Experiences Eventized: Links

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• Organized fun: who’s it all for? - Former London dweller returns to the city and discovers that something has changed. Gone is the habit of popping into a just-discovered club or exhibition. Thanks to the "experience economy", everything is now "strangely occupational". Every event is marketed and monetised, and usually sells out in advance. All of this organised fun is "the antidote to, and the accelerator of, alienation." (The Face via The Browser)

• Your Favorite Podcast Is Probably an ‘Experience’ Now - In an effort to keep listeners’ attention, teams behind “My Favorite Murder” and other shows are creating IRL events. (Wired)

• When Everything Becomes an Event - Historically, events have been vital community-building tools and catalysts for action. Every culture, including the most ancient and obscure, has its repertoire of events that marks various milestones, commemorates the past, and molds community while serving as an outlet for emotions. Still, what we have seen in the last three years is another generation of events—not entirely created, but certainly ushered in, by the pandemic and our use of virtual event platforms. This new breed of events is a turn from the extraordinary to the mundane. (Slate)


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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.

Meta, Physical: Links

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Here are a few links on the current state of play in the evolution towards spatial computing:

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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.

Typography Today: Links

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Some links about typography for you to explore:

  • The end of Type 1: A significant milestone for font users has arrived: This month, Adobe is shipping several application updates which remove support for the original PostScript font format known as Type 1. Whether this change affects you or not depends quite a lot on how far back you and your work go. If some of your work dates back 20 years, some potential problems are lurking around the corner. (via Type Network)

  • Five typography trends set to make waves in 2023: This year’s trends are all about what’s underneath. From code and generative typography to type as a political tool, how and why we create type will be driving what’s coming next. (via It’s Nice That)

  • Monotype’s annual type trends report for 2023.

  • Type Design Resources: A growing, public, collaborative collection of type design resources. Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.

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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.

Failure: The Week's Links

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

  • Good news: Mobile readers want more news, and want be to more loyal too buff.ly/2zna7I1

  • Quitting Instagram: She’s one of the millions disillusioned with social media. But she also helped create it. buff.ly/2FCKaJU

  • How Nature Impacts Your Creativity with Florence Williams buff.ly/2S8h0DA

  • The Woman Who Reinvented the Moon: A MacArthur “genius grant” winner writes a new lunar origin story. buff.ly/2qYkcWO

  • How To Find Your Calling, According to Psychology buff.ly/2Ae1Khn

  • The Challenge of Eating Alone In Public buff.ly/2TuXCSO

  • When the runway ends: Jana Kleitsch, CEO of Wanderlust Society, writes about the other F word—failure. buff.ly/2S28A0s

  • The strange, surprisingly radical roots of the shopping mall buff.ly/2jmbVfs

  • Behind Dense Discovery: creating a fully customised weekly newsletter buff.ly/2S5GH7R

  • A Space of Their Own, a New Online Database, Will Feature Works by 600+ Overlooked Female Artists from the 15th-19th Centuries buff.ly/2AV9Qgc

  • Hundreds of Wonderful Japanese Firework Designs from the Early-1900s: Digitized and Free to Download buff.ly/2DfXfGe

  • 7 Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction buff.ly/2B4Xr9w

  • NASA Digitizes 20,000 Hours of Audio from the Historic Apollo 11 Mission: Stream Them Free Online buff.ly/2zYdMuY

  • Why Fashion Brands All Use the Same Style Font buff.ly/2S505Sm

  • The latest Mars-bound craft arrives in a few days’ time buff.ly/2RbrToc

  • 11 Creatives on Working Through Imposter Syndrome buff.ly/2TvFCrI

  • How Data Drove Amazon Towards Two New HQs – Financial Times – Medium buff.ly/2T0rWol

  • From Gene Editing to A.I., How Will Technology Transform Humanity? buff.ly/2A7XWOC

  • Download 569 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art buff.ly/2A6X6BC

  • The Columnists on Secrets: Leaders in the Arts, Entertainment and Other Fields Describe the Power of Secrets buff.ly/2AbQ1js

  • David Chang’s Culinary Universe Is Still Growing buff.ly/2KlYQM6

  • Nature, Nurture and the Art of Creation in Manual Cinema’s Astonishing ‘Frankenstein’ buff.ly/2TvcL6S

  • How immersive technologies have sparked a theatrical revolution buff.ly/2Or4a67

