The Week's Links: 9/9/12

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • Adaptability: What I Learned This Weekowl.li/1mmwOH
  • As art galleries increasingly turn into spaces that engage the public, what is the role of the curator? owl.li/dpwzy
  • A hundred and twenty five years ago, Oscar Wilde edited a fashion magazine, his first and only office job. owl.li/dpwwy
  • A Brief History of Information Design and Visual Storytelling owl.li/dpwgJ
  • Bill Bernbach, Steve Jobs, And Marshall McLuhan Walk Into A Cafe (And Talk About Advertising) owl.li/dpw5k
  • Seth's Blog: Advertising's bumpy transition (and why it matters to you) owl.li/dpvZJ
  • How 13 Classic Video Games Got Their Names owl.li/dpvP7
  • The End of TV as We Know It & The Birth of Transmedia owl.li/dpv7K
  • Fantastic: Candy Wrapper Archiveowl.li/dpuu7
  • "what made me a Goudy superfan is that he did all this and more after he was 40 years old" - @jasonsantamaria owl.li/dpttV
  • Fascinating: Ira Glass & Tavi Gevinson - The Blogger and the Radio Star owl.li/dptdK
  • A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families. Of course. owl.li/dpsxI /via @Coudal
  • 10 Ways To Create An Open Cultureowl.li/dyCwx
  • NPR Listeners Share Their Favorite Arts Destinations owl.li/dprbT
  • Print meets Web: Paper Comes To Life With Conductive Paint owl.li/dpram
  • Today a title is a title, a headline and a tweet. Is This Title O.K.? owl.li/dpqU4
  • Great Advice for Creatives owl.li/dplhQ
  • What Kind of Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide owl.li/dpqMw
  • Don’t Fear the Internet: Basic HTML & CSS for Non-Web Designers owl.li/dpq78
  • The pleasure of… simple things in everyday life owl.li/1mkTdC
  • Red Planet, Green Thumb: How A NASA Scientist Engineers His Garden owl.li/dppWu
  • Everything Will Be Connected, Everything Will Be Hacked - Bright B. Simons owl.li/dppIn
  • If Hemingway, Shakespeare, Dickens wrote JavaScript owl.li/dppzG
  • Legitima Typeface: An Experience Of Fossils And Revivals (Case Study) owl.li/dppxG
  • Vanity Fair's The New Establishment 2012 List is dominated by tech people owl.li/dwtSi
  • 5 rules for productive conflict owl.li/dppqm
  • 7 Tips for Handling Criticism. owl.li/dpppH
  • Colorful And Gorgeous Video For Ljósið by Ólafur Arnalds owl.li/dplgK
  • Great: little techie, from the mind of a 5-year old tech geek. owl.li/dppo8
  • Paula Scher: Once you know what you're doing, it's not as good owl.li/1mjVWt
  • So great: Art of the Arcade, site dedicated to the lost graphic design work from the golden era of video gaming owl.li/dpoYv
  • The Web Index is the world’s first measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations. owl.li/dw5yt
  • Merging tissue & electronics: New tissue scaffold could be used for drug development & implantable therapeutic devices. owl.li/dpoUL
  • Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop owl.li/dpoMD
  • Who Is Likely to Step Up or Freeze Up in a Crisis; Research Identifies Prime Traitsowl.li/dpoKv
  • I know people that listen to dub all day while working, for you: Beyond lies the wub: a history of dubstep owl.li/dpox1
  • Steven Heller on the New NYC Taxi Logoowl.li/dpo8g
  • Creative Review: Taxis lose their 'axi' in NYCowl.li/dpo7w
