Creativity Top 5

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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 Year Inside The Australian Ballet: On The Road, Episode 3

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In my experience and the experience of my friends that frequently tour, life on the road is far from glamorous. It basically breaks down to the first week of live performances, where you get to perform in front of live audiences for the first time and all those hours of rehearsals actually gain meaning with the interaction of the audience, and the last week, where you get to see the end quickly approaching. Everything in between is a lot of hard work. 

In the third episode of A Year Inside The Australian Ballet they take a look at life on the road. 

In Episode #3 of our ten-part series on life inside our company, the dancers arrive in Brisbane to perform Romeo & Juliet, and Senior Artist Amy Harris shows us how she makes her dressing room into a home away from home. Production: The Apiary

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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.

Frank Chimero on Ideas

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Frank Chimero:

Ideas are a son of a bitch like that, because they always come when you are least prepared to preserve them. Inspiration is like some sort of weird collision, where the idea is always sweeping across the landscape, through the neighborhood, or in and out the bedroom window. For that idea to hit you, you must be moving as well. If you’re standing still, the idea will whip right around you and keep going. It is like some sort of weird reverse game of chicken, where the sole way to make contact is by trying to miss one another. The only other things with the perfect and unfortunate timing of good ideas are the internal clocks of long-forgotten ex’s that tells them to appear everywhere during the first couple weeks of a new relationship. 

 Chimero’s book The Shape of Design is a must-read. 

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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 (5/20/12)

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All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

  • Facebook: Running the world’s largest social network will be a technical and financial challenge as it grows. owl.li/aZgUW
  • Frans Johansson: The Secret Truth About Executing Great Ideas owl.li/9i0gM
  • How To Encourage Learning By Making “Smart Mistakes” owl.li/aZgS4
  • A List Apart: Responsive Images and Web Standards at the Turning Point owl.li/aZgPn
  • This looks like it’s going to be fun: Introducing The Monitor, Wired’s New Video Series About Pop Culture owl.li/aZiMc
  • An Intro to Metadata and Taxonomiesowl.li/aZgNq
  • It Turns Out There Is Accounting for Tasteowl.li/9i0ad
  • Tha’st a way to stand out: The World’s Greatest Cover Letter By Hunter S.Thompsonowl.li/aYrVg
  • Diane Ragsdale on Surviving the Culture Change owl.li/9i0fo
  • What’s responsive Web design all about?owl.li/aYrlx
  • The Brain is What We Do with It owl.li/aYqZo
  • Seth’s Blog: The quickest way to get things done and make change owl.li/aYrIq
  • Paulo Coelho’s Top 10 Tips for Writing Wellowl.li/aYqSE
  • Creativity Top 5 owl.li/1jOTwy
  • Pixar’s Randy Nelson on collaborationowl.li/aVvLQ
  • Coffee, is not just for caffeine anymore: Art in My Coffee owl.li/aW4eH
  • 6 Ways MIT’s Media Lab Envisions the Opera of the Future owl.li/aW4u8
  • So excited about this collaboration between MIT and Punchdrunk: Remote Theatrical Immersion, Extending Sleep No Moreowl.li/aW4Fx
  • Clever. FF Chartwell: a graph-making fontowl.li/aW1hm
  • Ha! Meet Pentametron, A Bot That Only Tweets In Iambic Pentameter owl.li/aW1c7Check out pentametron.com
  • Love this. The Illustrated 99% Conference 2012: An Epic Episode in Words & Pictures!owl.li/aW4rb
  • Cocktails with Stan Lee and Jane Espensonowl.li/1jOd7a
  • How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internetowl.li/aVGV8
  • Logo Evolution of 25 Famous Brandsowl.li/aVw9N
  • 100 Geeks You Should Be Following on Twitter owl.li/aVvfP
  • Dieter Rams On Good Design As A Key Business Advantage owl.li/aVuP2
  • Do you know who Ma Jun is? He is #1 in Fast Company’s The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012 owl.li/aVe36
  • Google’s head of news: Newspapers are the new Yahoo owl.li/aSw8z
  • Pixar’s Randy Nelson on collaborationowl.li/9i08W
  • Seattle library hides 1,000 books around town for young people to find owl.li/aSw6k
  • Love this: “Beautiful Dancers on the Town” Photo Gallery by Richard Calmes owl.li/aSvOt
  • Study: the bigger the font, the bigger the emotional response owl.li/aPGf9 /via @davepell
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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

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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.