The Week's Links: April 25, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • How to Set Goals Like Google http://owl.li/vTegz
  • 40 maps that explain the world http://owl.li/vThT1
  • The Great Facebook Unbundling- Om Malik http://owl.li/vSbbe
  • David Ogilvy’s advice to his nephew on whether to pursue education or get a job. http://owl.li/vTizv
  • Lost Andy Warhol artworks discovered on Amiga floppies from the '80s owl.li/w8KYU
  • Joss Whedon's new film In Your Eyes premieres online (Wired UK) owl.li/w8HYw
  • The List Of Animals Who Can Truly, Really Dance Is Very Short. Who's On It? owl.li/vUz04
  • Why ‘Side Projects’ matter? owl.li/vUAgz
  • ◉ 2,131 books fell over... owl.li/vaDJe
  • Two Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Talk to Each Other & Get Into a Deep Philosophical Conversation owl.li/vS9jV
  • How Japan copied American culture and made it better owl.li/vUzMf
  • ◉ Sandy Pentland: Social Physics, How Good Ideas Spread The Lessons From A New Science - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/24…
  • Highlights From Innovation Uncensored New York 2014 owl.li/vS97u
  • The Oldest Living Things in the World owl.li/vUzGZ
  • 2 interactive music projects you have to check out (if you haven’t already) georgeandjonathan.com/#1 & tether.plaid.co.uk
  • Neuroscientists Conduct the Most Frustrating Brain Scanning Study Ever owl.li/vS8Zw
  • The top 100 animated movies owl.li/vUzBw
  • Does Thinking Fast Mean You’re Thinking Smarter? owl.li/vUzwj
  • 10 Crucial Lessons From History's Greatest Graphic Designers owl.li/vPIlH
  • How to Make Hiring Less of a Headache owl.li/vT9LG
  • ◉ Design In A Nutshell owl.li/vaDI7
  • Heartbleed, the Branding of a Bug, and the Internet of Things owl.li/vPI5Q
  • Do Pulitzers Help Newspapers Keep Readers? owl.li/vT8r5
  • There Is No Such Thing As Silence- Fantastic episode of TLDR podcast. owl.li/vPHSh
  • How It Works: Audio Compression owl.li/vT7VU
  • ◉ Joi Ito & Tim Brown on The Future of Making - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/22…
  • Take Free Online Courses at Hogwarts: Charms, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts owl.li/vPHhf
  • MIT designs a floating, tsunami-proof nuclear plant owl.li/vT6JN
  • Why We Misplace Our Keys, Phones, Wallets owl.li/vQSFh
  • New Banksy Art Explores the Role of Technology in Our Lives owl.li/vMUGv
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/w3eZj
  • Top 10 Learnings from Designs of the Year 2014- Jonathan Hall owl.li/vPGAJ
  • ◉ How to Write a Better Case Study owl.li/vaDGc
  • Trust and attention, the endless dance owl.li/vMUtz
  • This 1981 Computer Magazine Cover Explains Why We’re So Bad at Tech Predictions owl.li/vPGtC
  • 3D-printed tumour formed for drug trials owl.li/vKc9f
  • ◉ Magic in Service of Truth: Rushdie pays tribute to Gabriel García Márquez - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/21…
  • The Guardian's robot newspaper comes to the U.S. owl.li/vPG0s
  • Tobias Frere-Jones: typography and New York City’s history owl.li/vK6F8
  • We Remember People We Met as Babies, Even If We Don't Remember Being Babies owl.li/vMYMm
  • A Day in the Life of New York City Wall Advertisement Painters owl.li/vMUXE
  • What Makes The Best Logos So Good owl.li/vJ4PZ
  • How Sleep Protects the Brain owl.li/vK6At
  • ◉ Theater Business Models: The Next Frontier owl.li/vaDE3
  • 5 examples of how the languages we speak can affect the way we think owl.li/vJ4pA
  • Agency. Or Why We Love Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings. Complexity and the Future of Story Telling. owl.li/vK6iO
  • W.H. Auden’s 1941 Literature Syllabus Asks Students to Read 32 Great Works, Covering 6000 Pages owl.li/vJ2FO
  • ◉ Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • The Crossroads of Should and Must owl.li/vK6dl
  • Download 35,000 Works of Art from the National Gallery, Including Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Rembrandt & More owl.li/vIm1A
  • Stunning drone footage of Sydney, Australia owl.li/vJw2I
  • 10 viewing trends for 2014 that will change the way we watch TV owl.li/vJ4SW
  • Microsoft’s Big-Data Angle: Office as a Friendly Front-End owl.li/vRumm
  • The Future of WordPress owl.li/vRn9W
  • Steven Pinker’s Mind Games: A “Psychological Science" quiz owl.li/vRtqF
  • Science & Cooking: Harvard's Free Course on Making Cakes, Paella & Other Delicious Food owl.li/vRl5q
  • The Original Selfies: The Triumph of the Self-Portrait owl.li/vRt3U
  • Google Wants to Make ‘Science Fiction’ a Reality—And That’s Limiting Their Imagination owl.li/vQUVW
  • Beautifully Intricate Food Illustrations by Anna Keville Joyce owl.li/vRoiw
  • The Truth About Google X: An Exclusive Look Behind The Secretive Lab's Closed Doors owl.li/vQURE
  • Amazing: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller: a year in their lives- in pictures owl.li/vRnHa
  • Fantastic: Video Games If They Were Medieval Religious Paintings owl.li/vRnvu
  • Oldest Fossilized Heart Found…It Belonged to A Shrimp owl.li/vK2ZI
  • On Keeping It Simple owl.li/vJAHC
  • Forget Wristbands, Health Trackers of the Future Will Be Skin Patches owl.li/vK2YJ
  • Email Inbox Management Tips owl.li/vJAEj
  • Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world owl.li/vJLwm
  • The Most Underrated Skill for Creatives? Empathy. owl.li/vJAy2
