The Week's Links: August 15, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • A Stroll Through French Typography owl.li/AfQ5k
  • Robots Roam the Tate Museum So You Can 'Visit' After Dark owl.li/Aik3W
  • Visual Designers Checklist for the Web owl.li/AfP5C
  • This Is Going To Change How You Listen To Music Forever owl.li/AfO4w
  • 15 Designers Reveal Secrets For Staying Productiveowl.li/AfNJ1
  • Quotes from Sir Ken Robinson’s 2013 TED talkowl.li/AcNQ8
  • Amazing: First-person Hyperlapse Videos owl.li/AfcIX
  • ◉ Banksy on criticism owl.li/AaGtE
  • ◉ How To Be Polite -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/14…
  • With $50 million, BuzzFeed growth calls for sharper lines between news and the other stuff owl.li/AehTt
  • 50 Million New Reasons BuzzFeed Wants to Take Its Content Far Beyond Lists - NYTimes.comowl.li/AcNpm
  • Powerful Portraits of People Living Off the Gridowl.li/Adbge
  • White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ withHealthCare.gov fixer at the helm owl.li/AfOq8
  • Another beautiful Chrome Experiment: A Spacecraft for All: The Journey of the ISEE-3 owl.li/AcNkA
  • Guy Makes Statues Take Selfies By Cleverly Positioning His Camera owl.li/AcBzh
  • What happens in Vegas: Black Hat and Def Con in pictures owl.li/AcBs1
  • Who Really Controls The Wearable Tech Market?owl.li/AcpeO
  • I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me owl.li/AcyH7
  • ◉ Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming owl.li/AaGpM
  • For A More Ordered Life, Organize Like A Chefowl.li/Acyt9
  • Your iPhone Camera Can Work As A Microscopeowl.li/AcosM
  • Fascinating story beautifully designed| Edward Snowden: The Untold Story - WIRED owl.li/AhEDb
  • What Happened When I Woke Up Two Hours Earlier For A Week owl.li/Acq63
  • Assess Your Cultural Profile - David Championowl.li/AcCXc
  • Kleon vs. Anderson | Layer Tennis is back!owl.li/AbA0O
  • As P&G Looks to Cut More Than Half Its Brands, Which Should Go? owl.li/AaMBH
  • Video Games If They Were Medieval Religious Paintings owl.li/AaDVS
  • Fascinating Photos Show Evolution Of British Soldiers’ Kits From 1066 To 2014 owl.li/A9fvI
  • HBO Go is readying itself for battle against Netflixowl.li/AaDQ8
  • Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Weekowl.li/AfNzD
  • ◉ George R.R. Martin on readers owl.li/AaGmg
  • Get An Up-Close, Super Slow-Motion Look At Honey Bees In Flight And At Work owl.li/A9f9l
  • ◉ Restoration Hardware’s Mail-Order Extravagance -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/12…
  • 3 Outlandish Ideas To Improve Air Travel, From The Designers Of Beats By Dre owl.li/AaDK1
  • Amazon takes on Disney in DVD pricing fight - LA Times owl.li/Afqk0
  • ▶ What causes antibiotic resistance? - Kevin Wuowl.li/A9eS4
  • ◉ Recommended: Paul Rand's Thoughts on Design -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Aspirin a day could dramatically cut cancer risk, says biggest study yet owl.li/A9fAz
  • The 5 Best TED Talks On: Motivation owl.li/A8MBS
  • Wikipedia Defends the Monkey Selfie owl.li/A8LwB
  • Hyundai Will Air Sci-Fi Short Film During Commercial Breaks owl.li/A8Lrq
  • Netflix now has more subscription revenue than HBOowl.li/A5bYT
  • Simplifying the Bull: How Picasso Helps to Teach Apple’s Style - Inside Apple’s Internal Training Program owl.li/AddKE
  • IBM Builds a Chip That Works Like Your Brainowl.li/A8KYN
  • Google to Tie Mobile Web, App Trackers for Ad Targeting owl.li/A5bhD
  • ◉ John Maeda on Complexity and Simplicityowl.li/AaGju
  • The Benefits of Movement in Schools owl.li/A8KWb
  • Slot-machine science: How casinos get you to spend more money owl.li/A56WJ
  • Inside YouTube's Fame Factory owl.li/A8ise
  • A Stunning Photo of the Space Shuttle ‘Endeavour’ Approaching the International Space Stationowl.li/A8Lz2
