The Week's Links: October 14, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Unexpected: What I Learned This Week 
  • The Power of Negative Thinking 
  • Algorithm turns computers into art experts 
  • With The Oatmeal’s help, nonprofit buys property to build a Tesla Museum 
  • So good: 15 Brilliant, Spooky, Hilarious and Creative Cinemagrams 
  • Every great writer has a strong voice. Helping students find their own is key to any "writing revolution." 
  • Code Monster and teaching programming to kids 
  • Salman Khan: The Rise of the Tech-Powered Teacher 
  • What's invisible? More than you think 
  • Honey bee brains could soon be helping robots act more independently. 
  • These are beautiful: High-Speed Photography Turns Water Droplets Into Liquid Sculptures 
  • The design thinking behind the newDisney.com 
  • Making Advanced Analytics Work for You 
  • Why James Dyson Invested $8,000,000 In A Student Incubator 
  • Why School Should Focus on Engagement Instead of Lectures 
  • 10 Books to Restore Your Faith in Print 
  • Two huge state-run museums open in Shanghai 
  • A mission to photograph all 210,000 oil paintings in public ownership in the UK is completed 
  • The Hollywood Reporter's Top 50 Showrunners 2012 - 
  • Kickstarting: A 3-D Printer For Designers, By Designers 
  • Who invented fire? When did people start cooking? 
  • The Music Industry's New Math: Pop’s old metrics don’t matter. 
  • Chanel Creates Interactive Digital Timeline For Coco And The Company 
  • InsideOut Episode 1 by Photographer & TED Prize winner JR 
  • I love the interrobang: 13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using 
  • An anthology of Tim Burton clips. 
  • Your creative thinking performance can be primed with certain images and pictures.
  • How close are we to fully digitised libraries? Rachel Coldicutt scanned her book collection to find out. 
  • The 10 Most Mentioned Songs in Books 
  • How Stories Change Your Brain 
  • Best Rest Practices for Optimal Productivity & Creativity 
  • Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good 
  • Publisher releases interactive iPad editions of Shakespeare's most famous plays. 
  • FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver Explains Why We Suck At Predictions (And How To Improve) 
  • Joshua Foer: OK-ness is the enemy of greatness 
  • A behind-the-scenes look at LinkedIn’s mobile engineering 
  • AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries 2012 Results Now Available 
  • Futures of Entertainment 6 is taking place November 9-10, 2012 at MIT 
  • No Filter: Inside Hipstamatic’s Lost Year Searching For The Next Killer Social App 
  • The Millions: 2012 National Book Award Finalists Announced (With Excerpts and Bonus Links) 
  • Learn How To Become A Successful Entrepreneur From Stanford Professors, For Free. 
  • 3D-Print Your Own Ancient Art at Museum Scanathon 
  • Picasso Play to Get a Reading at the Guggenheim 
  • 10 Must-See Documentaries for Entrepreneurs 
  • Why We Are So Rude on Facebook and Other Social Media 
  • Website pagination: Stories should load into a single page every time. 
  • Want Your Message To Stick? Tell A Story 
  • Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good 
  • Well done is better than well sued 
  • Popular Mechanics Selects The 10 World-Changing Innovators for 2012 
  • In Artificial Intelligence Competition, Two Bots Pass for Human 
  • N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdős, the Most Prolific Mathematician of the 20th Century 
  • The Creativity of Web Design, Indie Video Games and Fans 
  • Those are so cool: Playing with pencil shavings 
  • Almost a quarter of U.S. adults own a tablet, PEW survey finds 
  • Terry Gilliam Shows You How to Make Your Own Cutout Animation 
  • Forget Revolution: What would really happen if the lights went out. 
  • W3C teams with Apple, Google, Mozilla on WebPlatform, a guide to building the open web (video)
  • I wouldn't mind commuting in a train like this: Trains evoking the palace of Versailles 
  • Seeking to expand your education? This one is for you:  /via @DisneyPixar
  • New Goya and Rembrandt Databases Now Online | Open Culture 
  • Gary Panter's drawing tips 
  • How old is your brain? 
