The Week's Links: March 8, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Snakes in a Frame: Mark Laita's Stunning Photographs of Slithering Beasts 
  • Biodesign: When Life is Not Only the Subject of Art, But the Medium Too 
  • The Year's Most Outstanding Science Visualizations 
  • Say Goodbye To Video Stores, Mailmen, Pennies... 
  • 10 Vintage Menus That Are a Feast for the Eyes, If Not the Stomach 
  • No Salt, No Problem: One Woman's Life-or-Death Quest to Make "Bland" Food Delicious 
  • The PBS Renaissance, Mario Bros. and Surrealist Art 
  • How Does McCormick Pick the Top Flavors of the Year? 
  • Ockham Never Really Had a Razor 
  • Opera Fans Have an Advantage in Chemistry Class 
  • What Rock-Paper-Scissors Can Tell Us About Decision Making 
  • UNICEF and Droga5 Launch 2013 'Tap Project' With a Facebook Push 
  • Amazing Astrophotography Lets You See Nebulae in 3D 
  • Too Little Sleep Can Really Mess Our Bodies Up 
  • This Is Your Brain on Movies 
  • Geneticists Try to Figure Out When the Illiad Was Published 
  • With News Feed Overhaul, Facebook Delivers Your 'Personalized Newspaper' 
  • Paola Antonelli Teaches Stephen Colbert A Thing Or Two About Applied Design 
  • Why Are Our Brains Wrinkly? 
  • MIT Technology Review performs an Autopsy of a Dead Social Network, Friendster 
  • Superb chart on the legal trade-mark-ability of a name. From 1950. 
  • Brand New: Logo Reductions for Screen Use 
  • Your Brain On Fiction 
  • The Power of Structured Procrastination 
  • Facebook’s Redesign Hopes to Keep Users Engaged - NYTimes.com 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of March 4 
  • Respect Yourself and Take Back Control of Your Calendar 
  • How to Keep the Ideas Flowing When You’re Put in Charge 
  • My 10 Essential Email Habits: zenhabits 
  • Classic worth revisiting: 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind 
  • How To Use Google Like Sherlock Holmes 
  • The Wildly Ambitious Quest to Build a Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton by 2014 
  • The Real Work Of Writing: Elizabeth Gilbert Takes On Philip Roth 
  • Why a one-room West Virginia library runs a $20,000 Cisco router 
  • TIME Turns 90: All You Need to Know About Modern History in 90 Cover Stories 
  • The Annotated Wisdom of Louis C.K. 
  • Why Bilinguals Are Smarter 
  • Artificial intelligence: Can we teach computers what “truth” means? 
  • New research suggests some of our aesthetic preferences emerge by the time we’re eight months old. 
  • 50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered 
  • McSweeneys: Nate Silver Offers Up a Statistical Analysis of Your Failing Relationship. 
  • Study: Volunteering May Improve Cardiovascular Health 
  • From Mat Honan, who suffered a devastating hack last year: What To Do After You've Been Hacked 
  • A Simple Trick for Tripling People's Charitable Donations 
  • Why is Coffee Good For You? Here Are 7 Reasons 
  • "'Smart' simply means you're ready to learn." and other quotes from TED 2013 
  • Vulnerability (A Mini TED Remix) [Update] 
  • Google launches Art Talks on Google+ starting tomorrow at MoMA and then the National Gallery later this month. 
  • Why Great Ideas Get Rejected: From TEDxOU 
  • Break Your Addiction to Meetings - Elizabeth Grace Saunders 
  • Why are digital textbooks not taking off? 
  • Where would we be without Pantone? 
  • What 15 Years Of Computer Screen Evolution Looks Like 
  • Is the arts subscription model dying, or are we selling subscriptions the wrong way? 
  • PBS 2013 Online Film Festival Starts Today 
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The author's taciturn responses to an 1899 version of the Proust questionnaire. 
  • Beautiful: Intricate Miniature Tape, Thread, and Toothbrush Sculptures 
  • More Insights on Sharpening Your Creative Mind 
  • Ballet In Advertising 
  • 4 surprising lessons about education from data collected around the world 
  • What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social" - Nilofer Merchant 
  • When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within 
  • What did the 16th century minds of Shakespeare and Galileo have in common, and what set them apart? 
