The Week's Links: May 30, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Disneyland's original prospectus revealed!http://owl.li/xeGML
  • How the Novel Made the Modern Worldhttp://owl.li/xeLsD
  • A day in the life of NYC's wonderful, endangered libraries http://owl.li/xeGTb
  • Citizens raise $159K to reawaken NASA spacecraft http://owl.li/xeN6v
  • The brain injury that made me a math geniushttp://owl.li/xePSp
  • The lunar phases influence all sorts of creatures from corals to owls. Does the moon tug on human behaviour too?http://owl.li/xeQ2m
  • The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality http://owl.li/xeNuq
  • HOLDING PATTERN- a look at airport runways from above http://owl.li/xeQfF
  • The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our Worldhttp://owl.li/xeOw9
  • Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything” http://owl.li/xeQqv
  • Massimo’s Last Letters - owl.li/xp82aowl.li/xp82b
  • Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit?owl.li/xeLr9
  • The New Yorker: Maya Angelou Life in Photos. What a life. owl.li/xoSCH
  • NASA releases free eBook on communicating with aliens owl.li/xeGFy
  • Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism owl.li/xeIRq
  • A Few Words With Composer Ennio Morriconeowl.li/xeyiL
  • ◉ The Washington Ballet's hardest dance moves, in slow motion -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/25…
  • Analog Synthesis: The life and legacy of Bob Moog owl.li/xeHgH
  • Cue, Iovine, Meeker and More Highlights From Code Conference Day Two owl.li/xnZnD
  • Complete Prisoner scripts - and more!owl.li/xeH3s
  • Here’s the Full Deck of Mary Meeker’s Latest Internet Trends Report owl.li/xn2xm
  • The Neuroscience of the Gut - Scientific American owl.li/xeyhy
  • I recently posted this, and it is very relevant today: Maya Angelou's Wisdom Applied To Creativity owl.li/xmSU3
  • Banksy’s New York City Artist-in-Residence Video From the 18th Annual Webby Awardsowl.li/xdZyg
  • The Secret History of Hypertext owl.li/xeyh0
  • George Solt, Ramen Historian owl.li/xdZpF
  • Fun, Interactive 3D Paintings That Seem To Pop Up From Walls owl.li/xeygc
  • Announcing … The 2014 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest owl.li/xdYnV
  • 8 Tips From Apple's Official Guide To App Design owl.li/xeydF
  • ◉ Massimo Vignelli: A Collection of Experiences -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/27…
  • Yesterday we lost Massimo Vignelli and today we lost Maya Angelou. I'm so so sad.
  • Viewing the Earth From Space - In Focusowl.li/xaoHu
  • Marin Alsop's Guide To Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" owl.li/xdZHK
  • How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the Cityowl.li/xdZB4
  • Massimo Vignelli, a Visionary Designer Who Untangled the Subway, Dies at 83 owl.li/xkd1S
  • Brilliant Book Sculptures by Brian Dettmerowl.li/xaoBz
  • Journalism Remix: Put the Lessons of the NYT Innovation Report into Practice owl.li/xamVu
  • Ice Anemones to Dragon Trees: Top Species of Year Named owl.li/xaowo
  • Friendship: The chemistry of our social glueowl.li/xalpY
  • 25 NYC Must-See Spots for the Design Conscious owl.li/xaoec
  • The Inside Story of Oculus Rift and How Virtual Reality Became Reality owl.li/xahcE
  • Deeply sad today: Massimo Vignelli, 1931-2014 "bad design is vulgar and we must fight vulgarity" Mhttp://owl.li/xiIcv
  • Time Inc. Starts Selling Ads on Magazine Covers owl.li/xant5
  • ◉ The Cult of Busy -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/26…
  • Best Visual Illusions Of 2014 owl.li/x8y1U
  • The Economics Of Attention owl.li/xan8p
  • 15 Quotes About Creativity From Advertising Legends owl.li/xamXR
  • For Frustrated Gifted Kids, A World of Online Opportunities owl.li/x8xNR
  • 99U Conference Recap 6: Innovation Lessons from the Trenches owl.li/x4hub
  • Thomas Dolby Explains How a Synthesizer Works on a Jim Henson Kids Show (1989)owl.li/x8xJJ
  • 99U Conference Recap 5: Creating a Business That Withstands the Test of Time owl.li/x4hoQ
  • 16 Weird Forgotten English Words We Should Bring Back owl.li/x8xFx
