The Week's Links: June 5, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest owl.li/NMBsR
  • Tired of Waiting for U.S. to Act, States Pass Crowdfunding Laws and Rules owl.li/NPR3p
  • The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost forever owl.li/NP43A
  • Your Creative Calendar: 91 Things To Do, See, And Hear This June owl.li/NVdlB
  • Crawling, breathing, invasive fish a 'major disaster' if it reaches Australia owl.li/NMV6c
  • Hard to believe it's hand-drawn: Sergio Pablos Talks About His Stunning Hand-Drawn Project ‘Klaus’ owl.li/NM986
  • ◉ ROYGBIV: A Pixar Supercut owl.li/NJ9CA
  • How Is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? owl.li/NJUlI
  • Psychedelic Videos Capture Coral in Motion (Yes, Coral) owl.li/NM6M9
  • The US Tried to Stuxnet North Korea's Nuclear Program owl.li/NJi1X
  • Photographer Captures the Beauty and Diversity of Australian Fungi owl.li/NM6GM
  • ◉ Sophie Scott: Why we laugh - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/4/…
  • The Key to Better Sleep in Space? Some Nice, Colorful Light owl.li/NJhPD
  • Rejected ‘The Shining’ Poster Designs From Saul Bass, With Stanley Kubrick’s Notes owl.li/NM9gZ
  • The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout owl.li/NM3vg
  • The Best Soundtrack for Productivity owl.li/NM2Po
  • BuzzFeed Style Guide: 6 Things the Rules Tell Us About Language owl.li/NJeUk
  • The World's Coming Broadband Divide owl.li/NJ1UW
  • ◉ #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey owl.li/NJ9nm
  • Watch Alfred Hitchcock Make Cameo Appearances in 37 of His Films (Plus Free Hitchcock Films Online) owl.li/NIA7p
  • What Was Life Like for a Girl in the Bronze Age? owl.li/NIMFU
  • Virtual Eyes Train Deep Learning Algorithm to Recognize Gaze Direction. Computers teaching computers. owl.li/NIten
  • The Netherlands Brings Banknote Bridges to Life owl.li/NILMd
  • Revealing Behind-the-Scenes Pics from Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ owl.li/NIbms
  • The 7 Reasons That Science Says You Should Pay For Experience, Not Things owl.li/NIDjJ
  • A Dissolvable Miniature Origami Robot That Folds Itself, Walks, Swims, Carries, Digs, and Climbs owl.li/NIAqk
  • How the Silk Road case changed Internet crime forever owl.li/NGoze
  • Last Year The Baltimore Symphony Hired An Embedded Journalist To Cover The Orchestra (Here’s How It Turned Out) owl.li/NGkMp
  • ◉ Paola Antonelli: Walk the walk owl.li/NJ9gX
  • Can a Random Group of People On the Internet Interview a Candidate Better Than the Pros?  owl.li/NGk0F
  • Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math? owl.li/NGkF3
  • ◉ The Man Who Loved Books Too Much - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • The Remarkable Origins Of The U.N.'s HeForShe Campaign owl.li/NGjmi
  • The Amazing Science Teachers You Wish You Had in School owl.li/NGkyM
  • Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system owl.li/NGjjB
  • The Robots Are Adapting: A new animal-inspired algorithm allows robots to adapt to damage in seconds. owl.li/NGkrz
  • Newly Discovered, Unnamed Deep Sea Creatures Found Off The Coast Of Puerto Rico owl.li/NGIQ2
  • Boris Eifman on creating 'a new type of theater' in ballet owl.li/NGknG
  • Before and After Comparisons of the Visual Effects in Mad Max: Fury Road owl.li/NGj3f
  • From Amy Schumer to John Oliver, How Comedians Became Public Intellectuals owl.li/NCKnZ
  • ◉ To Get Over Something, Write About It owl.li/NJ96l
  • Inside a Giant Dark-Web Scheme to Sell Counterfeit Coupons owl.li/NzC7U
  • The Coolest Thing About 1 World Trade Center's New Observatory Isn't The View owl.li/NCv4k
  • The Latest Weapon In Defusing Bombs Is 3-D Printed owl.li/NzC2Q
  • ◉ Are we viral yet? The Allusionist Podcast - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/1/…
  • Chimpanzee Rights Get a Day in Court owl.li/NzCtJ
