The Week's Links: 8/5/12

All the links shared on Twitter and Facebook this week:

  • Chef Eric Ripert on How to Build a Classic Brand owl.li/cH5Lr
  • The Creative And Business Lessons Of The Mars Rover owl.li/cJEPi
  • A Week In The Life Of Chef Adam Keough, Preparing For A James Beard Foundation Dinner owl.li/cH4rZ
  • Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants’ legal bills owl.li/cH3f1
  • Japan and the fax: A love affair. In Japan, a country with a hi-tech reputation, the fax is thriving. owl.li/cGYeA
  • Dare Mighty Things: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror owl.li/1lOttL
  • The History (And Artistic De-Evolution) of Patent Drawings owl.li/cGY08
  • JK Rowling novel withheld from foreign publishers over piracy fears owl.li/cGXvj
  • Why You Should Care About Jonah Lehrer’s Great Fall owl.li/1lOqrH
  • Oxford University launched an appeal to make the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays available online. owl.li/cGXet
  • 35 Modern Words Recently Added to the Dictionary owl.li/cGRYW
  • Does Helping Others Hurt Your Creativity? The Cost of Interruption owl.li/cDwXh
  • Introducing Ad Age's YouTube Original Channel Tracker owl.li/cHvun
  • paidContent 50: The world’s most successful digital media companies owl.li/cDuL7
  • Patton Oswalt’s Letters to Both Sides: Brilliant advice for comics, creatives. And the gatekeepers. owl.li/cD4D5
  • We are getting to a point when data can predict who will love a song owl.li/cD2pV
  • Original Creators: The Father Of Public-Access Television, George C. Stoney owl.li/cCif4
  • 25 Twitter Accounts That Will Make You Smarter owl.li/cChPc
  • The History Of English In 10 Minutes. Delightful. owl.li/cChFA
  • 11 Notable Medalists in the Olympic Art Competitions owl.li/cCgHQ
  • How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale owl.li/cCfYD
  • Three Minute Manifesto: Cindy Gallop on what advertising needs right now owl.li/cA2Nu
  • Marguerite Perret on Art, Science & Collaboration owl.li/cCeLI
  • The First Company To Build Your Identity Into Your Phone Wins The Next Decadeowl.li/cCeza
  • First map of the human brain reveals a simple, grid-like structure between neuronsowl.li/cCep1
  • Monocle interviews Alain de Botton about The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. owl.li/cCelK
  • Financial Times digital subscriptions surpass print circulation globally owl.li/cCea5
  • The Strawberry Fields Forever Demos: The Making of a Beatles Classic (1966) Fantasticowl.li/cCe0t
  • Laura Lang Rethinks Magazines for Time Inc.’s Digital Audience owl.li/cCdQK
  • An early religious painting by Goya is to be sold in Zurich next month after hanging for 80 years unrecognisedowl.li/cEyxt
  • Tiffany & Co. Commissions Street Artists To Update Their NYC Storefront owl.li/cEyqe
  • Frida Kahlo on display in the ‘Gallery of Lost Art’ owl.li/cCcWs
  • Love this poster of currencies around the world. owl.li/cCcSp
  • The Lost Scripts, Part III: Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods owl.li/cCbLY
  • Rare books discovered in hidden cupboard in a Scottish library. owl.li/cAyyO
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Frets About Information Overload ... in 1821 owl.li/cAy3O
  • In Search of Haruki Murakami, Japan’s Great Postmodernist Novelist owl.li/cA6Sc
  • Serious Play: Century of the Child - a conversation between children and toy designers. owl.li/cA5wf
  • Study: People who engage in cultural events are less stressed owl.li/cA2Ma
  • Ursula K. Le Guin: Still Battling the Powers That Be owl.li/cA5aV
  • How to improve teaching: New evidence that poor teachers can learn to be good ones.owl.li/cA58V
  • ​What Is the Nocebo Effect? owl.li/cA56R
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson: Columbus Landing in America Was the Most Important Event in Human History owl.li/cA4Lu
  • Rare 1933 Film: The Great Storyteller Rudyard Kipling on Truth in Writing owl.li/cA4EP
  • "Discovering Dad" aka delving into Terry Gilliam's personal archive (by his daughter @hollydubois) So, so good. owl.li/cA4x6
  • How Language Shapes Your Organization - Kevin Allen owl.li/cA3X7
  • Great collection of design quotes compiled by LukeWowl.li/cA3AS
  • Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film owl.li/cA3tn
  • The New York Times Is Now Supported by Readers, Not Advertisers owl.li/cA2V1
  • Why Thinking of Others Improves Our Creativity owl.li/cA2U8
  • PopSpots - The exact Spots where famous events of Pop culture took place. Cool.owl.li/cA1KJ
  • The Buying Brain: Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind By A.K. Pradeep owl.li/cA2Ez
  • The Branded Mind: What Neuroscience Really Tells Us about the Puzzle of the Brain and the Brand By Erik Du Plessis owl.li/cA2C5
  • Brand Atlas: Branding Intelligence Made Visible By Alina Wheeler, Joel Katzhttp://owl.li/cA2yZ
  • The Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture By Terry O'Reilly, Mike Tennant owl.li/cA2wM

