The Week’s Links: August 8, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Poetry? There's an app for that. owl.li/zUJ2U
  • Dancing and Hoping to Win Fans for Life -NYTimes.com owl.li/zUIdS
  • Peeking Under The Hood Of NPR's New Mobile Appowl.li/zU21d
  • Spike Jonze Reveals His Favorite Ad and How to Stay Creative With Clients Around owl.li/zTZFx
  • How to Tell a Great Story owl.li/zTRYz
  • Can Benefit Corporations Work? owl.li/zTT99
  • Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Weekowl.li/A57lt
  • 4 Things You Didn't Know About Chuck Jones, Brilliant Creator Of Road Runner And Wile E. Coyoteowl.li/zTRID
  • ◉ Recommended: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose owl.li/zSTbG
  • ◉ Picasso in his studio, 1956 owl.li/zSTp7
  • TED Playlist: Fascinating psych experimentsowl.li/zTRwd
  • 10 Dark, Creepy Children's Books Every Kid Should Read owl.li/zTSdz
  • Beautiful: Ogilvy & Mather Induction Box owl.li/zTRu5
  • MIT Rethinks How You Consume News owl.li/zTDl1
  • ▶ How Much Sleep Do You Actually Need?owl.li/zTDcX
  • Kern Your Enthusiasm (2)- analyzing and celebrating a few of our favorite (and least favorite) typefacesowl.li/zTnSU
  • Digital Weddings 2.0: Hashtags and Retweets -NYTimes.com owl.li/zTnZC
  • A Night of Dinosaurs and Stargazing (No Children Allowed). At Museum of Natural History in New Yorkowl.li/zTgq3
  • ◉ Recommended: Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style owl.li/zSTaq
  • ◉ Adam Savage: Ground Rules for Successowl.li/zSTnl
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/zTfRw
  • HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, bums 1st rideowl.li/zTnWK
  • 7 ideas from ancient thinkers that will improve your modern life owl.li/zTfQN
  • The history of the word “scientist” owl.li/zSSDh
  • Can Reddit Grow Up? - NYTimes.com owl.li/zTfO1
  • NASA unveils plans for a new rover: Mars 2020owl.li/zSSAq
  • ◉ Recommended: All In a Word: 100 Delightful Excursions into the Uses and Abuses of Wordsowl.li/zST9C
  • ◉ The Adobe Illustrator Story -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/5/…
  • ◉ New Beginnings: NYC Ballet's 9/11 Tributeowl.li/zSTlN
  • How Yahoo Research Labs Studies Culture as a Formal Computational Concept- MIT Technology Review owl.li/zSSyn
  • The Early Jobs of 24 Famous Writers owl.li/zTdXV
  • Playing an Instrument Is a Great Workout For Your Brain: New Animation Explains Why owl.li/zSNdY
  • A market for emotions: With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet....
  • AIGA: What Creative Directors are Really Looking For in an Online Portfolio owl.li/zSSKr
  • In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was 'Too Fast for the Truth' owl.li/zSJUD
  • 4 Kinds of Bad Advertising Millennials Have Killed Offowl.li/zSH6C
  • This American Lear, or Is Ira Glass crazy? owl.li/zSJfQ
  • SciShow Explains How Different Species of Animals Are Able to Change Color owl.li/zSsye
  • ◉ Recommended: The Invention of Air owl.li/zST8M
  • For WWI Anniversary, the Tower of London Has Become Surrounded by a Sea of Poppiesowl.li/zSHfW
  • ◉ Nuance: A Dance Battle owl.li/zSTkf
  • :Fantastic: The Talking Walls of Buenos Aires  - Google Cultural Institute owl.li/zSrNV
  • ◉ Can you relate? -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/8/3/…
  • The Economics of Your Face owl.li/zSHeP
  • Advertising's New Frontier: Talk to the Bot - WSJowl.li/zShxB
  • What would big cities look like in complete darknessowl.li/zSHd0
  • Today's Google Doodle is great: John Venn's 180th Birthday owl.li/zUQWL
  • Handwritten Typographers: THe handwriting of great typographers. owl.li/zSHbJ
  • Stanford Team Achieves 'Holy Grail' of Battery Design: A Stable Lithium Anode owl.li/zO055
  • Solving The Scourge That Is Slow Hotel Wi-Fiowl.li/zIPQU
  • Injectable foam could keep wounded soldiers aliveowl.li/zLDE9