  • Has Augmented Reality Pioneer Magic Leap Fallen Off a Cliff? buff.ly/2zEV9vT

  • The Designer's Responsibility to Keep Up with New Technologies buff.ly/2QVlLjX

  • Motivating Your Most Creative Employees buff.ly/2qTo8rR

  • What Stan Lee Knew About Managing Creative People buff.ly/2FqLgrU

  • Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of Your Data buff.ly/2S1Eyu2)

  • Kilogram Redefined. The Metric System Overhaul Is Complete buff.ly/2DMk3hN)

  • How to Teach Artificial Intelligence Some Common Sense buff.ly/2DLQs8k)

  • The Mad Science of Fermentation's Funky Flavors buff.ly/2S1kU1g)

  • What Great Listeners Actually Do buff.ly/2zUStul

  • Lost Art: when works disappear into private collections :Noah Charney shares the stories behind some of art history's most important works—those that we can no longer see buff.ly/2DJBfo1

  • How to push past your biggest anxieties and act buff.ly/2Ka3jl3

  • A Doctor Created A Human Anatomy Diagram In The Style Of A Subway Map And It's Friggin' Gorgeous buff.ly/2KbmBXf

  • Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ buff.ly/2PXg3kn

  • A librarian's case against overdue book fines buff.ly/2qQVise

  • How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis buff.ly/2qTrQBP

  • 8 Tips On Becoming a Power Napping Expert buff.ly/2Kx3r1f

  • How Ikea quietly tweaks its design around the world buff.ly/2A5fqLm

  • How following a schedule improved my creativity buff.ly/2MiHvYw

  • How To Be Productive According To Ancient Philosophy buff.ly/2zOZInB

  • How did the internet take over our lives? buff.ly/2qQzOM5

  • The Benefit of Analogies - The Book of Life buff.ly/2zrUE8A

  • The Value of Reading Things We Disagree with - The Book of Life buff.ly/2Kampap

  • The Task of Turning Vague Thoughts into More Precise Ones - The Book of Life buff.ly/2BaJmYq

  • Inside the New Industrial Revolution buff.ly/2FjyV8P

  • The rare form of machine learning that can spot hackers who have already broken in buff.ly/2TfqDBU

  • The IoT Needs a New Set of Eyes: Cameras for the Internet of Things will have to be fast, cheap, and powerful—and might not look like cameras at all buff.ly/2A7J56X

  • How 'miniature suns' could provide cheap, clean energy buff.ly/2PwwXGY

  • Survey reveals designers' favourite typefaces - Creative Review buff.ly/2zSwSCO

  • How Europe’s Smartest Agencies Are ‘Rewiring the Creative Machine’ buff.ly/2zZ5Yco

  • These 5 questions kill creativity buff.ly/2qWqxlX

  • Fei-Fei Li's Quest to Make Machines Better for Humanity buff.ly/2FrSThP)

  • Earwax reveals how humans have changed whales’ lives buff.ly/2QLVzbc

  • How The Wall Street Journal is preparing its journalists to detect deepfakes niemanlab.org/2018/11/how-th…

  • Why you should always thank your barista buff.ly/2PYglqW

  • 6 Biases Holding You Back From Rational Thinking – Robert Greene buff.ly/2Prf8Jj

  • Is marketing evil? – Seth Godin buff.ly/2B63Npe

  • How Alphonse Mucha’s Iconic Posters Came to Define Art Nouveau buff.ly/2FmaLKV

  • Jason Romeyko on the Magic of ÜberCreativity and AI buff.ly/2Tc9JEh

  • A Brief History of Clip Art - Sam Solomon buff.ly/2FocDTp

  • Secrets of the Creative Brain buff.ly/2NhkYY9

  • The slow death of purposeless walking buff.ly/2PpuGgO

  • David Hockney's Famed Pool Scene Sells for $90.3 M. at Christie's, New Record for Work by Living Artist at Auction - buff.ly/2A3OlrZ

  • Oliver Sacks on the Three Essential Elements of Creativity buff.ly/2hpT2U9

  • 43 Minutes Before Curtain With A Very Tense Mike Birbiglia buff.ly/2Fm2cQd

  • This Chemical Is So Hot It Destroys Nerve Fibers—in a Good Way buff.ly/2zRxSHb

  • A Creative Director's Inside Look at the Future of Mixed Reality buff.ly/2Fld15i

  • The British Army is carrying out a massive test of military robots and drones buff.ly/2PshcAE