  • Iconic Artists at Work: Watch Rare Videos of Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Renoir, Monet and More 
  • The End Of 9-5 Made Life More Complicated; Here's How To Take Control Again 
  • Five Inspired Ideas Emerging From TED2013 
  • Debug Yourself: Rethinking Mistakes And How They Affect Your Work 
  • Write E-Mails That People Won't Ignore - Bryan A. Garner 
  • The Hunt for a New, Copyright-Free Happy Birthday Song 
  • The Holodeck Is Real: How does fiction get us to treat fake things as real? 
  • Greater Thoughts About Writing 
  • The Most Beautiful Nature GIFs on the Web 
  • Time to change passwords: Evernote hacked - SlashGear 
  • Fresh From TED: A Mind-Blowing App That Could Remake Mobile Retail: Try Things On, Virtually 
  • Respect Yourself and Take Back Control of Your Calendar 
  • Death To Core Competency: Lessons From Nike, Apple, Netflix 
  • Teachers As "Persuaders": An Interview With Daniel Pink - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo 
  • Amy Sherman-Palladino on Making "Bunheads" The Most Accurate Ballet Show Ever 
  • Study: Hearing Music as Beautiful Is a Learned Trait 
  • 10 Essential Quotes for Writers 
  • Margrét Pála on teaching kids to be resilient 
  • Researchers Find That Dolphins Call Each Other By 'Name' 
  • Helicopter Branding: Why It’s Bad And How To Avoid It 

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: March 1, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Deliberate Practice: How Intentionally Overcoming Weaknesses Develops Expertise 
  • 3 Social Media Lessons From Young Adults And The Authors Who Speak To Them 
  • Berliner Philharmoniker: Instruments From The Inside 
  • Helicopter Branding: Why It’s Bad And How To Avoid It 
  • The Creative Process of Ansel Adams Revealed in 1958 Documentary 
  • Clever Kickstarter by design student to settle once and for all that black is The New Black. 
  • The 2000 Year Old Computer: The Antikythera Mechanism 
  • The significance of plot without conflict 
  • Make a Stranger Believe in You - Anne Kreamer 
  • 6 Strategy Lessons From A Former Chess Prodigy Who's Now A CEO 
  • Easy As Pie 
  • 2013 TED Prize: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud 
  • Case study: The making of the Moscow Metro Map 2.0 
  • The Power of Habit Investments 
  • Food for thought: The Future of Advertising 2020 
  • The Power of Structured Procrastination 
  • When Winning An Oscar Means Bankruptcy: VFX Artists Protest The Academy Awards 
  • Using White Space For Readability In HTML And CSS 
  • Independent Work May Be Inevitable - Whitney Johnson 
  • New Nielsen Global Survey On Digital Influence: How the Internet Affects New Product Purchase Decisions 
  • Learning to code is learning to think. Kids should learn programming. 
  • Animated GIFs: The Birth of a Medium - PBS Arts: Off Book 
  • Want to improve education? Ask the kids 
  • The Case for Stealth Innovation 
  • Any Two Pages on the Web Are Connected By 19 Clicks or Less 
  • Russia's massive meteorite: By the numbers 
  • Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing 
  • In case you missed it: 10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Dropbox Master 
  • The great details in "The Americans" Title Sequence 
  • Oscar-Nominated Director Benh Zeitlin on Not Waiting For Permission 
  • TED: Ads Worth Spreading 
  • Ad Age Presents the 2013 Digital A-List 
  • CultureLab: How to use art to help explore other minds 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of February 25, 2013 
  • Barry's Blog: Interview with NEA Chief of Staff Jamie Bennett 
  • The Seed Of Doubt 
  • az project: The stories and faces of graphic design 
  • Getting Started with Responsive Typography 
  • Constructal Law: A Design Theory of Everything 
  • We’re Marketers, Not Soldiers: How Combative Competition Is Killing Creativity 
  • How the Web Development Process Works 
  • Can You Feel Me Now? The Sensational Rise of Haptic Interfaces 
  • The Making Of A Groundbreaking Animation: Paperman, Now an Oscar winner. 
