The Week’s Links: January 29, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Marvin Minsky's Vision of the Future: Great NYer profile of the AI pioneer. owl.li/XDCFR
  • Meet The Man Who Created Papyrus, The World's (Other) Most Hated Font owl.li/XDDgN
  • An Oral History Of The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster owl.li/XF2Hb
  • Exclusive: Inside Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" VR Project owl.li/XDDbs
  • The Urban Design Lesson Hidden in Blizzard 2016 owl.li/XBZCe
  • The Invention of Ambient Music owl.li/XBZug
  • Why Are Some People Habitually Late? owl.li/XBSkX
  • The Cameras That’ll Make the Super Bowl Way More Interesting This Year owl.li/XBWdm
  • The Information Missing From Those Super-Long Privacy Policies That No One Reads owl.li/XBtHh
  • Interactive timeline: listen to the #1 rap songs from 1989-2015 owl.li/XBTH1
  • The Vinyl Record Factory That Makes Your Niche Music Dreams Come True owl.li/XBZI9
  • Inside Facebook’s Decision to Blow Up the Like Button owl.li/XBtbe
  • 100 Years Later, Beatrix Potter's Tale Of A Fanciful Feline To Be Published owl.li/XBTFf
  • In Major AI Breakthrough, Google System Secretly Beats Top Player at the Ancient Game of Go owl.li/XBSMY
  • Virtual Reality Is Exploding at Sundance, and Could Soon Be in Your News Feed owl.li/Xzbxv
  • Next Big Test for AI: Making Sense of the World owl.li/Xzb0f
  • You Can Now Wander the Guggenheim Right on Your Computer | WIRED owl.li/XySZr
  • Next Big Test for AI: Making Sense of the World owl.li/XzaTr
  • The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind owl.li/XyKqJ
  • Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis owl.li/XyXW8
  • Unseen Beatrix Potter story featuring an older Peter Rabbit to be published owl.li/XyJtc
  • New Rapid Response Systems Blunt Cyberattacks owl.li/XzbAp
  • This Is 40,000 Years of London’s History—Made Entirely of Paper owl.li/XyXEI
  • After Nearly 50 Years, Niagara Falls Might Soon Run Dry Again owl.li/XyT2K
  • 5 Ideas We Need To Steal From Megacities With Great Subways owl.li/XvQ1T
  • This Fun Literature Project Replaces Google Ads With Short Stories owl.li/XvrNL
  • See The Entire Observable Universe Beautifully Rendered On Your Computer Screen owl.li/XtlSm
  • Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 - The New York Times owl.li/Xzd39
  • Droga5 Is the Ad Age and Creativity 2016 Agency of the Year owl.li/XvrJ0
  • To Make AI More Human, Teach It to Chitchat owl.li/XyJ7G
  • Using Public Domain Materials in the Classroom owl.li/Xt7KS
  • Creativity 2016 Innovators of the Year owl.li/Xvrzb
  • Old music is outselling new music for the first time in history | Chart Attack owl.li/Xt7Iw
  • Ad Age's 2016 Agency A-List owl.li/XvrsR
  • 8 Classic Novels Reduced To Their Punctuation owl.li/Xtm0V
  • What's the Difference Between a Street and a Road? owl.li/Xt7E3
  • Amid a surge in demand for rechargeable batteries, companies are scrambling for supplies of lithium owl.li/Xt7Dt
  • The strangest thing about Q-tips owl.li/XnzP9
  • Watch this robot solve a Rubik's Cube in about a second owl.li/Xt7v6
  • Discovery Of Ancient Massacre Suggests War Predated Settlements owl.li/XnzLV
  • How Well Do You Handle Uncertainty? Take This Quiz to Find Out owl.li/Xt7rR
  • The 20 Most Influential Academic Books of All Time: No Spoilers owl.li/XnzJd
  • Tracing Sriracha's Origin to a Seaside Town in Thailand owl.li/Xt6XN
  • Updated: Five Execs Leave Twitter owl.li/Xvcli
  • Google Is Offering A Free Online Class About Deep Learning owl.li/Xt7EL
  • How do they grow plants in space. owl.li/XswLb
  • Read This: A guided tour through David Bowie’s personal record collection owl.li/Xnwg4
  • When Concorde First Flew 40 Years Ago, It Was a Supersonic Sight to Behold owl.li/XmOvi
  • 7 Million Hand-inked Dots by Artist Xavier Casalta owl.li/XmwzS
  • The Fairy Tales That Predate Christianity owl.li/XmO56
  • The top 10 opening shots in film owl.li/Xmwwg
  • 130 Years of Coke Taglines owl.li/XmK3e
  • What Branding Experts Think About Coca-Cola’s New Product-Centric Campaign owl.li/XkUcY
  • New blood test can tell bacterial from viral respiratory infections (Wired UK) owl.li/XmCQG
  • 15 fun things to type into Google owl.li/XnwjZ
  • Could just two people repopulate Earth? owl.li/XmwHq
  • Evidence Stacks Up for a Planet Beyond Pluto owl.li/XkU4F
  • Can The Internet Predict The Oscars? owl.li/XkgIn
  • Everything We Know About Ukraine’s Power Plant Hack owl.li/Xk47E
  • Photographs of the Futuristic Antarctic Ice Station That Can Move On Skis owl.li/Xkger
  • Scientists Find Hints Of A Giant, Hidden Planet In Our Solar System owl.li/XjYUs
  • Go Inside The Work Of Salvador Dali With Surreal New Virtual Reality Experience owl.li/Xk9to
  • Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers owl.li/XjYLm
