The Week's Links: August 29, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • An Unusual Cure for Not Enough Sleephttp://owl.li/AFrtQ

  • Brad Templeton: Privacy and Security Are Not Mutually Exclusive owl.li/AFugC
  • A study shows how the memory of failure can help you learn faster. owl.li/AHT3G
  • HBO could clear $600 million per year with online streaming owl.li/AFrsn
  • Half Of The United States Lives In These Countiesowl.li/AFcZZ
  • The beautiful spiral ink drawings of Chan Hwee Chongowl.li/AFbT0
  • 89 Essential Quotes About Design owl.li/AEmyp
  • Last Call — Clay Shirky on The end of the printed newspaper. owl.li/AFbRI
  • Dunkin’ Donuts And Starbucks: A Tale Of Two Coffee Marketing Giants owl.li/AEmx9
  • A Picture Of Language: The Fading Art Of Diagramming Sentences owl.li/AErFv
  • Designing an Effective Donate Form owl.li/AEmv9
  • The Look Of Funny: How The Onion's Art Department Works owl.li/AEmF1
  • How To Sell Diverse Books: A Bookstore Owner's Advice owl.li/ADqYZ
  • Fantastic: First Flight with the Wright Brothersowl.li/AFnEB
  • Sleep in Ikea Showrooms Through Airbnb in Australiaowl.li/ADqTV
  • Making Mistakes : TED Radio Hour : NPRowl.li/ADq4D
  • ‘From Under The Rust’, A Short Profile of Train Car Restorer Charlie Sedgley owl.li/ADoAY
  • This Is Your Brain on Silence owl.li/ADpXX
  • Next for Virtual Reality: Video, Without the Games -NYTimes.com owl.li/ADow9
  • CHINA'S FUTURE | The Economist explores China's economy and history. owl.li/ADoQF
  • Explore A Van Gogh-Styled Google Maps Remixowl.li/ADoqn
  • ◉ Robert Brunner: What All Great Design Companies Know - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/24…
  • You Can Increase Your Intelligence: 5 ways to Maximize Your Cognitive Potential owl.li/ADoFh
  • Ralph Lauren debuts iOS-connected fitness & health tracking Polo Tech t-shirt owl.li/AMegu
  • How to Solve Google’s Crazy Open-Ended Interview Questions owl.li/ADqWc
  • The sustained success of the immersive theatre show Then She Fell, inspired by the Life and Work of Lewis Carroll owl.li/ADooJ
  • How We Did It: Project Edison | IDEO Labsowl.li/ADock
  • New Jersey Is Testing Solar-Power Commuter Podsowl.li/ACnmp
  • The Vocoder began as an early telecommunications device and a top-secret military encoding machineowl.li/AxOwF
  • Flowchart: David Foster Wallace On How To Live A Compassionate Life owl.li/AygL8
  • Children’s drawings could predict their intelligence later in life owl.li/AxOaG
  • Help NASA Out by Looking at Beautiful Pictures of Space owl.li/AyeaQ
  • Hyperlapse, Instagram’s New App, Is Like a $15,000 Video Setup in Your Hand owl.li/AK3fU
  • Beautiful: Wired UK typography owl.li/AxO5l
  • ◉ A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/23…
  • Fantastically Wrong: Why People Were Terrified of Nighttime Air Until the 1900s owl.li/Aydlt
  • ‘Beep’, A Documentary About the History of Sound in Video Games owl.li/ADogT
  • TED Playlist: Kickstart your creativity owl.li/AxNKZ
  • Fitness Trackers Show How Many People Woke Up During the Bay Area Quake owl.li/AImJk
  • Disney Research algorithm merges and edits multiple first-person video feeds into one seamless cut. “Social Video” Algorithm...
