Beijing's Original T-shirt Brand

As a child I had to go to church every morning at school, it was a time to reflect and space out and think of things that I wanted to do with my life other than sit in a boring church. It was in church that I hatched many of my plans to go travelling, [...]

I’m feeling British today! Which is strange because after spending half of my life here in Beijing I sometimes forget where I’m from. The reason I’m feeling more British than usual is because of the chap in this photo, the new British Ambassador to China, Sebastian Wood CMG. A couple of weeks ago I was [...]

Sun Zi and the artof War Reality TV program
 
Last summer I spent 3 weeks being filmed by BBC reality TV crew who were filming a show called Sun Zi Art the of War. Its a 13 part series and in each program they film 13 businesses around the world and then break down those businesses [...]

I’ve done a tone of TV shows but usually on my own and these shows cover a lot of topics. This show I had no idea was so popular until I walked out of my home on Friday and got recognised by every other person I walked past. My poor wife who was also pulled [...]

 
The glorious set of stain glass icons is nearly finished, here is the last member to the team of 4. Zhou En Lai, designed by French/Chinese artist Tian Tian I can’t wait for this one to be made into a glass window. The stain glass makers are all the way down in Jiang Xu province [...]

I have had Jimmy Page in the shop on Nan Luo Gu Xiang before during the Olympics but I had never met him, I’ve also got a previous blog of him wearing a Plastered T-shirt. Yesterday as I walked past the shop I saw him in there again buying more Plastered gear, notably one of [...]

GAR is one of many great brilliant bands coming out of the Beijing rock scene at the moment, they played at our Plastered Rock Weekend last september and were amazing. Here is a video done by a student WAng Heran who I’m sure will be going on to great things after this master piece.

I get sent quite a lot of pictures of plastered fans in different places in the world wearing plastered gear, I even have one chap on top on Mont Blanc in a plastered t shirt…nutter, this one however is my favourite thus far, i won’t name the person and will take it down if asked [...]

Here’s a cracking new documentary the lovely people from BTV filmed last month and aired the last few days. Its about me and my life on Nan Luo Gu Xiang with my family etc. It also features a lot of my close friends who run small businesses around Nan Luo Gu Xiang.

I’m still working on completing our stain glass collection. We recently printed our Mao Ze Dong design onto T-shirts which is proving to be very popular. I have had Deng Xiao Ping and Mao already made into real stain glass windows, Lei Feng and other icons are still in the factory. This week I had [...]