Bad Robot Meets MIT Media Lab: In Conversation With JJ Abrams

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JJ Abrams is responsible, directly or by influence, for some of the most compelling and engaging storytelling pop culture moments in the past few decades. Joi Ito is the Director of the MIT Media Lab home of some of the most extraordinary technological innovation. In this conversation, hosted at MIT, Ito and Abrams discuss creativity, creative accidents, production planning, adaptability and developing projects in secret. For more from Abrams, check out his TED talk on mystery. 

Creativity Top 5: December 3, 2012

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Featuring some great holiday spots none of them using music from The Nutcracker.

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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.

Creativity Top 5: November 27, 2012

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Spot #4, Dumb Ways To Die, will get stuck in your head, serious earworm action there. You've been warned.

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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.

So You Think You're Creative?

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We're always talking about creativity, but what do we mean? Can we find creativity, can we measure it, can we encourage it? In this episode of Studio 360 Kurt Andersen talks with professor and author Gary Marcus (Guitar Zero) about what science tells us about creativity. A researcher shoves jazz musicians into an fMRI machine and has them improvise; an intrepid reporter gets her creativity tested and scored; and a little girl introduces us to her imaginary friends (all of them).

 

This is a particularly great episode of Studio 360 taking a look at all things creativity.

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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.

Creativity Top 5: November 20, 2012

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3D printed figurines are the new bobbleheads.

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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.