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Taiwanese and Ukrainian officials coordinate aid for Ukrainian children. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

The 8th Taiwan Film Festival Berlin highlights the evolving roles of Taiwanese women. Screenings include: • Yen and Ai-Lee (小雁與吳愛麗) • Daughter’s Daughter (女兒的女兒) • The Uniform (夜校女生) • Zinnia Flower (百日告別) • Tropical Fish (熱帶魚) • Kuei-mei, a Woman (我這樣過了一生). focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves, from Indonesia to Angola to Iceland. apnews.com/article/unes...

Art is art. Everything else is everything else. – Ad Reinhard

Checking out the Vibe.

Marcel Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ will soon be available in a new Chinese translation from Taiwan. Proust’s 7-volume stream-of-consciousness French original will be rendered in Traditional Chinese text. Wu Kun-Yung (吳坤墉) coordinates a team of 7 translators. focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

Just me again.

Creativity is life. Sometimes, literally. Available now at online booksellers. A T Beaune’s Books at Amazon amazon.com/author/atbea... A T Beaune’s Books at XinXii www.xinxii.com/atbeaune-111...

‘If you come from somewhere quantifiably disappointing, the world is your oyster.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Annie Dillard reminds us—via Maria Popova’s gem of a blog—that the labels we wear and opinions we hold are the least interesting things about us. www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/15/a...

Love her escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/whats-on/...

The world’s top back-to-school pop song is from a Singaporean singer c.2005. It belongs in a Super Bowl halftime show. 🥁 Stefanie Sun • 孫燕姿 Sun Yan-Zi ‘夢不落 Flying with Dreams’ (from album ‘完美的一天 A Perfect Day’) youtu.be/MYe832sAWQQ?...

Study at Harvard—for free, from anywhere. pll.harvard.edu/catalog/free

A T Beaune Creations & f/Lash Productions MELODIA Trailer 1' (all audiences) vimeo.com/atbeaune/tra... youtu.be/zX8mN0blYXU Full Film 9' (advisory 12+) vimeo.com/atbeaune/mel... youtu.be/7xQR5jWoAI0 Links linktr.ee/melodia.shor... IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt2253... Actor shown: 哆啦囉 Dora Lo

Paris Saint-Germain will have Paris FC playing just across the street. Who are the world’s other most closely situated neighbours in the sport? www.espn.com/soccer/story...

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Chemical ingredients discovered by the Perseverance rover ‘can be considered a compelling potential biosignature, raising the possibility that there was once microbial life on Mars.’ phys.org/news/2025-09...

The brain has a knack of continuing work on a thorny problem even after we’ve turned our conscious attention elsewhere. Enjoy this look at the role of incubation in the creative process. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Do NOT allow them to rewrite history with disinformation. #COVID vaccines worked remarkably well and allowed us to come out of a global pandemic. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Taiwan tug-of-war teams strike gold in Nottingham, England UK. 🇹🇼 🥇 focustaiwan.tw/sports/20250...

Taipei event celebrates music banned during Taiwan’s martial law era. Performer Chu Yueh-hsin (朱約信): ‘Sometimes, bound by restrictions, the artists will try harder to adapt, giving birth to great art. This reflects the tenacity of human nature. Life finds a way.’ focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

Taiwanese filmmakers featured in Venice, with career honours going to Tsai Ming-Liang. focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

Taiwan cinema gets the spotlight in Vancouver. 🤗 focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

Tracks at Spotify. 🎙️ Music by John Budrevo, lyrics by me. Boba Tea Goodbye, My Sweet Lucille Ko-Ki’s Rockin’ Tropic My Brother’s Mustang open.spotify.com/embed/playli...

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Creativity is life. Sometimes, literally. Available now at online booksellers. A T Beaune’s Books at Amazon amazon.com/author/atbea... A T Beaune’s Books at XinXii www.xinxii.com/atbeaune-111...

Art is art. Everything else is everything else. – Ad Reinhard

A T Beaune Creations & f/Lash Productions MELODIA Trailer 1' (all audiences) vimeo.com/atbeaune/tra... youtu.be/zX8mN0blYXU Full Film 9' (advisory 12+) vimeo.com/atbeaune/mel... youtu.be/7xQR5jWoAI0 Links linktr.ee/melodia.shor... IMDb www.imdb.com/title/tt2253... Actor shown: 哆啦囉 Dora Lo

Blue again! 🎺

Got word recently that as an actor I will soon be helping to tell another powerful Asia-Pacific story. I look forward to it! For now: 🍻

⚾ Taiwan wins the world Little League crown! 🇹🇼 edition.cnn.com/2025/08/24/s...

Best actor playing another actor—who ya got? My vote goes to Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in ‘The Aviator’ (2004).

My debut short film was made using a Samsung Galaxy S8+. The choice was story driven. Our footage—so to speak—was supposed to look as if someone in a bohemian apartment had simply picked up a device and started shooting.

So glad to see these charming drawings! I recently penned a feature screenplay inspired by Mr Wells. It opens with an extended bike ride! 🚲

Poem: ‘Boba Tea’ by A T Beaune (1/6)

Whose work has been fed into Meta’s LibGen and OpenAI? Is your work included? Take a look. Class action lawsuit in progress. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Bliss is like a flak jacket. It’s a protecting thing. If you have enough bliss, it’s invincibility. – David Lynch

I feel reassured. 🥲

A new academic year is about to start. Every day feels like Sunday night.

Optics, by A.D. Macquin, 1820. Eye-filled star with spokes dividing the spectrum of colours. At the top, it reads "And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." Buy as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/optics

A crowned woman in red inside a circle of water and holding a rose-topped caduceus; a representation of a stage in the process of alchemy, ca. 18th century. Buy print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/alchemy-scene-crowned-woman-in-red/

Depiction of the unusually bright meteor seen over the UK #onthisday in 1783. At the time such phenomena were not well understood and the meteor was the subject of much discussion, and also works of art. See more meteors and comets in art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #otd

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Responding to a question about early experiences on a major film set:

Farewell to actor Terence Stamp, with thanks for an inspiring body of work. variety.com/2025/film/ne...