  • 6 ways to banish guilt from your life owl.li/zHeQa
  • Shakira's 'La La La' is Now the Most-Shared Ad of All Time owl.li/zLBfm
  • How 60 Seconds And One Word A Day Can Reduce Your Stress owl.li/zGeAj
  • NYT considering shorter print edition with unlimited digital access owl.li/zLAVg
  • Why TED Has Given All Of Its Employees A Mandatory Two-Week Summer Vacation owl.li/zGelJ
  • Full-Page Marijuana Ad to Appear in Sunday New York Times owl.li/zTenp
  • How the Internet of Things Changes Business Modelsowl.li/zLzuu
  • Ideo Rebrands Disaster Preparedness owl.li/zIPV0
  • When It Comes To Creativity, Are Two Heads Better Than One? owl.li/zFUY6
  • World's coolest bookstores owl.li/zDrvo
  • US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research owl.li/zFQ5n
  • Hip-hop producer J Dilla's beat-making gear headed to Smithsonian owl.li/zDq7w
  • The Evidence Is In: Patent Trolls Do Hurt Innovationowl.li/zFPHX
  • Kickstarting a doc about making a living in the artsowl.li/zD6ao
  • The Science Behind TED's 18-Minute Rule owl.li/zDtlT
  • 30 for 30 Shorts: ‘The High Five’ - a documentary short on the history of the high five. owl.li/zCVV8
  • How Marvel Became the Envy (and Scourge) of Hollywood owl.li/zDtec
  • The Fasinatng … Frustrating … Fascinating History of Autocorrect owl.li/zDsWn
  • Where Restaurant Reservations Come Fromowl.li/zCVPY
  • The Down And Dirty History Of TMZ owl.li/zCCKK
  • Smart Things in a Not-Smart World - Technologyowl.li/zCVK2
  • ◉ What's the Point of Creativity? owl.li/zCuZt
  • ◉ Recommended: What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame owl.li/zCvjq
  • Art by algorithm: Computer evolves new artworksowl.li/zCCEk
  • PBS Digital Studios to Premiere First Scripted Series, "Frankenstein, M.D." on Tuesday, August 19owl.li/zCVyT
  • The secret of Minecraft owl.li/zCCoe
  • 20 New Yorker Design Stories To Read Nowowl.li/zCD2v
  • McDonald's Will Spend the Next 18 Months Rebranding owl.li/zCCVo

Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week's Links: August 1, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • PBS Digital Studios to Premiere First Scripted Series, "Frankenstein, M.D." on Tuesday, August 19owl.li/zCVyT
  • The secret of Minecraft owl.li/zCCoe
  • 20 New Yorker Design Stories To Read Nowowl.li/zCD2v
  • McDonald's Will Spend the Next 18 Months Rebranding owl.li/zCCVo
  • The 99U Podcast: Graphic Design Advice with Craig Ward owl.li/zCz1L
  • How to Manage Idea Overflow owl.li/zCzyy
  • ◉ The magic of a clear specification owl.li/zCuWF
  • The Enemies of Invention: Psychology Todayowl.li/zCzxa
  • ◉ Recommended: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much owl.li/zCvhz
  • Permission to Sin: How Moral Licensing Sabotages Your Long-Term Goals owl.li/zCyUe
  • ◉ Vint Cerf Explains The Internet's Address Book -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/27…
  • Hand-Sketching: Things You Didn't Know Your Doodles Could Accomplish owl.li/zCzm6
  • Five Things Rich People Know That You Don't, General Strict Financial Discipline - WSJ.comowl.li/zCyRM
  • Why Your Life Needs A Mission Statement owl.li/zCzfv
  • Introducing the Password as Reminder owl.li/zCz8R
  • World’s Second Richest Man Thinks You Should Only Be Working Three Days a Week owl.li/zCyrB
  • Get More from Your Day by Using 90 Minute Blocksowl.li/zCyIp
  • ◉ Worthwhile Stories owl.li/zCuIN
  • Pixar: How to Create a Creative Culture owl.li/zCyEL
  • ◉ Recommended: The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession owl.li/zCvc3
  • From the unlocked New Yorker archive: A Pickpocket’s Tale- The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins. owl.li/zCy2K
  • ◉ Barcelona: Beautiful Timelapse Short Film -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/26…
  • Maria Popova: Staying Present and Grounded in the Age of Information Overload owl.li/zCyzo
