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Frederic Kokott

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I just browsed through the entire archive of Swedish artist FINSTA and I'm craving more! His illustration style is so simple yet still full of distinct FINSTA personality. Be sure to check the animation and stop motion goods on the site as well as the great art pieces.

Similar to the passion involved with Movie Mimic, the content creation behind Christopher Moloney's FILMography requires a serious bit of dedication. He takes film stills, scouts down their location and photographs them in their environments. The only thing that would take it to the next level is some Geo-Tagging so you could visit the spots yourself. Overall, it's a great repository and required an awesome amount of work - totally worth it.

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UK artist INSA has come up with a new style of street graffiti that can only exist online - he calls it GIF-itti. Despite that slightly awkward name, the results are pretty undeniable. How else could you experience a sequence of murals other than a GIF? A video? I think not.

The two biggest examples - the XL Records office animation collaboration with Stanley Donwood and the On The Brain collaboration with Unga are pretty undeniably great.

Thanks for the heads up Brooks!.

Loving the concept of Watch It Stream - all you do is search for a TV show or movie you're interested in and it brings back all the options of where you can watch it and how much it might cost you. Right now they source their results from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon and iTunes - with more coming as they're able to add them (maybe Crackle should be next?). Currently, there are no accounts, no sign up, etc - it's just a tool to help you find the media you want to watch. Bookmarked.

It kinda feels like I'm watching a commercial with smart, hip, buoyant indie pop underneath it but I like it.

I put this over in the sidebar but it if you missed it, be sure to check out The Best of 2012 from Kickstarter. The statistics they share about projects funded, money earned and users participating is rather impressive. They've also got a slew of projects that met their goals that I hadn't heard of that sound distinctly useful, artistically inspiring or just awesomely nerdy.

Huge thanks to Daniel for the heads up on PlaceIt - an incredibly simple web app that transforms your screenshots into "real world" mobile device mockups. It's like stock art featuring your work. Convenient and quite useful.

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Federico Gonzalez did an incredible job with this ABC of Architects animation. It's a lot of information in just 1:30 but worth jotting down a few names and exploring more of the work from some of the favorites you may see. Consider following his architecture blog as well.

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Kirby Ferguson

Yesterday, my nerd quotient rose 100% upon discovering BS Zelda - a series of Zelda games that only, legitimately, existed as a timed broadcast from a short lived Broadcast Satellite subscription service available for the Super Famicon. There were four different broadcasts and, thus, four different games that, until yesterday, I had absolutely zero idea existed.

This BS Zelda fan site is pretty exhaustive in terms of materials to get familiar with but if you, like me, want your info fed to you in video form you should dive into this 16-Bit Gems Retrospective. It does a great job of explaining the whole Satellaview system, the Famicon add-on and all of the "lost" Zelda games that were available. I realize this isn't for everyone but it really got my inner nerd curiosity piqued at maximum levels.