The Week's Links (10.30.11)

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

  • CultureLab: What it means to donate your brain owl.li/76iCx
  • Check out a rebroadcast of MoMA's Talk To Me symposium owl.li/76cOr
  • Trick or Trick owl.li/1fmE2m
  • The 21st Century Brain: A New Series at Big Think owl.li/769HR
  • All Hallow's Read: A (new) old tradition by Neil Gaiman owl.li/1fmAop
  • HOME: A Ghost Story owl.li/78TXV A fantastic transmedia adventure just in time for Halloween.
  • IQ Isn't Set In Stone, Suggests Study That Finds Big Jumps, Dips In Teensowl.li/73mzl
  • Data Without Borders: Using data in the service of humanity owl.li/76iGG
  • A Brief History of Web Standards : Vitamin T owl.li/78NZl
  • Setting the Scene for a Productive Day owl.li/76iBP
  • A Brief History of Web Standards : Vitamin T owl.li/78TYQ
  • The Hunt For The New owl.li/76ffZ
  • Brave New Thermostat: How the iPod’s Creator Is Making Home Heating Sexy owl.li/78hgg
  • Chris Poole: Our identity is like a diamond, multi-faceted owl.li/1flp0C
  • Steven Levy on Facebook, Spotify and the Future of Music | Magazineowl.li/76aGV
  • How teenagers keep reinventing language owl.li/76iE9
  • The Pixar Blog: Pixar Celebrates the Art of the Colorscript owl.li/78Mw4Want this book now.
  • “Why’s this so good?” No. 17: Meyer Berger delivers on deadlineowl.li/78TUc
  • Color Advice and Insights from the Experts - Sensational Color owl.li/76f9X
  • Five choreographers nominate their favourite living artist in their fieldowl.li/76f5y
  • The Volkswagen Beetle. Juiced Up with Augmented Reality owl.li/1fkjEh
  • The Insatiable Appetite for 'Sleep No More' owl.li/78Ttv My favorite performance of the year, decade.
  • Great print ads for classic apps using clever QR codes. owl.li/72WIr
  • How Great Companies Think Differently - Harvard Business Reviewowl.li/767PG
  • Publishing: The Worst Business in the World by Ben Tarnoff owl.li/767J7Interesting perspective.
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 7: Etsy Art & Culture owl.li/1fjjt3
  • Joss Whedon's film version of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothingowl.li/78ucN How on earth did no one know he filmed this...
  • What Good Design Can Teach Us About Motivation owl.li/767Dz
  • Brand Genius: Steve Jobs Tribute | Adweek's Tim Nudd looks at Jobs influence in advertising. owl.li/78jlL
  • Playing with reality, the middle-aged future and sadomasochism at Playful 2011 owl.li/78hsD
  • The Museum of Mathematics owl.li/6RMsQ Opening in NYC 2012
  • John McCarthy (1927-2011), Computer Scientist Who Coined The Term Artificial Intelligence & Inventor of Lisp owl.li/77H9f
  • Creativity Top 5: October 24, 2011 owl.li/1fixFo
  • You Are Not Your Name and Photo: A Call to Re-Imagine Identity by 4chan Founder owl.li/76493
  • Have we, like, lost our conviction? You know? owl.li/1fin3v
  • DESIGNerd, A Trivia Game That Pits You Against Stefan Sagmeister And Steve Heller owl.li/746r0
  • Medieval Marketing, Grant McCracken on secrets hidden on plain sight and playful marketing. owl.li/73CY3
  • Innovation 101: Stanford's d.school Teaches Students to Be Creativeowl.li/76lPR
  • A Master Plan for Taking Back Control of Your Life owl.li/6RMpZ

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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 (10.23.11)

