Your Best Work

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Seth Godin: 

Do your work, your best work, the work that matters to you. For some people, you can say, "hey, it's not for you." That's okay. If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.
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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.

Dancing Shadow Sculptures

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Parade is an interactive art installation designed by Dpt. and Laurent Craste for the Chromatic festival in Montreal.

The installation consists in an imposing wooden cube. A lamp attached to the top of the structure dimly lights a livid and stripped scene where two porcelain vases lie on a white dresser. The lighting highlights their shadows on the wall. As soon as someone pushes the lightbulb, the shadows of the vases come to life and animate, as if by magic, to the rhythm of the swinging light source.

Mesmerizing.

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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.

Dan Gilbert: "Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished."

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"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares recent research on a phenomenon he calls the "end of history illusion," where we somehow imagine that the person we are right now is the person we'll be for the rest of time. Hint: that's not the case.

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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 CIA's first tweet

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By now you probably know the CIA joined twitter recently. You've probably seen their first tweet, but just in case, here it is:

I'm using the situation to steer you in a different direction. Recenly Radiolab spent an episode exploring the origins of the phrase "neither confirm nor deny." It is a must-listen episode about the ubiquitous CIA phrase, so ubiquitous it became their first tweet. 

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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: June 6, 2014

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All the links posted on social networks this week: 

