Go Beyond The Cover

Jesse Eisenmann’s mash-up of the New York map and Super Mario Bros

jesseeisemann.com/MarioNYC

Marta Spendowska – watercolour illustration

Gorgeous!

Marta’s site

Via Illustrators Lounge

Protecting Against Tsunamis

PBS takes a look at how Japanese and American scientists and engineers are studying techniques to protect coastal areas from tsunami damage:

Via @JapanProbe

Getting Started With jQuery: A Beginner’s Resource Guide

Javascript is one of a web designer’s best friends. Learning how to use this powerful tool to its fullest potential can prove invaluable to our work and our clients. jQuery helps make JS more accessible. jQuery is a free, fast, and concise JavaScript library that allows you to efficiently write cross-browser javascript code to make Ajax requests, animate elements, manipulate the DOM, and do a variety of user interface manipulations.

So today we are going to look at getting started with jQuery. This is the most popular javascript library available and has an extensive community working behind it, so if you are just diving in to the JS waters, jQuery is a fantastic place to begin. Below we have prepared something of a virtual resource guide for beginners to help them on this mission.

And know that if you ever get in over your head, you can always refer back to the official jQuery documentation to help get your bearings and clear up anything you are having an issue getting a grip on.

Read full article @noupe

Color, Simplicity and Function in a Small Scandinavian Crib

via Freshome

The Bicycle Animation

World’s First Mobile Phone (1922)

 

Wow.

Hdr skies

Stuck In The Sound – PURSUIT

she takes a photo every day: 4.5 years

Fashion Fridays ~ René Gruau (1909-2004)

Via http://illustratorslounge.com

The Future of Augmented Reality

LAUGHS!

Ahhhh, everything seems so much better after watching that

Symphony of Science – the Quantum World!