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: 7/29/12

All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • A history of superstition by Lapham’s Quarterlyowl.li/ct8cj
  • 8 Television Pioneers owl.li/ct7gT
  • This is your planet. It's beautiful. owl.li/ct65F
  • The encouraging letter the legendary editor Ursula Nordstrom sent to Maurice Sendak.owl.li/ct4Ct
  • The Personality Layer of UX Designowl.li/ct4pr
  • Venice Backstage. How does Venice work?owl.li/cpzaM
  • From 1912 to 1948, Art Competitions Were Part of the Olympics owl.li/ct3Uc
  • Money as You Grow – A great site to teach your kids about money. owl.li/ct3NR
  • Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein owl.li/ct3Dq
  • 25 Must-See Music Documentaries owl.li/ct3xv
  • Do You Know How Much Data is Created Every Minute? owl.li/1lFXkq
  • While everyone talks about London, check out the development of the beautiful Rio 2016™ font owl.li/ct3rW
  • First team enters the race to sequence DNA of 100 centenarians owl.li/csXdE
  • Gamer's Paradise: Mass Entertainment Doesn’t Need To Be Mindless owl.li/csPUL
  • Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML. Not perfect but a great free tool. owl.li/csLHV
  • Our brains are hardwired to fear creativityowl.li/csLq2
  • 35 Inspiring Quotes from Einstein owl.li/crStt
  • 30 Amazing Stanley Kubrick Cinemagraphsowl.li/crSmS
  • How to enjoy opera, including The Guardian's Top 50 operas. owl.li/crSiR
  • When Famous Artists Moonlight as Magazine Cover Designers owl.li/crSdP
  • Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time owl.li/crS5Y
  • Breakfast Interrupted, A Perfect Breakfast Meets Slow Motion Mayhem owl.li/cpz6u
  • The Art of Asking Questions owl.li/crRZY
  • The Difference Between Design and Artowl.li/crRXp
  • How to Explain Why Typography Mattersowl.li/crRDo
  • Developing an Appetite for Hard Ideasowl.li/crRoq
  • James Victore: In The Particular Lies The Universal owl.li/1lEpG5
  • Silja Ómarsdóttir: On Writing Iceland’s New Constitution owl.li/crQzf
  • Henry Jenkins: The Many Worlds of San Diego Comic-Con owl.li/crQ4a
  • Letter to a Young Poet. The letter that started it all with Rilke. owl.li/crOKk
  • How Goals and Good Intentions Can Hold Us Back owl.li/crOGi
  • Art and the Limits of Neuroscienceowl.li/crOD4
  • In a culture that celebrates delivering fast and often, is being prolific a good thing?owl.li/crOBz
  • Hands-On Experience: The Rehabilitation Of The Script owl.li/crNIL
  • Public Books — A curated monthly review devoted to spirited debate about books and the arts owl.li/crNFN
  • History Mesh: Explore a woven world of technological whimsy. Fantastic. owl.li/crNBe
  • Once Upon A Time: The Lure of the Fairy Taleowl.li/crNdz
  • Above Everything Else, An Absurdly Photorealistic CGI Animation owl.li/cpz4L
  • The data detective: Uri Simonsohn explains how he uncovered wrongdoing in psychology research. owl.li/crN6n
  • Michael Bierut On The New Philbrook Museum of Art Brand owl.li/1lCR4n
  • Wiring the Brain: The genetics of stupidityowl.li/crN0r
  • Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?owl.li/crMLe
  • The Reading Lists of Your Favorite Fictional Characters owl.li/crLFU
  • Creativity Top 5: July 24, 2012 owl.li/1lBOQO
  • How can you help non-programmers understand the development process?owl.li/crLCe
  • Jared Spool - Anatomy of a Design Decisionowl.li/cpz3y
  • Pixels Nervosos Transforms A São Paulo Eyesore With Playful Projection Mappingowl.li/ct45E
  • Adweek's Media Plan of the Year 2012owl.li/crKXg
  • The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Brief History of Sliced Bread owl.li/crKJE /via @davepell
  • The Art of the Profile with David Remnick of ‘The New Yorker’ owl.li/crKw1
  • When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job owl.li/cpWab
  • Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Netflix-Style Membership. All you can hear for $5 a month. Let's see if it works. owl.li/cpVZX
  • Transmedia Hollywood 3: Rethinking Creative Relations [Panel Videos] owl.li/1lBky2
  • Rethinking theater, and ways to make it, in the digital age owl.li/cpVR3
  • How To Make It: 15 Rules For Success From Creative Industry Insiders owl.li/cpVKz
  • Futures of Entertainment 6 at MIT Nov. 9-10 - Now open for registration. owl.li/cpVEE
  • The Underground New York Public Library is a visual library featuring the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways. Lovely. owl.li/cpVyk
  • Oscar Wilde writes to an editor of a pub that criticized him and called him the wrong name. Witty. owl.li/cpVsb
  • Yes, There IS a Creativity Crisis! owl.li/cpV7l
  • 54 Smart thinkers everyone should follow on twitter. owl.li/cpV5J
  • John C Jay’s Top 10 Rules For Creatingowl.li/cpz1E
  • This is interesting. NextStories: a one click discovery tool. owl.li/cpV1i
  • 15 Famous Authors on Why They Writeowl.li/cpUY2
  • Click Here If You Are You Missing Outowl.li/1lzOeS
  • Great Brands Are About Fusing Product And Service. How Do You Do It? owl.li/cpUVO
  • Cheryl Strayed: On "Binge Writing," Doling Out Advice & Finding Clarity owl.li/cpUU3
  • Tips For A Finely Crafted Websiteowl.li/cpUQM
  • .Mail by Tobias van Schneider. A proposal for re-designing the classic email client.owl.li/cpUOx
  • Fantastic Case Study of a Chrome project: Ramayana owl.li/cpUIz
  • The novel is a wonder: Fitzgerald writes his editor with the first draft of Gatsby.owl.li/cpUD5
  • AmoeBAND, A Smart Bandage Concept. Brilliant. owl.li/cpUzr
  • This Podcast Is Kicking Ass: How 99% Invisible Will Change Public Radioowl.li/cpTw1
  • A Collection of Brilliant and Inspiring Letters From Famous Authors to Their Young Fansowl.li/cpQIy
  • Original Creators: Walt Disney owl.li/cpQEr
  • Top 10 Most Read Books in the Worldowl.li/cpEYu
  • Researchers Have Found The Part Of The Brain Where Selfishness Lives http://owl.li/cpEEO
  • Is Philosophy Literature? http://owl.li/cpdOi
  • Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost artowl.li/cpdBB
  • Neurosecurity Lets You Store a Password In Your Brain Without Remembering Itowl.li/cp39f