  • Fascinating: The Mark of a Masterpiece- The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art. owl.li/zCxQl
  • How Creative Hobbies Make Us Better At Basically Everything owl.li/zCywX
  • 8 Hilarious Writers Who Landed Their Hollywood Dream Jobs on Twitter owl.li/zCyvx
  • Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world owl.li/zCp8H
  • 7 Questions For Logo Design Legend Ivan Chermayeff owl.li/zCm0i
  • ◉ Creative Destruction owl.li/zCuGk
  • From the unlocked New Yorker archive: How David Beats Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell owl.li/zCxNl
  • The intro to NPR One, NPR's new app, is fantastic. All apps should be introduced by @guyrazowl.li/zIsfA
  • ◉ Recommended: Marshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work! owl.li/zCv9P
  • UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer's Guide To The Tech Industry owl.li/zClYa
  • ◉ The Creative Influence: Michael Bierut -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/26…
  • From The New Yorker's unlocked archive: Pixel Perfect, on photographer and retoucher Pascal Dangin. owl.li/zCxIn
  • What Do Chinese Dumplings Have to Do With Global Warming? owl.li/zClmz
  • Great article- Ambient Genius: The working life of Brian Eno. owl.li/zCxCu
  • Didn't Read Facebook's Fine Print? Here's Exactly What It Says owl.li/zCtEF
  • The Beginner's Guide to Getting Better Sleepowl.li/zClfq
  • Uncovering Algorithms: Looking Inside the Facebook News Feed | MIT owl.li/zvu1U
  • The Necessary Art of Persuasion - Harvard Business Review owl.li/zCiHh
  • Did the invention of the notebook make us more creative? owl.li/zvhee
  • ◉ In praise of laziness owl.li/zCuDN
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 25, 2014 owl.li/zFRNm
  • A Quick Animated Tour of Iconic Modernist Housesowl.li/zC3f2
  • ◉ Recommended: The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era owl.li/zCv5p
  • 4 Things You Thought Were True About Time Management owl.li/zvh7Q
  • ◉ Tony Schwartz: To Solve Big Problems, Change Your Process - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/26…
  • Great podcast episode of Digital Human about selling.owl.li/zAHIP
  • Unpacking the Science: How Playing Music Changes the Learning Brain owl.li/zu7AP
  • A History of the Future in 100 Objects owl.li/zAvFo
  • Re-Creating The Magic Of Harry Potter In The Real World owl.li/zAqYQ
  • Browse 'The New Yorker' archives free of charge for the rest of the summer owl.li/zqxbI
  • 7 things good communicators must not doowl.li/znnbE
  • Ingenious Signs Ensure You Always Get A Seat On The Train owl.li/zpF8W
  • Can Creativity Be Learned? owl.li/znas1
  • These Futuristic Perfumes Smell Like Things That Will Be Destroyed By Climate Change owl.li/zpuas
  • What Creative People Need To Do To Protect Their Work owl.li/zn9U4
  • 9 Science-Backed Methods For More Productive Meetings owl.li/zptJL
  • Behind the Traveler Photo Contest – Intelligent Travelowl.li/zn8jG
  • Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organizationowl.li/zppPM
  • New wrist-mounted device augments the human hand with two robotic fingers. | MIT News owl.li/zo23Z
  • Not Sleeping Well? Blame the Moon owl.li/zmVT2
  • How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World owl.li/zm63i
  • What price is right for great theatre? owl.li/zm8BR
  • 10 Tips For Leading Through Changes owl.li/zm62D
  • The Future of Opera. Is It Dead? - WSJ owl.li/zm8zc
  • War Of Words At Met Opera May Signal Shutdownowl.li/zC3k8
  • Infographic: Every Trip To The Moon, Everowl.li/zm60o
  • Are Multiplayer Games the Future of Education?owl.li/zm8wR
  • How amusement parks hijack your brain owl.li/zm5XC
  • The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future owl.li/zm8wd
  • The Creativity Pill? owl.li/zm6vj
  • Nonfiction Books About America’s 50 Statesowl.li/zm4ol