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

  • The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami owl.li/761te From jazz club owner to brilliant writer.
  • Charlie Kaufman: why I wrote Being John Malkovich owl.li/71yPQ
  • The Drive to Be Different owl.li/71yno
  • Before Succeeding, You Have To Fully Confront Failure. But How?owl.li/71lFC
  • New York Times Personality Test - VisualDNA owl.li/73F1e Interesting test using images for answers.
  • Everyone could use a bear hug every now and then owl.li/1ffueW
  • Easily embarrassed? Study finds people will trust you more owl.li/6MTsO
  • Official Google Reader Blog: Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up owl.li/741P3
  • Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup - Forbes owl.li/71rd0Apple tried to buy it in 2009.
  • Introducing HTML5 Resource Center - Facebook Developers owl.li/71kXD
  • Adobe Reveals Next Generation Image Deblurring Software owl.li/73E2kThe concept of the algorithm behind this makes my brain hurt.
  • An Interactive Whiteboard For Bell Labs Maps A Century Of Innovationowl.li/6RMFA
  • Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Android, and an in-depth look at Ice Cream Sandwich owl.li/73zcY
  • iPhone History in Animated Infographic owl.li/1fenTB
  • Conversation Techniques For Designers owl.li/71TYz
  • Adweek's Top 10 Technologists owl.li/70Nel Evidence that no matter what you do you should learn how to code.
  • Digital verbosity: What's in a tweet owl.li/6MT1X A look at the code behind a tweet.
  • In Praise Of The Heroic Client owl.li/71y7A
  • There's music in every sound owl.li/1fdrSf
  • “Why’s this so good?” No. 16: David Foster Wallace on the vagaries of cruising owl.li/71lxH
  • “Why’s This So Good?” No. 15: Michael Lewis’ Greek odyssey owl.li/71lvb
  • “Why’s this so good?” No. 14: Sandra Cate on DIY cooking in a county jailowl.li/71loT
  • “Why’s this so good?” No. 13: Gene Weingarten peels the Great Zucchiniowl.li/71llO
  • Deutsch Brings 15 Years of Sony PlayStation Characters to Life in a Tribute to the Hard-Core Gamer owl.li/71l5B
  • Afraid of the Light owl.li/1fdg7J
  • Taste Buds the Information is Beautiful way. owl.li/6RAhG
  • Mary Meeker: 81% of Users of Top Web Sites are outside US owl.li/71BXi
  • Questions I ask when reviewing a design owl.li/6Yf8u
  • Google CEO Larry Page On Decision-Making owl.li/1fcjW4
  • TED introduces 10 new podcasts on iTunes owl.li/71hXQ
  • The word traps planners plan themselves into owl.li/6NoWh
  • National Novel Writing Month is coming up, can you write a novel in a month? owl.li/71d4B
  • Conversation Techniques For Designers owl.li/6MTXF
  • Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Alchemy of Fear owl.li/6Mvmu
  • Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone owl.li/70PoF Must have app gets even better.
  • Adobe Reader App Lands On iPhone and iPad owl.li/70Oc0
  • The Criminal Cloud - Technology Review owl.li/70MIf
  • Creativity Top 5: October 17, 2011 owl.li/1fbxOm
  • Neal Stephenson argues we are suffering from Innovation Starvationowl.li/6RAlp
  • 3 Questions Every Creative Person Must Ask owl.li/6Zmgz
  • The 7 Secrets Of Spellbinding Pitches owl.li/6NoOv
  • 400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture owl.li/6MU5m
  • 1950's & 60's TV Commercials owl.li/1fb8TS
  • James Beard conference opens up on new media and food owl.li/6Zkwk
  • What Was Your Biggest Mistake & What Did You Learn From It? owl.li/6ITQT
  • Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing - NYTimes.comowl.li/6ZknT

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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 (10.16.11)

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

  • Cindy Gallop: GW@MIT Empowerment Conference Keynote Addressowl.li/1f8Xav
  • The Playwright’s Reward - Can playwrights make a living just writing?owl.li/6L1Jc
  • How Geniuses Think owl.li/6L1s4
  • The Creative Brain On Exercise owl.li/6J3ue
  • Barry Michels, Therapist for Blocked Screenwriters : The New Yorkerowl.li/6GmtY
  • Kerning.js Kern, style, transform, and scale your web type with real CSS rules, automatically. owl.li/6L1z4
  • Great interactive iPad books owl.li/6J44p
  • Shit That Siri Says owl.li/6Wryy That was fast. Siri is one funny AI.
  • Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer owl.li/6Wrix
  • 10 Inspiring accounts to follow on Instagram owl.li/6GovC
  • The Inside Story: 5 Secrets To Pixar’s Success owl.li/6WnTo
  • Live And Work With A Bias Toward Action owl.li/1f7yHY
  • Action Choreographer Elizabeth Streb: On Taking Big Risks & The Power of Action owl.li/6U4U8 Great video.
  • Kern Type, the kerning game owl.li/6RM4E Fantastic, and it’s multitouch capable.
  • The Psychologist’s View of UX Design owl.li/6Gmli
  • TED Talks videos, played randomly. It’s TEDchannelTV owl.li/6Go7E
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Obsessive People owl.li/6L3Vm
  • How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Public Libraryowl.li/6KPT8
  • Everything is a Remix: The Matrix owl.li/1f6wjh
  • Museo Nacional del Prado: Rubens 360º (video online interactivo)owl.li/6KPFP Visit the museum from your browser.
  • Hearing Bilingual - How Babies Tell Languages Apart - NYTimes.comowl.li/6UkWc
  • The World’s Best Subway Maps owl.li/6KPAz
  • Brave Thinkers 2011 - The Atlantic’s guide to people taking risks in pursuit of big ideas. owl.li/6UkOr
  • The Prop Master: Ross Macdonald, Forger for Screens Big and Smallowl.li/6L1wE
  • Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It) owl.li/6KFSq
  • Copy, Transform, Combine owl.li/1f5qlq
  • 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer owl.li/6ITUH
  • An experiment in opening up the Guardian’s news coverage owl.li/6TWbgClose to complete news-making transparency.
  • What Motivates Us To Do Great Work? owl.li/6IMOZ
  • Australian Wine Uses Infographics as Its Bottle Labels owl.li/6TLHW
  • Creativity Top 5: October 10, 2011 Special Edition owl.li/1f4HTg
  • Reigniting Your Creative Spark owl.li/6RtRV
  • Paulo Coelho on Six Secrets to Mastering Facebook and Twitterowl.li/6KVPU
  • We’re all marketers now owl.li/6J4U9
  • All Consuming Passion owl.li/1f4o74
  • Kerning + tracking letterforms for logos; the definitive thesis (or why I obsess over typography) owl.li/6IK5h
  • The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The Worldowl.li/6RyPB
  • The Steve Jobs MBA in 14 Lessons owl.li/1f4exj
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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 (10.9.11)

