Sophie Scott: Why we laugh

Did you know that you're 13 times more likely to laugh if you're with somebody else than if you're alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts about laughter in this fast-paced, action-packed and, yes, hilarious dash through the science of the topic.

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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.

Are we viral yet? The Allusionist Podcast

Remember when 'viral' used to only mean something bad, IE something that would make you ill or destroy your computer? How things have changed. Tom Phillips from Buzzfeed UK explains the language they choose to make content go viral. Visit http://theallusionist.org/viral to find out more about this episode. Tweet @allusionistshow, and convene at facebook.com/allusionistshow. The Allusionist is a proud member of http://Radiotopia.fm for http://PRX.org.

Discovered yet another great podcast recently.  The Allusionist, etymological adventures with Helen Zaltzman in a fortnightly podcast. 

Remember when 'viral' used to only mean something bad, IE something that would make you ill or destroy your computer?

In this episode Helen explores the evolution of the word viral. 

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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: 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.