My work has afforded me the opportunity to go visit China once or twice a year for the last couple of years, and to work side-by-side with the Chinese people who make our product ideas into reality. Even as a fairly well-traveled Westerner, China still manages to boggle my mind. Culturally, economically, and politically it’s just a very unique animal.

This video does a remarkable job of taking this enormously complex nation and boiling it down into something adorable that will actually teach you a hell of a lot. And honestly, whoever you are, wherever you are, you need to start understanding more about China.

And now a brief break from our regularly scheduled programming in order to give some love and props to our good friends, Ra Ra Riot, who kicked some ass on Jimmy Fallon last night.

I was browsing through Behance in search of an illustrator or character designer for an upcoming project we’re working on at Jailbreak Collective when I stumbled onto this work-in-progress” series by an artist named Joe Fenton. He draws like I wish I could draw. In fact, when I spent all my days in high school doodling in notebooks, the theoretical endgame was a masterpiece of exactly this sort. Alas, my manual talents never quite evolved to match my ambitions so I moved into other media. But when I see something like this, it reminds me of how much I still jock people who have that natural gift which we used to refer to as “Hand”, back in art school. (ie; “Damn… have you seen the trippy 8 foot wide mural that Joe’s working on? That fucker has got some serious Hand!”)

If you want to see the final product, click through below. I didn’t want to ruin the experience of watching the work unfold by posting the completed drawing right beneath all the work-in-progress shots. Read the rest of this entry »