The Week's Links (2/26/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

  • A small red bundle of love (What I learned this week) owl.li/1hEhFG
  • Make yourself a cup of coffee and read this: Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracleowl.li/9irSB
  • Weird, or just different? owl.li/9hYw2
  • Reading a book really is better the second time round - and re-reading can offer mental health benefits owl.li/9cxHJ
  • Significant Objects: A Doll With A Storyowl.li/9hc2l
  • Life’s Messy. Train Your Brain to Adapt.owl.li/99YqL
  • Fasting can help protect against brain diseases, scientists say owl.li/99Ylm
  • Kids and Sleep Through History: They Have Never Gotten Enough, but Who’s to Say How Much They Really Need? owl.li/99YgC
  • Copyright and Fair Use Tips When Bloggingowl.li/9cPEX
  • 2 movies inspired by Snow White are coming, you should check out Snow, Glass, Apples audio play by Neil Gaiman instead. owl.li/9fJgs
  • New code lets websites opt-out of Pinterest.owl.li/9cxgw How much will this affect the site’s rapid growth?
  • Move Over Search Box, Google’s Home Page Gets A Share Box owl.li/9cxb6
  • Forbes has joined a group of 30 clients using Narrative Science software to write computer-generated stories.http://owl.li/9cx6b
  • Creativity Top 5 owl.li/1hA92V
  • Unusual music packaging owl.li/9cAMq
  • The 1-Step Plan for Super-Productivityowl.li/9cAGJ
  • 5 Cool Sites To Help You Choose Which Book To Read Next owl.li/9cABU
  • Herb Lubalin on his PBS Logo owl.li/1hyO9M
  • Dali’s Surrealism as Marketing Tool owl.li/9cy5X
  • Production Company of the Year 2011: B-Reel - Creativity Online owl.li/9cVpO
  • Gandhi’s list of “the seven blunders that human society commits, and that cause all violence”owl.li/1hxOBO
  • I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened owl.li/9crP7 So very true.
  • Clever and humorous “Art Addicted” campaign advertising Team Detroit for College for Creative Studies. owl.li/9crsX
  • The making of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo opening title sequence owl.li/9cqwm
  • Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work, another must-read gem by @jonahlehrer for The New Yorker owl.li/9a4uz
  • Seven misconceptions about how students learn owl.li/99YcC
  • Royal Shakespeare Company production to be broadcast to 3,000 UK schools this summer.owl.li/97ib2
  • 6 things we learned about journalism from Social Media Week owl.li/97i1z
  • Building New Habits Through Advertisingowl.li/1hvS1K
  • 100 best Typefaces of all times owl.li/94EW0

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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 (2.19.12)

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All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