  • In China, a research project aims to find the roots of intelligence in our DNA; searching for the supersmart 
  • 5 quick(ish) fixes to get you re-inspired 
  • Seriously bored? Dig for purpose 
  • Jean-Luc Godard’s After-Shave Commercial for Schick 
  • Are You Hiding Behind Your Busy Schedule? 
  • Humble 
  • Why an App or a DVD Probably Won't Make You a Genius 
  • Elizabeth Gilbert on creativity and saying no: The Paul Holdengraber Show 
  • This is hilarious: YOU HAD ONE JOB! 
  • Welcome To The New Self-Service Economy 
  • Making a Business Case for Bedtime 
  • Frank Chimero: A Lesson from a Surgeon 
  • When Good Design Isn’t Enough 
  • Writers on Writing: Fear, Loathing, Desire—And The Self-Destructing Work of Art 
  • MIT Technology Review: The True Story of a 1967 “Contact” Incident 
  • Smithsonian Magazine: The Story Behind Banksy 
  • *Ahem* The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Mediocre People 
  • How Neuroscience Will Fight Five Age-Old Afflictions 
  • Engineering advances have architects striving for the mile-high skyscraper. 
  • 5 Evidence-Based Ways to Optimize Your Teamwork 
  • America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All 
  • Clay Christensen: First the media gets disrupted, then comes the education industry 
  • This Is How Your Brain Deals With Google And Facebook Ads 
  • Advertisers Should Act More Like Newsrooms 
  • Step back in time with the elegant source code for Photoshop 1.0 
  • What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space 
  • Infographic: An Amazing, Invisible Truth About Wikipedia 
  • Designing the Packaging-Free Future 
  • Nate Silver Does Oscar Predictions, Election-Style - NYTimes.com 
  • TED Playlists: Re-imagining school 
  • Great: Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda's original NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual now online. 
  • British Library publishes da Vinci's notebooks online. 

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: February 22, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Great: Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda's original NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual now online. 
  • Your Immune System 'Remembers' Microbes It's Never Fought Before, New Study Says 
  • This Is Your Brain On Music [Infographic] 
  • Musicians Are Probably Smarter Than The Rest Of Us 
  • Nike CEO Mark Parker On His Company's Digital Future: Body-Controlled Music, Color-Coded Heart Rates 
  • Chromatophobia: Michael Bierut's Fear of Color 
  • Submarine Channel: Top 5 of our Favorite Things: Projection Mappings (2012) 
  • Mosh Pits Teach Us About the Physics of Collective Behavior 
  • Ha! The Elephants of Typography 
  • Responsive Typography: The Basics by Information Architects 
  • Neuroscientists determine famous trick's surprising ability to manipulate audiences. 
  • Fifty Years After Sylvia Plath’s Death, Critics Are Just Starting to Understand Her Life 
  • Vulnerability (A Mini TED Remix) 
  • Experts Are Weeding Out Impostor Portraits of Mozart 
  • How to Revive a Lost Language 
  • The Rise and Fall of Nikola Tesla and his Tower 
  • British Library publishes da Vinci's notebooks online. 
  • TED Playlists: Quirky, fascinating talks about the design of practical things we all need, whether we know it or not. 
  • The Connection Between Shakespeare and Maurice Sendak 
  • Must Read: What Data Can’t Do -NYTimes.com 
  • TED Playlists: Maestros bring you into the world of writing and conducting music 
  • 9 Very Specific Rules From Real Libraries 
  • The Three Little Pigs As Breaking News 
  • What is a book in the age of the iPad? An interview with Craig Mod 
  • The Epic List of Content Strategy Resources 
  • Why Would You Ever Give Money Through Kickstarter? 
  • Meet the Creator: The Director Under Pixar's "Blue Umbrella" 
  • How a Charming Doodling App Arose From the Web's Wildest West 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of February 18 
  • Modern Etiquette: Social Media Do’s & Don’ts 
  • A great look at a fantastic series: Black Mirror decodes our modern dread of technology 
  • Mathemusician Vi Hart Explains the Space-Time Continuum With a Music Box, Bach, and a Möbius Strip 
  • How Do I Improve My Memory? Forget More 
  • Virtues of Cognitive Workout 
  • Storytelling Across Platforms: J.J. Abrams And Gabe Newell 
  • 5 Principles of Creativity 
  • Made by Hand: The Beekeeper 
  • The Value of Taking a Productive Pause 
  • This Is Your Brain in the Cloud 
  • Lessons in Conveying Complex Ideas with Simple Graphics from the World's Best Information Designers 
  • Why did Joss Whedon choose to make a film of Much Ado About Nothing? 