  • The 10 Best Narrators in Literature 
  • Operas and orgasms, a look at English National Opera's provocative 'Don Giovanni' ad  
  • Musical Creativity and the Brain 
  • Want Your Message To Stick? Tell A Story 
  • Creativity Top 5: October 8, 2012 
  • CultureLab: Top 10 most influential popular science books 
  • How It's Made: Instant Film for Polaroid Cameras 
  • These are brilliant: Murakami covers by Noma Bar 
  • Revisiting Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think 
  • Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected 
  • Writing Rules! Advice From The Times on Writing Well 
  • Branded for Life. A look at the performers that become permanently associated with a brand. 
  • The Art of Fiction No. 203: In Interview with Ray Bradbury 
  • Who Made That Escape Key? 
  • The Role of Suspense in Stories and Music 
  • The complicated history of simple scientific facts 
  • Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.
  • How do we get people to understand programming? 
  • Researchers identify brain region that generates optimism bias 
  • African mouse regenerates lost skin, cartilage and hair without scarring 
  • Coca-Cola creates ad that can be used as an iPhone dock for music listening. 

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: October 7, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Coca-Cola creates ad that can be used as an iPhone dock for music listening. 
  • 12 TED Talks on understanding the brain 
  • You Already Know How To Use It: On pattern recognition. 
  • Marvel Comics and the movies: The business story behind the Avengers. 
  • How Do You Decaffeinate Coffee Beans? 
  • How the brain understands art 
  • How to Make Better Decisions, a Thought-Provoking Documentary by the BBC 
  • The essential documentaries about David Lynch... 
  • These are so good: Chalk art by David Zinn 
  • Writers' Favorite Punctuation Marks 
  • Bots Make Up Ten Percent of Online Traffic, Study Says 
  • From an OK Go video to a great advertising spot: The Incomparable Rube Goldberg 
  • Want to study Einstein's brain? There's an app for that. 
  • Science Confirms the Obvious: Literature is Good for Your Brain 
  • Pentagram And New York City Attempt To Redesign Pedestrian Behavior 
  • Innovation is an illusion 
  • A Brooklyn Nets Style Guide - NYT breaks down the identity. 
  • A Conversation on Transmedia with Henry Jenkins and Lance Weiler 
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads From Shakespeare’s Othello and John Masefield’s “On Growing Old” (c.1940) 
  • Impressive Crowdfunded Sci-Fi Short Created Using Open Source Software 
  • A Visual History of Punk 
  • Frank Chimero: Do Things The Long, Hard Stupid Way 
  • The Information is Beautiful Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Data Visualization and Information Design 
  • Paula Scher’s Favorite Designed Spaces in NYC 
  • How Smart People Think 
  • What's One Thing You Wish You Had Learned in School? 
  • Studies Challenge Theory that Internet Is Making People Dumber 
  • Famous Authors’ Funniest Responses to Their Books Being Banned 
  • The Writing Revolution: How teaching the basics of analytic writing turned a troubled school around. 
  • You're Not Listening 
  • MIT Research: How Better Typography Could Reduce Car Crashes 
  • Great TED-Ed Lesson - Jane Hirshfield: The art of the metaphor 
  • Designed To Move - A physical activity agenda to fuel the future. Great campaign. 
  • So great: Norwich Cathedral's brand bible 
  • 50 Memorable Covers From the Last Four Years  /via @Coudal
  • Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all. 
  • Beyond Fashion: The Met's "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" 
  • Frank Moss shares what he learned about innovation during his "sabbatical" at MIT Media Lab. 
  • Nuance is working with chipmakers on technology that would enable "persistent listening" apps. 
  • The State Of The Internet [SLIDE DECK] - Business Insider 
  • A Startup Tries to Make a Better Artificial Brain 
  • Love this: Barcelona's Most Famous Building, Sagrada Familia, Gets Spectacularly Illuminated by @Moment_Factory 
  • Show Your Work! A new series by Austin Kleon 
  • Guilt-Free Creativity: Stop Kicking Yourself & Start Producing 
  • Reader recommendations a growing business in the book world 
  • Location-Based Music App Brings Bob Dylan's New Album To Life In 100+ Locations Around The World 
  • Manila's Reading Club 2000 lets anyone borrow and then bring back or keep any of its thousands of books 
  • The Surprisingly Colorful Homes of 10 Famous Architects 
  • The player IS the story: why the big gaming publishers don't get transmedia 
  • Stillpower: The True Path to Flow, Clarity, and Responsiveness 
  • This Is Responsive: Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Design 
  • The 2012 MacArthur Genius Grants Awarded. Full list here: 
  • Fear can be erased from the brain, research shows 
  • The Marketplace in Your Brain 
  • What happens during the brain’s ‘resting state’? 
