The Week's Links: May 17, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • These Stunning Photos Show Miraculous Plane Crashes Where No One Died 
  • This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) 
  • The 10-Year-Old Inventor and the World's Cutest Patent Drawing 
  • Shakespeare 'first great writer entrepreneur' 
  • BBC: The arts get less than .1% of public spending but deliver four times that in gross domestic product, report says. 
  • Is Massively Open Online Education A Threat Or A Blessing? 
  • 50 Jaw-Dropping Examples Of Street Art From Around The World 
  • Richard Branson Wants You To Be Good 
  • Creative Review names Bloomberg Businessweek Design Studio of the Year 
  • Ballet students from 18 international schools perform together via livestream at Toronto conference 
  • A Focus on Distraction 
  • Masterpiece In A Mug: Japanese Latte Art Will Perk You Up 
  • The robots speak! Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring' : NPR  
  • Lessons in Creativity. 
  • Two Dozen 15,000-Year-Old Words We Still Use Today 
  • Apple : Lincoln Center :: Google : Broadway 
  • 5 Lessons From Warren Buffett's Office Hours 
  • If you want to see which kids will grow up to be the most successful adults, visit their second-grade classroom. 
  • Steven Heller: Do Good Logos Need to Actually, You Know, Look Good? 
  • The Design That Conquered Google 
  • A brief history of admission tickets. 
  • The true value of a live performance audience. 
  • Artists behind iconic Houston sculpture sue Honda over ad claiming the ad stole design. 
  • The Most Important Details From Google I/O So Far 
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4 
  • Adobe Explores the Future of Responsive Digital Layout with National Geographic Content 
  • Lost Lands Found by Scientists 
  • Street Art Across The Globe: The Best Cities In The World For Graffiti And Urban Art 
  • Ha: 38 Signs You’ve Been in Advertising Agencies Too Long 
  • Amazing: National Geographic Traveler Magazine 2013 Photo Contest 
  • How to Spot a Weak Argument 
  • YouTube Launches Trend Map To Show Who's Watching What Where 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 13, 2013 
  • Games Before Bed Will Help Kids Sleep Better 
  • Elephants Communicate in Sophisticated Sign Language, Researchers Say 
  • How to Listen When Someone Is Venting 
  • Project Re:Brief, the documentary 
  • Mario Batali on digital strategy: How a Restaurant Menu Is Like a Website 
  • Rock’n’roll + Typography = Rock That Font 
  • Cheap Nanotech Filter Clears Hazardous Microbes and Chemicals from Drinking Water 
  • The Story Behind 'This Is Water'. Without permission, video agency created an amazing homage to David Foster Wallace 
  • A Few Rare People Hallucinate Musical Scores 
  • Eight New Things We've Learned About Music 
  • What Countries Around The World Eat For Breakfast 
  • Joi Ito’s Trends to Watch in 2013 
  • The Scientific 7-Minute Workout 
  • Businessweek has a fantastic profile of Reed Hastings and the Netflix turnaround from a year ago. 
  • It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories 
  • Space Is Now a Reality TV Show. A very good reality show. 
  • 10 Great Quotes From The Great Gatsby 
  • Oreo's New "Wonderfilled" Campaign Wants to Sap the Cynicism Out of Your Day 
  • Fast Company's The 100 Most Creative People 2013. Topping the list, Nate Silver. 
  • Charlie Rose interviews 'Bill Gates 2.0' on 60 Minutes: the man after Microsoft 
  • Fmr. Frog Design Strategist: What We Need For Wearable Computing To Work 
  • The Quest For Perfection 
  • Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ 
  • The Invention of David Bowie by Ian Buruma: The New York Review of Books 
  • Around the World in 80 Instagrams 
  • The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple 
  • Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. 
  • Molecules in the brain trigger aging. Activity in the hypothalamus affects cognitive and physical decline. 
