Martha Barnett
Writer
Hype! is an app that provides local, of-the-moment, social and cultural recommendations to it’s followers.
While walking the streets of Soho, I curate, write and edit short posts to create real-time recommendations for users. Using mobile phone software I film and edit videos and interviews to accompany the writing, uploading 12-20 posts over a 2hr period to a CMS. www.hypeapp.co
Ping pong in the rain
Hey you! I challenge you to ping pong in the rain! So what if your skinny jeans are so saturated that they make you look like you’re wearing a nappy? So what if your once perfectly quaffed moustache is sodden and drooping? Yesterday Golden Square was full of ping pongers using the free tables and today ... Nothing! I know how you can show the rain it hasn’t won – get to this table and show off your serve-volley-topspin combo. Winner stays on. Winner gets wetter… Serves them right for winning.
Warm cinematic hugs please
It’s 1959. You comb you hair like James Dean. She twirls a baton. You live in a treehouse. You kill people. Dig it? Ok don’t do the last one with the killing and things but do go and see awesome classic film Badlands at 8.45pm tonight at the Prince Charles cinema. It’s super retro and cool and kinda disturbing - so you might need that warm hug afterwards...
You haven’t had a pedi since August 2013 and suddenly the sun is out and you’re expected to bare your gnarled winter toes to the Soho socialites. Quick! – Pop in to Cucumba this eve for a drop-in pedicure (from £9.50.) Combine it with glitter lips (also £9.50. Glitter lips ... on a Thursday? Well it is Soho) or a chest wax for £28 (because your hipster beard doesn’t want the competition) and you’re all set to present your fabulous self to the Soho Tribe.
Pimp my ride
On Beak Street cycle cool knows no bounds. I want this bike. Of course would never steal it – instead I’m going to stand next to it and nod knowingly at passers-by. Yes this is my fixie. Yes I am this cool.
Bof! Get all the France you need at The French House. This understated pub is frequented by actors, bohemians and Soho’s literati. There is no music, no TV and no mobile phones allowed… seriously … don’t even text… they will shout at you…. But then how could you discuss Balzac or Proust with appropriate depth and intensity while Lady Gaga is blaring from the speakers?
You want a Hesienberg mug. Fact.
Do you read Terry Pratchett under the covers at night? Know your Heisenbergs from your Pinkmans? Then come down to Forbidden Planet today and live out all your geek chic fantasies. Heisenberg mug (£5.99)? Yes. Gremlins doll (£14.99)? Yes. Want to make a Rambo figure (£14.99) fight a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle (£14.99)?! Hells yes!!