The Week's Links (9.25.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• Estimating the Damage to the U.S. Economy Caused by Angry Birdsowl.li/6vG5E
• Spoilers: The Future According To Films owl.li/6tEl8
• Letter of recommendation for 16 year old Orson Welles “He is talented to the point of genius” owl.li/6tAE9
• Live Action, Tilt-Shift, Miniatures & CGI All Seamlessly Featured In Reseau Ferre de France Spot owl.li/6CEFh
• The Psychology Of Yogurt owl.li/6xBkW Trust your gut.
• Emigre type specimen catalogs now available as PDFs owl.li/6BOmP
• The Neuroscience of Success owl.li/6rm08
• Facebook’s New Strategy to Turn Eyeballs Into Influence - NYTimes.comowl.li/6CFME
• Live Action, Tilt-Shift, Miniatures & CGI All Seamlessly Featured In Reseau Ferre de France Spot owl.li/1eNR2g
• Urbanized: A Documentary Film by Gary Hustwit owl.li/6CpJ7 Looking forward to it. Wish @gary_hustwit would do “Branded” doc next.
• Burberry Tweets Fall Collection Before Models Hit Runway owl.li/6CofT
• Speed of light ‘broken’ by scientists owl.li/6Ci09
• The Planner Survey 2011 | Buy me, I’ll change your life owl.li/6xoCJ
• Minute Physics, One Minute Animations That Explain Physics Conceptsowl.li/6xoHN
• State Of The Internet 2011 owl.li/6BRH6
• Joi Ito, Director at MIT Media Lab, Discusses The Changing Meaning Of Leadership With Errol Morris owl.li/1eNgUg
• State Of The Internet 2011 owl.li/6xovG
• Smashing WordPress - Coding WordPress-based websites owl.li/6zDHe
• How Tech Is Changing the Museum Experience owl.li/6BRlT
• FitVids.JS - A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds. owl.li/6zDfR
• 9 MIT Media Lab Ideas That Are Changing Lives (or Will Soon) owl.li/6vRZM
• What does an infant’s affinity to Apple say about how technology affects us and our daily lives? owl.li/6BNY0
• How Shakespearean are you? owl.li/6BSiJ
• Advertising Week is right around the corner (Oct 3-7). owl.li/6BNhe
• In Co.Design’s 50 Most Influential Designers, Where’s The Social Design?owl.li/6BMUM
• CultureLab: Björk: I was always a bit of a nerd owl.li/6BMqZ
• Why the fax machine refuses to die owl.li/6rgGP
• The best changes IT can make: top 5 Ars Technica reader suggestionsowl.li/6BFqB
• Creativity Top 5: September 19, 2011 owl.li/1eMATj
• How Will Shortz Edits a New York Times Crossword Puzzle owl.li/6vS9q
• Original Creators: David Bowie | The Creators Project owl.li/6tETU
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 12: Ian Frazier digs into piggery owl.li/6zF3f
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 5: Hacking Art & Culture with F.A.T. Labowl.li/1eM5mF
• All About What Makes Photos Great? - LIFE owl.li/6rgA0
• Merrill Brockway’s ‘Dance in America’ for New Generation owl.li/6xMCd
• The science of the trailer - why some trailers are better than the movie.owl.li/6rcwD
• Setting Boundaries & Saying No… Nicely owl.li/6vS5r
• An Article of Faith for Marketers: Place No Faith in Articles - WSJ.comowl.li/6vRr9
• Why Some Languages Sound So Much Faster than Others owl.li/6tENG
• MacArthur Foundation Announces Winners of ‘Genius’ Awards - NYTimes.com owl.li/6zCQw
• All About Fonts‽ Simon Garfield’s Just My Type owl.li/1eKXgw
• Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass owl.li/6zxiQ And speaking of Radiolab.
• MacArthur Genius Grants Announced, Radiolab Host Among Recipientsowl.li/6zxbJ
• WSJ Social, For a World Where Facebook Is the New Internet owl.li/6zwpuWSJ launches Facebook app.
