The Week's Links: August 30, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • The Surprising Complexity of Lobster Prices 
  • More Is More: Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth 
  • Inside an orchestra's audition: Boston Magazine's The Audition 
  • Does digital technology help theatre – or hinder it? 
  • “Prequalifying Clients,” an article by Dan Mall 
  • The Rad New Words Added to the Dictionary in the '90s: Where Are They Now? 
  • Another article with a great layout: This Man Has a Train, an Army of Artists, and an Entire Nation for a Gallery 
  • The Career-Advancing Secrets Of 3 People With Awesome Careers 
  • An Ode To Creative Work, By Behance 
  • Rebranding A NYC Bookstore To Evoke The Golden Age Of Travel 
  • Become More Data-Driven by Breaking These Bad Habits - Thomas C. Redman 
  • Ogilvy Chief Data Officer Role May Be Sign of Things to Come 
  • Infographic: America's Strongest And Weakest Coffee Makers 
  • The Art of the Dollar: Meticulous Currency Collages by Mark Wagner 
  • Great Resource: Butterick’s Practical Typography 
  • Love this: Type Hunting 
  • Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface 
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 7 - The mid-year review 
  • Welcome to the “Internet of Things,” where even lights aren’t hacker safe 
  • App, Secret Sites Create The Immersive World Of Novel 'Night Film' 
  • The Computer That Put Men on the Moon 
  • 15 Companies That Originally Sold Something Else 
  • A Curious Inspiration for the First Stethoscope 
  • CoreBrand Names Top Ten Most And Least Respected Brands Of The Year 
  • The danger of comparing ourselves to others — and how to stop 
  • Backstage At The Metropolitan Opera 
  • How to Track the Life of a Story With Twitter Analytics 
  • Uncharted territory: amateur cartographers fight to put their communities on the map 
  • How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation 
  • Two Things Experts Do Differently Than Non-Experts When Practicing 
  • The Real Neuroscience of Creativity 
  • Adam Savage's Ten Rules for Success 
  • The Rijksmuseum Puts 125,000 Dutch Masterpieces Online, and Lets You Remix Its Art 
  • Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse Film (1956) 
  • Fun: Ballet dancers in random situations 
  • No one ever bought anything on an elevator 
  • Free Philip K. Dick: Download 13 Great Science Fiction Stories 
  • Every Child Is An Artist 
  • The Human Body, An Educational App for Exploring a Working Model of Human Anatomy 
  • Infographic: An Amazing Atlas of the World Wide Web 
  • The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come) 
  • Lego Architecture Studio Brings Modernism to the Play Room 
  • Why Mosquitoes Like You and Not Me 
  • Release: Immersive and Interactive Digital Media Programs to Receive Emmys 
  • Why do new plays feel like tv shows? 
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s 50 Ways to Kill a Character (and Our Favorite Hitch Resources on the Web)  
  • WSJ's Wireless Savings Calculator 
  • Type Hunting Offers a Look at Some Great Vintage Typography 
  • TED-Ed: A brief history of video games (Part I) - Safwat Saleem 
  • You Are Bad At Assessing People (But So Is Everybody Else) 
  • Our Social Brains 
  • The 11 Worst Sounds in the World 
  • Beyond Sheer Brainpower 
  • 10 Miniature Books We Covet 
  • Shawn Blanc: How I Self-Published My Book - including the tools he used. 
  • Making connections in the eye: Wiring diagram of retinal neurons is first step toward mapping the human brain. 
  • The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next 
  • IBM's Made A Programming Language Like The One Your Brain Would Use 

 

 