  • In The Information Age, You Can’t Google Good Ideasowl.li/zm1TW
  • What A Bonsai Tree Looks Like Suspended In Spaceowl.li/zm46f
  • ◉ In praise of laziness owl.li/zm8nR
  • 100 Great Sci-Fi Stories by Women Writers (Read 20 for Free Online) owl.li/zm1Sq
  • MIT Will Teach You Photojournalism For Freeowl.li/zm45w
  • MIT photography course materials freely available online owl.li/zm1RL
  • ◉ Recommended: The Idea Writers: Copywriting in a New Media and Marketing Era owl.li/zm840
  • Don’t Sell a Product, Sell a Whole New Way of Thinking owl.li/zm20t
  • DRM-free indie ebooks outsell DRM-locked ones 2:1owl.li/zm0Z3

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: July 25, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Ancient Tooth Plaque Shows Our Ancestors Used to Feast on Weeds owl.li/zm0xf
  • What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful? owl.li/zk6BW
  • How to Be a Better Traveler - Scientific Americanowl.li/zm0r7
  • Take An Electrifying Look Inside The World's First Light Art Museum owl.li/zk6wW
  • ◉ LOUD owl.li/zm8m4
  • 8 Places for Thrifty Bookworms to Download Free E-Books owl.li/zm0p9
  • 6 Design Concepts From IDEO That Rethink Agingowl.li/zisON
  • ◉ Recommended: The Creative Process Illustrated: How Advertising's Big Ideas Are Born owl.li/zm7Yj
  • Starbucks Has Bigger Plans in Mobile Payments Than Most People Realize owl.li/zm0n5
  • Amazing: Restaurants in Cool and Unexpected Placesowl.li/zisLe
  • Why do we have blood types? We still don’t really know what blood types are for. Do they really matter?owl.li/zm0iZ
  • Amazing: 36 Realistically Colorized Historical Photos Make the Past Seem Incredibly Alive owl.li/zlZq2
  • Google Analytics gets its own official dedicated iPhone app so you can view your data on the go owl.li/zisKl
  • While critics sneer, scientists try to make sense of our love of weepy books and movies. owl.li/zi5Lk
  • How Google’s New Font Tries to Anticipate the Futureowl.li/zisGj
  • ◉ The Arecibo Observatory: Beyond The Big Dreamsowl.li/zm8j1
  • How The Average American Work Week Compares To The Rest Of The World owl.li/zi5w1
  • 10 tips on how to make slides that really communicate your idea owl.li/zisES
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 21, 2014 owl.li/zvds7
  • ◉ Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Deploy or die. -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • 50 Excellent Fabulist Books Everyone Should Readowl.li/zi5ax
  • ◉ Recommended: Where the Suckers Moon: The Life and Death of an Advertising Campaign owl.li/zm7Vk
  • How Side Projects Improve Our Performance at Everything owl.li/ziszb
  • Thirty Things I’ve Learned — Nick Crockerowl.li/zi2uO
  • The Big Mystery Behind the Great Train Robbery May Finally Have Been Solved owl.li/zi6dc
  • Italy Turns To Corporate Sponsors To Maintain Its Monuments - NYTimes.com owl.li/zi5Y6
  • Darwin’s complete Galapagos library posted onlineowl.li/zhKbo
  • How to use Siri for iPhone and iPad: The ultimate guide owl.li/zfuwi
  • The Future of Marketing, as Seen at Cannes Lions - John Winsor - Harvard Business Review owl.li/zhJGI
  • ◉ Making Magic with Pixar: Maker Camp Field Trip 2013 owl.li/zm8gB
  • The Brilliant Machine That Could Finally Fix Airport Security owl.li/zfurg
  • Essential: Longform's 25 Favorite Unlocked New Yorker Articles owl.li/zsyvs
  • Humans Already Use Way, Way More Than 10 Percent of Their Brains owl.li/zhJtV
  • We need this: A maps app that algorithmically finds you the scenic route owl.li/zfugb
  • ◉ Being Digital: Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • ◉ Recommended: Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This: A Guide to Creating Great Advertising owl.li/zm7NM
  • What happens when Shakespeare is translated? Is it still Shakespeare? owl.li/zhdP9
  • Chocolate? Pfft, MIT students are 3D printing with ice cream owl.li/zfp0A