  • William Joyce, Ex-Pixar Designer, Creates Astounding Kids' Book For The iPadowl.li/dpldF
  • The Neuroscience of 20-Somethingsowl.li/dpo6r
  • Multi-screen mania: how our devices work together owl.li/dpnGv
  • Knowledge + Taste = Meaningful Judgementowl.li/1miEYQ
  • The Rumpus Interview With Francis Ford Coppola owl.li/dpne8
  • Transmedia storytelling: what's the alternative to alternate reality games? owl.li/dpn2k
  • Salvador Dalí’s 100 Illustrations of Dante’s The Divine Comedy owl.li/dplBW
  • The Library of Congress offers an insider look at how the American Poet Laureate is selectedowl.li/doZ3a /via @brainpicker
  • The Gory Details of Edward Goreyowl.li/doXmu
  • Creativity Top 5: September 4, 2012owl.li/1mib5j
  • Amazing: How a Photographer Created Images of Fireworks Unlike Any You've Ever Seen owl.li/doXdX
  • Beautiful: NYC Skyline Over the Years (1876-2013) owl.li/doXcL
  • Luke Sullivan: One of the best pieces of creative advice I was ever given. owl.li/doW8p
  • L.A. Opera holding Twitter contest to honor Placido Domingo owl.li/doVT3
  • Dan Deacon's mobile app creates a concert light show out of smartphones owl.li/doUZk
  • The New Meaning Of "Mobile": 7 Games Helping To Define The Mobile Platformowl.li/doUVo
  • Work Smart: Take Back Your Calendar With Defensive Scheduling owl.li/dpldk
  • What Americans Actually Do All Day Long, In 2 Graphics owl.li/dqBaZ
  • Tango Your Way to Mental Health -owl.li/doUD8
  • Building Our New Shrines owl.li/1mhwWG
  • Why Comedy Is Truer to Life Than Tragedyowl.li/doUCl
  • More than a quarter of Scots are theatregoersowl.li/doUwt
  • Stanley Kubrick "One-Point Perspective" Supercut Is The Latest In A Series Exploring Filmmaking Tropes owl.li/doUjg
  • Beyond Wireframing: The Real-Life UX Design Process owl.li/do8sw
  • Does Self-Awareness Require a Complex Brain? owl.li/do7sY
  • Stanford biologist and computer scientist discover the 'anternet' owl.li/do7nm
  • How Bloomberg Businessweek Gets Madeowl.li/dplcj
  • 10 of the World’s Most Remote Museumsowl.li/do75Y
  • What Successful Night Owls Get Done Before Bed owl.li/do742
  • A History of New York in 50 Objectsowl.li/dqAMN
  • The 50 Most Influential People In Sneaker History owl.li/do6Sl
  • Researchers grow cyborg tissues with embedded nanoelectronics owl.li/do6Ax
  • It's More Important to Be Kind than Cleverowl.li/do6vE
  • Late Labs: A ‘Crowdcoding’ Site Where Developers Trade Code For Equityowl.li/do5wT
  • Newspapers 'Stunned' as Junk Mail Gets Cheaper owl.li/do5tY
  • The Creative Act: Marcel Duchamp's 1957 Classic, Read by the Artist Himselfowl.li/do59T
  • Chore list of champions By Kurt Vonnegutowl.li/dnn6t
  • Rex Sorgatz- What The New York Times should do next: membership owl.li/dnluW
  • The many ways Kubrick used straight-on-one point perspective. owl.li/dn10f
  • Conquer Big Creative Projects Using Past, Present, and Future Focus owl.li/dn0GA
  • Was Van Gogh Color Blind? owl.li/dn0CP
  • Technology Pioneers 2013: World Economic Forum Names The Year's 23 Most Innovative Startups owl.li/dmYoj
  • How Vimeo Built the Interactive Old Spice 'Muscle Music' Video That's Crushing the Internet owl.li/dpmUW
  • How did I not know this: The Unfinished Cornice of the Metropolitan Museum of Artowl.li/dlhSf
  • David Lynch’s Surreal Commercialsowl.li/df4SF