  • Susan Jean Robertson amazing compilation of Style guide links owl.li/vJLuL
  • The New And The Next: Making Math And Microscopes More Accessible owl.li/vJx8J
  • The Risk Behind Netflix’s Original Programming Leap owl.li/vJLfB
  • Inside The New Yorker's digital strategy owl.li/vJKOP
  • Fantastic podcast: Title TK | 99% Invisible on the art, science and challenges of naming things. owl.li/vEDpw
  • Charles Limb: Your brain on improv owl.li/vIm03
  • ◉ When Patents Attack And Their Collateral Damage owl.li/vaDxQ
  • Smithsonian: Announcing Our 11th Annual Photo Contest Finalists owl.li/vAOEm
  • 4 Amazing Things NASA Invented, and 4 You Think It Did owl.li/vFasH
  • 101-year-old bottle message found owl.li/vzG39
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch owl.li/vF9nv

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 18,2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Can You Identify These Cities From Their Light Signatures? http://owl.li/vEP3W
  • Is That Someone's House? What Astronauts Can See Looking Down http://owl.li/vEPf4
  • The Problem with Being Too Nice http://owl.li/vzELD
  • What It's Like To Design A Font From Scratch http://owl.li/vF9nv
  • 101-year-old bottle message found http://owl.li/vzG39
  • In memory of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who died today at 87, a look back at Jon Lee Anderson’s Profile of the writer: nyr.kr/QrWkWW
  • Gabriel García Márquez, Literary Pioneer, Dies at 87 - NYTimes.com owl.li/vUqav
  • The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires: The New Yorker owl.li/vyTro
  • The Purpose of Philosophy is to Ask the Right Questions (Video) owl.li/vzED9
  • ◉Simplicity and Innovation owl.li/vaDwK
  • The 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Ever owl.li/vyTem
  • The Key to Lasting Behavioral Change: Think Goal, Not Tactic owl.li/vyX2P
  • The resurgence of ballet in opera. owl.li/vySMO
  • Fantastic resource: Introducing Typekit Practice owl.li/vTnG9
  • ◉ The Surprising Science Behind Why and When We Yawn - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • Where Does The Internet Get Its Energy? Tech Companies' Power Sources, Visualized owl.li/vyUuh
  • 7 Priceless Items People Sold on eBay owl.li/vyP9c
  • Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea owl.li/vyUma
  • A Visual Tour Of America's Most Fascinating Public Libraries owl.li/vyU2V
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/vxuqb
  • 101 Kick-Ass Music Magazine Covers owl.li/vyJDy
  • ◉ Seth Godin on Revolutions owl.li/vaDw5
  • 10 Things Highly Intuitive People Do Differently owl.li/vxuoQ
  • ◉ How Disruptive Innovations Happen At The Edges - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • How advertising cookies let observers follow you across the web owl.li/vxAi8
  • ◉ Wally Olins, a tribute - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • Free Online Shakespeare Courses: Primers on the Bard from Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley & More owl.li/vxueH
  • John Hegarty's 5 Most Provocative Thoughts About Creativity owl.li/vxxYN
  • On the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination, read the Sacramento Daily Union’s account of the night. 4/16/1865 owl.li/vQW3Y
  • Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend owl.li/vxubq
  • TED Playlist: The future of medicine owl.li/vxxQz
  • Can You Read People's Emotions? owl.li/vxus0
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/vPGgI
  • Using The Science Behind Habits To Sell Better owl.li/vtlz2
  • The Ultimate Guide to Solving iOS Battery Drain owl.li/vul1L
  • ◉ Take Up Computer Games, Not Crosswords, As You Age owl.li/vaDvp
  • First Time Nationwide: Portland Presents All Of Shakespeare’s Works In Two Years owl.li/vtlxN
  • Bronze Sculptures of Five Extinct Birds Land in Smithsonian Gardens owl.li/vuds0
  • 11 Of The World's Most Beautiful Libraries owl.li/vtltc
  • One big reason we lack Internet competition: Starting an ISP is really hard owl.li/vudr2
  • ◉ Michael Wolff: Never Stop Asking "Why?" - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/13…
  • Scientists Create an Unprecedented Map of the Developing Human Brain owl.li/vtlqC
  • Focus is like a muscle: It needs exercise owl.li/vudpW
  • Museums urged to think a little like Ben & Jerry's owl.li/vtlRu
  • Pulitzer Prizes 2014: Winners announced owl.li/vMWv5
  • How to do software like Nasa, by Nasa owl.li/vtkJD
  • Can animals really dance? Study reveals which animals can, and which can't owl.li/vtlpj
  • ◉ Bajofondo "Lluvia" owl.li/vaDuc
  • Harvard discovers three of its library books are bound in human flesh owl.li/vtkHR
  • Interview with Oscar Ramos Orozco, Chief Curator of Behance owl.li/vtkPD
  • This Is What It's Like To Watch A Holographic Musician owl.li/vtkCy
  • Google Maps and border disputes: How the service responds to disputed territory like Crimea. owl.li/vtkMP
  • ◉ Font War: Inside the Design World's $20 Million Divorce - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/13…
  • Watch Pixar's New Animation System Make Monsters In Real Time owl.li/vtkzF
  • Yelp Lets You Search With Emoji owl.li/vtkLB
  • Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention owl.li/vtkKK
  • Data Point: Social Networking Is Moving on From the Desktop owl.li/vtky9
