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What Adel draws is something only she can create

Adel remembers fumbling through the entire transaction. It was the first painting she had ever sold, and it was difficult to let go of. “I couldn’t believe it was actually…

8 Oct 2026Read the story

Cover art for What A Bat Heard From the Buddha, a novel by Kyle Neo.

Storytelling

Kyle Neo swapped drama for dharma

Kyle Neo never considered himself a writer, let alone one who writes about the Dharma. “Growing up, I struggled with academics, but excelled in asking the…

8 Oct 2026Read the story

A still from Signal Lost, the AI short film Auggie Ferns made in 3.5 days.

Film Direction

Some ideas take years. This one took fifteen.

About fifteen years ago, Auggie imagined a film about the environmental disaster we were heading towards. Then he went back to making other people’s films — commercials for the…

5 Oct 2026Read the story

Band

One gig alone taught ILLUMINARI to make their own sound

The first time ILLUMINARI had to play a gig alone, without their musicians or their producer, they learned something they had not expected. They liked it. The gig, says vocalist…

5 Oct 2026Read the story

Mr Bottle on stage during a performance in Inner Mongolia.

Magic

For Pyongyang, Mr Bottle changed one trick

One of Wee Kien Meng’s regular acts uses a torn newspaper. In April 2018, getting ready to perform in Pyongyang, he looked at that trick and thought again. “I think that may be…

5 Oct 2026Read the story

DJ

Steve Maydwell learned to talk to a dance floor without words

Of all the nights Steve Maydwell played in Asia, the one he still thinks about is New Year’s Eve at Gōng, where he played the headline set. “It was an unbelievable atmosphere,” he…

29 Sep 2026Read the story

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