• The art of craft: the rise of the designer-maker owl.li/6rcCY
• How To Collaborate Without Killing Someone owl.li/6vBZ0
• Imagination: Creating the Future of Education & Work owl.li/6tErD
• The Dark Art of Pricing, must-read by Jessica Hische owl.li/6riFS
• The Conjuring Arts Research Center, A Real Life Hogwarts owl.li/1eK0jb
• 20 theater shows to see this fall - Time Out New York owl.li/6xMsO
• Zero Hour Bus Tours: aural theatre wakes up on the night bus owl.li/6rcBp

The Week's Links (9.18.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• Registration Open for Futures of Entertainment 5 owl.li/6xEyT
• What if the Secret to Success Is Failure? - NYTimes.com owl.li/6xBms
• The Willpower Circuit owl.li/6qQQT The marshmallow experiment 40 years later.
• 30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney, a must-see end-of-week treat owl.li/1eIYtS
• The Perils of a Wandering Mind owl.li/6lPFi Is daydreaming bad for you?
• Google Aims Dart To Kill JavaScript owl.li/6vRz4
• Osaka Station City Dynamic Water Sculpture owl.li/1eIRZL
• Peter Lovatt: ‘Dancing can change the way you think’ owl.li/6hbTG
• How the Boston Globe Pulled Off HTML5 Responsive Design owl.li/6vRt5
• Season 7 of @debbiemillman’s Design Matters starts today with Michael Arad, designer of the 9/11 Memorial. owl.li/6wqng
• How Does the Brain Work? owl.li/6vGTt
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 11: Tom Junod on Mister Rogers and graceowl.li/6tCId
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 10: Ralph Wiley tackles Jim Brown owl.li/6tCGJ
• Mapnificent - Dynamic Public Transport Travel Time Maps owl.li/6hbxDAvailable for major cities. Very cool.
• The Devil’s Drink by Luke Fentress owl.li/6vqji Is coffee the work of the devil? 2.25 billion cups are consumed per day.
• 50 Most Influential Designers in America | Fast Company owl.li/6vQ0K
• Registration Open for Futures of Entertainment 5 owl.li/6vPLj
• New Consortium Finances Arts Projects to Aid Recovery - NYTimes.comowl.li/6vH2K
• Dear great teachers, ThanksForTeaching.Us owl.li/6vDlD
• Amazon.com: @Author, connecting writers and readers via Kindelowl.li/6lQ3o
• Chefs aim to save the world owl.li/6vGbR
• Where’s Adobe Taking Us? — What does the future hold for Graphic Designers? owl.li/6qP12
• There is no software for leadership.
• Getting Started on the Google+ API owl.li/6vCQP
• Guardian launches national Book Swap with 15,000-volume giveaway. Books left in public places around the UK. owl.li/6vBPq
• First Lady Michelle Obama honors National Design Awards Winnersowl.li/1eHXFE
• Reliable Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Internet Explorer owl.li/6lPyF
• How to Focus Mind Map owl.li/1eHQWY
• Leaflet - a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade owl.li/6gUo2
• Seminal Productivity Ideas owl.li/68Prf
• YouTube adds a built-in video editor owl.li/6uQks
• Facebook Introduces the Subscribe Button owl.li/6uMCc Yet another feature to be more like Google+
• Lego: Words Puzzle owl.li/6lPvl Has Lego ever done a bad ad?
• Exhibition: Absolut Vis10ns owl.li/6tCYC Larger than life bottles by various artists.
• Where in the World? A Google Earth Puzzle owl.li/6rlua How did I miss this before, amazing images.
• From Cows to Cartons owl.li/6lCIN Packaging milk.
• 40 Trippy “Tilt-Shift” Photos & 1 Video That Toy With Your Eyeballsowl.li/6kKnN
• Comedians@Google Eddie Izzard: Sometimes you have to kill your creative babies owl.li/1eGLZb
• Makin’ Ads: 2011 Radio Mercury Finalists Announced owl.li/6tBE4 Listen to some good radio spots.
• 7 Artists Who Create Magical, Miniature Worlds owl.li/6kK1L
• Creativity Top 5: September 13, 2011 - via creativity-online.com The Dior spot at #3 is spectacular, with gorgeous … owl.li/1eG4Ba
• Twitter Unlocks its Valuable Web Analytics Data with Free Dashboardowl.li/6tz2o
• “What you tolerate becomes your job.” —Aaron Hillegass /via @hotdogsladies
• OMG, ETC owl.li/6qMEj Are words really getting in the way so much we need acronyms?