  • The Majority of Web Traffic Comes From Robots owl.li/vsbas
  • Why MIA and Janelle Monae's Hologram Collab Signals The Inevitable Future of Concerts owl.li/vsbkT
  • What’s Next in the World of Making owl.li/vs9j1
  • A Tumblr Blog That Archives Old & New IBM Graphics owl.li/vsbgt
  • ‘Shape’, A Fascinating Animated Short Film About How Design Can Be Used owl.li/vs9dx
  • One Thing Productive People Do Before Reaching for their Phones owl.li/vsben
  • Understanding Habit: How to Build a Product That Gets Used Daily owl.li/vs94S
  • Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late? owl.li/vsbcF
  • Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus May Have a Giant Liquid Water Lake owl.li/vsbbw
  • Why The Security Bug Heartbleed Has A Catchy Logo owl.li/vJ4JH
  • Discovery, Science to broadcast Google moon landing live owl.li/vs93t
  • Spontaneous ad recall is 28% higher when viewed using touch screen, study shows owl.li/voHiG
  • 10 Wonderful Illustrations from the Original Manuscript of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince owl.li/vs90O
  • "Grand Budapest Hotel" Spices Up Movie Posters With Spotify Playlists owl.li/voBke
  • The internet didn’t invent viral content or clickbait journalism — there’s just more of it now, and it happens faster owl.li/voWBQ
  • Fantastic: For the First Time Ever, Explore Angkor Wat With Google Street View owl.li/voBdC
  • TED2014 summarized in an infographic owl.li/voWpZ
  • "Poetry Is Like Pooping" And Other Writing Tips From A TED Superstar owl.li/vouDs
  • 5 Incredibly Effective Ways to Work Smarter, Not Harder owl.li/vIlWy
  • Why Website Speed is Important. Case studies from Amazon, Akamai, Google and others. owl.li/voW7L
  • Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire owl.li/voVD4
  • MIT Unveils The Shapeshifting Furniture Of The Future owl.li/vHUZY
  • 5 Unexpected Ways To Get More Done owl.li/vosL1
  • Actresses Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray Perform Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" for The Partially Examined Life Podcast owl.li/vouhK
  • ◉ Caro Emerald: Tangles, Transitions and Textures owl.li/vaDsz
  • Humanism and the meaning of stories - The Chronicle of Higher Education owl.li/vomup
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas That Changed Art owl.li/vtliH
  • Buzz Aldrin On Tinkering With The Bounds Of What's Possible owl.li/votTQ
  • What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We'll Tell You Ours owl.li/vn3Qw
  • Elon Musk's Rule About Job Interviews owl.li/votGf
  • Great: Tools for the Classroom - 21st Century Literacy owl.li/vn3PC
  • Beautiful Equations: Documentary Explores the Beauty of Einstein & Newton's Great Equations owl.li/votsn
  • What Problem Are You Solving? owl.li/vothJ

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 11, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • 5 Unexpected Ways To Get More Doneowl.li/vosL1
  • Actresses Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray Perform Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" for The Partially Examined Life Podcast owl.li/vouhK
  • ◉ Caro Emerald: Tangles, Transitions and Textures owl.li/vaDsz
  • Humanism and the meaning of stories - The Chronicle of Higher Education owl.li/vomup
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas That Changed Art owl.li/vtliH
  • Buzz Aldrin On Tinkering With The Bounds Of What's Possible owl.li/votTQ
  • What Books Should Every Intelligent Person Read?: Tell Us Your Picks; We'll Tell You Oursowl.li/vn3Qw
  • Elon Musk's Rule About Job Interviewsowl.li/votGf
  • Great: Tools for the Classroom - 21st Century Literacy owl.li/vn3PC
  • Beautiful Equations: Documentary Explores the Beauty of Einstein & Newton's Great Equationsowl.li/votsn
  • What Problem Are You Solving? owl.li/vothJ
  • New York Public Library Puts 20,000 Hi-Res Maps Online & Makes Them Free to Download and Use owl.li/vfY04
  • Lists of the Best Sentences — Opening, Closing, and Otherwise — in English-Language Novels owl.li/vn3Og
  • ◉ Should we put up with disruptive behavior at the theatre? owl.li/vaDrP
  • The Internet's Telltale Heartbleed: The New Yorker owl.li/vEPO2
  • Toward a Pill That Helps Us Learn as Fast as Kids - Health owl.li/vbBsn
  • ◉ What Does Sound Look Like? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/10…
  • ◉ Recommended: To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Othersowl.li/vtlhH
  • Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done owl.li/vn1ix
  • Grammar's great divide: The Oxford commaowl.li/vbtKe
  • 5 Things Your Brain Needs More Of Every Dayowl.li/vn1bR
  • How “no worries” infected American Englishowl.li/vaBKJ
  • Fabergé’s NYC Easter Egg Hunt Marks the Largest Beacon Deployment Ever in the U.S.owl.li/vn17s
  • Why do zebras have stripes? Scientists have the answer owl.li/vn0MK
  • LastPass Now Tells You Which Heartbleed-Affected Passwords to Change owl.li/vCIHm
  • After ‘Catastrophic’ Security Bug, the Internet Needs a Password Reset. Seriously. Change your passwords. owl.li/vCIxl
  • MAP: Here Are the Countries That Block Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube owl.li/vaBsw
  • Career Rocket Fuel: Whether You're A Millennial Or Eyeing Retirement, Here's What You Really Need To Get Right About Work...
