Ge Jin made a documentary about Chinese gold farmers, who play video games like World of Warcraft and sell their virtual gold, weapons and power for real money. Check out his MTV interview and the article.
I always say good art is good shopping. When Ge Jin (Jingle or Jin Ge as I call him) wasn’t helping me select the technocuddliest things for Mer-chan, he was travelling all over China filming, yelling “cut!” and tearing off his hat in fury and stomping on it. He was my best shopping friend in Shanghai. Can you tell which products were curated by him? Look at the picture below for a hint…


