Question: How is my favorite friend in Canada this morning, or is it Hong Kong now?

Answer: I relocated back to Hong Kong from Toronto for more than 3 months now, and I’m loving every minutes of it. The foods are great, the projects coming in are nice, and best of all, my runny nose allergies are getting much better!

Question: How did you get your start in design?

Answer: My start in design (especially tees) started when I submitted a tee design that won at Threadless 4 years ago. It was the Mona Prankster design that got me thinking seriously about doing design fulltime. After then, I have bands and other small clothing companies inquiring for my works. 

Question: What inspires your work?

Answer: Anything I see. Books, movies, tv shows, people, dreams, etc. I get inspired alot, but executing them is a different story, haha.

Question: How do you like working with Thriving Ink?

Answer: It’s been an awesome experience working with Thriving Ink. The whole design process and feedbacks went very smooth from start to finish. The main reason for such great work flow is because we all share the same passion for tees and designs. I look forward to working with TI again.

Question: What inspired you to do a line of animals for Thriving Ink?

Answer: I’ve always been intrigued by the uniqueness of animals and their behaviors. My designs are all based on this reason and I try to convey them in an abstract and stylish manner.

Question: People probably don’t know this but you are a skilled photographer, what inspires you to take photos?

Answers: Haha, I still have lots of learning in photography before I consider myself a skilled photographer. What inspires me to take photos is because photographs are like a contact sheet of your mind and experiences.

Question: What is your favorite:

Book? Any Goosebumps. 

Movie? Fight Club. 

Television show? The Office. 

Drink? Water. 

Website? <http://www.emptees.com/>

Food? Hong Kong style Baked Pork Chop Rice. 

Place? Toronto. 

Person in history? Koma Wong. 

Question: What do you do to prepare yourself to create a new design?

Answer: Most of the time, I need everyone is my house be asleep first before I can start my ideas, haha. I can get distracted by my family pretty easily.

Our Obama stock went fast. Very fast. So here is the re-release of this awesome hope and change inspired line by AJ. We will be reprinting limited runs of Captain Obama in WHITE, and Pop Goes Obama in WHITE, as well as O8ama in WHITE with black ink! These shirts should become available at the end of next week. Thank you all for your continued support! Continue to check back often for more updates on re-releases of new color ways and styles!

This shirts will also be available at Storyville Austin and Storyville Baton Rouge! Pick one of these up before November 4th!

Last night we went down to The Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz’s Open Screen Night and brought along a movie starring Jake Dronkers. He got 2nd place and the honor of being called a “Bad Ass” in front of a theatre full of people. That’s pretty much all a thirteen year old could ask for. 

Thanks to Josh, Gabe and Whitney for coming out to support us and our kooky movie.

For your viewing pleasure…