  • Gorgeous Photos of Classic Movie Rolls owl.li/NznfV
  • Why White Space Is Crucial To UX Design owl.li/NzCsi
  • Meet Margaret Hamilton, the badass '60s programmer who saved the moon landing owl.li/NGj7q
  • Inside L’Oreal’s Plan to 3-D Print Human Skin owl.li/NzCqw
  • 7 Bookstores Too Beautiful For Words owl.li/NzjGS
  • Mary Meeker’s 2015 internet trends report: All the slides plus highlights owl.li/NvQDd
  • Alzheimer's Origins Tied to Rise of Human Intelligence owl.li/NvJlw
  • Dreamers and Deciders: Will We Ever Get Along? owl.li/NvKbc
  • Interactive documentary connects World War II data to the events owl.li/NvFXu
  • When Does Consciousness Begin and End? owl.li/NvK6i
  • How Podcasts Are Building Community owl.li/NvBWi
  • As Glaciers Retreat, They Give up the Bodies and Artifacts They Swallowed owl.li/NvK3Q
  • Paper Cutouts from Great Masters Having Great Times by Lorenzo Castellini owl.li/NzmZS
  • How Big is Minecraft? Really, Really, Really Big owl.li/NvJE4
  • Celebrity Graduation Speeches 2015 owl.li/Nvc0m
  • How the FCC Found Its Backbone owl.li/NvaWc
  • Field notes from the hunt for life on Mars owl.li/NsqfC
  • Star Wars The Force Awakens Cast Poses for Vanity Fair's June Cover owl.li/NsLVS
  • Evan Spiegel Reveals Plan to Turn Snapchat Into a Real Business owl.li/NsoYQ
  • Northern California child prodigy gets college degrees at age 11 owl.li/NsLth
  • The science behind Netflix’s first major redesign in four years owl.li/NsoTg
  • How Yoshitaka Fujii, the Biggest Fabricator in Science, Got Caught owl.li/NsLeo
  • BuzzFeed Founder Launches New Lab for Open-Source Invention owl.li/NvcbZ
  • The US has space experts worried about an extra-terrestrial land grab owl.li/NsKYT
  • Philip Zimmermann: king of encryption reveals his fears for privacy owl.li/NrJVa
  • Netflix Wants to Usher in a New Golden Age of Nonfiction TV owl.li/NrGNO
  • The Assault on Opera owl.li/Nrp8l
  • Get Lost in This Stunning Drone Footage From Antarctica owl.li/Nrq1P
  • Moore's Law Keeps Going, Defying Expectations owl.li/NroQI
  • Advertising & The Great And Wicked Issues Of Our Day owl.li/NspRm
  • Why The Oldest Person In The World Keeps Dying owl.li/NrpIO
  • What's the Difference Between i.e. & e.g.? owl.li/NroLX
  • Do Touch The Artwork At Prado's Exhibit For The Blind owl.li/Nrplt
  • 5 Steps To Re-create Xerox PARC's Design Magic (From The Guy Who Helped Make It) owl.li/NrK7U
  • Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein and the Bomb owl.li/Nrph2

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: May 29, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Do Touch The Artwork At Prado's Exhibit For The Blind owl.li/Nrplt
  • 5 Steps To Re-create Xerox PARC's Design Magic (From The Guy Who Helped Make It) owl.li/NrK7U
  • Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einstein and the Bomb owl.li/Nrph2
  • 17 Words that Describe Themselves owl.li/NpQiA
  • Cover Story: Edward Gorey’s Best Book Jackets owl.li/NoXhj
  • What does leadership mean in the 21st century? owl.li/NoAHk
  • A Record-Setting Picasso: In today’s sky-high auction market, should artists be paid royalties? owl.li/NoXdw
  • Doesn't seem real: The Spectacular Seda Monastery owl.li/NoAvM
  • ◉ Tim Brown: The Career Choice Nobody Tells You About owl.li/NspN2
  • Six Books (and One Blog) Bill Gates Wants You to Read This Summer owl.li/NoBwd
  • Harvey Fineberg: How Could Technology Change The Way We Evolve? owl.li/NoAlI
  • F.C.C. Chief Seeks Broadband Plan to Aid the Poor - NYTimes.com owl.li/NyrsH
  • How to Say "No" Without Burning Bridges owl.li/NoBgO
  • Here's how a 353-gigapixel panorama is made owl.li/NpQkS
  • The new shape of fusion owl.li/NoB9d
  • How the Brain Can Be Fooled into Perceiving Movement owl.li/NoAbV
  • Top 10 New Species: Cartwheeling Spider, Psychedelic Sea Slug owl.li/Noq15