Recommended This Week: 

 

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: 9/2/12

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • Does exercise really help with depression?owl.li/deWwa
  • From the Smithsonian Collections: Famous Footwear owl.li/deTdR
  • The Once and Future Coffeehouses of Viennaowl.li/deT9s
  • The Architecture of Memory owl.li/deT5W
  • The Story of László Bíró, the Man Who Invented the Ballpoint Pen owl.li/deSXN
  • Why Free Time Frees Creativity: giving employees free time to experiment yields creative insights owl.li/deSWZ
  • Rick Poynor: The Never-ending Struggle against Clutter owl.li/deLPv
  • Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist? owl.li/deJqC
  • Ha! Famous architects dressed as their buildings,1931 owl.li/deJkp
  • The Neuroscience of Creativity and Insightowl.li/deJ6Z
  • The 15 best tools for data visualisationowl.li/det81
  • The Future Of Storytelling: Immersion, Integration, Interactivity, Impact owl.li/desTG
  • Disney’s Interactive Plants Aren’t Just Magic. They’re Practical Magic. owl.li/desOd
  • Redesigning Highway Signs, To Talk To Your Smartphone owl.li/desEU
  • Chris Chabris: When Intuition Failsowl.li/deOMc
  • Ira Glass: By the Book owl.li/desum
  • NYTimes Thinks Hollywood Films Are Killing Opera owl.li/deshn
  • Rovers Are From Mars: How Curiosity Is Killing It On Twitter owl.li/des8D
  • Choreographers Explore New Brooklyn Academy of Music Stage owl.li/dnjHP
  • The Walt Disney Company [is] building a chain of language schools in China. owl.li/derFZ
  • Anxious? Depressed? Literate? Try Bibliotherapy owl.li/derB1
  • Brian Eno: A Sandbox In Alphaville By Lester Bangs. A previously unpublished, 20,000-word interview. owl.li/derdk /via @longform
  • The Reading Edge Series – A group of fonts for small sizes on screens. Great site.owl.li/deqSq
  • Instagram for Business: Case studies of how brands are using the service. owl.li/deqGx
  • Ha! Water Wigs: high speed pics of balloons exploding on people's heads owl.li/deqje
  • 10 Tips For Success From George Lois, The Original Mad Man owl.li/deq3X
  • What Your App Usage Tells Advertisersowl.li/depCw
  • Want To Make A Great First Impression? Try Giving a Damn owl.li/depur
  • Punchdrunk and how to "Sleep No More"owl.li/deOKT
  • Inside the Science That Plays Your Brain Like a Videotape owl.li/depfL
  • Why Immersion In Storytelling Is Not Wasted Time owl.li/1md4HW
  • Useful Legal Documents For Designers (PDF/DOC) owl.li/deo4c
  • Who inherits your iTunes library? owl.li/denQi
  • Finding Your Tone Of Voice owl.li/denNo
  • Jaron Lanier: What It Means to be Humanowl.li/denCw
  • A Vision for the Future of Newspapers from 20 Years Ago owl.li/denrk /via @Coudal
  • Plot Device - inexpensive short film thats puts mega movies to shame owl.li/deOIf
  • Versions of Stoppard: More Intelligent Life's fantastic profile of Tom Stoppard owl.li/denbE
  • Scott Adams: Creativity and Memoryowl.li/1mbTZ7
  • The Undeniable Allure of Potentialowl.li/den4K
  • Why novelists need scientists, and vice versaowl.li/demVX
  • Gene Kelly: The Marlon Brando Of Screen Dance, 100 Years On owl.li/demEq
  • Tchaikovsky on the Paradox of Patronage and Creative Purpose vs. Commissioned Workowl.li/demyc
  • Behind The Year's Most Talked-About (Gun-Free) Game, "Unfinished Swan" owl.li/demvV
  • White House commits open source code on Github owl.li/demrY
  • You never know. Connecting the dots: How @jasonfried's opinion made it into the New York Times owl.li/delU6
  • Steven Heller on a Paul Rand Significant Collection owl.li/dejmU
  • Original Creators: Performance Art Pioneer Allan Kaprow owl.li/dejdE
  • The 8 Most Incredible Stop-Motion Animation Music Videos From The Past Decadeowl.li/dej7I
  • How Do We Create Cultures of Creativity: Festival of Ideas (Video)‏ owl.li/deOGJ
  • The 10 principles of mobile interface designowl.li/deiXh
  • Under the hood: Rebuilding Facebook for iOSowl.li/dei6j
  • Yes! Cookie Monster's Famous Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe owl.li/dehIf
  • Tim Carmody on the Past, Present and Future of Reading owl.li/1maN7G
  • Video of protein movement within a neuron shows how our brains renew themselvesowl.li/degY9
  • Improvise intelligently: What Film Crews Can Teach You About Running A Businessowl.li/degh6
  • Fascinating: An Oral History of Burning Man, the Biggest, Weirdest, Most Clothing-Optional Desert Carnival on the Planet...
  • Creativity Top 5: August 27, 2012owl.li/1mahHG
  • Art 101: How to Pronounce Artists' Namesowl.li/ded7O
  • How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read owl.li/ded6m
  • Transmedia Hollywood 2: Visual Culture & Design, Panel Videos owl.li/deOEM
  • So great: Artist Creates Sculptures From Classic Children’s Books, Characters Come Alive owl.li/ded2a
  • The Link Between Quietness And Productivityowl.li/ded0y
  • Three (Incredibly Simple) Questions The Most Successful People Use To Change The Worldowl.li/decV6
  • Questions we ask before we trust your new idea owl.li/decrK
  • Gareth Kay: Brand Building in a Digital Ageowl.li/1m9HBf
  • Punchdrunk's Felix Barrett: On Pushing the Limits of Curiosity and Comfort Zonesowl.li/dbUng
  • CultureLab: What popular science books have changed the world? owl.li/dbU0Q
  • How Steve Jobs' Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution owl.li/dbTjW
  • Ai Wei Wei on His Favorite Artists, Living in New York and Why the Government is Afraid of Him owl.li/dbTaR
  • Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That If Injected, Allows You To Live Without Breathingowl.li/deY5c