  • 99U Conference Recap 4: The Best Way to Complain Is to Make Things owl.li/x4gyL
  • Listen to Philip K. Dick's Favorite Classical Music: A Free, 11-Hour Playlist owl.li/x4Ngp
  • 99U Conference Recap 3: Rethinking the Way We Lead owl.li/x4fPA
  • Art of the Title takes a look at the titles for the great game DEVICE 6 (2013) — owl.li/x4mPs
  • Fantastic: Photo Essay: A 99U Speaker’s Journey owl.li/x4iCA
  • 99U Conference Recap 2: Rethinking the Way We Work owl.li/x4f99
  • Inside Medellin: How Pablo Escobar's hometown hopes to become South America's 'Silicon Valley' owl.li/x3HVz
  • 99U Conference Recap 1: What Are Your Creative Values? owl.li/x4euV
  • DevCasts - Hand-picked developer screencastsowl.li/x3GOC
  • Nine Apps the Guy Who Runs the Webby Awards Can’t Live Without owl.li/x3SjV
  • Why Do People Persist in Believing Things That Just Aren't True? owl.li/x3GBN
  • A venture capital firm has appointed a computer algorithm to its board of directors.owl.li/x3RFv
  • Breaking news at 1000ms: how the Guardian is making their next generation website load as fast as possible owl.li/x3EHg
  • Most Digital Ads Are Still About Direct Response, Not Branding owl.li/x3QgY
  • What the FCC’s net neutrality ruling means for journalism owl.li/x3PXG
  • Resource: HTML5 UP! Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 Site Templates owl.li/x3Avf
  • MIT can map the activity of every neuron in an animal's brain owl.li/x3qXg
  • Why You Should Build A Mastermind Groupowl.li/x3zpI
  • MIT: New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm.owl.li/x3qRf
  • The Human Element in Digital Prototypingowl.li/x3x1X
  • Steve Wozniak to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free owl.li/x3qbV
  • An Introduction to Data-Driven Decisions for Managers Who Don’t Like Math owl.li/x3vWt
  • Amazing: Disneyland's original Prospectus Revealed! owl.li/x3pWJ
  • How should editors edit? Two Slate editors debate. owl.li/x3swj
  • A New Approach to Wireless Charging Reaches Implants Deep in the Body and Brainowl.li/x3rtp
  • Thinking Big Is The Easy Part: My Weekend Dreaming Up The Next XPrize owl.li/x3jej
  • Why I want you to steal my ideas owl.li/x2cxk
  • A Research-Based Approach to Arts Integrationowl.li/x3ikZ
  • Seth's Blog: No is essential. Best thing you can do to be more creative, productive: learn to say no. owl.li/wYHbV
  • What Television Will Look Like in 2025, According to Netflix owl.li/x3hxC

Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week's Links: May 23, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Was Shakespeare Aware of the Scientific Discoveries of His Time? http://owl.li/wYDbW
  • Architects Give the Classic Chess Set a Radical Makeover http://owl.li/wYDry
  • This graphic designer makes "smell maps" of cities around the world http://owl.li/x2cBc
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use http://owl.li/x2dYH
  • The Future is Here: What's Next For Mobile Phones? http://owl.li/wYDEe
  • The philosophers’ guide to gratitudehttp://owl.li/x3h9e
  • James W. Rouse’s Legacy of Better Living Through Design owl.li/wYDpC
  • Photog Rose-Lynn Fisher captures tears of grief, joy, laughter and irritation in extreme detail, they are different owl.li/wYD1y
  • NASA releases "Global Selfie" owl.li/x9GVp
  • Cooper-Hewitt Gets Crafty and Honors Etsy with a National Design Award owl.li/wYDmc
  • ◉ Gretchen Rubin: The 4 Ways to Successfully Adopt New Habits -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/20…
  • Future of Storytelling: Scent Storiesowl.li/wYBLk
  • How Did Computers Uncover J.K. Rowling’s Pseudonym? owl.li/wYDkq
  • 36 Free Film Noir Movies owl.li/wXS18
  • Text Me, Ishmael: Reading Moby Dick in Emojiowl.li/wYDiG
  • How America’s Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future owl.li/wYDfy
  • The Rise of Nintendo: A Story in 8 Bits «owl.li/wXJNv
  • Chipotle Cups Will Now Feature Stories by Jonathan Safran Foer, Toni Morrison, and Other Authors owl.li/wSkoV
  • MIT harvests fog to make water in one of the driest places on Earth owl.li/wXEPA
  • Interactive Poster Charges Phones And Encourages People To Donate Bloodowl.li/wSkjj
