The Week's Links: May 15, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain owl.li/MRoJ5
  • Stripe's Bold Bid to Make Money as Easy to Send as Email owl.li/MRjhq
  • These Disney•Pixar Palettes are the Most Aesthetically Pleasing Things You’ll See All Day http://owl.li/MRiJ4
  • Water: the weirdest liquid on the planet owl.li/MRj7S
  • Use Boredom to Find Your Next Jackpot Idea owl.li/MR9w9
  • ◉ Comma story - Terisa Folaron owl.li/MNYjW
  • Watch Miles Davis Improvise Music for Elevator to the Gallows, Louis Malle’s New Wave Thriller (1958) owl.li/MOHfE
  • Ditching sheet music, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra plays from memory owl.li/MP4E7
  • How Feasible is Dubai's Underwater Tennis Court? owl.li/MOEv0
  • Anand Varma: A thrilling look at the first 21 days of a bee’s life owl.li/MP4x9
  • More Consensus on Coffee’s Benefits Than You Might Think owl.li/MOCZt
  • What Tesla and Apple Both Know About Entering New Markets owl.li/MRgYB
  • Looking for something to read: The Pulitzer Prizes Finalists 2015 owl.li/MOKdB
  • The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time owl.li/MOHla
  • Prime Minister of Singapore codes, shares his C++ code for Sudoku solver owl.li/MOz9x
  • ◉ What Is History For? owl.li/MNY7R
  • The Most Essential Ingredient In Interaction Design? The Words owl.li/MOj31
  • The wars that inspired Game of Thrones - Alex Gendler owl.li/MOwMd
  • You Are Not Your Job owl.li/MO6ue
  • Why is yawning contagious? - Claudia Aguirre owl.li/MOwHq
  • ◉ The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... creative collaboration - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/5/13…
  • Beverages under a Microscope owl.li/MOCVw
  • The Magician Who Astounded the World by Conjuring Spirits and Talking with Mummies owl.li/MO2Mk
  • These Guerrilla Subway Signs Let You Get Out Of The Subway Exactly Where You Want owl.li/MOkhd
  • The 100 Most Creative People 2015- Fast Company owl.li/MOjXY
  • The Getty Museum is Recapping ‘Game of Thrones’ Episodes With Medieval Art owl.li/MMZAw
  • The New York Times–Facebook Deal Is Here owl.li/MSwQY
  • The history of the paper clip: It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since. owl.li/MM8Nr
  • ◉ The Psychology of Irrational Fear owl.li/MNXQQ
  • Say what? How the brain separates our ability to talk and write owl.li/MM2XP
  • Why Do Cats Purr? It's Not Just Because They're Happy owl.li/MM8LF
  • The Difference Between 'Best By,' 'Sell By' And 'Expires On' owl.li/MM2TQ
  • Desert Dancer: True story of the YouTube choreographers owl.li/MM5jk
  • ◉ What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/5/12…
  • The Mysterious Persistence of the Cronut owl.li/MM2Rn
  • The Chinese Art of the Crowd owl.li/MM5hb
  • 15 European Opera Houses to Offer Free Online Streaming owl.li/MMZRC
  • It's Time To Take Flickr Seriously Again owl.li/MM31f
  • NASA's Curiosity Rover Views Serene Sundown on Mars owl.li/MM0Pv
  • 2015 National Design Awards Winners- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum owl.li/MIvmP
  • ◉ Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability owl.li/MNXHR
  • Johnnie Walker's 'Smart' Blue Label owl.li/MHYms
  • 10 Things to See During New York Design Week 2015 owl.li/MIi3l
  • How to be good at stress owl.li/MHjes
  • The Master Designer Who Gave the Area Code Its Parentheses owl.li/MI1wJ
  • ◉ The Acceptance of Change - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/5/11…
  • The Creativity Top 5: Week of May 4-May 8, 2015 owl.li/MOevf
  • Bill Gates's Quest to Determine Why Children Are Dying owl.li/MEM7F
  • The State of Design Tools: An Unscientific Survey owl.li/MHZar
  • What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work owl.li/MM2OY
  • How To Design a Typeface: Mark Simonson’s Process owl.li/MHYLe
  • Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art owl.li/MELVd
  • Missing Link Microbes May Help Explain How Single Cells Became Us owl.li/MEGxg
  • Ideo Imagines 18 Packaging Concepts For The Future owl.li/MEF28
  • What Happened to Marie Antoinette's Children? owl.li/MEGlA
  • Your Creative Calendar: 73 Things To Do, See, And Hear This May owl.li/MEERz
  • Inside the Lair of the Guy Behind Film's Most Iconic Sounds owl.li/MEGgP
  • Taking Note: Yeats and the Economics of Creativity owl.li/MEE5o
  • A $2.5 Billion Plan To Transport Penn Station Back In Time owl.li/MEFsw
  • Scientists make first-ever acoustic images of thunder at a Florida military base. owl.li/MEM1h
  • What Frida wore: the artist's wardrobe locked up 50 years – in pictures owl.li/MEFax
  • New Type of Stem Cell Could Make It Easier to Grow Human Organs owl.li/MEBta
  • The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke owl.li/MCtX5
  • Why You Should Do More Things Alone owl.li/MCd47
  • The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 358 Filmmakers owl.li/MCtUl
  • NASA's New 10-Engine Drone Is Half Chopper, Half Plane owl.li/MCcOC
  • Birds Drawn on Vintage Envelopes owl.li/MCtvJ
  • The Lessons Google Ventures Learned From Secret owl.li/MBxZd
  • Kickstarter and failure owl.li/MEDZW
  • With Video Launch, Reddit Is Officially a Media Company owl.li/MCsNd
  • The Very First Self-Driving Semi Truck Has Hit the Road owl.li/MCs6v
  • What Killed The Infographic? owl.li/MBxN3
  • How Corona Made Cinco De Mayo An American Holiday owl.li/MBxvd
  • ◉ Why the U.S. Has Fallen Behind in Internet Speed and Affordability owl.li/MvaA1
  • Real-Life Soldiers Masquerade as Toys in the African Desert owl.li/MyVZD
  • Who invented the piano? And why was he forgotten? owl.li/MyWDC
  • 15 Ideas That Will Make You Reconsider Virtual Reality owl.li/MyVNa
  • Jonathan Basile brings Borges' Library of Babel to life with an eerie, gibberish-filled website. owl.li/MyWlG
  • The World's Loneliest ATM is in Antarctica owl.li/MyS5K
  • Penny Black: the turbulent history of the short-lived stamp owl.li/MyWhw
  • Inside the Inflatable Hospital That's Saving Lives in Nepal owl.li/MyW1T
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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 dancer, the singer, the cellist ... creative collaboration