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: August 23, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Why Elmore Leonard matters 
  • Turn Your Career into a Work of Art 
  • Every Second on the Internet 
  • 50 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novels That Everyone Should Read 
  • Tom Stoppard's 'Arcadia' at Twenty : The New Yorker 
  • 50 Great Director Cameos in Other Directors’ Movies 
  • How Chocolate Keeps Your Brain Healthy 
  • Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 
  • Well played Belize, well played: Belize Reacts to Unflattering Mention on Breaking Bad 
  • Nike Tests Your Limits as It Redefines 'Just Do It' at 25 
  • MIT Algorithm Cuts ER Wait by 40 Minutes 
  • Recommended: Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done 
  • Radiolab: A Cultural History of Giving Blood 
  • Brand New: Fall 2013 Best and Worst College Logos 
  • This Is How Your Brain Becomes Addicted to Caffeine 
  • 11 Strange Science Lessons We Learned This Summer 
  • The Science of Champagne, the Bubbling Wine Created By Accident 
  • The Story of the First Postage Stamp 
  • The Secret to National Geographic's Maps Is an 80-Year-Old Font 
  • These Ocean Waves Look Like Liquid Sculptures 
  • The Effect of Color 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of August 19, 2013 
  • Leonardo Da Vinci's Studies on the Science of Flight Come to the Air and Space Museum 
  • Recommended: Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire  
  • What Happens When You Test the Prisoner’s Dilemma on Prisoners 
  • These Kindergarten Kids Aren’t Just Playing With Colored Blocks—They’re Coding 
  • This Artist Wants to Print Out the Internet 
  • Take a Tour Through the Computer Museum of 1983 
  • When Life Knocks You Down, It Takes About Two Years to Get Back Up 
  • WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle by Elmore Leonard 
  • Talking Robot to Keep Japanese Astronaut Company at the ISS 
  • These 1,397 Asteroids Are Pretty Darn Close to Earth, But NASA’s Not Worried 
  • Kids Trust Nice People Over Smart People 
  • Rarely Seen Maps From San Francisco's Quirkiest Hidden Library 
  • Craig Mod on Intertwingularity and the "User Experience" of Printed Publications 
  • What You Need to Be an Innovative Educator 
  • Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 
  • Five hundred new fairytales discovered in Germany 
  • How to Break the Habits that Get You Stuck 
  • Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com 
  • Recommended: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are 
  • Study: Why We Evolved to Love Music 
  • 10 tools to create or break habits 
  • 6 Secrets Of Super Productive To-Do Lists 
  • Pixar's John Lasseter on Steve Jobs, Creativity, and Disney Infinity 
  • The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers 
  • Yale University Press Releases App Version of 'Interaction of Color' 
  • What Is It About People That Are Right A Lot 
  • Happy Podcasting 
  • Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Catalogues Online 
  • Recommended: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead 
  • Is There A Connection Between Dancing And Vocal Learning? 
  • The History of the World in 46 Lectures From Columbia University 
  • WATCH: The Surprising Reason We Find Babies Cute 
  • 5 forgotten Grimm's fairytales 
  • 12 Amazing Staircases Around the World 
  • Google’s “20% time,” which brought you Gmail and AdSense, is now as good as dead 
  • Pay It Forward: Why Generosity Is The Key To Success 
  • This Fun Tool Teaches Kids To Program With Pictures 
  • Stanley Kubrick's fave films 
  • 100 And Single: How The Hot 100 Became America's Hit Barometer 
  • Sartre, Heidegger, Nietzsche: Three Philosophers in Three Hours 
  • Making Time for the Arts 
  • The art of hand lettering 
  • 3-Step Approach to Simplifying Your Life 
  • Subscriptions: Kickstarter Before Kickstarter 
  • 2013 Summer HD Festival, ten days of free Live in HD presentations at Lincoln Center starting 8/24 
  • Kindergarten coders can program before they can read 
  • A collection of resources for wireframes 
  • First Principles of Interaction Design 
  • The Secret To Forming Super Productive Habits 
  • The Very Concrete Place Where The Cloud Lives 
  • Infographic: The Amount Of Online Activity That Goes On Every 60 Seconds 
  • Intel, Apple and Others Rethink How We Watch TV 

 

 