  • The Future Of Ethics In Branding owl.li/94tPXCan ethics and advertising work hand in hand?
  • Mystery (A TED Remix) owl.li/91CNr
  • Super Bowl Halftime Show Stage Constructionowl.li/1hsoxq
  • What’s on the Menu? Help transcribe The New York Public Library’s historical menu collectionowl.li/94nVU /via @brainpicker
  • Copy, Transform, Combine: Everything Is A Remix, The Complete Series owl.li/1hseBH
  • Copy, Transform, Combine: Everything Is A Remix, The Complete Series owl.li/98vVl
  • Infographic: Designing the Perfect Blockbuster Movie Poster owl.li/94iGW
  • Eddie Izzard’s Fake McCartney Bio Speechowl.li/94iyH This is how you do a tribute toast.
  • Nike’s new marketing mojo owl.li/94k6q How they wrote a new playbook for the digital era.
  • MoMA Plans Kraftwerk Retrospectiveowl.li/97io4
  • How do you create? (A TED Remix)owl.li/91CKX
  • Check out this student made The Dark Knight Rises title sequence, in the spirit of Se7en.owl.li/94j6o
  • Studio 360 asks, are computers creative?owl.li/94koU
  • The Moth and 15 other orgs in 6 countries receive MacArthur Genius Grants owl.li/978a0
  • A Look Inside Mobile Design Patternsowl.li/94i0b
  • Social Media and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needsowl.li/1hqCZq
  • Apple Announces OS X Mountain Lion. Check out a sneak preview. Available to Devs today.owl.li/96RM7
  • How NASA Makes Those Incredible High-Res Images of Earth owl.li/94g0Y
  • Netflix’s Head Of Content Sarandos On Original Programming Strategy owl.li/94gbX TV will be very different this time next year.
  • The Race For The Second Screen: Engagement And Insight owl.li/94hwp
  • The Race For The Second Screen: The Show’s The Thing owl.li/94gyV
  • The Race For The Second Screen: 5 Apps That Are Shaping Social TV owl.li/94gvS
  • Storytelling (A TED Remix) owl.li/91CIw
  • Without books, can cinema survive?owl.li/94eTa
  • Fast Company’s The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies 2012 owl.li/946II Some surprises and unknowns.
  • Scott Belsky: Is It Urgent, Or Is It Important?owl.li/1hp7FZ
  • TED launches TED Quotes owl.li/94Ech
  • Visual Arts Briefs » Steven Heller, Debbie Millman and Alice Twemlow on the 2012 Campaign Logos owl.li/8YlEK
  • 12 Hand-Written Love Letters From Famous People, From Henry VIII To Michael Jordanowl.li/94DRW
  • Creativity Top 5: February 14, 2012owl.li/1ho0nN
  • The money has gone, so make love our alternative currency owl.li/94btQ
  • The Meaning of Life (A TED Remix)owl.li/91CFH
  • Valentine’s Day and the shocking science of romance owl.li/93UZy
  • Love, Explained: The Science of Romanceowl.li/93Uql
  • Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? - A Classic Article from The Atlantic 1982 About The Diamond Industry owl.li/94c6I
  • What is Love? owl.li/1hnyve
  • On Valentine’s Day 1884, Theodore Roosevelt’s wife & mother both died. His heartbreaking diary entry from that day owl.li/93Smu
  • The Cabinet of Dreams owl.li/93NWK Grey London’s window in Soho is a Valentine’s gift shop for charity.
  • Understanding Kickstarter owl.li/91wmdInsight in light of the recent campaign that raised $1M in 8hrs. owl.li/91wme
  • The Meaning of Work (A TED Remix)owl.li/91Cnw In case you missed it.
  • The Miraculous NASA Breakthroughs That Could Save Millions of Lives owl.li/91waXThis is amazing.
  • How Higher Education Uses Social Mediaowl.li/91sys
  • Critical Thinking: A Field Guide In 6 Short Filmsowl.li/1hlX4o
  • Focus Tips From The 99 Percent owl.li/8Yd4v
  • Why does Adele’s ‘Someone Like You’ make everyone cry? Science has found the formulaowl.li/91zMv
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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 (2.12.12)

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All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

