The Week's Links: June 21, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Understanding App Store Pricing — Part 1 
  • Gorgeous: Starry Long Exposure Photos of Fireflies in the Forests of Japan 
  • The Dieline's Top 25 Chocolate Bar Packages 
  • 2.55pm, time when average office employee has their 'most unproductive moment of the day' 
  • These are great: Tech Noir - Cinemagraphs of living movie stills 
  • Mark Morris on Dance, Aging and Immortality 
  • Seven Questions to Ask Your Data Geeks 
  • When a Web-based artwork becomes technologically obsolete, does updated software simply restore it or changes it? 
  • The Pros & Cons Of Waiting In Line 
  • Inside Digg's Race to Build the New Google Reader 
  • Rory Sutherland knows how to save marketing and why the next big technology may not be a technology at all 
  • Sam Potts: My Six-Point Plan for Doing Projects 
  • 2,131 books fell over... 
  • Op-Ed: An Entrepreneur’s Take on Building a Great Design Team 
  • Decoding Space and Time in the Brain Network 
  • Until the next study, coffee is good for you: This Is Your Brain on Coffee 
  • 11,680 The number of emails sent to the average worker per year, and other email stats: 
  • The Unlikely Evolution Of The @ Symbol 
  • Trust your hunches, and write them down. 
  • Claudia Jacobs: Why Philanthropy Should Steam Ahead and Support the Creative Economy 
  • Marketing philosophy: Thought experiments are the product, and podcasts the placement. 
  • Summer Reading: The School of Life 
  • Digital organization launches to film new dance commissions 
  • Ira Silverberg leaves the National Endowment for the Arts 
  • Points: the socially-powered street sign 
  • Reading List: 6 Great Sci-Fi Stories About Robots 
  • Four Ways to Give Good Feedback 
  • How I Learned To Stop Comparing Myself To Others, And Love My Own Ideas 
  • amiina: Mixing it up, Iceland style 
  • How American Linguist Alice Kober Helped Unlock the Secrets of Linear B 
  • Summer Reading: The Novels of Max Barry 
  • What is a Museum? 
  • Are Video Games the Next Great Art Form? 
  • The Complete Beginner's Guide to Universal Design 
  • 50 Designers’ Desks: Part 2 
  • Researchers Explain How Brands Make You Fall In Love 
  • Did A Hedge Fund Guy Unlock The Biggest Question In The Universe? 
  • Rory Sutherland knows how to save marketing 
  • A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 
  • The “Boxed Set Approach” to Setting Goals 
  • Summer Reading: Independent Learning 
  • 6 Dictionary Mysteries You Can Help Solve 
  • Meet The 13 Designers On Fast Company's Most Creative People List 
  • Genius! Children's Cancer Center Rebrands Chemotherapy As "Superformula" in tie-in with DC Comics 
  • So good! Listen to Freddie Mercury and David Bowie on the Isolated Vocal Track for the Queen Hit ‘Under Pressure' 
  • German’s Longest Word Is No More 
  • Art of the Title takes a look at the opening sequence for Chasing Shakespeare (2013) 
  • The Creative Process of Ansel Adams Revealed in 1958 Documentary 
  • The Age of the Anti-Logo: Why Museums Are Shedding Their Identities 
  • D&AD Awards Winners 2013 
  • The Art Google Blurs 
  • This Is Responsive: Tips, Resources and Patterns for Responsive Web Design 
  • Creativity Top 5: Cannes Preview Edition 
  • Classic Books Annotated by Famous Authors 
  • Is There Such A Thing As Extinction Proof? 
  • Stephen King, Author Of 'Joyland': On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared 
  • The 50 Albums Everyone Needs to Own, 1963-2013 
  • Anonymous street artist brightens up London street furniture with incredibly detailed paintings 
  • Incredible Reading Rooms Around the World 
  • How Birds and Babies Learn to Talk 
  • Distinguishing Brain From Mind 
  • Stella Adler: The acting coach's notes on Tennessee Williams' female characters. 
  • Carl Sagan Puts Human History in Context 
  • The Making of Song Reader, Beck's album in sheet music. 
  • Freakonomics explains: Why Are There Cronut Scalpers? 
  • Because you always wanted to see what Dieter Rams' house looks like. 
  • Sight: A Short Film About Augmented Reality & Gamification 
  • For readers, this simple app is kinda genius: Slicereader - Easy reading for Mac 
  • Why Big Data Is Not Truth 
  • Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, with his own illustrations. 

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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.

