The Week's Links (6/17/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • What You See Is Not Always What You Get: What I Learned This Week owl.li/1kDE4g
  • Why Boredom Is Good for Your Creativityowl.li/bxrbH
  • A Brief History of Title Design owl.li/9i3Ms
  • Radiolab: The Art and Science of Digital Shamanism owl.li/bx1HK
  • Simon Schama: Shakespeare’s histories were not just the making of the Bard, they were the making of the English too owl.li/bwVVO
  • PBS Off Book: The Culture of Redditowl.li/1kAnqi
  • The Vast World Of Lego Art owl.li/1kAiqz
  • The 5 Types of Work That Fill Your Dayowl.li/bvSzw
  • Developing A Design Workflow In Adobe Fireworks owl.li/bwVv6
  • A Remarkable Guide to the Orchestraowl.li/9i3KP
  • What The Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast owl.li/bwIro
  • Big Spaceship : 9 Digital Storytelling Tips From Star Wars owl.li/bwI96
  • What are bronies, and are they changing the definition of masculinity? owl.li/1kyBrB
  • PBS Idea Channel: Are Hologram Tupac and Hologram Freddie Mercury Nostalgia or New Aesthetic? owl.li/1kyvWM
  • How Da Vinci Got His Ideas owl.li/bvVaB
  • 9 of the coolest educational videos from TED-Ed owl.li/bvVkO
  • Creative Mornings: Milton Glaser owl.li/9i3JV
  • How Ego Gets in the Way of Good Designowl.li/bvVhk
  • Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Stupid Mistakes owl.li/bxtwl
  • Janusian Creative Thinking: Get creative ideas by imagining two opposites or contradictory ideas. owl.li/bvV6B
  • AT&T does the web series ad thing with BBDO and Heroes creator Tim Kring owl.li/bx1ss
  • Robert Krulwich On Becoming Yourselfowl.li/1kwvvj
  • Alain de Botton: Why Our Museums Of Art Have Failed Us And What They Might Learn From Religions owl.li/bvSPk
  • Creativity Top 5: June 12, 2012 owl.li/1kv7TH
  • Caffeine Cuts Men’s Ability to Collaborate Under Stress owl.li/9i3IB
  • Taming The Wild Mind. Can creativity be scheduled? owl.li/bvSrR
  • Novel Constructions: Fantastic case studies on font design owl.li/bvS0E
  • Tony Fadell: Building With Atoms, Electrons, Frustrations & Constraints owl.li/1kuCQi
  • Color and cultural design considerationsowl.li/buxeH
  • Introducing Tool Kit - Answers to Tech Questions And How To Make Tech Work Better owl.li/bu5vr
  • Malcolm Gladwell on Creativity, Writing and Embracing Chaos owl.li/9i3Ed
  • Jay McInerney: why Gatsby is so greatowl.li/bu4Fe
  • Despite companies’ male-focused marketing efforts, women are the dominant users of a wide variety of new technologies. owl.li/bu4Bt
  • The Chumbawamba Principle: A Robert Krulwich Commencement Addressowl.li/bu4RY
  • “This Is Coffee” A Vintage Film For Coffee Lovers owl.li/1ksQ5Z
  • The history of the paper clip: It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since.owl.li/btSSZ

Recommended books this week:

  • What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame owl.li/bu7lP
  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine owl.li/bu7jY
  • The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession owl.li/bu7j2
  • When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man owl.li/bu7hm
  • The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession owl.li/bu7dY
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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 (6/10/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Perceptions: What I’ve Learned This Weekowl.li/1krqo9
  • Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Scheduleowl.li/bnVkh
  • An Animated Mystery: Why Can’t We Walk Straight? owl.li/9i3B5
  • Ever heard of ‘remote and real world interconnected theatrical immersion’? Punchdrunk’s Peter Higgin explains allowl.li/bnUoI
  • Sleep No More: What It’s Like Inside the World’s Most Interactive Play owl.li/bnPg1
  • A Kind Of Artless Flattery owl.li/1koe5d
  • Is It Art? Increasingly, That’s a Judicial Decision owl.li/bnPc2
  • How To Accomplish More By Doing Lessowl.li/bnOs3
  • Salman Rushdie on Video Games and the Future of Storytelling owl.li/9i3yg