  • Creative People Say No 
  • The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI 
  • What Is Nothing? A Mind-Bending Debate about the Universe Moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson 
  • The 100 Most Creative People In Business 
  • Merlin Mann: Broken Meetings (And How You'll Fix Them) 
  • Sir Ken Robinson: 10 talks on education 
  • Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore 
  • Theater's Expiring Subscription Model 
  • Watch ABC app: First live stream by broadcaster 
  • Merrill Brockway, Producer of TV’s ‘Dance in America,’ Dies at 90 
  • iPad apps for young coders 
  • Infographic: Majority Of Earth’s Population Resides In This One Relatively Small Circle 
  • The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI 
  • Five overlooked abilities of the Finder's Path Bar 
  • Why Is Facebook Blue? The Science Behind Colors In Marketing 
  • A Clever iPad App Gets Kids Drawing On Paper Again 
  • Better way to add Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and any other external scripts 
  • Colours: The colors of the web. 
  • MIT Can Put A Digital Interface On Any Object 
  • Type design inspiration: Inside the evolution of typography at Monotype 
  • Behind The Scenes Shots From Popular Movies 
  • How I Work: IDEO's Duane Bray On Creating Great Digital Experiences 
  • 27 Bits of Wisdom from 2012 Commencement Addresses 
  • The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing 
  • How to Really Understand Someone Else's Point of View - Mark Goulston and John Ullmen 
  • José Luis Antúnez: What is Design? 
  • Can you tell a four-word story? 
  • The Economist explains: How does China censor the internet? 
  • The 12 Trends That Will Rule Products In 2013 
  • What happens to our brains when we have stage fright: The science of public speaking 
  • 25 Gorgeous Typographic Experiments 
  • 10 Display Faces that Digital Forgot 
  • Study: Teenagers Feel More Entitled Than Ever. Teens are less willing than ever to work hard 
  • Bringing Backstage Onstage with Social Media 
  • Are you scaring your customers with how you talk about your art? 
  • Steven Soderbergh on the state of cinema. 
  • Meet A Modern-Day Master Of The Classic Neon Sign 
  • Why "The Great Gatsby" Endures: The New Yorker 
  • Carl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: 40 Essential Texts for a Well-Rounded Thinker 
  • Google teams up with the RSC to create Shakespeare for the internet age 
  • What makes The Great Gatsby great? 
  • So clever: An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words 
  • Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming 

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: May 10, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:​

  • Nikola Tesla's Amazing Predictions for the 21st Century 
  • The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear 
  • The Secret to a Long Life May Be Deep Inside Your Brain 
  • Eight New Things We've Learned About Music 
  • 10 New Things We Know About Food and Diets 
  • Five Innovative Technologies that Bring Energy to the Developing World 
  • Pop Culture Through The Lens Of Nostalgia: The Evolution Of 8-Bit Art 
  • Five Surprising Facts About the Common Cold 
  • Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming 
  • So clever: An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words 
  • 'Vogue,' 'Wired' to Launch Online TV Channels This Month 
  • How To Be Gracious, And Why 
  • The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard 
  • Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System 
  • The Vast World Of Lego Art 
  • The Strange Beauty of David Maisel's Aerial Photographs 
  • The Earliest Stop Motion Animations are Weirdly Wonderful 
  • Can Cloning Giant Redwoods Save the Planet? 
  • Ancient Maya Were Cultural Sponges 
  • The Center of the Earth Is as Hot as the Sun 
  • Slaves To The Algorithm 
  • The First LPs Weren’t for Music—They Were Audiobooks for the Blind 
  • This New Robot Has a Sense of Touch 
  • PBS Idea Channel: Are Hologram Tupac and Hologram Freddie Mercury Nostalgia or New Aesthetic? 
  • Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane 
  • It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving 
  • Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years 
  • Check out today's fantastic Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of brilliant opening title designer Saul Bass. 
  • Where Are the Centers for Education Innovation? 
  • 6 Influential Stop-Motion Movies From Ray Harryhausen (RIP) 
  • And now a few moments of joyful humanity, brought to you by Russian dash cams. 
  • Tribeca transmedia: The power of "Sandy Storylines" 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 6, 2013 
  • Inside the MIT Media Lab 
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram: Vanity Fair 
  • MIT Brain Scans Show That Entrepreneurs Really Do Think Different 
  • Typecast: How New Technology Is Reinventing Typography 
  • 47 Top Typography Tools and Resources 
  • Adobe Abandons Its Creative Suite to Focus on Creative Cloud 
  • New York Times launches web-only documentaries with Retro Report 
  • Brand Thinking: Seth Godin, Dan Pink, and Other Mavens on How and Why We Define Ourselves Through Stuff 
  • Robert Krulwich On Becoming Yourself 
  • High Speed Photos of Flying Liquids by Manon Wethly 
  • Gorgeous: Incredibly Surreal Scenes Where Women Defy Gravity 
  • What do we talk about when we talk about the economic impact of the arts? 
