Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

Shrinky Dinks!!!

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Nothing like a healthy dose of Megalomania – as if Hitchcock couldn’t do enough in his own films besides directing, writing, and producing, he was also a background extra in most of them…and why not? Here’s a compilation of all the cameos he made:

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These NYC travel videos from the 60′s are amazing – even though the vibes of each video are different, they’re both still 100% true. That’s the beauty of New York – it can be a thousand different things to a thousand different people, but in the end, still one unified place.

In 1962, NYC is non-stop & forward-thinking:

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In 1967, NYC’s Lower East Side is gritty & mind-expanding:

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Check out this amazing music video for “New Romance” by Miles Fisher – it’s a ‘Saved By the Bell’ parody starring the cast of “Final Destination 5″. If you ever wanted to see AC Slater violently impaled by a sharp corner in The Max, a) you’re sick, and b) you’re gonna love this:

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Even Charlton Heston can’t deny the beat when the DJ plays a Benny Benassi track at the clubs -

-via Geeks Are Sexy

Nick Gentry takes floppy disks (remember them!?!) and transforms them into spectacular art pieces:

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In 1911, artist Winsor McCay directed a silent short film (below) that detailed the behind-the-scenes process of creating one of the most popular comic books of the time, “Little Nemo”. The film is mainly made up of Winsor drawing his iconic characters…but if you skip ahead to about 8:11, you can see what experts say is the first true animation ever created.

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An amazing supercut of Batman’s sidekick Robin saying “Holy Fill-in-the-Blank”!

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Designer Mr Whaite created these amazing retro-movie-inspired neon animated GIFs – I LOVE these!

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Hit play for an explosion of retro-video-game goodness!

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