The Week's Links: November 8, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction 
  • Public Libraries Make Digital Magazines Accessible to All 
  • Do We Want the World to End? Is Santa Like Wrestling? & Other Relevant Questions 
  • Mary Shelley’s Handwritten Manuscripts of Frankenstein Now Online for the First Time 
  • This Playful Robot Will Teach A 5-Year-Old To Code 
  • The 30-Hour Work Week Is Here (If You Want It) 
  • The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math' 
  • So great: People Make New York City Subway Conductors’ Days With Silly Signs 
  • 11 Colors You've Probably Never Heard Of 
  • How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation 
  • Myth and Creativity: Stepping onto Platform 9 3/4 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of November 4, 2013 
  • 10 Figures of Speech Illustrated by Monty Python: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis & More 
  • Recommended: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life 
  • Where Have All the Geniuses Gone? 
  • The Power of Concentration & Mindfulness 
  • The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It 
  • Should live theatre be shown in cinemas? 
  • Can Art Teach Patience? 
  • Researchers report people are more likely to behave in a morality-minded manner earlier in the day. 
  • There’s one key difference between kids who excel at math and those who don’t 
  • Inside The Hunt For Dark Matter 
  • Phantom Phone Vibrations: So Common They've Changed Our Brains 
  • TEDx Talks on paper: Artists visualize the world's ideas in 5 fascinating drawings 
  • Royal Shakespeare Company: The Design of Richard II 
  • Silent & Sound Shakespeare: Watch the Very First Film Adaptations of the Bard (1899-1936) 
  • Recommended: The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together 
  • Social Connection Makes a Better Brain 
  • Useful Media vs. Entertaining Media 
  • Ex-Facebooker Gifts the Social Network's Data Platform to the World 
  • Bringing Videogames to Film Festivals, and Rich Storytelling to Games 
  • Neuroscientists Discover that Dendritic Spikes Enhance the Brain’s Computing Power 
  • Google Channels Pixar to Change Storytelling as We Know It 
  • The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Why Paper Still Beats Screens 
  • 25 Amazing Food Infographics, Drawn From 49,733 Recipes 
  • The Unlikely Network at the Core of Your Brain's Internet 
  • The Science Of A Great Subway Map 
  • What Is the Exactly Perfect Time to Drink Your Coffee? 
  • Alain de Botton: Art for Life's Sake 
  • First Children Are Smarter—but Why? 
  • Terrifying: Pianist Maria João Pires panics as she realises the orchestra has started the wrong concerto… 
  • Recommended: The War of Art 
  • The Science Of Productivity 
  • The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think 
  • Study: Why We Evolved to Love Music 
  • The Personal Television Revolution Is Horrifying — And Brilliant 
  • Global forum of museum directors to meet at the Met in New York 
  • 8 Ways Television Is Influencing Theater 
  • Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Online 
  • 12 Female CTOs You Should Know - and Follow on Twitter! 
  • 15 years ago, Congress kept Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Will they do it again? 
  • Oxford University Press and the Making of a Book 
  • Recommended: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative 
  • Top 400 fundraisers: 13 arts and culture groups make the list 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday 
  • Important New Theory Explains Where Old Memories Go 
  • Brains Sweep Themselves Clean Of Toxins During Sleep 
  • Is it fair to review first night ballets? 
  • The Battle of Ideas: are we still able to listen to music properly? 
  • Developing new operas is an art in itself 
  • A History of Genius 
  • Ten thousand costumes and counting: Australia's theatrical wardrobe king 
  • You're Not As Open As You Think You Are: A New Perspective for Possibility 
  • Why Are Hundreds of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy 
  • How The Economy Works According To The World’s Best Investor, And What It Means For You 
  • Interactive article- NSA files decoded: Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations explained, theguardian 
  • Which is More Important, the Question or the Answer? 
