Future Events

I decided to make up a few future events which could happen in the future from looking at my research, they were;



I thought as the Olympics will be drawing more people in, there will be more emphasis on british culture and thought food would be a good place to start, traditional british food but made a bit more modern prehaps.




Inspired by the 'Hackney antics' blog. i wanted something to involve the community, as i feel community is quite important in the east end.




i know Olympic art festivals have been around since the birth of the Olympics and there are variations around, i thought it might be fun to expand it and take current street artists around east london to display their work in various locations.




And due to boris johnsons remarks that ping pong was born in England i thought it could be fun to have a big ping pong tournement for everyone, pro's and ammatures but make it a bit more fun with other ping pong based games and maybe some competitions for the best looking bat.

Consumer Consumer

I split my consumer guide into 7 catagories:
Shopping
Eat / Drink
Sleep
Entertainment/ Culture
Transport
Relax and
Eyes peeled.

Within each section i have broken it down into even more catagories;

Shopping includes markets - though i have made a list of markets around i thought it would be more interesting to focus on some particular market holders that i like for my consumer to look out for. Shopping also includes boutiques, vintage and specialist.




Eat / Drink inlcludes pubs/bars, clubs, restaurants, delicatessence and cafes.
i tried to include a bit of everything, from british cafes to arty night clubs that arn't in shoreditch and a small aspect of multicultural eating.




Sleep i found the hardest because i was trying to taylor my guide around my consumer who is quite quirky and so i wanted some fun hotels but i could only find two that i thought interesting enough to put in.




Culture / entertainment - covers music, i havn't listed bands that would be playing or club nights that are happening because thigns are always changing, so instead i have put in a play list of bands, DJ's and musicians currently hot on the london music scene. Also in this section i have listed performance/cineam, sport and art & design. I also have a section called future events where i have made up some events which could happen in the future due to research i have done.




Transport - i have couvered all the basic forms of transportation around london as it is a key aspect you would need to know whilst visiting a foreign country.




Relax has hair & nails, Spa's and i also put in meditation.



Eyes peeled is the last catagorie, here i just listed some street art and such like found around the east london area, because it is such a big part of the culture i thought it might be fun.

Developments Developments

Developments are going to be happening all over east london in the build up to the Olympics. It appears that Dalston and Hackney are two of the most effected areas. i found these blogs which show the current occupiers of the areas arn't so happy about this!

Open Dalston

and

Open Shoreditch

Other aspects of Beijing

On the otherside of chinese culture, it is still very much into luxury... at the begining of the module i bought the magazine WestEast and it lists the best hotels in China, which all seem to be high designer. It also had an article on the first boutique hotel to open, which i found quite significant because they are already popular over europe and London. Thecoolhunter.net also had images of the new W hotel opening in Hong Kong.








Due to these findings i decided to advertise the few boutique hotels in the East end. The Andaz and The Zetter. Im not sure how 'insiders' these are, however they were deffinately the most interesting and 'nice' hotels in the east and i also decided hotels arn't likely to be too 'inside' as then they would have no trade.

New Beijing New London

I wanted to think about my target consumer some more, so i started to look in to what's happening in Beijing. The main thing that caught my eye was the up coming alternative music scene. Laws in china probid certain words and languages in music which is why the majority of the country listen to the main streme pop music.

However the alternative scene is pushing through gradually. Converse did a lovenoise tour around the country promoting a few of the top alternative bands along with local ones depending on which area they were in.



In a current Dazed & Confused they had an article on upcoming talent from Beijing also, including;

P.K.14 - one of the biggest 'alternative' bands.



Queen Sea Big Shark - another band, who are awsome, the lead singer Fu Han is a chinese Karen O!



Xander Zhou - an up coming designer trying to change the meaning of 'made in china'



MC Webber - in china the lyrics of a rapper must be vetter by the gouvernment before the public eing alowed to listen.

Carsick Cars - the best known chinese band in the west.



Ourself Beside me - a 3 girl rock band.



Peng Lei - film maker, ilustrator, musican and toyshop owner.



Queer as Folk Beijing - the first gay webshow in beijing!!



8GG - experimental art



GIA - chinas first lady of punk



No.223 - photographer and editor in cheif of Toomagazine




Michael Pettis - the man behind Beijings newest alternative record lable



I feel all these images show how Beijing and the younger people living in beijing love to be creative, the new generation love to be different and listen to different music, shop in different places and read different magazines. This will be a key point in my research and guide.

Oops

OK the reason i havn't been recording my progress on here for such a long time is because before christmas i had a little problem with my lap top - being it turned off and wouldn't turn back on again. So i had to make do without a computer for a few weeks, So i am going to have to fil it all in today (hense why its all on the same date).


Ok so i started to think about being british in the East end and what the east end has to offer. The main thing i believe it has is creativeness. I also know this is widely known and not a secret but its the reason i moved here and i love it.



The Shops, The art, The people, The music, The pubs ...

Brailing