Recommended This Week:

 

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: 8/26/12

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • How Biomimicry is Inspiring Human Innovationowl.li/dbT5o
  • Why Do We Yawn? owl.li/dbSfM
  • 8 Sounds That Are Trademarked owl.li/dbS5O
  • Steven Pinker Explains the Neuroscience of Swearing (NSFW) owl.li/dbCcA
  • Why We Keep Getting the Same Old Ideasowl.li/daPcv
  • 6 Memorable Letters From Neil Armstrongowl.li/deo8v
  • Facebook, Gehry Build Idea Factoryowl.li/delmA
  • Awesome or Awful: A self-critique tool for young creatives. owl.li/daP0W
  • Prince Harry, Lance Armstrong and the psychology of scandal owl.li/deg3L
  • 5 Ideas Trapping The Advertising Industry Right Now owl.li/daOSE
  • 35 Innovators Under 35 - Technology Reviewowl.li/dakdV
  • Inside the World’s Largest Fact Checking Operation: A conversation with two staffers at Der Spiegel owl.li/dak0o
  • Neal Stephenson on the State of Science Fiction owl.li/dajGD
  • Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges owl.li/d8ydK
  • 26 Words You Really Wish Existed in Englishowl.li/d8ycc
  • 8 diagnostic tests we could have at our disposal in the near future owl.li/d8xyr
  • 8 Filmmaking Tips From Guillermo Del Toro and Nicholas Winding Refn owl.li/d8x0I
  • What 20 Top Companies' Logos Looked Like Before They Were Famous owl.li/d8wFb
  • What 20 Top Companies' Logos Looked Like Before They Were Famous owl.li/d8wye
  • Coffee: The Greatest Addiction Everowl.li/d4GUL
  • The 20 most-watched TED Talks to dateowl.li/d8wkD
  • Beauty vs. Usability: Using Subway Maps to Explore Information Design owl.li/d8tzg
  • Towards A Retina Web owl.li/d8ttX
  • Great collection of images to give you a humbling sense of scale. owl.li/d8oDg
  • The Art of Animation, Motion Graphics, Tech Gone Wrong & Why They Go Viralowl.li/1m7fFu
  • Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor owl.li/d8ouS
  • People Who Eat Breakfast Are Smarter And Skinnier owl.li/d8lMw
  • Microsoft's First New Logo in 25 Years Is Pretty Damn Nice owl.li/dbC9r
  • The World's 100 Most Powerful Women - Forbes owl.li/dbAsY
  • Plot Device - inexpensive short film thats puts mega movies to shame owl.li/d4GMn
  • Not only are you being tracked, you are ranked with a consumer e-score. owl.li/d8lqz
  • Love this: Parisian Theaters. Also love: 5 things I learned today owl.li/d83Ez
  • Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. owl.li/d7UBj
  • Futurist Stewart Brand Wants to Revive Extinct Species owl.li/d7Dss
  • Love this: A Forum of Vintage Adsowl.li/d7CWm
  • Facebook Rolls Out Studio Edge for Agencies. Education platform schools creatives on socialowl.li/dajdm
  • Kickstarter's most successful projects suggest the creativity we value is interactive, rather than aesthetic. owl.li/d7wLb
  • “I hate writing, I love having written.” Dorothy Parker’s Guide to Life, on her birthday.owl.li/dai5c
  • Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth owl.li/d7wiR
  • Coca-Cola’s Top Storyteller On Finding Truth From Within owl.li/d7pqz
  • The Science of Expectation: Using Humor To Understand Creativity owl.li/d7pbA
