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Before smartphones took over, summer break meant browser windows, Flash games, and keyboard co-op. Those long afternoons were spent pulling new friends over to your house, squeezing onto a single chair with the fan blowing, and taking turns guiding Fireboy and Watergirl through another level. From 4399 to QQ Zone, these six websites were the shared digital playground of Chinese millennials.

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What if the most radical thing you could do right now… is stop? 🌸

In a world of infinite scrolls, algorithmic noise, notifications, likes, follows, and general overstimulation, legendary Hong Kong artist @michaellau has a pretty simple prescription: look around.

For our latest VIEWPOINTS exclusive, RADII managing editor @ale_n_drum sat down with the “Godfather of Designer Toys” to talk art, identity, inspiration, and why finding beauty in the ordinary might be more important than ever.

From the seminal Gardener series to his Flowers universe, Lau has built a creative practice around seeing what other people overlook — and his latest collaboration with @carharttwip_hk takes that philosophy somewhere new. The clothes become canvases, carrying his colorful flowers and their messages of joy, hope, and love into everyday life.

Because maybe we don’t need more noise. Maybe we need more flowers. 🌻

Swipe through for some of our favorite moments from the conversation, then click the link in bio to RADII for the full exclusive interview.

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What`s the most efficient way to date in China without dating apps?

Every weekend in People`s Park, parents laminate their kid`s height, salary, and 户口 (hùkǒu, "household registration") onto A4 paper and hang it off an umbrella. This is the famous 人民公园相亲角, aka Shanghai`s marriage market.

We can`t compete with the shushus and aunties. We just want to help.

Aug 19 at @junto_shanghai . Bring a deck. Pitch one single friend in 5 minutes. Bullet points, receipts, an unflattering photo from before Rudy Janto was born. (You`re asking who Rudy Janto is? Check the poster.)

Be creative, yap about your friend`s whole inner world, or build a deck for yourself.

But anyone who pitches a friend — and the friend getting pitched — drinks free.

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Even when he`s floating in a residential pool, the music is still in his ears. That was Fangde`s (@fangde665 ) first answer about Chengdu.

This August, Marshall (@marshall ) took over Eastern Suburb Memory in Chengdu for six days of Keep Live Music Alive —a culture festival that is the first of its scale staged by Marshall anywhere in the world. Built with Tmall, the festival ran a lineup that stretched from rock fixtures to names most people outside the city haven`t heard yet. Stolen (@stolen_official ) played that stage on 8 August, alongside Second Hand Rose. We caught them after the set and asked what their Chengdu actually looks like.

So we got the pool. A tiny livehouse that`s been torn down and rebuilt and torn down again. A noodle shop that stays open just for the stragglers.

Sixty years of standing behind the people playing — Marshall calls that Made of Loud. We wanted to pick it up from there: five people from different corners of the country with the guitars down. They talk about music the way they talk about this city.

Their Chengdu guide is unofficial by design. In their own words: "It`s not that clean, but it`s wild. I love wild places." Unofficial, unrestricted, unbothered. Messy, and still a place everyone keep coming back to.

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Somebody in Beijing turned the fairground ring toss into a citywide event, and the hardest station is a fire hydrant.

The game is 套圈 (tàoquān, "ring toss") — the carnival stall where you lob a hoop over a prize and take home whatever it lands on. Someone pulled the 22cm ring out of the fairground and pointed it at the street instead. Confirmed targets so far: hydrants, QR codes, security cameras, street signs, one fountain.Turns out the city is full of unexpected targets.

What makes it interesting is the way you see the city from a different angle. In a place that usually demands speed and efficiency, we finally get the opportunity to slow down and notice things we had walked past for years. When we turn the city into a free playground, maybe we won’t feel as numb and lost in the tide of city lives.

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