Jack Dorsey's Keynote at Disrupt 2012

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It's a short keynote, only 12 minutes, so I'm only going to say watch it. It's worth your time to hear his outlook on the future of technology. ​

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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: 9/16/12

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All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:

  • James Victore on Day Jobs, Creative Burnout, “Serious Play,” and His Upcoming Symposiumowl.li/dDaxO
  • Study: Young people consider news to be garbage and lies owl.li/dD9FS
  • A Big List of 375 Free eBooks for Your iPad, Kindle, Nook and Other Devices owl.li/dD9lo
  • This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notesowl.li/dD8Wf
  • Working From Home Makes You More Productive. Your office is slowing you down.owl.li/dD8Eb
  • 10 Must Know Tips for Creating Winning Visual Brand Identities owl.li/dD8gH
  • Michael Lewis had unprecedented access for 6 months and wrote a great profile of what it's like to be President. owl.li/dJYhm
  • Is This Book Bad, or Is It Just Me? The Anatomy of Book Reviews owl.li/dD7Ea
  • Future of Music: The Audience Is the Instrument owl.li/dCNaX
  • Gorgeous: Shooting Photos of Ballet Dancers on the Streets of Bratislava owl.li/dC4Fp
  • How To Run Your Meetings Like Apple and Google owl.li/dC4hO
  • 10 Awesome Bookstores Repurposed from Unused Structures owl.li/dC3hb
  • The Real Names of 18 Authors Known by Initials owl.li/dC3dd
  • The Economist Q&A: Tim Berners-Lee "This is for everyone" owl.li/dzLJW
  • How Green Tea Boosts Brain Cells and Aids Memory owl.li/dzKz5
  • Creative Review looks at the USA Today redesign owl.li/dJEn2
  • Celebrating the List, handwritten by Johnny Cash, Michael Jackson, Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, and others owl.li/dzhFV
  • Effective Type-use for Advertising, 1922 Edition owl.li/dzhCp
  • Can the Arts Survive Without Banks?owl.li/dzhz5
  • How One Man Is Using Fungus to Change the Violin Industry owl.li/dzgpi
  • A History of the Title Sequence owl.li/dyBHb
  • If you are not familiar with the 99% Invisible podcast here is a starter "staff favorites" page for you. owl.li/dzgjA
  • The Creative Way To Maximize Design Ideas With Type owl.li/dzflw
  • The Stories Behind 11 Famous Cocktailsowl.li/dzfaq
  • What happens when old school games go face to face with new school characters?owl.li/1mrSPM
  • How The Best Restaurant In The World Stays That Way owl.li/dzeU3
  • Behind The Signature Sounds of “Breaking Bad” owl.li/dzeSn
  • Can MTV's Fantasy Election '12 Rock The Biggest Youth Vote In History? owl.li/dzeOg
  • Beautiful: Comic book cutouts made to look like stained glass windows. owl.li/dzc0y
  • Wanted: The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design owl.li/dzbNz
  • Volcano Shoots Geyser Of Water Up Into Space owl.li/dzba3
  • The London Design Festival starts tomorrow:owl.li/dHwUO
  • How rude should a critic be? owl.li/dz8Rg
  • The Accidental History of the @ Symbolowl.li/dz8mQ
  • The Resale Right - Short animation explaining visual arts rights management owl.li/dyBFQ
  • Here Are All 56 Finalists In The 2012 Innovation By Design Awards owl.li/dH7qW
  • Your Instagram Horoscope. Kinda genius.owl.li/dz87C
  • Now that you are all about the iPhone5: Samsung trial reveals how Apple really invented the iPhone. owl.li/dGU44
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 6 - Dressing the ballet owl.li/1mqPpR
  • Capturing The Stunning Cinematography In Samsara: Q&A With The Film's Director And Producer owl.li/dyDyv
  • The British Museum & BBC using objects to create A History of the World owl.li/dyCXVAlso NYC in 50 objects owl.li/dyCXW
  • Ethan Zuckerman proposes 'long flight' facilities to help get things done owl.li/dyCSw
  • New Type York - uncovering the typographic artifacts of NYC owl.li/dyCOH
  • How to (Gracefully) Manage Your Criticsowl.li/dyCMN
  • Of course: Ideo Recruits Elmo For App That Helps Potty Train Kids owl.li/dyCGs
  • Negative Images Boost Unrelated Memoriesowl.li/dyBEb
  • Love this promo site: Philips The Sound of Creation owl.li/dyCEJ
  • Can We Learn To Forget Our Memories?owl.li/dwwEg
  • Keep working, keep learning, any form of standing still is deadly owl.li/1mpDXI
  • So great. Gil Shuler Graphic Design: Charleston Ballet Theatre Postersowl.li/dwoUY
  • Supercut Film School: Q&A With Elusive, Anonymous Video Essayist kogonadaowl.li/dwogT
  • 49 Hovering Quadrotors Make This The Biggest Flying Robot Performance Yet. Lovely.owl.li/dwoav
  • The art of writing a good sentence.owl.li/dwnJR
  • Brand New: Best Use of Iceberg in a Logo Award owl.li/dwkjp
  • Korean artist Lee Kyu Hak recreates Van Gogh’s works with Styrofoam-based mixed-media mosaics. Shockingly good. owl.li/dvOoT
  • How To (And How Not To) Write Narratives About People owl.li/dvNHS
  • Amazing 3D Posters for the Band Dry The River owl.li/dyBCm
  • New research suggests engaging in simple tasks that allow the mind to wander facilitates creative thinking. owl.li/dvN97
  • Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter owl.li/dD8Qe
  • Brain Science: 10 New Studies That Get Inside Your Head owl.li/dqLn6
  • What is the Future of College Education?owl.li/dqLjv
  • From the Page to the Plate: Bringing Literary Dishes to Life owl.li/dqL30
  • The History of the Lunch Box owl.li/dqKZb
  • Tributes to Bill Moggridge, Cooper-Hewitt Director - NYTimes.com owl.li/dC6pO
  • Creativity Top 5: September 10, 2012owl.li/1mnYah
  • In Remembrance Of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012 owl.li/dBZpr
  • Crowdfunding a Museum for Alexander Graham Bell in 1922 owl.li/dqKOQ
  • Rebranding Amsterdam and What It Means to Rebrand a City owl.li/dqKFW
  • 33 Stats That Paint a Picture of the Future of Marketing owl.li/dqAUM
  • René Magritte's Little-Known Art Deco Sheet Music Covers from the 1920s owl.li/dqARK
  • To sleep, perchance to learn: study shows learning while napping is possibleowl.li/dpF3s
  • Pixar's Scott Clark, Michael B. Johnson, and Ricky Nierva on Making UP owl.li/dyBzN
  • Creative Review - Great new ads from around the globe owl.li/dpEZy
  • 'Essential' film copyright protection turns 100owl.li/dpEIN
  • This is great. Jesse Lonergan draws a Dancer a Day owl.li/dpEuA
  • What Is Design? In honor of Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012 owl.li/1mnobe
  • Tuning a piano also tunes the brainowl.li/dpBBi
  • Ancient Human Kin’s DNA Code Illuminates Rise of Brains owl.li/dpBrR
  • What Color is this? in 9 languages. I could play with this all day. owl.li/dpzuO
  • Everything you’ve ever wondered about genes vs. DNA vs. chromosomes, explained.owl.li/dpyOp
  • The best interface is no interface owl.li/dpypB
  • Wolfram Alpha's Facebook Report Analyzes Every Dark Corner of Your Facebook Activityowl.li/dpyk7
  • Glass shape influences how quickly we drink alcohol owl.li/dpxVn
  • RIP Bill Moggridge, 1943-2012 owl.li/dzRc0
  • I'm baffled by how the app Dark Sky accurately predicts rain to the minute. Here's how it works. owl.li/dpxiT
  • Endangered Languages Project- share samples of and research on endangered languages owl.li/dpx1b