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Legendary dance choreographer Bill T. Jones and TED Fellows Joshua Roman and Somi didn't know exactly what was going to happen when they took the stage at TED2015. They just knew they wanted to offer the audience an opportunity to witness creative collaboration in action.

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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 Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work

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Planet Money's Adam Davidson uses Hollywood as an example to demonstrate how the future of work will be project based, in The New York Times: 

Our economy is in the midst of a grand shift toward the Hollywood model. More of us will see our working lives structured around short-­term, project-­based teams rather than long-­term, open­-ended jobs. There are many reasons this change is happening right now, but perhaps the best way to understand it is that we have reached the end of a hundred-­year fluke, an odd moment in economic history that was dominated by big businesses offering essentially identical products. Competition came largely by focusing on the cost side, through making production cheaper and more efficient; this process required businesses to invest tremendous amounts in physical capital — machines and factories — and then to populate those factories with workers who performed routine activities. Nonmanufacturing corporations followed a similar model: Think of all those office towers filled with clerical staff or accountants or lawyers. That system began to fray in the United States during the 1960s, first in manufacturing, with the economic rise of Germany and Japan. It was then ripped apart by Chinese competition during the 2000s. Enter the Hollywood model, which is far more adaptable. Each new team can be assembled based on the specific needs of that moment and with a limited financial commitment.
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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 Acceptance of Change

