The Week's Links (5/6/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Leoš Janáček was crazy: What I’ve Learned This Week owl.li/1juOzR
  • Technology Review’s Emerging Technologiesowl.li/aALqY
  • Textual Playlists owl.li/9hZTZ
  • The genius of Alfred Hitchcock - in picturesowl.li/aAIpG
  • New World Symphony Tries Remix of Classical Music for iPod Generationowl.li/aHhhI
  • 20 Great Art Institutions to Follow on Tumblr, From the MoMA Library to the Museum of Wildlife Art owl.li/aAGFS
  • Creative Collaboration Lessons From A NY City Ballet Pas De Deux owl.li/1jqWEz
  • Top 10 most expensive works of art sold at auction - in pictures owl.li/aHh4N
  • Scott Wilson: Do What You Think Is Right & Apologize Later owl.li/aAGwP
  • From the 99% Conference Radiolab Explores Creativity and Failure owl.li/aHhBT
  • Management Secrets: Core Beliefs of Great Bosses owl.li/aADrP
  • 8 Visionaries on How They Spot the Futureowl.li/axYg2
  • MIT & Harvard open classes: ‘The Single Biggest Change in Education Since the Printing Press’ owl.li/aGjHs
  • Is Instagram the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Photography? owl.li/1jnOYP
  • Michael Bierut on rebranding Mohawkowl.li/axW5F
  • So fantastic: Harvard and M.I.T. Offer Free Online Courses owl.li/aG0FY
  • Urban Legends: See 45 Years Of Street Art From Around The World owl.li/axVZ3
  • Adobe CS6 gets a new interface and over the top new packaging. owl.li/axDNk
  • The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams owl.li/9hZOS
  • No Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. Understanding social media in Chinaowl.li/axCWG
  • 3 Simple Tips for Better Meetings owl.li/axCPw
  • Henry Rollins Advice For Young Peopleowl.li/1jl7kO
  • The Poster that Launched a Movement (Or Not): Does political graphic design matter?owl.li/aDfaY
  • ‘Carnivàle’ Creator Bypasses Hollywood, Launches Transmedia Story ‘Haunted’owl.li/axwwi
  • Creativity Top 5: May 1, 2012 owl.li/1jjt6e
  • Can an Algorithm Write a Better News Story Than a Human Reporter? owl.li/axwn2
  • The Origins of the World’s Most Important Typefaces owl.li/9hZNl
  • Don’t Overthink It: 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making owl.li/axwaZ
  • Three Years of Kickstarter Projects. Amazingowl.li/aDfkP
  • Fantastic History of Neue Haas Grotesk and Helvetica owl.li/axvYV /via @daringfireball
  • The design of a signage typeface. Another great type story via @daringfireballowl.li/axw3x
  • Facebook’s ‘Life-Saving’ Feature: Organ Donation Status on Timeline owl.li/aD7v7
  • Do you worship the tools of your trade as much as ballerinas worship their pointe shoes? owl.li/1jiOAs
  • 2012 Logo Trends - LogoLounge.comowl.li/aADdk
  • Adobe & HTML, is a compilation of all the things Adobe is doing to support HTML. Interesting resource. owl.li/axhfi
  • Modern Web Development Part 1 – The Webkit Inspector. An in-depth look.owl.li/axgD2 /via @paul_irish
  • A Look At Art with Stephen Fry owl.li/9hZMb
  • Fantastic essay on punctuation marks. [PDF]owl.li/axcU5
  • ‘Prometheus’ TV commercial to feature live tweets, Zeebox tie-in owl.li/aAAC5
  • Is it time to ditch the pitch? Isn’t there a better way to buy design? owl.li/axaGm
  • What Are You Tweeting For? owl.li/1jg43D
  • How Geniuses Think - thinking strategies commonly used to creative geniuses.owl.li/aAqWA
  • Thinking in a Foreign Language Makes Decisions More Rational owl.li/ax6ZF
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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 (4/29/12)