  • Why John Nash Matters owl.li/NontQ
  • This Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Has a Few Concerns owl.li/NopCB
  • Mary Meeker’s 2015 internet trends report: All the slides plus highlights owl.li/NvQFt
  • 4 Steps to Making an Overwhelming Decision Easy owl.li/Nonhu
  • Shakespeare Folio Discovered In France owl.li/Nspq0
  • Countries as Named in Their Own Languages owl.li/Nopuw
  • From Potter to Tartt to Ferrante. "Before there was binge-watching, there was binge-reading."  owl.li/NoncP
  • When Sleep and School Don't Mix owl.li/NoAgH
  • Creative Dam Curry is a Popular Dish Near Famous Dams in Japan owl.li/NoppU
  • A 3D Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" owl.li/NonwN
  • Apple’s design revolution goes way deeper than Jony Ive owl.li/NofSo
  • How to Get Over Getting Tired owl.li/NofLs
  • Saving coffee from extinction owl.li/No9O1
  • When Lego and Google Partner Online, Imagination Wins owl.li/Nofmp
  • What Makes Tattoos Permanent? owl.li/NnlmQ
  • ◉ The Great Brain Debate owl.li/Nspk2
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/NsoJ4
  • College students are not customers owl.li/NoeKc
  • One Man's Lifelong Pursuit of Pluto is About to Get Real owl.li/NnlkP
  • How the Juilliard School is changing the way we hear early music owl.li/NoeEB
  • Adweek's Power List: The 100 Most Influential Leaders in Marketing, Media and Tech owl.li/NrpPj
  • Published for the First Time: a 1959 Essay by Isaac Asimov on Creativity owl.li/Nog6i
  • Oliver Reichenstein: Structuring information owl.li/Noa6K
  • London’s Most Mysterious Mansion owl.li/Nn9FO
  • Inside The Mind That Built Google Brain: On Life, Creativity, And Failure owl.li/Nlxoh
  • Yasuni Park in Ecuador Has Biodiversity owl.li/NjlGX
  • The hard problem: Tom Stoppard on the limits of what science can explain owl.li/NlxiK
  •  How Pac-Man’s Ghosts Think & Hunt owl.li/NjlBr
  • The Next Big Thing In Algorithm-Driven Recommendation Services? Humans owl.li/Nlwz0
  • “What’s one thing you’ve learned at Harvard Business School that blew your mind?” owl.li/NjlyD
  • Can Netflix Make Your TV Smarter? owl.li/Nlwxt
  • How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion owl.li/NnljX
  • This Is What Pac-Man‘s Creator Thinks 35 Years Later owl.li/NjSle
  • Terry Gross To Marc Maron: 'Life Is Harder Than Radio' owl.li/Njc09
  • How Eddie Van Halen Hacks a Guitar owl.li/NjbPe
  • We ask 5 people creating the future: so, what it will be like? owl.li/NiuNP
  • A map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet owl.li/NiHXy
  • Is There A Difference Between Liberal And Conservative Typography? owl.li/NhT7r
  • Consulting Giant McKinsey Buys Itself a Top Design Firm owl.li/NiHSo
  • Dante Turns Seven Hundred and Fifty - The New Yorker owl.li/NgclV
  • Rabbit hole: British Pathé – the largest archive of history on YouTube owl.li/Niz6x
  • Ten things you'll learn in your first year of business school owl.li/NjluI
  • How A Nieman Fellow Is Using Flash Drives--Yes, Flash Drives--To Change Cuban Media owl.li/Nixar
  • Hear a Knife Orchestra Play "Stayin' Alive" owl.li/NgcdJ
  • Humans Out-Play an AI at Texas Hold 'Em—For Now owl.li/NgccD
  • Machine-Learning Algorithm Mines Rap Lyrics, Then Writes Its Own owl.li/NfRNG
  • Bringing Species Back from the Dead owl.li/Ngc4X
  • Has a Finnish Company Found a Cure for Jet Lag? owl.li/NeQRf
  • The world’s largest particle accelerator just made history. Animations from TEDxCERN to help explain particle physics owl.li/Ngc0m
  • Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla owl.li/NeQ5p
  • Tales From an Era When Airlines Knew Good Design owl.li/NgcjC
  • Your Presentation Needs a Punch Line owl.li/Ng2dy
  •  How batteries work - Adam Jacobson owl.li/Ng2aJ
  • Why Do Humans Have Chins? owl.li/NePhs
  • ◉ Knowledge vs. Intelligence owl.li/N3FmS
