To me, Alive Not Dead are known for two things – operating a celebrity-filled social network and WILD parties. Throughout their existence, they’ve probably generated more hangovers than any other online brand. Even with all the high-profile actors, singers and models, their parties are never pretentious affairs but fun, jump up and down kind of nights.

After the success of Alive Not Dead’s Halloween party at Zuma (which was easily the best in town,) the social network is back again with a special New Year’s Eve extravaganza.

This time around the party features a strong line-up of prime-time d.j.s. including DJ Becareful, Miss Yellow, DJ Noodles from Taiwan and Enso from Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy. You want to go a little crazy? This is the gang you want playing. They all spin a party-rockin’ mixture that includes multiple genres of Electronic dance music fused with Rock and Hip Hop.

The headliner, DJ Becareful Lee (the actor Sam Lee,) plays like a car going down a hill with no brakes. His music gets more and more intense as his set goes on. If you’re looking for a dance floor for New Year’s Eve, this is the place!

Zuma is a great venue because it’s close to the action in Lan Kwai Fong, yet just outside the zone that gets annoyingly barricaded by the police. (Read the Halloween post for why that’s a hassle!)

When it’s set up for a party, Zuma is a spacious venue that includes a larger dance floor than most Hong Kong clubs. For smokers there’s a huge outdoor patio, so there’s no need to leave the party or furtively sneak a puff.

If you want to say goodbye to 2009 without the annoying table scene and stuffy attitudes (and just concentrate on having fun,) this is the party for you.

Get your tickets now!

Alive Not Dead’s Halloween party sold out of pre-sale tickets several days before the actual night, with a large crowd still trying to pay to get in. For New Year’s Eve it’s convenient (and cheaper!) to get your tickets ahead of time.

To attend the event you have several ticket options. Pre-sale tickets are going for $250 HKD and include one drink. Tickets at the door are selling for $300 HKD and also include one drink.

For those looking to make a full night at Zuma, there’s a dinner plus party package for $1500 HKD per person. The dinner begins at 7pm. Check out the menu here.

For latecomers, there’s a final option for $200 HKD that allows entrance after 1am and includes one drink.

To easily purchase your tickets online go here.

Recommended!

Alive Not Dead New Year’s Eve 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Feat. DJ Becareful Lee, Miss Yellow, DJ Noodles, DJ Enso
Zuma
6/F, The Landmark
15 Queens Road Central
Central, Hong Kong

* Party starts at 10pm
* Dinner package starts at 7pm

Despite a heavy rain on Saturday evening, a large crowd gathered in front of Pacific House to watch as accomplished comic book artist Pat Lee illustrated a scene on an exterior wall.

Using a combination of markers, paint brushes and spray cans, Pat created different textures and shades in his monochromatic work. The time-line to cover the entire wall was just two hours. From a little after six to shortly after eight he worked non-stop. Which super-heroes and famous villain made it onto the wall?

It was the first time that many in the crowd had witnessed comic art take form before their eyes – especially on such a large scale. Pat worked on Batman first, then the Joker followed by another villain and finally Spiderman.

Besides the rain, perhaps the big crowd made it even more difficult. Surrounded by onlookers, Pat was working just a few feet away from the wall which gave him very little perspective as he was painting.

The turnout for the event was strong, in part because it was a collaboration between Diesel, who are opening a new flagship store at the location and the artist networking site Alive Not Dead.

Alive Not Dead, which bills itself as a community of artists, has built a major presence for itself in just under a year. (Artist in this sense means anyone involved in entertainment or other celebrated industry.) Their claims of building an artist network are irrefutable judging from the great attendance of the site’s members at recent events. What’s the significance? Picture a diverse assortment of actors, filmmakers, singers, models, bands, designers and d.j.s from the site all turning up at an event by a comic book artist… in the rain! This type of cross-industry support is unheard of. Not only is the site’s artist community powerful as a promotional hype-machine, but also as a way of building synergy between talents. It’s a brilliant way of artist helping artist, and the system isn’t just an abstract theory, it’s actually working already. For example, singers need videos, album artwork and clothing. On Alive Not Dead, they can easily meet one another and discover talent they’re interested in working with. Someone could approach Pat Lee about creating their next CD artwork. It also allows them to meet on an equal footing, for mutual benefit, without the messy politics and cronyism of entertainment companies and management agencies. Further it allows new creative types to be discovered. Leveraging a network in this way is not only efficient, it’s powerful and revolutionary.

The gathering had a community vibe to it that succeeded in creating a fun, party atmosphere. Even under bad weather conditions the event was crowded for the entire two hours. As Pat Lee finished painting the crowd broke into applause.

Who says comics don’t incite violence? The two Redbull girls got high on their own supply and started choking each other!

Will the real Pat Lee please stand up?

(Comic artist Pat Lee on the right, Alive Not Dead co-founder Pat Lee on the left.)