• Game of Thrones 2011 Emmy Winner for Main Title Design. Art of the Title has an interview with designers. owl.li/6tkMw
• Happy Words Trump Negativity in the English Language owl.li/6qLpg
• Gamer Heal Thyself With Jane McGonigal’s SuperBetter owl.li/6qKGU
• Cliff Richard wins fight to have music copyright extended in the UKowl.li/6t9eR
• The anticipation of giving: Rare video of Frank Oz eulogizing Jim Hensonow.ly/1eFKH1
• Nine Things Successful People Do Differently - Heidi Grant Halvorsonowl.li/6kKku
• Jeff Bezos On Innovation: Stubborn On Vision; Flexible On Detailsowl.li/6lGSY Insight into Bezos’ thinking.
• Don’t Write What You Know owl.li/6ld3a Is documenting it better than making it up?
• Linda Rottenberg: If no one is calling you “crazy,” you’re probably not thinking big enough. ow.ly/1eEN6e
• Skype in the classroom is a free community to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. owl.li/6ifmz
• Life is essentially decisions and coffee. /via @hotdogsladies
• The “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest is due 10/10/11 owl.li/6riMh
• The Consequences of Writing Without Reading owl.li/6qOYs
• Andy Carvin: the man who tweets revolutions owl.li/6lH4w
• 25 Quotables from the 99% Conference owl.li/62yvU

The Week's Links (9.9.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask) owl.li/6g39W
• Don’t Overthink It: 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making owl.li/6qabL
• Why the chicken crossed the road? The Behavioural Economist knowsowl.li/6pXXk
• Crittervision: See like a bee owl.li/6b5CY
• A chicken and egg thing ow.ly/1eCnta
• Stealing the Mona Lisa: A Minute-by-Minute Account of the World’s Most Famous Art Theft, A Century After the Fact owl.li/6b59T
• Researchers report literature depicting aggression can make you violent. And you thought games were bad. owl.li/6pZ45
• Should English be the official language of academic research? - Inside Higher Ed owl.li/6pYR9
• New interview and book from Maurice Sendak, ‘Bumble-Ardy’ owl.li/6pVXI
• ‘Mona Lisa’: More mysterious than her smile owl.li/6aUHv
• Michael Hart, inventor of the ebook, dies aged 64 owl.li/6psPT
• Don’t Fear the Internet, basic HTML & CSS for non-web designers.owl.li/6cToK
• 1000 things to do in NYC - Google Maps owl.li/6c9DI
• Mirror, mirror: NYTimes wants to serve you info as you’re brushing your teethowl.li/6lQ8O
• The Sacrifice of Going From Scroll to Codex to Screen ow.ly/1eBqDl
• Codecademy is the easiest way to learn how to code. owl.li/6aTiW
• Make Photoshop Faster: 2 little tips to help speed up the tool web designers love to hate. owl.li/5TqMk
• British Journal of Photography comes to the iPad owl.li/6ojgo
• Vision Without Obstruction: What We Learn From Steve Jobs owl.li/6ojjd
• Apple and designer Jonathan Ive star in German museum exhibit, bookowl.li/6oiMW
• Remembering Paul Rand: Observatory: Design Observer owl.li/6hdyU
• Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote owl.li/6gJBd
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 4: Steampunk ow.ly/1eApib
• The History of Times New Roman owl.li/6d2hN
• Punchdrunk follows Sleep No More with “… and darkness descended” in collaboration with PlayStation. owl.li/6nwII Augmented Gaming.
• ‘Sleep No More’ Is Theater Embedded With Dancers owl.li/6nwfE If in NY, it’s extended until Oct. 14. Seriously, go.
• Infographic Of The Day: Why Should You Care About Typography?owl.li/6aIad
• Creativity Top 5: September 6, 2011 ow.ly/1ezJs1
• The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette owl.li/6g25V
• Are books dead, and can authors survive? owl.li/6aZha
• Paola Antonelli on Design as the Interface Between Progress and Humanityow.ly/1ezoFa
• The new marketing model: Peer index marketing owl.li/6aVLp
• When the Color Is Primary, or how to market a play called Red about Rothko.owl.li/6m5XU
• Transmedia 202: Further Reflections owl.li/68POY
• Transmedia Storytelling 101 owl.li/68POh
• Quantum minds: Why we think like quarks owl.li/6mmlR
• Gaudí may have used psychiatric hospital to test designs owl.li/6aVh9
• Co:Collective Founders Launch Coworking Space “Grind” In Heart Of NYC Startup Scene owl.li/6kKaZ
• Concert experiments with all-mobile ticketing owl.li/6aUVy
• What Would An Advertising World Without Direct Mail Look Like?owl.li/6lPZD Relevant ? as USPS gets close to default.
