We’re entering new universes in August, exploring both virtual and IRL spaces as new frontiers for social and creative scenes. Everything from gaming, e-sports, and immersive culture is a reflection of power, play, and possibility.
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Just looking at these feels like you`re gonna get lost in there.
"Enter the Jade Palace…" is a new series by Efe Levent ( @cityhermitai ). You drift between faded and vibrant, sliding through lo-fi AI visual textures, jade palaces, and Chinatown malls.
What makes Levent stand out is how he layers these familiar visual tricks with distinctly Asian textures. Endless palace corridors start to feel like a shared subconscious landmark: somewhere you`ve dreamt of multiple times but can never quite name.
To catch the full story by our RADII writers, click the article link in our bio!
#radii #radiimedia #liminalspace #dreamcore #chinatown #backrooms
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Just looking at these feels like you`re gonna get lost in there.
"Enter the Jade Palace…" is a new series by Efe Levent ( @cityhermitai ). You drift between faded and vibrant, sliding through lo-fi AI visual textures, jade palaces, and Chinatown malls.
What makes Levent stand out is how he layers these familiar visual tricks with distinctly Asian textures. Endless palace corridors start to feel like a shared subconscious landmark: somewhere you`ve dreamt of multiple times but can never quite name.
To catch the full story by our RADII writers, click the article link in our bio!
#radii #radiimedia #liminalspace #dreamcore #chinatown #backrooms
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Nine years ago, a small team in Shanghai had a big idea: tell the stories of Asia’s youth culture that the world was missing.
Last Thursday we celebrated year nine at Junto Shanghai with the people who turned that idea into 5,400 articles, 400+ videos, and 300+ contributors.
The Shanghai Filmmakers Alliance came through and filled the room too. Free beer helped. So did the fact that half the people in the room had already made something with us.
Year ten starts now, and the next mixer is already in the works.
Thanks to @junto.shanghai and everyone who showed up.
#radii #radiimedia #shanghai #shanghaievents #creativecommunity
Nine years ago, a small team in Shanghai had a big idea: tell the stories of Asia’s youth culture that the world was missing.
Last Thursday we celebrated year nine at Junto Shanghai with the people who turned that idea into 5,400 articles, 400+ videos, and 300+ contributors.
The Shanghai Filmmakers Alliance came through and filled the room too. Free beer helped. So did the fact that half the people in the room had already made something with us.
Year ten starts now, and the next mixer is already in the works.
Thanks to @junto.shanghai and everyone who showed up.
#radii #radiimedia #shanghai #shanghaievents #creativecommunity
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Recently caught eyes by @tiehan1.0 ✨ Scrolling through his feed, it seems like no piece of China‘s ethnic music can hide from him: he’s folding it all into South African-born Amapiano grooves, and it fits perfectly.
For most people, discovering a genre abroad just means a new playlist add. But for Tiehan, it rewired something. Born and raised Mongolian-Chinese, he‘d always carried a soft spot for China’s ethnic sonic traditions. In 2023, while Tiehan was living in Toronto, he first heard Amapiano: the log-drum-driven house sound that had already taken over club floors from Lagos to London. It reminded him of home. Soon after, he released his Chinamapiano mixtape.
For Tiehan, music feels less like production and more like a cultural bridge. Outside of music, he also has a very unique cooking-wear collection, and this Saturday, he‘s bringing Amapiano back to Shanghai, at @heimshanghai .
Definitely an artist to keep on your radar.
#ChinaMusic #Amapiano #ChineseCulture #RADIIMedia #radii
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Recently caught eyes by @tiehan1.0 ✨ Scrolling through his feed, it seems like no piece of China‘s ethnic music can hide from him: he’s folding it all into South African-born Amapiano grooves, and it fits perfectly.
For most people, discovering a genre abroad just means a new playlist add. But for Tiehan, it rewired something. Born and raised Mongolian-Chinese, he‘d always carried a soft spot for China’s ethnic sonic traditions. In 2023, while Tiehan was living in Toronto, he first heard Amapiano: the log-drum-driven house sound that had already taken over club floors from Lagos to London. It reminded him of home. Soon after, he released his Chinamapiano mixtape.
For Tiehan, music feels less like production and more like a cultural bridge. Outside of music, he also has a very unique cooking-wear collection, and this Saturday, he‘s bringing Amapiano back to Shanghai, at @heimshanghai .
Definitely an artist to keep on your radar.
#ChinaMusic #Amapiano #ChineseCulture #RADIIMedia #radii
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On July 9th, 2005, @dannyway made history by jumping over the Great Wall with a broken foot, and @blabacphoto was the one who documented the whole thing, turning one skateboard trick into China`s entry stamp into global skate culture.
Photography has followed nearly every major chapter of modern skate culture`s development. From classic shots that landed on magazine covers to documentaries, and independent zines, it`s made skateboarding into a shared visual language across the world.
As skate culture spread, photographers` lenses moved with it, leaving the American West Coast behind for cities and communities everywhere. Two decades later, a generation of Chinese photographers has been filling in everything that jump left out. On view at @fotografiska.shanghai through October 25.
#radii #radiimedia #skateculture #fotografiskashanghai #chinesephotography
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On July 9th, 2005, @dannyway made history by jumping over the Great Wall with a broken foot, and @blabacphoto was the one who documented the whole thing, turning one skateboard trick into China`s entry stamp into global skate culture.
Photography has followed nearly every major chapter of modern skate culture`s development. From classic shots that landed on magazine covers to documentaries, and independent zines, it`s made skateboarding into a shared visual language across the world.
As skate culture spread, photographers` lenses moved with it, leaving the American West Coast behind for cities and communities everywhere. Two decades later, a generation of Chinese photographers has been filling in everything that jump left out. On view at @fotografiska.shanghai through October 25.
#radii #radiimedia #skateculture #fotografiskashanghai #chinesephotography
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At first glance, it’s hard to tell what‘s going on in all these film photos, or even which one you’re supposed to stare at. But every picture documents a vivid moment of China, right before social media existed.
In 2009, French collector @thomas_sauvin found a batch of 35mm negatives about to be destroyed at a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing. If he hadn‘t bought them, they’d have been stripped for silver.
What started as damage control became 北京银矿 (@beijing_silvermine ): over a million negatives, mostly shot as film cameras entered ordinary Chinese households through the ‘80s and ’90s.
These pictures were taken before social media ever existed, so looking through them feels like actually stepping into these people‘s lives.
Feels like you could stare at these for a whole day @fotografiska.shanghai
#radii #radiimedia #beijingsilvermine #chinesephotography #filmphotography
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At first glance, it’s hard to tell what‘s going on in all these film photos, or even which one you’re supposed to stare at. But every picture documents a vivid moment of China, right before social media existed.
In 2009, French collector @thomas_sauvin found a batch of 35mm negatives about to be destroyed at a recycling plant on the outskirts of Beijing. If he hadn‘t bought them, they’d have been stripped for silver.
What started as damage control became 北京银矿 (@beijing_silvermine ): over a million negatives, mostly shot as film cameras entered ordinary Chinese households through the ‘80s and ’90s.
These pictures were taken before social media ever existed, so looking through them feels like actually stepping into these people‘s lives.
Feels like you could stare at these for a whole day @fotografiska.shanghai
#radii #radiimedia #beijingsilvermine #chinesephotography #filmphotography
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