The Week's Links (3/31/12)

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

  • Pollen Always Wins (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1ithUi
  • Craig Mod on The Digital↔Physical: On building Flipboard for iPhone and Finding Edges for Our Digital Narratives owl.li/9XZhV
  • Smarthistory, a multimedia web-book about artowl.li/9hYUJ
  • How To SuperBetter Your Life With Epic Wins The Way Jane McGonigal Does owl.li/9XpPF
  • The “Pull To Refresh” Thing In iOS, Twitter Has A Patent On It owl.li/9Xpqd Reminds me of this: owl.li/9Xpqe
  • A Book Is Born owl.li/1irzo7
  • Google Partners With Pandora, AdWeek, NYDN On New Paywall ‘Substitute’ owl.li/9XmsN
  • The Cost Of Creativity owl.li/9V1ar Further exploration of how creativity works by @jonahlehrer.
  • Logorama owl.li/9hYT8
  • A List Apart: Artistic Distance owl.li/9UDmv
  • Art organizations, tweet seats are not the solution, they are a symptom of a larger problem. owl.li/9UEO8
  • As his invention celebrates its 20th anniversary, Nathaniel Borenstein explains the email attachment. owl.li/9Um0T
  • Authenticity in Pop Music: Computer Generated Miku Hatsune vs. Marketing Generated Lana Del Rey owl.li/1ipPzX
  • Condoleeza Rice Makes the Case for Arts in Education | PBS Video owl.li/9Uitl
  • 10 Wonderful Short Stories to Read For Free Online owl.li/9TDNS
  • Nina Simone Feeling Good owl.li/9hYPS
  • The 5 Types of Work That Fill Your Dayowl.li/9TCHU
  • Reinventing A News Channel For A Social Age—An ITV News Case Study owl.li/9TzDm
  • Art In The Era Of The Internet: The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project owl.li/1iodub
  • Behind the Scenes of “Metropolis”, 1925-1926owl.li/9RLFq Love this.
  • Terry Gilliam’s Debut Animated Film, Storytimeowl.li/9RLDQ
  • Creativity Top 5: March 27, 2012 owl.li/1imWRZ
  • Pixar President Ed Catmull on what makes a company creative owl.li/9hYOB
  • The Media Map: Who’s Reading What And Where Based on Bitly Data - Forbesowl.li/9RLdD
  • The Translucent Cloud: Balancing Privacy, Convenience owl.li/9RL4K
  • The Path To Smarter Creativity owl.li/1imB0x
  • Wow. Mozart piano composition uncovered in Austria owl.li/9Uhyj
  • Fascinating. The New Yorker explores how an urban pop song is constructed. owl.li/9UgQv
  • BBH’s John Hegarty: Advertising is suffering from a creative deficit owl.li/9RL2o
  • The Idea Shop Is Open: Wired Launches Wired Opinion, daily insights, arguments and provocations from Wired thinkers owl.li/9Tzr6
  • Have physicists discovered the evolutionary laws of language in Google’s library? The Birth and Death of Words owl.li/9RJmh
  • Who is Don? owl.li/9hYNc
  • The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012 | TIME.com owl.li/9RJ3P
  • Opera house and modern art gallery to be built near Burj Khalifa, Dubai owl.li/9RIY5
  • Hide and Seek: Bipolar Disorder and Creativityowl.li/9RIQV
  • Fish: The Best App/Essay/Manifesto I’ve Seen In Years owl.li/1ikLyc
  • Lessons from Google’s Project Re-Briefowl.li/9RHZf

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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 (3/25/12)

