:07:00.000-07:00

Last weekend was the birthday party of Yandy which included a small fashion show showing few Dai Fu Lou shirts and also new design which was not shown before. Also as a gift for Yandy's Birthday a special Octopus Dai Fu Lou was made cause it is her favorite animal.

Dai Fu Lou to Mars!!!

2009-07-28T09:34:00.001-07:00

Dai Fu Lou will be send on a microchip with several thousand of othernames to mars!!!

Dai Fu Lou the Netherlands

2009-07-22T03:47:00.001-07:00

Here is a short vid of my trip back to the Netherlands filming the flight and few surroundings in the Netherlands, but also the exhibition that was held in Rotterdam. Mostly haven't done any real tourist stuff cause mostly cause I am from the Netherlands and have seen those places many times before. However still the Netherlands got allot of beautiful places and allot of open spaces. However I am now back in Hong Kong again and will be back in the Netherlands in January.

Dai Fu Lou exhibition in the Netherlands

2009-07-17T20:25:00.001-07:00

15th July there was a small exhibition held by Dai Fu Lou in Rotterdam at the Wah Fook Wui which is stated in the basement of the Ka Fook Mansion. Within the exhibition several things were presented like paintings, shirts, paper toys and photography.

Jona brought along different shirts he had designed and made in Hong Kong to show.

Also the newest design of paper toy figure were shown at this exhibition.

The figures were standing on top a special made light box painted with the Dai Fu Lou logo and pattern, inside the box you can see a lamp with buttons and business card placed.

As you can see the exhibit is mostly about Dai Fu Lou 00 and Dai Fu Lou 0 the two very first characters that were designed. For those who have missed the exhibition you can view the pictures on our Dai Fu Lou Flickr group or Facebook. Also we filmed the exhibition and soon release a clip of this happening plus traveling from Hong Kong to the Netherlands.

Dai Fu Lou 00 painting

2009-07-05T13:19:00.000-07:00

Here I am showing one of the works that will be displayed on the very first Dai Fu Lou exhibition actually also my very first painting on canvas and showing how I actually painted it. I actually sketch out the design with a pencil and then afterward painted it in using a light color paint first and dark colors after.

Please come and visit the exhibition on 15th July 2009 at Ka Fook Mansion in Rotterdam which is on the Graaf Florisstraat 45 in Rotterdam. Free entrance.

Jona back to NL

2009-07-03T08:00:00.001-07:00

Sorry that I haven't updated in a while, I have not been back in the Netherlands for a whole week and first few days really got a major jetlag was sleeping long hours. However I got allot of stuff to do in the Netherlands, my administration of my company plus doctors visits and allot things for Dai Fu Lou. I now managed to get a exhibition in Rotterdam that will be held on 15th of July and I am now busy prepairing allot of designs and paintings.

Here above you can see some pictures of the flight back to the Netherlands, I first went to the Hong Kong Airport and then flew to London Heathrow and had to stay there for a while to catch another plane to the Netherlands. When I was back home and later that night was a beautifull sunset.
Great to be back because it is really pretty here compared to HK where everything is gray. However will be going back to HK on 19th.

Dai Fu Lou Hair Cut

2009-06-28T16:07:00.000-07:00

Last week the day before Jona and Dai Fu Lou left to the Netherlands Jona had a hair cut session, with him actually cutting and trimming his own hair. He wanted to do this to actually leave behind some bad times and hair are kind of time cause it grow with time and can actually measure top of the hair is from last time Jona had a hair cut and below it growing from each day and rest are the days between. Also Jona wanted to do something bold and actually having few photographers capturing the moment and let them try experimenting with taking pictures. Watch the video below.

Special thanks for Alan who was holding the camera and directing it, Elden Cheung and Yandy Yot who were photographing this moment.
To see more pictures visit Elden Cheung fotop album here.
Also visit Yandy Yot album at Facebook here.

EVENT Anniversary! Website Launch!

