Plastered http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en plastered news blog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:03:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Lei Feng http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/03/04/lei-feng/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/03/04/lei-feng/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1081 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, climb mountains, ride motorbikes and look for a life of liberty. If i wasn’t staring at the floor then i was starring at the colourful windows. So as today is Lei Feng day I thought it appropriate to stick up a piece of art work I worked on with a Chinese artist Lu Yang. Its Lei Feng in the style of a church window. I’ve actually had this made into a stain glass window down in Jiang Xu province and it wasn’t cheap, all made by hand by skillful stain glass makers. It should be arriving at my home in about 10 days. My lovely wife laura has got a bit fed up with all my pieces of art work at home so I agreed to sell them at the affordable art fair coming up in Beijing this May. As part of this collection I also have Mao Ze Dong, Deng Xiao Ping and Zhou En Lai. I’m very proud of them, I got 4 different artists to work on them and the results I think are beautiful.

]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/03/04/lei-feng/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 A Nice Surprise http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/22/a-nice-surprise/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/22/a-nice-surprise/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:12:05 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1076

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 invited to attend a function at the British Embassy to meet the new Ambassador, and that I did: a really nice bloke. We talked very briefly, I gave him my card, and then invited him round to my humble home for a cup of tea. What I didn’t expect was for him to actually give me a ring and come over on his bicycle over Chinese New Year and visit our rather chaotic home on Nanluoguxiang. We spent a great afternoon with Ambassador Wood in the hutongs, where we live. Royal Britannia!

]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/22/a-nice-surprise/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 Plastered on BBC Reality TV Show http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/20/plastered-on-bbc-reality-tv-show/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/20/plastered-on-bbc-reality-tv-show/#comments Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:31:59 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1073 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 and call in celebrity CEOs and give you a challenge and advice on how to improve your business using the principles of Sun Zi, that famous Chinese book. It was pretty stressful but all in all quite good fun. The host James Sun was a runner up in the reality TV show The Apprentice in the USA and a very nice guy. It starts airing in Singapore this month and here is a trailer for the program which I am quite heavily featured in. My challenge was to hold a big event to show off my brand which was our Plastered Rock Weekend last year in which we attracted over 1000 people to, a big success that helped us drum up new customers and attract a lot of media attention. Once I get my hands on the DVD of my episode I will stick it online for those of you who might want to see.

Here is link to trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwNdwpvjs0c

For those of you without access to youtube in China will post a youku link soon.

]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/20/plastered-on-bbc-reality-tv-show/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 Fei Chang Fu Qi (Special Husband and Wife) http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/08/fei-chang-fu-qi-special-husband-and-wife/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/02/08/fei-chang-fu-qi-special-husband-and-wife/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:34:36 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1063 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 into this show was spotted at the airport several times too and had to pose for photos. The host Ying Da I had met previously back in 1997 when he was directing a Chinese sitcom called “Chinese Restaurant” which I starred in all be it very briefly acting as a screen writer. See attached photos of me with hair acting in the sitcom. Those were the days.
Well BTV called me on Sunday to tell me the viewer statistics which I didn’t really understand much of but they said it was extremely high. So despite that idiot that followed me and my daughter into our house on Friday its all been really good, had a great affect on shop sales, people from all warps of life coming to the shop to buy stuff. Here is the BTV program online if you fancy watching.

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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 so it’s another 3 weeks till I get my hands on him. I will be showing off all these stain glass windows in April so keep an eye on this blog for when and where.

]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/01/21/zhou-en-lai/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 Jimmy Page Plastered http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/01/13/jimmy-page-plastered/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/01/13/jimmy-page-plastered/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:02:44 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1050 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 our blue zip up tops, he was later spotted at passby bar wearing it! I got to have a short chat with him after stupidly calling him Mr.Plant (i didn’t sleep well last night) and he’s a really nice guy. Anyway here is pic of me and Jimmy in the shop yesterday.

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]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2010/01/08/gar-video-by-wang-heran/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 Plastered in India http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/27/plastered-in-india/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/27/plastered-in-india/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:08:21 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1040 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 to but here is someone in plastered gear getting plastered in the mountains in india. Thanks to this person for making my day!

]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/27/plastered-in-india/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 Me on BTV http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/04/me-on-btv/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/04/me-on-btv/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:05:03 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1037 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.

]]> http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/04/me-on-btv/feed/langswitch_lang/en/ 0 Deng Xiao Ping in our Flagship Store http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/01/deng-xiao-ping-in-our-flagship-store/ http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/2009/12/01/deng-xiao-ping-in-our-flagship-store/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:50:24 +0000 admin http://www.plasteredtshirts.com/blog/en/?p=1031 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 the Deng Xiao Ping stain glass window installed into the flag ship store. Here are a couple of pictures.

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