Creativity Top 5: August 30, 2010

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via creativity-online.com

This edition is not for the easily offended. It contains a bizarre music video, gaming gore, a teasing exorcism and animated dirty words.

 

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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.

John Cleese shares the wisdom of his creative process

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This is a great find and I’m glad 37 Signals posted it. It is always good to hear how great talent works. This presentation also made me realize the reason I have made my apartment into a kind of creative sanctuary is because that is my way of creating boundaries of space and time. Without realizing it I’ve created a working and living environment where I can welcome creative thinking and have complete control of interruptions.

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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.

A Storytelling & Transmedia Master Class In 10 Short Videos

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Professor Henry Jenkins, coiner of the term transmedia, continues to make his teaching resources available online. 

Here are ten short videos, thoughts about the present and future of storytelling with:

Ian Condry, MIT Cambridge
Joshua Green, UCSB Santa Barbara 
Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation New York
Henry Jenkins, USC Los Angeles
Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling Berkeley
Nick Montfort, MIT Cambridge
Clay Shirky, New York University

Part 1: Changes in storytelling

 

Part 2: Storytelling and video



Part 3: Transmedia



Part 4: Potential of Social Media



Part 5: Collective storytelling



Part 6: Media revolution



Part 7: Risks of Social Media



Part 8: Motivation to participate



Part 9: Games



Part 10: Final Thoughts

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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: August 23, 2010

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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 Itch of Curiosity

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The first thing the scientists found is that curiosity obeys an inverted U-shaped curve, so that we’re most curious when we know a little about a subject (our curiosity has been piqued) but not too much (we’re still uncertain about the answer). This supports the information gap theory of curiosity, which was first developed by George Loewenstein of Carnegie-Mellon in the early 90s. According to Loewenstein, curiosity is rather simple: It comes when we feel a gap “between what we know and what we want to know”. This gap has emotional consequences: it feels like a mental itch, a mosquito bite on the brain. We seek out new knowledge because we that’s how we scratch the itch.
via wired.com

This is why it is so important to remain exposed to subjects beyond what we find interesting in order to enhance creative thoughts.

 

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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.