The Week's Links: June 14, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • A History of Braun Design, Part 1: Electric Shavers 
  • How to Shape a Transmedia Campaign for Your Organization 
  • How Does the Brain React to a Romantic Breakup? 
  • Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, with his own illustrations. 
  • Why Big Data Is Not Truth 
  • Embracing The Remix: An Act To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts 
  • 7 Ways to Boost Your Creativity 
  • The Three Kinds of Laziness 
  • New Study Shows Not All Laughter is Created Equal 
  • 30 Bits of Commencement Wisdom for the Class of 2013 
  • Design In A Nutshell 
  • A Rare Behind-The-Scenes Look At Some Of Bowie's Most Iconic Photographs 
  • Watch: The History Of The Bauhaus, In 2 Minutes 
  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Beer 
  • So great: Underground New York Public Library 
  • Your Genes Don't Fit: Why 10,000 Hours of Practice Won't Make You an Expert 
  • Minecraft, Dubstep & the Olympics: Trying To Figure Out What More We Can Do 
  • Advice from Seth Godin on Leading Up 
  • The Quantified Brain of a Self-Tracking Neuroscientist: MIT Technology Review 
  • How to Write a Better Case Study 
  • New Artificial Heart to Be Tested: MIT Technology Review 
  • IBM's Watson Headed to Your Smartphone as Customer Service Agent: MIT Technology Review 
  • Better web typography in a few simple steps 
  • Highlights of day 1 at TEDGlobal 2013 
  • What Neurons Look Like (as Drawn by Students, Grad Students, and Professors) 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of June 10, 2013 
  • Cannes Contenders from Europe, Asia and Beyond 
  • Amazing Photographs Of A Giant, Forgotten Collection Of Human Brains 
  • Way-Way-Off-Broadway: How the immersive theater of 'Then She Fell' resonates with the digital world 
  • The Talks is a weekly updated online interview magazine. 
  • The National Endowment for the Arts Releases New Research Tool on Working Artists 
  • Pulitzer & Tony Winner Doug Wright on Objects, Evidence and Writing What You Don't Know 
  • The Ad World's Best Ideas: 12 Campaigns That Will Win At Cannes 
  • Clever: Varsity Bookmarking is a weekly interview magazine where questions are answered with links 
  • See Salvador Dali’s Illustrations for the 1969 Edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 
  • Gorgeous: Super Intricate Paper Cuts by Eric Standley Look Like Stained Glass 
  • The State Of Responsive Web Design 
  • Codrops: A showcase collection of various page transition effects using CSS animations. 
  • Culture City: New Stages of Development in Dance 
  • "then we begin to craft around our intention" 
  • Google Ventures shares their private Startup Lab Workshop videos 
  • Apple Design Awards WWDC: This year's winners 
  • The 2013 Creativity 50: The annual list of the year's most inspiring and influential creative figures 
  • modern.IE: Test versions of IE using Virtual Machines that you download and manage in your own dev environment. 
  • So useful: Screensiz.es is a database of screen specs for most popular devices. 
  • Astoria to get new bookstore — making it the only independent bookseller in the borough 
  • Notes Towards a Philosophy of Sleep 
  • Theater Business Models: The Next Frontier 
  • Don’t Blink: The Science of the Mona Lisa’s Flickering Smile 
  • Today's Google Doodle honoring Maurice Sendak is fantastic. 
  • Cannes Lions celebrates 60 years of advertising 
  • Creative Review: Alan Fletcher archive goes live 
  • Responsive Web Design Easter Egg ∙ A List Apart 
  • Why You Should Try Hacking Books 
  • Inside the Actors Studio Host James Lipton on His Favorite Interview and Pimping in Paris 
  • The Evolution of the Treble Clef 
  • For the First Time, See What the Most Basic Chemistry Actually Looks Like 
  • The Graduation Advice We Wish We'd Been Given 
  • Your mega summer reading list: 180+ books recommended by TEDsters
  • Google Will Now Tell You the Nutrition Information for Foods 
  • CSS Beautifier: Beautifies your css automatically so that it is consistent and easy to read 
  • 11 Mots Merveilleux Recently Added to the French Dictionary 
  • Star Wars: Anatomy of a Logo 
  • 90 Amazing Behind-the-Scenes Photos From Your Favorite Summer Movies 
  • Alex Payne: Letter To A Young Programmer Considering A Startup 
  • Georgia Museum of Art Crowdsources a Deaccession Decision 
  • The Good Listener: What's More Important, Lyrics Or Music? 
  • 5 Principles of Convergence: How To Work Better At The Intersection Of Tech, Creativity, And Media 
  • Danny Boyle's 15 Golden Rules of Moviemaking 
  • The State Of Responsive Web Design 
  • Source Code Typography 
  • Orson Welles Narrates Animation of Plato’s Cave Allegory 
  • The Rise and Fall of Charm in American Men 
  • Equity At 100: More Than Just A Broadway Baby 
  • And now for some fun: Me and Sad Keanu: A 3D-Printing Story 
  • Don't hide behind formality 
  • 35 Things You Didn’t Know About Jim Henson 
  • Iterations: How ESPN Thinks About The Future Of Its Product And Technologies 
  • The $1.3B Quest to Build a Supercomputer Replica of a Human Brain 
  • People who feel they deserve success are among those most likely to fail when challenges arise, research has revealed 

 

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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.