  • Innovations that made expensive things cheap owl.li/NcOSv
  • Watch Sherlock Hound: Hayao Miyazaki's Animated, Steampunk Take on Sherlock Holmes owl.li/NdtWn
  • The Oldest Stone Tools Yet Discovered Are Unearthed in Kenya owl.li/NcNA0
  • Pac-Man Turns 35 Today. So Here, Have Some Nostalgia owl.li/NjdA0
  • The Year of the Very Long Novel owl.li/NcUXx
  • Anti-NSA Pranksters Planted Tape Recorders Across New York and Published Your Conversations owl.li/NcNd4
  • 'Lost' My Fair Lady songs to be performed after 60 years owl.li/NcUT6
  • All the Feels: the Morphology of Reaction Gifs owl.li/NePEt
  • This is the little book Facebook gives to its new employees owl.li/NcOZr

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: May 22, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Anti-NSA Pranksters Planted Tape Recorders Across New York and Published Your Conversations owl.li/NcNd4
  • 'Lost' My Fair Lady songs to be performed after 60 years owl.li/NcUT6
  • All the Feels: the Morphology of Reaction Gifs owl.li/NePEt
  • This is the little book Facebook gives to its new employees owl.li/NcOZr
  • Your New Favorite Tumblr Shows What Mad Men Would Be Like in the Digital Age owl.li/NcISU
  • ◉ The Knowledge, London’s Legendary Taxi-Driver Test, Puts Up a Fight in the Age of GPS owl.li/N3Fix
  • This Is Why You’re Terrible With Names owl.li/NcaaU
  • YouTube Contest Celebrates 10 Years of YouTube Ads owl.li/Nci3k
  • New study reveals reading levels behind music lyrics owl.li/Nca6i
  • Understand the 4 Components of Influence owl.li/NcaGa
  • William Shakespeare: Experts 'deeply unconvinced' by claims that earliest portrait of the Bard has been discovered owl.li/Nca0V
  • How we designed the iTunes of journalism — On Blendle owl.li/NcaBm
  • Amazing: A time lapse of the first three weeks of a bee's life, from egg to adult, in only 60 seconds. owl.li/NcIWS
  • Passion and Progression: The Evolution of Interaction Design owl.li/Ncast
  • Inside A Secret Basement Powering The New York Subway's Pioneering Wireless Network owl.li/Nc8bD
  • ◉ When It Comes to Making Choices, Ignorance Really Can Be Bliss owl.li/N3F85
  • Nielsen Explains How It’s Adapting to the Rise of Online Video owl.li/N8LDb
  • A New Life For The Postal Service owl.li/Nc7yO
  • Malcolm Gladwell on the Surprising Upsides of Being a Loser owl.li/NcNsT
  • Three Questions for Twitter (and now Super) Cofounder Biz Stone owl.li/N8Lzt
  • Atelier Dom Pérignon: An Educational Tour Through Champagne’s House owl.li/NbW3J
  • Amar Ramasar’s Unlikely Path to Becoming a Prince for City Ballet - NYTimes.comowl.li/Nc9zg
  • Errol Morris: How Typography Shapes Our Perception Of Truth owl.li/N8Loa
  • Winners of IBM Watson's First-Ever Hackathon Revealed owl.li/NbVLg
  • The Untold Story of ILM, a Titan That Forever Changed Film owl.li/N9MsZ
  • Morning People Vs. Night Owls: 9 Insights Backed By Science owl.li/N8KID
  • ◉ Apple’s Jonathan Ive in Conversation with Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter owl.li/N3EYk
  • Google’s Built From Scratch Autonomous Cars to Test on Public Roads owl.li/N0Axo
  • The only technique to learn something new owl.li/N3Ize
  • Top Five Fresh (or Refreshed) Ideas for the Concert Hall owl.li/N07be
  • The Motherboard Inside Your Brain owl.li/N3rpK
  • 10 Writing Tips from Legendary Writing Teacher William Zinsser, May He Rest in Peace owl.li/N03Gm
  • We’re Losing Our Words For Outdoors Things As We Use More Words For Indoors Things owl.li/N2hDH
  • A Stunning New Journal By One Of The World's Top Data Viz Studios owl.li/N8L5e
  • First Warm-Blooded Fish Discovered owl.li/N0ALt
  • David Hockney: ‘Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious’ owl.li/N01HP
  • Pizza-Ordering Emoji, Synthetic Humans: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week owl.li/MZHRY