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: August 16, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 50 Designers’ Desks: Part 1 
  • Intel, Apple and Others Rethink How We Watch TV 
  • Infographic: The Amount Of Online Activity That Goes On Every 60 Seconds 
  • The Very Concrete Place Where The Cloud Lives 
  • The Secret To Forming Super Productive Habits 
  • First Principles of Interaction Design 
  • A collection of resources for wireframes 
  • Hands-on with Disney Research's AIREAL haptic feedback technology (video) 
  • US telecom agency issues draft mobile app code of conduct with guidelines for user data collection 
  • Most Of The Things You Worry About Never Happen 
  • 10 Reasons To Love Science with Neil deGrasse Tyson 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of August 12, 2013 
  • Recommended: Where Good Ideas Come From 
  • When a thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere. There's a Name for That: 
  • Great interview: Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson 
  • What It's Like To Drop 150,000 Feet Straight Down 
  • The Best Books on Writing, NYC, Animals, and More: A Papercraft Diorama in Collaboration with the NY Public Library 
  • The Perfect Workspace (According to Science) 
  • Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History 
  • CSS Typography cheat sheet 
  • Meditation & Resisting Urges 
  • Jane ni Dhulchaointigh: The Magic Is in The Process 
  • Mass. girl, 9, becomes youngest US chess master 
  • A List of Movie Poster Clichés 
  • Recommended: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative 
  • Fantastic conversation: MIT Media Lab Conversations Series - IDEO's David and Tom Kelley 
  • Theatre Artists Now Kickstarting Their Projects 
  • Spike Lee Shares His NYU Teaching List of 87 Essential Films Every Aspiring Director Should See 
  • TED-Ed: How to take a great picture - Carolina Molinari 
  • The "Best" TV Commercials of the 50s and 60s 
  • These Kindergarten Kids Aren’t Just Playing With Colored Blocks—They’re Coding 
  • How Stories Change Your Brain 
  • A Harvard Economist's Surprisingly Simple Productivity Secret 
  • 8 iOS Developers Who Revolutionized The App Store 
  • Royal Shakespeare Company: Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 
  • Recommended: Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind 
  • The Art of Silence 
  • Top 10 Iconic Data Graphics 
  • Famous Directors and Their Famous Music Video Muses 
  • Top 10 Websites to Learn Coding (Interactively) Online 
  • The Creativity of Web Design, Indie Video Games and Fans 
  • City of London calls halt to smartphone tracking bins 
  • 'This Did Something Powerful to Me': Authors' Favorite First Lines of Books 
  • The best games of the year so far 
  • Happy Podcasting 
  • Howard Goodall's Story of Music, A Six-Part Series 
  • Recommended: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World 
  • At the intersection of journalism, data science, and digital media: How can j-schools prep students for the world? 
  • Feel a "Phantom Vibration" of Your Phone? You're Probably Stressed. 
  • The Mistake Smart People Make: Being In Motion vs. Taking Action 
  • In the World of Ideas, Place Matters 
  • Make Your Side Projects Wildly Successful: Treat Them Like Experiments 
  • Alexandre Dumas on the 3 Types of Appetites, 3 Types of Gluttony, and Perfect Number of Dinner Guests 
  • Diagnosing (And Curing) Your Communication Issues 
  • A Logaritmical Spiral Appears Around a Wet Tennis Ball Photographed by Arvin Rahimzadeh 
  • Humans tame light, stop it from moving for a full minute 
  • Rare 1960s Audio: Stanley Kubrick’s Big Interview with The New Yorker 
  • The History of Philosophy, from 600 B.C.E. to 1935, Visualized in Two Massive, 44-Foot High Diagrams 
  • How to make a newly learned word 'stick' 
  • The Science Behind How We Learn New Skills 
  • 'Friend,' as a Verb, Is 800 Years Old - Technology 
  • How to Destroy Priceless Works of Art (and how to save them) 
  • 62 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries 
  • Young children are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development? 
  • Toy Place, A Documentary About the Vintage Toy Collection of the Vermont Toy Museum 
  • The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems 
  • Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? 
  • Why You Like What You Like 
  • Inside Google's Secret Lab 
  • Revisiting Oliver Burkeman on why everything takes longer than you think 
  • What Makes a Risk-Taker: New Research Shows Often-Cautious People Become Daredevils in Right Context 
  • The 20 Most Beautiful Libraries on Film and TV 
  • The Origin of Tweet 

 

 

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: August 9, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:    