  • Metropolis: Watch a Restored Version of Fritz Lang's Masterpiece (1927) http://owl.li/xtV3c
  • 20 Tiny Thoughts Crushing Your Biggest Dreams http://owl.li/xulgH
  • 10 Imaginative Ideas From Genius Kids To Solve Our Global Waste Problemhttp://owl.li/xulGn
  • Conde Nast Drafts "Magna Carta" for Native Advertising http://owl.li/xulNM
  • So great: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency- Client Feedback On the Creation of the Earth.http://owl.li/xulsE
  • 9 (Short) Storytelling Tips From A Master Of Movie Trailers http://owl.li/xulUt
  • What Creativity Can Do To Improve Health Care http://owl.li/xulwa
  • ◉ Entrepreneur Mike Sellers Advice For New Startups http://owl.li/xuXhr
  • Nobody Cares How Awesome You Are at Your Job- Businessweek http://owl.li/xuqWA
  • ◉ Recommended: Where Good Ideas Come From http://owl.li/xuXO5
  • The physics of dance. Two Yale professors thrive where calculation meets choreography.http://owl.li/xulza
  • Daughters Who See Their Dad Doing Chores Aspire to Less Stereotypically Female Careers- Smithsonian owl.li/xul7q
  • ◉ Why You Hate Work -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/6/4/…
  • Free NASA eBook Theorizes How We Will Communicate with Aliens owl.li/xtV1H
  • ◉ Recommended: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative owl.li/xuXKN
  • Chris Hadfield: How Do You Deal With Fear Versus Danger? owl.li/xtV8E
  • ◉ The History of Typography, in Stop-Motion Animation owl.li/xuXdO
  • Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible by Sophie Lovell ebook, coming out July 15.owl.li/xtSEE
  • How Google's New "Right To Be Forgotten" Form Works: An Explainer owl.li/xtV7H
  • 25 Words That Are Their Own Oppositesowl.li/xqyKX
  • The First And Last Question Your Customers Subconsciously Ask owl.li/xtV6a
  • What Neuroscience Can Teach Us About Compassion owl.li/xtV5e
  • the world's strangest underground cities - in pictures owl.li/xqykL
  • You’ll Absorb More if You Take Notes in Longhand - Andrew O’Connell owl.li/xpdGG
  • Artworks made into LEGO become ads. Fantastic. owl.li/xqwvq
  • The Net Neutrality Wake-up Call | stratechery by Ben Thompson owl.li/xp8gH
  • ◉ How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/6/4/…
  • ◉ Recommended: Creators on Creating: Awakening and Cultivating the Imaginative Mind owl.li/xuXIm
  • Be a better writer in 15 minutes: 4 TED-Ed lessons on grammar and word choiceowl.li/xpWCH
  • ◉ Rethinking Our Approach To Educationowl.li/xuXax
  • What's next for Apple's ad man? owl.li/xp6qp
  • If you're on the beach, this map shows you what's across the ocean owl.li/xpHn8
  • David Pogue -- guest on Kevin Kelly's new Cool Tools podcast owl.li/xoRZy
  • Designers Tackle The 7 Great Miseries Of Flying owl.li/xpoZf
  • Griddify, a Tiny Photoshop Panel for Guides and Grids owl.li/xpfkn
  • 'Beautiful mistakes' will form groundwork for the internet of things (Wired UK) owl.li/xoRSX
  • The Not-So-Perfect Kilogram and Why the Metric System Might Be Screwed owl.li/xf5A0
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/xAFzU
  • Camelopardalids meteor shower over Joshua Tree Milky Way owl.li/xoNIi
  • ◉ Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time - smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/6/3/…
  • Fantastic: History in Color owl.li/xeYaj
  • ◉ Recommended: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World owl.li/xuXG4
  • How we fuel our brains (at the expense of our bodies) owl.li/xoNCm
  • ◉ Trust Yourself owl.li/xuX68
  • AnandTech | Averting Disaster - A Guide To Computer Backups (2014) owl.li/xeY6o
  • Photos of dead media owl.li/xoNvz
  • Wired Creates "Snow Fall&" of Native Advertising for Netflix owl.li/xeUJh
  • Google uses self-aware datacenters to cut the cost of searching owl.li/xouZx
  • MIT's CityHome Is A House In A Box You Control By Waving Your Hand owl.li/xouQR
  • Our HTML5 Web App Flopped, So We Went Native (And Haven't Looked Back) owl.li/xeUny
  • Is Coding the Next Must-Have Skill of the Modern Marketer? owl.li/xeSGV
  • The Fine Art of Daydreaming Effectivelyowl.li/xeU5w
  • How do you cater for 14,000 different screen sizes for better mobile engagement?owl.li/xeSFl
  • ◉ Schopenhauer on Genius -smartercreativity.com/blog/2014/6/1/…
  • ◉ Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional: American History owl.li/xuXCg
  • 7 Things Great Leaders Always Do (But Mere Managers Always Fear) owl.li/xeU2x
  • ◉ Talking Art In A Capitalist Worldowl.li/xuWY1
  • We are drowning in data about readers and attention, but which metrics really matter? You won’t like the answer owl.li/xeSDq
  • Getting more electricity out of solar cellsowl.li/xeTAi
  • Storytelling Is A Magical, Ruthless Discipline. Zadie Smith’s full remarks from the 2014 Moth Ball Gala owl.li/xeSqz
  • Oops! Researchers find neural signature for mistake correction owl.li/xeTy7
  • Phineas Gage neuroscience case: True story of famous frontal lobe patient is better than textbook accounts. owl.li/xeTb4
  • How libraries decide which books to keep—and which don’t stand the test of time owl.li/xeSkL
  • The New Internet Gods Have No Mercyowl.li/xeRK0
  • The 12 Stages of Burnout owl.li/xeSgK
  • How to Save Our Schools: The Arts and Music are No Fairytale owl.li/xeRBS
  • Vincent van Gogh & the Importance of Doingowl.li/xeSf7
  • Master's degrees are as common now as bachelor's degrees were in the '60sowl.li/xeRxv
  • The Unpredictable Consequences of Using Money as an Incentive owl.li/xeSdr
  • Curated creative design and development resources | oozled owl.li/xeRoO
  • The Story of the First Charts, in Three Charts - Harvard Business Review owl.li/xeS4F
  • Advertisers Trick Your Brain by Turning Adjectives into Nouns owl.li/xeS02
  • Resources: 200+ sites, apps & books for designers. owl.li/xeRnj
  • Find Out Right Now If You're Sleep Deprivedowl.li/xeQS1
  • 11 Ways to Avoid Burnout owl.li/xeRgQ
  • Shakespeare and atheism: What his works tell us about the playwright’s religious views.owl.li/xeQNa
  • Scientists at Johns Hopkins Come Closer to Eliminating Heart Disease owl.li/xeRaW
  • Lapsed Composer and Curmudgeonly Critic Reveals All About the Reviewing Racket!owl.li/xeQKM
  • Starbucks thinks it might make some of its future revenue as a software companyowl.li/xeR9p
  • MIT Technology Review: 10 New Breakthrough Technologies 2014 owl.li/xeQEc
  • The future of the library: How they’ll evolve for the digital age. owl.li/xeR4o
  • What Makes You Neurotic? A new study gets to the root of our anxieties. owl.li/xeR1u
  • The Doctor Who Coaches Athletes on Sleepowl.li/xeQC6
  • Five Movies That Dominate Television. Why these films air endlessly on basic-cable TV.owl.li/xeON7
  • iDreamBooks is a book discovery tool with a rating and recommendation system that is based on reviews from critics. owl.li/xeQxW
  • This is your brain on mobile owl.li/xeOxX
  • Meet the algorithm that can learn “everything about anything” owl.li/xeQqv
  • The 10 Algorithms That Dominate Our Worldowl.li/xeOw9
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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.