The Week's Links: June 12, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Beautiful Time-Lapse Drone Footage of Fog Gently Rolling Over Twin Peaks and Sutro Tower in San Francisco owl.li/O59yj
  • Don't You Just Love Oral Histories Of Movies? owl.li/O5f26
  • A Lab Culture Grown From the Handprint of an Eight-Year-Old After Playing Outside owl.li/O5905
  • The Future of Design in Technology owl.li/O53Mi
  • ◉ Behind The Next Step owl.li/O1Zv9
  • The Most Famous Type Designers You've Never Heard Of owl.li/O4Yc0
  • KOLOR - Color Guessing Free Game. Can you guess a color as quickly as possible owl.li/O53qw
  • ◉ The Birth of Breaking News - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/11…
  • Wi-Fi That Charges Your Gadgets Is Closer Than You Think owl.li/O2j3R
  • The Future of Web Design is Hidden in the History of Architecture owl.li/O52FY
  • What is code? If you don't know, you need to read this: owl.li/ObBjN
  • Interact With Bjork in Virtual Reality in Her Latest Video owl.li/O2j0W
  • Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people owl.li/O51Ye
  • The psychology of simple owl.li/O51xS
  • Japanese Sword Master Tests His Skills Against an Industrial Robot in an Incredible Demonstration owl.li/O2bb9
  • American Geniuses Steve Wozniak, Biz Stone and Bill Nye On Nurturing Innovation In Business owl.li/O2b55
  • The Smithsonian Design Museum Tells the Story of User-Centered Design Through 120 Beautiful Products owl.li/O1ZhL
  • Transformer Triumphs in DARPA's Robot Challenge owl.li/O223l
  • Japanese Sword Master Tests His Skills Against an Industrial Robot in an Incredible Demonstration owl.li/O2aVW
  • Internet users are increasingly blocking ads, including on their mobiles owl.li/O20N9
  • The Mystical Poetry of Rumi Read By Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks owl.li/O2aNp
  • ◉ The surprisingly logical minds of babies - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/10…
  • One Better Than the Jingle: The Potential Power of Music at the Core of Brand Experiences owl.li/O1RhN
  • The Bizarre Story Of A Painting Stolen, Given, Googled – And Returned To A Bushwick Gallery owl.li/O25SQ
  • A Preview of David Guttenfelder’s Photos From North Korea owl.li/O25hb
  • How Video Games Make You Work owl.li/O1PRy
  • How Designers Use Visual Metaphors To Change The Way We Act And Feel owl.li/O1JDs
  • ◉ Shantanu Starick: How I Went Two Years Without Spending Any Money owl.li/O1Vt6
  • Quadcopters join the circus, in this magical video from Raff d’Andrea and Cirque Du Soleil owl.li/NZPKN
  • Citizen Godzilla: Japan embraces its monster after 60 years owl.li/NZRlC
  • ◉ Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass owl.li/NZPFW
  • French Supermarkets Are Now Not Allowed To Throw Away Food--They Have To Find Another Way To Use It owl.li/NZReZ
  • See the Abandoned and Inaccessible Island Where Typhoid Mary Died owl.li/NZPDb
  • ◉ A Tribute To Hermann Zapf, Legendary Font Designer - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/9/…
  • Mesmerizing Self-Drawing Sand Drawing Machine owl.li/NZQz6
  • 44 Tips to Improve Your Photography owl.li/O1RbM
  • How batteries work - Adam Jacobson owl.li/NZPQN
  • Minimalism in Web design: past and future owl.li/NYlwG
  • Is the logo dead? owl.li/NYluH
  • ◉ People Who Go to Bed Late Spend More Time Worrying About Stuff owl.li/O1VgE
  • The Errors of Our Ways - A brief history of error reports owl.li/NYl0V
  • How The Most Creative People In Business Generate New Ideas owl.li/NYlsp
  • TED Talks for people who hated math in high school owl.li/NYkWP
  • This Month in Typography — I Love Typography owl.li/NYloC
  • ◉ The Rabbit Hole - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/8/…
  • The Calligraphy Stars of Instagram owl.li/NYkUY
  • Will Massimo’s gospel ever be back in style? owl.li/NYlnN
  • 7 truths about the mind you missed in psychology class owl.li/NZPwu
  • The Inside Story of How the iPhone Crippled BlackBerry - WSJ owl.li/NYl93
  • New Jorge Luis Borges-Inspired Project Will Test Whether Robots Can Appreciate Poetry owl.li/NYioS
  • 10 Million Years of Evolution Visualized in an Elegant, 5-Foot Long Infographic from 1931 owl.li/NYik6
  • The 4 Types of Productivity Styles owl.li/NWlZB
  • Duct Tape: Saving Soldiers and Astronauts for 70 Years owl.li/NYihJ
  • How Many Steps a Day Should You Really Walk? owl.li/NVHcs
  • How to be good at stress owl.li/NYi8U
  • Why Sound Is Digital Design's Fourth Dimension owl.li/NVdsr
  • Advice to a first time creative director owl.li/NYkyw
  • 2015 Marketing Hall of Fame: Storied Marketers and the Power of Stories owl.li/NWmii
  • The Top Ads of the YouTube Decade owl.li/NWm5t
  • The Moby Dick Big Read: Celebrities and Everyday Folk Read a Chapter a Day from the Great American Novel owl.li/NSwCr
  • The Fascinating Science Of Aesthetics owl.li/NSwls
  • A Giant Appears At The Edge Of An African Roadway owl.li/NPXxY
  • The Life And Death Of Technicolor owl.li/NSwgy
  • Mapping What You Cannot See, Cannot Know, Cannot Visit owl.li/NPXrq
  • Amazing website done with just HTML/CSS: In Pieces - 30 Endangered Species, 30 Pieces. owl.li/NSvDc
  • The Best Opportunities Are the Ones You Create for Yourself owl.li/NPTDn
  • The 7-Step-Paul-Rand Logo-Test owl.li/NQ4wy
  • What I learned from teaching English in North Korea owl.li/NSwH8
  • New App for Show Tickets Draws Whippersnappers to Broadway owl.li/NQ4g1
  • Who You Sit Next to Can Have a Huge Effect On How You Work owl.li/NPBDu
  • Steve Wozniak Debunks One of Apple's Biggest Myths owl.li/NJ9Lc
  • Take the Test to Get Into China's Top Universities owl.li/NMSnY
  • Hear Toni Morrison's Poetic Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on the Radical Power of Language (1993) owl.li/NPr8T
  • Adrian Chen on the hoaxes that often target American communities from an office building in St. Petersburg, Russia. owl.li/NMRW5
  • 700 Free eBooks for iPad, Kindle & Other Devices owl.li/NPqSR
  • Where the Digital Economy Is Moving the Fastest owl.li/NMBsR
  • Tired of Waiting for U.S. to Act, States Pass Crowdfunding Laws and Rules owl.li/NPR3p
  • The quest to save today’s gaming history from being lost forever owl.li/NP43A
  • Your Creative Calendar: 91 Things To Do, See, And Hear This June owl.li/NVdlB
  • Crawling, breathing, invasive fish a 'major disaster' if it reaches Australia owl.li/NMV6c
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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 Birth of Breaking News