  • Jazz ‘Hot’: The Rare 1938 Short Film With Jazz Legend Django Reinhardt owl.li/XkU8f
  • VFX Bake-Off: From "Fury Road" To "The Force Awakens," VFX Oscar Contenders Talk CGI Challenges owl.li/Xk8da
  • You Don't Know as Much as You Think: False Expertise owl.li/Xk59w
  • Fantastic 99pi podcast on credit card origins: The Fresno Drop owl.li/XjPVN
  • Why Designers Love The Ampersand owl.li/XjDQJ
  • How to Answer the 31 Most Common Interview Questions owl.li/XhN2S
  • Look Up In The Sky To See Five Planets Align owl.li/XjDK7
  • 20 years ago today, NYTimes.comdebuted “on-line” on the web owl.li/XpXwE
  • A Brilliant MIT Invention Makes Incandescent Bulbs As Efficient As LEDs owl.li/XhFN9
  • Motherboard's comprehensive series on sleep. owl.li/XhW1P
  • Largest Prime Number Ever Found Is 22 Million Digits Long — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/XhtWB
  • Derek Zoolander Hits the Cover of Vogue -- for Real - Print (image) - Creativity Online owl.li/XhURT
  • Japan’s Arcane Pictogram System Gets a Much-Needed Update owl.li/XjYIj
  • How to use data to make a hit TV show owl.li/XhN9C
  • New NYTimes site: Times Machine - Over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. owl.li/Xp6oC

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: January 15, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Fascinating 1920s and 1930s Book Jackets From the NY Public Library owl.li/WRZbH
  • The White House Is Joining With Genius to Annotate History | WIRED owl.li/WV1ZP
  • 3 ways the brain creates meaning owl.li/WUmAg
  • We asked 15 typographers to describe their favorite letterforms. Here's what they told us. owl.li/WM2CU
  • The Tech Behind Netflix's Worldwide Expansion Is a Big Deal for the Whole Internet owl.li/WM2yS
  • ◉ The story of the legendary CalArts in a video produced by Walt Disney Productions owl.li/WRD5I
  • The Dark Web Now Hosts a Major News Site owl.li/WLRU2
  • When Should a Robot Say No to Its Human Owner? owl.li/WM0Fn
  • Canadians Are Cutting $20 Bills In Half To Create A New, Locals-Only Currency owl.li/WLH5h
  • 28 Authors on the Books That Changed Their Lives owl.li/WLUZR
  • ◉ David Bowie On Feeling Safe On What You Are Working On - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/13…
  • These Photos Show New York's Disappearing Mom-And-Pop Stores owl.li/WLGQg
  • Researchers see potential role for dance in treating neurodegenerative disorders owl.li/WLU6A
  • Six Photographers Each Have A Photo Session With The Same Man - The Results Will Definitely Surprise You! - Most... owl.li/WOt9z
  • George Orwell Explains in a Revealing 1944 Letter Why He’d Write 1984 owl.li/WLTMX
  • Why mathematicians find math thrilling owl.li/WLcML
  • Meet the “Telharmonium,” the First Synthesizer (and Predecessor to Muzak), Invented in 1897 owl.li/WLcDS
  • ◉ Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind owl.li/WRCXW
  • 18th-Century Souvenirs From Epic Festivals Held on the Frozen River Thames owl.li/WL9o6
  • Eight countries. 2,055 nuclear tests. 71 years – mapped owl.li/WLbf4
  • 3 Timeless Rules for Making Tough Decisions owl.li/WL8Pt
  • Top 10 in Arts Education 2015 | ARTS Blog owl.li/WLasI
  • How to Teach Multiplication by Teaching Art - Education Week owl.li/WL8BD
  • ◉ “What do I want?” Here’s a better question -  smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/5/…
  • The Wisdom of Alan Watts in Four Thought-Provoking Animations owl.li/WLanz
  • Two Saturnian moons, lined up owl.li/WLgoi
  • Revolutionary Neuroscience Technique Slated for Human Clinical Trials owl.li/WL9HM
  • Lego a 'better investment than shares and gold' owl.li/WL8nS
  • Students Turn Leonardo da Vinci's Design Into the World's Longest Ice Bridge owl.li/WL7V6
  • ◉ The Small Details (A TED Remix) owl.li/WRCKs
  • The business case against overtime owl.li/WHLVE
  • Tech Wizardry Solves Mysteries of Egypt’s Royal Mummies owl.li/WIOw8
  • Some very useful tips and tricks for Mac OS X users : Part 1 owl.li/WFbPK
  • In the age of big data, arts are a refuge for idiosyncrasy - The Buffalo News owl.li/WIOkA
  • The only technique to learn something new owl.li/WF6b6
  • ◉ Study Finds That Smart People Live Longer Than Not-Smart People - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/5/…
  • A Radical Reinterpretation of Einstein’s Theory — NOVA Next | PBS owl.li/WIriv
  • 10 Most Exciting SciTech Advances of 2015 - Singularity HUB owl.li/WL8tC
  • What We Expect to See in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in 2016 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WIlDA
  • An Arcane Patent Law May Decide Crispr’s Big Legal Fight owl.li/WEZm5
  • How one scientist is growing miniature brains in her lab owl.li/WEZ9M
  • ◉ How "Eureka!" Affects the Brain owl.li/WRCCu
  • Richard Sapper, Designer Of IBM's ThinkPad, Has Died owl.li/WEUTT
  • Gallery: How to speak jellyfish owl.li/WEZ4K
