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🎊 Lunar New Year drop season
📽 Fake Blockbusters
🃏 Pokemon World Record
🍎 Incoming Apple tech
Dulture weekly mix
All I can say is I can’t wait until the mixes turn from “Winter 2026” to “Spring 2026”. It’s gotten to the point where its snowed so much here in Toronto I’m full of this empty anger.
Because how do you get angry at the weather? I used to get angry at the weather apps for how off their predictions are but now I just pray that they’re wrong because they keep accurately predicting stupid snow storms.
Anyway, this is the mix this week, I just made myself angry all over again 😠
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Welcome to the year of the fire horse, where if you’re looking for some intense energy and for things to REALLY get going, this is the year for you.
Whether you like it or not, sh*t’s going down this year.
Just like how it did at Chinese New Year dim sum the other day.
You ever go to a concert and you end up beside the speaker for most of the night? It’s not that far off from experiencing the lion dance at dim sum.
One minute you’re enjoying your har gow and the next the drums start and they GO LOUD.
The next thing you know a lion is at your table, you give it the lettuce at your table because lettuce in Chinese sounds like creating wealth so the lion eats the lettuce and then throws it all back at you from its mouth.
And if you’re lucky, you get it all over you. No for real, it’s supposed to be a sign of luck.
Welp.
Aside from trying to catch lettuce for good fortune, Lunar New Year is one of those times on the calendar where EVERY brand drops something.
Because…
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With the largest amount of consumers in the world, China obviously influences a lot of decisions on how brands move.
If your eyes were completely closed this past week/month, here’s some of the drops you missed that you’ll now have to pay 2-3x more if you actually wanted something:
Obviously Nike always does A LOT when it comes to Lunar New Year, especially around shoe releases. Here in Toronto you could hit up our flagship Nike store and get you a custom tee printed with some festive swag.
Adidas and CLOT / Edison Chen released a capsule a few weeks back that sold out instantly - you’re lucky if you can find any of it for resale.
Kith ran their own capsule collection including a pretty cool branded Mah Jong set - none of which is sold out.
Lego always has a new set out this time of year. This year they released three, the Fortune Master, Fortune Firecracker, and the coolest one (because the horses move), which is also on backorder, Galloping Horses Canvas.
Even IKEA got in the mix with their FÖSSTA collection.
Dawg, I could go on forever on all the stuff that gets released around Lunar New Year - from alcohol, to clothing, to more shoes, to makeup (I wouldn’t), to movies, the list goes on and on.
If you’re materialistic (and like the colour red), this is your moment.
The AI Blockbuster
It’s been a minute since we’ve had an AI trend blow up like what happened with Ghibli pictures.
The nerds would tell you otherwise, between ClawdBot, Moltbook, n8n, and others, there’s a new product every week, if not every day, that you could be trying out.
Products aside, the big guys are really starting to not like each other too:
Left: Sam Alman (CEO of OpenAI - ChatGPT)
Right: Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic - Claude)
Honestly, I’m just glad that I don’t write an AI newsletter for a living because who wants to report on these boring people anyway.
Lowkey AI newsletters used to make a killing off of ads, now they’re a dime a dozen
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Nah, we’re here to talk AI BLOCKBUSTERS!
Watch this trailer and tell me you don’t want to watch this movie…that doesn’t exist.
Seedance 2.0 - if you haven’t heard of this, you’ll definitely start to hear about it everywhere soon enough. Hollywood is already sending them cease and desists SO YOU KNOW THIS AI VIDEO MAKER IS FIRE.
As much as I know I will always prefer human taste, sometimes your mind wanders and you just wonder what if…
What if Brad Pitt fought Tom Cruise on a rooftop?
What if Superman fought Homelander feat. Spider-Man?
Or Terminator vs Predator?
If you haven’t noticed, the majority of what has gone viral from Seedance has been action-type sequences, which arguably, if you can get the “CGI” explosions right, you can make anything look “good”.
Real films ain’t going nowhere.
Give me a good plot, give me a good story, make me interested in the characters. Just because the tool is there doesn’t mean the average person will be able to create Hollywood quality films.
It does mean that we’ll keep on seeing these types of videos until the 0.1% of creatives who actually understand film take these tools and build us masterpieces on the back of a laptop and a $20 budget.
A Pokemon Card Sets a World Record
The year is 1997 and I just received packs of Pokemon cards for my birthday.
WTF am I supposed to do with these? I wonder as I read through the “attacks” and “defences” and just think, this looks like a boring card game.
A year later the most expensive trading card ever sold would be given out to a contest winner for the CoroCoro Comic illustration contest.
The chosen winners would get a chance to be featured on actual trading cards.
The winner’s being kids who drew stuff like this:
Twenty three cards were given out total to the kids whose drawings got chosen by CoroCoro. The reason why the card was so rare was because it said “Illustrator” on the top instead of “Trainer”.
So how the heck does Logan Paul end up with one of these cards and eventually sell it for a world record amount?
2011: Legendary collector Scott Pratte came across a sharp, ungraded copy of the card from a source in Japan. He would then get it graded at a PSA 9 and would sell it on eBay for $50K to another famous collector, Dubsy, in 2015.
2015: Dubsy ends up finding a PSA 10 and buys it for $60K, now holding a PSA 9 and PSA 10 of the most rare Pokemon card ever made.
2017: Dubsy goes on to trade his PSA 9 version for Magic: The Gathering cards now only owning the PSA 10 version of the card.
2021: This is the card that Logan Paul wants but in order for Paul to make the transaction, he had to buy his own PSA 9 version of the card in Italy for $1.275M, trade that card plus $4M in cash to Dubsy and the PSA 10 version was his.
2026: This past week Paul sold the card for $16.49M making it the most anyone has ever paid for a trading card. YES, a trading card, that some kid in Japan innocently won from a drawing contest back in 1998.
The Eyes & Ears of Siri
I couldn’t tell you how long I’ve been saying SIRI SUCKS.
Between asking Google Home (do people still use these?) and Siri questions, the experience always feels like this:
It’s like someone at Apple just watched Universal Soldier.
Buzzing this week online is a whole new line up of Apple devices slated to come out potentially later this year.
AI smart glasses
Assuming to compete with Meta Ray-Bans, the word on the street is Apple is going to be releasing its own set of smart spectacles early next year. Capabilities will include a high resolution camera, speakers, and microphones to enable features like object detection, live translation, and landmark-based navigation.
Apple AI pendant (here we go again)
This is an air-tag but it’s supposed to be the same size
Humane did it wrong. Apple plans on learning from their mistake by having a pendant of some sorts paired with the iPhone for camera and microphone capabilities.
The pendant will come equipped with two cameras, three microphones and a small speaker, along with a physical button. This would allow for voice and gesture controls, but it isn't certain if Apple will incorporate all these components.
AI-enhanced AirPods
These apparently will be out later this year and will feature low-res infrared cameras so you can ask Siri about objects you/they see while you’re out in the wild.
Apple has completely missed the bus when it comes to AI capabilities even though they were the first major player to release an AI-like assistant in Siri all the way back in 2010.
But if they play their cards right we’ll all be walking around like Jean-Claude Van Damme in 2027.