  • Creativity Top 5: October 1, 2012 
  • OpenStand: Principles for The Modern Standard Paradigm 
  • 10 Inventions You Haven't Heard About 
  • This African Fruit Produces the World's Most Intense Natural Color 
  • Move, Eat, Learn - A Philosophy for Life in 3 Short Films 
  • What Makes Chocolate So Irresistible? A New Study Hints at an Answer 
  • Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit's Juicy Past 
  • Tour Smithsonian Gardens' Fall Flowers 
  • Five simple steps to better typography 
  • Would you like to be inspired? Here’s what you should do: 
  • You know you've wondered, how do our favorite tech companies make money? 
  • TinyPNG – Compress PNG images while preserving transparency 
  • How does the Internet work? See how a continent gets plugged in 
  • Typography Carved In Stone 
  • The Best Ads And Creative Talent Of The Last 50 Years, According to Britain's D&AD 
  • Playing Now: A Stunning Production Of A Philip Glass Masterpiece 
  • Robert Krulwich & Vincent Liota: On Speed. 
  • The Week's Links: September 30, 2012 
  • Proof: What I Learned This Week 
  • Fascinating: WSJ looks at how Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix say sorry 

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: September 30, 2012

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • Proof: What I Learned This Week owl.li/2srqX0
  • Fascinating: WSJ looks at how Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix say sorryowl.li/e6gnl
  • Inside Paul Allen's Quest To Reverse Engineer The Brain owl.li/dUZtv
  • JWT Answers 'Advertising Is Dead' Cry With Mock Funeral During Advertising Weekowl.li/e6ecl
  • Beautiful: 2012 winners - Astronomy Photographer of the Year owl.li/dUZfi
  • How the 8.5" x 11" Piece of Paper Got Its Sizeowl.li/dUZ5N
  • Introducing Magic and Good Madness: A Neil Gaiman Reread owl.li/dUWmn
  • How I learned to love immersive theatreowl.li/dUW8z
  • Discovered: Lord Byron’s Copy of Frankenstein Signed by Mary Shelleyowl.li/dUVdc
  • Design Thinking for Social Good: An Interview with David Kelley owl.li/dUOVO
  • Neal Stephenson on the Future of Books and the Ubiquity of Gadgets owl.li/dUOrp
  • Generative App From Brian Eno Makes Music That Thinks For Itself owl.li/dUIZJ
  • 150 Essential Science and Tech Reads compiled by The Electric Typewriterowl.li/dUIvT
  • Melissa: The Power of Love, 350,000 Post-Its Animation owl.li/dUVMC
  • Further adventures in nanotypographyowl.li/dUIkZ
  • W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 owl.li/dUIeF
  • Necessary: AskPatents.com- A Stack Exchange To Prevent Bad Patents owl.li/dUIch
  • And speaking of maps: Clever Google Maps Manipulations by Christoph Niemannowl.li/e4jN0
  • Who Invented The Internet? We Did.owl.li/2spIgD
  • Is slang the natural evolution of language, or just a ginormous trickeration of all that is sensible? owl.li/dUGjR
  • Long-lost Agatha Christie piece, commissioned to promote British crime fiction, finally available owl.li/dUGdt
  • Paul Krugman and the Economics of Booksowl.li/dUG61
  • These are so great: 10 NASA Self-Portraitsowl.li/dUFLM
  • How the ampersand came from a misunderstanding owl.li/dUFzi
  • The Creators Project Launches YouTube Channel. Will Premiere Artworks, Short Films, And Music Videos owl.li/dUFtb
  • The Inspiration Issue of NYT Magazine is out with insights from many creatives. owl.li/e35y2
  • SocialSamba's Aaron Williams on Hashtag Killer, working with USA, and that interactive Emmy owl.li/dUDEd
  • Instagram Beats Twitter In Daily Mobile Users for the First Time owl.li/e34yd
  • The Unsung Art Of Patent Drawingsowl.li/dRT6H
  • Google's Astro Teller on Innovation at Singularity University owl.li/dUVLX
  • Google launches Creative Sandbox. A showcase of marketing campaigns that blend creative genius with digital innovation.owl.li/dRy3Y
  • Why Fighting For Our Ideas Makes Them Better owl.li/dRxqg