  • Next-Gen Wi-Fi Will Actually Connect the Internet of Things owl.li/WEUmF
  • This Image of the Universe Captures Its Immensity owl.li/WEWQi
  • ◉ Recommended: The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • ◉ The Hollywood Reporter's Director Oscar Roundtable - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/1/5/…
  • This perfect photo of a kingfisher was 720,00 pictures in the making owl.li/WETaR
  • Five New Habits That Will Make You More Organized In 2016 owl.li/WEV4z
  • See Police Sketches Of Literary Characters Made Using Book Descriptions owl.li/WF2Ik
  • The Next Phase Of UX: Designing Chatbot Personalities owl.li/WEUX1
  • When Do You Become an Adult? - The Atlantic owl.li/WESL8
  • Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction - The New York Times owl.li/WEGVV
  • Wow, There Were Just So Many Hacks in 2015 owl.li/WyYH2
  • Meet The Inventor of Auto-Tune owl.li/WCE7X
  • Disney’s Awesome New Robot Can Climb Walls owl.li/WyYsW
  • 4 new elements complete periodic table’s seventh row | PBS NewsHour owl.li/WCDGr
  • These Are the Oldest Trees on the Planet owl.li/Wylzz
  • Here's How Your Brain Prevents You From Following Your Intentions owl.li/WCs7t
  • Queen: We Are the Champions, isolated vocals owl.li/WESSU
  • Can upstarts like Vice and Buzzfeed keep their cool? owl.li/WCrJr
  • British Library digitizes George III's massive map collection owl.li/Wy2b1
  • The Untold Story Of The Invention Of The Game Cartridge owl.li/Wwh7m
  • 10 Unsung Graphic Design Visionaries You Should Know owl.li/WuH0O
  • RSC takes Shakespeare to China owl.li/Wwgfx
  • A New Doc Reveals How Cartoonists Get Their Work In "The New Yorker" owl.li/WuGOJ
  • The Year in Game-Changing Journalism: The Best Articles from 2015 owl.li/WwgeE
  • China Box Office Grows Astonishing 49 Percent in 2015, Hits $6.78 Billion - Hollywood Reporter owl.li/WuGpG
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's LLC Could Be the New Face of Philanthropy | Big Think owl.li/Wylxo
  • Bruno Munari Will Make You Fall In Love With Books All Over Again owl.li/WuH4C
  • Michael Bierut On How Graphic Design Can Accomplish Close To Anything owl.li/WuH2k
  • Read This Google Email About Time Management Strategy owl.li/WtLrU
  • Here Are the Best Things That Happened During Every Day of 2015 owl.li/WtKWp
  • ◉ Statistics (A TED Remix) owl.li/WCC8G
  • Extremely Detailed Woodcut Print Completed After 3 Years of Meticulous Hand-Carving owl.li/WtJlI
  • George Saunders Demystifies the Art of Storytelling in a Short Animated Documentary owl.li/WtKsw
  • Caffeine Junkies, Rejoice! Coffee Just Got Cheaper owl.li/WtJk2
  • 28 Tips for Writing Stories from Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald owl.li/WtKnt
  • Researchers Discover Glow-In-The-Dark Shark owl.li/WtJii
  • I read 164 books in 2015 and tracked them all in a spreadsheet. Here's what I learned. owl.li/WtJrR
  • Peak TV: Surge From Streaming Services, Cable Pushes 2015 Scripted Series Tally to 409 owl.li/WtLv9
  • 5 brainiac brain facts (illustrated by TED-Ed GIFs) owl.li/WtJnV
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Antonio Ortiz

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

The Week's Links: January 8, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • I read 164 books in 2015 and tracked them all in a spreadsheet. Here's what I learned. owl.li/WtJrR
  • Peak TV: Surge From Streaming Services, Cable Pushes 2015 Scripted Series Tally to 409 owl.li/WtLv9
  • 5 brainiac brain facts (illustrated by TED-Ed GIFs) owl.li/WtJnV
  • Hear 6 Classic Philip K. Dick Stories Adapted as Vintage Radio Plays owl.li/WtHd5
  • A Fascinating Case Study by Oliver Sacks Inspires a Short Animated Film, The Lost Mariner owl.li/WtHbu
  • ◉ Ten rules for writing fiction continued owl.li/WCBY2
  • In 1911, Thomas Edison Predicts What the World Will Look Like in 2011: Smart Phones, No Poverty,... owl.li/WtGqG
  • The Real Science of Introversion (and the Rest of Personality) owl.li/WtH4E
  • ◉ Rochelle King: Your Biggest Rival is Your Best Asset - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
  • 1150 Free Online Courses from Top Universities owl.li/WtFZK
  • Why Creativity is a Numbers Game owl.li/WtH2A
  • ◉ Recommended: The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Copyranter: The 5 best ads you didn't see this year - Digiday owl.li/WtFXY
  • Inside the Making of Serial Season Two owl.li/WtHsg
  • Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of... owl.li/WtGwH
  • Watch 34 of Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References to Citizen Kane, Blade Runner, 8 1/2 & Other Great Films owl.li/WtGso
  • The New York Times Magazine’s Best Photos of 2015 - The New York Times owl.li/WtFNa
  • Shot-By-Shot Breakdowns of Spielberg’s Filmmaking in Jaws, Scorsese’s in Cape Fear, and De... owl.li/WtFJg
  • ◉ The Difficulty of Estimating Time and the Planning Fallacy owl.li/WCBRC