  • Scientific Typeface Illustrates 26 Great Inventions owl.li/wT2L6
  • ◉ How does a work of art come to be considered great? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/20…
  • Extraordinary, photo-realistic paintings of warer.owl.li/wSiXr
  • Elon Musk on the Flawed Premise of Tesla and the False Promise of Fuel Cells owl.li/wSmzr
  • 5 Ways Design Thinking Can Help You Get Hired owl.li/wRtws
  • Internet Machine - Invisible infrastructures of the internet owl.li/wSkxF
  • In London, A Pop-Up Restaurant That Lets Customers Pay With Instagram Picturesowl.li/wSkst
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/x4LUa
  • Exercising the Mind to Treat Attention Deficitsowl.li/wRtqJ
  • Amazing: Magnificent 19th-Century Library Shelves 350,000 Books owl.li/wRsTk
  • Tim Burton's Early Student Films: King and Octopus & Stalk of the Celery Monsterowl.li/wRtpj
  • The Library of Congress Wants to Destroy Your Old CDs (For Science) owl.li/wRsPm
  • Freeing Up Space on iPhones. owl.li/wRtmI
  • Exploring New York City’s Abandoned Island, Where Nature Has Taken Over owl.li/wRrJ6
  • NPR compiles The Best Commencement Speeches, Ever owl.li/x3Ild
  • New Tech City: Sleep and Your Screens, Not Friends owl.li/wRtjq
  • AMC embraces the power of Tumblr to debut its new series "Halt and Catch Fire" owl.li/x3rit
  • ◉ Simon Sinek: Why Good Leaders Make Your Feel Safe -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/19…
  • Leaked NY Times Innovation Report applies to ad agencies, too owl.li/x3jAI
  • Can Email Be Responsive? owl.li/wPn3D
  • The Strange, Secret History of Isaac Newton’s Papers owl.li/wRthZ
  • A Question Of Biggitude: What's The Largest Creature On Earth? owl.li/wRtcg
  • Long Before Jack Daniels, George Washington Was a Whiskey Tycoon owl.li/wOwju
  • Cultivating a creative workforce owl.li/wNrjq
  • How to Use Donor Data to Boost Fundraisingowl.li/wOwfp
  • Is Corporate Storytelling Replacing The News Business? owl.li/wNqUP
  • The science of symmetry owl.li/wOuIx
  • Understanding the New Battle Over Net Neutrality owl.li/wNqdl
  • Tell a Meaningful Story With Data owl.li/wOuAV
  • ◉ All In The Timing: Learned Last Week -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/18…
  • How Scholastic Kept Its Relevance In A Digital World owl.li/wNpW2
  • Instagram Ads Are Getting Instant Recallowl.li/wOtH4
  • How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail's Most Vexing Questions owl.li/wNtR8
  • Draw My Left! No, No, My Other Left! A Hidden Bias In Art History Revealed owl.li/wN4Pl
  • 'Opera can make us see, feel and hear the world differently': UK's opera chiefs tell us why their art form matters owl.li/wIJD5
  • From Marketing to Writing: 5 Brilliant Marketers Who Became Successful Writers owl.li/wN4oZ
  • Inspiring the Creative Economy: How Cities Increase Economic Activity Through Innovation and The Arts owl.li/wIJvm
  • How Emotionally Intelligent Are You? Here’s How To Tell owl.li/wN02v
  • Psychologists find people who were allowed to play freely as children have greater social success as adults owl.li/wIJqV
  • The 70, 20 ,10 Approach to Innovationowl.li/wMZIl
  • Are Sundays Dying? owl.li/wIJmc
  • Efficiently Simplifying Navigation, Part 2: Navigation Systems owl.li/wLUOA
  • "The role of the critic is, for me, about connection." owl.li/wJzXm
  • Two Things Experts Do Differently Than Non-Experts When Practicing owl.li/wIxCJ
  • To Be a Better Leader, Learn How to Learn. Join a Study Group.owl.li/wIiWN
  • Email Is For Setting Expectations owl.li/wIkmL
  • A Series of Minimalist Posters Featuring Women Who Changed Science owl.li/wIgUp
  • Why Motivating Others Starts with Using the Right Language owl.li/wIkiQ
  • TED Radio Hour: Brand Over Brain: TED speakers explore the seductive power of brands. owl.li/wIgMQ
  • 99U Conference Recap 3: Rethinking the Way We Lead owl.li/wIjdq
  • The Surprising History of Making Alcohol a Powdered Substance owl.li/wIgGn
  • 99U Conference Recap 2: Rethinking the Way We Work owl.li/wIjbr
  • 99U Conference Recap Vol. 1: What Are Your Creative Values? owl.li/wIj78