  • The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography 
  • Google's Street View takes you up Mount Fuji 
  • How to Trick Your Brain to Create a New Healthy Habit - Pick the Brain 
  • Rejection is more powerful than you think 
  • Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution: MIT Technology Review 
  • 12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration 
  • Instrumented Bodies: Digital Prostheses For Music and Dance Performance 
  • The Origin of Tweet 
  • The 20 Most Beautiful Libraries on Film and TV 
  • Frank Chimero: Do Things The Long, Hard Stupid Way 
  • Responsive Typography: The Basics 
  • Really Dancing In The Dark 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Health 
  • So good: Welcome to Cloud.typography - Webfonts by H&FJ 
  • Let's Talk Tech Jargon 
  • Play This Game, Get That Job 
  • NYC Creates App to Bring Voting Into the 21st Century 
  • Inside The Tech Stack Digg Used To Replace Google Reader 
  • You're Not Listening 
  • Scientists Address Wild Dolphins By Their Natural “Names” 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of August 5, 2013 
  • 20 Creativity Quotes Beautifully Illustrated From Ogilvy & Mather 
  • Simple Responsive Images With CSS Background Images 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Biographies 
  • Nickerblog: 11 things it took me 42 years to learn 
  • Giant Mirrors to Light Up One Dark Norwegian Town During Shadow Months 
  • The First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe was Disguised as a Man for Most of the Journey 
  • Great: National Geographic's Cartographic Typefaces  /via @daringfireball
  • Lightning storms, seen from space 
  • Opera booming in Australia 
  • Facebook explains its News Feed post ranking process, rolls out story bumping feature to improve UX 
  • Show Your Work! A new series by Austin Kleon 
  • Responsive Design Bookmarklet: a handy tool for responsive design testing 
  • Ballet v6.0, a New Festival, Makes Its Debut at the Joyce 
  • Amazon opens up a marketplace for art 
  • Footwork 
  • Ballerina Tiler Peck dances with Lil Buck & Sergei Polunin 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture 
  • We seldom talk about the sound design of our apps and devices - Octave: A free library of UI sounds. 
  • 8 Brilliant Scientific Screw-ups 
  • Cool: embedresponsibly.com helps build responsive embed codes for third-party media into responsive web pages. 
  • Socially Curated Discovery: How Algorithms Will Tell Us What We Like 
  • Consciousness is Still the "Hard Problem" of Neuroscience 
  • These books are stuffed with treasures 
  • Towards a fictionally biased design education 
  • The Marketplace in Your Brain 
  • Howard Goodall's Story of Music (Videos) 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional 
  • Looking in the mirror from 898,410,414 miles away. 
  • A Content Marketers Guide to Google Operators [Cheat Sheet] 
  • Superhero.js: a great collection of javascript resources. 
  • Marshall McLuhan's Four Innovation Fundamentals 
  • "This Is How We Built It" Case Studies 
  • Excavating and Restitching Myth: On Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane 
  • Umami explained 
  • Retinize It: Free Photoshop Action For Slicing Graphics For HD Screens 
  • The joy of cloudspotting: 10 incredible visions in clouds 
  • TED Radio Hour asks: “Why do we collaborate?” 
  • What Species Did You Evolve From? 
  • You Can't Do Simple Math Under Pressure 
  • A non-tech guide to launching your website 
  • Find Guidelines - The fastest way to brand assets. 
  • Cutting through classical 
  • How to work with “stupid” people 
  • How to manage smart people 
  • Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years 
  • How to use: Hyphen, En Dash, Em Dash, Minus 
  • The Marketplace in Your Brain 
  • The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip is online. Free. Legally. 
  • Logos for the 2020 Summer Olympics Candidate Cities 
  • CSS Almanac | CSS-Tricks 
  • Amazing: Delicate Cut Leaf Images 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Film 
  • Lessons In Creative Productivity From 24-Hour Plays 

 

 