  • The Value of Taking a Productive Pause 
  • What's in a name? Just about everything 
  • Read 12 new Neil Gaiman mini-stories online, then help illustrate them 
  • Ice Age Art at the British Museum: 'Not even Leonardo surpassed this' 
  • Shakespeare's Globe to stage history plays on original battle sites 
  • Inside the GIF-Industrial Complex: How the animated image file took over the internet. 
  • Meet Adweek's Young Influentials 20 superstars from media, marketing and tech 
  • New theatre to rise at site of Shakespeare playhouse 
  • Why We Love Beautiful Things 
  • Calvin And Hobbes Having Adventures In Real Photographs Will Make You Smile 
  • Creativity 2012 Production Company of the Year and A-List 
  • 9 Little Translation Mistakes That Caused Big Problems 
  • Four, A Beautiful Animated Short About The Seasons 
  • Video: Orchestra Brings Together Israelis and Arabs For Common Goal 
  • Are You Out of Sync With Your Values? 
  • Brain Connections Contribute to Our Unique Personalities 
  • How Thomas Jefferson Pioneered the Tomato, Championed Urban Farming, and Taught Americans to Make Coffee 
  • Howard Gardner’s seminal Theory of Multiple Intelligences 
  • Why Sci-Fi Author William Gibson Loves Japan 
  • Eight Designers Awarded the AIGA Medal for 2013 
  • True Innovation 
  • Aphrodisiac Scent Guides Visitors Through Shakespearean Maze 
  • Amazing: The 2013 Sony World Photography Awards 
  • How Photography Changed Painting (and Vice Versa) 
  • A Guide to Understanding Nothing 
  • 18 Complicated Scientific Ideas Explained Simply 
  • StackExchange Founder Vows to Reinvent Online Discourse 
  • This Is Why Your Kickstarter Project Is Late 
  • 20 Optical Illusions That Might Break Your Mind 
  • The Lab Accident That Led to the Discovery of Supertasters 
  • Clever: BLOKK font gives you a nice fill text for mock-ups and wireframing without the lorem ipsum. 
  • Another Google Chrome Experiment, this one to promote Disney's Oz The Great and Powerful 
  • The next chapter: storytelling embarks on an interactive adventure 
  • What Makes Muscles Twitch? 
  • Bill Gates: Education Is The One Issue That's Key To America's Future 
  • Singing the ABCs in 8 Different Languages 
  • The Podcast History of Our World Will Take You From Creation Myths to (Eventually) the Present Day 
  • Criterion cancels your weekend plans, makes its Hulu collection available for free 
  • Active Story System – a design methodology for participatory transmedia storytelling 
  • Pentagram Names Most Influential Design Firm of the Past 50 Years 
  • Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces 

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: February 15, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • TED Playlists: Our brains - predictably irrational 
  • 7 Outstanding Free Books for your iPad by Educational Technology and Mobile Learning 
  • 5 exhilarating benefits of making even the tiniest plan 
  • Planning for the non-planner 
  • A Brief History Of Nerds In Pop Culture 
  • Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States 
  • Amazing: Perspective Is Everything In Nature 
  • Bjork Launches Her Own Interactive Educational Curriculum 
  • 4 Ways to Quickly Tackle New Skills as a Team 
  • Awesome Vintage Science Illustrations By The Founder Of Popular Science 
  • Bret Victor: Creators need an immediate connection to what they create. 
  • Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces 
  • Oliver Sacks On Rediscovery, Memory And Autoplagiarism 
  • Your Brain in Love: Scientific American 
  • What is Love? 