  • Chris Anderson, Curator of TED Talks, Builds his Brand - NYTimes.com owl.li/vazpM
  • ◉ Made by Hand: The Bike Makerowl.li/vaDoR
  • Winners of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards, Part I owl.li/vayNj
  • ◉ Recommended: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now owl.li/vtlg5
  • Brilliant: Interviewly - Interviews with interesting people, pulled from reddit, organized, and made prettier. owl.li/vazhh
  • iBeacon Technology Begins Moving Into the Home and NBA Arenas owl.li/vayLT
  • ◉ We all have the same 24 hours, this is how really creative people use theirs -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/8/…
  • Reddit thread on the best Apple keynote of all time owl.li/vaz7A
  • MIT Technology Review: Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do owl.li/vaybn
  • Library of Congress scans classic books, puts them online for free owl.li/vayXi
  • We've come a long way: The birth of desktop publishing owl.li/vayVF
  • Children’s Feelings About Brands Persist into Adulthood owl.li/vay6C
  • BBC News: Robot writes LA Times earthquake breaking news article owl.li/vaxyD
  • Why Wolfram|Alpha's Algorithm Still Relies On Human Smarts owl.li/vay4y
  • ◉ The End of Traditional Ad Agenciesowl.li/vaDlm
  • Facebook app revealed to be cause of iPhone battery woes owl.li/vzGB6
  • Made by Many launches Sugata Mitra's School in the Cloud at TED2014 owl.li/vaxvW
  • ◉ Recommended: Brand Thinking and Other Noble Pursuits owl.li/vtlfd
  • Designer Creates A Beautiful A–Z Glossary Of Design Terms owl.li/vay3C
  • ◉ Rise of the Patent Troll: An "Everything is a Remix" Special Presentation -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/8/…
  • 6 Changes That Will Make You More Imaginative owl.li/vawJU
  • All About Google Loon's Low-Cost Space-Based Competitor, Outernet owl.li/vaxPC
  • On Internet Slang, and how we talk online, IMHO owl.li/vavw2
  • Amazing: 20 Very Interesting Photos From The '30s owl.li/vaxON
  • This Smelly Fork Adds 21 Flavors To Every Biteowl.li/vaxNr
  • This Firefly Time-Lapse Video Is Beautifulowl.li/vauIV
  • The Most Unusual Boy Band In The World : Krulwich Wonders... owl.li/vat9k
  • A Series of Microscopic Castle Drawings Etched Onto Single Grains of Sand owl.li/vatD4
  • ◉ Ken Robinson: To encourage creativity, you must first understand what it is owl.li/vaDko
  • Why Do People Feel Phantom Cellphone Vibrations? owl.li/vat5N
  • ◉ Recommended: Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work owl.li/vtlcJ
  • 8 Extinct Musical Instruments That Mankind Has Forgotten How to Play owl.li/vatzZ
  • ◉ What does, "it's too expensive," mean? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/5/…
  • Beneath Paris' City Streets, There's an Empire of Death Waiting for Tourists owl.li/vaqna
  • Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering owl.li/vatvJ
  • Toward a Pill That Helps Us Learn as Fast as Kids owl.li/vao0s
  • Responsive, then mobile, now VR: The Search For The Next Platform owl.li/vatqT
  • IDEO's Inspiring Ideas for the Internet of Everything owl.li/vathU
  • On The 20th Anniversary – An Oral History of Netscape’s Founding owl.li/vuaH8
  • On Merging Art and Research: An Interview with Patricia Leavy, PhD owl.li/vinpU
  • The Simplicity of Apple's Advertising: 1977-1997 owl.li/vgbrE
  • Watch This Incredible Slow-Mo Video Of The Underwater Creatures You Never Seeowl.li/vhIxL
  • A Candid Conversation With 5 Women Leaders of Advertising and Media owl.li/vgbip
  • How Facebook's Machines Got So Good At Recognizing Your Face owl.li/vhxsl
  • What Your Logo's Color Says About Your Company (Infographic) owl.li/vgb0h
  • Hear Allen Ginsberg's Short Free Course on Shakespeare's Play, The Tempest (1980)owl.li/vgbLM
  • The art of street typography owl.li/vga9o
  • Searching for time travelers on twitterowl.li/vgbGn
  • The Ultimate Productivity Hack Will Be Robot Assistants owl.li/vgbvA
  • How Chipotle transformed itself by upending its approach to management owl.li/vbeNZ
  • Building the next Pixar owl.li/vaCxK
  • The future of ticketing, conf reg, etc: app uses iBeacons to automatically take attendance as students enter room owl.li/vbdX8
  • Tweets About Music to Get Their Own Billboard Chart owl.li/vaCbG
  • Beautiful: A Mosque That Becomes A Magical, Breathtaking Kaleidoscope At Sunriseowl.li/vaZgn
  • What I Learned Negotiating With Steve Jobsowl.li/vaC6x
  • Kids Get Confused by Anthropomorphized Animals in Storybooks owl.li/vaCZ2
  • Search Google’s newspaper databaseowl.li/vaBTu
  • Researchers have identified people whose cognitive abilities allow them to accomplish much more than the rest of us. owl.li/vaCL8
  • TED: What will blow our minds in the *next* 30 years? owl.li/vaCGs
  • Ha: Hootsuite Plays a 'Game of Social Thrones' Using Show's Opening Sequence owl.li/vsa3L