  • Finally some good news: TV dramas are getting shorter buff.ly/2qKBarW

  • The 7 Craziest Ways CRISPR Is Being Used Right Now buff.ly/2zp7cxr

  • Watch Beatboxers Break It Down Inside an M.R.I. Scanner buff.ly/2B4XiTE

  • Everything you need to know about Digital Humans buff.ly/2QJW8CE

  • My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee buff.ly/2FhsmUb

  • Motivating Your Most Creative Employees buff.ly/2T6FUFf

  • Welcome to the Age of the Hour-Long YouTube Video buff.ly/2qEcyRi

  • Do Creative Ideas Work Better than Data-Driven Ones? buff.ly/2zAk8AG

  • How (And Why) ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ Made Contemporary Dance The Climax Of Its Finale buff.ly/2PnfqAV

  • Meet Yabin Wang, The Coolest Chinese Choreographer You've Never Heard Of buff.ly/2Fjo3YN

  • Listening to your materials buff.ly/2RFfcBN

  • The New York Times is digitizing more than 5 million photos dating back to the 1800s buff.ly/2B0YTKk

  • 5 words that don’t mean what they used to mean buff.ly/2B0PYbM

  • When People Would Rather Work with Competent Jerks Than Likable Fools buff.ly/2Fn2KFs

  • Better “nowcasting” can reveal what weather is about to hit within 500 meters buff.ly/2qHyZVP

  • If You Want to Get Better at Something, Ask Yourself These Two Questions buff.ly/2qDUPJY

  • Wallace & Gromit producers hand stake in business to staff buff.ly/2DxvQk5

  • Value Soars for Leonardo da Vinci Drawing After ‘Salvator Mundi’ buff.ly/2RRtnUK

  • The Secret Tools Magicians Use to Fool You buff.ly/2QCex3U)

  • What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us About AI buff.ly/2QBefdH)


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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.

Ubiquity: The Week's Link

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS:

  • If You Want to Get Better at Something, Ask Yourself These Two Questions buff.ly/2qDUPJY

  • Wallace & Gromit producers hand stake in business to staff buff.ly/2DxvQk5

  • Value Soars for Leonardo da Vinci Drawing After ‘Salvator Mundi’ buff.ly/2RRtnUK

  • The Secret Tools Magicians Use to Fool You buff.ly/2QCex3U)

  • What the Boston School Bus Schedule Can Teach Us About AI buff.ly/2QBefdH)

  • How Podcasts Became A Seductive — And Sometimes Slippery — Mode Of Storytelling buff.ly/2qHHsZd

  • The Ubiquity of Smartphones, as Captured by Photographers buff.ly/2K392c9

  • The business value of design buff.ly/2qFNRUB

  • Digital strategy: The four fights you have to win buff.ly/2qFPsKo

  • The Best Documentaries of 2018 buff.ly/2PjSXoq

  • The Curse of the Honeycrisp Apple buff.ly/2AZw5Si

  • TED Playlist: How passion becomes purpose buff.ly/2DA8kD5

  • The case for curiosity-driven research buff.ly/2RO7IfN

  • How I accidentally changed the way movies get made buff.ly/2RO7DbZ

  • The case for a decentralized internet buff.ly/2RPA9dy

  • How do you get from diversity to inclusion? Ask these 4 questions about your meetings buff.ly/2PiWjbn

  • Top US Intelligence Official Sue Gordon Wants Silicon Valley on Her Side buff.ly/2JUxbl0)

  • A New Robot Tracks Sick Bees Wearing Tiny Coded Backpacks buff.ly/2AZh03k)

  • The 31 best dance scenes in movies buff.ly/2JUwFDG

  • Jeff Koons found guilty of plagiarism over multi-million-pound sculpture  buff.ly/2JTAybZ

  • What Do Our Oldest Books Say About Us? buff.ly/2T1DQhE

  • Audience etiquette: what is acceptable behaviour in a theatre? buff.ly/2qEacSs

  • On life support: Record number of pay-TV watchers cut the cord buff.ly/2zDwpUM

  • Steppenwolf Launches New Resource: List Of New And Lesser-Known Plays That Require Diverse Casts buff.ly/2PlA1pq

  • The 600-year-old history of the resume and its uncertain future buff.ly/2zJrNwn

  • These Are the Most Exciting New Flight Routes Coming in 2019 buff.ly/2qF83Gi

  • Sundar Pichai of Google: ‘Technology Doesn’t Solve Humanity’s Problems’ buff.ly/2PkPh5X

  • 10 Impressive Questions to Ask in a Job Interview buff.ly/2zLdnMi

  • Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning: Machine learning algorithms don’t yet understand things the way humans do — with sometimes disastrous consequences. buff.ly/2AWGlLi

  • The Quartz guide to artificial intelligence: What is it, why is it important, and should we be afraid? buff.ly/2QBpSS9