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed the Web -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Yuko Shimizu: Make Your Own Path owl.li/A54S9
  • United Airlines app can now scan your passport for international flights owl.li/A4Zwa
  • The Best Documentaries of All Time- Sight & Soundowl.li/A4ZiS
  • 21 of the Best Lessons for Your Creative Careerowl.li/zZH2l
  • What Do Great Musicians Have in Common? DNA- Scientific American owl.li/A4Qmt
  • How Spike Jonze's Films Come Together in Editingowl.li/zXIJT
  • Art Takes Over 50,000 Outdoor Ad Spaces in the U.S., and Wow Is It Beautiful owl.li/A4OZF
  • Report: Libraries Struggling with E-books owl.li/zXIDW
  • 6 thinkers whose depressing ideas will make you feel better owl.li/A4EfE
  • Never Stop Learning: How Self-Education Creates a Bullet-Proof Career owl.li/A54JR
  • Art Takes Over 50,000 Outdoor Ad Spaces in the U.S., and Wow Is It Beautiful owl.li/zXIgX
  • How Successful People Stay Calm owl.li/zX4TD
  • According to the dictionary, “literally” now also means “figuratively” - No it does not. owl.li/zX4Db
  • Out in the Open: The Abandoned Facebook Tech That Now Helps Power Apple owl.li/zW9Yf
  • Extracting audio from visual information: Algorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag. MIT owl.li/zWduH
  • Making Yourself Work owl.li/zW4Ap
  • The Data Centers of Tomorrow Will Use the Same Tech Our Phones Do owl.li/zWalD
  • The Data Centers of Tomorrow Will Use the Same Tech Our Phones Do owl.li/zVZcQ
  • The 10 Greatest Documentaries of All Time According to 340 Filmmakers and Critics owl.li/zWaeh
  • Rebooting YouTube owl.li/zXHIZ
  • Gratitude and its Dangers in Social Technologies- MIT Center for Civic Media owl.li/zVZ6l
  • Traffic During the Facebook Outage: Overall traffic on news sites dropped by 3% owl.li/zVYVw
  • The Former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather on Personal Branding owl.li/zVY8u
  • The Economics of Jane Austen owl.li/zUIXm
  • Twitter Testing Easier-To-Use Hashtags owl.li/zVNIp
  • Amazon vs Hachette: What Readers Need to Knowowl.li/zUIDt
  • ◉ Recommended: Words Fail Me: What Everyone Who Writes Should Know about Writing owl.li/zSTd0
  • ◉ John Maeda on Complexity and Simplicityowl.li/zSTqO
  • The Accumulibrary: Modern libraries should be as big and chaotic as Amazon’s warehouses. owl.li/zUIrk
  • Poetry? There's an app for that. owl.li/zUJ2U
  • Dancing and Hoping to Win Fans for Life -NYTimes.com owl.li/zUIdS

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: August 8, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Poetry? There's an app for that. owl.li/zUJ2U
  • Dancing and Hoping to Win Fans for Life -NYTimes.com owl.li/zUIdS
  • Peeking Under The Hood Of NPR's New Mobile Appowl.li/zU21d
  • Spike Jonze Reveals His Favorite Ad and How to Stay Creative With Clients Around owl.li/zTZFx
  • How to Tell a Great Story owl.li/zTRYz
  • Can Benefit Corporations Work? owl.li/zTT99
  • Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Weekowl.li/A57lt
  • 4 Things You Didn't Know About Chuck Jones, Brilliant Creator Of Road Runner And Wile E. Coyoteowl.li/zTRID
  • ◉ Recommended: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose owl.li/zSTbG
  • ◉ Picasso in his studio, 1956 owl.li/zSTp7
  • TED Playlist: Fascinating psych experimentsowl.li/zTRwd
  • 10 Dark, Creepy Children's Books Every Kid Should Read owl.li/zTSdz
  • Beautiful: Ogilvy & Mather Induction Box owl.li/zTRu5
  • MIT Rethinks How You Consume News owl.li/zTDl1
  • ▶ How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?owl.li/zTDcX
  • Kern Your Enthusiasm (2)- analyzing and celebrating a few of our favorite (and least favorite) typefacesowl.li/zTnSU
  • Digital Weddings 2.0: Hashtags and Retweets -NYTimes.com owl.li/zTnZC
  • A Night of Dinosaurs and Stargazing (No Children Allowed). At Museum of Natural History in New Yorkowl.li/zTgq3