  • Why We Make Bad Decisions 
  • 5 Surprising, Science-Backed Ways To Get Smarter Today 
  • We’re all creative until we learn — or are taught — how not to be. 
  • Brilliant: Annotation Tuesday! Gay Talese and “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” – Nieman Storyboard 
  • Is This the Opera of the Future? 
  • The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel 
  • Taxis: Who decided they should be yellow? 
  • What the Best Decision Makers Do - Harvard Business Review 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday 
  • Infecting An Audience: Why Great Stories Spread 
  • An "All You Can Eat" College Degree Could Be The Future Of Higher Education 
 

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: November 1, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • The Decline of Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review 
  • One Year Later, The Most Promising iPad Magazine Looks Back (And Forward) 
  • Why An Arts Nonprofit Is Developing Web Dashboards 
  • 50 Books to Inspire Artists of All Kinds 
  • A Brief History Of Coffeemakers, 1600-Present 
  • How Do You Know What You Think You Know? 
  • The value of zero-priced software 
  • Automate Your Responsive Images With Mobify.js 
  • Is Ad Avoidance a Problem?: The New Yorker 
  • The Psychology of Online Comments: The New Yorker 
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 8 - The corps de ballet 
  • Bento - Learn how to code 
  • These Proto-GIFs of the 19th Century Put Today's GIFs to Shame 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of October 28, 2013 
  • 101 Objects that Made America: Smithsonian Magazine 
  • Recommended: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel 
  • The History of Halloween Snacks and Foods 
  • Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker on a Culture of Communication 
  • Revisit Orson Welles’ Iconic ‘War of the Worlds’ Broadcast That Aired 75 Years Ago Today 
  • How Calvin and Hobbes Inspired a Generation 
  • Top 10 Clever Google Search Tricks 
  • The Orchestra 
  • The Power of Personal Time Off 
  • A Day of Grace with Boston Ballet 
  • Recommended: Company 
  • Carving Culture: Sculptural Masterpieces Made from Old Books 
  • We Might Soon Know What Ancient Greek Music Actually Sounded Like 
  • 7 Data Viz Sites to Inspire Your Creative Eye 
  • If the Web Preceded Print: The New Golden Age of Book Design and Creativity on Paper 
  • Aging Well: Keeping Blood Sugar Low May Protect Memory 
  • Understand Music 
  • Chris Jones: Storytelling is magic 
  • Recommended: Machine Man 
  • 5 Unanswered Questions That Will Keep Physicists Awake at Night 
  • Multitalented Creative People: Developing Multiple Talents 
  • An epilogue: 21 Things I learnt from Midsummer Night’s Dreaming with the RSC 
  • Why French Kids Don't have ADHD 
  • How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses 
  • New Seamus Heaney poem published 
  • Google Unveils Tools to Access Web From Repressive Countries 
  • 8 Big Lessons From 30 Years Of Breakthrough Consumer Innovation 
  • Knowledge is a Polyglot: The Future of Global Language 
  • Give A Damn, Damn It: Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian 
  • The Neuroscience Behind How Sleep Cleans Your Brain 
  • George Balanchine and NYC Ballet 
  • Recommended: Jennifer Government 
  • How Superstition Works 
  • Why People Mistake Good Deals for Rip-Offs 
  • What Are the 10 Greatest Inventions of Our Time?: Scientific American 
  • Fantastic behind the scenes look at a busy restaurant: 22 Hours in Balthazar -NYTimes.com 
  • Why Q was illegal in Turkey until last month 
  • How much can an extra hour's sleep change you? 