The Week's Links: June 7, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • The Animated History of the Tulip 
  • We Are All Nerds Now - Have We All Become Nerds? 
  • People who feel they deserve success are among those most likely to fail when challenges arise, research has revealed 
  • The $1.3B Quest to Build a Supercomputer Replica of a Human Brain 
  • Are We Truly Overworked? An Investigation—in 6 Charts 
  • Jason Santa Maria: On Web Typography 
  • List of common misconceptions  /via @kottke
  • A closer look at zoom. - FiftyThree on Making the Paper app. 
  • What If There's No Internet? 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of June 3, 2013 
  • Keep a "Research List" to Track Long-Term Goals 
  • Insights from Hosain Rahman, Josh Reich, Heather Payne, & More at the 2013 99U Conference 
  • TED: 8 lyrical talks about the violin 
  • The creative process behind Edward Hopper's paintings 
  • TED's Chris Anderson: How to Give a Killer Presentation 
  • Case Study: Typographic Design Patterns And Current Practices (2013 Edition) 
  • Steven Heller: The Art of Facebook 
  • The Hopkinson Report » Health insurance for individual entrepreneurs – what you need to know 
  • The ABCs of Contemporary Creatives 
  • Scott Berkun: The tyranny of category 
  • Linda Holmes: Dear Tiny Desk, Miss You 
  • The Little Metronome That Wouldn't 
  • Beautiful web type — the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory 
  • When Patents Attack And Their Collateral Damage 
  • Who's The Best Drinker? Dogs? Cats? Or Pigeons? 
  • Mariinsky Theatre broadcasts first live ballet in 3D 
  • Starters Guide to iOS Design 
  • How does copyright work in space? 
  • Google and NASA Launch Quantum Computing AI Lab 
  • What kind of unique are you? 
  • Complete Beginner's Guide to Interaction Design 
  • The Vintage Years: How the Older Brain Both Facilitates and Benefits from Fine Arts Expression 
  • Max Out Your Humanity: Oprah's Harvard Commencement Address on Failure and Finding Your Purpose 
  • 70 year old Creativity Technique That Is Still Relevant Today 
  • We’re Not Unhappy, We’re Designers: Morgan Knutson 
  • Subscribing to blogs, Feedly and the evolution of RSS 
  • Simplicity and Innovation 
  • Cannes Unveils Shortlist for First Innovation Awards - Advertising Age 
  • The Fragility of Intelligence: Why you sometimes feel smart and sometimes feel dumb. 
  • Bringing New York City Dance Into the Limelight 
  • Does Brain Training Work? Yes, If It Meets These Five Conditions 
  • Students, Professors: We Want Your Best #College #Longreads 
  • Learn To Code, Code To Learn: How programming prepares kids for more than math 
  • A Hologram for the King book packaging: McSweeney’s 
  • Do You Know How Much Data is Created Every Minute? 
  • Ha! And now for some fun: 20 Surefire Ways to Anger Creatives 
  • Seth Godin on Revolutions 
  • The K-Cup coffee conundrum, and the cost of convenience 
  • The joy of conferences and video games that teach 
  • An awesomely generated list of 80s videos from Ask MetaFilter. 
  • Making the Transition from Development to Design 
  • Solving the email-while-on-vacation problem 
  • Faced With Overload, a Need to Find Focus 
  • Arts patrons nationwide alerted to hacking of ticket sales data 
  • 'The New Inbox': Mobile's Impact on Email Marketing and Social Media 
  • 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time 
  • New research suggests training designed to increase feelings of compassion can lead to more altruistic behavior. 
  • Tanya Cordrey, on the Guardian's planned move to a brand new global domain later this year 
  • Be All Your Selves: Joss Whedon's 2013 Wesleyan Commencement Address on Embracing Our Inner Contradictions 
  • Study: How to Entice People to Buy Symphony Tickets 
  • The Future Of Technology Isn't Mobile, It's Contextual 
  • Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley 
  • Building The New Financial Times Web App: A Case Study 
  • Brains built from newspapers, chocolate and fruit. What are you feeding your mind with? 
  • Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins 
  • 100 Films | 100 Behind the Scenes Photos (1931-2012) 
  • Class of 2013: Start Designing Your Life 
  • 30 Top HTML5 Tutorials for All Skill Levels 
  • The 20 Most Beautiful Libraries on Film and TV 
  • How Twitter Is Reshaping The Future Of Storytelling 
  • How You Can Harness Irrationality to Improve Your Life 
  • Help Save Podcasting! EFF is partnering with leading lawyers to bust a key patent being used to threaten podcasters. 
  • Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Art Beautiful? 
  • Is It Possible To Think Without Language? 
  • The Story of Elizabeth Keckley, Former-Slave-Turned-Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker 
  • The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard 
  • Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet 