Recommended this week:

  • Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager By Michael Lopp owl.li/cpvmC
  • Life's A Pitch By Roger Mavity, Stephen Bayley owl.li/cpvk8
  • Screw Business As Usual By Richard Branson owl.li/cpvgP
  • The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles By Steven Pressfield owl.li/cpvf9
  • Turning Pro By Steven Pressfield owl.li/cpv9L

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 (7/22/12)

All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • What's the last great thing you saw?owl.li/cp2IY
  • Joss Whedon's Top 10 Writing Tipsowl.li/cp2AF
  • 90º Typography Pop-Up Book. Amazingowl.li/cp2xc
  • Respect the font: NBC Universal sued for $3.5 million for font license infringementowl.li/cp2sT
  • The yuck factor: The surprising power of disgust owl.li/cp2nN
  • Northern Ballet is attracting new audiences with its 'try before you buy' initiative owl.li/cp2iy
  • When Popular Culture Caught Up to the Way We Live Now owl.li/cp2eq
  • Harvard Presents Free Courses with the Open Learning Initiative owl.li/cp1WO
  • Designers Did for Fun What News Sites Can't Do to Save Their Business owl.li/cp1UI
  • MIT's New Battery-Free Chip Captures Energy From Light, Heat And Vibrations at the Same Time owl.li/cmwsx
  • The 20 Most Beautiful Museums in the Worldowl.li/cmwn2
  • Rebranding Canada: Know Canada. Exciting work. owl.li/cmrBw
  • Letter from the Pulitzer Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year owl.li/cmqw5
  • This is genius. Adobe Creative Suite Toolbar Shortcut Wallpapers owl.li/cmpFo
  • An abridged history of Western music sung in 16 styles.More music goodness. owl.li/cmoAK
  • history of rock’n’roll in 100 riffs, in a single take. So good. owl.li/cmosk
  • The Strange Neuroscience of Immortalityowl.li/cmn4R /via @davepell
  • Extraordinary Microscope Photographs. Colorful and spooky. owl.li/cmlvC
  • Cracking "The Thomas Beale Cipher" (Based on a true legend) owl.li/cfF3l
  • Great tumblr. Branding the Presidents of the United States owl.li/cmlfG
  • The language of infographics, explained in LEGO. So fantastic. owl.li/cmkVc
  • 16 lesser-known marketing blogs you should read owl.li/cmkzE
  • Magic gets an upgrade: the tricks of underground illusionists owl.li/cmkq3
  • Typefight- 2 designers create the same letter and pin them against each other in the typographic ring. Love this. owl.li/cmkiV
  • Here's an idea, PBS Idea Channel is TED Talks from the fringe owl.li/1lvP3e
  • What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space owl.li/cmjG6
  • Penguin Buys Self-Publishing Platform Author Solutions for $116 Million owl.li/cnhCK
  • The 10 Most Creative People in Higher Education Today owl.li/cmjtj
  • Creative Review explores London 2012: the look of the Games owl.li/cmiEp
  • 10 Current Movie Poster Trends owl.li/cmirY
  • Where inspiration comes from owl.li/cmhmyLove this too. /via @kottke
  • The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero now completely online for your reading pleasure.owl.li/cmh4e /via @craigmod
  • Video Essay: 135 Shots That Will Restore Your Faith in Cinema owl.li/cmdw6
  • This Exquisite Forest: the next Milk/Koblin Google Experiment owl.li/cmw3u
  • 2012 Emmy Nominations for Main Title Designowl.li/cmt07
  • MediaShift . Young People Who Tweet Are Young People Who Vote owl.li/cmdtk
  • Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Storiesowl.li/cfF0T
  • Brandalism: 26 Street artists hijack billboards for 'subvertising campaign' owl.li/clT01
  • Ad of the Day: Nike Officially Turns Your Workout into a Video Game owl.li/clNz9
  • Completely free online classes? Coursera.org now offering courses from 16 top collegesowl.li/cld5k
  • Children and Computers: State of Playowl.li/1lu6Ks
  • National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 2012. Spectacular. owl.li/clcNV
  • The next issue of Think Quarterly by Google is out. This one is the Play issue. owl.li/clcIA
  • A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior, Dan Ariely's class at Coursera owl.li/clcFa
  • Salvador Dali’s Creative Thinking Techniqueowl.li/clcBt
  • Unlocking the brain's response to art.owl.li/cjLR9
  • Why have a group of dancers invaded Cern … and what do the scientists make of it?owl.li/cjLsA
  • The Elements Of The Mobile User Experienceowl.li/cj1qq
  • Netflix's lost year: The inside story of the price-hike train wreck owl.li/cj1fX
  • Copyright and Choreography: The Good, The Bad, and The Fair owl.li/ciZ0x
  • Graphing Every* Idea In History owl.li/ciXdE
  • PSFK presents Future of Retail Report 2012owl.li/ciQjC
  • How TV Binge Viewing is changing the game for media companies, advertisers and show creators. owl.li/ciMvp
  • Shakespeare's Elizabethan Rose theatre set to bloom again owl.li/ciM9r
  • Russell Quinn — The World's Most Wired Storyteller owl.li/ciM1J
  • World's Biggest Talkers Spread the TEDowl.li/cfEZF
  • The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard Of owl.li/ciKUa
  • The Art Of Logo Design: PBS Off Bookowl.li/1lsvPl
  • Mind bending: Why our memories are not always our own owl.li/ciHAI /via @davepell
  • Why We Haven’t Met Any Aliens owl.li/ciD0E
  • Seeing Beyond The Human Eye: PBS Off Book owl.li/1lslOv
  • The State Of Mobile App Privacy Policiesowl.li/ciBXj
  • Lessons learned from MITx’s prototype courseowl.li/ciBKY
  • A look inside Leap Motion, the 3D gesture control that's like Kinect on steroids owl.li/ciBEf
  • 3 Storytelling Tips From "Breaking Bad" Creator Vince Gilligan owl.li/ciAcsDon't Overthink It: 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making owl.li/cizVY
  • Teaching Innovation Is About More Than iPads in the Classroom owl.li/ciyfV
  • The Science of Compassion owl.li/cir7m
  • Malcolm Gladwell on the Art and Science of Underdogs owl.li/ciqnx
  • Gaming Grows Up owl.li/cfEYR
  • Storytelling with data owl.li/cip2r
  • Radiolab app launches on iOS and Android, lets listeners contribute content for future podcasts owl.li/cik3Q
  • The Audacity To Dream owl.li/1lqI1a
  • Creativity Top 5: July 16, 2012 owl.li/1lpIcd
  • Paris commuter train has carriages transformed to resemble rooms from the Palace of Versailles owl.li/cfF8M
  • Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalismowl.li/cfEXU
  • The Future Of Digital Publishing: A Book You Need To Read On The Street owl.li/cfCtV
  • A Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hrs of Forced Focus owl.li/cfBKF
  • Vivaldi's lost masterpiece is found in library archives owl.li/cge6C
  • The Shakespeared Brain owl.li/1loLcs
  • The World's Best Outdoor Ads, 2011-12 | Adweek owl.li/cfBiS

