3T Dai Fu Lou exhibit @ Prologue Workshop

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 @ Esprit Friends

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

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 the Netherlands

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

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

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

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.

EVENT Anniversary! Website Launch!

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.

June 3rd special day!

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!

The Body He Made

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!

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.

Real Dai Fu Lou at Speak up!

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.

Students Exhibition

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

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.