  • The Best Illustrations From All Your Favorite Children's Books 
  • 5 Surprising, Science-Backed Ways To Get Smarter Today 
  • The Genius Who Invented Brunch 
  • The New, Old Way to Tell Stories: With Input From the Audience 
  • The Met's youngest composer takes us behind the scenes of the first internet-era opera: Nico Muhly 
  • The National Theatre at 50: Michael Billington's view from the stalls 
  • The National Theatre: A standing ovation for a great British institution on its 50th 
  • How Silk Road, the eBay of Illegal Drugs, Came Undone : The New Yorker 
  • This Audio-Only Video Game Has Nothing “Video” About It 
  • This Artist Learned To Code By Building A Website Every Day For 180 Days 
  • Watch: A 2-Minute Animation Of Stephen Hawking's Big Ideas 
  • Coding Is An Art--Software People Should Learn "Art Thinking" 
  • Now More Than Ever, You Need This Illustrated Guide To Bad Arguments, Faulty Logic, And Silly Rhetoric 
  • Decade In Design: The Biggest Events Of 2004 
  • BBC News - Disney develops way to 'feel' touchscreen images 
  • The 5 Common Characteristics of Ideas That Spread 
  • The Winners Of Fast Company's 2013 Innovation By Design Awards 
  • The 50 Scariest Books of All Time 
  • Douglas Coupland: A possibly unsexy date with yourself 
 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: September 20, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:   

  • Disney Created A Microphone That Turns Your Body Into A Walkie-Talkie 
  • Alexis Madrigal: Why Startups Need To Solve Real Problems Again 
  • Marketing Your Arts Organization on Social Media: 7 Thought-Starters for Creating an Effective Strategy 
  • Broadway Woos Audiences With New Mobile Ticketing Options 
  • How the Color Red Changes Our Brains 
  • “How can they be so good?”: The strange story of Skype 
  • Hello art world: Smithsonian acquires first piece of code for design collection 
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics 
  • Drone Gives Campus Tours To MIT Students 
  • Google Translate Has Ambitious Goals for Machine Translation 
  • Despite a decade of improvements, visual effects in film remain a less than perfect deception 
  • How to never forget the name of someone you just met: The science of memory 
  • How Zynga went from social gaming powerhouse to has-been 
  • Recommended: What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of September 16, 2013 
  • Inside The Mind Of A Chef - It's now available on Netflix 
  • 10 Big Lessons from HackFwd 
  • The Five Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done  More on Schumpeter 
  • Monty Hall problem: The probability puzzle that makes your head melt 
  • Keep Your Social Networking Out Of My Book 
  • The Real Problem With Neuroscience Today 
  • Recommended: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much 
  • When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning 
  • Nuance: A Dance Battle 
  • 10 Surprising Facts About How Our Brains Work 
  • How Did Our Brains Get So Brilliant? 
  • The Middle Finger: A Brief History 
  • Margaret Atwood on books: “Push comes to shove, they’re great insulating material” 
  • Tuition Aid From a Zombie Elf 
  • How Three Non-Designers Made The Most Beautiful Weather App We've Ever Seen 
  • What's the Status of Your Relationship With Innovation? 
  • René Magritte’s Early Art Deco Advertising Posters, 1924-1927 
  • Can Emotional Intelligence Be Taught? 
  • Smithsonian Magazine: Vote for the Winner of the 2013 People's Design Award - People's Design Award 
  • Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend 
  • Bad Robot Meets MIT Media Lab: In Conversation With JJ Abrams 
  • Recommended: The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession 
  • What's the Point of Creativity? 
  • A short history of the Pixar logo animation 
  • Storytelling Ads May Be Journalism’s New Peril 
  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy: September Is Boom Time for Donors, Google Says 
  • A Brief History of the Hashtag, and Other Unusual Punctuation Marks 
  • Mary Beard 'Confronts' The Classics With Wit And Style 
  • Airbnb Debuts First-ever Film Created On Vine via Mullen and B-Reel 
  • Pantone Unveils 2014 Fashion Color Report 
  • Elephants in the Room of Creativity and Innovation Talk 
  • Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules 
  • Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview 
  • Recommended: Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! 
