The Week's Links: July 3, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Top 10 ideas from Marketing & Advertising over the last 12 months owl.li/P2WQu
  • Consciousness May Not Be As Powerful As You Think owl.li/P3if6
  • ‘The World Is Full of Obvious Things’: A Sherlock Holmes Reading List owl.li/P3gJx
  • You think you know why bicycles stay up? owl.li/P2UYP
  • The Computers of Our Wildest Dreams. In search of a quantum computer. owl.li/P2UU2
  • ◉ What is a good brand? owl.li/OWjZQ
  • Ana Andjelic - The Sociology of Branding owl.li/P0KQi
  • Self-driving cars drive like your grandma owl.li/P2QLC
  • Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/P6NON
  • The Sad State of Job Titles owl.li/P0KuY
  • Next Twitter boss faces complex challenges, says departing Dick Costolo owl.li/P2PbB
  • ◉ What's the Most Important Element of a Good Story? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/7/2/…
  • The original smartwatches: Casio's history of wild wrist designs owl.li/P0KdE
  • An Unlikely Ballerina - The rise of Misty Copeland, now a Principal dancer for ABT. owl.li/P2LVD
  • Google Ocean View owl.li/P0LlD
  • 'Look at Me': The first-ever Instagram book is a self-help guide for brands owl.li/OXdTn
  • 12 Hotshot Designers Reimagine The Iconic Coke Bottle owl.li/OXdow
  • ◉ Neil Gaiman presents lifetime achievement award to Ursula K. Le Guin at 2014 National Book Awards owl.li/OWjSB
  • Photographic firsts and the earliest born person ever to be photographed owl.li/OX0a7
  • An exhibit of photographs that were staged, altered, or faked. owl.li/OX1U8
  • The voice of Siri explains the art of voiceover owl.li/OX08a
  • Michelangelo got his start as an art forger. owl.li/OX1DT
  • What Comes After Smart Products owl.li/P2UGM
  • Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century, Part 1 - Fortune owl.li/OWyGE
  • How Origami Makes Rigid Lithium-Ion Batteries Stretchable owl.li/OX0XA
  • Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove owl.li/OX0bW
  • The Ad Industry's Best: See All 18 Grand Prix Winners From The 2015 Cannes Lions owl.li/OWyu4
  • What Additives Look Like Before They End Up in Your Food owl.li/OWxVX
  • ◉ Kurt Vonnegut on how to write a short story owl.li/OWjEa
  • Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world owl.li/OUlZA
  • Facebook Rainbow Profile Photos: The Latest Big Data Experiment? owl.li/OWs2g
  • Norway is Building a Highway for Bees owl.li/OUlXV
  • Musicians and writers choose their favourite book about music owl.li/OUmqH
  • ◉ Big Bird, big brain - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/29…
  • Fritz Lang Invents the Video Phone in Metropolis (1927) owl.li/OU8JE
  • Names Have Meaning: A Research Guide for Baby Names and Family Names- The New York Public Library owl.li/OUmmo
  • The evolution of the human eye - Joshua Harvey owl.li/OUmjW
  • The Body Cam Hacker Who Schooled the Police owl.li/OTIRf
  • Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art owl.li/OTHn4
  • ◉ Grace Hopper: The Queen of Code owl.li/OWjvX
  • Between Kickstarter’s frauds and phenoms live long-delayed projects owl.li/OQS1D
  • Werner Herzog Picks His 5 Top Films owl.li/OTHht
  • Why do honeybees love hexagons? - Zack Patterson and Andy Peterson owl.li/OQCXT
  • Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! owl.li/OTHfy
  • ◉ Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/29…
  • Walt Disney's corporate strategy chart owl.li/OQCdj
  • The Art of Brand Evangelism owl.li/OTHdZ
  • Three women scholars you should know, but you probably don't  owl.li/OU8CL
  • I Am My MTV: MTV Gets Personal With The Viewer In It's Rebrand owl.li/OTGBi
  • Why Care About Design? owl.li/OQxcZ
  • Great Designers are Great Communicators owl.li/OQx8a
  • Can You Guess Which Birds These Feathers Belong To? owl.li/OOzXL
  • Expand Your Thinking, Not Just Your Skillset owl.li/OQwrV
  • 50 Smartest Companies 2014 - MIT Technology Review, see who didn't make the list. owl.li/OOgh0
  • What it’s like to grow old in different parts of the world owl.li/OQetf
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald Conjugates "to Cocktail," the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb (1928) owl.li/OOg8J
  • Inceptionism: Google Going Deeper into Neural Networks owl.li/OQxrA
  • The Creators Of "Serial" On What They Learned The First Season And What's Next owl.li/OPULU
  • An Incredibly Detailed Map Shows Europe's Population Shifts From 2001 to 2011 owl.li/OODJn
  • The Foods Americans Once Loved to Eat owl.li/OKZpQ
  • Life on Mars Could Change Our View of the Universe, If It Is a Second Genesis owl.li/OKtAh
  • How speaking multiple languages benefits the brain - Mia Nacamulli owl.li/OHk8H
  • Elizabeth Streb’s Dances with Danger owl.li/OKkOU
  • What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model owl.li/OHjSp
  • Do The Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram owl.li/OKjCJ
  • What Your Brain Does When You Can’t Stay Awake owl.li/OHjHq
  • Designers Pay Tribute To Massimo Vignelli With 53 Original Posters owl.li/ON6Lj
  • A World Without Work owl.li/OHJbJ
  • Facebook's new algorithm can identify you even if your face is hidden owl.li/OHILz
  • Artist Digitally Inserts Wrecked ‘Star Wars’ Spaceships Into Actual Photos of Major Cities Around the World owl.li/OGYUG
  • The upside of a massive solar storm: Dazzling displays of the northern lights owl.li/OGPnk
  • ◉ Is the secret to a good algorithm human input? owl.li/OBlip
  • Outstanding paper on the impact of ebook DRM on readers, writers, publishers and distributors owl.li/OGA7V
  • The Craft of Cooking: An Interview with “America’s Test Kitchen” founder Christopher Kimball  owl.li/OGOIR
  • How stories are told around the world owl.li/OGzOF
  • John Waters’s Spectacular RISD Commencement Address on Creative Rebellion and the Artist’s Task to Cause Constructive Chaos...
  • How to be a better complainer owl.li/OGzvR
  • Why Award-Winning Chefs Are Still Looking for Unpaid Internships owl.li/OGC7X
  • All the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2015 Grand Prix Winners owl.li/OGATT
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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's the Most Important Element of a Good Story?