  • ◉ James Victore and Ben Barry: How to Build Your Own Career owl.li/N3ENR
  • How Google’s Top Minds Decide What to Forget owl.li/MUKKu
  • Interactive Mad Men Retrospective Lets You Relive the Show's Finest Moments owl.li/MYhPu
  • Can you identify these classic books by their covers? owl.li/MUsmJ
  • The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall owl.li/MYhEi
  • Telepresence robots let bedridden art lovers explore museums remotely owl.li/MUqG0
  • Mad Men is About People Working in an Office. Black Mirror Is About Advertising owl.li/MXRlv
  • Gay Talese on his love for paper, collage, and his address book. owl.li/N03jR
  • Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed owl.li/MXRa6
  • 11 of the Richest People in History owl.li/MUqlZ
  • Podcasting's Ubiquitous Advertisers: Why Every Show Is Brought to You by Squarespace owl.li/MUq29
  • 10 research tips for finding online answers owl.li/MUeFM
  • We Spoke To The Illustrator Behind These Incredible Sci-Fi Architecture Mashups owl.li/MUpSg
  • Instant Articles will allow Facebook to own the publishing industry without ever buying it. owl.li/MUeyW
  • Powerful Genetic Engineering Technique Could Modify Entire Wild Populations owl.li/MUlhW
  • Spectacular Aerial Footage of Buenos Aires Shot From a Drone owl.li/MUbsq
  • How poetry can help us say the unsayable owl.li/MUjKo
  • 7 Questions For The Guy Who Designed Minority Report's Futuristic UIs owl.li/MUquY
  • 15 Things You Might Not Know About 'Nighthawks' owl.li/MUjGB
  • How the Brain Can Be Fooled Into Perceiving Movement owl.li/MS6zM
  • Mediterranean Diet with Olive Oil, Nuts Linked to Healthier Brain owl.li/MS6tl
  • Narita airport launches short tours for layover passengers owl.li/MRDTN
  • Sound Advice: The Value and Power of Sound Design owl.li/MS1xj
  • London: The Next Great Tech And Design City? owl.li/MRq8k
  • America's Lacking Language Skills owl.li/MRFXJ
  • Elon Musk: The World's Raddest Man owl.li/MRoZZ
  • Fast Company takes a look at PBS Digital Studios. owl.li/MU7vZ
  • How Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat plan to take over online news. owl.li/MRFPy
  • NPR One player: Phase Two of NPR's plan to become the Pandora of news. owl.li/MRFG8
  • What Is Vocal Fry? owl.li/MRoEs
  • ◉ The Psychological Comforts of Storytelling owl.li/MNYvQ
  • China's Massive Smartphone Market Is Finally Slowing Down owl.li/MRiV8
  • YouTube's Plans for 10 More Years of Video Domination owl.li/MRmhh
  • How Our Minds Mislead Us: The Marvels and Flaws of Our Intuition owl.li/MRiPq
  • How Katharine Hepburn Became a Fashion Icon owl.li/MRjLw
  • These Disney•Pixar Palettes are the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Things You’ll See All Day owl.li/MRiJ4
  • Stripe's Bold Bid to Make Money as Easy to Send as Email owl.li/MRjhq
  • Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain owl.li/MRoJ5
  • Water: the weirdest liquid on the planet owl.li/MRj7S

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: May 15, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain owl.li/MRoJ5
  • Stripe's Bold Bid to Make Money as Easy to Send as Email owl.li/MRjhq
  • These Disney•Pixar Palettes are the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Things You’ll See All Day http://owl.li/MRiJ4
  • Water: the weirdest liquid on the planet owl.li/MRj7S
  • Use Boredom to Find Your Next Jackpot Idea owl.li/MR9w9
  • ◉ Comma story - Terisa Folaron owl.li/MNYjW
  • Watch Miles Davis Improvise Music for Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle’s New Wave Thriller (1958) owl.li/MOHfE
  • Ditching sheet music, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra plays from memory owl.li/MP4E7
  • How Feasible is Dubai's Underwater Tennis Court? owl.li/MOEv0
  • Anand Varma: A thrilling look at the first 21 days of a bee’s life owl.li/MP4x9
