{"id":280,"date":"2012-06-08T17:34:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2024-03-15T04:56:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T11:56:54","slug":"friday-link-love-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/friday-link-love-2","title":{"rendered":"Friday Link Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big news this week for Creative Market!<br>&nbsp;<br>Yesterday, TechCrunch broke the story of our&nbsp;<a title=\"Creative Market Nabs $1.3M From SV Angel, CrunchFund To Become An Etsy For Digital Design\" href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/06\/07\/creative-market-second-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$1.3M in new funding<\/a> that will help support the launch of our marketplace. There&#8217;s definitely an exciting road ahead of us and we can&#8217;t wait to show you some of the things we&#8217;ve been working on. Soon, promise! \ud83d\ude42<br><br><a title=\"Run Boy Run by Woodkid\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/42615527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Run Boy Run by Woodkid<\/a> got our blood pumping earlier in the week. Not only is the song addicting, but the art direction and cinematography are plain fantastic.<br>While we&#8217;re talking moving pictures, Roger Ebert featured a <a title=\"Hearts of Darkness\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.suntimes.com\/foreignc\/2012\/05\/hearts-of-darkness.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">great piece by Gerardo Valero <\/a>on the film Hearts of Darkness. Arguably the best &#8220;making of&#8221; documentary ever, the film chronicles Francis Ford Coppola&#8217;s famous journey through hell to make Apocalypse Now a reality.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/Editorial-Illustrations\/3961625\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2012\/06\/15041548\/METROPOLI-560x783-1.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-288\" title=\"METROPOLI\"><\/a><\/figure><\/div><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Browsing around <a title=\"Behance\" href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Behance<\/a>, we stumbled across this sweet&nbsp;<a title=\"Editorial Illustrations by Ricardo Martinez\" href=\"http:\/\/www.behance.net\/gallery\/Editorial-Illustrations\/3961625\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Editorial Illustrations<\/a>&nbsp;project from Ricardo Martinez. Which got us thinking about&nbsp;political&nbsp;posters, and since the internet rarely disappoints, we ended up on Brain Pickings perusing their <a title=\"Presidential Campaign Posters: 200 Years of Election Art\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/04\/presidential-campaign-posters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post on presidential campaign posters<\/a>.<br>Last, but not least, Jeff Atwood tells us <a title=\"How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/how-to-stop-sucking-and-be-awesome-instead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Stop Sucking and Be Awesome Instead<\/a>&nbsp;in three steps. Great advice on how to stop fearing and just do.<br>And that&#8217;s all she wrote this week. Have a great weekend, friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news this week for Creative Market!&nbsp;Yesterday, TechCrunch broke the story of our&nbsp;$1.3M in new funding that will help support the launch of our marketplace. There&#8217;s definitely an exciting road ahead of us and we can&#8217;t wait to show you some of the things we&#8217;ve been working on. Soon, promise! \ud83d\ude42 Run Boy Run by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[374,35,41,43,81,113,164,373],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-inspiration","tag-video","tag-links-2","tag-inspiration","tag-posters","tag-illustration","tag-politics","tag-creative","tag-funding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Friday Link Love - Creative Market Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/friday-link-love-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Link Love\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Big news this week for Creative Market!&nbsp;Yesterday, TechCrunch broke the story of our&nbsp;$1.3M in new funding that will help support the launch of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/friday-link-love-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Creative Market Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crtvmrkt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-06-09T00:34:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-15T11:56:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d3ui957tjb5bqd.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2012\/06\/15041548\/METROPOLI-560x783-1.jpg.webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aaron Epstein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@creativemarket\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@creativemarket\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Aaron Epstein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/creativemarket.com\\\/blog\\\/friday-link-love-2\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/creativemarket.com\\\/blog\\\/friday-link-love-2\",\"name\":\"Friday Link Love - 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