  • For 20 Days, This App Connects Two Strangers Who Will Never Meet owl.li/wIgrR
  • Apple, Amazon and the uncertain future of the book startup owl.li/wIbwF
  • Logo style swap highlights the importance of appropriate visuals. owl.li/wIgmO
  • The Chief Of Microsoft Research On Big Ideas, Failure, And Its New Skunkworks Groupowl.li/wGKXb
  • ◉ Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Health owl.li/wGv70
  • ◉ Talking Art In A Capitalist Worldowl.li/wGwKd
  • 100 Years Of Type In Design, Curated By Monotype owl.li/wId2u
  • How A Grown-Up Field Trip To A Museum Can Improve Your Work (And Life) owl.li/wGKSr
  • Ogilvy Brazil is Training Tattoo Artists to Spot Signs of Skin Cancer owl.li/wIcSk

Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week's Links: May 16, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Mills & Boon characters will email you back in new transmedia tale http://owl.li/wGIWz
  • ◉ Ballerinas Defined http://owl.li/wGwq4
  • ◉ Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Biographies http://owl.li/wGuSF
  • Don't Make Marketing Your Enemyhttp://owl.li/wGBd0
  • Fantastic: Learnist- The Bookstore of the Future http://owl.li/wGJws
  • Changing Channels: Americans View Just 17 Channels Despite Record Number to Choose From http://owl.li/wGCpE
  • ◉ Why Employers Must Learn That Creativity Is Not Just For the Young -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/14…
  • Scientists May Have Decoded One of the Secrets to Superconductors owl.li/wGB7n
  • Copyright Licensing Organization Creative Commons has a new CEO owl.li/wSmIw
  • Each Week, Two Anonymous Students Named Dangerdust Create This Amazing Chalkboard Art owl.li/wGFx7
  • How To Use 10 Psychological Theories To Persuade People owl.li/wGCPC
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/wRsVl
  • 4 Tips On Creativity From The Creator Of Calvin & Hobbes owl.li/wGtoG
  • MIT iPhone App Makes You Intimate With A Stranger owl.li/wGB6c
  • 41 Brand Names People Use as Generic Termsowl.li/wGsQC
  • ◉ Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture owl.li/wGuQ3
  • ◉ A Tribute To Alfred Hitchcock owl.li/wGvLP
  • What’s The Difference Between A Font And A Typeface? owl.li/wGsuZ
  • When A Simple Logo Isn’t The Best Choiceowl.li/wGAp2
  • ◉ Young Minds in Critical Condition -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/13…
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson: Walt Whitman job recommendation letter owl.li/wGrZG
  • The London Underground Has Its Own Internet Of Things owl.li/wGAdl
  • Six Common Problems With The UX Process, And Six Solutions! owl.li/wGu06
  • Interfaces That Make You Feel Oldowl.li/wGfRA
  • They Found Shakespeare’s Dictionary on eBay (or So They Say) owl.li/wxfW5
  • Mapping The International Availability of Entertainment Services owl.li/wFFbf
  • The Unmasking of "Japan's Beethoven" The Real Composer Behind the Music of Mamoru Samuragochi owl.li/wxfjr
  • ◉ Recommended: The Intellectual Devotionalowl.li/wGuII
  • San Francisco MOMA to honor Apple designer Jony Ive with lifetime achievement awardowl.li/wE7cP
  • ◉ Del Close's Eleven Commandments of Improvisation owl.li/wGvD9
  • 100 Most Creative People 2014- Fast Companyowl.li/wNqvR
  • Great Radiolab: For the Love of Numbersowl.li/wxezs
  • The Most Creative People In Tech, 2014- Fast Company owl.li/wNpjI
  • Fast Company: Most Creative Peopleowl.li/wNp6q
  • ◉ The Paradox of Art as Work -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/13…
  • Install Hoefler & Co. Fonts on iOS owl.li/wxVEC
  • Meet: Alonzo King, LINES choreographerowl.li/wxehn
  • My Night at the Opera. James Wolcott's goes to the opera for the first time. owl.li/wxsxF
  • AIGA | Century: 100 Years of Type in Designowl.li/wxqXZ
  • 3 ways status gets us stuck owl.li/wxe1h
  • Charles Duhigg On How The Power of Habit Drives Everything In Life (And Business)owl.li/wx5Ye
  • 10 Kinds of Stories to Tell with Dataowl.li/wxagA
  • 3 Ways Big Data Is Going To Be Used Against You In The Future owl.li/wx4UK
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed Film owl.li/wGuyc