  • 27 Bits of Wisdom from 2012 Commencement Addresses owl.li/bnNvf
  • Can color be used to lower aggression and teach tolerance? owl.li/bnNks
  • Ken Burns: A Great Story is 1+1=3owl.li/1kmgSq
  • The creators of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and Deadwood discuss the future of television.owl.li/bnNdO
  • The best way to pay respect is to listen to his advice: Ray Bradbury Gives 12 Pieces of Writing Advice owl.li/bpGle
  • Zadie Smith on what is happening to librariesowl.li/bnMYs
  • Ad creatives need “artistry”, not “creativity”owl.li/9i3vv
  • The Art of Apps: Paper, Tweetbot, Mixel, and Piictu creators on designing beautiful appsowl.li/bnMQH
  • Original Creator: Super Producer Rick Rubinowl.li/bnL3s
  • Angela Ahrendts is making Burberry into an innovation machine. owl.li/bop0c
  • Why Daydreaming Makes You Smarter And More Creative owl.li/1kk50t
  • A Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali, Narrated by the Great Orson Welles owl.li/bnwGz
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Interesting? owl.li/bkyTL
  • Ideas: Five Minutes With Philosopher Alain de Botton owl.li/9i1oW
  • The Difference Between “Money Work” and “Busy Work” owl.li/bkxRT
  • How Facebook Killed the Virtual Worldowl.li/bkxRq
  • Jonathan Harris On Reshaping Culture In The Digital Age owl.li/1khZmG
  • How Serial Innovators Find The Best Problems To Solve owl.li/bksRq
  • The Best Animated Films of All Time, According to Terry Gilliam owl.li/bksEW
  • Ideas: Steven Johnson and Kevin Kelly moderated by Robert Krulwich at NYPLowl.li/9i1lT
  • Pixar story rules (one version) owl.li/bksDb
  • Queueing theory: What people hate most about waiting in line. owl.li/bksut
  • Wired’s first issue (1993) plus 12,000 word oral history of Wired as a free iPad appowl.li/bksSN
  • Superflat Epic Minimalism And Hello Kittyowl.li/1kfWi7
  • Where Does Passion Come From?owl.li/bkrDQ
  • 32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow owl.li/bkybr
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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 (5/27/12 & 6/3/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Best and Worst Design: 50 U.S. State Websites owl.li/bhMDB
  • Documentary Short: Influencers, How Trends & Creativity Become Contagious owl.li/9i1jP
  • Why Does Pop Culture Love Fairy Tales Again? owl.li/bhMCd
  • (RED): Starbucks To Donate $1 For Every Check-in In Foursquare’s Largest Non-Profit Campaign Yet owl.li/bhMtj
  • Have Headphones Changed Your World?owl.li/1kaIp4
  • Museum of Endangered Sounds preserves obsolete tech noises owl.li/bg4Jr
  • Collected Videos of Apple’s Steve Jobs Interviews at D Conference, Now Free on iTunes owl.li/bhIXI
  • Design Process In The Responsive Ageowl.li/bg51H
  • Vimeo Awards Experimental Film Winner oops by Chris Beckman owl.li/9i1g9
  • The Wired UK’s 100: follow 2012’s list on Twitter owl.li/bg4Hy
  • A Peek Inside the Notebooks of Famous Authors, Artists and Visionaries owl.li/bg3q1
  • 2012 Internet Trends by Mary Meeker and Liang Wu owl.li/bg3kM
  • Mary Meeker Explains the Mobile Monetization Challenge owl.li/bg3in
  • From Love To Bingo In 873 Imagesowl.li/1k8z8v
  • The DNA Of Idea Execution: How Creatives Are Working Today owl.li/berDP
  • Paul Rand In His Own Words (And Animated)owl.li/9i1ai
  • How Lady Gaga’s manager reinvented the celebrity game with social media owl.li/beqCU
  • An in-depth look at Adobe’s CS6 Desktop Brand System owl.li/bcuCm
  • Fascinating: ‘Fair and square’ pricing? That’ll never work, JC Penney. We like being shaftedowl.li/bctHo
  • Designed by Pentagram, 1972-2012owl.li/1k6gm2
  • Clay Shirky On Pushing Creative Boundariesowl.li/1k4zW0
  • Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot Discuss Fractals, Architecture, And The Death Of Euclid owl.li/9i0Yv
  • Easily Create Hundreds of Ideas at Willowl.li/bctAb
  • Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creativeowl.li/9i156
  • ‘Sleep No More,’ Enhanced by MIT Media Labowl.li/bcn7K Love the experimentation.