  • 2015: The Year in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WtFnI
  • Hear Tom Lehrer Sing the Names of 102 Chemical Elements to the Tune of Gilbert & Sullivan owl.li/WtFEr
  • ◉ 16 mobile theses by Benedict Evans - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
  • The Best Technology GIFs of the Year | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WtFjZ
  • How a Good Night’s Sleep — and a Bad Night’s Sleep — Can Enhance Your Creativity owl.li/WtFCO
  • ◉ Recommended: Lois Greenfield: Moving Still - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • NASA Releases a Spectacular Earthrise Image Captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter owl.li/WtELK
  • Discover The Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 22,000 Live Concert Videos owl.li/WtFyS
  • TED Playlist: Slow down! Enjoy life. owl.li/WtFUw
  • How to Get Started: John Cage’s Approach to Starting the Difficult Creative Process owl.li/WtFy7
  • A Graphic Designer Explains What Makes a Logo Great and Why They Ultimately Don’t Matter Much on... owl.li/WtECh
  • My Life In Monsters, A Documentary About the Work of Star Wars and Jurassic Park Stop-Motion... owl.li/WtEAp
  • ◉ Deep Focus: Freedom of movement in eight of the greatest long takes ever owl.li/WCBKB
  • The Thrilling Uncertainty of the Understudy - The New Yorker owl.li/WtDM1
  • Astronaut Leland Melvin Explains the Physical Changes That Happen to a Person’s Body in Space owl.li/WtEvO
  • Our 14 Best Design Longreads Of 2015 owl.li/WtDHV
  • ◉ How Arts and Culture Add to City Economies - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
  • Ambitious Journalist Attempts to Photograph 12,000 Endangered Animals Before They Become Extinct owl.li/WtEpk
  • ◉ Recommended: Shakespeare's Freedom (The Rice University Campbell Lectures) - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Why You Should Go to the Movies (and Do Other Stuff) Alone owl.li/WtDGt
  • A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How Google Tests Its Enormous Project Loon Internet Balloons owl.li/WtEhu
  • A Beautiful Aerial Tour of Venice, California Taken During the Quiet of Sunrise owl.li/WtEIt
  • Five Legal Cases Changing the Art Market as We Know It owl.li/WtDOQ
  • 16 Insane Construction Projects That Will Be Completed in 2016 owl.li/WtDmj
  • The Most Infuriating Science Stories of the Past 12 Months | WIRED owl.li/WtCbm
  • ◉ Stephen Fry: What I Wish I Had Known When I Was 18 owl.li/WCBsz
  • 15 Habits That Will Totally Transform Your Productivity owl.li/WsKyg
  • ◉ Deep Focus: Freedom of movement in eight of the greatest long takes ever owl.li/WCBy5
  • The 7 Best Train Trips in the World owl.li/WtC8d
  • ◉ The birth of the web - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/12/3…
  • 9 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Architecture owl.li/WsKnT
  • Your Creative Calendar: 67 Things To Do, See, and Hear In January owl.li/WC4RF
  • Science Fiction That Came to Life This Year owl.li/WtC63
  • ◉ Recommended: Dancers Among Us: A Celebration of Joy in the Everyday - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Your Creative Calendar: 67 Things To Do, See, and Hear In January owl.li/WBJK5
  • Student Develops An Ingenious Building Material That Shapeshifts In Response To Rain owl.li/WsKke
  • The funny, the weird, the elaborate, the terrible – 33 media errors from 2015 | Poynter. owl.li/WsTN2
  • The Ford Foundation’s Quest to Fix the World owl.li/WtDCV
  • Beautiful, Fleeting Moments of the World’s Best Dancers in Action  owl.li/WsTIp
  • Americans conflicted about sharing personal information with companies owl.li/WsKaC
  • Apple Gets Arty With New Artist Collaboration And Creative Workshops owl.li/WsK3t
  • The New Yorker 15 most read blog posts of 2015 owl.li/Wrycz
  • Yes, Star Wars Is the Original Action Blockbuster. It’s Also a Postmodern Masterpiece. owl.li/WryVe
  • 100 Insanely Interesting People You Should Know — Unmistakable Creative owl.li/Wry9i
  • Arts Education Is Growing in NYC Public Schools owl.li/WryKs
  • Morning People Vs. Night Owls: 9 Insights Backed By Science owl.li/Wry12
  • 8 Fascinating Things We Learned About The Mind In 2015 owl.li/WryIZ
  • 5 Steps To Re-create Xerox PARC's Design Magic (From The Guy Who Helped Make It) owl.li/WsKe7
  • Ancient Pompeii Is Alive Again as Italian Officials Unveil Six Restored Ruins owl.li/WryxK
  • 13 Brilliant Outdoor Ads That Dazzled the Real World in 2015 owl.li/WrxYs
  • Looking Back At The World Changing Ideas Of 2015 owl.li/WrxXt
  • What percentage of your brain do you use? - Richard E. Cytowic owl.li/WrwK9
  • Your Must-Listen Podcast Playlist For 2016 owl.li/WrxWS
  • Maps of the Earth's Most Cursed Destinations owl.li/WrwGS
  • Research-Based Ways to Win at Work in 2016 owl.li/WrxRJ