2009-06-16T10:36:00.000-07:00

At the party we gave a shirt to the newest Dai Fu Mui , Annie Lin / AnnieWho who actually sponsors Kate Sullivan with lovely dressed at each EVENT. Also if you can see the shirts are actualy different then before because we have gone over to a new design actually placing the Dai Fu Character on the bottom close to the area where people normally would wear their underwear.

Also we have gaven a shirt to Elden Cheung who have photograph these pictures, also credits to him for photographing our shirts and Dai Fu Lou each time. Hope to see everyone who has gotten a shirt to wear them during the next Event. For more pictures of this EVENT click here.

Dai Fu Lou Cap

2009-06-16T02:25:00.000-07:00

Finally first Dai Fu Lou Cap made by Jona Lam actually spraying the logo onto the cap by himself and adding a limited edition button onto the cap.

And here is Dai Fu Lou wearing the cap !!!

June 3rd special day!

2009-06-09T00:55:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday was a special day! The Birthday of Jona Lam the creator of Dai Fu Lou. On this day he didn't really went receiving gifts but actually give some away to his friends.
He made special editions for Kate Sullivan, DJ Re:Flex and Micheal Chan and gave the shirt to them at the Speak Up Event.Credits to Elden who is the photographer of Speak Up!

Dai Fu Lou first film

2009-06-05T04:32:00.000-07:00

Dai Fu Lou Freshly washed start from Jona Lam on Vimeo.

Full movie directed and made by Jona at the studio and ofcourse the figure is also Jona, but only the head the body is Alan's works and also hanging it on the cloth hanger. The Dai Fu Lou figure is moving cause of the airco blowing it. Sound and voice is also Jona. Pretty much most by Jona. This short film used Canon EOS 500D to film it in 720 HD setting. Voice is recorded afterwards.

The Body He Made

2009-06-01T02:53:00.000-07:00

Alan made the body for Dai Fu Lou, while Jona already made the head of Dai Fu Lou now added colors to it.

Alan later added some more details to the body.

And this is Mars Chan try adding the body for Dai Fu Lou.

Also made a short clip of Dai Fu Lou and will start on more videos with Dai Fu Lou.

Website relauch!

2009-05-31T11:13:00.000-07:00

Some might have seen this when going to Daifulou.com you get to a website now instead of going to this blog, we just relauch our website and will be adding allot of stuff to it. Also there are some hidden funny easter eggs between some of the pages, which would activate some animations.

At the gallery we will be adding allot of Dai Fu Lou Characters and will add more sections. You also can easily access the store at the stuff page.

Will soon ad more sections with in the gallery and stuff. Will be adding arts section where all art with Dai Fu Lou will be added, multi media of various vids and more and also downloads of free things you can get.

Dai Fu Peak!

2009-05-31T10:00:00.000-07:00

Something that had caught my eye that has the most biggest thing in Hong Kong shaped as and underwear, it is the big building on the Peak where you could go on top to watch the view over Hong Kong. Showing above how close the shape is to an underwear / Dai Fu. Will try and photograph some more stuff that is same shape as Dai Fu Lou but isn't an underwear at all.

Dai Fu Business card

2009-05-24T23:50:00.000-07:00

Something we haven't showed yet is that we have been giving away business cards of Dai Fu Lou, some might already recieved them and some even collected all three. If you see one of us you can always ask for a business card.

Dai Fu Mui Yvonne

2009-05-18T22:30:00.000-07:00

Last weekend a new Dai Fu Mui character have been created especially for Yvonne Leung. And wore the Tshirt during the Jagermeister Bikini Dance Event.

Dai Fu Lou online shirt shop

2009-05-12T23:46:00.000-07:00

After several event showing our Dai Fu Lou shirts in public we now opened our online shirt shop, so people who like Dai Fu Lou and all our supporters can now order a shirt online.

