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Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese Lunar New Year. Thank you to everyone who always supports me. I hope everyone has a great year of the Rat.

photo by Desy Agnes

-Off-White Hoodie

-Publish Brand

-MARKERAD Bag by IKEA and Virgil Abloh

-Brandblack – Saga Sneaker

Photographer: Jason Cordoba/@jcordobaphotos

Thanks to @frederick_tan_polid for supporting and supplying my first bearbricks custom. Here’s a little teaser for a new idea and concept.

I even have ideas for these customs but still designing the concepts.

New work! My first ever Bearbricks custom. Make sure to check out my YouTube channel about this new custom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP5YrNNtMZA

Edited by: John A

Our weekend trip to Clermont was amazing! We went to the Southern Hill Farms which is a one hundred twenty-acre farm with the newest crops including delightful sunflowers and pumpkin patches.

About the Seasonal Crops, please check their website for the details.they will be perennial plantings include forty acres of blueberry bushes, five acres of peach trees and sixty-eight acres of ornamental trees. Our newest crops include delightful sunflowers and zinnias, both of which are available for picking during our Spring U-pick and Fall Festival. be planting strawberries within the next couple of years which allows us to extend our u-pick season, giving you another harvest to enjoy at the farm (in case the fresh donuts weren’t enough). The Fall Festival is a family destination to remember, held weekends in October.

The location is at Clermont, countryside area of Florida, but you still see a bunch casr try to get in the locations, they starting line up nearby the parking lot, highly recommend get the ticket online before you going, they also goes by time slot, they didn’t really check the ticket slot time when we arrived.

The entrance, please make sure to bring something like a sandals or shoes you don’t care about. This place is all fully covered by dirt and sand. Best time to go probably before they closed. Noon was way too hot.

first thing we checked out is the pumpkin patch, we took many family photos.

Neesa thought the pumpkins was her snacks.

Custom made Halloween lantern is for sale.

My lovely Yeezy 500 is getting destroyed in the dirt.

let’s taking Nessa first Halloween picture!

She loved it! check her big smiles.

Not so happy for the hot weather 🙁 highly recommend came after 4pm.

Everything else was great just the weather. Make sure do not bring nice shoes around here. The number one thing is checking the weather

make sure check more information at https://southernhillfarms.com/

Address: 16651 Schofield Rd, Clermont, FL 34714

Hours: make sure check the website for the open hour and date.

Phone: (407) 986-5806

I always have the vision to bring some local talented artists and creative people in Orlando to Full Sail . I approached Nat from Full Sail and having this creative event students. So I invited my friends Julius Mayo Jr, Varick Rosete, Rob Campman and my self Nakanari – The event is “Dissecting your brand : From Idea to Market place” This diverse panel of industry professionals will share their experience on what it takes to get your idea or brand into a tangible asset ready for the market.

Backgrounds include, Music Industry, Social Media and Photography, Character Design, and Event Curation/Promotion/Production.

*   Julius Mayo Jr. – Creative Brand Manager of green cents™ & Founder, Blogger, Photographer of Droolius
*   Varick Rosete – Art Director, TigerLily Media & Creative, Varick Rosete Studio
*   Rob Campman – Recording Artist
*   Nakanari – Creative Director / Co-Founder Mai Hiro

The event was happening by Thursday, June 2, 2016 4:00pm – 5:30pm (doors 3:30pm)

Also here are images on a 360 camera!

Getting ready for the event. This whole event was run by the whole production team and students. It was done very smoothly and professional.

Introduction

Julius was the starting speaker an is a Creative Brand Manager of green cents™ & Founder, Blogger, Photographer of Droolius.

Julius is talking about how his brand started and the journey he went through to become a pronominal food blogger with his amazing photo shoots.

Next was Varick Rosete, Art Director of TigerLily Media & Creative and Varick Rosete Studio.

This is an awesome message and keeps you level for when you start your brand always keep a level head and be true to yourself.

During my part was sharing my journey to American and how I became a self taught artists and the creation of my own brand Maihiro.

Most important part in my life is my father able bring us to here and giving us new opportunities in America.

Everything we have in our brand starts with this simple statement.

