I was leaving the Hong Kong and decide to roll trough the high-end shopping at the airport, I came across this leather Gucci panda bear at the Gucci store. It’s part of the 08 Olympic edition product. We spoke about the watch earlier on, so now we bring you the panda, nice little coolhunt if you ask me.

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While shopping in Japan, I came across these incredible chucks! they were like wax denim and had a zipper at the back, I never seen these in my life and I wanted to buy them so badly but they were like 35000 Yen, I’ve spent way more on shoes in my life but I just could not see myself dropping 350USD on all stars. Plus my shopping day had just started and I was hoping to roll trough this shop again. This is a collaboration between LGB and Converse, I am not sure who LGB is but they also had a super sick napsack. I regret not buying these and I feel like I need them in my life. I know the picture is not all that great but this is all I found online.

UPDATE: I reach out to my homie at Converse and he has informed me that they are a Japan exclusive, so now I really want them! Anyone in Japan with a wire on these holla, I will send you the cream.

Pic: courtesy of Mega

Day 2 back in the lobby bright and early, ready to go make that magic happen. We head out to go and conduct our interviews with some of the worlds most influential people and how they relate to the Olympics and Nike.

Jesse from Nike sportswear breakdown the science.

Just a glimpse of some of the products that were on display.

Shingo, enjoying the sun and the warm weather.

In between time, we headed out to the Great Wall of China.

Some local, mistook me for Kobe Bryant, no lie.

GW from INQMND’s was having too much fun.

After we left the great wall we went back to a giant water tank where Nike was hosting a bmx event with the 6.0 Team.

The fact that Beijing is under communist rule, we were not sure if they would let us into their country, especially because we were traveling with media Visas. I was pretty nervous about seeing this immigration sign, it would have sucked to travel all this way and get denied.

I guess we weren’t the only people trying to roll trough Beijing. The funny thing about the agent booth is that they have a customer rating button for you to press when your done your inspection.

It was a breeze, can’t you see Boyko and Jane look so please to have pass trough immigration.

We were greeted by Team Nike at the airport, pretty cool stuff.

This was the bus coordinator telling us to get on the bus. Look how serious he looks…

The trip to our hotel was about an hour if I remember correctly. We stayed at this beautiful hotel called the Regent, in JIBAO GA. Very dope! I showed you my room in an earlier post.

We were greeted by more Nike peeps who gave us the VIP bracelts to get into the events, hotels, parties and dinners, the funny thing is the rubber bands were not branded so if you really wanted to, you could have picked one up off a crab at a seafood store.

As we checked in we were given a very passionate letter about Nike mission statement and their involvement in the Beijing Olympics. I actually took the time to read it and even kept it as a souvenir.

Now back to the room to change.

Now I’m ready to rock! camera check, business card check, flash and lenses check, toque check.

Met up with some friendly bloggers faces, Eugene and Kevin from Hypebeast.

Adam from Slamxhype and Wood from Sneaker Freaker. Adam has the Leica digital camera I wanted, but he assured me that the Canon G9 is much better. Thanks for the heads up! (cool guys wear toques)

As we drove to the first stop on our trip, I spotted some interesting vehicles.  Eddie Cruz from UNDEFEATED is quoted saying he wants one of these, I have to admit I want 1 too.

We went to district where Nike has their own spot, pretty sick!

BTW, Only Nike can pull something off of this magnitude.

Was this guy trying to get attention? I got my sniper scope on you homie! (just playing)

Crazy art gallery.

As we left all the galleries and stuff we walked back over to the Nike space where they gave us Ipod Touches with Nike content and pictures, wow some of the stories on their were so inspiring. (Jane I hope you can get me that audio)

There is the homie J from MTV listening closely and taking notes.

If you want to see more, if you have to wait for the full feature on wrg coming soon.

peace

Stay tune for more on Day 2.