  • GitHub language trends and the fragmenting landscape– Donnie Berkholz's Story of Dataowl.li/wxa6U
  • ◉ How to Be a Genius owl.li/wGvjp
  • What the Internet Sounds Like owl.li/wx3Yn
  • The Art of Business Pitching Has Changed. Are You Onboard? owl.li/wx9V1
  • ◉ Mark Ronson: TED Remixed & The Exhilarating Creativity of Remixing -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/9/…
  • Embracing the power user owl.li/wvZKU
  • Public Domain Images: Resource for high resolution public domain images and free stock photos owl.li/wx9jG
  • How the cubicle came to be: The Office from Beginning to End owl.li/wx8Pm
  • How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact owl.li/wvZFt
  • Scientists Discover Clever Trick Ancient Egyptians Used to Build Pyramids owl.li/wtYfu
  • Why You Should Plan for Serendipityowl.li/wvZAP
  • Why you should stop sweating everyday aggravations and embrace the benefits of stress. owl.li/wt1XW
  • All of Bach for Free! New Site Will Put Performances of 1080 Bach Compositions Online owl.li/wvU8g
  • Did you ever wonder how does a laser work?owl.li/wt1Bv
  • Amazing: 271 Years Before Pantone, an Artist Mixed and Described Every Color Imaginable in an 800-Page Book owl.li/wvTKE
  • Meet the First Generation of Social Nativesowl.li/wsS75
  • TED Plalist: How to tell a story owl.li/wvP8f
  • Ideo Imagines 18 Packaging Concepts For The Future owl.li/wu0bD
  • The Mind Does Not Belong in a Cubicleowl.li/wsfFH
  • Poor man’s copyright: Mailing something to yourself doesn’t work. owl.li/wseJg
  • The Five Best Libraries For Building Data Visualizations owl.li/wsfqf
  • Truly saddened by the news that Vignelli is very ill. Send him a note, I did: Creative Review - Dear Massimo... owl.li/wHyMu
  • The Great Works of Software owl.li/wseqs
  • Industry-Leading Designers Share Their Current Top 3 Favorite Typefaces → Typewolfowl.li/wsfeN
  • Mat Honan: The Year of the Facebookowl.li/wseki
  • 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science owl.li/wseUB
  • Teens are going completely bananas for the new Snapchat owl.li/wse1f
  • What do conductors do? owl.li/wseOk
  • Conduct a Virtual Symphony With Touchscreens and an Interactive Batonowl.li/wseMY
  • How to Humanize Your Brand and Differentiate It owl.li/wsdAf
  • Net Neutrality in the US simply explained and additional resources: owl.li/wGsXo
  • Tech firms write to U.S. FCC to oppose 'net neutrality' plan owl.li/wGsDM
  • How Disney's Imagineers Keep The Magic Ideas Coming owl.li/wscdy
  • Why you should stop taking pictures on your phone – and learn to draw owl.li/wsdrH
  • How Steve Wozniak Wrote BASIC for the Original Apple From Scratch owl.li/wsaTw
  • 2014 National Design Award Winners- Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York owl.li/wscTI

Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week’s Links: May 9, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • 2014 National Design Award Winners- Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York owl.li/wscTI
  • Lady Gaga, the Glass Bottle and the Secret to Cracking the Global Creative Code owl.li/ws7si
  • Study: Firstborn Children Dream Bigger, Achieve More owl.li/wscQT
  • 5 Outdated Beliefs That Waste Time And Money owl.li/ws6JY
  • How To Translate A Business Problem Into A Design Pattern owl.li/wscwp
  • Google's 25 Rules For Building A Better Mobile Site owl.li/wscqj
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Creates a List of 22 Essential Books, 1936 owl.li/ws6dH
  • The China Story You Should Pay Attention to, and the One You Should Ignore owl.li/wopDv
  • How to Flirt — Backed by Scientific Research owl.li/ws6az
  • The 2014 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List owl.li/wopBK
  • Steve Jobs biographer: Why online media turned to ads -- and why that failed owl.li/wrZJn
  • Douglas Rushkoff Discusses the Always-On Digital Culture of ‘Present Shock’ owl.li/wo461
  • Measuring Creativity - the Last Windmill? owl.li/wqCfo
  • ◉ The illusion of life - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/4/…
  • Key trends in luxury retail design owl.li/wo2G4