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: August 2, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • Watch 25 Alfred Hitchcock Trailers, Exciting Films in Their Own Right 
  • Design Staff guide to research 
  • Lessons In Creative Productivity From 24-Hour Plays 
  • Amazing: Delicate Cut Leaf Images 
  • Train of Thought Derailed: How an Accident Can Affect Your Brain 
  • Wait, Have I Been Here Before? The Curious Case of Déjà Vu 
  • Why Living in a City Makes You More Innovative 
  • Would you like to be inspired? Here’s what you should do: 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 29, 2013 
  • A Brief History of the Baseball 
  • The Origin of the Pilcrow. Better Known as the Strange Paragraph Symbol 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion 
  • The Story of the First Postage Stamp 
  • What the Handwriting Says About the Artist 
  • Crayola Has At Least 16 Different Names For What Most of Us Would Call ‘Orange’ 
  • Choir Members’ Hearts Beat in Time With Each Other 
  • A New Language Is Being Born in This Remote Australian Village 
  • Entrepreneurs Are Using Instagram to Sell Everything From Sweaters to Sheep 
  • Who Invented The Internet? We Did. 
  • Can You Spot the Mars Rover in This Gorgeous Photo? 
  • The test of first-rate intelligence 
  • The Intended Audience 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture 
  • A New Surgical Knife Identifies Cancerous Tissue As Doctors Are Cutting It Out 
  • Eric William Carroll's art based on Grand Unified Theories 
  • The National Endowment for the Arts 2012 Annual Report is now online. 
  • Disney's Crazy Invention Lets You Feel Phantom Objects Floating In Air 
  • Ten Things You Need to Know About the Publicis-Omnicom Merger 
  • New York Times elevates comments from below the line 
  • How to Build a Better Marketing Budget 
  • Design Wants to Be Free 
  • Millions of words and only six emotions 
  • Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Photography 
  • What Are Neuromarketers Really Selling? 
  • Brilliant take by The New Yorker: Gary Shteyngart- Confessions of a Google Glass Explorer 
  • Joss Whedon on The Nerdist. Enough said. 
  • NASA has a great collection of ebooks about space, science, aeronautics, and the history of science. 
  • BBC launches User Experience Research Partnership 
  • Data.gov redesign preview modernizes public data delivery 
  • So You Want To Write A Digital Strategy? 
  • How to Travel: 21 Contrarian Rules 
  • Anil Dash's 10 Rules of Internet 
  • Proving the skeptics wrong 
  • Visualizing the Infinite Beauty of Pi 
  • The making of a Steinway grand piano 
  • Even J. K. Rowling Has To Deal With Fear And Change 
  • The History of Western Architecture: From Ancient Greece to Rococo (A Free Online Course) 
  • Magazines of Stuff: Embracing the Physical in the Digital Age 
  • And Answers 
  • Troubleshooting CSS 
  • Revolutionary discovery: Colonists’ 1767 petition uncovered in a Harvard library foreshadows the split with Britain 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design 
  • Understanding and marketing to the first global generation 
  • Doctors: Where pagers haven't gone extinct yet 
  • Lovely: Redesigned ‘Harry Potter’ Posters Give Movie Franchise New Look 
  • Super useful tools for CSS coding 
  • The Rise of UX Leadership - Robert Fabricant 
  • Diane von Furstenberg and Jack Dorsey talk influences, parents, and whether or not they'd make good employees 
  • Publicis And Omnicom To Merge, Creating World's Biggest Advertising Company 
  • 12 Famous Writers on Literary Rejection 
  • Leonardo da Vinci the Foodie? 
  • Imagineer Rolly Crump on Designing Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland 
  • Day in the Life at Dropbox: Rasmus Andersson 
  • The New Multi-Screen World Study – Think Insights – Google 
  • About Face: Emotions and Facial Expressions May Not Be Directly Related 
  • Questionable: Shakespeare's canon to be reworked by authors in "cover" novels. 
  • Dark UX: The Elements of The Video Gambling Experience, Used To Fool You 
  • Interesting: Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People 
  • We Need a Better Symbol for the Concept of Saving Stuff 
  • Whole human brain mapped in 3D 
  • Yes, Kickstarter raises more money for artists than the NEA. Here’s why that’s not really surprising: 
  • Do You Know What You’re Good At? (with Sir Ken Robinson) 
  • Marshall McLuhan's Four Innovation Fundamentals 
  • Really enjoying the design of the newly launched Nautilus online magazine. 
  • One Thing I Know: hard-earned insights from creative leaders 
  • So great: Sketching Out of My Comfort Zone: A Type Design Experiment 
  • The Greatest American Novel? 9 Experts Share Their Opinions 
  • Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought 
  • Banished Words 
  • Six people tell the NYTimes why they work in dance. 
  • Herman Miller is working on reinventing your workplace with something they call the Living Office. 
  • Yes! Sandman author Neil Gaiman ventures into gaming with Wayward Manor 

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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.