  • 2014 National Magazine Awards Finalists Lonform Articles owl.li/vaBr5
  • Ernest Cline is the luckiest geek aliveowl.li/vaAef
  • Inside the Shadowy World of Data Brokersowl.li/vaBp8
  • ◉ Apple : Lincoln Center :: Google : Broadwayowl.li/vaDfv
  • Control Your iPhone With Head Gesturesowl.li/vaAaV
  • Terrifying tale about automation and the web: The Afterlife of Pia Farrenkopf owl.li/vaBdR
  • ◉ Recommended: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative By Austin Kleon owl.li/vbwub

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 4, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • The Fascinating Neuroscience Of Color http://owl.li/v6dSl
  • ◉ The Design That Conquered Google http://owl.li/vaDei
  • The 24-Hour Trap: Rethinking Daily Habits http://owl.li/v8xDJ
  • Writers on How They Deal With Criticism http://owl.li/v6ecf
  • Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” explained using music theory. http://owl.li/v8Hrh
  • Monty Python's Gilliam on Reddit: I'm Terry Gilliam. I don't care what you ask me. : IAmA http://owl.li/vaAny
  • Your 5-Minute Guide To UX From Squarespace and MailChimp http://owl.li/vaAFU
  • Teleporter: Teleports you to a random location on the planet each time you click the Teleport button. http://owl.li/vaA3r
  • Beautiful: Holi 2014- The Festival of Colors http://owl.li/vaAHG
  • 25 Iconic Historical Documents for Sale- The Raab Collection http://owl.li/vaA7C
  • Terrifying tale about automation and the web: The Afterlife of Pia Farrenkopf http://owl.li/vaBdR
  • Harvard's Free Computer Science Course Teaches You to Code in 12 Weeks owl.li/v8byO
  • ◉ Recommended: Make Good Art By Neil Gaiman owl.li/vbwrp
  • ◉ Creating a Culture of Quality - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/1/…
  • Neurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull (Wired UK) owl.li/v6dJa
  • Books that traveled the world via interlibrary loan in the 20th century are safeguarded locally in the Internet age. owl.li/volh9
  • Wikipedia To Redesign Across More Than 32 Million Pages owl.li/v8bmZ
  • History of the hashtag owl.li/v6dGb
  • Charities? Not in Manhattan: Non-profits Disappear from the City owl.li/v8b4Z
  • Don’t Use “Pants” for “Pantaloons”: 19 Surprising Rules Copyeditors Used to Enforce owl.li/v8axQ
  • Scientists Use Artistic Sunsets as Time Capsules of Climate Change owl.li/v6bXp
  • The Curiosity Gap Is Closing, Says Upworthy owl.li/v61tk
  • A Toothpaste Tube That Gets Every Last Bit Out owl.li/v6bWF
  • ◉ How to Spot a Weak Argument owl.li/vaDdi
  • Sleep Your Way to Creativity And 9 More Proven Methods For More Ideas owl.li/v61nU
  • Here’s What It Was Like to Discover Laughing Gas owl.li/v6bUb
  • ◉ Recommended: Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind owl.li/vbwo9
  • ◉ Allison Johnson: On Apple & The Difference Between Marketing And Selling - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/1/…
  • This 5-Step Mental Workout Will Make You Smarter owl.li/v5ZHD
  • So great: Cataloging Creativity- Ferran Adrià Showcases 7 Years Of Culinary Art And Science owl.li/v65VX
  • Productivity 101: A Primer to the Getting Things Done (GTD) Philosophy owl.li/v5Zbg
  • An Amazing Poster Of The Empire State Building Made Using Bike Tire Tracks owl.li/v657N
  • Self-Promotion for Professionals from Countries Where Bragging Is Bad owl.li/v64Do
  • Big Data handling: how to make a giant oil spill map the hard way owl.li/v5Ysj
  • Writing and the Creative Life: 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently owl.li/v1o8s
  • Inside the algorithms that are predicting the future owl.li/v2WaG
  • ◉ It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories owl.li/vaDck
  • Watch Six TED-Style Lectures from Top Harvard Profs Presented at Harvard Thinks Big 5 owl.li/v1o49
  • How Researchers Are Using Fiction to Make Their Reports Accessible to the Public owl.li/v1rUR
  • ◉ Recommended: Daily Rituals: How Artists Work owl.li/vbwjQ
  • ◉ The Metaness Of "This Is A Generic Video" - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/30…
  • Urban Gardner: A Choreographer's Palette - The Process Behind Creating a Dance owl.li/uWXZW
  • How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today owl.li/vhJet
  • Pixar: The math behind the movies - Tony DeRose owl.li/v1rSt
  • Slide Rule is a free resource to find online courses owl.li/vhIov
  • United Nations uses iBeacons to simulate a minefield & raise awareness at NY museum owl.li/vhIVR
  • Does The Death Of An Instrument Break Your Heart? owl.li/uWWrl
  • Building The Next Pixar owl.li/v1rpM
  • What Does a $45 Million Viola Sound Like? Violinist David Aaron Carpenter Gives You a Preview owl.li/v1ooy
  • Students learning English benefit more in two-language instructional programs than English immersion, Stanford research finds...