  • Amazing: Folger's Shakespeare Library Releases 80,000 Images of Literary Art Into the Public Domainowl.li/Axtie
  • The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career owl.li/Avn8K
  • One Step Ahead: Improving Performance with Prebrowsing owl.li/AxqAr
  • ∞ Every Hitchcock cameo owl.li/AvmGN
  • Bunda Cliffs in Australia: Is this the End of the World?owl.li/AvnUD
  • The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks owl.li/Av8PJ
  • ◉ How To Be Different -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/23…
  • The 30-year-old health sector billionaire owl.li/AvnEX
  • The Most Productive People Know Who to Ignore - Ed Batista - Harvard Business Review owl.li/AxNET
  • Are You Anxious or Stressed? owl.li/Av8Eb
  • The Ultimate Directory Of Free Image Sourcesowl.li/Av5oh
  • Nicholas Felton Quantified Literally Every Conversation He Had in 2013 owl.li/Av4WK
  • Beautiful Open is a compendium of beautifully-designed open source projects owl.li/Av2qV
  • Ad Staffers Are Going Back To School To Learn Digital Skills owl.li/Av4tV
  • Why the World Smells Different After It Rainsowl.li/Av2kr
  • The Internet Is Officially More Popular Than Cable in the U.S. owl.li/Av4iF
  • Great Read: Why I design at Facebook — The Year of the Looking Glass owl.li/Av2gm
  • TED Playlist: How leaders inspire owl.li/Av37D
  • Age and Gender Matter in Viral Marketing - Kelsey Libert - Harvard Business Review owl.li/Av5xl
  • All the Stuff Soldiers Have Carried in Battle, From the 11th Century to Today owl.li/Av1Mf
  • How Long Would It Take the Whole World to do the Ice Bucket Challenge? WIRED does the math.owl.li/Av0Od
  • Lessons From The Last Time Civilization Collapsedowl.li/Av0v2
  • The Future of Mobile Apps for News owl.li/AuScS
  • Let’s talk about margins owl.li/AuZey
  • 4 Apps That Get You Lost, So You Can Have Actual Experiences owl.li/AuMId
  • 118 Years Ago, The New York Times Crowdsourced a New Motto owl.li/AuX1S
  • How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever owl.li/AuHTY
  • The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Adam Carolla’s Settlement with the Podcasting Troll owl.li/AuWOz
  • Before He Died, Richard III Lived Large owl.li/Av1Cm
  • What a Pickpocket Can Teach You About Time Management owl.li/Auwyv
  • The National Park Service turns 98 on Monday, and all park entrance fees will be waived owl.li/ADmt6
  • More than a toy: Oculus Rift VR headset becomes a tool for real-life surgery demos owl.li/AunMj
  • Writers Who Published Great Books Before Age 25owl.li/Aunec
  • The Artist, the Thief, the Forger, and her Lover. How did the “Mona Lisa” become famous? owl.li/As7Zq
  • The Engineer of the Original Apple Mouse Talks About His Remarkable Career owl.li/AshSS
  • ◉ Alain de Botton: Art for Life's Sake owl.li/ArodN
  • A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it owl.li/As9eL
  • The End of Authentication. You just discovered a Vermeer in your aunt’s basement. But who will verify if it is real? owl.li/As7K0
  • ◉ Recommended: Company owl.li/ArsfU
  • 6 Ways Your Brain Tries To Kill Your Ideas And How To Fight Them owl.li/As88E
  • Forgeries Gone Wild! How widespread is art forgery?owl.li/As7wP