  • What I Learned This Week, Super Bowl Editionowl.li/91maT
  • Meet the New Kings of Kickstarter: How Double Fine Gamified Game Funding owl.li/8Z0qBThey raised $1M in 8 hours.
  • The models for American Gothic standing next to the painting. owl.li/8YdQf Amazing find by @jkottke
  • Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free owl.li/8Z0tr
  • The Mega Companies Behind 90% Of Mediaowl.li/8YcWJ
  • New research suggests less-creative people do more innovative thinking when they are instructed to conform. owl.li/8WuDp
  • Five days later, some things to consider about the Super Bowl owl.li/1hhWuU
  • The 100 Best Movie Posters of the Past 100 Years owl.li/8Wu9Y Some amazing older posters.
  • The top mistakes UX designers makeowl.li/8Ydze
  • 10 Lessons for directors today by Terry Gilliamowl.li/8Wuqb
  • GIF: A Technical History owl.li/8VG6b
  • The BBC Unmasks an Internet Troll owl.li/8WtZT
  • The four key features that characterize Flow, or what 10000 hours of practice gets youowl.li/1hgph3
  • My Dinner With Clay Shirky, and What It Means to ‘Friend’ Someone owl.li/8Ykmw
  • Beautiful web type, a showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directoryowl.li/8SQ8p
  • Drawing Back the Curtain On Madonna’s Super Bowl Halftime Show owl.li/8XxNQ What it took to produce the massive projections and sets.
  • Apple to Stream Live Paul McCartney Concert to iTunes and Apple TV Tomorrow owl.li/8Xxsp
  • The Gunn Report 2011. Combines ad awards from around the world, to identify the most successful agencies, campaigns. owl.li/8VBQG
  • Five Advertising Ideas From Around the World You Need to See owl.li/8VXrQ
  • Layering: Multitasking That Actually Worksowl.li/8VB7A
  • Dancers Flow In to Lincoln Center After Opera’s Exit owl.li/8VCZz
  • Colourised photographs by Sanna Dullawayowl.li/8SQID These are amazing.
  • PBS Arts: Off Book, Exploring Cutting Edge Art - The Complete Series owl.li/1heZlb
  • Speaking of color, here is a refresher on the three primary colors, courtesy of a stop motioned OK Go and Sesame Streetowl.li/8SQTe
  • Color: a color matching game. owl.li/8SQlTHow good are you with colors?
  • Creativity Online’s Lessons from Super Bowl 2012 owl.li/8VWPC
  • Celebrate the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens with Free Movies, eBooks and Audio Books owl.li/8VRLA
  • You Will Never Kill Piracy, and Piracy Will Never Kill You - Forbes owl.li/8VgmP
  • Mark Zuckerberg, the Hacker Way and the Art of the Founder’s Letter owl.li/8T2hw
  • Scared Spitless in Zanesville: Esquire Creates Video Teaser For Animals An Article By Chris Jones owl.li/1hdSJ7
  • For the next seven days you can watch the recommended documentary PressPausePlay for $0.99 on iTunes US owl.li/8VGoZ
  • States Mulling Creativity Indexes for Schoolsowl.li/8T2ce
  • Solve For X owl.li/8VxKC Google’s new TED-like website.
  • Official Google Blog: What’s your X? Amplifying technology moonshots owl.li/8VxGl
  • Google unveils ‘Solve for X’ website, hints at TED-like think tank owl.li/8VxyB
  • The Technium: Next Phase of Commercialsowl.li/8Vx78
  • Stuffed Animals Sleep Over At The Library To Get Kids To Read owl.li/8T26Y
  • An Important Time for Design owl.li/8SQFx
  • Did Leonardo da Vinci Copy His Famous “Vitruvian Man”? owl.li/8T1pw
  • Creativity Top 5: Super Bowl XLVI Editionowl.li/1hcvva
  • Wired UK’s The Smart List 2012: 50 people who will change the world owl.li/8T1kI
  • Writing Tips by Henry Miller, Elmore Leonard, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman & George Orwellowl.li/8T0Vl
  • Henry Miller’s Productivity Commandmentsowl.li/1hc4VN
  • Pricing Strategy for Creatives owl.li/8SQhEMust read.
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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 (2.5.12)

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All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

  • Lost In Translation (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1haYrb
  • An Introvert's Guide to Networking owl.li/8LUoq
  • Researchers have demonstrated a method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking those words. owl.li/8QPla
  • The Pirate Bay loads up on physical goods for you to download and 3d print at home.owl.li/8LUkj
  • 'A Clockwork Orange' Strikes 40 owl.li/8QPfw
  • What happened to the former slave that wrote his old master? owl.li/8QPcD Follow up to yesterday's post.
  • Hans Rosling: The Jedi Master of data visualization owl.li/8LU0A
  • How can we make scientists and engineers as popular as sports heroes? owl.li/8LWoP
  • Escaping The Cult Of The Average & The Happy Secret To Better Work owl.li/1h7WBC
  • 25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstoreowl.li/8Lq7F
  • New developer tools in Firefox 10 and 11owl.li/8LTR8
  • Flash Hits Food: The Road To Instagram. Kevin Rose Interviews Kevin Systrom owl.li/1h6GJP
  • 12 Tech Trends That Will Define 2012, Selected By Frog’s Design Minds owl.li/8LWw3
  • Military Succeeds in Creating Self-Guided Bullet. It Spots, Steers and Nails Its Target A Mile Away owl.li/8LTAr Fascinating & scary
  • To My Old Master: Slave owner writes to former slave demanding he come back. Slave replied with brilliant letter. owl.li/8LSSl
  • How to Approach a Responsive Design. Lessons learned from the Boston.comupdate. owl.li/8LJGI
  • Why are development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? owl.li/8PDF7 PMs pass along to your teams. /via @marcoarment
  • The Flaming Lips: Now I Understand ft. Siri & Erykah Badu owl.li/8LNg2 Yes, that Siri.
  • The 1912 American Type Founders Specimen Book is now online.Type lovers rejoice.owl.li/8LrwC
  • Picasso, Tate, 1960: the world's first 'art blockbuster' owl.li/8LqZH
  • TED2013: The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered. owl.li/8NwqS 14 Cities. 6 Continents. Public Auditions.
  • The Future of Advertising 2012: Hear It From The Ad Students - Forbes owl.li/8MnCn
  • Game of Thrones Transmedia Case Studyowl.li/1h4A2A
  • Coca Cola's ambitious Super Bowl plan, the polar bears everywhere owl.li/8Lpnh
  • Creativity Top 5: January 31, 2012owl.li/1h3DKh
  • The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmonyowl.li/8LK0K
  • Redesigning "Teachers" owl.li/8LDsM
  • How Helvetica Conquered The World With Its Cool, Comforting Logic owl.li/8Mnz0
  • Making Big Decisions and Mastering the Consequences owl.li/8LMUr
  • Jonathan Franzen vs ebooks. Is he being naive? owl.li/8Mnuo
  • The Future Of Screen Typography Is In Your Hands owl.li/8LUwu
  • How This 17-Year-Old's Breakup Inspired His Startup owl.li/8Mnjc
  • In a world of gadgets when is digital type art? The Type Directors Club Judges Night Salonowl.li/1h2Uyt
  • Here's The Thing: Lorne Michaels owl.li/8LuEn Fantastic interview by Alec Baldwin.
  • How the Mind Creates Ideas owl.li/8KmVnThe correlation between creative consciousness and quantum physics.
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald list of things to worry about for his 11 year old daughter. owl.li/8KmKI
  • A Copyright Quickie: Canada Is About To Pass Sopa’s Evil Little Brother. Politely. owl.li/8LpAt
  • What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?owl.li/8KmGh
  • Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It make you stupid. owl.li/1h17iu
  • How To Set Smart Daily Goals owl.li/8Km59
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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 (1.29.12)