Rob Campman is our local rap legend / Recording Artist from Orlando, many of our generation have heard his music and his stage name is south stars. I was amazed to know him from his mother GiGi, who is also my coworker in the international team.

We then began the Q&A session.

Rob was then asked to perform live on stage!

After the event, students were able to meet with each speaker and have a photo with them.

This event was successful and thanks to all the students and co-workers who came to support. Really appreciative to Nat and without him this event would’ve never happened.

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgPYuA-seRU

Photo credit to : Gnat Media / @gnatmedia

Martian Toys was hosting the spiki attack show in New York Comic Con so I had the opportunity to work with Quiccs! The spikiteq was re-sculpt base on spiki chiisai platforms, this project was a limited resin run and produced by our friends Martian toys, this time I wanted to challenge myself and make them 8inch spiki figs.

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So since we have a smaller version already made, it was much easier for me to detail just by checking the original model. I wouldn’t call myself a professional sculptor as this would take some time for me to sculpt it correctly.

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The most complicated part is the head, which is the biggest portion of the figs. After that I am able to add the small details.

The body we add the hoodies just like quicss signature design.

Now begins testing. Just to make sure the position is correct and slowly adding more details.

Here is the paint testing. Since the original paint job was done by quicss, I have to find the colors that closely resemble his original custom spikiteq.

Complete view for the shoe paint job , inspire by AJ1 shadow.

Also adding small detail like teq63.

Final head model.

Size comparison with 4 inch spikiteq

The finished custom looks even better than I was expecting and I am really happy of the result. I know many people were interested this piece and it has found its home with the right person. Thank you again and I cant wait for the next custom figurine.

I would like to thank Martian Toys for inviting me to the NYCC custom show For this post I would like to show the process on how I make the customs.

Fresh from the package

12.5-inch tall base model!

I love this blank and it is much easier to separate them

A complete view of the blanks

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The most time I spent on this project was the sanding job, I try to make sure everything is smooth and nice. For this piece time, I drew inspiration from my favorite cartoon animation from the ’80s.

After I completed sanding it was time for color testing.

I had to make sure each color will be combined well together complete

Complete head view.

Being a huge fan of Verdy from japan. His brand Girls don’t cry really inspired the design for Boys Don’t Cry.

After 2 weeks, work was slowly being put together and finally ready. The Gunteq 63 is ready to roll.

Overall it was a lot of work and I was really happy the way it turned out. During NYCC they didn’t get sold but the piece was sold in the online store. Thanks so much for everyone checking this cool custom and supporting my projects!

A huge thank you goes out to Nat Carpenter for inviting me as guest speaker for his class / Fundamentals of Music Business at Full Sail University.

Normally my presentation is about sharing my journey about building my brands. The Presentation lasted around 15 min plus a Q&A session which totaled around two hours in the class.

Maihiro Statements ” Design By Belief” is sharing our passion with others and building a great community.

“Passion” is one of the most important things in everyone’s life. It is finding a path to continue, not just in the career they want but also with their happiness. Passion is what gives you the motivation to keep creating and be better every time.

Walt was a person who made the world changed. building the most happiness place in the world. I truly believed his vision has relating it from his passion for animation, with his creation for Mickey and passion keep moving forward so he able making the world differences.

Next Nat did a Q&A session and asked questions relating building business.

After the session, we had students participating in a giveaway. A photo contest, best photo wins some cool Maihiro swag.

It was a tremendous pleasure to be able to present to these students who are intending to build businesses. Thank you Nat and Full Sail University for connecting me with a plethora of students who have a passion for the entertainment industry, everyone I met today is looking to start their journey into the creative world. I always appreciate the moments of meeting new friends and supporting them!

Finally the long awaited collaboration project from IKEA. IKEA has teamed up with LA-based fashion designer Chris Stamp, and freelance designer Maja Ganszyniec for a limited edition collection: SPÄNST. Inspired by street fashion and an active lifestyle, SPÄNST features furniture, accessories and items for storing, displaying and organizing some of your favorites at home.

The furniture design is super simple and sleek, a great addition to the modern stylized home design.

I was lucky to be able to grab them at release early before they sold out.

check more info https://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/ikea-collections/spanst/index.html