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

  • Improv (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1jdMgT
  • A Closer Look At Font Rendering by Smashing Magazine owl.li/auz18
  • The Story Behind “Caine’s Arcade” owl.li/axYYC Wonderful, MIT & UCLA getting involved in his education.
  • Typography Explained owl.li/9hZKp
  • Want them all » 10 Beautiful Literary Box Setsowl.li/ausUK
  • Flip this lesson! A new way to teach with video from TED-Ed owl.li/axWWe
  • Christina Tosi: NY’s baking superstar on her very sweet tooth, David Chang, and successowl.li/ausCE Also this: owl.li/ausCF
  • Procrastination Continued owl.li/1ja1wC
  • Harvard is making public the data on more than 12M books, videos, audio, images, and more inside its 73 libraries. owl.li/axDAf
  • Today: #TEDRadioHour premieres on @NPRand online. Listen to Ep. 1, “Our Buggy Brain”:N.pr/TEDradiohour /via @tedtalks
  • How the Power of Positive Thinking Won Scientific Credibility owl.li/auqCR
  • How Did Kraftwerk End Up at MOMA?owl.li/aus8y
  • All’s Well that Ends Well may be a collaboration between Shakespeare & Thomas Middleton, say Oxford University academics…
  • Alfred Hitchcock Explains McGuffinsowl.li/9hZAS
  • The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future owl.li/aurZC
  • Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites owl.li/auq6R
  • Joss Whedon On Worthy Work owl.li/1j7Jif
  • Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 In memoriam: After years of health problems, Facts has finally died.owl.li/ax9ZF
  • The Difference Between UX and UI: Subtleties Explained in Cereal owl.li/au5N3
  • Just love this. Twitter’s first animated commercial for smart Argentina (@smartArg), press J to play. owl.li/ax789
  • Creativity Top 5: April 25, 2012 owl.li/1j6DnA
  • Is streaming of live opera actually helping the art form? owl.li/aupNX
  • Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man owl.li/9hZzO An old one worth watching again.
  • The New Yorker launches twitter-based game. First winners on eliminating words from the english language. #tnyquestion owl.li/avhsT
  • Check out the NEA Arts Magazine owl.li/auiGq
  • Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City owl.li/avhl8
  • Lovely » The Most Beautiful Train Stations in the World owl.li/augvR
  • The Roller Coaster Up and Downs of Selling an Orchestra owl.li/1j5Eh6
  • D&AD Professional Awards Winnersowl.li/aute2
  • The brain: a user’s guide owl.li/avhfj
  • Six degrees of aggregation: How The Huffington Post ate the Internet owl.li/arw1P
  • Did Humans Invent Music? owl.li/aruYh
  • The story of the legendary CalArts in a video produced by Walt Disney Productionsowl.li/9hZyB
  • White House Announces Arts Education Planowl.li/auqs9
  • Better thinking through caffeine. owl.li/aruKz
  • Email Is Not Broken; We Are owl.li/artOE
  • Artist Damien Hirst Looks Back On His Life In Artowl.li/1j3mjd
  • MIT Media Lab is live streaming some great talks today. Currently a presentation on Design & Experience owl.li/au3Zu
  • The 100 best games of all time owl.li/arobh
  • From the Ad Age Archives: Dick Clark on Youth Ad Market owl.li/arnfk
  • Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts owl.li/arnaq
  • The Pomodoro Technique by Greg Headowl.li/9hZuA
  • The Evolution of TV Credits, from Smash to Six Feet Under owl.li/armm2 And this:owl.li/armm3
  • This is great: Valve’s new employee handbook.owl.li/arm4J
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 2owl.li/1j18QU
  • Can You Make Yourself Smarter? owl.li/arsUZ
  • To Compute or Not to Compute—Wolfram|Alpha Analyzes Shakespeare’s Plays owl.li/affeF
  • Adobe Officially Unveils CS6 And Its $49/Month All-Inclusive Creative Cloud Subscription Service owl.li/arYZ3
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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 (4/22/12)