Recommended This Week:

 
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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.

What happens when old school games go face to face with new school characters?

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A little bit of Friday fun to end the week. Don't miss the behind the scenes video. ​

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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: Episode 6 - Dressing the ballet

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Episode #6 of our behind-the-scenes series takes you inside the wardrobe department, giving you a close-up look at the loving construction of Swan Lake costumes. Senior Artist Amy Harris chats to designer Hugh Colman, gets a fitting and tries out her new tutu in the studio, while our painstaking costumiers fashion sequins, pearls, brocade, and tulle into stunning creations.

For a year The Australian Ballet has opened their doors in this behind-the-scenes series. This episode takes you inside the wardrobe department, giving you a close-up look at the loving construction of Swan Lake costumes. Senior Artist Amy Harris chats to designer Hugh Colman, gets a fitting and tries out her new tutu in the studio, while costumiers fashion sequins, pearls, brocade, and tulle into stunning creations.

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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.

Keep working, keep learning, any form of standing still is deadly

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The truth is, if you want a decent job that will lead to a decent life today you have to work harder, regularly reinvent yourself, obtain at least some form of postsecondary education, make sure that you’re engaged in lifelong learning and play by the rules. That’s not a bumper sticker, but we terribly mislead people by saying otherwise.

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There is a quote attributed to the futurist Alvin Toffler that captures this new reality: In the future “illiteracy will not be defined by those who cannot read and write, but by those who cannot learn and relearn.” Any form of standing still is deadly.

Thomas Friedman's Op-Ed in The New York Times takes a look at education world wide and how the countries that are excelling are teaching programming, or considering it, as early as possible. In doing so he articulates a very simple truth, no matter what your socio-political point of view, in order to excel you have to  keep studying.

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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.