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

  • “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Steve Jobs owl.li/1f08l3
  • Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 owl.li/6OVk7 Wired’s Steven Levy writes a beautiful and insightful eulogy.
  • The Man Who Inspired Jobs - NYTimes.com owl.li/6RLYR A great bit of unknown history.
  • Apple The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997 with Steve’s narration. Inspiring owl.li/6PCcL
  • How to make movies of what the brain sees owl.li/6ElMl
  • Habits form when brainwaves slow down owl.li/6KVR5
  • Wiring the Brain: How Viruses Can Be Engineered to Trace Neural Connections owl.li/6ElK5
  • 10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories on the 20th Anniversary of His Deathowl.li/6Ehan
  • BBC Dimensions: How Many Really? owl.li/6EgjS Great. Compares the # of people in historical events to the # of people in your life.
  • Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new waysowl.li/6EqEv
  • The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital : The New Yorker owl.li/6Eh2Y
  • Mobile HTML5 - compatibility tables for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, iPad and other mobile devices owl.li/6KVSi
  • 50+ Articles to Make You a Better Web Designer owl.li/6Egcf
  • The evolution of the web owl.li/6DVEd
  • The Original Creators: Philip K. Dick owl.li/6J4mC
  • The Last Words Of 25 Famous Dead Writers owl.li/6GmSc
  • Audi Engineers a Metal Hummingbird for A6 Avant Spot owl.li/1eZAlN
  • Good art is a kind of magic. owl.li/6Em4O DFW vs. Franzen vs. Vonnegut. /via @daringfireball
  • Danger Planet, An Animated Sci-Fi Short owl.li/6Cq8O
  • The 12 coolest libraries in the world owl.li/6IJWH
  • The Rise and Rise of Datanomics - CNBC Business owl.li/6Gn7q
  • The Next Great American Consumer: Infants to 3-Year-Olds owl.li/6KVVi
  • The 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating owl.li/6GmZ6
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 6: Street Art owl.li/1eYxZr
  • TED Announcing Ads Worth Spreading, year 2 owl.li/6N9FH
  • Classical Music’s ‘Genius’ Grant Recipients Pause to Reflect owl.li/6N8JX
  • Felicia Day on Being Creatively Bored and Developing Her Own Projectowl.li/6Gm5O
  • Twelve strategies for achieving your goals from the book Willpowerowl.li/6EggL
  • Forthcoming Tome ‘Mad Women’ Will Tell Other Side of Story owl.li/6MVtV
  • Rob Schwartz: The New Golden Age of Advertising Icons owl.li/6MTbN
  • Adobe Preparing to Launch Six New Creativity Apps for Tablets owl.li/6MvIm
  • Creativity Top 5: October 3, 2011 owl.li/1eXQvo
  • Adobe Acquires Web Typography Innovator Typekit owl.li/6MoOGPerhaps this will contribute to better web typography going mainstream.
  • Boston Globe creates a Twitter board for the newsroom owl.li/6EqH0
  • The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work owl.li/6KWb4
  • Childhood being eroded by modern life, experts warn owl.li/6Eh6Q
  • Beth Comstock: You Have To Tell A Story, Before You Can Sell A Storyowl.li/1eXt7A
  • HEY WHIPPLE » Please give this essay your full attention. owl.li/6EfHBDo you suffer from continuous partial attention?
  • Project Classroom: Transforming Our Schools for the Future owl.li/6BNn1
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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 (10.2.11)