  • ◉ Recommended: Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style owl.li/zSTaq
  • ◉ Adam Savage: Ground Rules for Successowl.li/zSTnl
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/zTfRw
  • HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, bums 1st rideowl.li/zTnWK
  • 7 ideas from ancient thinkers that will improve your modern life owl.li/zTfQN
  • The history of the word “scientist” owl.li/zSSDh
  • Can Reddit Grow Up? - NYTimes.com owl.li/zTfO1
  • NASA unveils plans for a new rover: Mars 2020owl.li/zSSAq
  • ◉ Recommended: All In a Word: 100 Delightful Excursions into the Uses and Abuses of Wordsowl.li/zST9C
  • ◉ The Adobe Illustrator Story -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/5/…
  • ◉ New Beginnings: NYC Ballet's 9/11 Tributeowl.li/zSTlN
  • How Yahoo Research Labs Studies Culture as a Formal Computational Concept- MIT Technology Review owl.li/zSSyn
  • The Early Jobs of 24 Famous Writers owl.li/zTdXV
  • Playing an Instrument Is a Great Workout For Your Brain: New Animation Explains Why owl.li/zSNdY
  • A market for emotions: With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet....
  • AIGA: What Creative Directors are Really Looking For in an Online Portfolio owl.li/zSSKr
  • In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was 'Too Fast for the Truth' owl.li/zSJUD
  • 4 Kinds of Bad Advertising Millennials Have Killed Offowl.li/zSH6C
  • This American Lear, or Is Ira Glass crazy? owl.li/zSJfQ
  • SciShow Explains How Different Species of Animals Are Able to Change Color owl.li/zSsye
  • ◉ Recommended: The Invention of Air owl.li/zST8M
  • For WWI Anniversary, the Tower of London Has Become Surrounded by a Sea of Poppiesowl.li/zSHfW
  • ◉ Nuance: A Dance Battle owl.li/zSTkf
  • :Fantastic: The Talking Walls of Buenos Aires  - Google Cultural Institute owl.li/zSrNV
  • ◉ Can you relate? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/3/…
  • The Economics of Your Face owl.li/zSHeP
  • Advertising's New Frontier: Talk to the Bot - WSJowl.li/zShxB
  • What would big cities look like in complete darknessowl.li/zSHd0
  • Today's Google Doodle is great: John Venn's 180th Birthday owl.li/zUQWL
  • Handwritten Typographers: THe handwriting of great typographers. owl.li/zSHbJ
  • Stanford Team Achieves 'Holy Grail' of Battery Design: A Stable Lithium Anode owl.li/zO055
  • Solving The Scourge That Is Slow Hotel Wi-Fiowl.li/zIPQU
  • Injectable foam could keep wounded soldiers aliveowl.li/zLDE9
  • 6 ways to banish guilt from your life owl.li/zHeQa
  • Shakira's 'La La La' is Now the Most-Shared Ad of All Time owl.li/zLBfm
  • How 60 Seconds And One Word A Day Can Reduce Your Stress owl.li/zGeAj
  • NYT considering shorter print edition with unlimited digital access owl.li/zLAVg
  • Why TED Has Given All Of Its Employees A Mandatory Two-Week Summer Vacation owl.li/zGelJ
  • Full-Page Marijuana Ad to Appear in Sunday New York Times owl.li/zTenp
  • How the Internet of Things Changes Business Modelsowl.li/zLzuu
  • Ideo Rebrands Disaster Preparedness owl.li/zIPV0
  • When It Comes To Creativity, Are Two Heads Better Than One? owl.li/zFUY6
  • World's coolest bookstores owl.li/zDrvo
  • US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research owl.li/zFQ5n
  • Hip-hop producer J Dilla's beat-making gear headed to Smithsonian owl.li/zDq7w
  • The Evidence Is In: Patent Trolls Do Hurt Innovationowl.li/zFPHX
  • Kickstarting a doc about making a living in the artsowl.li/zD6ao
  • The Science Behind TED's 18-Minute Rule owl.li/zDtlT
  • 30 for 30 Shorts: ‘The High Five’ - a documentary short on the history of the high five. owl.li/zCVV8
  • How Marvel Became the Envy (and Scourge) of Hollywood owl.li/zDtec
  • The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect owl.li/zDsWn
  • Where Restaurant Reservations Come Fromowl.li/zCVPY
  • The Down And Dirty History Of TMZ owl.li/zCCKK