We have chosen to start with Spreadshirt cause of their high quality prints and durability, that have been tested and reviewed. Also to make it easier for our international fans from all across the world, cause Spreadshirt have a great delivery service and can send their products to any country in the world.

We now have placed the most basic Dai Fu Lou character on the shirts. You can order the illustration in the colors black, white or glow in the dark. The color of the shirts are open to choose any color that are available with that shirt.

Each shirt cost $35 USD and you can use either a creditcard or with use of a PayPal account to transfer money to order a shirt.

To visit our brand new shirt shop go to http://daifulou.spreadshirt.com.
If there are any questions please contact jona@daifulou.com.

Real Dai Fu Lou at Speak up!

2009-05-07T03:42:00.000-07:00

First time the real Dai Fu Lou appeared in public at the Speak Up! Event. Dai Fu Lou presented himself and searched for more supporters.

Also this is the twelve Speak Up! Event which is which is held each month and that means it has already been a whole year that Speak Up! started, so it is their first anniversary.

Even Micheal Chan of the movie Lumina had a try of being a Dai Fu Lou, doing some poses and trying the mask. During this Speak Up! they showed the trailer of Lumina and almost the whole cast was there. If you haven't seen the trailer yet, watch it here.

There were even few Dai Fu Mui at the scene, and one of them is actually the lovely Kate Sullivan who had just a opening of a play at the Fringe Club before the Speak Up! Event.

And also some Dai Fu Poses poses were done.

Dai Fu Badges!!!

2009-05-06T00:18:00.001-07:00

We now have made some Dai Fu Lou Badges and will be selling them, we have several versions and will be sold in a limited amount. These are all handmade by ourself and we have some special sets of badges for sell too. The one you see on some is the most plain basic badges and will be sold for 20HKD per piece or some as 2 Euro per piece.

We also got 3 sets of Dai Fu Lou Under Ranger sets, which consist of 5 badges with the Dai Fu Lou in the colors Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, Red and Green. These will be the begin of the Under Ranger sets of 5 fellow Dai Fu that will become the Under Rangers ( Shirt not included). These colors will be only sold within this set and will be super limited to just 3.

Buttons can be bought at Speak Up! tonight or when you meet us in person, however you can also order these buttons online, by emailing jona@daifulou.com

Dai Fu Lou Mask

2009-05-06T00:11:00.000-07:00

Here is the very first Dai Fu Lou mask done, and also a new one is underway which will be made out of plastics so it would be lighter plus also won't get damaged when it gets wet and can be caried around easier.

Students Exhibition

2009-05-05T09:17:00.000-07:00

Last sunday was the exhibition held by the student which we had taught about creativity and also how to setup an exhibition. We came to see if they actually listened to our tips and informations.

It is a quite small exhibitions because there were only 4 teams or 4 school that have entered. Also was a kind of showoff by the school which have better students, by showing greater designs then others.

This team (Polariod window blinds) kinda have listened, but still made a far too busy display and have the most to show then others, however I find that this team should been disqualified cause this project s not made by the students. During the exhibition was a guy / teacher who have allot to talk about this and actually sounded to me that he has invented this. Also on the table there are actually stuff from science class which there is no way those students could have bought at any local shop, also they have light sensors and everything that is either from the science class or that teacher had ordered.

Also their invention is made far to complex while a certain blinds or curtain would have work just well to, cause there invention has too many parts and too many moving things making it to have a far too high cost. Also there is a electric window blinds which can regulate the amount of lights that can shine through, however it is far to expensive to replace all the windows with and uses allot of chemicals to produce.

The display that they have made got a certain order to it however it annoying to have to turn your head from side to side to read each time cause they have placed all the text in a different angle each time. However it attract you to look at is but not to read it.