  • Leonard Bernstein’s Masterful Lectures on Music (11+ Hours of Video Recorded in 1973)owl.li/bc8rs
  • Commencement 2012, flipped: Lessons from great grad addresses owl.li/bc8c1
  • Procrastination: What are you waiting for?owl.li/9i0II
  • New York Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Speech owl.li/b87XK
  • All Creative Work Builds On What Came Before owl.li/9i0Et
  • The New Yorker Will Serialize Jennifer Egan’s Short Story on Twitter, Starting Tonightowl.li/b87T8
  • Ben Cameron: The true power of the performing arts owl.li/9i0bR
  • Can the iPad help Classical Music?owl.li/b3qdF
  • How Ink Is Made owl.li/9i0Aa
  • Wait. What? Kodak Had a Secret Nuclear Reactor Loaded With Enriched Uranium Hidden In a Basement owl.li/b3pME
  • Can Creativity Be Scheduled? owl.li/b3pDF
  • Creativity Top 5 owl.li/1jZnX0
  • 6 Ways MIT’s Media Lab Envisions the Opera of the Future owl.li/b3pwh
  • House Beautiful Lets Readers Post to Pinterest From Print owl.li/b3oZa
  • Fighting Ugliness With Massimo Vignelliowl.li/9i0to Worth another look.
  • Eureka! When a Blow to the Head Creates a Sudden Genius owl.li/b3iXB
  • The 20 Most-Viral Ads of 2012 (So Far) by Adweek owl.li/b3iRm
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: On The Road, Episode 3 owl.li/1jXsve
  • Paul Kieve, The Real Dumbledore. The magician behind effects for ‘Harry Potter’ talks about his craft. owl.li/b3iIA
  • Spectacular: Ring of Fire Eclipse: 2012owl.li/b3vKk
  • David Armano: The future of digital mediaowl.li/b1PQr
  • Physics, dance and the beach owl.li/9i0kOLove this.
  • The Writer Behind Lee Clow’s Beard Speaksowl.li/b1PNs
  • The Top 10 Best Museum Web Sitesowl.li/b1NrX
  • Frank Chimero on Ideas owl.li/1jVxCi
  • Why Top Innovators Make Time to Waste Timeowl.li/aZiRI
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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 (5/20/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Facebook: Running the world’s largest social network will be a technical and financial challenge as it grows. owl.li/aZgUW
  • Frans Johansson: The Secret Truth About Executing Great Ideas owl.li/9i0gM
  • How To Encourage Learning By Making “Smart Mistakes” owl.li/aZgS4
  • A List Apart: Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point owl.li/aZgPn
  • This looks like it’s going to be fun: Introducing The Monitor, Wired’s New Video Series About Pop Culture owl.li/aZiMc
  • An Intro to Metadata and Taxonomiesowl.li/aZgNq
  • It Turns Out There Is Accounting for Tasteowl.li/9i0ad
  • Tha’st a way to stand out: The World’s Greatest Cover Letter By Hunter S.Thompsonowl.li/aYrVg
  • Diane Ragsdale on Surviving the Culture Change owl.li/9i0fo
  • What’s responsive Web design all about?owl.li/aYrlx
  • The Brain is What We Do with It owl.li/aYqZo
  • Seth’s Blog: The quickest way to get things done and make change owl.li/aYrIq
  • Paulo Coelho’s Top 10 Tips for Writing Wellowl.li/aYqSE
  • Creativity Top 5 owl.li/1jOTwy
  • Pixar’s Randy Nelson on collaborationowl.li/aVvLQ
  • Coffee, is not just for caffeine anymore: Art in My Coffee owl.li/aW4eH
  • 6 Ways MIT’s Media Lab Envisions the Opera of the Future owl.li/aW4u8
  • So excited about this collaboration between MIT and Punchdrunk: Remote Theatrical Immersion, Extending Sleep No Moreowl.li/aW4Fx
  • Clever. FF Chartwell: a graph-making fontowl.li/aW1hm
  • Ha! Meet Pentametron, A Bot That Only Tweets In Iambic Pentameter owl.li/aW1c7Check out pentametron.com
  • Love this. The Illustrated 99% Conference 2012: An Epic Episode in Words & Pictures!owl.li/aW4rb
  • Cocktails with Stan Lee and Jane Espensonowl.li/1jOd7a
  • How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internetowl.li/aVGV8
  • Logo Evolution of 25 Famous Brandsowl.li/aVw9N
  • 100 Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter owl.li/aVvfP
  • Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage owl.li/aVuP2
  • Do you know who Ma Jun is? He is #1 in Fast Company’s The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012 owl.li/aVe36
  • Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo owl.li/aSw8z
  • Pixar’s Randy Nelson on collaborationowl.li/9i08W
  • Seattle library hides 1,000 books around town for young people to find owl.li/aSw6k
  • Love this: “Beautiful Dancers on the Town” Photo Gallery by Richard Calmes owl.li/aSvOt
  • Study: the bigger the font, the bigger the emotional response owl.li/aPGf9 /via @davepell
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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 (5/13/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Music-video maker Chris Milk and Web guru Aaron Koblin use crowdsourcing to make beautiful art together owl.li/aMAJT
  • John Cleese shares the wisdom of his creative process owl.li/9i05H
  • Intelligent YouTube Channels by Open Culture owl.li/aMyLl How did I miss this before.