 

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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.

Robert Brunner: What All Great Design Companies Know→

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What’s the secret to becoming a legendary design company like Apple or BMW? In this 99U talk, designer Robert Brunner deconstructs his creative process revealing the stories behind products like Beats by Dre headphones and the Polaroid Cube.

First, he says, recognize that a brand belongs to your customers. ”You don’t own your brand. A brand isn’t a logo or packaging,” he says. “It’s a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand.” Secondly, most people view design as a part of the production chain, you get requirements in and out comes a product. But design is the chain, and for the best products it permeates every step. “It should be a topic of conversation constantly,” he says. “Thats how you make great stuff.”

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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.

A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film

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Tony Zhou explores the effects of technology on cinematic storytelling: 

Is there a better way of showing a text message in a film? How about the internet? Even though we’re well into the digital age, film is still ineffective at depicting the world we live in. Maybe the solution lies not in content, but in form.
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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.

How To Be Different

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Bernadette Jiwa on differentiation: 

The reason it’s not easy to copy a truly great brand is because they have put so much of themselves into the work— that there is no substitute. There is only one Banksy, one Dyson and one Disney. They each show up uniquely as brands in the world by being more of who they are.
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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 22, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 6 Ways Your Brain Tries To Kill Your Ideas And How To Fight Them http://owl.li/As88E
  • ◉ Recommended: Company http://owl.li/ArsfU
  • The End of Authentication. You just discovered a Vermeer in your aunt’s basement. But who will verify if it is real? http://owl.li/As7K0
  • Forgeries Gone Wild! How widespread is art forgery?owl.li/As7wP
  • Uber for Art Forgeries. how to score that painting you have always wanted. owl.li/As7ku
  • The anti-Facebook: one in four American neighborhoods are now using this private social network owl.li/ArL8A
  • This Is Not a Vermeer™ Can anyone own a masterpiece? owl.li/As6H4
  • ◉ Oxford University Press and the Making of a Bookowl.li/Aro5U
  • Facebook’s New Policy Is Damaging Nonprofits - Nonprofit Quarterly owl.li/Aq9ob
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/As44z
  • Best Books You Won’t Read in School owl.li/Aq35t
  • ◉ Portugal Hyperlapse/Timelapse (Lisbon & Sesimbra) - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/20…
  • ◉ Recommended: Machine Man owl.li/Ars5b
  • Apple Beats Bud, Nike and GE to Win the 2014 Emmy for Best Commercial owl.li/As2uW
  • 5 Things UX And UI Designers Could Learn From Wes Anderson owl.li/Aq30T
  • 89 Essential Quotes About Design - Print Magazineowl.li/Aq2EI
  • Best Concert Movies Ever Made owl.li/Aq2Bf
  • Humans need not apply owl.li/ApX3F
  • Happy 100th Birthday To Legendary Graphic Designer Paul Rand owl.li/Aq2sX
  • ◉ A Day of Grace with Boston Ballet owl.li/ArnzK
  • 6 Creatives And Their Curious Relationships With Sleep owl.li/ApWV8
  • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internetowl.li/Aq28m
  • When will Twitter no longer be Twitter? Twitter Starts to Change the Central Logic of Its Service owl.li/Axr6V
  • Great series by Re/code: I Want It, and I Want It Now — It’s Time for Instant Gratification owl.li/ApWQv
  • ◉ Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/18…
  • ◉ Recommended: Jennifer Government owl.li/ArrMy
  • Sleep and the economy: A little problem with the jobs recovery | The Economist owl.li/ApXDj
  • Apologies From The Creator Of The Pop-Up Adowl.li/Aq2PX
  • The Reluctantly Quantified Parent owl.li/ApWF7