  • Smart Things in a Not-Smart World - Technologyowl.li/zCVK2
  • ◉ What's the Point of Creativity? owl.li/zCuZt
  • ◉ Recommended: What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame owl.li/zCvjq
  • Art by algorithm: Computer evolves new artworksowl.li/zCCEk
  • PBS Digital Studios to Premiere First Scripted Series, "Frankenstein, M.D." on Tuesday, August 19owl.li/zCVyT
  • The secret of Minecraft owl.li/zCCoe
  • 20 New Yorker Design Stories To Read Nowowl.li/zCD2v
  • McDonald's Will Spend the Next 18 Months Rebranding owl.li/zCCVo

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: August 1, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • PBS Digital Studios to Premiere First Scripted Series, "Frankenstein, M.D." on Tuesday, August 19owl.li/zCVyT
  • The secret of Minecraft owl.li/zCCoe
  • 20 New Yorker Design Stories To Read Nowowl.li/zCD2v
  • McDonald's Will Spend the Next 18 Months Rebranding owl.li/zCCVo
  • The 99U Podcast: Graphic Design Advice with Craig Ward owl.li/zCz1L
  • How to Manage Idea Overflow owl.li/zCzyy
  • ◉ The magic of a clear specification owl.li/zCuWF
  • The Enemies of Invention: Psychology Todayowl.li/zCzxa
  • ◉ Recommended: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much owl.li/zCvhz
  • Permission to Sin: How Moral Licensing Sabotages Your Long-Term Goals owl.li/zCyUe
  • ◉ Vint Cerf Explains The Internet's Address Book -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/27…
  • Hand-Sketching: Things You Didn't Know Your Doodles Could Accomplish owl.li/zCzm6
  • Five Things Rich People Know That You Don't, General Strict Financial Discipline - WSJ.comowl.li/zCyRM
  • Why Your Life Needs A Mission Statement owl.li/zCzfv
  • Introducing the Password as Reminder owl.li/zCz8R
  • World’s Second Richest Man Thinks You Should Only Be Working Three Days a Week owl.li/zCyrB
  • Get More from Your Day by Using 90 Minute Blocksowl.li/zCyIp
  • ◉ Worthwhile Stories owl.li/zCuIN
  • Pixar: How to Create a Creative Culture owl.li/zCyEL
  • ◉ Recommended: The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession owl.li/zCvc3
  • From the unlocked New Yorker archive: A Pickpocket’s Tale- The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins. owl.li/zCy2K
  • ◉ Barcelona: Beautiful Timelapse Short Film -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/26…
  • Maria Popova: Staying Present and Grounded in the Age of Information Overload owl.li/zCyzo
  • Fascinating: The Mark of a Masterpiece- The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art. owl.li/zCxQl
  • How Creative Hobbies Make Us Better At Basically Everything owl.li/zCywX
  • 8 Hilarious Writers Who Landed Their Hollywood Dream Jobs on Twitter owl.li/zCyvx
  • Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world owl.li/zCp8H
  • 7 Questions For Logo Design Legend Ivan Chermayeff owl.li/zCm0i
  • ◉ Creative Destruction owl.li/zCuGk
  • From the unlocked New Yorker archive: How David Beats Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell owl.li/zCxNl
  • The intro to NPR One, NPR's new app, is fantastic. All apps should be introduced by @guyrazowl.li/zIsfA
  • ◉ Recommended: Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! owl.li/zCv9P
  • UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer's Guide To The Tech Industry owl.li/zClYa
  • ◉ The Creative Influence: Michael Bierut -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/26…
  • From The New Yorker's unlocked archive: Pixel Perfect, on photographer and retoucher Pascal Dangin. owl.li/zCxIn
  • What Do Chinese Dumplings Have to Do With Global Warming? owl.li/zClmz
  • Great article- Ambient Genius: The working life of Brian Eno. owl.li/zCxCu
  • Didn't Read Facebook's Fine Print? Here's Exactly What It Says owl.li/zCtEF
  • The Beginner's Guide to Getting Better Sleepowl.li/zClfq