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

  • Why Do We Get Bored? owl.li/9OzSQ
  • Seth Godin: The April Linchpin Sessionowl.li/9hYKS
  • Taking South Sudan to the Globe: Shakespeare from the newest nation owl.li/9OyL0
  • A Flash of Green Enhances Creativityowl.li/9MHUb
  • How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveriesowl.li/1igwgr
  • ‘Damn Good Advice’ From One Of The Real ‘Mad Men’ owl.li/9M43r
  • The latest Radiolab: The Turing Problem is a must-listen for anyone interested in the origins of comp sci owl.li/9Ml32
  • Paola Antonelli on why design mattersowl.li/9hYJS
  • Do You Have to Be Rude to Manage Like Steve Jobs? owl.li/9MaIJ
  • Adobe launches Photoshop CS6 as a free public beta owl.li/9OQaw
  • Frida Kahlo’s Private Stash Of Picturesowl.li/9Mape
  • The PBS Renaissance, Mario Bros. and Surrealist Art owl.li/1iePpG
  • Chase Jarvis Complete Photography Workflowowl.li/9MajI
  • When Does Learning Begin? owl.li/9M5Fw
  • What they don’t teach you about identity design in design school by Paula Scher owl.li/9hYIm
  • Really enjoying Dan Lewis’ (of Now I Know) new blog with one Fact and a Photo daily.owl.li/9M4ZJ
  • Free apps eat up your phone battery just sending ads owl.li/9M5mw
  • How Creativity Works: Jonah Lehrer Says It’s All In Your Imagination owl.li/1id6xO
  • Bob Gill on how to have a good ideaowl.li/9M4tP
  • Albert Einstein Archive Now Online, Bringing 80,000+ Documents to the Web owl.li/9Mbgy
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of March 19owl.li/1ibP0U
  • There is a New Behance today. A beautiful and effective way to display creative work.owl.li/9LvWS
  • Nature by Numbers Beautifully Visualizedowl.li/9hYFS
  • Lego love again. Imagine with Lego ads feature minimal interpretations of cartoon charactersowl.li/9LuyC
  • Your Brain On Fiction owl.li/1ibuEf
  • StyleDocco generates documentation and style guide documents from your stylesheets.owl.li/9LuaE
  • Love this: regu.la blog network, serving a daily pinch of info beautifully. owl.li/9LtAp
  • Is Piracy the New Advertising? owl.li/9J8uN
  • When does a job become meaningful?owl.li/9hYEE
  • Broadway.com iPad App Case Studyowl.li/9J8nT
  • Genius. Scientists to answer the question “what is a flame?” with answers to be judged by a panel of 11 year olds. owl.li/9J7DC
  • Why Bilinguals Are Smarter owl.li/1i9Kvk
  • Retraction | This American Life owl.li/9J8IoThis is an amazing hour of radio, if you haven’t listened to it already, you should…
  • Children whose minds wander ‘have sharper brains’ owl.li/9J6Uz
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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 (3/18/12)

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

  • Five things (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1i8qEu
  • Ex-employees of Google, Goldman Sachs, and Yahoo have their say owl.li/9IY2n
  • Whole brain creativity owl.li/9D9JS
  • The new economics of entertainmentowl.li/9hYDk
  • 10 Ways Your Brain and Feelings Influence Each Other owl.li/9AxJD
  • Vulnerability (A TED Remix): Daring Greatlyowl.li/9HCz2 Updated, perfect Friday afternoon viewing.
  • The Genius Who Invented Brunch owl.li/9AuMQ
  • Collected Wisdom: 25 Bits of Advice on Making Ideas Happen owl.li/9rspd
  • You Call that a Punctuation Mark?! The Interrobang Celebrates its 50th Birthdayowl.li/9DIRw
  • David Lynch on Finding Ideas owl.li/9hYCC
  • The Social Map - NYC branding map.owl.li/9DoBX Reminds me of Logorama:owl.li/9DoBY /via @qpslgs
  • Project Re: Brief by Google owl.li/9DoaE Re-imagining classic ads for the web.
  • Ballet In Advertising owl.li/1i3YUa
  • The Co.Create Virtual Panel: Brand Contentowl.li/9Dnti
  • How To Manufacture Desire owl.li/9Dnb0
  • Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume owl.li/9hYzR
  • Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11+ Hours of Video Recorded in 1973)owl.li/9DbXZ
  • Unlimited Vacation Doesn’t Create Slackers—It Ensures Productivity owl.li/9Dbxm
  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Instruments From The Inside owl.li/1i2mUD
  • Ha! Happy Pi Day. I should’ve posted this today:owl.li/9EeGp
  • New research finds a work of musical theater can impact the way audiences think about a social issue. owl.li/9rrLr
  • After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses owl.li/9DHyT The future is here.
  • Creativity Top 5: March 13, 2012 owl.li/1i1gG6
  • Education friends check out the newTED-Ed: Short lessons for teachers and students to spark curiosity owl.li/9D8qV
  • Weird, or just different? owl.li/9hYxP
  • Steal Like an Artist: Creativity in the Age of the Remix owl.li/9AyRA
  • Marvel offering free digital downloads with physical comic purchases owl.li/9AuOj Best of both worlds.
  • An idea is only as great as the movement it effects. /via @leeclowsbeard
  • The Art of the Dumb Question owl.li/9rsm9
  • Easy As Pie owl.li/1i0CH6
  • Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad Appowl.li/9AqVV
  • Listen To Cake Topple Your Brain owl.li/9hYuu
  • 10 Ways To Fix The Agency Pitch Processowl.li/9AqLw
  • Are Smartphones Changing What It Means to be Human? owl.li/9rsDc
  • Whether the glass is half full or half empty depends on who you’re selling it to. /via @leeclowsbeard
  • 12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetryowl.li/9rs1T
  • Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium - PBS Arts: Off Book owl.li/1hZ25i
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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 (3/11/12)

