Re: Google Celebration Images Always Fun!
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YouTubeThe 14th February 2013 Google Doodle is a combination of George Ferris Birthday and that of Valentine’s day. At first like most of the time when Google Brings out a new Google Doodle, I always try to see if I can discover what the Google Doodle is about, before I read more about it. Today’s Google Doodle had me baffled for a moment.
http://3d-car-shows.com/2013/george-fer ... tines-day/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1OSpNsxF64
A brandnew Google Doodle - Happy Valentines Day and 154th Birthday to George Ferris.
George Ferris was an American engineer. He is most famous for creating the original Ferris Wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition.
Google Doodle for Edward Gorey on 22nd February 2013.
Edward Gorey was an American writer, illustrator and poet born.
Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 - April 15, 2000)
He is known for his "playfully macabre" illustration of books. The Google Doodle depicts several characters of his works. The Penguin is out of his illustrated book "The Doubtful Guest" ...
More about Edward Gorey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey
There is a Google Doodle on March 11th, 2013. It is an interactive Google Doodle for Douglas Adams. It would be his 61st birthday today. Douglas Adams was an English writer, dramatist and humorist. He got famous with his "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". It started as radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies. Douglas Adams died of a myocardial infarction at the age of 49.
The Doodle is interactive. By clicking on the handheld right of the cup the story continues.
You'll find out the answer to life the universe and everything is 42.
Leonhard Euler, the influential Swiss mathematician, has had the 306th anniversary of his birth honoured by a Google doodle.
The mathematician introduced most modern terminology and was renowned for his work in mechanics, optics and astronomy......
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/ ... gle-doodle
Graphic designer Saul Bass given Google Doodle video tribute
Honour for the man behind some of Hollywood's most famous opening sequences on what would have been his 93rd birthday
American graphic designer and filmmaker, Saul Bass, has been given a video Google Doodle to mark what would have been his 93rd birthday.
Bass was best known for his cinema title sequences and movie posters, working with such directors as Alfred Hitchc0ck, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. The video showcases some of his best work from a prolific Hollywood career which spanned five decades.
He designed the title sequences for Hitchc0ck's Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959) and Psycho (1960), and his work also included Spartacus (1960), West Side Story (1961), The Shining (1980), Goodfellas (1990), Cape Fear (1991) and Casino (1995).
He died in Los Angeles in 1996 aged 75.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 06931.html