  • Lack Of Sleep Kills Brain Cells, New Study Shows owl.li/uSlxn
  • 20 photos that define ‘American Cool’ owl.li/uTjn7
  • ◉ Creative People Say No owl.li/vaD8y
  • Archaeologists Had Forgotten About Nine of the Dead Sea Scrolls owl.li/uJcN2
  • Food obsessives: the people searching for the perfect cheese, bread and coffee owl.li/uTjhh
  • ◉ Recommended: Don't Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything By Kio Stark owl.li/vbweZ
  • Vocabulary.com Launches A Positively Addictive App For Aspiring Wordsmiths owl.li/uJ5lU
  • ◉ James Beard Foundation Launches JBF Kitchen Cam Tonight - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/30…
  • What Emotion Goes Viral the Fastest? owl.li/uSogr
  • This Former Salt Mine Is Now a Theme Park With a Ferris Wheel owl.li/uJ4hq
  • Upgrade your brain: Programming resources for coding newbies owl.li/uSodm
  • Sculpt Sound With Gestures, Using Imogen Heap's $2,000 Gloves owl.li/uSlAG
  • David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity owl.li/uWVz6
  • Zuckerberg, Musk and Kutcher Invest In Artificial Intelligence Firm owl.li/uVuS9
  • New Views of the Brain [Slide Show] - Scientific American owl.li/uWE05
  • IBM can find you using non-geotagged tweets (Wired UK) owl.li/uVuOB
  • Nasa reveals the clearest panorama of the Milky Way ever made owl.li/uVv36
  • Read 18 Short Stories From Nobel Prize-Winning Writer Alice Munro Free Online owl.li/uVuJO
  • Unearthed: Wieden+Kennedy's first ever TV ads for Nike owl.li/uVv2y
  • The New York Public Library will now recommend similar books when searching owl.li/uVut7
  • Ideo's Sandy Speicher Reimagines Education in Peru owl.li/uVuYz
  • 10 Questions for Elon Musk owl.li/uVuTE
  • ◉ Made by Hand: The Bike Maker owl.li/vaDlR
  • You’re Not As Busy As You Say You Are owl.li/uVurE
  • Watch Ford's Righteous Rejoinder To That Smug Cadillac Ad That Everyone Hates owl.li/varkY
  • 13 Ice Cream Secrets From Ben & Jerry's Flavor Gurus owl.li/uTlXs
  • Seth Godin on What Marketers Are Getting Wrong owl.li/uVuot
  • Marketing the Moon: How NASA Sold Space to Earth owl.li/uJ4eG
  • This Is What a Facial-Detection Algorithm Looks Like in 3D owl.li/uVugc
  • The Fantastical World Of A Legendary Disney Art Director owl.li/uJ48U
  • What The Inventor Of The Internet Hopes It Will Become owl.li/uVuaw
  • Imaginative Posters That Show Readers ‘Living’ A Double Life Through Books owl.li/uIAll
  • Massive Paper Installation Feels Like You're Walking Inside a 3D Painting owl.li/uVst1
  • When Vanilla Was Brown And How We Came To See It As White owl.li/uTm1z
  • Famous Bands Recreated in LEGO owl.li/uNB5v
  • What Engineers At Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Airbnb, And Spotify Listen To While Coding owl.li/uSaxk
  • ◉ How To Be Gracious, And Why owl.li/ubJXH
  • Julia Child Shows How to Edit Videotape with a Meat Cleaver, and Cook Meat with a Blow Torch owl.li/v83P1
  • The Free Marketing Gravy Train Is Over on Facebook owl.li/uSacS
  • ◉ Recommended: Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ The Week's Links: March 28, 2014 - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/27…
  • Why You Need a Daily Prioritization Meeting owl.li/uIzzr
  • Drift: Rands in Repose "It's hard for me to focus because there is much interesting in the world to discover." owl.li/uS5EL
  • Telling stories about screens for screens owl.li/uIzqV
  • Listen to Orson Welles' Classic Radio Performance of 10 Shakespeare Plays owl.li/uS4HK
  • Read All of Shakespeare's Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library owl.li/uS24G

Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week's Links: March 28, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • A Chimera Apple And Other Amazing Images From This Week http://owl.li/uS57s
  • Read All of Shakespeare's Plays Free Online, Courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Libraryhttp://owl.li/uS24G
  • Listen to Orson Welles' Classic Radio Performance of 10 Shakespeare Playshttp://owl.li/uS4HK
  • Telling stories about screens for screenshttp://owl.li/uIzqV