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

  • The 100 Most Important Japanese Words You Should Know owl.li/6CpLj
  • More about teenage brains. owl.li/6BUse
  • A brief history of the brain owl.li/6INbl
  • Virtual Monkeys Are Working On Producing The Complete Works Of Shakespeare owl.li/6J4KF Already done 3 plays!
  • Time on the Brain: How You Are Always Living In the Past, and Other Quirks of Perception owl.li/6BUhk
  • What is magical? Etienne Mineur, the inventor of cool owl.li/1eUTYO
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Don’t Tangle Two Lines of Thoughtowl.li/6BSTI
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Paying Attention to What Isn’t Thereowl.li/6BTbG
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Perspective Is Everything, Details Alone Are Nothing owl.li/6BT17
  • Lessons from Sherlock Holmes: Cultivate What You Know to Optimize How You Decide owl.li/6BT6T
  • Don’t Just See, Observe: What Sherlock Holmes Can Teach Us About Mindful Decisions owl.li/6BTeW
  • The Ropes at Disney: 1943 Walt Disney Employee Handbook owl.li/6IuWb Love this.
  • Understanding The Mysterious Teenage Brain : NPR owl.li/6BMNK
  • Own a colour, save a life owl.li/6IXZm
  • Wired Magazine Goes Inside Google Plus owl.li/6IOHG
  • DonorsChoose.org: An online charity connecting you to classrooms in needowl.li/6Cpmd
  • Launching Today Google Analytics Premium, paid accounts with extra functionality. owl.li/6IOQt
  • Google Analytics Starts Real Time Reports owl.li/6IOsS
  • MIT Media Lab: Ganging Up on Cyberbullying owl.li/6Eg9P Using applied natural language processing to find and fight bullying.
  • Volkswagen Beetle owl.li/6GNCl Great website, just scroll. /via @daringfireball
  • The transformation of the book industry: Disappearing ink owl.li/6BRsb
  • Google digitises Dead Sea Scrolls owl.li/6Gnls
  • The new issue of Think Quarterly by Google is now out. The People Issueowl.li/6IGOS Richard Branson’s article is great.
  • Happy National Coffee Day owl.li/6IGz3
  • How the World Uses Social Networks owl.li/1eTROO
  • Why’d It Take So Long To Invent The Wheel? owl.li/6BQO3
  • The Secret To Apple’s Long-Term Success? It Always Prepares You For The Future owl.li/6IuvV
  • The Four Hallmarks of Bad Strategy owl.li/6BO4e
  • Daring Fireball: Amazon’s New Kindles owl.li/6HWlT Fantastic insight.
  • How Americans Spend Their Day owl.li/6CpOC
  • Scratch-and-Sniff New York Guide Tells the City’s Story Through Scentowl.li/6CoJY
  • Creativity Top 5: September 26, 2011 owl.li/1eSP4A
  • 150 Years of Elegance A historic look at Italy’s fashion industry curated by two of its most prominent visionaries. owl.li/6xEtN
  • The Hollywood Reporter announces the nominees for Key Art Awards, honoring the best entertainment industry advertising. owl.li/6Ejsa
  • ‘Vogue’ Covers by Salvador Dali owl.li/6tAHD
  • Artistic legacy: the tricky task of preserving an artist’s life and work.owl.li/6BNMs
  • Frank Oz: ‘I still lie when cab drivers ask me what I do’ owl.li/6BNEe
  • Google Plus API Deep Dive for Developers with Chris Chabot owl.li/1eROGN
  • Libraries: Know Thine Audience - Inside Higher Ed owl.li/6BNzy
  • Letters of Note: Frank Sinatra on Crossword Puzzles owl.li/6BN2k
  • Italy’s 40K Books: No Paper, No Attention Span, No Problem owl.li/6xMym
  • Evolution of Narcissism: Why We’re Overconfident, and Why It Worksowl.li/6xMtY
  • A look at IBM’s ‘Think’ at Lincoln Center owl.li/6Eg6l
  • John Rauser: What is a Career in Big Data? owl.li/1eQHQS
  • Electronic education: Flipping the classroom owl.li/6zEuh
  • “What Font Should I Use?”: Five Principles for Choosing and Using Typefaces owl.li/6xBdm
  • IDEO: Big Innovation Lives Right on the Edge of Ridiculous Ideasowl.li/6vR0B
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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.