  • More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think owl.li/MOCZt
  • What Tesla and Apple Both Know About Entering New Markets owl.li/MRgYB
  • Looking for something to read: The Pulitzer Prizes Finalists 2015 owl.li/MOKdB
  • The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time owl.li/MOHla
  • Prime Minister of Singapore codes, shares his C++ code for Sudoku solver owl.li/MOz9x
  • ◉ What Is History For? owl.li/MNY7R
  • The Most Essential Ingredient In Interaction Design? The Words owl.li/MOj31
  • The wars that inspired Game of Thrones - Alex Gendler owl.li/MOwMd
  • You Are Not Your Job owl.li/MO6ue
  • Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre owl.li/MOwHq
  • ◉ The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... creative collaboration - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/5/13…
  • Beverages under a Microscope owl.li/MOCVw
  • The Magician Who Astounded the World by Conjuring Spirits and Talking with Mummies owl.li/MO2Mk
  • These Guerrilla Subway Signs Let You Get Out Of The Subway Exactly Where You Want owl.li/MOkhd
  • The 100 Most Creative People 2015- Fast Company owl.li/MOjXY
  • The Getty Museum is Recapping ‘Game of Thrones’ Episodes With Medieval Art owl.li/MMZAw
  • The New York Times–Facebook Deal Is Here owl.li/MSwQY
  • The history of the paper clip: It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since. owl.li/MM8Nr
  • ◉ The Psychology of Irrational Fear owl.li/MNXQQ
  • Say what? How the brain separates our ability to talk and write owl.li/MM2XP
  • Why Do Cats Purr? It's Not Just Because They're Happy owl.li/MM8LF
  • The Difference Between 'Best By,' 'Sell By' And 'Expires On' owl.li/MM2TQ
  • Desert Dancer: True story of the YouTube choreographers owl.li/MM5jk
  • ◉ What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/5/12…
  • The Mysterious Persistence of the Cronut owl.li/MM2Rn
  • The Chinese Art of the Crowd owl.li/MM5hb
  • 15 European Opera Houses to Offer Free Online Streaming owl.li/MMZRC
  • It's Time To Take Flickr Seriously Again owl.li/MM31f
  • NASA's Curiosity Rover Views Serene Sundown on Mars owl.li/MM0Pv
  • 2015 National Design Awards Winners- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/MIvmP
  • ◉ Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability owl.li/MNXHR
  • Johnnie Walker's 'Smart' Blue Label owl.li/MHYms
  • 10 Things to See During New York Design Week 2015 owl.li/MIi3l
  • How to be good at stress owl.li/MHjes
  • The Master Designer Who Gave the Area Code Its Parentheses owl.li/MI1wJ
  • ◉ The Acceptance of Change - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/5/11…
  • The Creativity Top 5: Week of May 4-May 8, 2015 owl.li/MOevf
  • Bill Gates's Quest to Determine Why Children Are Dying owl.li/MEM7F
  • The State of Design Tools: An Unscientific Survey owl.li/MHZar
  • What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work owl.li/MM2OY
  • How To Design a Typeface: Mark Simonson’s Process owl.li/MHYLe
  • Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art owl.li/MELVd
  • Missing Link Microbes May Help Explain How Single Cells Became Us owl.li/MEGxg
  • Ideo Imagines 18 Packaging Concepts For The Future owl.li/MEF28
  • What Happened to Marie Antoinette's Children? owl.li/MEGlA
  • Your Creative Calendar: 73 Things To Do, See, And Hear This May owl.li/MEERz
  • Inside the Lair of the Guy Behind Film's Most Iconic Sounds owl.li/MEGgP
  • Taking Note: Yeats and the Economics of Creativity owl.li/MEE5o
  • A $2.5 Billion Plan To Transport Penn Station Back In Time owl.li/MEFsw
  • Scientists make first-ever acoustic images of thunder at a Florida military base. owl.li/MEM1h
  • What Frida wore: the artist's wardrobe locked up 50 years – in pictures owl.li/MEFax
  • New Type of Stem Cell Could Make It Easier to Grow Human Organs owl.li/MEBta