This is the Dirty water electricity generator team, this has the most simplistic and cleaned display with everything printed and plastic with the numeral order. The display is good however I would have chosen for a normal foamboard instead of a polystyreen board with all the bubbles showing. On the prototype they should have used a smaller sheet of paper cause now the attention is too much drawn to the sheets and not actually to the prototype, also the prototype almost disappeared cause of the sheet of paper. However for the city to give money to place this in the building might be a far to big play, they might have better change it to a more of a consumer product or ad it with in a product. Like with in a washing machine where water flushes out the water could generate some electricity that is used to was the clothing with.

Mama wake me up alarm clock team ( alarm clock that wakes you without sound but vibrates your cushion, this team is a pretty funny setup cause even though it exist of 4 students I can see it is basically made all by just one cause of his design and drawing style. This kid actually like to make things small instead of getting his hands dirty on project that they could not handle, cause the others made their project far to big while this project staying relatively small and more on consumer based then having to be financed by the city or government. However the text might be very small it is basically good, cause as if you would talk with a lower volume people would listen more carefully. Also love this working model which they basically moved the on and off switch of the vibrating machine to the alarm clock.

Electric bus team, this team just got to many ideas but this is not an invention because they things they have summed up are basically already invented stuff and also basically are designed for this purpose. This team just got too many ideas but eventually as you can see the end result is either their budget or did not have enough time to make a good display. They just took few pieces of cardboard and just drew on it, however got to say they did well with the layout how they drew and wrote things on the board. But it looks too much like they ruffly made this and did not spend much time on making it at all. But basically replace or added stuff to the bus but did not do a full bus design on how the bus would look like, more data on how much energy it would use and how much less exhaust and more.

These two are basically the better one during this exhibition, but the best for me is the alarm clock with the only one placing the display boxes not against the wall making it looks more like an actual exhibition feel and simple poster on the wall, however there is one thing it is showing of their school a bit too much though. However it does fill and attract some more attention then the electric generator.

Eventual each team gets a certificate for attending this exhibition and creativity lesson.

And the better team would get som lego, to play out some of their creativity.

However I doubt most of them actually still do play with Lego most be playing computer games instead.

I bet that this panda would agree with me that his alarm clock is the best and the kid who design this have a very bright future if he want to get into the design world.

Dai Fu Lou Teaching Students about Creativity

2009-05-02T05:48:00.000-07:00

Friday we had a small creativity lesson teaching students from age from 10 to 17 how to be creative and how they should prepare for a exhibition, mostly cause most of them have never seen a exhibition before or let alone know how to make one.

Vanessa, Alan and Jona are all creative in different field of design could easily explain and help them out with certain problems and things. The main theme of the exhibition these students are designing for is Building something for this city. As for the big difference between the Hong Kong and Europe we also have a different perspective on the already made project that we done by these students. Mainly the students all designed innovations, however many of them made it too complicated for them selves compared to others, while some just did not do the full research.

We came there actually without knowing how many students would be there or actually knowing what they all have designed. So we had few presentations of the student showing us their made project and we gave feedback on the pros and cons of them. Actually most of them aren't that well thought of plus they aimed at a much to big of project that would have summed up allot of data and statistics that need to be shown. While between it all there is one great design made by the youngest kid of the whole group who is working alone today cause his partner could not be there.

The boy here is front is the small talent, I am sure this kid would become one amazing designer in the future also could see some aspect of myself in him cause he also like to draw very very small. But he is actually the only one who has made an actual consumer product instead of things that the government would look at or could buy and would have cost millions to invest in. This kid just made a simple alarm clock that would wake you up by making your cushion vibrate, so it would not wake up others in the same house or the neighbors. In Hong Kong there are not much space and people live stacked on top of each other and in pretty cramp places and Hong Kong is also allot of 24 hours businesses and allot of people sleep and wake up at different times. Also he was one of the teams who have a working prototype with them.

The other team made an electric water scoop generator which a real energy meter to show how it produces energy. However this generator will be driven by the flushed or dirty water that are produced daily in the many tall buildings however the main problem is that the water is dirty and could clog up the scoop and may need allot of maintenance. This might have been easy if they just designed a scoop which would generate more power then normal ones cause of somethings special, however now placing in a building they made it much to hard for them selves, cause now they need to get informations from architectures about how the water moves within building and many more problems with maintaining it.