  • Take a 3D tour of London with Google's latest Maps update owl.li/zgSat
  • MIT researchers want to power your cellphone with dew owl.li/zgS3A
  • Out in the Open: A Tool That Will Make It Easier to Abolish Email Entirely owl.li/zfdpC
  • Kara Swisher Is Silicon Valley’s Most Feared and Well-Liked Journalist. How Does That Work?owl.li/zdNg8
  • Facebook Users Can Now DVR Content, Including Ads owl.li/zpZFe
  • Trivia App Tests Your Design Nerdiness owl.li/zfcum
  • Batman at 75: Lisa Granshaw on why pop culture can’t let the Dark Knight go owl.li/zdL3U
  • ◉ 10 Reasons To Love Science with Neil deGrasse Tyson owl.li/zm8eq
  • MoMA Design Curator Paola Antonelli On The Dark Side Of Design owl.li/zfbAt
  • Facebook to track users' TV habits - LA Timesowl.li/zcRK9
  • ◉ Recommended: Confessions of an Advertising Manowl.li/zm7J3
  • Is Music The Easiest Way On Earth To Learn Programming? owl.li/zfbk5
  • ◉ Nick Crocker: Thirty Things I've Learned -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/7/20…
  • Inside the Teenage Brain: Psychology Todayowl.li/zcRpj
  • For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work owl.li/zfaP6
  • One man and his robot are responsible for 8.5 percent of Wikipedia owl.li/zfaq6
  • Stress-Busting Diet: 8 Foods That May Boost Resilience owl.li/zcRjv
  • Classical musicians and the terror of the auditionowl.li/zbyDv
  • MIT's flying robot keeps moving photo subjects bathed in light owl.li/zbWb1
  • How to keep the audience laughing at a sitcom taping—even on take 10 owl.li/zby0S
  • 50 Fascinating Nonprofit Statistics owl.li/zbMYg
  • What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned?owl.li/zbxk9
  • Mobile Technology Fact Sheet- Pew Researchowl.li/zbA7r
  • Atlantic City Ballet moves to the boardwalkowl.li/zbwV8
  • Here are the apps teens actually love, in 5 chartsowl.li/zbzHm
  • Five things about Gen Y that charities need to knowowl.li/zbzmi
  • The Science Of Cool owl.li/zbsqo
  • 11 Frida Kahlo Quotes That Will Inspire Any Young Creative owl.li/zbcj5
  • David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?owl.li/zbkZe
  • Meet ‘Project Zero,’ Google’s Secret Team of Bug-Hunting Hackers owl.li/zbc7Q
  • Uniqlo Designs New Uniforms For MoMA's Security Guards owl.li/zbkU2
  • The Secret History Behind The Science Of Stressowl.li/z9Oec
  • Fantastic: David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire owl.li/zbkhG
  • The Power of the Behind The Scenes Workerowl.li/z9NU3
  • Bill Gates's Favorite Business Tales, in The New Yorker owl.li/zbjZr
  • NASA's Next Giant Leap: Mars owl.li/zbj8W
  • 10 Brands That Will Disappear This Year- TIMEowl.li/z9NQ9
  • Ricky Gervais Shares His Secrets for Success: Be a "Cocky Little Nobody" owl.li/z9Agk
  • Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length? owl.li/z9JDF
  • BBC News - The costs and benefits of publishing your own books owl.li/z9A9n
  • Can Memes Exist Outside of the Internet?owl.li/z9Jmx
  • Inside Disney's Virtual Playground for Fantasies: Video - Bloomberg owl.li/z9A1A

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: July 18, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • 10 Brands That Will Disappear This Year- TIMEowl.li/z9NQ9
  • Ricky Gervais Shares His Secrets for Success: Be a "Cocky Little Nobody" owl.li/z9Agk
  • Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length? owl.li/z9JDF
  • BBC News - The costs and benefits of publishing your own books owl.li/z9A9n
  • Can Memes Exist Outside of the Internet?owl.li/z9Jmx
  • Inside Disney's Virtual Playground for Fantasies: Video - Bloomberg owl.li/z9A1A
  • Cult Novels: An Essential List owl.li/z9HtL
  • How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent -NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wL1
  • Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are rightowl.li/z9Biv