  • The Internet's Original Sin owl.li/ApVfC
  • Amazing: Peek Inside The World’s Forbidden Subway Tunnels owl.li/ApAMD
  • America’s Tumbleweeds Are Actually Russian Invaders owl.li/ApzqR
  • Are You a Geek or a Nerd? owl.li/ApAJW
  • How To Come Back To Work After A Vacation Without Being Miserable owl.li/ApzoB
  • ◉ Chris Jones: Storytelling is magic owl.li/ArnpX
  • ◉ J'adore Paris -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/17…
  • Eight Diseases To Watch Out For At the Beachowl.li/ApAGs
  • The Best Features of Facebook Messenger You're Probably Not Using owl.li/ApwQe
  • Exciting: PBS Digital Studios' first scripted, multiplatform series "Frankenstein, MD" premieres today! owl.li/AuwdY
  • ◉ Recommended: The Genius of Design owl.li/ArruB
  • The Mystery of Murakami owl.li/ApAEI
  • The Most Creative Women In Advertising owl.li/ApVsY
  • The Essays That Got Applicants Into Harvard Business School owl.li/Apvsk
  • Using Tableau and Google Analytics to Build Beautiful, Useful Maps owl.li/AoV4V
  • ‘Panteon de Dolores’, A Cartoon Light Show Performed on Tombstones in a Mexican Cemeteryowl.li/AoV3b
  • Digital To-Do Lists Are Fine, But What Really Motivates Us? owl.li/AoTzx
  • The Economist explains: Why Ebola won't become a pandemic owl.li/AoV10
  • ◉ George Balanchine and NYC Ballet owl.li/Arnh8
  • A Photographer Puts You Face-to-Face With Sharks, by Swimming Uncaged owl.li/AoOeC
  • We Are Verbs: Human Existence as Perpetual Becoming owl.li/AoTK4
  • Amazing! This will be used in live performances very soon: Face-tracking projection owl.li/ArMwb
  • Violinist Plays During Brain Surgery To Help Surgeons Find Exactly What's Causing Tremor owl.li/Ansi2
  • ◉ What Makes A Family Of Artists -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/17…
  • ◉ Recommended: On Writing owl.li/Arrla
  • ▶ The Definitive Guide to Object-Oriented JavaScriptowl.li/AoTAf
  • 11 Smells That Are Slowly Disappearing owl.li/Apvaz
  • Which Cities Get the Most Sleep? owl.li/AmIl7
  • Meet the First Woman to Win Math’s Most Prestigious Prize owl.li/Al2nt
  • Edible Flowers Find A Sweet Companion In Chocolateowl.li/Al1Pf
  • CERN scientists simplify space-time in 3 short videosowl.li/AkHGT
  • Reasons why Americans Don't Like Breakfast Cereal Anymore. The once-loved product whose sales went soggy. owl.li/Al0fK
  • Pure CSS parallax scrolling websites owl.li/AkAcH
  • Diversity of Various Tech Companies By the Numbersowl.li/AkRtT
  • How This Algorithm Detected The Ebola Outbreak Before Humans Could owl.li/AkzPz
  • 7 Ways To Inspire Your Curiosity owl.li/AkOtk
  • 12 Reasons to Stop What You're Doing and Read a Book owl.li/Al5Ws
  • Water and air are all you need to make one of world’s most important chemicals owl.li/AkygW
  • Google consortium to build trans-Pacific, undersea fiber-optic cable owl.li/AkikZ
  • Sugar: the evolution of a forbidden fruit owl.li/Akh5m
  • Supermoon photographs from around the worldowl.li/Aj0Ri
  • Fascinating: Meet the Beer Bottle Dictator - Kent ‘Battle’ Martin approves essentially every beer label in the US owl.li/AkgIy
  • Infographic: Everything You Need to Know About the Millennial Consumer owl.li/AixTx
  • Daily Report: As Social Media Studies Proliferate, Experts Weigh Ethics Guidelines owl.li/AkfWi
  • Julian Friedmann Talks About The Mystery of Storytelling on TEDx owl.li/AiovF
  • Supermoon 2014 - In Focus - The Atlantic owl.li/Ak3jL
  • Thousands of Royalty-Free Assets for Adobe Creative Cloud Subscribers owl.li/AinBY
  • Google consortium to build trans-Pacific, undersea fiber-optic cable owl.li/AksMP
  • How To Figure Out Your Most Productive Time Of Dayowl.li/Ahw0z
  • What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund: A phenomenology of reading by a renowned book cover designer. owl.li/AfQQd
  • Design Salaries Survey with info graphics owl.li/AfPQ9
  • The Domestic Cat Genome Has Been Fully Sequenced, and It's Fascinating owl.li/AfQo4
  • ◉ George Balanchine and NYC Ballet owl.li/AaGxb
  • Venture out of your comfort zone. owl.li/AfQ9R
  • Fontface Ninja- it helps you identify the fonts, size and spacing used on any website owl.li/AfPEm
  • 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
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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.