Social Media hits Sesame Street and Elmo has the answers

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Using social media to answer questions is not new, but no one does it better. From the silly to the profound, Elmo has the best answers. It's a monster thing.

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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 Guardian and Observer Film Season: name the films challenge

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via guardian.co.uk

Can you name all 26 films? Some are recognizable immediately, some look familiar but not familiar enough to know the film, some are unrecognizable. Great animation.

(via @veryshortlist)

 

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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.

Diane Ragsdale on Surviving the Culture Change

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Video of Diane Ragsdale's keynote at the Arts Alliance Illinois 2010 Members' Meeting and Reception on June 21 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, visit artsalliance.org/reception.

via vimeo.com

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Diane Ragsdale’s Keynote at the Arts Alliance Illinois 2010. In 40 minutes Ragsdale delivers an accurate state of the performing arts, provides six well-informed, achievable steps to embrace cultural, technological and sociological change and encourages a forward-thinking vision of art-making. Another presentation that accurately explains my philosophy of art and how it should be supported and marketed.

 

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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 World's Smallest Stop-Motion Animation

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In order to celebrate a revolutionary science technology, using a cellphone and a microscope, why not create the world’s smallest stop-motion animation.



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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.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting

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This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation. We've collected some of the best images from the project and made a book of them you can buy: http://bit.ly/mfmbook Read more at the Dentsu London blog: http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/ and at the BERG blog: http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/magic-ipad-light-painting/

via vimeo.com

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Well, that’s a new way to do stop-motion. Berg strikes again with a technically complicated execution of an idea with a beautiful end result using technology to manipulate light. It is very cool to see the ghost-like glimpses of the animators during the short. Curious to see what other applications they have in mind for this technique.

 

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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.