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At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of writers, journalists, and producers to explain what makes a story great. According to House of Cards showrunner Beau Willimon, the answer is a simple one: "The most important element in a good story is conflict. It's seeing two opposing forces collide with one another." Other panelists include Michael Eisner, Catherine Burns, Jay Allison, Jon Lovett, Yoni Bloch, Paula Kerger, and Jonathan Harris.
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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.

Big Bird, big brain

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The Economist on Sesame Street: 

Since 1969, “Sesame Street” has been introducing small children to letters and numbers by using clever skits and songs performed by Muppets and celebrities. Patrick Stewart, for instance, reworked Hamlet’s soliloquy as an ode to the letter B (“B or not a B, that is the question”). Now a report by two economists, Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland and Phillip Levine of Wellesley College, has tracked the first generation of watchers (who were under six in 1969). It reveals that children who had access to “Sesame Street” ended up better prepared for school and were 14% less likely to fall behind in class. 
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The show’s effects are not unlike those of Head Start, a federal scheme that provides poor families with services that include school-based early education. But it costs a fraction as much, says Ms Kearney. “Sesame Street” is not a replacement for early education, which most studies agree is vital; but it is certainly a very affordable supplement. “In essence,” she says, thinking of massive open online courses, “Sesame Street was the first MOOC.”
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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.

Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last

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Neil Gaiman, at The Long Now Foundation, explores how stories last over time: 

Stories are alive. The ones that last, Gaiman said, outcompete other stories by changing over time. They make it from medium to medium—from oral to written to film and beyond. They lose uninteresting elements but hold on to the most compelling bits or even add some. The most popular version of the Cinderella story (which may have originated long ago in China) has kept the gloriously unlikely glass slipper introduced by a careless French telling.
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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 26, 2015

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • All the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2015 Grand Prix Winners owl.li/OGATT
  • Why Award-Winning Chefs Are Still Looking for Unpaid Internships owl.li/OGC7X
  • How to be a better complainer owl.li/OGzvR
  • How X-rays see through your skin - Ge Wang owl.li/ODV6J
  • A Big Solar Burp Pelted Earth Last Night owl.li/OOzT7
  • More than 100 New Marine Species Were Just Discovered in the Philippines owl.li/ODO8a
  • ◉ Inside a Camera at 10,000fps owl.li/OBlfa
  • How John Bell Designed The Future, And The Hoverboard owl.li/OCQOK
  • The Hunt for the Financial Industry's Most-Wanted Hacker owl.li/ODtMt
  • What 10 Dieter Rams Products Reveal About The Principles Of Good Design owl.li/OCQD6
  • The story of the invention that could revolutionize batteries—and maybe American manufacturing as well owl.li/ODqev
  • ◉ Procrastination - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/21…
  • Amazon's New Plan to Pay Authors Every Time Someone Turns a Page owl.li/OCFtu
  • Don’t Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Contribution owl.li/ODkGc
  • The Creativity Top 5: The Best Brand Ideas of the Week owl.li/OD3OP
  • Nina Simone’s Time Is Now, Again - The New York Times owl.li/OBnOM
  • Computers Are Learning How To Treat Illnesses By Playing Poker And Atari owl.li/OBnNt
  • ◉ The School of Life: How to Find Fulfilling Work owl.li/OBl8M
  • Malcolm Gladwell: One Character Trait That Will Make You Disruptive owl.li/OARtu
  • Slow-motion video of a vinyl record playing owl.li/OBawj
  • A Productivity Expert Wants You to Do Nothing owl.li/OAQSi
  • Super Mario Bros was designed on graph paper owl.li/OBaqD
  • ◉ A New Theory of Distraction - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/21…
  • Why are we so scared of sharks? owl.li/OAQPb
  • For a human, it would be like carrying 600 pounds between our teeth owl.li/OBafq
  • Contemporary classical composer unveils 'eight-hour lullaby' which audience will listen to from beds owl.li/OB9SS
  • How 77 Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M' for Their Transit Logo owl.li/OANaJ
  • Creative games for creative designers owl.li/OAN4G
  • ◉ Can the Internet be archived? owl.li/OBl6I
  • 'If I burn out, I burn out': meet Taylor Wilson, nuclear boy genius owl.li/OA9wg
  • If Your Computer Existed In Multiple Universes, It Would Be Way Faster owl.li/OAIK8
  • Facebook's New AI Can Paint, But Google's Knows How to Party owl.li/OA9uS
  • The town that banned Wi-Fi owl.li/OAD7H
  • ◉ Can Reading Make You Happier? - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/21…
  • The Man Behind 'The Most Interesting Man' Is Interesting, Too owl.li/OA9uf
  • Walter Cronkite introduces America to the Velvet Underground on national TV, 1965 owl.li/OA9xq
  • How Your Brain Understands Visual Language owl.li/OANdQ
  • The impossible world of MC Escher owl.li/OA9wI