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From The School of Life, The Book of Life:

For most of human history, people haven’t believed that the world changes very much, or that change is ever very good. Stability and security have been the ideals. News used to spread slowly, technology hardly evolved, few people ever travelled and trades were handed down from generation to generation.
But today, all that has changed. Most people regard profound, widespread and frequent change as inescapable and a good thing too. Change is now strongly associated with progress. A dominant picture has evolved of what the properly modern person is supposed to be like: someone who not only accepts change but who seeks it out, embraces it, drives it. When Steve Jobs wanted to convince John Sculley, president of Pepsi-Cola, to become CEO of the (then) much smaller Apple – he is reported as having asked him: ‘Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?’
The word ‘change’, in that famous phrase, has a powerful resonance. To change the world, Jobs seemed to be implying, is the most important, most admirable and most worthwhile thing a person can do with their life. And yet, the logical question – why is this change meant to be so important – does not get much of a look in.

 

 

 

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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: May 8, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Penny Black: the turbulent history of the short-lived stamp http://owl.li/MyWhw
  • The World's Loneliest ATM is in Antarctica http://owl.li/MyS5K
  • Inside the Inflatable Hospital That's Saving Lives in Nepal owl.li/MyW1T
  • Mark Twain stories, 150 years old, uncovered by Berkeley scholars owl.li/MyS13
  • Stunning Total Solar Eclipse Observed Over the Arctic owl.li/My7hA
  • ◉ Paris / New York owl.li/MvasS
  • David Ogilvy Outlines His Weaknesses in This 1970s-Era Memo owl.li/My1ZV
  • How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text owl.li/My773
  • How Dentsu Climbed to the Top owl.li/My1Jv
  • ◉ Damn Good Advice (For People with Talent!) - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How Ideo Redesigned Monday to Be Less Awful owl.li/My4EH
  • The Location of This Book's Story Changes, Depending on Where You're Reading It owl.li/My1wq
  • Inside the School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education owl.li/My33y
  • Breaking News: Federal Court Rules NSA Bulk Data Collection Illegal owl.li/MEj8Z
  • Some icons are verbs, some icons are nouns: Getting fluent at the language of iconography owl.li/My2Sp
  • Better than GPS: a history of cartography in 12 amazing maps owl.li/Mvmgs
  • ◉ How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism owl.li/Mvang
  • Artist Turns Spider Webs Into Haunting Sculptures owl.li/Mv937
  • The World’s Weirdest Library owl.li/MuWrv
  • Should some plays be seen and not read? owl.li/Mv1yg
  • ◉ The Story of Art - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • How To Make Your Kids Smarter: 10 Steps Backed By Science owl.li/MuW1w
  • The iPhone's Slo-Mo Video Has Become a Dancer's Best Friend owl.li/Mv0SG
  • This Idea Must Die: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast owl.li/MuV2X
  • Tracking the Evolving Brain of the Young Musician owl.li/Mv0yo
  • 17 Things We Know About Forgiveness owl.li/MuXxC
  • "Mad Men" Creator Matthew Weiner's Reassuring Life Advice For Struggling Artists owl.li/MuPK0
  • Presidential doodles owl.li/MuPBE
  • ◉ Oliver Burkeman: The Negative Path to Happiness and Success owl.li/Mvagc
  • Artist Turns Spider Webs Into Haunting Sculptures owl.li/MsyOL
  • A Field Guide to the American Sandwich owl.li/MuBRT
  • ◉ A History of the World in 100 Objects - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Winners of the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards owl.li/MsfEz
