Archive for the ‘converse’ Category

ken’s black & white monsters

For more from Ken on NeochaEDGE, link here. /// SL

mv | queen sea big shark X converse = “let’s play”

Queen Sea Big Shark recently released a music video for their song Let’s Play. Check it out below.

The MV is the result of the Converse branded It’s Your Turn campaign, which crowd-sourced not only lyrics for the song, but also extras for cameo appearances in the video.

Once again [...]

converse publishes vol. 1 of its “converse zine” in china

Converse China recently started published a magazine titled Converse Zine. The VOL 1, Music Holiday 2009, heavy features Chinese indie rock, with profile pieces on well-known Chinese bands like Queen Sea Big Shark, Hedgehog, The Gar, New Pants, Carsick Cars, and

interview | happybuddha, a chat with xiamen’s talented designer

During the early days of Neocha.com (about two years ago), Xiamen-based Happybuddha was one of the first Chinese creatives to catch our eye. Since then, we’ve been closely following him and his design collective U-PICK’s development. Happybuddha’s depth and breadth of talent is easily seen in the variety of mediums [...]

the converse “it’s your turn” contest w/ queen sea big shark

“It’s Your Turn” (到你了) is what Converse (China) has aptly titled its latest campaign featuring “flagship” spokespeople, Queen Sea Big Shark – one of China’s better-known indie bands. The campaign crowd-sources not only lyrics for the band’s new song Let’s Play, but also extras for cameo appearances [...]

film | converse china’s love-noise rock ‘n roll documentary

Over the past year or so, Converse (China) has made a big push in China to align itself with local indie / creative culture, particularly the music scene. Last August, as part of its LoveNoise (爱噪音) tour, Converse sponsored two well-known Chinese indie rock bands (Pk-14 and

planet dada ///

planet dada

I recently caught up with Neocha.com-user Dadacat (a.k.a. Dada) to chat about his latest illustrations. Dada is a Hebei native who recently graduated from the Tianjin University of Technology’s Art Institute with a degree in visual communications. He produced the short series below, titled Planet Dada, as [...]

converse laces campaign ///

converse laces campaign

For the past couple months, Converse has been running their Laces campaign, combining both online and offline activities around the theme of individualism and creativity. On the Converse China website, users can set up a digital canvas, upload a picture of themselves, and add various pencil-sketched elements to create an animated scene – [...]