  • Drift: Rands in Repose "It's hard for me to focus because there is much interesting in the world to discover." http://owl.li/uS5EL
  • Why You Need a Daily Prioritization Meetinghttp://owl.li/uIzzr
  • The Free Marketing Gravy Train Is Over on Facebook http://owl.li/uSacS
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/v63eB
  • What It's Really Like To Name Products For A Living owl.li/v4N04
  • Evolution of Famous Brands Logos owl.li/v5Fjm
  • What Do Jay Z And Shakespeare Have In Common? Swagger owl.li/uIapk
  • MIT Technology Review: Building PRISM-Proof Web Services owl.li/v5rc0
  • The Company Reinventing How To Learn A New Language | Fast Company owl.li/v3Bgf
  • MIT Technology Review: The Curious Nature of Sharing Cascades on Facebook owl.li/v4YD8
  • 4 Ways To Never, Ever Use Jargon Againowl.li/v4ZJy
  • ◉ Slaves To The Algorithm owl.li/ubJPo
  • Gary Vaynerchuk: The Secret to Networking? Leverage owl.li/uI9Il
  • Have Twitter @replies and #hashtags become so universal that we can streamline them?owl.li/v4mjp
  • Laura Jordan Bambach on what 'creative director' means in 2014 owl.li/uI8EU
  • Study: Aerobic Exercise Helps Boost Mindfulness owl.li/v4koT
  • One of my recent favorite TED Talks- Ed Yong: Suicidal crickets, zombie roaches and other parasite tales owl.li/v4k7p
  • Office politics for people who hate politicsowl.li/uI8wX
  • ◉ Recommended: Who Owns the Future? -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Microsoft Finally Gave Away MS-DOS. Now It Should Open Source Everything Elseowl.li/v2VUU
  • 5 (Relatively Painless) Ways To Make Friends With Your Email Inbox owl.li/uI7Bi
  • The Inside Story Of How Facebook Got Oculus VR owl.li/v3AM8
  • The First Org Chart Ever Made Is a Masterpiece of Data Design owl.li/uI1Lg
  • ◉ The History Of The Movie Trailer -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/27…
  • Finnish Education Chief: "We Created a School System Based on Equality" owl.li/uI1Cp
  • 10 Famous Literary Characters Based on Real People owl.li/v2VD1
  • This Is What Happens To Your Files When You Stop Paying For A Microsoft Office Subscriptionowl.li/uI1rx
  • Five types of young person the media never show owl.li/uI14Z
  • See The Guidonian Hand, the Medieval System for Reading Music, Get Brought Back to Lifeowl.li/uGKkC
  • John Lennon's drawings, poems and proseowl.li/uGGPn
  • MIT Media Lab Maps History's Biggest Celebrities owl.li/v1j8y
  • Incredible Images Of A Namibian Ghost Town, Taken Over By The Desert owl.li/uGGCg
  • A List of Style Guides, Brand Guidelines, and Front-End Frameworks owl.li/uE71E
  • What Happens in One Minute Around the World? owl.li/uDYkD
  • Ex-New York Times Writer Develops An App To Get Busy People Reading More owl.li/uDMQd
  • How Disney is using 'wearables' at their parks.owl.li/uDMOl
  • ◉ Inside the MIT Media Lab owl.li/ubJwm
  • 5 technologies that are shaping the future of design owl.li/uDLO3
  • ◉ Recommended: Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ The Making of Ballet West's Firebird Tutu -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/25…
  • Oyster Gets Surprising Early Analytics On Your Reading Habits owl.li/uDLHM
  • The 25 Best Tumblr Accounts for Book Nerdsowl.li/uDLar
  • Bill Gates: The Rolling Stone Interviewowl.li/uDKZM
  • How Athletes Strategically Use Caffeineowl.li/uDHJx
  • Emotion in Marketing: How Our Brains Decide What's Shareable owl.li/uDHG9
  • How Athletes Strategically Use Caffeineowl.li/uWVmD
  • Coursera Names Former Yale President as its New CEO owl.li/uWVbL
  • Facebook Buying Oculus Virtual Reality Company for $2 Billion owl.li/uXQiS
  • An Illustrated History of All the Ways Urban Environments Can Control Us owl.li/uWC7A
  • Beautiful: The Making of Neon Signsowl.li/uXDEY
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/uXCT5
  • The 4 Weapons Of Exceptional Creative Leaders owl.li/uDHtT
  • TED Playlist: Re-imagining school owl.li/uDH2c
  • ◉ Musicals are booming owl.li/ubJf9
  • So Great: Christopher Walken Can't Stop Dancing owl.li/uXlzA
  • Gravitational-wave Finding Causes 'Spring Cleaning' in Physics owl.li/uWBKS
  • 10 Steps to Creativity and Boosting Intuitive Awareness owl.li/uDGbD