  • MIT Technology Review answers the question, How to Win at Rock-Paper-Scissors owl.li/wqCcL
  • Werner Herzog Picks His 5 Favorite Films owl.li/wqC3Z
  • A Custom Font That Helps Kids Learn to Read and Write owl.li/wo0z8
  • Recent research into a kind of consciousness within the dream state is beginning to tell us more about the brain owl.li/wdAoT
  • Finding simplicity in a multi-device world owl.li/wnXEH
  • How to Outguess Passwords. Security is always about the weakest link. owl.li/wdlaC
  • Even the Head Chef of the World’s Best Restaurant Doubts There’s a World’s Best Restaurant owl.li/wmIPE
  • Inside the Science of an Amazing New Surgery Called Deep Brain Stimulation owl.li/wcAZM
  • Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books owl.li/wjdYg
  • ◉ Technology law will soon be reshaped by people who don't use email - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/6/…
  • Firstborn children really do excel, reveals groundbreaking study owl.li/wcANO
  • A High-Tech Chandelier That Visualizes Any Data Stream You Like owl.li/wjdvb
  • TED Playlist: Redefining success owl.li/wdAqY
  • "Great Ideas" Are Everywhere, But That Doesn't Mean They Should Be Cheap owl.li/wcymf
  • The Right Colors Make Data Easier To Read owl.li/w8JAD
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/wyut6
  • Tech Trends 2014 owl.li/wcqWt
  • Lego Doc "Beyond the Brick" Reveals The Company And Community Behind The World's Favorite Toy owl.li/w8Jw8
  • What Magicians Can Teach Us About How Our Brains Work owl.li/wcqSc
  • The Doctor Who Coaches Athletes on Sleep owl.li/w8JlI
  • Baking is chemistry: America's Best Bread Recipe Is 38 Pages Long owl.li/w8PFs
  • Newfronts Analysis: Why Microsoft, Yahoo, Etc. Invaded TV’s Turf owl.li/wxeOQ
  • ◉ Intimate Computing: Making Wearable Tech More Wearable - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/4/…
  • 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2014- MIT Technology Review owl.li/w8Jhy
  • 5 Bold Predictions For The Future Of Higher Education owl.li/w8LgN
  • MIT's Vibrating Supershoes Tell You Where To Walk owl.li/w8JVL
  • So You Want To Start An Opera Company… owl.li/w8Ivj
  • Street Artist JR’s First Foray Into Ballet owl.li/w7qg7
  • The 10 Commandments of Typography owl.li/w8IpF
  • Unique Mineral Discovered In Australia. The new substance is called putnisite. owl.li/w7q7G
  • Auditioning for the MET Orchestra owl.li/w8HGA
  • This Is Your Brain On Code, According To Functional MRI Imaging owl.li/w3mkd
  • Math behind the movies: An interview with Tony DeRose from Pixar owl.li/w8HE3
  • ◉ The Commercial Allure of the Eighties - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/16…
  • A Vision of the Future From Those Likely to Invent It - NYTimes.com owl.li/wu05B
  • Infographic: How To Say ‘Hello’ In 21 Different Languages owl.li/w3lXR
  • How Facebook Uses UX Research To Personalize The Way We See Each Other owl.li/w818x
  • Margaret Talbot: The Scientist Behind the Digital Cloning of Actors owl.li/w80Qq
  • On These Book Tours, the Author Acts as a Tour Guide owl.li/wu08d
  • 10 Awesome Covers From Bloomberg Businessweek's Departing Creative Director
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  • The Tragic Story of How Einstein’s Brain Was Stolen and Wasn’t Even Special owl.li/w26BL
  • Beyond the shoot-em-up: how gaming got killer stories owl.li/w2JH2
  • Google Ventures On 12 Shortcuts Designers Should Never Take owl.li/w25Yp
  • The Weird World of Internet Fame owl.li/w2Gu7
  • The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung: Vanity Fair owl.li/wsR3x
  • Amazing: Booksellers claim to have found Shakespeare’s annotated dictionary, it’s digitized online. owl.li/w21yo
  • Great Branding Is Invisible owl.li/w2GjH
  • The Art & Science of Great Website Color Selection owl.li/w20zF
  • Books Every Writer Needs to Read owl.li/w2EQM
  • The Year of Fearlessness: Brand Insights from Y&R's Sandy Thompson owl.li/w2qg0
  • 65 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online owl.li/w1TTv
  • 60 Words: An extraordinary episode of Radiolab owl.li/w0Nuq