  • Amazing: Technological mandalas made from soldered computer components owl.li/dOEfN
  • Design Wants to Be Free owl.li/2sotBX
  • Print Ad For The CW To Feature Tiny Screen With Live Twitter Feed owl.li/e2fJv
  • Vintage Photographs From Inside 10 Famous Libraries owl.li/dOD9g
  • CultureLab: Meet Marco Tempest, magicking up new technologies owl.li/dOADu
  • What Comes After The Touchscreen? Here are five experts' thoughts. owl.li/dOgrm
  • Even J. K. Rowling Has To Deal With Fear And Change owl.li/2snxXP
  • What was Kurt Vonnegut like in class as a teacher? Find out: owl.li/dNVq0 /via @Coudal
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 2: Typographyowl.li/dUVL6
  • Joss Whedon followed up The Avengers with a Shakespeare film. What you can learn from that act of creative recharging. owl.li/dNV3w
  • An Annotated Charlie Chaplin Filmography — 82 Films with Links to Videos owl.li/dNOUZ
  • More bee awesomeness: they can alter their genetics at will. owl.li/dNLW2
  • Creativity Top 5: September 25, 2012owl.li/2sndvR
  • A collection of classic film noir posters.owl.li/dNLNM /via @Coudal
  • Ever wonder what coffee, red licorice and an oreo look like under an electron microscope?owl.li/dNAAj
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 1: Light Paintingowl.li/dUVJX
  • The digital doesn't annihilate the analog, and the business card creativity proves it.owl.li/dNwfG
  • You Won't Need a Driver's License by 2040owl.li/dNkLR
  • The Future of The City owl.li/dNkHz
  • Prehistoric Animated Cave Drawings Discovered In France owl.li/dMS8i
  • Michael Bierut on 2012 Presidential Campaign Graphics owl.li/dYCPJ
  • The History Kitchen: History of Sushiowl.li/dKOf8
  • 100 Most Influential Women in Advertising - Advertising Age owl.li/dXLvI
  • Banished Words owl.li/2smKEm
  • Property Numbers: A Flickr collection of great property signs. owl.li/dYubh
  • This Is Responsive: Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Designowl.li/dKBWj
  • How Tolstoy Learned to Ride a Bike, and Other Tales of Late-Life Learning owl.li/dKzne
  • Our Storytelling Minds: Do We Ever Really Know What’s Going on Inside? owl.li/dKxiP
  • The Time Douglas Adams Met Jim Hensonowl.li/dKxgu
  • Photography Snapshot: The Power of Lensesowl.li/dKmCE
  • Mapping the smells, taste, and sound of a cityowl.li/dKmBs
  • Move, Eat, Learn - A Philosophy for Life in 3 Short Films owl.li/dUVJ4
  • The Top 5 Qualities of Productive Creatives (And How to Identify Them!) owl.li/dK1VW
  • McSweeney Strikes Again: A Candid Proposal from an Advertising Firm’s Creative Director.owl.li/dVpef
  • Bob Dylan's Great White Wonder: The Story of the World's First Album Leak owl.li/dK1pz
  • CERN’s Higgs boson discovery passes peer review, becomes actual science owl.li/dK0hy
  • Rethinking Sleep owl.li/2slyXE
  • Continuing with great work: The Public Theater 2012-13 Season Campaignowl.li/dK0cO
  • The Key to Creating Remarkable Thingsowl.li/dK00Z
  • The Rules of Randomness & How You Can Stand Apart owl.li/dJZXp
  • When Theater Props Masters Meetowl.li/dJZOE
  • Treatment with fungi makes a modern violin sound like a Stradivarius owl.li/dJZGZ

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: September 23, 2012

All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • Teams: What I Learned This Weekowl.li/2skIYU
  • Alain de Botton: Imagining Advertisements for Things We Really Need owl.li/dJZxa
  • 50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters owl.li/dVmNN
  • What "Sleep No More" and the Stanford Prison Experiment tell us about who we really are.owl.li/dJZgD
  • Finding the Moments owl.li/dJZby
  • A Literary Insult For Every Occasionowl.li/dJZ52
  • Mark Stewart the musician and instrument designer will build a glass orchestra with MIT students. owl.li/dJYRR
  • Star Trek comes true: using ultrasound waves to get drugs under your skin - MIT Newsowl.li/dJYNa
