After one month of secret work, the huge mural we invited Zhan Pan to paint is finally finished! It is a dreamlike underwater world where dreams and reality tease each other. For Zhan Pan, guitarist and lead singer of Gar, it was a wonderful painting experience. And for the audience, it’s an absolutely stunning piece. Now let’s have a look at the mural, with some explanation from Zhan Pan.

Male, early post-1980 generation,
Genuine northerner,
Hair length changes all the time,
Lots of ideas and lots of action.

Xiao Tianyu
Girl/ Aka G-fly
Skater/ Fashion Fever/ Shop Owner/ New Designer
Age 22
Little fears and Big ambitions

Madi and Xiao Gan, a photographer and a musician. Converse invited them to show you Beijing in their eyes, the good and the bad, likes and dislikes, to give a different look at the city where so many young creative people long to be.

Ulises can take any sound and make it his sound

Talita lives to paint the world she imagines

Hiruma’s story is unique. Born in Japan, he has been pursuing age-old Italian craftsmanship in Florence, Italy for nearly a decade.

Okay & Okay want to make you dance different

Luam teaches music to move

Laura is a youthful, avant-garde fashion designer from Barcelona.

Balthazar is a filmmaker from Barcelona, Spain who captures reality to transform it into his own fiction.

Ana is a doll-maker from Mexico City.

Billy, Linyew and Yeoh are 1 Shanghai-native and 2 Malaysians who met in New Zealand, decided to work together, and became Super Nature! For the You’re It campaign, they were invited by Converse to produce ME|Wonderland in Shanghai. They spent over two weeks scouring the city to find things that connected them to their childhood [...]

What’s your story?
Wow, that’s a big question. I came to Beijing around 2000, I joined Hang on the Box and TOOKOO. My day job is working for Music Radio. My experience basically is an atypical example of the rock movement in Beijing after 2000. I can’t represent most people and I can’t show all the [...]

Lives in Beijing
Can’t define the 80’s generation
Loves photography/magazines/exhibitions
Sincere and Sensitive