  • AI Taught Itself How to Be the Best Chess Player in the World—So, Uh, What’s Next? buff.ly/2AW3xZR

  • An illustrated tribute to Stan Lee and his career buff.ly/2zZFE27

  • Protect Your Privacy Online With These Data-Guarding Browser Extensions buff.ly/2q3XyeS

  • 6 Immersive Things: Shepard Fairey’s AR app, an AI scripted short, VR horror and more… buff.ly/2zFdjha

  • How to Get Over Burnout When You Can’t Take Time Off buff.ly/2zG2UBJ

  • Life as a Bug Bounty Hunter: A Struggle Every Day, Just to Get Paid buff.ly/2zGGv7C

  • Jessica Hische: Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave buff.ly/2SXvrvv

  • Be Nice, but Be Difficult: Finding a Balance as a Creative Person Being difficult is a learned skill we should nurture buff.ly/2zBQHy6

  • AIGA Keynote: Designing the Future of Museums buff.ly/2QBZNlW

  • New Satellites Will Use Radio Waves to Spy on Ships and Planes buff.ly/2SUUdMN)

  • Does giving donors stuff actually raise more money? buff.ly/2SYiDoW

  • The Problem With Being Perfect buff.ly/2ASBA55

  • As the Asteroid Turns: NASA Probe Snaps Video of Spinning Bennu buff.ly/2T0Wy9b

  • Merely desiring to alter your personality is not enough, and may backfire unless you take concrete action to change buff.ly/2Oxz4oD

  • Why do we feel so busy? It’s all our hidden ‘shadow work’ | Oliver Burkeman buff.ly/2SYhayW

  • Persistence vs. consistent buff.ly/2PimaAc

  • On Physician Burnout and the Plight of the Modern Knowledge Worker buff.ly/2Fb4OQR

  • 9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work buff.ly/2SWEXiz

  • Meet The Scientists Connecting Lab-Grown "Mini Brains" to Robots buff.ly/2Pijvq3

  • Introduction to Design Futures: Learn more about how the context for the practice of design has changed and what these changes mean for the future of professional work and education. buff.ly/2zDgGW1

  • The truth about advertising's long-hours culture buff.ly/2SQClTr

  • Do Creative Ideas Work Better than Data-Driven Ones? buff.ly/2JSdfzy

  • To Give a Great Presentation, Distill Your Message to Just 15 Words buff.ly/2SZmiCy

  • How YouTube’s Algorithm Really Works buff.ly/2Pi8LrS

  • 3 Ways to Fight Impostor Syndrome buff.ly/2QrQXqx

  • Your native language affects what you can and can’t see buff.ly/2zClxqk

  • The Terrifying Science Behind California’s Massive Camp Fire buff.ly/2JUWN1t

  • The secret history of Ctrl+Alt+Del buff.ly/2OxeKDC

  • Six tips for working in an all-distributed team buff.ly/2DuiWTW

  • Why Do All Websites Look the Same? buff.ly/2zE5w3h

  • How LEGO Run Design Sprints at Scale buff.ly/2zFexJ8

  • Martin Scorsese on Framing - “When it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making.” buff.ly/2qzVbBd

  • Jason Fried — How to Live Life on Your Own Terms buff.ly/2mBZ3Qj

  • They Hacked Their School District When They Were 12. The Adults Are Still Trying to Catch Up. buff.ly/2PgQLhB

  • Even More Covers buff.ly/2SwSxZJ

  • 157 Animated Minimalist Mid-Century Book Covers buff.ly/2P8FsrD

  • How to Check If Your Facebook Account Got Hacked—and How Badly buff.ly/2yyyxg3

  • Has Artificial Intelligence Brought Us the Next Great Art Movement? Here Are 9 Artists Who Are Exploring AI’s Creative Potential buff.ly/2SNQil3

  • Making Talk TV for a Post-TV Generation buff.ly/2zAy4e1

  • Damaged in Venice’s Historic Flooding Last Week, Two Miró Tapestries Were Restored in Record Time for an Exhibition buff.ly/2zw5CcY

  • What’s the Most Influential Book of the Past 20 Years? buff.ly/2zBuvEf

  • Capturing the Minimum Viable Data – IDEO Stories buff.ly/2zCPsin

  • Harvard scientists suggest 'Oumuamua is an alien device buff.ly/2SSB12u

  • In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing? buff.ly/2AQu2Qu

  • Times critics reflect on how the Great Recession affected theater, music and the arts - Los Angeles Times buff.ly/2qylHLa

  • Writing is a product designer’s real “unicorn” skill. buff.ly/2JLcsQP

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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.