  • How Do We Create Cultures of Creativity: Festival of Ideas (Video)‏ owl.li/d4GLc
  • 7 Buildings That Defy The Laws of Physicsowl.li/d7jVk
  • Be More Productive. Shorten the Workweek.owl.li/d7jAa
  • 50 Years of Space Exploration owl.li/1m5mr6
  • Why does the return journey feel quicker?owl.li/d5lyc
  • A History of Book-Pulping. What happens when books are recycled. owl.li/d4WaD
  • Great Minds Think Alike: Making the morning commute more humane owl.li/d4V5G
  • Principles of User Interface Design. Concise and useful. owl.li/d4UPB
  • Chile: making investment in science a national priority owl.li/d4UN3
  • Game changer: AP Stylebook moves faster than Merriam-Webster as linguistic authorityowl.li/d4UJP
  • Khan Academy Launches A Computer Science Course owl.li/d4UHM
  • Transforming libraries into programming incubators. owl.li/d4UFb
  • Does NYC water lead to better bagels?owl.li/d4UCH
  • Smoon: Self-Transforming Spoon of the Future Is the Geekiest Cooking Gadget Everowl.li/d4UBp
  • How Books Shaped The American National Identity owl.li/d4Upw
  • Transmedia Hollywood 2: Visual Culture & Design Panel Videos owl.li/d4GJU
  • One of my favorite newsletters, @davepell's Next Draft, is now an app for even easier access to fascinating news. owl.li/d7WXg
  • Why It’s Good that the Internet Is Changing Our Brains owl.li/d4UnE
  • They never forget: The strange gift of perfect memory owl.li/d7x91
  • The Pros & Cons Of Waiting In Lineowl.li/1m4itX
  • The Four Paradoxes of Great Performanceowl.li/d4IL9
  • Creative processes we wish we’d witnessedowl.li/d4B3K
  • Hindsight Project: A collection of career wisdom provided by experienced professionals across creative fields.owl.li/d4AHy
  • Creativity Top 5: 8/20/12 owl.li/1m3RCY
  • Nick Gill: 10 Things I’ve Learned That Might Help owl.li/d4Axe
  • Scrabble cheating: The real story behind the stolen-blanks scandal at the National Scrabble Championship. owl.li/d4yfo
  • Interesting Study On What Audiences Want From Storytelling owl.li/d4y3q
  • The Next Web created a Tech Hall of Fame on Pinterest. owl.li/d4xIi
  • How to run a problem-solving meetingowl.li/d3Xdt
  • Liza Klaussmann (great-great-great-granddaughter of Melville): 'I reread Moby-Dick and thought: where was your editor?'owl.li/d3oJ8
  • Introducing Bjork's Gameleste, a bespoke Gamelan Celeste Hybrid owl.li/d4GGU
  • Generation Read: Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else owl.li/d3oBP
  • How I Got My Digital Life Back Again After An Epic Hacking. Following up with Mat Honan.owl.li/d3owv
  • Trust your hunches, and write them down.owl.li/1m3gwD
  • Tony Scott dies at 68; a film career in retrospective owl.li/d5m4H
  • Great Illustrated Vintage Vogue Magazine Covers From The Early 20th Century -DesignTAXI.com owl.li/d2qLj
  • Is Opera Ailing? A Conversation About The State Of The Art owl.li/d2kmo
  • Amazing: The Colorful Rainbow Eucalyptusowl.li/d1YTZ
  • "Misquotations are often stickier than actual quotes," Lincoln once joked. Why Misquotations Catch On owl.li/d1YKJ

Recommended This Week:

 

