{"id":3216,"date":"2011-11-08T11:25:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2011-11-08T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:26:28","slug":"super-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/super-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I miss something, is it some special anniversary for Super Mario? \u00a0Just today I noticed Super Mario crop up in my daily browsing. Who over the age of 20 doesn&#8217;t have a soft-spot for this guy. I remember fondly those days when I used to go to the house of a friend who happened to have the first SNES of anyone I knew&#8230;watching the game of Super Mario Bros just blew my mind. I ended up eventually getting my own console and I recall playing that game to the point where you could literally blindly jump from any platform and expect to land on some cool part of the map. \u00a0Anyone old school remember the trick at the end where you could leap over the flag and trick the game into extra lives or something? \u00a0Ahhh&#8230; memories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/beginner-tutorial-create-super-marios-head-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3217\" title=\"abduzeedoMario\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/abduzeedoMario.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/abduzeedoMario.png 690w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/abduzeedoMario-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a great <a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/beginner-tutorial-create-super-marios-head-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\">Illustrator tutorial<\/a> for my students in Art 112. Good fundamentals on using shapes and basic techniques. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/abduzeedo.com\/beginner-tutorial-create-super-marios-head-illustrator\" target=\"_blank\">Abduzeedo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ffffound.com\/image\/84ed95f11c751996e3a3d0d391701ae615a79235\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3218\" title=\"fffoundMario\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fffoundMario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fffoundMario.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fffoundMario-210x300.jpeg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here&#8217;s a really neat graphic of the iconic figure. Like a modern-day cubism piece. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/ffffound.com\/image\/84ed95f11c751996e3a3d0d391701ae615a79235\" target=\"_blank\">FFFFound<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2011\/11\/04\/super-mario-wedding-invitations\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3219\" title=\"mariowedding01\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mariowedding01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mariowedding01.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mariowedding01-300x149.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Finally this is a really fun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2011\/11\/04\/super-mario-wedding-invitations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mario-inspired wedding invitation<\/a>. The attention to the details is what really sells this concept. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2011\/11\/04\/super-mario-wedding-invitations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toxel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I miss something, is it some special anniversary for Super Mario? \u00a0Just today I noticed Super Mario crop up in my daily browsing. Who over the age of 20 doesn&#8217;t have a soft-spot for this guy. I remember fondly those days when I used to go to the house of a friend who happened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,314,56,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-howto","category-inspiration-2","category-personal","category-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}