  • Microsoft Donates Office 365 To Charitable Nonprofits 
  • The Evolution of the Modern Day Calendar 
  • The magic of a clear specification 
  • A Brief History of Data Revolutions in Economics 
  • iconic logo designers - an inspiring collection of graphic design talent 
  • The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary 
  • UIBox - Curated HTML, CSS, JS UI Component Library 
  • Nike Knits A Giant Sneaker Billboard In Real-Time To Show Off New Shoe Material 
  • Murder on the dancefloor: what I learned about marketing from being a bad DJ 
  • Please Stop Complaining About How Busy You Are 
  • Zen And The Art Of Constructive Conversations 
  • 8 Epic Photographs Showing the Same Tiny House 
  • Julie Taymor and other creative minds on how they work 
  • Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge 
  • Bach’s Musical Offering forwards and backwards. 
  • The brains behind research on the brain 
  • A Brief History Of Modern Architecture Through Movies 
  • 50 Creative Ideas To Make Better Cities, Presented On Gorgeously Designed Posters 
  • Reasons You Need A Nap : NPR 
  • Met Museum Concert Series Expands into Galleries for 2013-14 Season 
  • Understanding Our Gut Microbes Could Lead to New Medicines 
  • Brilliant: Fiona Apple and Chipotle channel Willy Wonka to slam factory farming 
  • 20 Directors to Watch - NYTimes.com 
  • A Lone Bandit and the Mystery of France's Greatest Diamond Heist 
  • Transmedia LA Launches Transmedia U 
  • The Last Words of 20 Cultural Icons 
  • How To Read Way More Books (And, Thus, Know Way More Stuff) 
  • 10 Theatre Productions to Look Forward to This Fall 
  • So You Think You're Creative? 
  • Recommended: The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era 
  • When Work Is Challenging, Economies Thrive - Justin Fox 
  • Wait, What's That? The Science Behind Why Your Mind Keeps Wandering 

 

 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: September 13, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Metropolis Restored: Watch a New Version of Fritz Lang’s Masterpiece 
  • Performing Shakespeare’s plays with their original English accent 
  • The Learning Dead: AMC's Zombie Show Spins Off Online Survival Course 
  • How Video Games Can Stop Cognitive Decline 
  • Wait, What's That? The Science Behind Why Your Mind Keeps Wandering 
  • Penguin Gives New Looks To Books That Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien 
  • Will Shortz, NYT's Crosswords Editor, on How a Crossword is Made 
  • Recommended: The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born 
  • Psychology Today: New research suggests that American schoolchildren are becoming less creative. 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of September 9, 2013 
  • A History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in 100 Riffs 
  • Can The "GitHub For Science" Convince Researchers To Open-Source Their Data? 
  • To Preserve Digital Design, The Smithsonian Begins Collecting Apps 
  • Useful: Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services. 
  • Your Brain by the Numbers 
  • Hear the Isolated Vocal Tracks for The Beatles’ Climactic 16-Minute Medley on Abbey Road 
  • Recommended: Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign 
  • Worthwhile Stories 
  • The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 846 Film Critics 
  • Why Do Our Best Ideas Come to Us in the Shower? 
  • Videogame May Help Rejuvenate Elderly Brains 
  • Design Fail: Why Isn't There A Standard Way To Swipe A Credit Card? 
  • How Do You Raise a Prodigy? 
  • Disney Brainstorming Method: Dreamer, Realist, and Spoiler 
  • Recommended: Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising 
  • Worthwhile Stories 
  • Creative Destruction 
  • Taking Control of Contracts: What Every Creative Should Know 
  • Why is the 'new' Van Gogh painting significant? 
  • The Evolutionary Case for Great Fiction 
  • Watch The Amazing 1912 Animation of Stop-Motion Pioneer Ladislas Starevich, Starring Dead Bugs 
  • The Perfect Nap: Sleeping Is a Mix of Art and Science 
  • The Icon in the Costume Shop: Valentino at NYC Ballet 
  • Recommended: Confessions of an Advertising Man 
  • Google had an M&M problem. This is how they dealt with it. 