 

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 31, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • The Difference Between Linear and Exponential Thinking 
  • A Brief History of Robot Birds 
  • James Victore: In The Particular Lies The Universal 
  • Benjamin Franklin's Phonetic Alphabet 
  • 12 Exceptionally Long or Extremely Special Words 
  • Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System 
  • Every Day a Different Dish: Klari Reis' Petri Paintings 
  • The Strange Beauty of David Maisel's Aerial Photographs 
  • The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World 
  • Macoto Murayama's Intricate Blueprints of Flowers 
  • Take Up Computer Games, Not Crosswords, As You Age 
  • Ali, Marilyn, Jackie and Mr. TIME: The cover artist who helped define a magazine 
  • Michael Bierut On The New Philbrook Museum of Art Brand 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 27, 2013 
  • 'Nanogardens' Sprout Up On The Surface Of A Penny 
  • “One can burn a diamond in air” 
  • How Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has shaped 100 years of music 
  • Qantas to Flyers: Ditch Your Kindles, Read Our Custom Books 
  • 2013 Logo Trends on LogoLounge.com 
  • Mary Meeker is Back With Her 2013 Internet Trends Report Slides 
  • The BBC unveils an experimental ‘Perceptive Radio’ that offers personalized content 
  • Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M 
  • Kindle’s most-highlighted passages and the soul of the American reader 
  • Temple Grandin's Book Excerpt: How an Entirely New, Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley 
  • Bajofondo "Lluvia" 
  • The Curse of Reading and Forgetting 
  • Caro Emerald: Tangles, Transitions and Textures 
  • Transmedia Hollywood 3: Rethinking Creative Relations [Panel Videos] 
  • Scientists Just Recorded the Brightest Explosion We’ve Ever Seen 
  • How Much Do We Really Know About Your Tongue? 
  • Why Do We Laugh? 
  • Peeping in on the Process of Turning Caterpillar to Butterfly 
  • How Pixar and Psychology Helped Facebook Design Its Emoticons 
  • Should we put up with disruptive behavior at the theatre? 
  • Click Here If You Are You Missing Out 
  • A Bust of Richard III, 3D-Printed From a Scan of His Recently Exhumed Skull 
  • Old schooled: You never stop learning like a child 
  • The Life-Saving App That Sends Pictures of Your Heartbeat to Doctors 
  • Heart Attacks May Be Linked to Air Pollution 
  • You Actually Can Die of a Broken Heart 
  • Specially-Trained Honeybees Forage for Land Mines 
  • China Is Opening Around 100 Museums Every Year 
  • Heinrich Rohrer, Father of Nanotechnology, Dies at 79 
  • The Whitney Museum New Graphic Identity 
  • Dentists Discovered the Tooth-Saving Properties of Fluoride by Accident 
  • An Aging Mathematician Made a Major Dent in One of Math’s Oldest Problems 
  • Here's an idea, PBS Idea Channel is TED Talks from the fringe 
  • BBC abandons £100m digital project 
  • 15 of the Greatest Celebrity Commencement Speeches 
  • 24 Classic Books' Original Titles 
  • From Arrested Development to Dr. Who, How Binge Watching Is Changing Our Culture 
  • Insights From A Future Harvard Business School Case Study, Before It's Taught At Harvard 
  • Love this: Great Musicians on the Concerts That Inspired Them to Make Music 
  • Designing the new, fully responsive wired.co.uk article pages 
  • Reading List: 6 Stories for the Science-Fiction Newbie 
  • MIT TechTV: Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century 
  • Love this: Things Come Apart, 50 Disassembled Objects in 21,959 Individual Parts by Todd McLellan 
  • Amazing images: 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest 
  • The three types of specialist 
  • The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 
  • The Economist explains: Why are your friends more popular than you? 
  • Are You Good In A Crisis? Test Your Lifesaving Skills With This New App 
  • Millennials Vs. 50+: The Brands They Love 
  • Big Corporations Are Buying Design Firms in Droves 
  • When Computer Games May Keep the Brain Nimble 
  • 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy 
  • Mac OS graphic designer Susan Kare on icon design 
  • Responsive Tools For Web Designer & Developers 
  • Are smartphones ruining art? 
  • How Pixar and Psychology Helped Facebook Design Its Emoticons 
  • Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine to give $70 million to USC for new arts academy 
  • Tips and tricks for iPhoto for iOS 
  • Stephen King delays e-book in favor of print 