  • The Man Who Makes the World’s Funniest People Even Funnier owl.li/MuBHt
  • Council Set to Create a Cultural Plan for New York City owl.li/Msdvh
  • The Time A Newspaper Stared Down The Country's Largest Advertiser owl.li/MuTDi
  • Getting Vaccinated Will Soon Be As Easy As Putting On A Band-Aid owl.li/Muvny
  • A Short History of Love- The Book of Life owl.li/Mu61M
  • Le Corbusier, the man, the modernist legend owl.li/Msdrj
  • Shakespeare's Globe confirms new artistic director owl.li/Msdpq
  • ◉ Sleep is More Important than Food owl.li/Mv9LC
  • 5 Key Ingredients for a Great Motion Design owl.li/MsaK7
  • TV Producer Brian Grazer on How to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone owl.li/Msddw
  • ◉ The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • While You Were Offline: Don't Let Robots Guess Your Age owl.li/Msax4
  • The Greatest Dance Number Ever Filmed owl.li/MscPD
  • Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week April 27 - May 1, 2015 owl.li/MuuIF
  • Writing collaborations: "The creative process ... was slightly disastrous." owl.li/MrQNm
  • Infographic: The Fascinating Evolution Of Car Brand Logos owl.li/MscNT
  • Oliver Sacks, Before the Neurologist’s Cancer and New York Times Op-Ed owl.li/Msdtu
  • Why the Best Designers Don't Specialize in Any One Thing owl.li/MsaRq
  • Why the Arts Are Key to Dementia Care owl.li/MrQtz
  • Watch a Supercut Tribute to Spike Jonze's Stunning Cinematography owl.li/Mp0J2
  • Elon Musk's Grand Plan to Power the World With Batteries owl.li/MoVho
  • Terrible: House Science Committee guts NASA Earth sciences budget owl.li/Mp0Gw
  • The Weird, Wild World of Micro-Nations Where Anybody Can Be King owl.li/MoUZD
  • This Art Is Cool: Imagining a Dystopian Sweden Full of Robots and Dinosaurs owl.li/Mp0CC
  • Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business owl.li/MoUQz
  • 15 Things You Might Not Know About 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte' owl.li/Mp0z1
  • Silicon Valley Then and Now: To Invent the Future, You Must Understand the Past owl.li/MrQql
  • Hahaha vs. Hehehe owl.li/MoWGd
  • 'World's best teacher' does not believe in tests and quizzes owl.li/MmnUg
  • Breathtakingly Detailed Large-Format Photographs of Opera Houses Around the World owl.li/MmnTi
  • 5 Seriously Dumb Myths About Copyright the Media Should Stop Repeating owl.li/MmefS
  • ‘Dutch Skies’, A Gorgeous Time-Lapse of the Varying Landscapes of the Dutch Countryside owl.li/MmnSf
  • How Chewing Gum Prevents Songs From Getting Stuck in Your Head owl.li/Mme8J
  • ‘Drone Aviary’, A Short Film That Explores the Idea of Drones as Protagonists owl.li/MmnPf
  • Reclaiming the Power of Play owl.li/Mme4R
  • 5 Things App Designers Could Learn From Walt Disney owl.li/MmfEu
  • For a Healthy Heart, You May Have to Eat More Cheese owl.li/MmnXZ
  • Top 200 Art Collectors 2015 Part One -- artnet News owl.li/Mmeqx
  • What I Almost Called My Play- Writers on the Titles They Didn’t Use owl.li/Mi4eZ
  • ◉ Sleep is More Important than Food owl.li/MaK6A
  • 8 Psychological Tricks of Restaurant Menus owl.li/MeLc0
  • ▶ Why neutrinos matter - Sílvia Bravo Gallart owl.li/MfwiU
  • Chemical Attraction: Why Mosquitos Zone In On Some People, But Not Others owl.li/MeKpU
  • 400 years after his death, Shakespeare's sonnets live on in your smartphone owl.li/MfqUp
  • Lake Michigan is So Clear Right Now its Shipwrecks Are Visible From the Air owl.li/MeJ8T
  • Baudelaire, Balzac, Dumas, Delacroix & Hugo Get a Little Baked at Their Hash Club (1844-1849) owl.li/MfqS1
  • 7 Lessons in Storytelling, From Novelist, Screenwriter, And Filmmaker (Don't Call Him a Director) Alex Garland owl.li/MmarH
  • This journey was nearly 4 billion miles — and took 10 years owl.li/Mf334
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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.