We did few exercise to see the skills of the students, we let them design a logo for their invention and posters and see how they made it and talked about what is good and bad about them.

Sunday 3rd of May there will be an exhibition held by these students and will see then if they have learned and listened to use cause we have given the information that they have needed. The exhibition is held at Cattle Depot, 63 Ma Tou Kwok Road, To Kwan Wan, Kowloon.

And here are some other snapshots made during the creativity lesson that we have given to these students.

WIP Dai Fu Mask part 2

2009-05-02T05:16:00.000-07:00

Today we started with adding color to our mask. We have chosen for a special sheet that feels like fabric, the sheet has a kind of suede feel to it. We used spraying glue to glue the sheets onto the mask, also spraying glue is less messy then other glue and also fairly easy to apply when pasting sheets of things.

Here we have pasted the sides yellow first and then later paste with one long sheet over the front top and back. It is not a problem is you have to much fabric it is a bigger problem if you got too little. I actually learned how to pack this mask up cause of my packaging background and had learned how to do it cause of bookbinding and pasting graphics on packagings.

And this is almost to the final result of the mask. However we show you the final result of the mask very soon when we will be using it. So be sure to look out for Dai Fu Lou, also if you spot us you can take a picture with us any time.

Dai Fu Loo Billboard!!

2009-04-30T20:45:00.000-07:00

Nah it is not true we would not spend that large amount of money for such a huge advertisement. However spotted a total new billboard on Nelson street which was totally empty so I took a picture of it and photoshopped it to have our logo. Maybe in the future we could have one of major billboard.

Maybe as a cloting advertisement billboard of the clothing brand Dai Fu Lou or actually us DFL Family and Friends working inside an ad for other companies. The billboad is on the crossing of the Nelson street and Sai Yeung Choi street, it is totally empty so don't miss the chance to take a picture of it and photoshop your own billboard on it. Cause photoshopping over an empty while billboard you can set the blend better then putting it over one that is filled.

Life Action Dai Fu Lou

2009-04-30T09:22:00.000-07:00

Here is a first glimpse how life action Dai Fu Lou might look like. Posing with the half made mask the face is actually added with photoshop for the moment we still have to color the mask first and see how or where we would place holes so we could look at where we are going.

Here is actually Jona wearing the mask and standing on top of a raised part next to the stairs on top of the roof, also bit dangerous without seeing thing standing that high on a roof. But in the end worth it to get some interesting cool shots.

And actually it does not look half that bad with the mask on, wonder what the impression will be from people if we start wearing the mask to events and the streets of Hong Kong.

Two New Dai Fu Lou shirts

2009-04-30T09:18:00.002-07:00

Now the two most basic Dai Fu Lou versions are made as going back few steps instead of trying to produce way to complicated ones. From now on we are making new Dai Fu Lou shirts from time to time, either a from the Dai Fu Lou Family version which are the Dai Fu Lou's which are not based on friends of ours but actually self designed and just for fun made Dai Fu Lou designs. And also ofcourse Dai Fu Lou based on real people that are friend of our which will be placed onto the Dai Fu Lou's Friends collection.

The Yellow Dai Fu Lou our most basic and also the logo of Dai Fu Lou. He is also going to play the main character in the Dai Fu Lou Live Action Movie.

Dai Fu Lou Blue always looking around from side to side always happen to be looking at someone or something. Always curious in checking something out.

Tomorrow Dai Fu Lou crew is giving a lesson on creativity in Hung Hom, teaching how you can from the bottom to the top and what and how design should be. Also tomorrow the very first Dai Fu Mui wil be presented a female version Dai Fu Lou.