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

  • The Next Draft (What I Learned This Week)owl.li/1iZL0u
  • Hillman Curtis, a Pioneer in Web Design, Dies at 51 owl.li/arfIV
  • Remembering Hillman Curtis: idsgn (a design blog) owl.li/aqjXb
  • Best evidence yet that a single gene can affect IQ owl.li/ajM7n
  • How “Eureka!” Affects the Brain owl.li/9hZl8
  • Four-year-old Heidi Hankins joins Mensa with 159 IQ owl.li/ajLYb
  • Researchers test the idea that we hunt for memories in our minds the same way some animals search for food. owl.li/ajFje
  • Chop Chop, A Dramatic Rescue Is In Progress
  • 2012 TIME 100: The Most Influential People in the World owl.li/aoLE6 Perfect weekend reading.
  • planning, creativity & planning for creative campaigns owl.li/ajEQY
  • Introducing Wired Design owl.li/aoNeP
  • Parsing Primates: Baboons Learn to Recognize the Difference between Real and Fake English Words owl.li/ak58d
  • The Curators - A MoOMumentary in 3 Partsowl.li/9hZfU
  • Cirque du Soleil: 100-Watt Egos, Disintegrating Costumes & Big Top Dreams owl.li/ak3SG
  • Longreads has a collection of 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners. owl.li/ak3ut
  • Worth a revisit given recent events. Flash Hits Food: The Road To Instagram. Kevin Rose Interviews Kevin Systrom owl.li/anicx
  • Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want – and it works.owl.li/ajMoX
  • Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution owl.li/ajMAR
  • The Difficulty of Estimating Time and the Planning Fallacy owl.li/9hZen
  • Op-Ed: Confidence vs Shyness owl.li/ajMuj
  • John Cleese On Creativity owl.li/1iS9K4
  • Teller of Penn & Teller Breaks Silence To Sue Over Magic Trick owl.li/ajMhw
  • Want Breakthrough Ideas? First, Listen To The Freaks And Geeks owl.li/ak5oL
  • Pulitzer Fiction Snub Has Book Publishers Fuming owl.li/alKsE
  • Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone.owl.li/ajLSH Inspiring commencement speech.
  • From paralysis to performance: the amazing recovery of teenage ballet star Jack Widdowsonowl.li/akxEK
  • Creativity Top 5: April 17, 2012 owl.li/1iQBNr
  • Battle for the internet: The Guardian’s in-depth series looking at the future of the internetowl.li/ajF5g
  • ‘Silent Night’ by Kevin Puts wins Pulitzer for music owl.li/akxvG
  • Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18 owl.li/9hZdo
  • Can ‘Genius’ be Detected in Infancy?owl.li/ajB8o
  • The Effects Of Sound owl.li/1iQges
  • How Sony Fell Behind in the Tech Paradeowl.li/ajkps Don’t rest on your laurels.
  • Businessweek’s How To Issue: Advice on everything from twitter, negotiations, managing creative people and more. owl.li/ak4YJ
  • Strategic Questions for an Accelerating Worldowl.li/aigz6
  • Google Creative Lab Gets ‘Old Spice’ Creative Director Iain Tait From Wieden + Kennedyowl.li/akxVY
  • The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever owl.li/aigoR
  • Remember the volcano that stopped everything? Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 Timelapse Video owl.li/9hZb8
  • Geneticists Solve Van Gogh’s Mutant Sunflowers After 125 Years owl.li/aigmi
  • Potentially Useful Answers to Typography Questions - Quora owl.li/ai0ny
  • Colum McCann On The Radical Act Of Storytelling owl.li/1iOAJh
  • Nickelodeon iOS App Case Study owl.li/aff5k
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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 (4/15/12)

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

  • What NYC and Beijing Would Look Like, Without All The People. Fascinating video.owl.li/acfZg
  • The Age Of Insight owl.li/a91Ix
  • The Past and Future Histories of Books: An Interview with Ted Striphas owl.li/a91QC
  • Just Do It & Make It Count owl.li/1iL4zs
  • CultureLab: The matter of your brainowl.li/a8Zax
  • 10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designsowl.li/ac6A9
  • How We Will Read: Exploring the Future of Books with Clay Shirky owl.li/acels
  • Carol Dweck’s Attitude About Intelligenceowl.li/9hZ6p
  • Ten reasons why you shouldn’t text during a live performance. Culture City: WSJ.comowl.li/abJwU
  • Is “Texts From Hillary” Art? owl.li/1iJpGp
  • The most inspiring new art is visualized information: The Art of Data Visualizationowl.li/abIXF
  • Savant Daniel Tammet on plasticity, Autism, Asperger’s syndrome, and popular myths.owl.li/abF4m
  • James Fowler - 10 points on the science of spreading the word owl.li/abDoi
  • 360° Color: A Peek Inside Pantone owl.li/9hZ5c
  • Instagram, Facebook, and China : The New Yorker owl.li/abBOf
  • Tiny Billboards Made Of Blocks Advertise Legoland Vacations owl.li/a95tT More lego goodness.
  • On Conducting, Motion Capture And The Maestro’s Mojo owl.li/1iHMcH
  • Are movie trailers better than the movies they sell? owl.li/acJZ9
  • Your Words Determine your Perspectiveowl.li/a91iG
  • What we learnt from prototyping ITV Newsowl.li/a91uH
  • Paula Scher on Failure owl.li/9hZ3R
  • N.E.A. Is Said to Cut Aid to PBS Arts Shows:owl.li/abJkz If you like Downton Abbey support PBS.
  • Education requires persuasion: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson owl.li/a91t8
  • Creative Time: On Making Art Happen and Pushing Culture Forward owl.li/a91k1
  • The next book from A Book Apart is out. Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) “Design Is A Job”. Looking forward to reading it. owl.li/abunD
  • Start With The Supposition That People Don’t Make Sense: David Chang on The Paul Holdengraber owl.li/1iH4Rm
  • Creativity and Human Reasoning During Decision-Making owl.li/a91ei
  • Creativity Top 5: April 9, 2012 owl.li/1iGF9u
  • An Invocation for Beginnings. Turning the dial from 0 to 1. Ze Frank Is Back! owl.li/1iGF9z
  • Richard Dare: Paradise Lost: Can We Keep Nonprofits From Failing? owl.li/a93yt
  • A timely identity for Grand Central’s 100th yearowl.li/a914F
  • Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges owl.li/a91lX
  • Great Designers Steal by Jeff Veen owl.li/9hZ3a
  • Immersion 101: How Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Turns Theater on Its Ear owl.li/a8Zob
  • Ze Frank: The Shift From 0 To 1, What Is Creativity? owl.li/1iGkz5
  • Jonathan Harris’ Cowbird: A Wikipedia for life’s meaningful moments owl.li/a8Z8J
  • What Scientists Can Learn From Balletowl.li/a91fz
  • Setting Boundaries & Saying No… Nicelyowl.li/a8Z4G
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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 (4/7/12)

