Local T-Shirt Shop in Beijing: Plastered-Ts
The Vagabond Project :: Hong Kong & Beijing Travel Web-Series
Webisode #34: Want to buy something local while you're visiting Beijing?! Follow Millana as she heads into the city's Hutongs to Plastered Ts, a local favorite that produces great gifts for your friends back home. Get the deets on the inspiration behind the designs with owner, Dominic Johnson-Hill! What was your favorite design from this webisode?
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Trendy T-shirts inspired by Beijing's hutongs
Beijing - January 2008
1. Wide of Nanluoguxiang alleyway and its decorated archway
2. Close up of the arch saying Nanluoguxiang
3. Wide of people walking in Nanluoguxiang
4. Wide of Dominic getting his bicycle out of the courtyard house
5. Wide of Dominic getting on his bicycle
UPSOUND:(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop: (AUDIO COVERED BY VIDEO)
Beijing is not really the sort of city you arrive and you fall in love with right away.
6. SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
Beijing can at first seemed ugly, but once you get to know the city, get to know the people, and get to see the hutongs and the mountains around it, it's a very beautiful city.
7. Various of Dominic riding his bicycle
8. SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
So I like to stay in the hutongs and around where I live. It's pretty much I live in a small village within the city. You get to know all your neighbours very well. It's very quiet, and it's a pretty interesting place. It's a bit like living in a museum.
9. Various of Dominic taking pictures on the balcony of his hutong house
10. Pan from right to left of the hutong scene
11. Medium of Dominic taking pictures in hutong (alleyway
12. Close up of a painted sign
13. Various of Dominic taking pictures in hutong
14. SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
Inspiration in Beijing for me is pretty much everywhere. It could be anything from a very kitsch restaurant sign, to maybe an illegal sticker that stuck on the wall you know claiming to buy and sell second-hand pharmaceuticals, or it could even be a subway ticket.
15. Various of Dominic wearing his T-shirts and showing them off
16. SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
You know I've chosen to live in Beijing. I am not an expat, I haven't been sent here. So I am very active, and I am very aware that I should be a part of the community and live here.
17. Wide of people walking in Nanluoguxiang
18. SOUNDBITE : (Mandarin) Mrs. Gu, neighbour
I think he is somewhat special. Why did he choose to live in the courtyard house, you know? He moved in because one of his friends had the house for rent back then. When later we chatted with him, he said he likes the courtyard house and likes to be among us, and he doesn't like to live in those apartment buildings.
19. Pan from right to left of Dominic making the T-shirt designs in front of his computer
20. Close up of Dominic connecting his camera to the computer
21. Various of Dominic using computer to make T-shirt designs
22. SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
So people are looking for something fun and new and cool about China. Everybody has seen a Chairman Mao t-shirt, and it's getting a little bit boring. As is the Communist chic is getting a little bit boring. So people are looking for something new, fun and exciting. And I'd like to think that what they see in the brand
23. Wide of the Plastered T-shirts shop
24. Close up of the shop sign
25. Medium of t-shirts and cloths showing through the shop's window
26. Medium of a young couple looking through the shop's window from outside
27. Pan of young people in the shop looking at various items
28. SOUNDBITE : (Mandarin) a young female customer (name unknown):
I think the things he prints on the t-shirt cannot be seen anywhere else. They are very unique.
29. Various of people choosing T-shirts
30. Tilt down of some T-shirts in the shop
31.SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
33. SOUNDBITE :(English) Dominic Johnson-Hill, owner of Plastered T-shirt shop:
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