  • Disney researchers put gesture recognition in door knobs, chairs, fish tanks owl.li/aMwJG
  • Audio Branding: Company Logos Expand Into The Sonic Realm owl.li/1jEOe9
  • The 10 best first lines in fiction according to The Observer owl.li/aMutj
  • Longshot Radio: Creativity and Failure (Made in 48 hrs) owl.li/aMun8
  • A Storytelling & Transmedia Master Class In 10 Short Videos owl.li/9i04m
  • Three Points Of View On Fandom, Fan Fiction & Fan Art owl.li/1jDcaG
  • The 13-year-old CEO who invented a cure for hiccups owl.li/aMu6Z
  • Love this: Nikolaj Lund Reinvents Portraiture of Classical Musicians owl.li/aMt3C
  • Longform’s 50 most read stories from year one and year two: owl.li/aMrIu
  • The Web Platform: Browser technologies. Great resouce owl.li/aMpkT /via @loadx
  • Fantastic: Paralympics Ad Filmed In One Shot Without CGI Effects owl.li/aMooP
  • The Itch of Curiosity owl.li/9i02X
  • Creative Review - A partial history of British design owl.li/aMo0s
  • Why Publishers Don’t Like Apps - Technology Review owl.li/aMnOI
  • The Timelapse Project: El Morro & El Yunqueowl.li/1jARbU
  • A Carefully Selected List of Recommended Tools on Datavisualization owl.li/aMmuQ/via @waxpancake
  • Speaker lineup for TEDGlobal 2012: Radical Openness owl.li/aMGsz
  • The Ten Commandments of Teachingowl.li/1jzhMA
  • At ROFLCon: The Spread of Memes in China, Brazil and Syria owl.li/aMk7W
  • TED-ED makes a playlist for National Teacher Day owl.li/aMl4k
  • The Evolution of Storytelling Revisitedowl.li/9i01y
  • How I Busted Out Of My Addictive Technology Loop owl.li/aMjJ0
  • Kronos Quartet and PEN: When Music and Literature Collide owl.li/aJnsW
  • Twitter To Co-teach Berkeley Data Courseowl.li/aJnkN
  • In honor of Maurice Sendak here is what he says on all consuming passion. owl.li/aLMbM
  • This makes me sad: Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author, Dies at 83 owl.li/aLLCM
  • Welcome to the Era of Design owl.li/aJmDh
  • Jorge Luis Borges: The Task of Art owl.li/9hZYt
  • The Paradox of Passion: Barry Kaufman on the fine line between motivation and obsession. owl.li/aDoCh
  • When Google won’t do: 30 Specialist (and Super Smart) Search Engines owl.li/aDoos
  • Richard Branson on the role of creativity in business owl.li/1jwAcM
  • “Liking” Something on Facebook Not Protected by First Amendment owl.li/aJnJ1
  • What Is the Role of Libraries in the Age of E-Books and Digital Information? owl.li/aDfsF
  • Rhyming & Stealing: Let’s honor late Beastie with better copyright laws owl.li/aJWrz


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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.