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

  • Why Magicians Are a Scientist’s Best Friendowl.li/a0KvN
  • Ken Robinson Talks About How To Be In Your Element owl.li/9hZ2t
  • And You Can Dance. For Inspiration. (Five Views On Dance) owl.li/1iCC5f
  • Two Ways To Think About Nothing owl.li/a0KsF
  • Felicia Day: A rising star for the Internet geekowl.li/a7yZS She is also an example for anyone wanting to create content.
  • What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering & Intuiting owl.li/a0KoJ
  • A Modest Proposal By John Bohannon: Get Rid Of Powerpoint And Use Dancers Insteadowl.li/1iCnEm
  • To Promote LEGO ‘Star Wars’ Miniland, Ads Use The Movie’s Iconic Scenes owl.li/a0KixOnce again, brilliance in ads.
  • Disruptions: Top 10 Lists Lead to Less Choice on the Web owl.li/a0E7Q
  • So You Need A Typeface owl.li/9hZ09
  • How does laughter bring the left and right brain together? owl.li/a0DYL
  • So good: Videos to help you rethink education, learning, and school owl.li/a0AiT
  • Dance Your PH.D. owl.li/1iALfQ
  • 25 jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts owl.li/a0xxq
  • Want To Boost The Economy? Boost Internet Speeds owl.li/a0xzd Interesting idea.
  • Kill bad meetings in 9 easy steps owl.li/9hYZn
  • 15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachersowl.li/a0xmv
  • lorempixel - placeholder images for every caseowl.li/a0xkQ
  • David Parsons’ Caught vs Wrecking Crew Orchestra’s Tron owl.li/1izbqB
  • Why Straight Plays Can’t Make It on Broadwayowl.li/a0vLB
  • Creativity Top 5: April 3, 2012 owl.li/1iyhtw
  • Microsoft Gets Brutally Honest About Its Bold New Design For Windows owl.li/a0vem
  • The Evolution of Storytelling - A TEDx Talk by Sean Stewart owl.li/9hYYj
  • 25 Lies Writers Tell (And Start To Believe)owl.li/a0qUY
  • Michael Bierut: The Main Failing Of Design School, Kids Can’t Think For Themselvesowl.li/a0psl
  • The Secret Lives Of Dancers owl.li/1ixBJ7
  • The latest Think Quarterly is out and this one is the Creativity Issue. owl.li/a2uQ6
  • So good. A Metaphor Database owl.li/a0pnS/via @mefi_tweed
  • Training Working Memory: Why and Howowl.li/a0p7V
  • Merlin Mann Makes You Wonder ‘Who Moved My Brain?’ owl.li/9hYWF
  • Cofounder TV | A curated library of the web’s best entrepreneurship videos owl.li/a0p3T
  • New NEA report shows: Arts Involvement Narrows Student Achievement Gap owl.li/a0oDv
  • Dancers In Slow Motion owl.li/1ivUzH
  • What book publishers should learn from Harry Potter e-books and Pottermore. owl.li/a1fL2
  • Reasons for Optimism, a website full of exactly that. owl.li/a0dbW
  • April Fools’ Day 2012: Best of the Brand Hoaxesowl.li/a0DWL
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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.