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Here is the artwork that Mao Mao did for the Plastered Rock weekend, we will also Plastering this on t shirts.

That pic is me and Mao Mao…. Mao Mao is the brilliant artist who is responsible for the P.K.14 design. The design has been a huge success so I flew her over to Beijing from Shanghai where she lives to work together on some more stuff.Mao Mao is also doing the artwork for our upcoming Plastered Rock Weekend which I am very excited about, we collaborated on the idea and now she’s back in Shanghai painting it.

You can expect more and more of Mao Mao’s art work at Plastered T shirts this year as we have started work on a whole range of t shirts and other items!

Here is some of her previous art work.

After many hours of work it now seems that we have a Plastered Music festival of sorts on its way. Working with Maybe Mars we have managed to get 3 of Beijing’s biggest acts to pull off what will be 3 great nights.

Plastered Rock Weekend marks the launch of our new website featuring our “Plastered Backstage” site that is host to our cooperation with China’s rock music scene. We collaborate with Beijing’s top bands to create artwork and plaster it on t-shirts, available in our shops, and from our new website. Beyond the artwork, “Plastered Backstage” is host to a bilingual forum for all events, news, images, and community related to China’s rock scene.

Starting with Friday night (September 18, 2009) at D-22, Plastered brings you the next generation of Chinese rock with the city’s best student bands vying for a spot as warm- up band for the following night at Yugongyishan (panel of judges to select and the winner will be announced at the end of the night). That night (Saturday, September 19) Carsick Cars, PK-14, and The GAR will take the stage at Yugongyishan (all on the Maybe Mars record label). This is the last chance to catch these bands before they take off on their international tour.

Tickets for the event at Yugongyishan are RMB 60 but we’re giving away hundreds of free tickets online starting September 1st. Sign up for the free tickets at www.plasteredtshirts.com. On top of the free tix, expect free giveaways.

The Plastered Rock Weekend night at Yugongyishan will be streaming from the Plastered site for those who choose to watch and rock at home. It officially marks the launch of the site.

I recently got sent this, a brilliant bit of animation.

胡同的梦 The Dream at Hutong from dealchina on Vimeo.

Here are some pics I recently received from my dear friend Moira who helped us donate some shirts to some very worthy causes. The Bo Ai orphanage which are the beautiful young kids running around and sitting in chairs and the Ping An medical foster home which are the little ones being held by the Ayis who are also in donated Plastered T shirts. Also a huge thanks to Teresa Wang who does amazing work with both places, these pics really made our day!

Last week I was invited by CCTV to do a big program on promoting entrepreneurship in China, central government has invested huge amount of cash this year to encourage Chinese innovation and entrepreneurs. It was held at the great wall with a bunch of stars, namely Jackie Chan and some big CEOs from Bai Du, Alibaba and others who I didn’t know.

It was quite a lot of fun, I was interviewed about Plastered T shirts and got to rub shoulders with all these stars….not bad, here are some pics from the day.

My ears are still ringing and my whole body hurts which must mean it was a great night. After an hour in the pit jumping around I went home exhausted. The new album from what I heared that night is brilliant. GAR played too and they were great! Here are some pics from the night.

Mao arrived from jiangxi on a bus, here is a picture of Kung Ayi holding him up in our shared courtyard.

About 3 months ago I had an idea to create some stained glass images of iconic Chinese “heroes”. I approached 5 artists to design their favourite “heroes” and here are the first results of the idea.

Mao is currently in production in Jiangxi, i met a stained glass producer and he is creating a 1 metre squared Mao for me.Here are some pics from the factory.We have more “heroes” being created here are three others that are also at the factory.

These two are pretty complicated and will take some time to produce, you’d be surprised how many stained glass manufacturers there are in China, and very good at what they do too.

Back in the summer of 2007 we thought we’d try pull off Beijing’s and Nan Luo Gu Xiang’s first ever Hu Tong catwalk show. It was before Nan Luo Gu Xiang had gone crazy in terms of development so it was still fairly quiet, in fact i was the only t shirt shop back in those days.

We were told by the local police and district gov not to do it but in the end a huge success with even the police coming along and enjoying themselves.

Here is the First catwalk show video, we gave torches to everyone who came as we had no street lights then.

This is a short edited piece from that show. (takes a few seconds to start)

Plastered T shirts, 1st Hu Tong Catwalk Show from Plastered T Shirts on Vimeo.

And here is another short piece on the 2nd catwalk shoe we did in September 2007. This time the crowd got much bigger.

Plastered T shirt’s 2nd Hu Tong Catwalk Show Beijing 2007 from Plastered T Shirts on Vimeo.

And finally our 3rd and biggest show back in Nov 2008

Plastered T shirts's 3rd Hu Tong Catwalk Show from Plastered T Shirts on Vimeo.