  • Contemplative practices boost creativity in problem-solving owl.li/z9B2x
  • Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers - NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wkU
  • Relevance Is The New Remarkableowl.li/z94SK
  • It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide - Didier Bonnet owl.li/z9weK
  • The software design trends that we love to hateowl.li/z8Z2e
  • Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook) - Michael Schrage owl.li/z9waa
  • Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?owl.li/z8WBN
  • Advice From 10 Creative Technologists We Love owl.li/z9vZy
  • Lessons From The Man Who Managed Reddit's Community Of Millions owl.li/z8MhV
  • 10 Tech Trends That Are Too Big To Seeowl.li/z9vVg
  • MIT's new material opens the door to squishable, shape-shifting robots owl.li/z9usZ
  • Pondering Platform Monopolies – AVCowl.li/z8M9Q
  • How to be more confident, according to scienceowl.li/z8rGC
  • Why I’m so negative about positivity — Paul Jarvis owl.li/z8Kbp
  • 4 Surprising Things Facebook Has Learned From Your Relationship Status owl.li/z8mLj
  • The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valleyowl.li/z8sEp
  • Nescafé Unveils New Logo and Global Branding owl.li/z8inp
  • Cutting the High Cost of Digital Living -NYTimes.com owl.li/z8skH
  • Down but Not Out: The Uncertain Future of the Crossword Puzzle owl.li/z813W
  • FontShop Joins Monotype owl.li/zdNyi
  • Unexpected: Apple, IBM in Deal to Create Apps, Sell Phones - WSJ owl.li/zdLz9
  • Digitizing the Family History - NYTimes.comowl.li/z8s7b
  • How to Take Your Cellphone Abroad (and Not Come Home Broke) owl.li/z8rWs
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 14, 2014owl.li/zcRbK
  • Ikea Gets Into Your Dreams With Trippy, Shakespearean New Ad owl.li/z5FfU
  • Discover the Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 13,000 Live Concert Videosowl.li/z5DdB
  • The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/z5FaZ
  • The Power of Maps, Past and Presentowl.li/z5Da1
  • 100 Famous Directors’ Filmmaking Adviceowl.li/z5F7p
  • 15 Music Videos Filmed In One Shotowl.li/z5D8I
  • The CIA's Style Manual & Writer's Guide: 185 Pages of Tips for Writing Like a Spyowl.li/z5Dpm
  • Apple launches developer blog for new Swift programming language owl.li/z5keY
  • When Your Skin Smells Sandalwood Oil, It Heals Itself owl.li/z5Dol
  • Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/z5Df0
  • 11 Grammar Lessons From the Leaked CIA Style Book owl.li/z2kCj
  • Trust Us: The Ethics of Our Automated Futureowl.li/yYQcu
  • Secrets From The Brains Of 13 Creative Geniuses owl.li/z1AZc
  • Amazing: Museum of Natural History Announces First Adult-Only Sleepoverowl.li/yYQa3
  • The 20 most popular talks of all time: TED.comowl.li/z1jZ0
  • 10 Fashion and Beauty Items That Are Older Than You Think owl.li/yYQ6F
  • The 10 Most Viral Ads of 2014 (So Far)owl.li/z1jTZ
  • How to thrive in a world where change is constant owl.li/yW99b
  • TED Playlist: Kickstart your creativityowl.li/z13A0
  • The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/yYQrL
  • Do People Only Use 10% of Their Brains?owl.li/yW952
  • English Is The World's Top Borrower And Lender Of Words owl.li/yTdf1
  • Praise the artist who dances on the edgeowl.li/yVzEB
  • Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Emotions | MIT Technology Review owl.li/yTd15
  • Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Agoowl.li/yVzg5
  • Never-Before-Seen Photos Show How Gone With The Wind Was Made. owl.li/yTczs
  • What Will Happen To English As More And More People Worldwide Speak It? owl.li/yUfjv
  • Creativity: It’s not what we make, it’s how we live. owl.li/yTc0W
  • Disney Picks 11 Tech and Media Firms for Startup-Accelerator Program owl.li/yTdvF
  • A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity - NYTimes.com owl.li/yTdpB