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Discovered via the great Kottke.com:

No one is alive that can remember life before your day could be interrupted by a newsflash. The first event in this country to be experienced that way was when the transcontinental railroad was completed in the Utah desert in 1869. The entire nation was waiting for the moment a golden spike (wired to the telegraph) struck a silver hammer (also wired up to the telegraph), creating the first massive breaking news story.
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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 surprisingly logical minds of babies

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How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk.

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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 Tribute To Hermann Zapf, Legendary Font Designer

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Hermann Zapf, the designer of fonts such as Palatino, Optima, Zapfino, Melior, Aldus, and the bizarre but much beloved Zapf Dingbats, has died at age 96.

The film The Art of Hermann Zapf is a lovely tribute to his lifetime of font designs.  

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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 Rabbit Hole

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Kathryn Schulz in The New Yorker exploring the evolution of the phrase rabbit hole: 

How did “rabbit hole,” which started its figurative life as a conduit to a fantastical land, evolve into a metaphor for extreme distraction? One obvious culprit is the Internet, which has altered to an indescribable degree the ways that we distract ourselves. Twenty years ago, you could browse for hours in a library or museum, spend Saturday night at the movies and Sunday at the mall, kill an afternoon at the local video arcade or an evening at its X-rated analogue—but you couldn’t do those things every day, let alone all day and night. Moreover, content-wise, you couldn’t leapfrog very far or very fast from wherever you started, and there was a limit to the depth and nichiness of what you were likely to find; back then, we had not yet paved the road between, say, Dorothy Hamill and a comprehensive list of Beaux-Arts structures in Manhattan, nor archived for the convenience of humankind ten thousand photographs of fingernail art. Then came the Internet, which operates twenty-four hours a day, boasts a trillion-plus pages, and breeds rabbit holes the way rabbits breed rabbits.
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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.