  • Study: One Facebook Banner Ad Caused 60,000 More People To Vote in the 2010 Elections owl.li/dJYCS
  • The DailyArt app delivers one masterpiece every day. owl.li/dJYvA
  • Amazing animation from NASA showing our view of the Moon over the entire year of 2012owl.li/dJYrp
  • Want Kids to Be More Altruistic? Give Them Arts Education owl.li/dJYbN
  • The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink owl.li/dJYb4
  • Wayne Clough, Shaking Up the Smithsonianowl.li/dJYax
  • Michael Boyd: the modest man who saved the Royal Shakespeare Company owl.li/dJY6z
  • World's first colour film footage viewed for first time owl.li/dJY18
  • The Perfectly Fried Egg by José Andrésowl.li/dJW5S
  • The Sites We Love Right Now: 50 Best Websites 2012 - TIME.com owl.li/dUJXk
  • Data Is Useless Without the Skills to Analyze It - Jeanne Harris owl.li/dJUPZ
  • Writing Lab: Kurt Vonnegut's eight essentials for a good short story. owl.li/dJULu
  • How Advertisers Convinced Americans They Smelled Bad owl.li/dJUGu
  • Why Can Some People Recall Every Day Of Their Lives? Brain Scans Offer Cluesowl.li/dJUEN
  • The Secret Law of Page Harmony owl.li/dJUEf
  • How To Make Dill Deviled Eggs - An Animated Recipe owl.li/dKkpH
  • The Cult of Disappearing Design owl.li/dJTY5
  • Cool: Google Chrome Blog: Moving, singing and dreaming with a Chrome experiment from Cirque du Soleil owl.li/dRvyx
  • Simon Schama: Why I write owl.li/2siUIq
  • Learn HTML5, CSS3, Javascript - video style tutorials: TheCodePlayer owl.li/dJTG4
  • Guidelines For Designing With Audioowl.li/dJTrl
  • Are You A Bit Of A Loser? Don't Worry, You're Probably Really Creative owl.li/dJTdX
  • Infographic: 50 People Shaping The Future Of Design owl.li/dJSVS
  • William Gibson on Punk Rock, Internet Memes, and 'Gangnam Style' owl.li/dJSIF
  • William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions owl.li/dJSFO
  • Simon Sinek: If You Don't Understand People, You Don't Understand Business owl.li/dKko9
  • A Handsome Atlas: Wildly Awesome Data Visualizations from the Nineteenth Centuryowl.li/dJQ1L /via @curiousoctopus
  • Quiet at the back: classrooms around the world – in pictures owl.li/dJPr1
  • Can We Still Be Shocked By Art? How? The Critics Debate owl.li/dRjjQ
  • The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World owl.li/dRv2G
  • Creativity Researcher Teresa Amabile Explains The Unexpected Benefits Of Tracking Daily Progress owl.li/2shLn4
  • Creativity and IQ, Part I: What Is Divergent Thinking? How Is It Helped by Sleep, Humor and Alcohol? owl.li/dJOd1
  • University Presses on Pinterest owl.li/dJIvD
  • Chrome Experiment #500 - All manner of cool browser magic. owl.li/dJGQd
  • The Medium is the Massage: Marshall McLuhan and his legacy owl.li/dKkhE
  • The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink owl.li/dJGua
  • Brand New takes an in-depth look at the USA Today redesign. owl.li/dOAvq
  • Google Launches Open Course Builderowl.li/dHx9s
  • Made by Hand: The Cigar Shopowl.li/1mwKWE
  • William Gibson on Why Sci-Fi Writers Are (Thankfully) Almost Always Wrongowl.li/dHqfD
  • Blue Note jazz label releases immersive Spotify app owl.li/dHnHh
  • Great Campaign: Colorado Ballet Lifts You Out of Everyday owl.li/dHmwG
  • Computer Learns to Recognize Badly Drawn Animals owl.li/dHmiy
  • A cultural revolution: The future of brand planning owl.li/dHkSN
  • Neal Stephenson on Predictions and Surprises owl.li/dHjEZ
  • Creativity Top 5: September 18, 2012owl.li/1mvUwa
  • A Guide To iOS SDK For Web Designersowl.li/dHjbf
  • Frank Chimero on The Shape of Design at Interlink Conference 2011 owl.li/dKkgt
  • Promo meets graphic novel meets parallax website, for Peugeot. owl.li/dH9LX
  • 2012 Innovation By Design Awards: Consumer Products owl.li/dH79p
  • The Secret Law of Page Harmonyowl.li/dH6ZE
