The Week's Links: July 12, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Paula Scher: Once you know what you're doing, it's not as good 
  • 6 Things Mozart Can Teach Entrepreneurs 
  • Why you’ll share this story: The new science of memes 
  • Why Teaching Makes You Smarter 
  • Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 1: Idea And Design 
  • Fantastic: A menagerie of mechanical animals 
  • Take a tour of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home with Google Street View 
  • Creativity, math, and 12-tone music 
  • 10 Greatest Ideas in the History of Science 
  • How clutter affects you and what you can do about it. 
  • A Tribute To Alfred Hitchcock 
  • A fascinating look at the history of aspect ratios 
  • What Makes A Journal Entry Historically Interesting? 
  • Check out the winners of 2012-13 FPO Awards 
  • Gorgeous: Flowers X-Ray Photos - Two Ways 
  • The Big Fat List of Documentaries About Photography 
  • So great: The Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon 
  • Knowledge + Taste = Meaningful Judgement 
  • Perspective: The Capacity of an iPod Visualized as Vinyl 
  • Del Close's Eleven Commandments of Improvisation 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of July 8, 2013 
  • NPR's The Songs Of The Summer, going back to 1962. 
  • The 100 Best First Lines from Novels 
  • Explore Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley On Google Street View 
  • The Innovative Mosaic Of American Symphonies 
  • 25 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online 
  • David Bowie Narrates Sergei Prokofiev’s Children’s Symphony Peter and the Wolf 
  • Introducing the Wired Map Lab: Our Quest to Find, Explore, and Make Maps 
  • 11 Famous Works of Art That Were Never Actually Completed 
  • A Radical New Way to Look at Facebook. Matt Buchanan at The New Yorker looks at Graph Search. 
  • Is There A Scientific Definition Of "Design"? 
  • Gorgeous: Spectacular Tiny Sculptures Made of Recycled Watches 
  • Absolutely engrossed by Miranda July's new art project around email. 
  • Building Our New Shrines 
  • The Hut Where the Internet Began 
  • How to Be a Genius 
  • 60 of the world's happiest facts 
  • What Lies Beneath: Epic Scenes From NYC's Magnificent Underground Tunnels 
  • The Public Theater Launches New Collaboration with Local Communities 
  • Jim Jarmusch's 5 Golden Rules (or non-rules) of Moviemaking by Jim Jarmusch 
  • 2012-13 FPO Awards Winners 
  • Siri’s Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative 
  • Mick Guzauski On Mixing Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" with Universal Audio 
  • The Surprising History of the Pencil 
  • Gorgeous: Flowers X-Ray Photos 
  • Why Immersion In Storytelling Is Not Wasted Time 
  • Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It 
  • The Placing Literature App Lets Your Map Scenes From Novels 
  • Why Should Children Study the Arts? 
  • Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age 
  • Resources for Mac and iOS Developers 
  • 6 Scientific Tactics to Stop Procrastinating 
  • Another cool Google Doodle, this one a mini game commemorating the Roswell incident. 
  • 20 Things You Might Not Know About Your Favorite Liquors 
  • Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 
  • Why Did Einstein Play the Violin? 
  • All of Terry Gilliam's animation bits from Monty Python's Flying Circus 
  • 3 Tips on Overcoming Learning Plateaus from David Foster Wallace 
  • Fearlessness is not the same as the absence of fear 
  • Cavernous Subway System Transformed Into Vibrant Art Gallery 
  • The Science Of How Applause Spreads In An Audience 
  • Remembering Doug Engelbart 
  • Thirteen Tenets Of User Experience 
  • DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART, 1925-2013: Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse -NYTimes.com 
  • Watch Douglas Engelbart Give The Greatest Presentation In History 
  • Great resource: PortKit: UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android  /@khoi
  • So good! - Who Made That? The Magazine’s 2013 Innovations Issue 
  • UI Animations: Celebrating animations of interest in software user interfaces. 
  • Amazing: Jimi Hendrix "All Along The Watchtower" Isolated Guitar Track  /via @theloop
  • The Right Mindset for Creativity 
  • Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless 
  • The graphic art of Harry Potter 
  • Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Art Beautiful? 
  • 8 Things We've Learned Lately About Thunder and Lightning 
  • What Scientists Now Know About Repairing Memories 
  • A Look Inside Mel Blanc’s Throat as He Performs the Voices of Bugs Bunny and Other Cartoon Legends 
  • Introducing Wireless Philosophy: An Open Access Philosophy Project Created by Yale and MIT 
  • Yes! Watch His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks’ Classic Screwball Comedy Starring Cary Grant, Free Online 
  • Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years 
  • Mr. Magoo’s Cartoon Version of William Shakespeare’s Comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream 
  • Every Night You Lose More Than A Pound While You're Asleep (For The Oddest Reason) 

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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.