  • Photographer Captures Striking Images of Tiny Lightning Storms Sparked by a Tesla Coil owl.li/OA7Th
  • From Psycho to Jurassic Park: exploring iconic movie poster typography owl.li/OA7n2
  • ◉ Benjamin Millepied: Haut Vol owl.li/OBl0K
  • “The Shire” or “Darwin’s Game”? Here are 4 visions of what journalism might look like in 2025 » Nieman Journalism Lab owl.li/OA71o
  • ◉ Recommended: Visual Miscellaneum: A Colorful Guide to the World's Most Consequential Trivia - smartercreativity.com/recommendation…
  • Can We Design Trust Between Humans and Artificial Intelligence? owl.li/OA7cA
  • Misty Copeland’s Possible Promotion at ABT, If promoted to principal, she will be first black woman to reach top rank owl.li/ODNYn
  • America’s first responders, California Task Force Two follows disaster around the world. owl.li/OA6ZE
  • Data Journalism Awards Winners owl.li/OA7aE
  • ◉ Subway Platform Pas De Deux - smartercreativity.com/blog/2015/6/21…
  • The Unexpected Benefits of Anxiety owl.li/OA6QQ
  • The Shakespeare Algorithm owl.li/OA77t
  • Here's what happened when Google allowed its image recognition software to generate its own images. owl.li/OA8TX
  • 6 lessons in social storytelling from 6 months of reported.ly owl.li/OA74F
  • I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded owl.li/OA3fC
  • Can Typography Help Us Empathize With Others? owl.li/OA39Y
  • How We Built The World’s Best Design Event owl.li/OzVj0
  • Fulton Centre hub in Manhattan named Building of the Year thanks to technique which channels light underground owl.li/OA362
  • The Father Of "Getting Things Done": You're Getting Me All Wrong owl.li/OvMtL
  • Whose Dance is it Anyway? Chamber Dance Project mixes improv and ballet owl.li/OA2XU
  • Bees Are Literally Worrying Themselves to Death owl.li/OuXZZ
  • BBC Radio 2 appoints choreographer as 'artist-in-residence' owl.li/OA2Wr
  • How Your Siblings Affect Your Success According to Science owl.li/OA6PM
  • 25 Great Literary Series to Replace Your TV Habit This Summer owl.li/OA1TZ
  • To be a teacher and remain a student owl.li/OuOwb
  • 18 Sounds You Probably Didn't Realize Were Trademarked owl.li/OuM85
  • The Lesson Of Two Epic Logo Debacles owl.li/OsNqf
  • 100GB of NASA space photos turned into epic 4K time-lapse owl.li/OuLXq
  • Bruno Munari Will Make You Fall In Love With Books All Over Again owl.li/OsNo2
  • A Proportional Visualization of the World's Most Popular Languages owl.li/OuKhg
  • 20 Comic Book Series to Read owl.li/OsNjV
  • 50 of Film Noir’s Most Fashionable Moments owl.li/OuXR4
  • Fascinating Old Census Maps, Updated for a Modern America owl.li/OuJ7U
  • See Ralph Steadman's Twisted Illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on the Story's 150th Anniversary owl.li/OuIzX
  • Revealed: The Secret Gear Connecting Google's Online Empire owl.li/OsMP4
  • Why Mathematicians Are Hoarding This Special Type of Japanese Chalk owl.li/Os0Gz
  • ◉ A Museum in England Is Hiding a Forgery Among Its Masterpieces owl.li/OlzaF
  • Read 18 Lost Stories From Hunter S. Thompson’s Forgotten Stint As a Foreign Correspondent owl.li/OrRQk
  • NEW: Saul Bass' opening of Stanley Kramer’s The Pride and The Passion owl.li/Os0AC
  • Isaac Asimov's Favorite Story "The Last Question" Read by Isaac Asimov— and by Leonard Nimoy owl.li/OrRMA
  • The Art of Making - Flamenco Guitar owl.li/OrZJG
  •  The famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle - Alex Gendler owl.li/OrRIF
  • Kite Aerial Photography - Intimate and Amazing Shots from Above owl.li/OrZzx
  • Insane 4k Calbuco Eruption Footage owl.li/OrZoS
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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.