  • In praise of laziness 
  • Five Incredible—and Real—Mind Control Applications 
  • MACH - A computer that teaches people how to be social. 
  • In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents 
  • How news spread - BREAKING: American Colonies Declare Independence 
  • Chemical weapons and the scientists who make them 
  • Van Gogh’s own words after cutting his ear recorded in Paris newspaper 
  • Study: Artists Report Higher Than Usual Job Satisfaction 
  • Brian De Palma's use of dance in film. 
  • Classical Music Leadership for the 21st Century: Marin Alsop's speech at the Last Night of the Proms *APPLAUSE* 
  • Fantastic: New Old Stock - VINTAGE PHOTOS FROM THE PUBLIC ARCHIVES FREE OF KNOWN COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS. 
  • Useful resource: jsPDF - A HTML5 client-side solution for generating PDFs. 
  • Mobile in museums: tips and advice from the experts 
  • The CRM Of The Future Will Recommend New Customers To You Automatically 
  • The More Things Change, the More Our Objections to Change Stay the Same - Bill Taylor 
  • Could Google Be an Economic Magic 8-Ball? 
  • Why We Lose Our Days To Unproductive Tasks 
  • 10 Fascinating Facts About The Hidden Industry That Touches 90% Of What You Own 
  • An Oral History Of Apple Design: 2001 
  • Art of the Title: Designer Saul Bass collaborates with Director Otto Preminger. 
  • Tips for Applicants to the NEA’s Research: Art Works Program 
  • How Much Sleep Do You Need? Sleep Cycles & Stages, Lack of Sleep, and How to Get the Hours You Need 
  • 18 (Free) Books Ernest Hemingway Wished He Could Read Again for the First Time 
  • The Internet Explained By Prisoners Who Have Never Seen It 
  • 7 Storytelling Reasons Why Innovation Fails 
  • Netflix for books: Oyster - A Gorgeous New App Offering Unlimited Books for $9.95 a Month 
  • A couple of these surprised me: 10 Famous Books With Lesser-Known Subtitles 
  • Get To Know NYC Ballet 
  • Should We Teach Literature Students How To Analyze Texts Algorithmically? 
  • Australian archive says 1996 pop art-inspired version of Shakespeare was first movie created for the internet 
  • Recommended: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries 
  • The New York Times (quietly) drops the F-bomb 

 

 

Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: September 6, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Remembering the Spark That Ignited a Creative Fire 
  • From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: GitHub Is Going Mainstream 
  • 10 Simple Postures That Boost Performance 
  • An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992 
  • 3 inspiring TEDx Talks on happiness at work 
  • FBI’s “Vault” Web Site Reveals Declassified Files on Hemingway, Einstein, Marilyn & Other Icons 
  • 5,000-Year-Old Gaming Pieces Found In Turkey 
  • Top 10 Fastest Supercomputers In The World 
  • The New York Times (quietly) drops the F-bomb 
  • Australian archive says 1996 pop art-inspired version of Shakespeare was first movie created for the internet 
  • Should We Teach Literature Students How To Analyze Texts Algorithmically? 
