A young Chinese designer is selling the 1980s back to a generation that never lived through it.

Enter Runbobo (逃泡泡), a one-person design brand turning post-reform China’s most mundane objects into collectibles: floral pillow keychains modeled after Shanghai‘s factory-era bedding, bubble tea magnets referencing the drink’s Taiwan debut, beaded curtain calendars made from recycled ice cream wrappers. Sourced from a shared visual memory of China‘s economic opening, Runbobo is reconstructing post-reform China aesthetics.

Craving bubble tea right now.

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Sequel announcements don`t usually break the internet. Cold War 1994 might be the exception: a prequel to the iconic crime thriller franchise just dropped one of the most stacked casts we’ve seen in years: Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Aaron Kwok, Daniel Wu, and Louis Koo...all in the same film.

Directed by Longman Leung, the story rewinds to 1994 to excavate the political fault lines and internal police power struggles that quietly shaped everything the original Cold War films were built on.

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The more AI-generated everything becomes, the more we find ourselves drawn to things made by human hands. @skinnyfish.thefilm arrives exactly at the moment, every frame drawn by the people who lived to tell this story.

The film follows Rithy, a boy with a mystical bond to water, who dives into the ocean’s depths to retrieve treasures for masters who exploit him. It’s a Khmer allegory about labor and taking, and the fact that it was built frame-by-frame by the team at Phare Creative Studio (Battambang), most of whom are alumni of a nonprofit arts school that has trained thousands of Cambodian youth since 1996, makes the whole thing hit different.

Kinda looking forward to this film.

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We all know that moment when the club lights come on and the night fades out, leaving only towering speakers and an empty stage behind. But this time, they take center stage.

After a massive five-year global run, the international touring exhibition TECHNO WORLDS has landed at the @powerstationofart (PSA) for its final stop. It’s PSA’s first-ever exhibition dedicated entirely to music and subculture, while bringing club culture out of the underground. The show traces techno from its post-industrial Detroit origins and Berlin’s legendary club scene to the global phenomenon it is today.

The Shanghai edition also brings in local voices, including Benjamin Bacon @soundspade & Vivian Xu @vivianxwj , Adel-Jing Wang @adeljingwang , Zhang Ding @dingdingzhang , and collaborates with UFO Media Lab @ufomedialab (one of China’s oldest art-tech communities) — together, they present installations that physically tear open the space between physical and digital realms, bending time, medium, and perception in an era when technology keeps rewiring all three.

Yeah, definitely need some 铁克诺(techno) track recs after this.

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We all know the hype of a DJ B2B set, but let’s switch our attention to the screen behind it.

Enter "China`s First Web Video VJ Battle", hosted by @rect_repair, aka 修四边形 in Chinese, a real-life play, experiments, events community, and in collab with event venue UFO Terminal @ufo_terminal. Together, they brought 24 VJs who stepped up to the plate under one constraint: they could only use a web browser to mix visuals live.

Imagine a crowd going wild to a techno set while the screen cycles through viral Chinese meme culture. Add in Qing dynasty memes, Hatsune Miku, and raw Nintendo 64 gameplay — all triggered by VJs furiously mashing YouTube keyboard shortcuts or coding custom browser plugins on the fly. Youth creatives in China are utilizing every tool and format to build the new mood board for Chinese nightlife.

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