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All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

  • 6 Hugely Successful Products Originally Invented for Something Else owl.li/8IPNP
  • The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom owl.li/8IPrYFascinating.
  • 5 Things To Look For In This Year's Super Bowl Ads owl.li/8IP1R
  • Where do good ideas come from? Rejectionowl.li/1gXJy8
  • How Do We Identify Good Ideas? owl.li/8IwbITake a break and be happy.
  • Vivid Pop Culture Thumbtack Art owl.li/8F0wz Fantastic.
  • Embark a great new free app to plan your mass transit trip. Many cities available. It even has NJ Transit. owl.li/8HFbp
  • The 350 Best Education Resources Curated by Edudemic owl.li/8EZxV
  • MediaShift Idea Lab: Why Non-Profits Need a Powerful Tool for Finding Potential Alliesowl.li/8F0kp
  • Leo Burnett's classic speech "When to take my name off the door" animated owl.li/1gWxsV
  • Reddit: How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force.owl.li/8CCe8
  • M.I.T. Physicist Gives Scientists an Online Interview Outlet owl.li/8EZqz
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of January 23, 2012owl.li/1gVpsY
  • Who Were Fisher and Price? owl.li/8EY9w
  • Take the new Vimeo for a spin owl.li/8EXqw
  • Vimeo Festival + Awards - 2012 New York City is back with new categories. owl.li/8FzDK
  • "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" app/book/film nominated for Oscar for Best Animated Short owl.li/8ELfU
  • Lego relaunches Rebrick as a social network for adult fans. owl.li/8EIvV
  • Google's new privacy policy: The good, bad, scary owl.li/8F7na
  • Notification Control, 1 minute to clean up your notifications owl.li/8EFve Inspired by My Permissions owl.li/8EFvf
  • RIM Reboots: New CEO, New Board, New Plan to License QNX Software owl.li/8EEU7
  • Marketing Leader Jim Stengel On The One Thing Businesses Need To Grow owl.li/8EEIv
  • Celebrating Manet’s Birthday with 25 Reclining Nudes by Various Artists [Possibly NSFW]owl.li/8EC2a
  • Creativity's Agency of the Year and 2011 A-Listowl.li/8DNVQ
  • Creativity Top 5 owl.li/1gTLOS
  • The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor owl.li/8CcN5 Great insight from Lewis Hyde's The Gift owl.li/8CcN6
  • 100 Best Companies to Work For 2012: Full list from FORTUNE owl.li/8CDAy
  • 12 Things Happy People Do Differentlyowl.li/8CcF5
  • L.A. Opera to start dynamic ticket pricing next season owl.li/8CcCz
  • A Typographer's Letter to Brad Birdowl.li/8CCaC Verdana? Why? I had the same reaction.
  • Ira Glass on the strange life of the producerowl.li/1gSxeA
  • How Stanley Kubrick Invented the Modern Box-Office Report (By Accident) owl.li/8CbYz /via @daringfireball
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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.