The Effects Of Sound

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Last fall SoundCloud launched a film series exploring why sound is important to the way we connect with the world. In the second film in the series sound experts discuss the four ways sound affects us. 

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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.

Colum McCann On The Radical Act Of Storytelling

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Prizewinning novelist Colum McCann on THE PAUL HOLDENGRABER SHOW

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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 (4/15/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

  • What NYC and Beijing Would Look Like, Without All The People. Fascinating video.owl.li/acfZg
  • The Age Of Insight owl.li/a91Ix
  • The Past and Future Histories of Books: An Interview with Ted Striphas owl.li/a91QC
  • Just Do It & Make It Count owl.li/1iL4zs
  • CultureLab: The matter of your brainowl.li/a8Zax
  • 10 Crazy and Unusual Book Designsowl.li/ac6A9
  • How We Will Read: Exploring the Future of Books with Clay Shirky owl.li/acels
  • Carol Dweck’s Attitude About Intelligenceowl.li/9hZ6p
  • Ten reasons why you shouldn’t text during a live performance. Culture City: WSJ.comowl.li/abJwU
  • Is “Texts From Hillary” Art? owl.li/1iJpGp
  • The most inspiring new art is visualized information: The Art of Data Visualizationowl.li/abIXF
  • Savant Daniel Tammet on plasticity, Autism, Asperger’s syndrome, and popular myths.owl.li/abF4m
  • James Fowler - 10 points on the science of spreading the word owl.li/abDoi
  • 360° Color: A Peek Inside Pantone owl.li/9hZ5c
  • Instagram, Facebook, and China : The New Yorker owl.li/abBOf
  • Tiny Billboards Made Of Blocks Advertise Legoland Vacations owl.li/a95tT More lego goodness.
  • On Conducting, Motion Capture And The Maestro’s Mojo owl.li/1iHMcH
  • Are movie trailers better than the movies they sell? owl.li/acJZ9
  • Your Words Determine your Perspectiveowl.li/a91iG
  • What we learnt from prototyping ITV Newsowl.li/a91uH
  • Paula Scher on Failure owl.li/9hZ3R
  • N.E.A. Is Said to Cut Aid to PBS Arts Shows:owl.li/abJkz If you like Downton Abbey support PBS.
  • Education requires persuasion: Fantastic insight from Neil deGrasse Tyson owl.li/a91t8
  • Creative Time: On Making Art Happen and Pushing Culture Forward owl.li/a91k1
  • The next book from A Book Apart is out. Mike Monteiro (@Mike_FTW) “Design Is A Job”. Looking forward to reading it. owl.li/abunD
  • Start With The Supposition That People Don’t Make Sense: David Chang on The Paul Holdengraber owl.li/1iH4Rm
  • Creativity and Human Reasoning During Decision-Making owl.li/a91ei
  • Creativity Top 5: April 9, 2012 owl.li/1iGF9u
  • An Invocation for Beginnings. Turning the dial from 0 to 1. Ze Frank Is Back! owl.li/1iGF9z
  • Richard Dare: Paradise Lost: Can We Keep Nonprofits From Failing? owl.li/a93yt
  • A timely identity for Grand Central’s 100th yearowl.li/a914F
  • Test Your Creativity: 5 Classic Creative Challenges owl.li/a91lX
  • Great Designers Steal by Jeff Veen owl.li/9hZ3a
  • Immersion 101: How Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More Turns Theater on Its Ear owl.li/a8Zob
  • Ze Frank: The Shift From 0 To 1, What Is Creativity? owl.li/1iGkz5
  • Jonathan Harris’ Cowbird: A Wikipedia for life’s meaningful moments owl.li/a8Z8J
  • What Scientists Can Learn From Balletowl.li/a91fz
  • Setting Boundaries & Saying No… Nicelyowl.li/a8Z4G
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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.

Just Do It & Make It Count

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We started the week with the return of Ze Frank and his inspiring messages to get something started and move the dial from 0 to 1. We end the week with an equally motivating message, once you’ve started something, make it count. 

Remember Move, Eat, Learn - A Philosophy For Life In 3 Short Films from last summer. Director Rick Mereki was commissioned to create films instead of creating ads for STA Australia. The result was three truly inspiring films. 

Well, it seems filmmaker Casey Neistat may have been inspired by the idea. He was commissioned to make a short film for the Nike+ Fuelband campaign #makeitcount. Possessed by a spirit of adventure he didn’t do an ad either. Instead he took the budget and, like Mereki before him, he went on a trip around the world with his friend and editor and they kept going until they ran out of money. The result is the short film Make It Count. 

like me on https://www.facebook.com/cneistat we shot this in 10 days, just the two of us. Max, my friend in the movie, is a talented filmmaker, he edited this movie. check him out http://www.maxjoseph.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.

Is "Texts From Hillary" Art?

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Surely by now you’ve seen Texts From Hillary. Most times amusing and at times hilariously satirical, the tumblr became a meme and was retired within a week. I’ll let the creators explain why: 

It’s been an overwhelming—and hilarious—week for us here at Texts from Hillary (TFH). What started as a joke at the bar between two friends turned into a national conversation about Secretary Clinton and went as far as talks about 2016.

After a week that included 32 posts, 83,000 shares on Facebook, 8,400 Twitter followers, over 45K Tumblr followers, news stories around the world, Renee Montagne from Morning Edition saying “ROFL,” a Maureen Dowd column, and a tweet from ?uest Love, we think it’s time to stop while we are ahead.

As far as memes go – it has gone as far as it can go. Is it really possible to top a submission from the Secretary herself? No. But then when you get to text with her in real life – it’s just over. At least for us. But we have no doubt it will live on with all of you on the Internet.

The site will stay up but we won’t be posting anything new here. You can follow us on Twitter (@ASmith83, @Sllambe) and Tumblr (Stacy at ImWithKanye and Adam’s work account,Public Campaign Action Fund).

Thanks for all the LOLz. We truly appreciate all the support.

It turns out that memes really do come true.

-Stacy and Adam

Taking all those facts in consideration one question remains. Is Texts From Hillary art?

Presenting arguments for and against is the latest episode of PBS Idea Channel. 

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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.