  • The Metropolitan Opera Borrows Buzzfeed's Strategy To Engage A Younger Audience owl.li/w1TP5
  • Ancient Walls Show That Rome Is Older Than Legend owl.li/w0Mmn
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Guide to surreal and real Latin America owl.li/w1Tua
  • Read 10 Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez Free Online (Plus More Essays & Interviews) owl.li/w0L51
  • This is How the Vatican Will Digitize Millions of its Documents owl.li/w1QVw
  • The Most Famous Brand From Every State owl.li/w0Ku9
  • Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music owl.li/w1QHI
  • Darwin to Shakespeare: If Historical Figures Had Business Cards and Letterhead owl.li/w0OVV
  • How to Reinvent the School Lunch and Get Kids to Eat Better owl.li/w0Kgp
  • Moore’s law gives way to Bezos’s law owl.li/vXRRG
  • 8 Surprising Ways Music Affects and Benefits our Brains owl.li/w0K3l
  • An amazing video: 1,001 Movies You Must See (Before You Die) owl.li/vXsx7
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed Film owl.li/wdwyU
  • Beautiful: Transfixing 3D Paper Patterns by Maud Vantours owl.li/w0K0i
  • Fantastic: Disney's Nine Old Men: box-set of flipbooks owl.li/vXlXe
  • ◉ Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age owl.li/wdvEq

Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week's Links: May 2, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Fantastic: Disney's Nine Old Men: box-set of flipbooks owl.li/vXlXe
  • ◉ Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age owl.li/wdvEq
  • Daily Report: White House Calls for More Privacy Protections - NYTimes.com owl.li/wpvjY
  • Haagen-Dazs vegetable ice cream flavors to debut in Japan owl.li/w0JK2
  • The Invention of the Slurpee owl.li/vXg8y
  • Is there a difference between Art and Design?owl.li/w0JxK
  • TED Playlist: Our brains: predictably irrationalowl.li/w0JiE
  • Catch Up On Your Shakespeare In The Quickest, Cutest Way Possible--3-Panel Playsowl.li/vXg65
  • Louvre to Reopen Decorative Arts Galleriesowl.li/vXdi3
  • Tales from the trenches: Lessons learned from Netscape, Yahoo!, and Google owl.li/vXg3K
  • Creatives You Should Know 2014 owl.li/wnXKH
  • Remembering BASIC on its 50th birthdayowl.li/wnWBp
  • Responsive Email Resources owl.li/vXdcX
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed Fashion owl.li/wdwtP
  • The Origins of Famous Microinteractionsowl.li/vXg2p
  • ◉ Maya Angelou's Wisdom Applied To Creativity - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/5/1/…
  • ◉ What exactly is skeuomorphism?owl.li/wdvzd
  • Is it “Mobile First” or “Content First”?owl.li/vXdbg
  • Everything Facebook Announced at F8owl.li/wn5ib
  • Great Interview: The Great Discontent- John Maeda owl.li/vXg0G
  • The Washington Ballet’s hardest dance moves, dissected (VIDEO) owl.li/vXd0m
  • Want To Sell More Art? Sell Yourself First.owl.li/vXdne
  • The Stoic: 9 Principles to Help You Keep Calm in Chaos owl.li/vXdlx
  • The Guardian’s top 100: which articles have been most popular since 2010? owl.li/vXcsn
  • The Mystery of the Missing Audienceowl.li/vXbdo
  • They're your words, choose them carefullyowl.li/vXbVl
  • Styleguides for the Web owl.li/vXb7I
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture owl.li/wdwpp
  • Facebook Developers: Full Length Event - Building Paper owl.li/vXbIA
  • Re-reading: Responsive Web Design · An A List Apart Article owl.li/vXb4O
  • ◉ Attention Must Be Paid owl.li/wdvul
  • Kurt Vonnegut Urges Young People to Make Art and “Make Your Soul Grow” owl.li/vXbzW
  • ◉ Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/27…
  • 25 Essential Graphic Novels owl.li/vXaN8
  • The Past, Present and Future of Streaming Music owl.li/vXbqr
  • HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters owl.li/vXbeP
  • Tencent: The Secretive, Chinese Tech Giant That Can Rival Facebook and Amazonowl.li/vXaBq
  • The Making Of The new TED Talk page: A brief history owl.li/vWlwR
  • 50 Incredible Novels Under 200 Pagesowl.li/vWnOG
  • The best examples of street art in 2013 (50 pictures) owl.li/vWlnT
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed Photography owl.li/wdwka