  • What does it mean to be sophisticated? Linda Holmes (@nprmonkeysee) on connecting with open-minded assertiveness. owl.li/dNOLl
  • 2012 Innovation By Design Awards: Interactive Design owl.li/dH6OP
  • See The Emmys Pick For Best Commercialowl.li/dNl8A
  • 2012 Emmy Nominations for Main Title Design. Great Expectations won the Emmy.owl.li/dNkTG
  • Choreographer Wayne McGregor: Dance, Physical Thinking & Misbehaving Beautifullyowl.li/1mvAmx
  • The Adweek 50. These are the people who make the machinery of media, marketing and technology hum owl.li/dNwuA
  • The digital doesn't annihilate the analog, and the business card creativity proves it.owl.li/dNvRS
  • Listen to J.R.R. Tolkien Read Poems from The Fellowship of the Ring, in Elvish and English (1952) owl.li/dH4Zt
  • The Miracle Of The Levitating Slinkyowl.li/dH4lr
  • Ha! Google Launches Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Search Tool owl.li/dH1Cg
  • Rooked: The evolution of cheating in chessowl.li/dH0um /via @kottke
  • Sydney Opera House: The Ship Song Project - Moving Campaign for the Cultural Hubowl.li/dKkeU
  • The First Ever International Space Orchestra Broadcasts Music To Space owl.li/dGUkl
  • Jack Dorsey's Keynote at Disrupt 2012owl.li/1muq0A
  • A Brief History of “American Cheese,” from Colonial Cheddar to Kraft Singles.owl.li/dGTwv
  • Kyouei Design Constructs Exceptionally Abstract Music Devices owl.li/dGS0s
  • Love this collection of "Big Eyes" by 5 things I learned today owl.li/dGRvr
  • With the help of the Egyptians, Sumerians & Phonecians, Jason Novak illustrates where letters came from. owl.li/dGR1w
  • 2012 Brand New Conference, Quotes & Tweets owl.li/dGwtV
  • How to Avoid the Natural Reactions that Prevent Good Decision Making owl.li/dGs0d
  • 10 Auteurs and the Typefaces They Loveowl.li/dGk04
  • A List Apart: Findings from the Survey For People Who Make Websites 2011owl.li/dDLLF
  • Great essay: The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov owl.li/dDLIN
  • James Victore on Day Jobs, Creative Burnout, “Serious Play,” and His Upcoming Symposiumowl.li/dDaxO
  • 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: 9/16/12

    All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

    • James Victore on Day Jobs, Creative Burnout, “Serious Play,” and His Upcoming Symposiumowl.li/dDaxO
    • Study: Young people consider news to be garbage and lies owl.li/dD9FS
    • A Big List of 375 Free eBooks for Your iPad, Kindle, Nook and Other Devices owl.li/dD9lo
    • This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notesowl.li/dD8Wf
    • Working From Home Makes You More Productive. Your office is slowing you down.owl.li/dD8Eb
    • 10 Must Know Tips for Creating Winning Visual Brand Identities owl.li/dD8gH
    • Michael Lewis had unprecedented access for 6 months and wrote a great profile of what it's like to be President. owl.li/dJYhm
    • Is This Book Bad, or Is It Just Me? The Anatomy of Book Reviews owl.li/dD7Ea
    • Future of Music: The Audience Is the Instrument owl.li/dCNaX
    • Gorgeous: Shooting Photos of Ballet Dancers on the Streets of Bratislava owl.li/dC4Fp
    • How To Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google owl.li/dC4hO
    • 10 Awesome Bookstores Repurposed from Unused Structures owl.li/dC3hb
    • The Real Names of 18 Authors Known by Initials owl.li/dC3dd
    • The Economist Q&A: Tim Berners-Lee "This is for everyone" owl.li/dzLJW
    • How Green Tea Boosts Brain Cells and Aids Memory owl.li/dzKz5
    • Creative Review looks at the USA Today redesign owl.li/dJEn2
    • Celebrating the List, handwritten by Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, and others owl.li/dzhFV
    • Effective Type-use for Advertising, 1922 Edition owl.li/dzhCp
    • Can the Arts Survive Without Banks?owl.li/dzhz5
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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.