  • The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke owl.li/MCtX5
  • Why You Should Do More Things Alone owl.li/MCd47
  • The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers owl.li/MCtUl
  • NASA's New 10-Engine Drone Is Half Chopper, Half Plane owl.li/MCcOC
  • Birds Drawn on Vintage Envelopes owl.li/MCtvJ
  • The Lessons Google Ventures Learned From Secret owl.li/MBxZd
  • Kickstarter and failure owl.li/MEDZW
  • With Video Launch, Reddit Is Officially a Media Company owl.li/MCsNd
  • The Very First Self-Driving Semi Truck Has Hit the Road owl.li/MCs6v
  • What Killed The Infographic? owl.li/MBxN3
  • How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday owl.li/MBxvd
  • ◉ Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability owl.li/MvaA1
  • Real-Life Soldiers Masquerade as Toys in the African Desert owl.li/MyVZD
  • Who invented the piano? And why was he forgotten? owl.li/MyWDC
  • 15 Ideas That Will Make You Reconsider Virtual Reality owl.li/MyVNa
  • Jonathan Basile brings Borges' Library of Babel to life with an eerie, gibberish-filled website. owl.li/MyWlG
  • The World's Loneliest ATM is in Antarctica owl.li/MyS5K
  • Penny Black: the turbulent history of the short-lived stamp owl.li/MyWhw
  • Inside the Inflatable Hospital That's Saving Lives in Nepal owl.li/MyW1T

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: May 8, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Penny Black: the turbulent history of the short-lived stamp http://owl.li/MyWhw
  • The World's Loneliest ATM is in Antarctica http://owl.li/MyS5K
  • Inside the Inflatable Hospital That's Saving Lives in Nepal owl.li/MyW1T
  • Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars owl.li/MyS13
  • Stunning Total Solar Eclipse Observed Over the Arctic owl.li/My7hA
  • ◉ Paris / New York owl.li/MvasS
  • David Ogilvy Outlines His Weaknesses in This 1970s-Era Memo owl.li/My1ZV
  • How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text owl.li/My773
  • How Dentsu Climbed to the Top owl.li/My1Jv
  • ◉ Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!) - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How Ideo Redesigned Monday to Be Less Awful owl.li/My4EH
  • The Location of This Book's Story Changes, Depending on Where You're Reading It owl.li/My1wq
  • Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education owl.li/My33y
  • Breaking News: Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal owl.li/MEj8Z
  • Some icons are verbs, some icons are nouns: Getting fluent at the language of iconography owl.li/My2Sp
  • Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps owl.li/Mvmgs
  • ◉ How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism owl.li/Mvang
  • Artist Turns Spider Webs Into Haunting Sculptures owl.li/Mv937
  • The World’s Weirdest Library owl.li/MuWrv
  • Should some plays be seen and not read? owl.li/Mv1yg
  • ◉ The Story of Art - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How To Make Your Kids Smarter: 10 Steps Backed By Science owl.li/MuW1w
  • The iPhone's Slo-Mo Video Has Become a Dancer's Best Friend owl.li/Mv0SG
  • This Idea Must Die: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast owl.li/MuV2X
  • Tracking the Evolving Brain of the Young Musician owl.li/Mv0yo
  • 17 Things We Know About Forgiveness owl.li/MuXxC
  • "Mad Men" Creator Matthew Weiner's Reassuring Life Advice For Struggling Artists owl.li/MuPK0
  • Presidential doodles owl.li/MuPBE
  • ◉ Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success owl.li/Mvagc
  • Artist Turns Spider Webs Into Haunting Sculptures owl.li/MsyOL
  • A Field Guide to the American Sandwich owl.li/MuBRT
  • ◉ A History of the World in 100 Objects - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Winners of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards owl.li/MsfEz