  • Permission to Play: Let's Make Fixing Things Cool Again 
  • World's smallest movie: IBM uses individual atoms to make record-breaking short film of boy kicking football 
  • Some timely perspective: HERE IS TODAY 
  • Musicals are booming 
  • Good Science Fiction 
  • Michael Bierut: Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges 
  • The 15 Most Important Minutes Of The Work Week 
  • Tony Fadell: Building With Atoms, Electrons, Frustrations & Constraints 
  • How to Get More Done: The 1-3-5 Rule 
  • Why Kickstarter Can't Usurp the Hollywood Entertainment-Industrial Complex 
  • How Australia is transforming their libraries. 
  • How Coffee Influenced The Course Of History 
  • Why Caffeine In Coffee Is A Miracle Drug For The Tired 
  • WSJ. asks six luminaries to weigh in on a single topic. This month: Design. 
  • Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem 
  • The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever 
  • 10 Beautiful Words About Love That Don’t Exist in English 
  • Who Was Mather? Meet the Lesser-Known Men Behind Famous Agency Names 
  • Meet The Accidental Designer Of The GitHub And Twitter Logos 
  • MIT Technology Review: Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface 
  • An Introduction To Programming Type Systems: Smashing Coding 
  • 20 Amazing Outdoor Libraries and Bookstores From All Over the World 
  • Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now 
  • Hermione Hoby spends an evening backstage with the unsung heroes of opera: the dressers 
  • What Happened To Opera? When you weren't looking… some things changed. 
  • TED Playlists: Words, words, words. Ten talks on the wonder of words. 
  • Secrets of the Most Successful College Students 
  • Amazon's bid for rights to sell secondhand ebooks 
  • For the First Time Ever, You Can Now Hear What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like - Technology 
  • NYTimes, Grantland and now Microsoft deliver a responsive essay: 88 Acres 
  • Well done BBH, well done: This Heartwarming Tale of Friendship out of BBH London is a Must-Watch for Parents: 
  • First NYTimes and now Grantland deliver a responsive essay: Out in the Great Alone 
  • Artificial Intelligence Is The New Uncanny Valley 
  • David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity 
  • How to Tell a Story with Data 
  • 10 Secrets to Eye-Popping Package Designs 
  • An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary 
  • How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation 
  • The Abstraction Method of Problem Solving 

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: May 3, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Muddy Colors: How I Make a Picture Book 
  • 10 Practices from the Most Innovative Organizations 
  • Digital Public Library of America Launches with 2 Million Items 
  • Neuroscience Explores Why Humans Feel Empathy for Robots 
  • Best of Fluent 2012: /Reg(exp){2}lained/: Demystifying Regular Expressions 
  • Sleep: Everything You Need To Know 
  • Daily Rituals: A Guided Tour of Writers' and Artists' Creative Habits 
  • "This Is Coffee" A Vintage Film For Coffee Lovers 
  • Scientists Identify Neurons That Register Itch 
  • A Night at the Museum with the Smithsonian's Laser Cowboys 
  • Why Hewlett-Packard is hiring dancers 
  • Chili Peppers Do To Your Skin What Migraines Do To Your Brain 
  • The Film before The Film 
  • Read the book in one go, great intro to it here: How to Find Fulfilling Work 
  • Paul Miller: back online after a year without the internet 
  • Coffee: From Balzac to Beethoven, it has fueled artistic endeavor for centuries. 
  • The Mathematics of Planet Earth 
  • Ken Burns: A Great Story is 1+1=3 
  • Gorgeous timelapse: MIDNIGHT BARCELONA 
  • Top 14 World Albums, Spring 2013 
  • TED Playlists: How to tell a story 
  • When Will We See A Macklemore Or 50 Shades-Style Blockbuster--In Movies? 
  • Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good? 
  • Sketchnoting 101: How To Create Awesome Visual Notes 
  • The Digital Public Library of America: a hub for books, made an API so anyone can build a reading room. 