  • Brilliant Montage Compiles The Last Image Of Every 'Best Picture' Winner owl.li/uDFWH
  • ◉ Larry Page talks about the future with Charlie Rose at TED2014 -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/25…
  • Free Stanley Kubrick App Features Great Photos, Script Notes, Interviews & Moreowl.li/uDp8r
  • Need A Little Serenity In The Workplace? Try These 7 Simple Steps owl.li/uD07I
  • Papers, Please: The 'boring' game that became a smash hit owl.li/uD062
  • Scientists Debunk The Myth That 10,000 Hours Of Practice Makes You An Expert owl.li/uD04K
  • 36 ways the Web has changed us owl.li/uD03s
  • Apple’s iTunes Radio Adds NPR News Channelowl.li/uVuHT
  • Notre Dame Cathedral Just Got an LED Makeover owl.li/uD02H
  • Disney Buys Maker Studios, and YouTube Investors Cheer owl.li/uVsok
  • Why Google Flu is a failure: the hubris of big data owl.li/uVpyF
  • Look At These Spectacular Views Of Cities From Space owl.li/uCZTz
  • Soundwall, A Speaker System Concealed in a Framed Work of Art owl.li/uCUAB
  • Solving It: In this hour, TED speakers share some big ideas on how to solve the seemingly impossible. owl.li/uCTEk
  • ◉ Good Science Fiction owl.li/ubJ9O
  • The Best PR Advice You’ve Never Heard - from Facebook’s Head of Tech Communicationsowl.li/uCTAh
  • Checking the Claim: Can Probiotics Make You Smarter? owl.li/uCTzz
  • ◉ Recommended: Being Digital -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ Instead of futurists, let’s be now-ists: Joi Ito at TED2014 -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/3/23…
  • Kickstarter brings hundreds of its funded films to iTunes owl.li/uCSJK
  • Lady Gaga At SXSW: "Don't Sell Out. Sell In." : The Record : NPR owl.li/uCStK
  • Sounds Can Change the Taste of Our Food As We Eat It owl.li/uCSra
  • Ads Worth Spreading: 10 great ads from 2014 that communicate ideas owl.li/uCSpJ
  • Cyndi Lauper and David Byrne Discuss Creating Hits, On and Off Broadwayowl.li/uCSoG
  • The Origins of 15 Beloved Playground Gamesowl.li/uCSnm
  • Why Is There an Australian Cockatoo in This Italian Renaissance Painting? owl.li/uS4y8
  • Watch All of Terry Gilliam's Monty Python Animations in a Row owl.li/uCR0R
  • 10 Questions Still Baffling Scientistsowl.li/uS3D2
  • Designing and Developing “The Web at 25” Website owl.li/uCQWK
  • A Big Bach Download: The Complete Organ Works for Free owl.li/uCQUJ
  • Harvard Library Is Hiring a 'Wikipedian in Residence' owl.li/uA3I9
  • Five Decades of Dance in Just Three Weeksowl.li/uA3st
  • Adorable Book Celebrates The Quirks Of Modern ‘Friend-Love’ owl.li/uA2Xm
  • MIT Students Use GIFs to Teach Computers Emotion owl.li/uA2Mu
  • Artist Creates An Impressive Freehand Animation On A Blank Wall owl.li/uA2IB
  • The Best PR Advice You’ve Never Heard - from Facebook’s Head of Tech Communicationsowl.li/uztXz
  • Interview with Liz Danzico, Creative Director at NPR owl.li/uztIo
  • Practice Not As Important As Thought For Success, Study Says owl.li/uztpL
  • Why we love repetition in music owl.li/uz6mv
  • Sam Mendes’s 25 Rules for Directorsowl.li/uz6hh
  • Here Are 15 of Marketing's Most Memorable Experiential Moves owl.li/uz68p
  • 13 Damn Good Ideas from 13 Dead Copywriters owl.li/uyUKE
  • Amazing: These Stunning Pictures Will Shatter Your Perception Of Opera owl.li/uyR5j
  • The Audience is Listening (when you're done with the code) owl.li/uyNSg
  • Ricky Gervais Tells A Story About How He Learned To Write owl.li/uy7zF
  • The Engineering of the Chain Restaurant Menuowl.li/ux7tq
  • Top 10 Luxury Packaging Cues — The Dielineowl.li/ux7qR
  • Elephants Identify Dangerous People by Their Gender, Their Clothes And Even the Language They Speak owl.li/ux7kv
  • ◉ The Film before The Film owl.li/ubIOq
  • The Amazing History Of The To-Do List--And How To Make One That Actually Worksowl.li/uv0aT
  • ◉ Recommended: Design Crazy: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple -smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Study finds fear drives people into the embrace of brand-name products owl.li/uuZ6T

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.