  • Rebranding Valentine's Day Into A Day Of Generosity 
  • 7 Massive Ideas That Could Change the World 
  • Scientists Have Made the First Truly 3D Microchip 
  • How two scientists are using the New York Times archives to predict the future 
  • Nylllon - Useful links for digital designers and developers 
  • Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design 
  • Amazingly colorful: Aerial Photographs of Tulip Fields in the Netherlands by Normann Szkop 
  • "The Wheel of the Devil": On Vine, gifs and the power of the loop 
  • When Newspapers Were New, or, How Londoners Got Word of the Plague 
  • Download Hundreds of Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
  • How Can We Alleviate The Feeling Of Running Out Of Time? Experience Awe 
  • MoMA announces major Le Corbusier retrospective 
  • Gandhi's list of "the seven blunders that human society commits, and that cause all violence" 
  • A Very Little History of Philosophy 
  • Why extroverts fail, introverts flounder and you probably succeed 
  • Double-loop learning: Secret Ingredient for Success 
  • Paracosms, loyalty and reality in the pursuit of creative problem solving 
  • 10 places where anyone can learn to code 
  • How to make great radio: An illustrated guide starring Ira Glass 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of February 11 
  • Goals And Plans 
  • Why The Next Social Media Frontier Is The Past 
  • Great Brands And Sci-Fi 
  • MoMA mindmaps artists' cross-influences in Inventing Abstraction 
  • Building New Habits Through Advertising 
  • Truly amazing photograph: A Man Feeding Swans in the Snow 
  • Amazing: Eggshell Sculptures 
  • Keep it secret, keep it safe: A beginner’s guide to Web safety by Ars Technica 
  • Fast Company: Most Innovative Companies 2013 
  • A Quick Guide to Serif Fonts 
  • Stephen Fry on his many smartphones 
  • Amazon to put personalized advertising on Kindles 
  • 10 of the Most Bizarre Fairy Tale Adaptations 
  • On Top Of The World 
  • The New Script for Teaching Handwriting Is No Script at All. Cursive Goes the Way of 'See Spot Run' In Many Classrooms 
  • For sale, baby shoes, never worn: Hemingway probably did not write the famous six-word story. 
  • Copy, Transform, Combine: Everything Is A Remix, The Complete Series 
  • Gunn Report 2012: The best ads of 2012 
  • Photographer Pairs Images Of Beautiful Places With Matching Typography 
  • The Future According To Google's Eric Schmidt: 7 Points 
  • The History of Wine Drinking, From a Chore to a Choice 
  • When Artists And Corporations Get Along 
  • 11 Colorful Phrases From Ancient Roman Graffiti 
  • Street Art Goes High Brow: Faile Teams Up With NYC Ballet 
  • 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer 
  • Al Gore on How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think 
  • Biography of J.D. Salinger Coming in September 
  • Women of Transmedia 
  • John E. Karlin, Who Led the Way to All-Digit Dialing, Dies at 94 - NYTimes.com 
  • Magic, copyright, and internal enforcement mechanisms 
  • Leadership & Followership: What Tango Can Teach 1st Sergeants About These Roles 
  • 37 Hitchcock Cameos over 50 Years: All in One Video 
  • What if we could look inside human brains? - Moran Cerf 
  • All Of The World's Undersea Cables In One Map 
  • Design graduate perfumer bottles history, landmarks and nostalgia 
  • A Comprehensive Guide To Firewalls 
  • The Top 10 Biking Cities In America, Mapped By How People Commute 
  • An Atlas Of Where Chefs Eat, Told In 50 Fonts And 700 Pages 
  • How Owls Rotate Their Heads So Far Without Snapping Their Necks 
  • Treat Everything as a Case Study - Robert Plant 
  • Scientists Discover Dung Beetles Use The Milky Way For GPS 
  • Billboards to Advertise the Awesomeness of Science Pop Up in Vancouver 
  • 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare 

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: February 1, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • How to write a good bio 
  • New Project Maps the Wiring of the Mind 
  • Why We Need Theater Now More Than Ever 
  • Escaping The Cult Of The Average & The Happy Secret To Better Work 
  • A Board Game Designed For Classical Music Buffs 
  • The Future of Work: Quantified Employees, Pop-Up Workplaces, And More Telepresence 
  • Are the arts trading in happiness? If so, what kind? 
  • Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president 
  • The WWF app for iPad is amazing, beautiful and free: 
  • Twitter middle finger: Logo sketches show designs other than blue bird. 