  • From Google to Hillary to Snoop Dogg's pot candies, we look back on some of the year's best branding owl.li/WrwCm
  • The Smartest Fashion Designs Of 2015 owl.li/WrxZm
  • Year in Review: The Best and Worst Ads of 2015 - WSJ owl.li/WrxPK
  • Researchers: Dance Helps Mitigate Symptoms Of Parkinson’s owl.li/WrxOt
  • Quiz: Can You Match the Brand With Its Original Logo? owl.li/WrwwY
  • 2015 Year in Pictures: Part I - The Boston Globe owl.li/Wrwsy
  • The next Stage of Machine Learning: Teach Robots to Think Like Humans | Big Think owl.li/Wrwgs
  • What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole owl.li/Wrwke
  • A Tantalizingly Simple Theory of Brain Disease owl.li/Wqqet
  • Here’s How Nintendo Transformed Itself in Just a Year owl.li/WrwjP
  • Brand New: The Best and Worst Identities of 2015, Part 1: The Most Notable Reviewed owl.li/Wqqc7
  • Welcome to the Deserted Island Vacation Directory owl.li/Wrwj3
  • The Best WIRED Photo Stories of the Year owl.li/Wrwz8
  • China Is Teaching Kids to Code Much, Much Earlier than the U.S. | Big Think owl.li/Wrwha

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: January 2, 2016

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • 13 Brilliant Outdoor Ads That Dazzled the Real World in 2015 owl.li/WrxYs
  • Looking Back At The World Changing Ideas Of 2015 owl.li/WrxXt
  • What percentage of your brain do you use? - Richard E. Cytowic owl.li/WrwK9
  • Your Must-Listen Podcast Playlist For 2016 owl.li/WrxWS
  • Maps of the Earth's Most Cursed Destinations owl.li/WrwGS
  • Research-Based Ways to Win at Work in 2016 owl.li/WrxRJ
  • From Google to Hillary to Snoop Dogg's pot candies, we look back on some of the year's best branding owl.li/WrwCm
  • The Smartest Fashion Designs Of 2015 owl.li/WrxZm
  • Year in Review: The Best and Worst Ads of 2015 - WSJ owl.li/WrxPK
  • Researchers: Dance Helps Mitigate Symptoms Of Parkinson’s owl.li/WrxOt
  • Quiz: Can You Match the Brand With Its Original Logo? owl.li/WrwwY
  • 2015 Year in Pictures: Part I - The Boston Globe owl.li/Wrwsy
  • The next Stage of Machine Learning: Teach Robots to Think Like Humans | Big Think owl.li/Wrwgs
  • What's the difference between accuracy and precision? - Matt Anticole owl.li/Wrwke
  • A Tantalizingly Simple Theory of Brain Disease owl.li/Wqqet
  • Here’s How Nintendo Transformed Itself in Just a Year owl.li/WrwjP
  • Brand New: The Best and Worst Identities of 2015, Part 1: The Most Notable Reviewed owl.li/Wqqc7
  • Welcome to the Deserted Island Vacation Directory owl.li/Wrwj3
  • The Best WIRED Photo Stories of the Year owl.li/Wrwz8
  • China Is Teaching Kids to Code Much, Much Earlier than the U.S. | Big Think owl.li/Wrwha
  • How Long Before You Can Use Your 2015 Calendar Again? owl.li/Wqq30
  • NYPL's Most Popular Check Outs of 2015 owl.li/Wqq0p
  • In the Future, Brain Scans Might Be Able to Predict Who Will Benefit From Cognitive Behavioral... owl.li/WqpM2
  • Adweek's 10 Most Read Technology Stories of 2015 owl.li/WqpX8
  • A Giant Squid Visits a Japanese Harbor owl.li/WqpJO
  • DJ Earworm's Year-End Mashup Hits A Nostalgic Groove owl.li/WqpSQ
  • 2015: The Year in Charts owl.li/WqpvR
  • Working At A Cookie Factory Ruined Cookies For Me Forever owl.li/WqpQc
  • How Well Do You Handle Uncertainty? Take This Quiz to Find Out owl.li/Wqq5h
  • Top 10 Title Sequences of 2015 owl.li/WqpOb
  • Here are the Winning Images of National Geographic's 2015 Photo Contest owl.li/WqprF
  • How to Trick Yourself Into Cleaning owl.li/WqoVf
  • The 22 Best Photo Essays Of 2015 owl.li/WnzQC
  • The Scientific Case for Low Expectations on New Year’s Eve owl.li/WqoQ3
  • 13 Media and Advertising ‘Trends’ in 2015 That Never Happened owl.li/Wnz2T
  • Peek Inside The Gorgeous Notebooks Of Professional Soccer Broadcasters owl.li/WnBw4
  • The Six Most Interesting Psychology Papers of 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/Wny7W
  • NASA Releases Photos Of Mysterious "Geoglyphs" In Kazakhstan owl.li/WnBtS
  • How memories form and how we lose them - Catharine Young owl.li/WqptP
  • Ten Brand Ideas Creativity Loved in 2015 owl.li/WnBs3
  • From Kit Kat to Coca-Cola: The 10 Best Holiday Ads of 2015 owl.li/WnxT1
  • Co.Create's Best of 2015 (And Most Anticipated of 2016) owl.li/WnxPW
  • A tech resolution for the new year: Better tech literacy for all. owl.li/Wmqws
  • Four Key Things to Keep an Eye On in Virtual Reality in 2016 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Wnwm2
  • You Can Now Explore 360-Degree Videos On Apple TV, No VR Headset Required owl.li/Wmqdz
  • The Best Biomedicine Stories of 2015 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/Wnwjp
  • TSA threatens to stop accepting driver's licenses from nine states as of Jan 10 owl.li/Wqpiq
  • Inside the Making of Serial Season Two owl.li/Wmq19
  • Beethoven composition discovered in Greenwich owl.li/WmqG1
  • The Wisdom of the Aged owl.li/WnxZh