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

  • SXSW Interactive Live Streaming Eventsowl.li/9zflA
  • What Monkeys Teach Us about Assumptionsowl.li/9rrHl
  • Honeybees May Have Personality owl.li/9z496
  • Listen To Cake Topple Your Brain owl.li/9hYsI
  • Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years owl.li/9rrDt Equally awed and disgusted by this.
  • Absolutely loving the recently launched The Creativity Post. Check it out. owl.li/9yMmm
  • Band promotes album with posters you can listen to via tin cans. Fantastically lo-fi.owl.li/9rnGK
  • Drunken Insights owl.li/1hVcbD
  • Docracy - Community provided and curated free Legal Documents owl.li/9rnCL /via @swissmiss
  • Responsive Layouts, Responsively Wireframedowl.li/9rnyW Great experiment, looking forward to see how it grows.
  • In 15 Minutes Ira Glass Will Make You A Better Storyteller owl.li/9hYru
  • How We Will Read: Craig Mod owl.li/9qVFy
  • How We Will Read: Laura Miller and Maud Newton owl.li/9qVEz
  • How We Will Read: an interview with @stevenbjohnson from the @findings blogowl.li/9qVBn
  • Android Design - Elements and templates for download. owl.li/9qUb4
  • Constructal Law: A Design Theory of Everythingowl.li/1hTIMW
  • Ten life-changing ideas under research at UK universities owl.li/9oiHT
  • 10 Ways Quantum Physics Will Change the World owl.li/9o7OQ
  • The Enlightening Bridge Between Art And Workowl.li/9hYqo
  • Public APIs availability Status - uptime and down time owl.li/9lLOV Great resource.
  • Shaking up everyday rituals may be a way to stimulate innovative thinking. owl.li/9lLL3
  • What Do You See? http://owl.li/1hSbMY
  • How New York Pay Phones Became Guerrilla Libraries owl.li/9lLvL
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of March 5, 2012owl.li/1hR3ST
  • A Creative Buzz: A moderate level of noise prompts more-creative thought owl.li/9lLrM
  • The Most Beautiful Video Not Of This Worldowl.li/9hYpy
  • Creating Future-Ready Content owl.li/9lL8z
  • Storytelling (A TED Remix) Updated with Pixar’s Andrew Stanton 2012 talk. owl.li/9unds
  • Pixar Minimal Posters owl.li/9lKV0
  • 5 Minutes on The Verge: Nicholas Feltonowl.li/9rryQ
  • Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity and saying no: The Paul Holdengraber Show owl.li/1hQGgm
  • 5 of the World’s Best-Designed™ Newspapers – The Society for News Design owl.li/9lF4h
  • The strange but extremely valuable science of how pedestrians behave owl.li/9lEa2
  • In Theory Frequently Means Inaction.owl.li/9hYnT
  • Original Creators: Wassily Kandinskyowl.li/9lDDG
  • The Three Little Pigs As Breaking News [Updated] owl.li/9r6tl
  • Inspiration vs. Imitation by Jessica Hischeowl.li/9lCVD
  • Vulnerability (A Mini TED Remix) owl.li/1hP5iH
  • Reviving dance on Broadway owl.li/9s3Ov
  • TED 2012: 10 innovations that could help shape a better world owl.li/9rrlV
  • MoMA’s Julia Hoffmann on Why Branding’s Future Is In-house owl.li/9lCHD
  • Visionary Star Wars Artist Ralph McQuarrie Dies at 82 owl.li/9ryCf