  • Uncovering Algorithms: Looking Inside the Facebook News Feed | MIT owl.li/zvu1U
  • The Necessary Art of Persuasion - Harvard Business Review owl.li/zCiHh
  • Did the invention of the notebook make us more creative? owl.li/zvhee
  • ◉ In praise of laziness owl.li/zCuDN
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 25, 2014 owl.li/zFRNm
  • A Quick Animated Tour of Iconic Modernist Housesowl.li/zC3f2
  • ◉ Recommended: The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era owl.li/zCv5p
  • 4 Things You Thought Were True About Time Management owl.li/zvh7Q
  • ◉ Tony Schwartz: To Solve Big Problems, Change Your Process - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/26…
  • Great podcast episode of Digital Human about selling.owl.li/zAHIP
  • Unpacking the Science: How Playing Music Changes the Learning Brain owl.li/zu7AP
  • A History of the Future in 100 Objects owl.li/zAvFo
  • Re-Creating The Magic Of Harry Potter In The Real World owl.li/zAqYQ
  • Browse 'The New Yorker' archives free of charge for the rest of the summer owl.li/zqxbI
  • 7 things good communicators must not doowl.li/znnbE
  • Ingenious Signs Ensure You Always Get A Seat On The Train owl.li/zpF8W
  • Can Creativity Be Learned? owl.li/znas1
  • These Futuristic Perfumes Smell Like Things That Will Be Destroyed By Climate Change owl.li/zpuas
  • What Creative People Need To Do To Protect Their Work owl.li/zn9U4
  • 9 Science-Backed Methods For More Productive Meetings owl.li/zptJL
  • Behind the Traveler Photo Contest – Intelligent Travelowl.li/zn8jG
  • Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organizationowl.li/zppPM
  • New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers. | MIT News owl.li/zo23Z
  • Not Sleeping Well? Blame the Moon owl.li/zmVT2
  • How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World owl.li/zm63i
  • What price is right for great theatre? owl.li/zm8BR
  • 10 Tips For Leading Through Changes owl.li/zm62D
  • The Future of Opera. Is It Dead? - WSJ owl.li/zm8zc
  • War Of Words At Met Opera May Signal Shutdownowl.li/zC3k8
  • Infographic: Every Trip To The Moon, Everowl.li/zm60o
  • Are Multiplayer Games the Future of Education?owl.li/zm8wR
  • How amusement parks hijack your brain owl.li/zm5XC
  • The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future owl.li/zm8wd
  • The Creativity Pill? owl.li/zm6vj
  • Nonfiction Books About America’s 50 Statesowl.li/zm4ol
  • In The Information Age, You Can’t Google Good Ideasowl.li/zm1TW
  • What A Bonsai Tree Looks Like Suspended In Spaceowl.li/zm46f
  • ◉ In praise of laziness owl.li/zm8nR
  • 100 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) owl.li/zm1Sq
  • MIT Will Teach You Photojournalism For Freeowl.li/zm45w
  • MIT photography course materials freely available online owl.li/zm1RL
  • ◉ Recommended: The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era owl.li/zm840
  • Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking owl.li/zm20t
  • DRM-free indie ebooks outsell DRM-locked ones 2:1owl.li/zm0Z3

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: July 25, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Ancient Tooth Plaque Shows Our Ancestors Used to Feast on Weeds owl.li/zm0xf
  • What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful? owl.li/zk6BW
  • How to Be a Better Traveler - Scientific Americanowl.li/zm0r7
  • Take An Electrifying Look Inside The World's First Light Art Museum owl.li/zk6wW
  • ◉ LOUD owl.li/zm8m4
  • 8 Places for Thrifty Bookworms to Download Free E-Books owl.li/zm0p9
  • 6 Design Concepts From IDEO That Rethink Agingowl.li/zisON
  • ◉ Recommended: The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born owl.li/zm7Yj
  • Starbucks Has Bigger Plans in Mobile Payments Than Most People Realize owl.li/zm0n5
  • Amazing: Restaurants in Cool and Unexpected Placesowl.li/zisLe