  • Ryan Holmes: Social Media Jumpstarted the Sharing Economy owl.li/vWlZ4
  • ◉ AJ Jacobs: The Importance of Self-Delusion in the Creative Process owl.li/wdvn0
  • This Advice From IDEO's Nicole Kahn Will Transform the Way You Give Presentationsowl.li/vWkLP
  • The Lost, Surprisingly Soulful Art of Corporate Identity owl.li/vWlYt
  • ◉ Frank Chimero: No New Tools -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/28…
  • Watch Winning Six-Second Vine Filmsowl.li/vUEB4
  • What's The Real Value Of Learning More Than One Programming Language? owl.li/vWlWJ
  • These MRI-Scanned Fruits And Vegetables Unfold Like Alien Births owl.li/vWlxA
  • The British Pathe archive is now on YouTubeowl.li/vUEp5
  • What Is A Brand Story? owl.li/vUy4s
  • Meeting Over? Write Down the Takeaways. Right Now. owl.li/vUC4q
  • The Difference Between Projects and Processes owl.li/vUy1x
  • ◉ Recommended: 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design owl.li/wdwdk
  • Run Your Meeting Like a Boss: Lessons from Mayer, Musk, and Jobs owl.li/vUBY0
  • ◉ David Ogilvy: 10 Qualities of Creative Leaders owl.li/wdvaX
  • Is math the language of the universe? A bilingual TED-Ed Club explores owl.li/vUv8x
  • Art of the Title takes a look at the opening titles for The Lego Movie owl.li/vUAWf
  • Building The Web App For Unicef’s Tap Campaign: A Case Study owl.li/vUuTp
  • ◉ Unstoppable: An Extraordinary Dance Solo -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/4/27…
  • A 53-minute interview by Steve Heller of Milton Glaser owl.li/vUADJ
  • An Interview with Milton Glaser owl.li/vUysn
  • Why You Should Get Excited About Emotional Branding owl.li/vUuHM
  • On Beacons and proximity owl.li/vUssS
  • A Scientific Explanation As To What Happens During An Allergy Attack And Why It’s A Mistake the Body Is Making owl.li/vUuor
  • How designer Paula Scher's worked to make Tiffany & Co.'s signature blue packagingowl.li/vUsbF
  • Monty Python’s final show will be broadcast to theaters around the world owl.li/wdkx9
  • Net Neutrality: A Guide to (and History of) a Contested Idea- Alexis C. Madrigal & Adrienne LaFrance owl.li/wdkoT
  • The Elements According to Relative Abundance owl.li/vUu8R
  • The FCC is about to axe-murder net neutrality. Here's what you can do.- Dan Gillmorowl.li/wdiag
  • Would Shakespeare’s poisons and drugs work in reality? owl.li/vUqmE
  • Close-ups of butterfly wing scales! You should definitely click... owl.li/vUtXk
  • Netiquette of Capitalization: How Caps Became Code for Yelling owl.li/vUqh4
  • Beautiful: the remote and little known rice terraces of yuanyang county in china’s yunnan province owl.li/vUtBf
  • The Top Patent-Holders In The U.S. [Infographic] owl.li/vUtc1
  • Engrossing visualization by Bloomberg: How Americans Die owl.li/vUq0v
  • 10 Rules for Students and Teachers Popularized by John Cage owl.li/vTrYM
  • So great: A Breakdancer's Freeze Tour of Parisowl.li/vU1pm
  • Facial Expressions Aren't As Universal As Scientists Have Thought owl.li/vTokC
  • Celebrity Actors Reading Poetry owl.li/vU13o
  • Trolls In Their Natural Habitats: An Analysis Of Comments On TED Talks owl.li/vTo6m
  • Why this might just be the most persuasive TED Talk ever posted owl.li/vTxsz
  • The Life Cycle Of Ideas owl.li/vTmwd
  • The Underappreciated Ties Between Art and Innovation owl.li/vTtfm
  • MIT scientists have created a new material that can be both a mirror and a window owl.li/vTsDC
  • This Japanese Ad for a Music School Will Make You Cry owl.li/vSmbO
  • The surprising ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776 owl.li/vTjbO
  • ◉ George Lois and Lee Clow on the Simple, Complicated Future of Advertising owl.li/vaDKK
  • Can Coding Bootcamps Integrate With Colleges? owl.li/vSg2C
  • How To Make Your Next Vacation Countowl.li/vTiQB
  • Douglas Coupland on Being a Visual Artistowl.li/vSf95
  • David Ogilvy’s advice to his nephew on whether to pursue education or get a job. owl.li/vTizv
  • The Great Facebook Unbundling- Om Malikowl.li/vSbbe
  • 40 maps that explain the world owl.li/vThT1

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.