WIP Dai Fu Mask

2009-04-30T07:14:00.000-07:00

Eventually we have chosen the squared version of the Dai Fu Lou paper head because the it represented the original more. So from a small cut out template we went to 1:1 scale to fit on our heads. First we printed out the template we made before of the small version however because now it does not fit on an A4 we used the options to print it over multiple pages and paste it back together again.

Before this we actually made a box around one of us to make a basic measurement of one head, and calculated it over on to the template so we would know how big it should be. Placing the loose piece of the template together is not that hard but needs allot of measurings to straighten everything out. After we placed all the pieces of the template together we past the template onto a big curated cardboard box and made sure the pieces stick together properly.

Then we could start cutting out the template from the cardboard and cause we glued the template one the cardboard it would not move while you cut it to make sure your cuts are precise. To hold the parts together you need to cut a fold link a bit and it should fold much easier then just trying to force it by hand.

And here we got the total folded first Dai Fu Lou mask made from cardboard, the only hard bits that were to fold were the rounded sides, cause we forgot which direction to place the template but it was fairly easy to force it into that shape.

Here testing out the Dai Fu Mask one some special movements, also the first box we had made of one of our head is placed inside the Dai Fu Mask so we could actually more the mask in the same was as our head, cause without the box our heads would move freely inside the mask. Next thing to do is to add some colors and faces onto the mask, however we will show that in the second part of WIP Dai Fu Mask.

Paper Dai Fu Head

2009-04-30T00:27:00.000-07:00

We are in the process of starting with the design of the mask of Dai Fu Lou for the upcoming movie we will be shooting in Hong Kong, so if you would spot someone walking around in Hong Kong looking like a Dai Fu Lou it might be one of us, or someone that really looks like Dai Fu Lou.

At the moment we came out with two idears for the real life shape of the head of Dai Fu Lou and one is to have a rounded underwear which looks more like a real underwear. However the sqaured versions has more of the looks of the original designs on the shirts, but is less of a real underwear however the face is more correct to the original design and also looks more proper cause the rounded version is more deformed then the squared.

If you want to get to know the process of how the masked is made follow this blog we will be posting time to time or daily update and showing sketched or even some total off topic but still got to do with Dai Fu Lou stuff or places where you could meet us or where we might be filming. Also if you want to join in the movie contact jona@daifulou.com for more information.

Premier of Dai Fu Lou

2009-04-23T13:11:00.000-07:00

April 23 the first prints and designs of Dai Fu Lou series has started.

Coolest funniest but also interesting character. Dai Fu Lou meaning in Cantonese Underwear man, is a special character made for showing off what normally is not shown. Everyone wears underwear and they buy ones they think are pretty, however they never show them unless it is to their partner. We want to show what is on the bottom can also be on top. The Dai Fu Lou designs are made by Jona Lam and Alan Leung.

Dai Fu Lou #00, Dai Fu Lou #0 and Dai Fu Lou Simon Yin. Simon Yin from CB Fresh is the very first of the series which are the characters are based on a real person.

Here above you see the very first print of the designs before they were pressed on the shirts which were worn the very same night at various locations and events.

Also the very first tag and autograph of Dai Fu Lou has been placed in the Fringe Club exhibition, which was the very first place we showed our new born characters on the very first shirts.

Our very first shirts were colored purple especially for the Purple party at night that was held at the Mint with the main theme to wear anything purple and also in the mix with Alive Not Dead.

At the purple party the 3rd shirt was shown and worn by Simon Yin himself, a day earlier we've met Simon at the IShotHongKong network event where we asked him if he would like to have a Dai Fu Lou character and a shirt with it for the purple party and he said Yes!!! Also we will be shooting a Dai Fu Lou movie for IShotHongKong and searching more Dai Fu People to join in.

To get to know more about Dai Fu Lou go to Daifulou.com or follow this blog Daifulou.blogspot.com. If you have shot any picture of anyone wearing the Dai Fu Lou shirt, you are welcome to post them on Dai Fu Lou flickr group. Also join our Dai Fu Lou facebook and get in contact with the creators and support Dai Fu Lou.