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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 (3/4/12)

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

  • 99% Invisible (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1hMZFT
  • World Press Photos of the Year, 2012owl.li/9lClv /via @jkottke
  • Jason Randal On Developing Expertise.owl.li/9hYmi
  • Collected Wisdom: 25 Bits of Advice on Making Ideas Happen owl.li/9lrEa
  • When Bad Things Happen To Productive People owl.li/9lr1N
  • The Three Little Pigs As Breaking Newsowl.li/1hLk4W
  • The myth of the eight-hour sleep owl.li/9iE1HTurns out 2 4 hour “naps” between an hour awake, work the same.
  • Phys Ed: How Exercise Fuels the Brainowl.li/9kX8A
  • SVA/BBC Design Film Festival, design, advertising and book related films. March 24, for only $15. owl.li/9oD5P
  • Announcing Transmedia Hollywood 3: Rethinking Creative Relations owl.li/9lrx3
  • I’m Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web owl.li/9oxPC
  • Have you met @alaindebotton? owl.li/9hYiH
  • Made by Hand: The Beekeeper owl.li/1hK5QF
  • Introducing Programming to Preschoolersowl.li/9lqVC
  • Kickstarter Expects To Provide More Funding To The Arts Than NEA owl.li/9lqDo
  • Check out Explore – a discovery engine for meaningful knowledge edited by @brainpickerfor @Coursekit j.mp/AgjnCC
  • Bansky on Art and Advertising owl.li/1hJNpE
  • Rethinking School owl.li/9lq7N
  • Talent or Practice – What Matters More?owl.li/9lqgc
  • J.K. Rowling And The Benefits of Failureowl.li/9hYfs
  • Designers & Books: Book lists and commentary from esteemed designers and architectsowl.li/9lpWr Love this.
  • Four, A Beautiful Animated Short About The Seasons owl.li/1hIBRp
  • Freed of London keeps ballet dancers on their toes owl.li/9mbrm Do they make the World’s best pointe shoes?
  • The Curious Beauty Of Empty Video Game Environments owl.li/9lpi0
  • True Innovation owl.li/1hInoh
  • New York Times introduces archive photo Tumblr owl.li/9louQ Great images.
  • Creativity Top 5: February 27, 2012owl.li/1hHp86
  • Writing a TEDTalk from the future: Q&A with Damon Lindelof owl.li/9lGyt
  • Peter Weyland TEDTalk from 2023 as envisioned by Prometheus director Ridley Scottowl.li/9lGpl Also, clever movie promo
  • Dancing the grandeur of technology: Quixotic Fusion at TED2012 owl.li/9lFJy
  • 10 Great Masters of Tilt-Shift Photographyowl.li/9lBXB
  • Snow Drawings by Sonja Hinrichsenowl.li/9iGFa For fans of beautiful art, math and circles.
  • The Met Opera Implements Dynamic Pricingowl.li/9ltlK
  • Who translates your ideas? owl.li/9hYel
  • Depression Is Linked to Hyperconnectivity of Brain Regions, a New Study Shows owl.li/9izWh
  • TED announces the winners of last year’s Ads Worth Spreading owl.li/9lnLm
  • Feltron Report 2010/2011 is out owl.li/9ll5FFantastic as always.
  • Mark Twain Captured on Film by Thomas Edison (1909) owl.li/9izwT
  • Bret Victor: Creators need an immediate connection to what they create. owl.li/1hGVRH
  • Martin Scorsese’s film school – 85 films you should see j.mp/xvdfjU @openculture has many free j.mp/n6cVDa 
  • Cocoa Literature owl.li/9iwym A large library of cocoa development resources.
  • Have you met @SirKenRobinson? owl.li/9hYcL
  • Teller Reveals His Secrets owl.li/9iwwG Just great.
  • A Solar Company’s Amazing Infographics Are Powered By The Sun owl.li/9irni
  • How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect owl.li/9ix2T
  • PBS Online Film Festival Starts Todayowl.li/1hFAh2
  • Adele In The Goldilocks Zone owl.li/9irkhWhat is the role of style in music?
  • Developed as an app and short film “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” just won an Oscar. owl.li/9iOCo
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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.