Afraid of the Light

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via youtube.com

 

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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.

Google CEO Larry Page On Decision-Making

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One of the interesting things that we’ve noticed is that companies correlate on decision making and speed of decision making. There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions. I think that’s also a natural thing as companies get bigger — they tend to slow down decision making. And that’s pretty tragic.
via allthingsd.com

 

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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: October 17, 2011

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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.

1950's & 60's TV Commercials

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Here is a compilation of classic TV commercials from the 50's and 60's.

Let's start the week with some nostalgic, funny, and sometimes terrifying commercials from the 50's and 60's discovered via Laughing Squid. 

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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 Week's Links (10.16.11)

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All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@) this week: 

  • Cindy Gallop: GW@MIT Empowerment Conference Keynote Addressowl.li/1f8Xav
  • The Playwright’s Reward - Can playwrights make a living just writing?owl.li/6L1Jc
  • How Geniuses Think owl.li/6L1s4
  • The Creative Brain On Exercise owl.li/6J3ue
  • Barry Michels, Therapist for Blocked Screenwriters : The New Yorkerowl.li/6GmtY
  • Kerning.js Kern, style, transform, and scale your web type with real CSS rules, automatically. owl.li/6L1z4
  • Great interactive iPad books owl.li/6J44p
  • Shit That Siri Says owl.li/6Wryy That was fast. Siri is one funny AI.
  • Dennis Ritchie, 1941-2011: Computer scientist, Unix co-creator, C programming language designer owl.li/6Wrix
  • 10 Inspiring accounts to follow on Instagram owl.li/6GovC
  • The Inside Story: 5 Secrets To Pixar’s Success owl.li/6WnTo
  • Live And Work With A Bias Toward Action owl.li/1f7yHY
  • Action Choreographer Elizabeth Streb: On Taking Big Risks & The Power of Action owl.li/6U4U8 Great video.
  • Kern Type, the kerning game owl.li/6RM4E Fantastic, and it’s multitouch capable.
  • The Psychologist’s View of UX Design owl.li/6Gmli
  • TED Talks videos, played randomly. It’s TEDchannelTV owl.li/6Go7E
  • The Seven Habits of Highly Obsessive People owl.li/6L3Vm
  • How Twitter And Facebook Helped Bing Thom Design A Public Libraryowl.li/6KPT8
  • Everything is a Remix: The Matrix owl.li/1f6wjh
  • Museo Nacional del Prado: Rubens 360º (video online interactivo)owl.li/6KPFP Visit the museum from your browser.
  • Hearing Bilingual - How Babies Tell Languages Apart - NYTimes.comowl.li/6UkWc
  • The World’s Best Subway Maps owl.li/6KPAz
  • Brave Thinkers 2011 - The Atlantic’s guide to people taking risks in pursuit of big ideas. owl.li/6UkOr
  • The Prop Master: Ross Macdonald, Forger for Screens Big and Smallowl.li/6L1wE
  • Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It) owl.li/6KFSq
  • Copy, Transform, Combine owl.li/1f5qlq
  • 25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer owl.li/6ITUH
  • An experiment in opening up the Guardian’s news coverage owl.li/6TWbgClose to complete news-making transparency.
  • What Motivates Us To Do Great Work? owl.li/6IMOZ
  • Australian Wine Uses Infographics as Its Bottle Labels owl.li/6TLHW
  • Creativity Top 5: October 10, 2011 Special Edition owl.li/1f4HTg
  • Reigniting Your Creative Spark owl.li/6RtRV
  • Paulo Coelho on Six Secrets to Mastering Facebook and Twitterowl.li/6KVPU
  • We’re all marketers now owl.li/6J4U9
  • All Consuming Passion owl.li/1f4o74
  • Kerning + tracking letterforms for logos; the definitive thesis (or why I obsess over typography) owl.li/6IK5h
  • The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The Worldowl.li/6RyPB
  • The Steve Jobs MBA in 14 Lessons owl.li/1f4exj
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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.