  • Cord Cutting Survey: 19% of Young Adults Have Dropped Cable or Satellite TV Service owl.li/WmqCN
  • When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming owl.li/WmpUY
  • The Toughest of 2015 owl.li/WmpIn
  • IBM's Watson Can Figure Out A Lot About You--Just By Looking At Your Social Media owl.li/WmpdR
  • The Commercial Zen of Muji - The New Yorker owl.li/Wmptm
  • Graphic Design Trends 2016: 40+ Predictions - HOW Design owl.li/Wmp4L
  • Traditional Toys May Beat Gadgets in Language Development owl.li/Wmppq
  • Check out The Verge's best longform stories from 2015 owl.li/Wmp1r
  • Who Is The Next Bob Fosse? Iconic Dancers Weigh In On The Future of Musical Theatre Dance owl.li/WmpWa
  • Argentina's Outgoing President Won’t Let Go of Social Media Accounts owl.li/WmpmQ
  • 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015: Where Are They Now? owl.li/Wmpj8
  • 10 Maps That Will Change How You View The World owl.li/WjOzW
  • Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy — Backchannel owl.li/WjNzK
  • A Master Algorithm Lets Robots Teach Themselves to Perform Complex Tasks owl.li/WjEXM
  • How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War owl.li/WjNy8
  • 6 Important Moments in Virtual Reality in 2015 | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WjEWM
  • The Science to Look Out for in 2016 owl.li/WjLY5
  • All the sounds you never knew you wanted to hear owl.li/WjEHZ
  • Tube Benders owl.li/WjKqn
  • Ideas That Moved Us in 2015 — The Story owl.li/WjPcV
  • A Look at the Numbers Behind Some of 2015’s Biggest Tech Stories | MIT Technology Review owl.li/WjEYq
  • Inside the Hamilton Type Museum, Where You’re the Printer owl.li/WjEmS
  • A Tiny Icelandic Town 42 Years After a Devastating Volcanic Eruption owl.li/WjEi8
  • IBM's Watson Can Figure Out A Lot About You--Just By Looking At Your Social Media owl.li/WiNWI
  • Some objects are more clever than others. See our picks for 2015's most smartly designed products. owl.li/WjEe3
  • MIT's New Blockchain Project Enigma Wants To Let You Share Your Data On Your Terms owl.li/WiNW6
  • The cameras in our smartphones are already awesome. How can they get better? owl.li/WjE67
  • 7 Of The Most Interesting Maps Of 2015 owl.li/WiJ6y
  • The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/WjAHj
  • Information is Beautiful’s Most Popular Dataviz of 2015 | Information is Beautiful owl.li/WjEE1
  • The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/WjAAW
  • The sculpture gallery at the bottom of the sea owl.li/WhsG3
  • John Cleese’s Advice to Young Artists: “Steal Anything You Think Is Really Good” owl.li/Whrjx
  • A Cultural History of Rock-Paper-Scissors owl.li/Wh1KF
  • Let's deconstruct the logos of this year's presidential hopefuls owl.li/WhlM0
  • Paramount Now Streaming 175 Free Movies Online, Including Westerns, Thrillers & Crime Pictures owl.li/Wh1He
  • Facebook users solve mystery of 'ancient' relic unearthed in Jerusalem | World news | The Guardian owl.li/Wh8cW
  • Japanese bookshop stocks only one book at a time owl.li/Wh1F2
  • Lovely Rainy Day Photos That Look Like Oil Paintings owl.li/Wh80g
  • Our 14 Best Design Longreads Of 2015 owl.li/WiJ1Q
  • 5 ways to listen better owl.li/Wh1LZ
  • New York Public Library Gets Ready For Its Next Chapter owl.li/Wh1Aw
  • Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2015 owl.li/Wh1yT
  • These Are Co.Create's Top 10 Most Creative Ads Of 2015 owl.li/WgK3y
  • Why I taught myself 20 languages -- and what I learned about myself in the process owl.li/Wh1rG
  • Here's The Best Creative Advice We Received In 2015 owl.li/WgK0G
  • The ‘10 Commandments’ Of Typography That Every Good Designer Should Know - DesignTAXI.com owl.li/Wh1jP
  • The Most Pivotal Social Media Moments Of 2015 owl.li/WgJU8
  • How Many Megabytes of Data Can the Human Brain Hold? owl.li/Wh1gT
  • Photographs From the '50s Show a Very Different Penn Station owl.li/Wh1D8
  • 2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics owl.li/WgRwL
  • Pete Souza, Chief Official White House Photographer Year in Instagram owl.li/Wgz9y
  • The First Woman to Publish a Book in English Lived in One Room, Walled Off From Society owl.li/Wgyea
  • The 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2015 owl.li/Weu3K
  • The Best of 2015 - Dance Magazine owl.li/Wgy2R
  • Mister Rogers Message to his Neighbors owl.li/Wes5V
  • Neil Gaiman Reads Charles Dickens’s Original Performance Script for “A Christmas Carol” owl.li/Wf4Rd
  • Google News Lab: 5 Insights From Visualizing The News owl.li/WgJLH
  • 42 Years Of Pentagram's Ingenious Holiday Cards owl.li/WecF5
  • Our ten most popular explainers from 2015 owl.li/Wf3Jl
  • Research Confirms a Link between Intelligence and Life Expectancy owl.li/WeV0Z
  • The Best of 2015 - Dance Magazine owl.li/Wclq7
  • This Pie Chart Takes a Tally of All the Deaths in Shakespeare's Plays owl.li/WclmB