  • Why do we have blood types? We still don’t really know what blood types are for. Do they really matter?owl.li/zm0iZ
  • Amazing: 36 Realistically Colorized Historical Photos Make the Past Seem Incredibly Alive owl.li/zlZq2
  • Google Analytics gets its own official dedicated iPhone app so you can view your data on the go owl.li/zisKl
  • While critics sneer, scientists try to make sense of our love of weepy books and movies. owl.li/zi5Lk
  • How Google’s New Font Tries to Anticipate the Futureowl.li/zisGj
  • ◉ The Arecibo Observatory: Beyond The Big Dreamsowl.li/zm8j1
  • How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World owl.li/zi5w1
  • 10 tips on how to make slides that really communicate your idea owl.li/zisES
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 21, 2014 owl.li/zvds7
  • ◉ Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Deploy or die. -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • 50 Excellent Fabulist Books Everyone Should Readowl.li/zi5ax
  • ◉ Recommended: Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign owl.li/zm7Vk
  • How Side Projects Improve Our Performance at Everything owl.li/ziszb
  • Thirty Things I’ve Learned — Nick Crockerowl.li/zi2uO
  • The Big Mystery Behind the Great Train Robbery May Finally Have Been Solved owl.li/zi6dc
  • Italy Turns To Corporate Sponsors To Maintain Its Monuments - NYTimes.com owl.li/zi5Y6
  • Darwin’s complete Galapagos library posted onlineowl.li/zhKbo
  • How to use Siri for iPhone and iPad: The ultimate guide owl.li/zfuwi
  • The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions - John Winsor - Harvard Business Review owl.li/zhJGI
  • ◉ Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 owl.li/zm8gB
  • The Brilliant Machine That Could Finally Fix Airport Security owl.li/zfurg
  • Essential: Longform's 25 Favorite Unlocked New Yorker Articles owl.li/zsyvs
  • Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains owl.li/zhJtV
  • We need this: A maps app that algorithmically finds you the scenic route owl.li/zfugb
  • ◉ Being Digital: Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • ◉ Recommended: Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising owl.li/zm7NM
  • What happens when Shakespeare is translated? Is it still Shakespeare? owl.li/zhdP9
  • Chocolate? Pfft, MIT students are 3D printing with ice cream owl.li/zfp0A
  • Take a 3D tour of London with Google's latest Maps update owl.li/zgSat
  • MIT researchers want to power your cellphone with dew owl.li/zgS3A
  • Out in the Open: A Tool That Will Make It Easier to Abolish Email Entirely owl.li/zfdpC
  • Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?owl.li/zdNg8
  • Facebook Users Can Now DVR Content, Including Ads owl.li/zpZFe
  • Trivia App Tests Your Design Nerdiness owl.li/zfcum
  • Batman at 75: Lisa Granshaw on why pop culture can’t let the Dark Knight go owl.li/zdL3U
  • ◉ 10 Reasons To Love Science with Neil deGrasse Tyson owl.li/zm8eq
  • MoMA Design Curator Paola Antonelli On The Dark Side Of Design owl.li/zfbAt
  • Facebook to track users' TV habits - LA Timesowl.li/zcRK9
  • ◉ Recommended: Confessions of an Advertising Manowl.li/zm7J3
  • Is Music The Easiest Way On Earth To Learn Programming? owl.li/zfbk5
  • ◉ Nick Crocker: Thirty Things I've Learned -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • Inside the Teenage Brain: Psychology Todayowl.li/zcRpj
  • For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work owl.li/zfaP6
  • One man and his robot are responsible for 8.5 percent of Wikipedia owl.li/zfaq6
  • Stress-Busting Diet: 8 Foods That May Boost Resilience owl.li/zcRjv
  • Classical musicians and the terror of the auditionowl.li/zbyDv
  • MIT's flying robot keeps moving photo subjects bathed in light owl.li/zbWb1
  • How to keep the audience laughing at a sitcom taping—even on take 10 owl.li/zby0S