  • Inside The Mind Of A Chef 
  • Pumpkin Spice Latte, the Drink That Almost Wasn’t 
  • Marissa Mayer's notes on the new Yahoo logo: Geeking Out on the Logo 
  • A New App Tells A Neverending Bedtime Story, Of A Kid's Own Design 
  • Very cool: Concert Master - A new way to choose a classical concert 
  • Big Think: The 7 Most Popular Ideas of Summer 2013 
  • A Big Bach Download: The Complete Organ Works for Free 
  • LOUD 
  • Recommended: Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager 
  • Study: To The Human Brain, Me Is We 
  • Interesting: E-Books Could Be The Future Of Social Media 
  • The future of handwriting 
  • Ancient Pottery Fragments Show That Prehistoric Humans Used Spices Too 
  • The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life 
  • 10 Things We've Learned About Learning 
  • Think You're Doing a Good Job? Not If the Algorithms Say You're Not 
  • A WWII Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth That Carrots Help You See in the Dark 
  • Slurred Lines: Great Cocktail Moments in Famous Literature 
  • How the Coffee Cup Sleeve Was Invented 
  • These Ocean Waves Look Like Liquid Sculptures 
  • What Digitization Will Do for the Future of Museums 
  • A Little Music Training In Childhood Goes A Long Way 
  • See the Greatest Architecture in 36 Different European Cities in This One, Gorgeous Time-Lapse 
  • Kids Trust Nice People Over Smart People 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of September 2, 2013 
  • Recommended: The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance 
  • Getty Just Made 4,600 Incredible Images Free to Download and Use 
  • Hide And Seek Might Be Good for Kids’ Brains 
  • These Complex, Beautiful Board Game Pieces Are 5,000 Years Old 
  • To Exercise More, Sleep More First 
  • Computer Programmer Creates Beautiful Watercolor Paintings With Code 
  • Boston Children’s Hospital Once Relied on the Opera to Power X-Rays 
  • Just A Little Meditation Causes Brain-Wave Changes 
  • Haters May Have a Natural Disposition to Hate 
  • The Arecibo Observatory: Beyond The Big Dreams 
  • Recommended: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action 
  • New Element 115 May Finally Be Added to the Periodic Table 
  • Guilt Is Contagious 
  • Why Do We Cry When We’re Happy? 
  • Museum Day Live! 9/28/13 Download a ticket for free admission to over 1,500 museums nationwide 
  • The Insane and Exciting Future of the Bionic Body 
  • What Your Favorite Book Looks Like in Colors 
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Seven-Minute Editing Master Class 
  • How An Arcane Coding Method From 1970s Banking Software Could Save The Sanity Of Web Developers Everywhere 
  • How To Find Inspiration In The Age Of Information Overload 
  • Give Yourself Vertigo Plunging Into Hitchcock's Cinematic Obsessions 
  • The 60-Second Guide To How Flashcards Actually Work 
  • What Causes Nightmares? 
  • 10 Things We've Learned About Learning 
  • How Do You Rebrand a Country? A look at Japan’s attempt to call itself “cool” 
  • Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses 
  • Fantastic: Every Movie Poster that Saul Bass Ever Made 
  • How To Build a High-Performing Digital Team - Perry Hewitt 
  • Unblocked: A Guide To Making Things People Love (Part 1) 
  • A Look at How Agency Compensation Has Changed 
  • Stunning Paper Birds from Diana Beltrán Herrera 
  • Airborne: Jose the Amazing photos by Chris Arnade 
  • Engine: The History of a Concept, From 14th-Century Poetry to Google 
  • 40 maps that explain the world 
  • Here's What Really Happens When You Extend a Deadline - Heidi Grant Halvorson 
  • Amazing: Incredibly Detailed Close-Ups of Van Gogh’s Masterpieces 
  • Ha!: Scientists determine the formula for perfect melted cheese on toast 
  • Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators 
  • 50 Science Fiction/Fantasy Films That Everyone Should See 
  • The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors 
  • 10 Hollywood Hits Inspired By Magazine and Newspaper Articles 
  • How This Brain Scientist Used Video Game Tech To Break New Ground 
  • Digital magazines: how popular are they? 
  • Edinburgh international book festival sees rise of author-as-performer 
  • Just A Little Meditation Causes Brain-Wave Changes 
  • Pre-Raphaelite mural discovered in William Morris's Red House 
  • Communicating Across Species: Jonathon Keats' Honeybee Ballet 
  • The Plight of the Honeybee 
  • For the Met, Opera History Lives in a Newark Parking Lot 
  • Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping 
  • The Surprising Complexity of Lobster Prices 

 

 

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.