  • How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of April 29, 2013 
  • The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection 
  • A sperm whale’s head is actually an oversized nose 
  • 10 Incredible Repurposed Train Stations 
  • Jonathan Harris On Reshaping Culture In The Digital Age 
  • A Brief History of the High Five 
  • Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His Writing Better 
  • The 10 Fastest Growing Megacities In The World 
  • This Art Is Made From Food, But It's More Than Just Playing 
  • This Art Is All Made From A Newly Invented Kind Of Wood 
  • What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work 
  • Brain Puzzle: What is Perception? 
  • 10 Inspiring Type Designers From A New Generation 
  • Get that tune out of your head 
  • The Future Of Opera Is An FX Extravaganza 
  • The Company That's Buying Up All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem - Technology 
  • The Digital Public Library of America Opens its Doors 
  • Have Headphones Changed Your World? 
  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Hair 
  • The Story Of Superstorm Sandy Through The Eyes Of NYC's Digital First Responders 
  • Hopscotch: Coding for Kids 
  • How to Work with Creative People 
  • An important reminder that the universe has three spatial dimensions and is best appreciated with all three engaged. 
  • Click a few dots, and this program will try to guess your age. 
  • Amazing: Insects Caught Mid-Air With Laserbeam HD Camera Rig 
  • How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future 
  • Infographic: Plotting Comic Books' Rapid Takeover of Hollywood 
  • Intuition as the Basis for Creativity 
  • From Love To Bingo In 873 Images 
  • Michael Bierut: Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges 
  • Illustrations from a Victorian book on Magic (1897)  /via @Coudal
  • How Sriracha was introduced to the US.  /via @Coudal
  • More Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test 
  • What 15,000 Years Of Cooking Fish Tells Us About Humanity 
  • Jill Bolte Taylor: 10 TED talks on human nature 
  • How Google Creative Lab Links Product to Stellar Storytelling 
  • TED-Ed: Who invented writing? - Matthew Winkler 
  • Fantastic: Revisiting the Original 1992 WIRED Media Kit 
  • Cool: Branding the Presidents of the United States  /via @Coudal
  • Was Shakespeare a Humble Schoolmaster During His ‘Lost Years’? 
  • Andy Day: Documenting the high-flying world of parkour 
  • Some of these are terrifying: 11 of the Most Unusual Elevators 
  • The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin's Timeless Advice on Writing 
  • The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American 
  • How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet 
  • Kickstarter for Surgery Lets You Help Those in Need 
  • My Video Gamer Is Smarter Than Your Honor Roll Student 
  • The greatness of the grilled cheese, explained. 
  • How One Family Helped Change the Way We Eat Ham 
  • Seven Counterintuitive Ways to Be Insanely Productive 
  • E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming 
  • Brain scans predict how much you'll pay for music 
  • In A Fragmented Cultureverse, Can Pop References Still Pop? 
  • CSS-Tricks: Slide In (as you scroll down) Boxes 
  • Design/UX: Transitional 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: April 26, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 1930s Fashion Designers Imagine Year 2000 
  • MIT Technology Review: Moore's Law and the Origin of Life 
  • Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His Writing Better 
  • Your Office's Fluorescent Lights Really Are Draining Your Will To Work 
  • Mindfulness: Observing Without Questioning 
  • What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art 
  • Clay Shirky On Pushing Creative Boundaries 
  • A shorthand for designing UI flows by Ryan of 37signals 
  • Design/UX: Transitional Interfaces 
  • 10 super-helpful mnemonic tricks 
  • Dieter Rams: Ten Principles For Good Design 
  • The Productivity Diet 
  • What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights 
  • The New $100 Note is, well, see for yourself: 
  • Powerful, Emotional: Boston Magazine's May cover, made from the runners shoes. 
  • The 55 TEDGlobal 2013 speakers who tweet 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: On The Road, Episode 3 
  • Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Predicts the Future of Streaming Video 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of April 22, 2013 
  • How a Gang of Pickpockets Shut Down the Louvre 
  • What's the Real Origin of "OK"? 
