Creativity Top 5: November 15, 2011

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via creativity-online.com

This edition is packed full of non-traditional cleverness.

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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.

PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 9: Fashion of Artists

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Although not every artist is as attentive to fashion as Kanye West, style does make its way into their lives. Sometimes driven by practical purpose, other times by personal expression or as part of performance, fashion plays a role in the aesthetic landscape of many artists. In this episode, we talk with a diverse array of creators about the relationship of style and fashion to their lives and work. Featured artists include the songwriter Yuna from Fader Label, street artist WK Interact, skateboard deck and apparel designers 5boro, painter and toy designer Tara McPherson, and artist Casey Spooner of Fischerspooner. 

Featuring:

WK Interact
Yuna
Mark Nardelli and Max Vogel
Tara McPherson
Casey Spooner

 

PBS Arts: Off Book is a web-based series that explores cutting edge art and the people that make it. The 13 episode series focuses on the process, motivation and meaning of a new generation of artists.

Previous installments: 

Episode 1: Light Painting
Episode 2: Typography
Episode 3: Visual Culture Online
Episode 4: Steampunk
Episode 5: Hacking Art & Culture with F.A.T. Lab
Episode 6: Street Art
Episode 7: Etsy Art & Culture
Episode 8: Video Games

 

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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.

It's Your Life: The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video

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I am a big fan of the Holstee Manifesto and love this interpretation of it as a short film.

(HT Brain Pickings)

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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 (11.13.11)

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

  • WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project owl.li/7rtlT Originally written 21 years ago today by Tim Berners-Lee.
  • “The first duty of the artist is to survive.” How To Last in a Tough Business Filled with Rejection. owl.li/7kxby
  • A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design owl.li/7qR3O
  • What happens in our brains when we watch sports? owl.li/7kslt
  • Daniel Kahneman: How cognitive illusions blind us to reason owl.li/7fDNm
  • One Day on Earth: 11.11.11 owl.li/1fBbwi
  • my.hsj.org - My High School Journalism - The World's Largest Host of Teen Generated News owl.li/7fyZn
  • Facebook nearing settlement with FTC over privacy concerns owl.li/7qry7
  • Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship owl.li/7qpTu
  • go to the quiet place owl.li/7nVVk
  • 10 visions of future computer interfaces from MIT Media Lab owl.li/7kszQ
  • Ethan Marcotte's 20 favourite responsive sites owl.li/7fV2f
  • Google Translate: Will Google's Computers Understand Languages Better Than Humans? owl.li/7eUCU
  • SFX house The Mill creates a brilliant touch based portfolio display.owl.li/7ktoB
  • Communication Nation The ways we choose to reach out and touch someone reveals more than we realized owl.li/7oyce
  • Ballet Shoes and Ballerinas as Technology: A History En Pointe owl.li/7nLdU
  • Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work owl.li/1fA1FY
  • Docpool.co - For web developers to share documentation owl.li/7dw33
  • Can you teach something extraordinary in less than 10 minutes? You could get a free pass to TED2012 owl.li/7opMh
  • Stop-Motion Music Video Shot Over Two Years with 288,000 Jelly Beansowl.li/7ksEA
  • thirteen movie poster trends that are here to stay and what they say about their movies owl.li/7kqNY
  • Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours owl.li/7nLwG
  • Balloons of Bhutan · by Jonathan Harris owl.li/7fkIG I saw a preview of this many years ago. It is fantastic.
  • We always think we invented the future owl.li/1fyUGS
  • Exclusive: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 | ZDNet owl.li/7nUZc
  • Recreating Masterpieces with Flower Petals owl.li/7dvqE Gorgeous
  • Creativity Top 5: November 8, 2011 owl.li/1fy8gv
  • Are We Really Running Out Of Everything? owl.li/7ksQt
  • What A Pearl: Low-Cost, Iridescent Music Center Opens In Spainowl.li/7hRMH
  • Meet the Winners of This Year’s Tech Humanitarian Awards owl.li/7fVmt
  • MIT Media Lab's Leah Buechley on falling in love with technologyowl.li/1fxKMz
  • The 8 Worst Fonts In The World owl.li/7eUAh
  • In the next decade, more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies are doomed to die if they fail to embrace changes. owl.li/7hRCC
  • Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By owl.li/7hD1X
  • Made By Hand: The Knife Maker owl.li/1fwDza
  • Computer Scientists Crack “Unbreakable” Code, Find Minutes of 250-Year-Old Secret Society owl.li/7fUAo
  • Made By Hand: The Distiller. A short-film series on hand-made things.owl.li/1fwAwd
  • A Manifesto For Free Radicals: Less Paperwork, Less Waiting, More Actionowl.li/7kFmK Fully describes my work philosophy.
  • The brilliant Christoph Niemann ran the NYC marathon. And painted it. While running. And tweeted the paintings. Running...
  • Thinking vs. Feeling: The Psychology of Advertising owl.li/7eUyp
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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.

One Day on Earth: 11.11.11

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On November 11th, 11.11.11, across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and other inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period and contribute their voice to the second annual global day of media creation called One Day on Earth, together creating a shared archive and a film.

Founded in 2008, One Day on Earth's first media creation event occurred on 10.10.10. The collaboration was the first ever simultaneous filming event occuring in every country of the world. It created a unique geo-tagged video archive as well as an upcoming feature film.

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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.