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: 8/19/12

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • "Misquotations are often stickier than actual quotes," Lincoln once joked. Why Misquotations Catch On owl.li/d1YKJ
  • U.S. Tax Code is Four Times Longer Than Shakespeare's Complete Works, Not as Goodowl.li/d1VOt
  • Disneyland's IR-controlled Mickey Mouse ears turn the crowd into a synchronized light showowl.li/d1HAh
  • Where Do Sentences Come From? Thinking Patiently. owl.li/d1mW8
  • 4 Rules For Creating Interactive Content For A Multi-Platform, Multi-Device Worldowl.li/d1mdv
  • The Philosophical Roots of Science Fictionowl.li/d1lNd
  • How Marin Alsop plans to put São Paulo Orchestra on the map owl.li/d1ltN
  • Reinventing the Seattle Symphony: The goal: become "a contemporary orchestra."owl.li/d1lew
  • The Met Gets Spooky: Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid Is Artist In Residence At 'The Met Reframed' owl.li/d1dVp
  • Discover the beauty of extreme Venn diagrams owl.li/d12oU
  • Shakespeare finds a summer backdrop in Berlin owl.li/d0Zoq
  • Dr. Michio Kaku's Playlist: Five Science Videos You Must See owl.li/d0aUV
  • Incredible raindrops on spiders - Stunning photography from Wired UK owl.li/d08ub
  • Chocolate that’s good for you? Scientists create fruit-juice infused treat with all the benefits minus unhealthy fats owl.li/cYVuS
  • MoMA Unadulterated: Kids say the darndest things about MoMA's permanent collectionowl.li/cYVqq
  • Fantastic: An archive of book cover designs and designers. owl.li/cYy87
  • The Architecture of Memory owl.li/cYx0j
  • The ins and outs of Instapaper. Great tips.owl.li/cYkwA
  • Loving MoMA's Century of the Child exhibition website. owl.li/cYktv
  • The Filter Bubble In The [Google]Plexowl.li/cUCla
  • This Is Your Brain on 'Call Me Maybe': The Scientific Power of Music owl.li/cYfzQ
  • Pallets: The single most important object in the global economy. owl.li/cYeU4
  • Meet the Dictionary's New Words: F-Bomb, Sexting, Bucket List owl.li/cYeRG
  • Algorithm predicts your location in 24 hours with 20-metre accuracy owl.li/cYeyj
  • 10 Iconic Movie Scenes Recreated In Video Games Using Valve's Source Filmmakerowl.li/cYd8y
  • How to Draw Inspiration In the “Publish Or Perish” Field of Academia owl.li/cYd5V
  • amiina: Mixing it up, Iceland styleowl.li/1m114b
  • Steven Meisel shoots cinemagraphs for Dieselowl.li/cYaoP
  • 10 Rules for Students and Teachers (and Life) by John Cage and Sister Corita Kentowl.li/cY9Rq
  • The Winners from National Geographic's Traveler Photo Contest 2012. Amazing.owl.li/d1N7X
  • Judge rules Facebook users can share friends' profiles with the feds owl.li/d1KIT
  • From STEM to STEAM: John Maeda on adding art to science owl.li/cY9fO
  • So Great: Taking eye-trickery to a whole new level – the otherworldly New Zealand sculpture park Gibbs Farm owl.li/cXZax
  • Original Creators: Stop-Motion Animators Of The Surreal, The Brothers Quay owl.li/cXYTO
  • Splitscreen: A Love Story - wonderful short film shot entirely on a phone. Just in case you missed it. owl.li/cUCkt
  • Gorgeous: Passionately Dancing the Tango Underwater owl.li/cXOdD
  • MIT created Cardiio: Heart-Monitor App Works By Scanning The Blood In Your Face. Amazing how well it works. owl.li/cXNR7
  • A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical owl.li/1m00pq
  • The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown owl.li/cXB9E