  • 17 Shakespeare Films Worth Watching owl.li/WbpXD
  • The Year in Pictures 2015 owl.li/Wclh7
  • Anatomy of a Hit owl.li/WbpIw
  • Why America Needs A National Theatre — But It Might Look Different Than You Think owl.li/Wclfd
  • 10 Pivotal Moments in 2015 for Opera and Classical owl.li/WerDA
  • The Creativity 50 2015: The Most Creative People of the Year owl.li/Wbnin
  • The Year's Boldest Ideas In User Interface Design owl.li/WebPz
  • How Your Siblings Affect Your Success According to Science owl.li/WbOpZ
  • Restoration Of A Frank Lloyd Wright Masterpiece Is An Exercise In Detective Work owl.li/WbG44
  • Secret Code Found in Juniper’s Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors owl.li/W8YaC
  • Cassini Bids Its Final Farewell to Saturn’s Moon Enceladus owl.li/W8Y8g
  • Amazing: Software from Disney Research Seamlessly Blends Faces from Different Takes owl.li/W5Bnf
  • How to change your genes by changing your lifestyle owl.li/W8Y4p
  • You’ll Be Outraged at How Easy It Was to Get You to Click on This Headline owl.li/W5AQd
  • 50 Posters that Rocked the World owl.li/W5GvM
  • The Best And Worst Branding of 2015 owl.li/Wbl0v
  • Longreads Best of 2015: Investigative Reporting owl.li/W5yib
  • Absurd Creature of the Week: The Littlest, Most Adorable-est Seahorse Fits on Your Fingernail owl.li/W5DFF
  • Magnetic Mystery of Earth's Early Core Explained owl.li/W5DAh
  • The Best Facts I Learned from Books in 2015 - The New Yorker owl.li/W5qac
  • What Makes An Image Memorable? This MIT AI Might Hold The Key owl.li/W5oim
  • TechTrends 2016 | frog owl.li/W2mC1
  • Congress Slips CISA Into a Budget Bill That’s Sure to Pass owl.li/W5ogp
  • Go behind the scenes at Bang & Olufsen, birthplace of some the world's most beautiful gadgets owl.li/W2fLE
  • How Do Americans Spend Their Time in an Average Day? owl.li/W2IOC
  • How to win at game theory owl.li/W23w5
  • Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe? owl.li/W2ILL
  • How boredom is becoming anything but boring owl.li/W5tuE
  • 9 Facts About People Who Remember Everything About Their Lives owl.li/W2IIs
  • The 2015 Jealousy List: The 38 Best Stories We Didn't Write owl.li/W1XR3
  • Illegal in Iceland: Quirky Bans From the Land of Fire and Ice owl.li/VZGcz
  • Google’s Year in Search Is Back and Better Than Ever owl.li/VZ5Up
  • How The World Looked When Jesus Was Born, According to Roman Geographers owl.li/VZGbc
  • Pew Research Center on Gaming and Gamers owl.li/VYxDQ
  • Longreads Best of 2015: Arts & Culture owl.li/VZuY1
  • TED Talks: The Year in Ideas 2015 owl.li/VVlkr
  • They’re Everywhere: The Five Guys Dominating New Ballet Choreography owl.li/VZt3O
  • EFF Publishes "Pwning Tomorrow," a Speculative Fiction Anthology owl.li/W1Y2E
  • Google’s Year in Search Is Back and Better Than Ever owl.li/VZgTl
  • The best book cover designs for 2015 owl.li/VVl9T
  • Top science stories of 2015 owl.li/VUTl1
  • ◉ Animated Taylor Mali Poem owl.li/VSaPy
  • Photos From The Lost Penn Station, Where Commuting Was Infinitely More Beautiful owl.li/VUqpR
  • Gallery: How caves give astronauts a preview of life in space owl.li/VUMOk
  • 22 Movies Roger Ebert Really Hated owl.li/VUqc4
  • The typography of Star Wars. owl.li/VUK2b
  • Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 owl.li/VUpuF
  • Researchers find the average number of swear words people can list in 60 seconds — and what it say about them. owl.li/VUqY7
  • The Year in Creative: 24 Trends That Drove Some of the Best Advertising in 2015 owl.li/VUqtA

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: December 18, 2015

ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • The Year in Creative: 24 Trends That Drove Some of the Best Advertising in 2015 owl.li/VUqtA
  • Researchers find the average number of swear words people can list in 60 seconds — and what it say about them. owl.li/VUqY7
  • Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101 owl.li/VUpuF
  • The typography of Star Wars. owl.li/VUK2b
  • Japanese Craftsman Masterfully Restores Old Book into Like-New Condition owl.li/VUpsh
  • How the Descendants of the Marquis de Sade Became Champions of His Once Taboo Legacy owl.li/VUpnI
  • ◉ Education (A TED Remix) owl.li/VSaH6
  • You Can Have Millions Of Subscribers On YouTube—And Still Be Flat Broke owl.li/VRDsL
  • IBM Opens Its Artificial Mind To The World owl.li/VUefH
  • 8 Tech Trends to Watch in 2016 owl.li/VRDdb
  • How Hamilton’s Free Preshow Performance Became the Best Thing on Broadway owl.li/VUboh
  • Trippy Video Shows How a Person's Face Changes Depending on the Lighting owl.li/VRCTr
  • The strange, healing properties of water zapped by lightning owl.li/VSdjU
  • Inside A Robot Eyeball, Science Will Decode Our Body Language owl.li/VRHJl
  • What Killed These Marine Reptiles Found in a Nevada Ghost Town? owl.li/VRCDE