  • Great Big Ideas: Free Course Features Top Thinkers Tackling the World’s Most Important Ideas 
  • Everything we have to do 
  • Your Favorite Authors’ Favorite Musicians 
  • The Lavish Sets of Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby 
  • Frank Chimero on Ideas 
  • The Killer Feature Every Cloud-Based App Should Have 
  • Street Artist JR Creates iPad App to Help You Track Down His Work 
  • HOW TO WRITE LIKE SHAKESPEARE - More Intelligent Life 
  • Work Mode: The Writer Behind "Dark Knight" And "Man of Steel" On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas 
  • How to Think Like Shakespeare: The Positive Value of Negative Capability 
  • 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare 
  • If you happen to be the first person to make contact with aliens, here’s a handy guide: 
  • A Wandering Brain Zips Around Toronto To Encourage Creativity 
  • Content or Objects: Neil Gaiman and the future of books 
  • Wow, just wow: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page 
  • Forecast Makers: "It's now a web app. It's an app you install from the web." 
  • Cocktails with Stan Lee and Jane Espenson 
  • Earth Chorus: Dancing to the beat of Earth 
  • Globe launches indoor theatre with The Duchess of Malfi and opera 
  • Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary) 
  • Lovely: Haunting Figure of a Woman Made with Wood and Bamboo 
  • When Dickens met Dostoevsky 
  • 10 Words That Will Win You Any Game of Scrabble 
  • World Book Night is tomorrow! 
  • The brand is a story. But it's a story about you, not about the brand. 
  • How To Make Your Websites Faster On Mobile Devices 
  • Check out the new and fully responsive Wired.co.uk 
  • Should we be suspicious of stories? 
  • How to win at poker: Sleight of hand 
  • This Is Your Brain on E-Books. When we read on dead trees, do we retain more? 
  • Audio Branding: Company Logos Expand Into The Sonic Realm 
  • The McKinsey Global Institute just released a fas­ci­nat­ing new iPad app, Urban World 
  • The Modern Data Nerd Isn't as Nerdy as You Think 
  • Massive Volunteer Collective Proofreads 25,000 Public-Domain Books 
  • Stop Doubting Yourself. Be Bold. 
  • How the Banner Ad Was Born  /via @daringfireball
  • How to Stimulate Curiosity 
  • What e-learning can teach us about journalism 
  • The 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf 
  • The Story of a Revolution: The best of Wired 1993-2013 
  • Revealed: The Part of Our Brain That Makes Us Like New Music 
  • Outsider Thinking: What Science Can Learn From Art 
  • Enjoy this New Yorker article while having a nice cup: In the Land of the Coffee Nerds 
  • Thousands of Roman Artifacts Have Just Been Sitting Under London’s Financial District 
  • Merlin Mann: On Chasing the Right "Zero" 
  • jQuery 2.0 Released 
  • Study: There Seems to Be a Universal Brain Response to Music 
  • How great plays are (eventually) made 
  • Great resournce: The Collective Legal Guide For Designers (Contract Samples) 
  • Art of the Title takes an in-depth look at the title sequence for Skyfall (2012) 
  • How To Raise Your Email Above Inbox Noise 
  • A field guide to the Meeting Troll 
  • TED-Ed and CERN unveil “The beginning of the universe” 
  • 5 Things to Know When Designing for iOS 
  • Redesigning the Save symbol. 
  • The Grammar of Interactivity 
  • Responsive Nav: A Simple JavaScript Plugin For Responsive Navigation 
  • One man's quest to build an AI that can create games 
  • David Byrne on bypassing waffling and his remote collaborations with Brian Eno. 
  • You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - The Chronicle of Higher Education 
  • Cool: Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations 

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: April 19, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Type Talk: The Definitive Guide to Smart Quotes 
  • "Ode to the Book" by Pablo Neruda, exquisitely read by Tom O'Bedlam 
  • Great in-depth article: The making of Medium.com 
  • Mind. Blown: The Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth? 