  • The Olympics' Greatest Feat: An Unpaid, Highly Engaged Workforce of Volunteers - Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones owl.li/d0WkR
  • Now for some fun: 25 of the Best Dance Numbers in TV History owl.li/cXAwS
  • The Getty and Rome form cultural partnership, will exchange art owl.li/cXzVT
  • Tina Seelig: On Unleashing Your Creative Potential owl.li/cWQPH
  • A Clever Branding System For An Orchestra That Visualizes Sound owl.li/cWQHC
  • Gaming the library: holding books hostage and seeing who comes to free themowl.li/cUCjf
  • 11 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent owl.li/cWO3Y
  • "Shakespeare in the Park" turns 50owl.li/cWN3h
  • The algorithm that runs the world - physics-math owl.li/cYUhQ
  • Sight: A Short Film About Augmented Reality & Gamification owl.li/1lYZMY
  • 9 Reasons Why Failure Is Not Fatalowl.li/cWMEN
  • Replacing The Classroom-As-Factory With Collaborative Learning owl.li/cVrwV
  • How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tellowl.li/cVqRy
  • A St Petersburg’s cultural revolutionowl.li/cVqAJ
  • What does the Mars rover have to do with art?owl.li/cVqxJ
  • Bessies’ New Categories Limit Definitions of Dance owl.li/cVqti
  • Kevin Kelly: The Future in 6 Verbs owl.li/cUCib
  • Creative Review - London 2012: the creative Olympics owl.li/cY0iz
  • Why did it take me so long to discover this: The Martini FAQ owl.li/cUUiR /via @daringfireball
  • The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seussowl.li/cUUdS
  • A Student's Guide to Web Design owl.li/cUUbe
  • Celebrating 80 Years of LEGO owl.li/cXHcI
  • LEGO's 80th Birthday: An Animated Historyowl.li/1lY2vx
  • Little Big Details: A daily dose of UI inspiration.owl.li/cUU4P
  • Official Olympics numbers: online engagement was mostly mobile owl.li/cXBWS
  • The Story of the Guitar: The Complete Three-Part Documentary owl.li/cUU2R
  • Creativity Top 5: August 13, 2012 owl.li/1lXyZP
  • A Look Back at Discovery's Killer Shark Week Ads owl.li/cWMvz
  • Creativity Top 5: August 13, 2012 owl.li/cWLK0
  • He Hit Send: On the Awkward but Necessary Role of Technology in Fiction owl.li/cUTZS
  • Great interview with Watchmen legend Dave Gibbons owl.li/cUTXU
  • 20 Obscure Words to Describe Collectorsowl.li/cUTQb
  • Seth Godin: Are you wow blind? owl.li/cUChk
  • Before Green Eggs: See The Advertising Work Of Dr. Seuss owl.li/cUTO4
  • Publisher Pulls Controversial Thomas Jefferson Book, Citing Loss Of Confidenceowl.li/cUSTD
  • Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology. The Merce Cunningham Appowl.li/cUSPW
  • Embracing The Remix: An Act To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts owl.li/cVU3e
  • Paintings from the masters as pie chartsowl.li/cUSva
  • Form Is Content: On Fonts And Credibilityowl.li/cURja
  • The Bard and Stratford... Ontario. owl.li/cURhY
  • Song Reader, Beck’s New Album to be Released as Sheet Music Only owl.li/cURam
  • ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmersowl.li/cUR5Z
  • Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education owl.li/cUR4Z
  • How to Get Motivated for Self-Promotionowl.li/cUR4p
  • 10 of the Coolest Niche Bookstores From Around the World owl.li/cUR3c
  • A Timeline Of Future Events Based on Literary Predictions owl.li/cUQSO
  • The IT Challenge of the London Olympicsowl.li/cUSwa
  • Can We Quit It With the "Right Brain, Left Brain" Stuff Already? owl.li/cUIsm