• Ben Fry, Information Designer owl.li/6aUQL
• Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth owl.li/6lMmF
• The 10 coolest book apps for fall – USATODAY.com owl.li/6lGH4
• Why You Can’t Buy Creativity owl.li/62

The Week's Links (9.4.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• Two fathers of contemporary design, Milton Glaser and Massimo Vignelli draw on decades of experience owl.li/68PX0
• The movie plots that technology killed owl.li/62yD9
• How To Work Better ow.ly/1ewbXp
• What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women owl.li/5X5rp
• Images held in our working memory may skew perception of current events, new research shows. owl.li/5RzE7
• Chosen - a JavaScript plugin for jQuery and Prototype - makes select boxes better owl.li/5T7EF
• The movie plots that technology killed owl.li/5RGz6
• Business Week Popularity 2011 owl.li/68SbE
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 3: Visual Culture Online ow.ly/1evekC
• Useful Tools & Resources for Web Development and Design owl.li/5RBT6
• A consortium of more than 30 universities plans to invest in the infrastructure to improve Internet speeds 1,000-fold owl.li/6g33n
• Responsive Web Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies - Smashing Magazine owl.li/5Q0HE
• Nobody’s Perfect: Why We All Need A Margin For Error owl.li/68NpLflexibility is a competitive advantage
• NYC Goes From Day to Night in One Frame - all that inspires me owl.li/68Nif
• Art of the Menu - A new blog full of great menu artwork owl.li/68Nca
• Dance Cinematography: Creating The LXD World ow.ly/1eubE1
• Original Creators: Alfred Hitchcock owl.li/62yJZ
• Why Can’t I Finish? Four tips for dealing with finishing a project owl.li/68Pqb
• Tagline Guru owl.li/6gUrm
• What insightful and thought-provoking websites have you across throughout the years? owl.li/6g1TW /via @brainpicker
• Andrew Zuckerman: On Curiosity, Rigor, and Learning As You Goow.ly/1etfmK
• Three Golden Rules for book reviewing: What are they? owl.li/5T8yT
• Training Genius: The Learning Secrets of Polyglots and Savants owl.li/5Q2ae
• Adobe Launches PDF Creation Tool for iPad and iPhone owl.li/6fYmH
• Two Filmmakers Beautifully Document Irene NYC ow.ly/1esuLS
• Creativity Top 5: August 29, 2011 ow.ly/1esuLX
• Curated Books Collections at Strand Books owl.li/68Mdm
• Representative John Conyers Wants Copyright Law Revision - NYTimes.comowl.li/6fOj5
• Is math invented or discovered?: Scientific American owl.li/5TCRZ
• Can’t Start, Won’t Start: Tricks for Overcoming Procrastination owl.li/62ysh
• Transmedia = device agnostic media ow.ly/1esh5u
• 4 Ways Technology Can Enable Your Inner Introvert owl.li/5RGpa
• Branding Is About Creating Patterns, Not Repeating Messages | Co. Designowl.li/5IzQC

The Week's Links (8.27.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• The Job Jobs Did by Steven Heller - NYTimes.com owl.li/6eCjU A who’s who of designers share their thoughts on Jobs.
• Social Media State-by-State Guide for Hurricane Irene - NYTimes.comowl.li/6evL5
• Google’s Crisis Response Map: 2011 Hurricane Season owl.li/6eaZJ
• Do Language and Music Mimic Nature?: Scientific American owl.li/5RzdA
• Creepy robot head reads music and sings owl.li/6aVbK
• 7 Must-See What’s My Line Episodes owl.li/5Q0nj Including Salvador Dali and Lucille Ball.