  • Milton Glaser on Making Miracles on Vimeoowl.li/yTbiN
  • Ikea Built Something New: An Instagram Website owl.li/yPHMr
  • In 1938, the New York Times Thought Disney Toys Would Save the U.S. Economy owl.li/yTajk
  • 6 Surprising Things That Can Influence Your Dreams owl.li/yPHL0
  • The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything owl.li/yTa5V
  • Jake Scott Directs Jude Law in Stylish New Johnnie Walker Film To Be Shown at Venice Film Festival owl.li/yPHEj
  • Meet the game that shows us the future of storytelling owl.li/yT9Yg
  • 11 Photographs of Mysterious Megalithsowl.li/yPHAJ
  • New York Police Department's Facebook page now includes posts that read like newspaper articles - WSJ owl.li/yPWP7
  • The World's 17 Best Print Campaigns of 2013-14 owl.li/yPS8j
  • Norman Mailer's 1191-Page Harlot's Ghost Outlined in One Handwritten Sheetowl.li/yPHy0
  • Debate: Are We Trying To Save Arts Or Organizations? (Why Some Arts Organizations Should Die) owl.li/yONZw
  • Winners of the 2014 Apple Design Awardsowl.li/yOP8O
  • Wolf Trap to unveil supertitles on your smartphone for opera performancesowl.li/yONTm
  • Meet Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of Trust and Safety owl.li/yOOSD
  • Why the Research on Viewing TV Is Best Ignored - NYTimes.com owl.li/yONSh
  • Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections owl.li/yOOOE
  • Box-Office Data on New Met Productions Illustrate the Company's Struggle - WSJowl.li/yONRx

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: July 11, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • WSJ takes you inside Data Science Lab: Facebook Experiments Had Few Limitshttp://owl.li/yONI4
  • Dancing Can Help Senior Mobility – WebMDhttp://owl.li/yOO0h
  • They Have Seen the Future of the Internet, and It Is Dark http://owl.li/yOOMm
  • Box-Office Data on New Met Productions Illustrate the Company's Struggle - WSJhttp://owl.li/yONRx
  • Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections http://owl.li/yOOOE
  • Why the Research on Viewing TV Is Best Ignored - NYTimes.com http://owl.li/yONSh
  • Meet Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of Trust and Safety http://owl.li/yOOSD
  • Wolf Trap to unveil supertitles on your smartphone for opera performanceshttp://owl.li/yONTm
  • The Science of Us: Guide to Making Friendsowl.li/yONrQ
  • Fantastic list: Scientist biography recommendations owl.li/yONEC /via @kottke
  • Great article: What Facebook Knows | MIT Technology Review owl.li/yONra
  • This Typeface’s Letters Are the Average of the World’s Handwriting owl.li/yONxl
  • Why More Start-Ups Are Sharing Ideas Without Legal Protection owl.li/yONqD
  • The Rise of the Chief Marketing Technologist - Harvard Business Review owl.li/yONvd
  • The Cost of Continuously Checking Emailowl.li/yONpp
  • Pentagram Rebrands Philadelphia's Museum Of Art owl.li/yONuv
  • Projected 360º Installation Immerses Viewers in Breathtaking Virtual Universe owl.li/yONsJ
  • Neuroscientists Say We're Wired To Enjoy Artowl.li/yONnF
  • These Amazing Pictures Made the Shortlist For Astronomy Photographer of the Yearowl.li/yONiE
  • Don't Just Learn to Code, Learn How to Think Like a Computer Scientist owl.li/yONmk
  • Google CEO Larry Page Says Future Workforce Is Part Time owl.li/yONhN
  • Google’s Street View cameras are touring museums and taking weird selfies by accidentowl.li/yONlU
  • Internet Of Things Brings Harry Potter’s “Marauders Map” owl.li/yONhj
  • Neuroscientists Discover an Ignition Switch for Consciousness owl.li/yONlu
  • 794 Ways in Which BuzzFeed Reminds Us of Impending Death - NYTimes.com owl.li/yONe4
  • :TED-Ed: The art of the metaphor - Jane Hirshfield owl.li/yONlf
  • Q&A: Chris Carter on The X-Files and 'The '90s: The Last Great Decade' owl.li/yONkq
  • On Creativity: One subject, many points of view. owl.li/yOFVZ