  • 10 Key Design Trends For 2016 (And How To Make The Most Of Them) owl.li/VRwU1
  • ◉ What is a Maverick? owl.li/VSayz
  • Tensor Flow, Google’s AI Engine, Gains Traction Outside the Company | MIT Technology Review owl.li/VPDZ6
  • Photos Taken 100 Years Ago Capture Rare Look at Paris in Color owl.li/VRvEA
  • Why Google, Facebook, Microsoft and IBM Are Desperate to Give Away AI Technology | MIT Technology Review owl.li/VPDXJ
  • How BB-8—A Rolling Robot in a Galaxy Far, Far Away—Changed Everything for Sphero owl.li/VRvB0
  • Machine Learning Inspired by Human Learning | MIT Technology Review owl.li/VPDWx
  • Star Wars’ $4 Billion Price Tag Was the Deal of the Century owl.li/VRsUN
  • History through the eyes of the potato - Leo Bear-McGuinness owl.li/VRCJx
  • If Daniel Kahneman Had a Magic Wand He’d Rid the Human Race of Overconfidence owl.li/VRsRm
  • Canada’s New Typeface Unifies the Country’s Many Languages owl.li/VPDQf
  • Neil Gaiman’s notebooks owl.li/VPDE2
  • ◉ Best Illusion of the Year Contest Winner owl.li/VSarU
  • The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude owl.li/VPD1t
  • Kickstarter hires reporter to probe startup that collapsed after raising $3.4M owl.li/VPDjG
  • How did dancing with LED-lined gloves become a Shark Tank-approved, multimillion-dollar industry? owl.li/VPCZK
  • See the Graceful Way Ballet Dancers Deal With a Layover owl.li/VPD5q
  • The Top Books of 2015 - The New York Times owl.li/VPCXk
  • How to dive with a colony of penguins in the arctic owl.li/VPDR6
  • How ‘South Park’ Perfectly Captures Our Era of Outrage owl.li/VPD4f
  • How the Universal Symbols for Escalators, Restrooms, and Transport Were Designed owl.li/VPD2U
  • The Turley Effect: can a rogue designer make MTV cool again? owl.li/VPCSv
  • The Top 10 Music Videos of 2015, According to YouTube owl.li/VPCPu
  • ◉ Carol Dweck's Attitude About Intelligence owl.li/VSamJ
  • How did coffee go from dietary no-no to health drink? - Timeline owl.li/VPBNo
  • Star Wars: The Force Accounted owl.li/VPCNy
  • How to find your voice owl.li/VPAHx
  • 2015: The Year in Photos, January-April owl.li/VPCK2
  • Want to Create Things That Matter? Be Lazy. owl.li/VOu2w
  • Artists Are Turning New York City's Ugly Metal Gates Into Stunning Street Art owl.li/VPBQx
  • Swoon Over 18 Of This Year’s Most Beautiful Book Covers owl.li/VPCVh
  • The First Language You Learn Changes How You Hear All Other Languages After owl.li/VPBPi
  • Here’s How London Is Making Its Shiny New Tunnels Ready for Trains owl.li/VOtAP
  • Tracking down the elusive bitcoin founder | PBS NewsHour owl.li/VOtAi
  • How Popular People’s Brains Are Different owl.li/VJzAk
  • Elon Musk + Sam Altman Launch OpenAI Nonprofit That Will Use AI To "Benefit Humanity" owl.li/VOtzB
  • The Smartphone is Eating the Television, Nielsen Admits owl.li/VJmmR
  • This pill may be a cure for radiation poisoning owl.li/VOtyk
  • In 2015, Netflix became a legitimate TV network. Now what? owl.li/VOtDb
  • Where Frida Kahlo got her style. owl.li/VJmlm
  • How to Spot Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto | MIT Technology Review owl.li/VOtx8
  • Bedtime Stories and Ridiculous Deadlines: How Adam McKay Makes Blockbusters owl.li/VOtuP
  • How Fiction Grabs Readers In an Increasingly Distracted World owl.li/VJm8G
  • The Smartphone is Eating the Television, Nielsen Admits owl.li/VJlC9
  • Why New Zealand Spent $9M Killing 14 Flies — How We Get To Next owl.li/VJgz8
  • The 21 Best Longform Food Stories of 2015 owl.li/VJlkT
  • Five Pioneering Music Videos You’ve Probably Never Seen — How We Get To Next owl.li/VJgvq
  • See The Animals That Have Already Died Off As The Pace Of Extinction Speeds Up owl.li/VJkO2
  • Putting Music on a Map — How We Get To Next owl.li/VJgqj
  • Mailbox's Death Shows Good Design Alone Can't Unbreak Email owl.li/VJidB
  • Here’s Why You Should Be Excited for Margaret Atwood’s First Graphic Novel,  Angel Catbird owl.li/VJmdb
  • Rotterdam's Grand Experiment With Architecture That Mutates Over Time owl.li/VJicl
  • MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object owl.li/VJg7y
  • Can Next-Generation Compression Save Streaming Video From Looming Data Caps? owl.li/VJfDf
  • ◉ Carol Dweck's Attitude About Intelligence owl.li/Vy01K
  • A Cloud-Free View of Planet Earth Offers a New Way to Track Crops and Natural Disasters | MIT Technology Review owl.li/VCUY5
  • Clash Of Clans And Angry Liam Neeson Lead YouTube's Top Ads Of 2015 owl.li/VGJns
  • This Lego Color Chart Contains Every Color Lego Ever owl.li/VCRlG
  • Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius owl.li/VGJjU
  • How You Record Ideas May Impact Creativity owl.li/VCPUX
  • The Hyperloop's Testing Its Propulsion System Next Month owl.li/VGJiM
  • Coping With The Age Of Automation: Relax, Retrain, And Redistribute owl.li/VGJhe

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.