• Hilarious Condom Commercial with Pixar-style Bloopers ow.ly/1epZDD
• On The Creating And Sharing Of Awe ow.ly/1epXdx
• Photos of Food Taken With An Electron Microscope owl.li/5Q0iv
• Neuroskeptic: Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation? owl.li/6bkIp
• Creative Idea Generator owl.li/6cKRo
• Advertising and Marketing Psychology Infographic owl.li/5PZaV
• On the future of Apple ow.ly/1epcBJ
• Americans and Their Cell Phones | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project owl.li/68N0g
• Screenfly by QuirkTools — Test Your Website at Different Screen Resolutionsowl.li/5RBMN
• Web Surfing Makes You Work Better, Study Says - WSJ.com owl.li/6bleE
• The 50 Best Websites of 2011 - TIME owl.li/68N1E
• Steve Jobs : Longreads owl.li/6cTzb A great collection of articles including the Playboy and Rolling Stone interviews.
• 40 useful APIs for web designers and developers owl.li/5Rz8k
• Apple, Katalyst and Martin Agency Alums Launch New S.F. Shopowl.li/6cSNF
• New parents check out The Kid Should See This, a curated collection of appropriate web stuffs for kids owl.li/6cPTQ
• New Study Explains Why Comic Sans Font So Hilarious ow.ly/1ep0Ru
• Starlee Kine: What Making Ideas Happen Has To Do With Little Orphan Annie and Phil Collins ow.ly/1eoYiS
• Apple Ads: Steve Jobs’ 10 Best Apple Advertisements owl.li/6cIWu
• 21 New Media Innovators — Daily Intel owl.li/5Q0sZ
• New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms owl.li/6aZnI
• Scientific American takes a look at Cities owl.li/6b2jt
• The Google Puzzle owl.li/6bl36 In case you missed it before. Another HTML5 Chrome experiment.
• Time-Saving and Educational Resources for Web Designers - Smashing Magazine owl.li/5Q0q3
• Portal: No Escape, An Amazing Live-Action Short Film Based on the Game Portal ow.ly/1eoiPP
• Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple owl.li/6c47d
• Can’t Start, Won’t Start: Tricks for Overcoming Procrastination owl.li/5RFaI
• Shakespeare on the Subway owl.li/6aVmU
• New directions in advertising owl.li/6aUzC
• Frida’s Corsets - made of plaster, she wore them all her life and used then as another canvas. owl.li/6bkVX
• “Selected” is a series of animated gifs by Mike Guppy, in which the subjects of well-known paintings has been removed. owl.li/5Rz7y
• Louboutin v YSL: Lay off my red-soled shoes owl.li/6b3Pq Can a color be a trademark?
• Reconsidering the Artistic Director Model: Dance Company Looks to Past To Get to Future owl.li/6bkL6
• The artistic director behind Sleep No More is blurring the lines between art and life with Punchdrunk Travel. owl.li/6b4Q2
• Stanford D. School - An Introduction ow.ly/1enXT3
• Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, A Traveling Smithsonian Exhibit owl.li/5Q0ga
• Typeverything owl.li/5PJ5r
• Why Transmedia Is like a Walk in Patagonia owl.li/6aZzi
• Metropolitan Opera Demanded Blog Be Taken Down owl.li/6aV2T
• Original Creators: Alfred Hitchcock owl.li/5RBQh
• Innovations - A new blog by Smithsonian Magazine owl.li/68N9g
• “Why’s This So Good?” No. 9: Herbert Muschamp builds a metaphorowl.li/6aOqq
• From Technologist to Philosopher - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education owl.li/68LGA
• InsideOut Episode 1 by Photographer & TED Prize winner JR ow.ly/1emYMn
• Has plot driven out other kinds of story? owl.li/5PZ6U
• How “Positive” Thinking Sets You Up To Fail | Fast Company owl.li/5PMM4
• Creativity Top 5: August 22, 2011 ow.ly/1emaCC
• The CSS of Design Storytelling: Context, Spine, and Structure :: UXmattersowl.li/5RzxU
• Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An interview with David Gauntlett (Part Three) owl.li/68PIi
• Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An interview with David Gauntlett (Part Two) owl.li/68PHG
• Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An Interview with David Gauntlett Part 1 owl.li/68PHz
• Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule owl.li/5Q0zX
• MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning - MIT Media Relationsowl.li/68NmF
• Joshua Foer: OK-ness is the enemy of greatness ow.ly/1elYYd
• How 50 Big Companies Got Their Names owl.li/5PPHe
• The Future Issue - An Foreign Policy Special Report owl.li/68MWw
• Hillman Curtis: On Reinvention and Taking the Courageous Path :: The 99 Percent owl.li/5Izae