  • The Man Who Makes the World’s Funniest People Even Funnier owl.li/MuBHt
  • Council Set to Create a Cultural Plan for New York City owl.li/Msdvh
  • The Time A Newspaper Stared Down The Country's Largest Advertiser owl.li/MuTDi
  • Getting Vaccinated Will Soon Be As Easy As Putting On A Band-Aid owl.li/Muvny
  • A Short History of Love- The Book of Life owl.li/Mu61M
  • Le Corbusier, the man, the modernist legend owl.li/Msdrj
  • Shakespeare's Globe confirms new artistic director owl.li/Msdpq
  • ◉ Sleep is More Important than Food owl.li/Mv9LC
  • 5 Key Ingredients for a Great Motion Design owl.li/MsaK7
  • TV Producer Brian Grazer on How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone owl.li/Msddw
  • ◉ The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • While You Were Offline: Don't Let Robots Guess Your Age owl.li/Msax4
  • The Greatest Dance Number Ever Filmed owl.li/MscPD
  • Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week April 27 - May 1, 2015 owl.li/MuuIF
  • Writing collaborations: "The creative process ... was slightly disastrous." owl.li/MrQNm
  • Infographic: The Fascinating Evolution Of Car Brand Logos owl.li/MscNT
  • Oliver Sacks, Before the Neurologist’s Cancer and New York Times Op-Ed owl.li/Msdtu
  • Why the Best Designers Don't Specialize in Any One Thing owl.li/MsaRq
  • Why the Arts Are Key to Dementia Care owl.li/MrQtz
  • Watch a Supercut Tribute to Spike Jonze's Stunning Cinematography owl.li/Mp0J2
  • Elon Musk's Grand Plan to Power the World With Batteries owl.li/MoVho
  • Terrible: House Science Committee guts NASA Earth sciences budget owl.li/Mp0Gw
  • The Weird, Wild World of Micro-Nations Where Anybody Can Be King owl.li/MoUZD
  • This Art Is Cool: Imagining a Dystopian Sweden Full of Robots and Dinosaurs owl.li/Mp0CC
  • Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business owl.li/MoUQz
  • 15 Things You Might Not Know About 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' owl.li/Mp0z1
  • Silicon Valley Then and Now: To Invent the Future, You Must Understand the Past owl.li/MrQql
  • Hahaha vs. Hehehe owl.li/MoWGd
  • 'World's best teacher' does not believe in tests and quizzes owl.li/MmnUg
  • Breathtakingly Detailed Large-Format Photographs of Opera Houses Around the World owl.li/MmnTi
  • 5 Seriously Dumb Myths About Copyright the Media Should Stop Repeating owl.li/MmefS
  • ‘Dutch Skies’, A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of the Varying Landscapes of the Dutch Countryside owl.li/MmnSf
  • How Chewing Gum Prevents Songs From Getting Stuck in Your Head owl.li/Mme8J
  • ‘Drone Aviary’, A Short Film That Explores the Idea of Drones as Protagonists owl.li/MmnPf
  • Reclaiming the Power of Play owl.li/Mme4R
  • 5 Things App Designers Could Learn From Walt Disney owl.li/MmfEu
  • For a Healthy Heart, You May Have to Eat More Cheese owl.li/MmnXZ
  • Top 200 Art Collectors 2015 Part One -- artnet News owl.li/Mmeqx
  • What I Almost Called My Play- Writers on the Titles They Didn’t Use owl.li/Mi4eZ
  • ◉ Sleep is More Important than Food owl.li/MaK6A
  • 8 Psychological Tricks of Restaurant Menus owl.li/MeLc0
  • ▶ Why neutrinos matter - Sílvia Bravo Gallart owl.li/MfwiU
  • Chemical Attraction: Why Mosquitos Zone In On Some People, But Not Others owl.li/MeKpU
  • 400 years after his death, Shakespeare's sonnets live on in your smartphone owl.li/MfqUp
  • Lake Michigan is So Clear Right Now its Shipwrecks Are Visible From the Air owl.li/MeJ8T
  • Baudelaire, Balzac, Dumas, Delacroix & Hugo Get a Little Baked at Their Hash Club (1844-1849) owl.li/MfqS1
  • 7 Lessons in Storytelling, From Novelist, Screenwriter, And Filmmaker (Don't Call Him a Director) Alex Garland owl.li/MmarH
  • This journey was nearly 4 billion miles — and took 10 years owl.li/Mf334

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.