From vinyl toys to trading cards, comics & zines to antiques, we’ll be exploring the ever-expanding culture of collecting, nostalgia, and the economy of tangible goods.
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On Xiaohongshu, a quiet community of 手帕纸 (hand tissue) collectors has been filing pocket-sized packs into binder sleeves: cataloguing designs, hunting rare colorways, and doing everything except blowing their nose.
Unlike a Popmart figurine, 手帕纸 was just there, in your school bag, your grandmother`s drawer, pressed into your hand before you left the house. Keep enough of them and you have something closer to a diary than a collection.
Might be a good hobby if you have rhinitis.
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On Xiaohongshu, a quiet community of 手帕纸 (hand tissue) collectors has been filing pocket-sized packs into binder sleeves: cataloguing designs, hunting rare colorways, and doing everything except blowing their nose.
Unlike a Popmart figurine, 手帕纸 was just there, in your school bag, your grandmother`s drawer, pressed into your hand before you left the house. Keep enough of them and you have something closer to a diary than a collection.
Might be a good hobby if you have rhinitis.
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In 1993, Hong Kong entertainment magazine YES! started bundling something with every issue: think blind box but in photocard format, featuring the city`s biggest Cantopop stars, sold separately from vending machines for $1 HKD each.
The magazine folded in 2014. But the cards kept moving, through drawers, trading markets, and now secondary platforms where rare ones sell for hundreds. A $1 insert became the closest thing to a physical archive of Hong Kong`s pop golden age.
Every generation has its collectible ritual, the object you pulled blind and held onto without knowing why. Pokémon cards. Blind boxes. For a generation of Hong Kong fans, it was a photocard from a machine outside a convenience store.
Nostalgic maxxing now.
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In 1993, Hong Kong entertainment magazine YES! started bundling something with every issue: think blind box but in photocard format, featuring the city`s biggest Cantopop stars, sold separately from vending machines for $1 HKD each.
The magazine folded in 2014. But the cards kept moving, through drawers, trading markets, and now secondary platforms where rare ones sell for hundreds. A $1 insert became the closest thing to a physical archive of Hong Kong`s pop golden age.
Every generation has its collectible ritual, the object you pulled blind and held onto without knowing why. Pokémon cards. Blind boxes. For a generation of Hong Kong fans, it was a photocard from a machine outside a convenience store.
Nostalgic maxxing now.
#radii #radiimedia #hongkong #cantopop #hongkongculture
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We all know dreamcore. The CCD-grain images of empty school corridors, 90s mall facades, residential blocks photographed in fluorescent blue. For years it lived in your camera roll with no other way to exist. Until now.
On Xiaohongshu, 梦核妆 (dreamcore makeup) has become a full practice: holographic lids, iridescent blush, aquatic tones pushed past candy-pastel into full fantasy. Cbeauty brand Judydoll (珏朵) just dropped 梦核海洋: a collection built entirely around this aesthetic.
Turns out people have always gotten creative with nostalgia.
#radii #radiimedia #cbeauty #y2kbeauty #chinesegen
We all know dreamcore. The CCD-grain images of empty school corridors, 90s mall facades, residential blocks photographed in fluorescent blue. For years it lived in your camera roll with no other way to exist. Until now.
On Xiaohongshu, 梦核妆 (dreamcore makeup) has become a full practice: holographic lids, iridescent blush, aquatic tones pushed past candy-pastel into full fantasy. Cbeauty brand Judydoll (珏朵) just dropped 梦核海洋: a collection built entirely around this aesthetic.
Turns out people have always gotten creative with nostalgia.
#radii #radiimedia #cbeauty #y2kbeauty #chinesegen
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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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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.
Click the link in bio to read the full story >>
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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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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.
Swipe for the full cast breakdown and click the link in bio to read the full story >>
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