  • Nature Has A Formula That Tells Us When It's Time To Die 
  • Crossword author uses puzzle to reveal he's dying 
  • Please don't help my kids 
  • The Making Of A Groundbreaking Animation: Paperman 
  • Arthur Miller on writing The Crucible 
  • Programmer Interrupted 
  • Working overtime doesn't increase your output. It makes you stupid. 
  • If You Think You're Good At Multitasking, You Probably Aren't 
  • Gorgeous vintage record sleeves for classical music. 
  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets and MLK’s Speech Stored in DNA Speck 
  • Richard, A Documentary about a London Piano Tuner Who Chooses to be Homeless 
  • Second TEDx conference on the Great White Way asks 'What is the best Broadway can be?' 
  • The School of Life: Mark Earls on Copying and Originality 
  • A hotel room changed Matisse's art. This is how: 
  • Leo Burnett's classic speech "When to take my name off the door" animated 
  • Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis? 
  • Very useful: Exporting Images With Usuable Names From Evernote 
  • Stocking Up: Uncovering the Secrets to the Best Broth 
  • Origami: A Blend of Sculpture and Mathematics 
  • Beautiful: Orchids of Latin America 
  • This Is What Being a Google Maps Editor Is Like 
  • The First Canned Beer Went on Sale 78 Years Ago 
  • The Story Behind Banksy 
  • The Psychology Behind Superhero Origin Stories 
  • It's Okay To Be Smart: The PBS Renaissance Continues 
  • This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers Each Select the Most Elegant Explanation of How the World Works 
  • Popular Lies About Graphic Design 
  • Are You A Hipster? Do You Think Video Games Are Art? And Other Important Questions 
  • PBS Off Book: The Art of Creative Coding, Graphic Design & Other Explorations 
  • Ira Glass on the strange life of the producer 
  • Inventors: The First Software Patent & The Digital Camera 
  • Cassandre: Gorgeous Vintage Posters by One of History's Greatest Graphic Designers 
  • We Need Technology to Help Us Remember the Future 
  • Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses 
  • The Never-Before-Told Story of the World's First Computer Art (It's a Sexy Dame) 
  • Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing 
  • Introducing Courier Prime, commissioned by screenwriter John August, it's Courier, just better: 
  • Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise 
  • Happy Two-Hundredth Birthday, "Pride and Prejudice" 
  • Creativity Top 5: January 28, 2013 
  • Popular Lies About Graphic Design 
  • If You Think You're Good At Multitasking, You Probably Aren't 
  • Cicero on Dance 
  • NASA Sends Image of the Mona Lisa to the Moon and Back 
  • Great Clients 
  • Why Subtraction Is the Hardest Math in Product Design 
  • TED Playlists: The artist is in. 
  • Your Storytelling Brain 
  • Cleverness 
  • 37 Hitchcock Cameos over 50 Years: All in One Video 
  • The Surprising Health Benefits of Anger 
  • Who Designed the Seal of the President of the United States? 
  • If you missed Shakespeare Uncovered last Friday night you can catch the first two episodes online: 
  • This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers Each Select the Most Elegant Explanation of How the World Works 
  • Join Cartoonist Lynda Barry for a University-Level Course on Doodling and Neuroscience 
  • Original Creators: Synthesizer Pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey 
  • Seth's Blog: Eleven things organizations can learn from airports 
  • Meet Ad Age's 40 Under 40 
  • What happens when we build things for free? 
  • So Good: The challenges of conversational journalism 
  • Margaret Atwood's writing tools are as forward-looking as her books 
  • The Fascinating Business Cards of 20 Famous People 
  • Social Workflow - A Future Of Work Trend - PSFK 
  • Day of Light: A Crowdsourced Film by Multimedia Genius Brian Eno 
  • Underground Kingdom, Interactive Choose Your Own Adventure Style Gamebook Released As iOS App 
  • ATTENTION folks, there is currently an astronaut posting to Tumblr from space. 
  • The Data of Death – A Visualization 
  • Love this, watch full screen: London 360 Panorama  /via @Coudal
  • An architectural blueprint of Brooklyn Bridge elevations from Old Blueprints. 
  • Fantastic: The Birth of Grand Central Terminal 
  • 20 Great Writers on the Art of Revision 

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.