Recommended This Week:

  • Hamlet in Purgatory By Stephen Greenblatt owl.li/cfBfh
  • ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career By Heather Darcy Bhandari, Jonathan Melber owl.li/cfBdo
  • The Art of Pixar: 25th Anniv.: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation By Amid Amidi owl.li/cfBaR
  • The Power of Art By Simon Schama owl.li/cfB8U
  • The Story of Art: Pocket Edition By E.H. Gombrich owl.li/cfB5A

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 (7/15/12)

All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Location, Location, Location: What I Learned This Week owl.li/1lnzFl
  • Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld's obit, showcasing an extraordinary life. owl.li/c5XjE /via @davepell
  • Fresh Green Ads - Street ads that are only displayed when it rains owl.li/c5hXV
  • The Little-Known History of How the Modern Olympics Got Their Start | Smithsonian Magazine owl.li/c5XhB
  • Ernest Hemingway Interviewed by George Plimpton - Paris Review owl.li/c5TXL
  • The 100 Greatest Internet Memes of All Timeowl.li/c6sau
  • Julie Taymor tells former Disney CEO Michael Eisner why she agreed to take on The Lion King. owl.li/c5QF4
  • Russian Weaponmaker Hires Choreographer For Tank Ballet owl.li/c5Qrw
  • Debbie Millman: Top 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Graduated College owl.li/c5hWT
  • 'The Next List': A look at 25 fascinating peopleowl.li/c5Qe9
  • Richard Branson Wants You To Be Goodowl.li/1liWqG
  • What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker | Psychology Today owl.li/c5Qcr
  • Profile: Bill Gross, Idealab founder, says he has learned valuable lessons from the successes — and the flops. owl.li/c5Q0s
  • Love this.. Tate's Gallery of Lost Artowl.li/c5PEt
  • The Khan Academy Explains Corporations and Limited Liability owl.li/c5hSx
  • A Brief History of Money, Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstractionowl.li/c5Pw6 /via @davepell
  • The 11 Ways That Consumers Are Hopeless at Math owl.li/c5Psw
  • Most Influential Advertising Blogs and Bloggers owl.li/c7SUi
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4 owl.li/1lgZEf
  • 5 Psychological Studies on Pricing That You Absolutely MUST Read owl.li/c5Pq9
  • Internet 2011 in numbers owl.li/c7STo
  • Daily chart: Accounting for time, How Americans spend their days, The Economistowl.li/c5Pjh
  • TED Books launches iOS store, with subscriptions owl.li/c7SS0
  • Morning Dose of Kubrick owl.li/c5hOF
  • Creativity Top 5: July 10, 2012 owl.li/1lftnf
  • Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World | Wired Businessowl.li/c5Pgw
  • MIT's New Battery-Free Chip Captures Energy From Light, Heat And Vibrations at the Same Time owl.li/c7SQs
  • If You Don't Prioritize Your Life, Someone Else Will - Greg McKeown owl.li/c5OnK
  • Project Re:Brief, the documentary owl.li/1lf8Vf
  • Meet the 2012 Creativity 50 - Creativity Onlineowl.li/c7NE3
  • How All 50 States Got Their Namesowl.li/c5Klv
  • Michael Bierut: Creating the logo for the Frank Gehry designed New World Symphonyowl.li/c5hNO
  • The Quest For Perfection owl.li/1ldmn3
  • How a Pronoun Shaped a Novel: Kurt Andersen owl.li/c5Gto
  • It's all in the timing: What I learned this weekowl.li/1lbTfu
  • Creativity Top 5: The Cannes Edition owl.li/1laQEp