  • 50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics owl.li/zbMYg
  • What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?owl.li/zbxk9
  • Mobile Technology Fact Sheet- Pew Researchowl.li/zbA7r
  • Atlantic City Ballet moves to the boardwalkowl.li/zbwV8
  • Here are the apps teens actually love, in 5 chartsowl.li/zbzHm
  • Five things about Gen Y that charities need to knowowl.li/zbzmi
  • The Science Of Cool owl.li/zbsqo
  • 11 Frida Kahlo Quotes That Will Inspire Any Young Creative owl.li/zbcj5
  • David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?owl.li/zbkZe
  • Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers owl.li/zbc7Q
  • Uniqlo Designs New Uniforms For MoMA's Security Guards owl.li/zbkU2
  • The Secret History Behind The Science Of Stressowl.li/z9Oec
  • Fantastic: David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire owl.li/zbkhG
  • The Power of the Behind The Scenes Workerowl.li/z9NU3
  • Bill Gates's Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker owl.li/zbjZr
  • NASA's Next Giant Leap: Mars owl.li/zbj8W
  • 10 Brands That Will Disappear This Year- TIMEowl.li/z9NQ9
  • Ricky Gervais Shares His Secrets for Success: Be a "Cocky Little Nobody" owl.li/z9Agk
  • Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length? owl.li/z9JDF
  • BBC News - The costs and benefits of publishing your own books owl.li/z9A9n
  • Can Memes Exist Outside of the Internet?owl.li/z9Jmx
  • Inside Disney's Virtual Playground for Fantasies: Video - Bloomberg owl.li/z9A1A

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: July 18, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • 10 Brands That Will Disappear This Year- TIMEowl.li/z9NQ9
  • Ricky Gervais Shares His Secrets for Success: Be a "Cocky Little Nobody" owl.li/z9Agk
  • Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length? owl.li/z9JDF
  • BBC News - The costs and benefits of publishing your own books owl.li/z9A9n
  • Can Memes Exist Outside of the Internet?owl.li/z9Jmx
  • Inside Disney's Virtual Playground for Fantasies: Video - Bloomberg owl.li/z9A1A
  • Cult Novels: An Essential List owl.li/z9HtL
  • How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent -NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wL1
  • Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are rightowl.li/z9Biv
  • Contemplative practices boost creativity in problem-solving owl.li/z9B2x
  • Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers - NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wkU
  • Relevance Is The New Remarkableowl.li/z94SK
  • It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide - Didier Bonnet owl.li/z9weK
  • The software design trends that we love to hateowl.li/z8Z2e
  • Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook) - Michael Schrage owl.li/z9waa
  • Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?owl.li/z8WBN
  • Advice From 10 Creative Technologists We Love owl.li/z9vZy
  • Lessons From The Man Who Managed Reddit's Community Of Millions owl.li/z8MhV
  • 10 Tech Trends That Are Too Big To Seeowl.li/z9vVg
  • MIT's new material opens the door to squishable, shape-shifting robots owl.li/z9usZ
  • Pondering Platform Monopolies – AVCowl.li/z8M9Q
  • How to be more confident, according to scienceowl.li/z8rGC
  • Why I’m so negative about positivity — Paul Jarvis owl.li/z8Kbp
  • 4 Surprising Things Facebook Has Learned From Your Relationship Status owl.li/z8mLj
  • The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valleyowl.li/z8sEp
  • Nescafé Unveils New Logo and Global Branding owl.li/z8inp
  • Cutting the High Cost of Digital Living -NYTimes.com owl.li/z8skH
  • Down but Not Out: The Uncertain Future of the Crossword Puzzle owl.li/z813W
  • FontShop Joins Monotype owl.li/zdNyi
  • Unexpected: Apple, IBM in Deal to Create Apps, Sell Phones - WSJ owl.li/zdLz9