  • Google's Reader retirement is leading to lots of content being collected in non RSS ways: Links to Inspire 
  • CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students’ Progress for Teachers 
  • Fascinating: Is Stanford a university or "a giant tech incubator with a football team."  /via @davepell
  • How to get better feedback 
  • Three Points Of View On Fandom, Fan Fiction & Fan Art 
  • So great: Andrew Zuckerman's vast collection of beautiful animal images: The Creature Book 
  • From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history of touchscreen technology 
  • Cool: Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations 
  • You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - The Chronicle of Higher Education 
  • Better By Design: Keith Yamashita On CEOs and Designers 
  • Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots 
  • Title Treatment for Disney's “Wreck-It Ralph” 
  • Creating Your Artist Resume 
  • The Timelapse Project: El Morro & El Yunque 
  • The Story Behind Smithsonian Castle's Red Sandstone 
  • From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites you didn’t know you needed 
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at Concert Asking Fans to Put Away Phones & Cameras During Show 
  • Video: "MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom" - MIT Comparative Media Studies 
  • Visualization as Process, Not Output - Jer Thorp 
  • Karloff: the convergence of beauty and ugliness on a typeface 
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner David Mamet Wants to Direct Commercials Again 
  • The most frequently highlighted passages in famous business and management books 
  • Richard Branson on the role of creativity in business 
  • Andrew DeVigal: Smart Readers Are Too Distracted to Dig Smart Content 
  • The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame 
  • Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? 11 Rules for Critical Thinking 
  • Frank Rich on the State of Journalism 
  • Jason Silva: The Nature Of Creativity And How We Can Embrace It 
  • Warby Parker Co-Founder: Creating A Strong Brand Without Marketing 
  • Whiny Rants Are Inversely Proportional to Accomplishments (and Other Lessons) 
  • Why designers never retire 
  • The World’s Oldest Photography Museum Goes Digital 
  • Smithsonian Magazine: Educating Americans for the 21st Century - Special Reports 
  • Shakespeare scholars unite to see off claims of the 'Bard deniers' 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of April 15, 2013 
  • Scary-Smart People Really Do Accomplish a Lot 
  • Dance and the brain: Bill T. Jones and Oliver Sacks Connect at Live Arts 
  • Effective Perfectionism 
  • Longform Articles Tagged '2013 National Magazine Awards Finalists' 
  • What it's like running an arts org in Australia: Juggling the craft of cultural leadership 
  • Intrigued by the process of UX design? Want to learn the basics? UX Apprentice 
  • Elegant and useful, easy way to show what responsive design is. - Define :: Responsive 
  • Sapphire Could Replace Gorilla Glass in the iPhone and other Smartphones | MIT Technology Review 
  • Creative Collaboration Lessons From A NY City Ballet Pas De Deux 
  • Ted Greenwald Reconstructs the Invention of Wired Magazine a Pioneering Publication 
  • A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 61 : A History of Wine Labels  /via @Coudal
  • Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship 
  • Ten Great "Lost" Text Faces 
  • Why you hate the sound of your own voice 
  • The 12 Most Influential Cell Phones 
  • What Aspiring Designers Need to Know About Strategy 
  • Watch: Modern Dance Melds With Projection Art 
  • A look at how a great story came together: “How’d you find that secret-compartments story, Brendan Koerner?” 
  • Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 
  • Beautiful: JF Rauzier's Bibliothèques idéales 
  • A $5 app isn't expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy 
  • David Foster Wallace: On Real Freedom 
  • What is a book? 
  • NASA Best of Satellite 2012 
  • Is Instagram the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Photography? 
  • Russian Landmarks Imagined as Small Parts of Much Larger Buildings in Ad Campaign 
  • 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20 
  • 10 Terms to Describe the Anatomy of a Book 
  • Orson Welles Explains Why Ignorance Was the Genius Behind Citizen Kane 
  • Ha! Famous Artworks Recreated With Food Items On Toast 
  • How did supercomputer Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings? 
  • 10 Very Costly Typos 
  • 35 Astounding And Uplifting Facts About The Universe 
  • Love this: Flashmob recreates Rembrandt painting in Breda shopping centre - video 
  • 24 Dates To Take Yourself On 
  • Trapped By The Web — But For How Long? Take the Kelberman Challenge 
  • MIT and Harvard fund software that grades essays at college level 
  • The standardization of chess set design 
  • David Bowie Releases a Collection of His Vintage Videos Online 
  • Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers: Kick-ass vintage public domain photos of women in science. 
  • The beautiful landscape photography of Michael Bollino 
  • Tech cycles: The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system 
  • So great, web tech to demonstrate: How Far is it to Mars?  /via @daringfireball
  • RIP Maria Tallchief: Chicago dance legend, Balanchine muse 
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Comma From Which My Heart Hangs. 
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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.