Recommended this week:

 
 

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: 8/12/12

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • Landing: What I Learned This Week owl.li/cULSw

  • The State of E-book Typography owl.li/cRCRG
  • Gocen optical music recognition can read a printed score, play notes in real-timeowl.li/cQSo3
  • The Wooster Group collaborates with the RSC for their first Shakespeare production.owl.li/cOMfA
  • To Boost Creativity, Study Abroad -owl.li/cOM79
  • Before Air-Conditioning by Arthur Miller : The New Yorker owl.li/cNRMC
  • Newsweek and The Daily Beast have top 25 rankings in various categories for Collegesowl.li/cNRva
  • From Iraq To Lincoln Center, A Marine’s Return To Ballet owl.li/cNRgV
  • Make some coffee and get comfy: Mister Rogers’ Epic 9-Part, 4.5-Hour Interviewowl.li/cNHqK
  • The Great Discontent is a journal of interviews focusing on creativity, risk, and what connects us as artists. owl.li/cNtka
  • Is An Inner Argument Holding Back Your Productivity? owl.li/cNsqN
  • Wikipedia Redefined - Agency redesigns the wikipedia experience owl.li/cNra1
  • The surprising, stealth rebirth of the American arcade owl.li/cNqXZ
  • James Beard Foundation and the Illumination Fund Collaborate on the NYC Green Cart Fresh Food Recipe Pack owl.li/cNqOH
  • Lack of Sleep Leads to Unethical Conductowl.li/cKMCv
  • The Story Of Scandinavian Design: Combining Function and Aesthetics owl.li/cNnCi
  • Minecraft, Dubstep & the Olympics: Trying To Figure Out What More We Can Doowl.li/1lUOxA
  • NASA Mohawk Guy Bobak Ferdowsi on Sci-Fi, Legos and Becoming a Meme#it'sokaytobeyou #it'sokaytobesmartowl.li/cSlnN
  • Why Great Ideas Get Rejected owl.li/cNmis
  • 101 Best Restaurants in the World - Chosen by 53 of the finest chefs owl.li/cNlSV
  • Golden Opportunity: 10 Famous People Who Started Their Careers At McDonald's (And Loved It) owl.li/cNllJ /via @davepell
  • Whatever you’re making, make it way better than it has to be. owl.li/cKMAQ
  • The Subway Map That Rattled New Yorkers - Vignelli's subway map turns 40 owl.li/cNcLz
  • Horrifying cautionary tale: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking. And back up, back up, back up.owl.li/cNatG
  • Pulitzer & Tony Winner Doug Wright on Objects, Evidence and Writing What You Don't Know owl.li/1lTNV4
  • Street Art Olympics: Banksy Works on 2012 London Games owl.li/cQRYu
  • The lost da Vinci: Is this painting found in Scottish farmhouse one of the master's lost works? owl.li/cN9VO
  • Reykjavik’s wild street art owl.li/cN9M9
  • Jonathan Ames: Fear of Everythingowl.li/cN9G4
  • Source Sans Pro: Adobe’s first open source type family owl.li/cKJvf
  • "Paul Rand: A Designer's Words" Hard to find book now free owl.li/cKMyM
  • Margaret Atwood offers online poetry prize – and a chance at literary immortalityowl.li/cKJsN
  • Four self-published authors on New York Times ebook bestseller list owl.li/cKJs6
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 5 Music of the Classics owl.li/1lSM6P
  • Vintage Motivational Cards from the Early 20th Century. So great. owl.li/cKJoG
  • The Longest Photographic Exposures in History owl.li/cKJmm
  • STEAM Ahead: Merging Arts and Science Education owl.li/cKJ70
  • Michael Bierut - A graphic designer considers communication owl.li/cKIZt
  • The Only Footage of Mark Twain in Existence | Smithsonian Magazine owl.li/cKIUr
  • David Droga, Ad-Agency Chairman, on Memorable Copy owl.li/cKMwP
  • Announcing Futures of Entertainment 6 Line-Up owl.li/cNUXK
  • Marvin Hamlisch, Composer of 'A Chorus Line,' Dies at 68 owl.li/cNvLT
  • Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think owl.li/cNskx
  • Embedding copyright-infringing video is not a crime, court rules owl.li/cKIT0
  • Notes Towards a Philosophy of Sleepowl.li/1lRKdZ
  • A musicologist at Oxford University explains why music feels so important to all our livesowl.li/cKIMN
  • Why is the letter Z associated with sleep?owl.li/cKIE2
  • Creativity Top 5: The Olympic Editionowl.li/1lRhN0
  • NASA Is the Government's One True Viral Hit Factory owl.li/cMAu1
  • "I Draw Pictures All Day" Is doodling good for you? owl.li/cKIDv
  • Explore some good advice. owl.li/cKIzD
  • Voices for Freedom owl.li/cKMvL
  • The Straight Dope: Can opera singers shatter glass with their high notes? owl.li/cKIrA
  • Fascinating Construction Photos of World Famous Buildings and Bridges owl.li/cKIjV
  • Ten Suggestions for Raising Creative Kidsowl.li/cKGUy
  • Celebrating Curiosity owl.li/1lQzPf
  • Visual Puns in Graphic Design by Steven Heller. owl.li/cKDuu
  • The 50 best apps for children, compiled by The Guardian owl.li/cKDic
  • NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain owl.li/cLcai
  • 21 Free Hitchcock Movies Online owl.li/cKCLj
  • Machine Prints Food Smells On Postcardsowl.li/cKBc5
  • Internet Pirates Will Always Win owl.li/cKB88
  • London arts venues report mixed fortunes during Olympic Games owl.li/cKDAl
  • This is Now, Instagrams from major cities in real time. Addictive. owl.li/cKrZi

Recommended this week:

  • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life By Anne Lamottowl.li/cKMRE
  • How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer By Sarah Bakewell owl.li/cKMPi
  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking By Susan Cain owl.li/cKMNK
  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are By Brene Brown owl.li/cKMM8
  • Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error By Kathryn Schulzowl.li/cKMKj

 

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.