  • Digitizing the Family History - NYTimes.comowl.li/z8s7b
  • How to Take Your Cellphone Abroad (and Not Come Home Broke) owl.li/z8rWs
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 14, 2014owl.li/zcRbK
  • Ikea Gets Into Your Dreams With Trippy, Shakespearean New Ad owl.li/z5FfU
  • Discover the Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 13,000 Live Concert Videosowl.li/z5DdB
  • The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/z5FaZ
  • The Power of Maps, Past and Presentowl.li/z5Da1
  • 100 Famous Directors’ Filmmaking Adviceowl.li/z5F7p
  • 15 Music Videos Filmed In One Shotowl.li/z5D8I
  • The CIA's Style Manual & Writer's Guide: 185 Pages of Tips for Writing Like a Spyowl.li/z5Dpm
  • Apple launches developer blog for new Swift programming language owl.li/z5keY
  • When Your Skin Smells Sandalwood Oil, It Heals Itself owl.li/z5Dol
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/z5Df0
  • 11 Grammar Lessons From the Leaked CIA Style Book owl.li/z2kCj
  • Trust Us: The Ethics of Our Automated Futureowl.li/yYQcu
  • Secrets From The Brains Of 13 Creative Geniuses owl.li/z1AZc
  • Amazing: Museum of Natural History Announces First Adult-Only Sleepoverowl.li/yYQa3
  • The 20 most popular talks of all time: TED.comowl.li/z1jZ0
  • 10 Fashion and Beauty Items That Are Older Than You Think owl.li/yYQ6F
  • The 10 Most Viral Ads of 2014 (So Far)owl.li/z1jTZ
  • How to thrive in a world where change is constant owl.li/yW99b
  • TED Playlist: Kickstart your creativityowl.li/z13A0
  • The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/yYQrL
  • Do People Only Use 10% of Their Brains?owl.li/yW952
  • English Is The World's Top Borrower And Lender Of Words owl.li/yTdf1
  • Praise the artist who dances on the edgeowl.li/yVzEB
  • Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Emotions | MIT Technology Review owl.li/yTd15
  • Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Agoowl.li/yVzg5
  • Never-Before-Seen Photos Show How Gone With The Wind Was Made. owl.li/yTczs
  • What Will Happen To English As More And More People Worldwide Speak It? owl.li/yUfjv
  • Creativity: It’s not what we make, it’s how we live. owl.li/yTc0W
  • Disney Picks 11 Tech and Media Firms for Startup-Accelerator Program owl.li/yTdvF
  • A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity - NYTimes.com owl.li/yTdpB
  • Milton Glaser on Making Miracles on Vimeoowl.li/yTbiN
  • Ikea Built Something New: An Instagram Website owl.li/yPHMr
  • In 1938, the New York Times Thought Disney Toys Would Save the U.S. Economy owl.li/yTajk
  • 6 Surprising Things That Can Influence Your Dreams owl.li/yPHL0
  • The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything owl.li/yTa5V
  • Jake Scott Directs Jude Law in Stylish New Johnnie Walker Film To Be Shown at Venice Film Festival owl.li/yPHEj
  • Meet the game that shows us the future of storytelling owl.li/yT9Yg
  • 11 Photographs of Mysterious Megalithsowl.li/yPHAJ
  • New York Police Department's Facebook page now includes posts that read like newspaper articles - WSJ owl.li/yPWP7
  • The World's 17 Best Print Campaigns of 2013-14 owl.li/yPS8j
  • Norman Mailer's 1191-Page Harlot's Ghost Outlined in One Handwritten Sheetowl.li/yPHy0
  • Debate: Are We Trying To Save Arts Or Organizations? (Why Some Arts Organizations Should Die) owl.li/yONZw
  • Winners of the 2014 Apple Design Awardsowl.li/yOP8O
  • Wolf Trap to unveil supertitles on your smartphone for opera performancesowl.li/yONTm
  • Meet Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of Trust and Safety owl.li/yOOSD
  • Why the Research on Viewing TV Is Best Ignored - NYTimes.com owl.li/yONSh
  • Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections owl.li/yOOOE
  • Box-Office Data on New Met Productions Illustrate the Company's Struggle - WSJowl.li/yONRx

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.