  • Steven Pinker Uses Theories from Evolutionary Biology to Explain Why Academic Writing is So Bad owl.li/yOFJs
  • An Interactive Infographic of British Interior Design Trends by Decade (1950s to 2010s)owl.li/yOFQN
  • Philosophy: Free Courses Online owl.li/yOFIT
  • Here’s What the Leaders of Tech Told Graduates in 2014 - Digits - WSJ owl.li/yOFPE
  • 4 ways we stop ourselves from pursuing our dreams owl.li/yOFDU
  • Bono and Jonathan Ive Provide an Inside Look At The Success--And Future--Of (RED)owl.li/yOFOy
  • ▶ Fireworks filmed with a drone owl.li/yOFCQ
  • ‘This American Life’ Launching Spin-Off Storytelling Podcast ‘Serial’ in Fall 2014owl.li/yOFMm
  • IDEO: Shaping a School System, From the Ground Up - NYTimes.com owl.li/yOFKj
  • Check out the Spectrum events at The Metropolitan Museum of Art owl.li/yNCBo
  • New York Public Library Looks at Innovative Models for Renovation - WSJ owl.li/yNC07
  • Quantum Computing 101 with D-Wave;s Vern Brownell owl.li/yNCxu
  • Milestone: “Transformers” Movie Has Bigger Box Office In China Opening Week Than In North America owl.li/yNBSK
  • Quantum state may be a real thing | Ars Technica owl.li/yNCuV
  • NYC Pledges $23 Million to Arts Education in 2015 owl.li/yNBOp
  • Why It's Finally Time To Embrace Your Mobile Device As An Effective Working Toolowl.li/yNCtO
  • Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain owl.li/yNBNf
  • Visualizing Algorithms owl.li/yNClM
  • The journalism of Gabriel García Márquezowl.li/yNC58
  • More Americans streamed the USA vs. Germany World Cup match online than this year’s Super Bowl owl.li/yNBsd
  • How J.K. Rowling Plotted Harry Potter with a Hand-Drawn Spreadsheet owl.li/yG8Kk
  • 10 Significant Things You Likely Didn't Know About Social Media But Should owl.li/yNBix
  • 25 Minutes of Meditation Will Get Rid of Your Stress owl.li/yG8Hf
  • IBM's Watson supercomputer will help you cook in this new recipe app owl.li/yN7pg
  • Do Feelings Compute? If Not, The Turing Test Doesn't Mean Much owl.li/yG8CG
  • The Big Question: What is the future of online journalism? owl.li/yN7ka
  • Want: Cloud, An Interactive Speaker and Lamp Combination That Looks Like a Thundercloudowl.li/yG8z7
  • Madrid's parking meters now charge extra if you drive a fuel hog owl.li/yN7dI
  • Seth's Blog: How will you choose your next project? owl.li/yGGAR
  • Artistically Challenged: First Series To Air On Instagram Exclusively owl.li/yG8vN
  • How Pharrell's Creative Director Is Making The World Happy owl.li/yEtNt
  • Ad Age Survey: How Advertisers Are Spending on Facebook, Twitter and YouTubeowl.li/yFUJR
  • How GoPro Is Transforming Advertising As We Know It owl.li/yEs5v
  • Legend: @AmericanAir saved $100K/year by removing olives in salads. 2 MIT scienitsts checked: owl.li/yFUwE /via @NateSilver538
  • 6 Scientifically Proven Ways To Boost Your Self-Control owl.li/yErPY
  • Films Inspired by Artworks owl.li/yEwb1
  • This Audio Illusion Reveals A Funny Quirk About Your Brain owl.li/yzOyU
  • 4 ways we stop ourselves from pursuing our dreams owl.li/yEvsw
  • Why The Future Of Marketing Belongs To Geeks AND Freaks owl.li/yEuwR
  • The World's 26 Best Commercials of 2013-14. The Grand Prix and gold Lion winners from Cannes owl.li/yyRok
  • The Generation Raised on Touchscreens Will Forever Alter Tech Design owl.li/yyR0b
  • Ebooks v paper. Which do our brains prefer?owl.li/yyRjm
  • New Research Shows Search Ads Drive Brand Awareness – Google owl.li/yyQSt
  • Newspaper Makes Deal With Arts Organization For More Arts Coverage (Pay To Play?)owl.li/yyRh5
  • ◉ Jane ni Dhulchaointigh: The Magic Is in The Process owl.li/yzBSz
  • The future of digital marketing will be built on fun owl.li/yyQRF
  • ◉ Recommended: Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries owl.li/yzAxv

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.