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 24, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Children and Computers: State of Play 
  • The Library's Future Is Not an Open Book 
  • 40 Years, 25 Lessons: Advice To Graduates 
  • Peeping in on the Process of Turning Caterpillar to Butterfly 
  • 'Wired' Completely Overhauls Print Magazine 
  • Haruki Murakami Translates The Great Gatsby, the Novel That Influenced Him Most 
  • Vintage Photos Show The Construction Of New York's Subway 100 Years Ago 
  • BBC News: Retirement 'harmful to health', study says 
  • Habits Of The Most Creative People 
  • Your Next Horror Movie Franchise Isn't a Movie - It's an App 
  • Ideo Imagines 18 Packaging Concepts For The Future 
  • Why You’re Addicted to TV 
  • Newsweek.com Redesign Aims to Be 'Snow Fall' on a Weekly Basis 
  • Advice for Graduates
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 20, 2013 
  • The Art Of Logo Design: PBS Off Book 
  • Where In The World Are You? This Excellent Game Makes You Guess 
  • TED-Ed: The brilliance of bioluminescence - Leslie Kenna 
  • Download 14 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Philip K. Dick as Free Audio Books and Free eBooks 
  • Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share 
  • 65 Books You Need To Read In Your 20s 
  • Made by Hand: The Bike Maker  
  • 11 Unusually Shaped Coins 
  • 10 Best Users to Follow on Vine 
  • Try, Try Again: Rejection Letters Received by Bestselling Authors 
  • Seeing Beyond The Human Eye: PBS Off Book 
  • Why Rituals Work: There are real benefits to rituals, religious or otherwise 
  • Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums? 
  • 10 Bookmarklets For Front End Web Development 
  • A Brief History of Songs That Have Gone to Space 
  • The End of Traditional Ad Agencies 
  • Famous Authors’ Handwritten Outlines for Great Works of Literature 
  • Fascinating Photos of the Models Who Inspired Famous Artworks 
  • 50 Designers’ Desks: Part 1 
  • A great look at innovation in Design and Paper 
  • The Audacity To Dream 
  • Understanding the Value of Art Therapy 
  • Welcome to the programmable world. 
  • Picasso, Kepler, and the Benefits of Being an Expert Generalist 
  • How Color-Coded Notes Make You A More Efficient Thinker 
  • Ken Robinson: To encourage creativity, you must first understand what it is 
  • New Android Boss Finally Reveals Plans for World's Most Popular Mobile OS 
  • 10 Hotel Secrets from Behind the Front Desk 
  • The Shakespeared Brain 
  • TED: 7 talks that will encourage you to talk to strangers 
  • Why Single-Tasking Makes You Smarter 
  • How to build an app: 35 great tutorials 
  • The Criterion Collection: Jane Campion’s Top 10 
  • 10 Ways Silicon Valley Culture Can Reinvent Advertising 
  • This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was Very Illegal)  /via @daringfireball
  • What you don't know about sugar and salt in 39 amazing images. 
  • This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories 
  • The Smithsonian is 3D-scanning its collection for future generations 
  • Which literary novels should daredevil film directors adapt next? 
  • Not I: Lisa Dwan's record speed Beckett performed in 9 minutes. 
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Rules for Watching Psycho (1960) 
  • Richard Feynman on the Role of Scientific Culture in Modern Society 
  • A Day in the Life of Bacteria in Your Gut 
  • 21st Century Masters Create Their Own Fields 
  • Can There Be Such a Thing as Punk Couture? 
  • The Destructive Influence of Imaginary Peers 
  • Why teenagers really do need an extra hour in bed 
  • Journey Of A Specialty Coffee Bean, From Cherry To Cup 
  • Your Voice Affects Others' Perceptions: Changing the Sound of Your Voice. 
  • Winners of the 2013 Sony World Photography Awards 
  • Masterpiece In A Mug: Japanese Latte Art Will Perk You Up 
  • A Focus on Distraction 

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.