Recommended This Week:

  • The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time By Jeff Deck, Benjamin D. Herson owl.li/c5hdZ
  • Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries By Peter Sims owl.li/c5h8J
  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness By Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein owl.li/c5h4y
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman owl.li/c5h1V
  • This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking by John Brockman owl.li/c5gZU

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 (6/24/12)

All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • To celebrate 100 yrs since Alan Turing’s birth, Wired UK has curated a series of features about his contributions owl.li/bMw0N
  • If You Don’t Like Your Future, Rewrite Your Past owl.li/bH3iD
  • The University of Twitter: a short course in Political Philosophy in 7 parts by Alain de Botton owl.li/9i3TS
  • The Top of My Todo List owl.li/bGWjD
  • 5 Opportunities For Ed Tech To Amplify Children’s Curiosity, Not Destroy Itowl.li/bGVX0
  • Can music slow down the aging process?owl.li/bGUT8
  • The Atlantic’s The Ideas Report is out. 23.5 Biggest ideas of the year. owl.li/bKa61
  • Shakespeare’s ‘To Be or Not to Be,’ on the ukelele. Yes, ukelele. Brilliant. owl.li/bGUL2
  • SoundCloud: On Startup Culture, Entrepreneurial Employees & Hackdaysowl.li/bGMPu
  • Merlin Mann: Broken Meetings (And How You’ll Fix Them) owl.li/1kKyiL
  • ‘Now cross the Andes.’ In praise of the impossible stage direction owl.li/bGMIQ
  • Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional owl.li/bGLOc
  • Douglas Adams Brilliant Insight owl.li/9i3Rj
  • Love the TED-Ed website owl.li/bGLfK
  • The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains owl.li/bGKo4
  • The highly productive habits of Alan Turingowl.li/bHuoE
  • Thomas Pynchon’s E-Book Novels Trailerowl.li/1kIGXX
  • Paola Antonelli is expanding her role at MoMA to also include New Director of R. & D.owl.li/bDoSK
  • Creativity Top 5: June 19, 2012 owl.li/1kHrSI
  • National Endowment for the Arts Announces 2012 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Recipients owl.li/bGLSA
  • The Most Beautiful Outdoor Theaters in the World owl.li/bDoO0
  • Why Man Creates by Saul Bass, 1968owl.li/9i3Q5
  • How To Reframe the RFP & Charge For Your Creative Expertise owl.li/bDotJ
  • 10 Great TV Spots Directed by David Fincherowl.li/bDopV
  • 10 Great TV Spots Directed by Wes Andersonowl.li/bDooD
  • Pop Culture Through The Lens Of Nostalgia: The Evolution Of 8-Bit Art owl.li/1kGOQj
  • Display = Modern Graphic Design Collection and Rare Graphic Design Books owl.li/bDojo /via @Coudal
  • Study: Decisions Made in a Foreign Language Are More Rational owl.li/bCNKj
  • Disney’s Imagineers On Sound Designowl.li/9i3Oz
  • BBC Worldwide Labs: A Mentoring Scheme for UK Startups owl.li/bCN2A
  • Bugs, rain and magic — Shakespeare in the Park owl.li/bDZO2
  • 5 Traps You Have To Avoid When Pitching Bold Ideas owl.li/bxuBn
  • Cannes Predictions: The 13 Ads Bound For Glory At Adland’s Biggest Show owl.li/bDoPR
  • Moment Factory: The Making Of A Super Bowl Halftime Show owl.li/1kEVHd
  • 39 New Scientific Concepts That Everyone Should Understand owl.li/bxuh4


​Recommended this week:

  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future owl.li/bGe7e
  • Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience owl.li/bGe4w
  • The Elements of Typographic Style owl.li/bGe1v
  • The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition owl.li/bGdVS
  • The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything owl.li/bGdPZ 

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.