“Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy” at Singapore’s ArtScience Museum asks a deceptively simple question: how do humans understand the body? The answers stretch across centuries, cultures, and belief systems.

From Renaissance anatomical drawings and dissected musculature to Chinese jingluo (经络) meridian maps and spiritual interpretations of energy flow, the exhibition reveals anatomy not as a fixed truth, but as a constantly evolving cultural conversation.

What makes Flesh and Bones hit differently now is how familiar this hybridity feels. We’re living in an era where wellness apps coexist with herbal remedies, where anatomy is visualized through data, spirituality, aesthetics, and self-optimization all at once. Rather than presenting one system as “correct,” the exhibition layers together radically different ways of seeing the human body — physical, energetic, emotional, cosmic — and lets the tension exist.

At its core, this isn’t just an exhibition about anatomy. It’s about identity, belief, and the stories societies tell themselves about what it means to be human.

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It‘s not every day that the CEO of LVMH walks into a Shanghai handbag brand’s store and walks out gushing about the two bags he bought. The brand: Songmont.

Their story goes back to 2013, when the brand‘s founder couldn’t find a single bag in both form and function that she was happy to take to work—so her mother decided to stitch her one. They decided to sell the laptop tote, which sold out instantly. From that point on, one stitch at a time, Songmont steadily became one of the leading Chinese luxury accessories brands to date.

But forget the résumé — the real flex is how they actually make the goods. Every collection pulls from ancient Chinese craftsmanship; from Zhongyuan (中原) visual culture, to Shanxi temple rooflines, Silk Road caravan imagery, Tibetan tiger prints, and moon-phase motifs. None of it‘s hidden in a brand deck or a lookbook essay — they stitch their culture straight on to the bags themselves — and there’s no reason to be quiet about it.

In a world where luxury demands a high price tag, a storied logo, and a century of heritage, Songmont started with none of that. Just a real need and needle, where every stitch documents Chinese culture.

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Aside from his massively successful film career, Jackie Chan also lived a parallel life as a public-service spokesperson.

In the ‘90s, the action start partnered with Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland public-health authorities for a series of anti-smoking PSAs. Recently, they’ve gone viral again — not just because of nostalgia, but because of the unmistakable ‘90s PSA aesthetic: bold, one-line headlines and over-the-top poses. It feels completely opposite to today’s highly polished posters filled with too much sleekness, QR codes, and algorithm-bait.

Grabbing that cig? Just ask yourself before you do: WWJCD?

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Opening ciggies.app feels like flipping through a Pokébox, except the collection isn`t Pikachu and Charizard, it`s 3,000+ Chinese cigarette SKUs across 210+ brands, each tagged with regional origin, tar/nicotine levels, and a public leaderboard ranking users by how many they`ve personally collected. Built by anonymous dev collective 0x_ultra.

Feeling nostalgic, might need a smoke break after this.

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Hong Kong has always been one of Asia`s most spiritually saturated cities. Red earth-god shrines glowing at the foot of every shopfront. Causeway Bay`s villain-hitting grannies. At some point this stops reading like subculture and starts feeling like infrastructure.

So it`s no surprise that Psychic King (通灵之王) found its home on TVB: Hong Kong TV`s first-ever psychic competition reality show. Two seasons, 2022 and 2023. Headlined by Spencer Leung Sze Ho (TVB`s King of Ghosts), with co-hosts Wong Ka Wai and Ng Wan Ting. Cast: 15 practitioners. Witches next to Kung Fu masters, Mayan ritualists next to Thai magic specialists, Tarot readers next to Chinese horoscope experts.

Honestly probably should`ve asked one of them which direction to face before hitting post for better engagement.

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