Tag: Google Doodle (1-10 of 16)

May 8 2013 09:55 AM ET

Incredible Google Doodle celebrates Saul Bass -- VIDEO

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Ready to feel an ominous chill in the air while simultaneously being incredibly impressed?

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Saul Bass, the artist responsible for some of the most iconic motion-picture title sequences of all time, including the openers from The Man With the Golden Arm, North by Northwest, and Psycho.

Google’s homepage Doodle today, on what would have been Bass’ 93 birthday (he passed away in 1996), starts with disjointed text bars that spell out ‘Google’ as a nod to Psycho. When viewers click play they are taken through a Google-ized spin on some of Bass’ most famous works: the addict’s arm from The Man With the Golden Arm, the eye from Vertigo, the streets of New York from West Side Story, and many others.

Check out the full 81-second reel below, set to Dave Brubeck’s classic “Unsquare Dance.” Can you name all the movie references? READ FULL STORY »

Apr 25 2013 10:14 AM ET

Google doodle celebrates jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald

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On what would have been her 96th birthday, Google is honoring jazz great Ella Fitzgerald with a doodle on its homepage.

The singer, born April 25, 1917, made her singing debut on stage at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, when she was 17 years old. Over the course of a six-decade career, the “First Lady of Song,” as she was widely called, sold more than 40 million albums, won 13 Grammy Awards, and collaborated with the equally legendary likes of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.

In 1987, President Ronald Reagan awarded Fitzgerald the National Medal of Arts, the highest honor conferred on behalf of the United States to an artist.

Fitzgerald died on June 15, 1996 at the age of 79.

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Apr 22 2013 09:56 AM ET

Google doodle celebrates Earth Day

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Today, Google celebrates Earth Day with an interactive doodle that changes with the seasons.

The doodle starts in the spring with snow-capped mountains and lush green grass and moves through a dry summer and snowy winter. The image depicts both day and night, complete with fireflies.

Run your mouse over the dandelion rows to watch them blow around and through the sky to see the breeze swirl. Clicking on the clouds makes it rain and snow, depending on the season, and pressing on the mountain cave brings a bear or two. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 15 2013 11:11 AM ET

Google doodle celebrates Swiss physicist Leonard Euler

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The latest Google doodle celebrates the life of physicist and mathematician Leonard Euler, who was born 306 years ago today in Basel, Switzerland.

Euler is most famous for discovering what is now known as the Euler characteristic, a number that describes a topological space’s shape or structure regardless of the way it is bent. You might even remember Euler’s theorem (V − E + F = 2) from your algebra or geometry class. The formula appears on his Goggle doodle.

The prodigy — Euler already had a Master of Philosophy degree by age 16 — also has an asteroid named after him and has been commemorated on currency and stamps in his native Switzerland.

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Apr 2 2013 10:37 AM ET

Illustrious Google doodle celebrates Swiss naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian

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Google’s going green today to honor a natural woman: Maria Sibylla Merian, a scientific illustrator born April 2, 1647. (She doesn’t look a day older than 360!)

Merian is best known for the illustrated text Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, which she published in 1705 after spending two years in the Dutch colony of Suriname with her daughter Dorothea (and, somewhat scandalously, without a male companion!).  The book included illustrations of both insect life cycles and the plants on which they lived, giving many Europeans their first extensive glimpse at the New World’s botanical and entomological features. Her work garnered several important fans, including Russian emperor Peter the Great. She died in Amsterdam in 1717, two years after suffering a stroke that left her partially paralyzed.

Celebrate Merian’s life today by browsing through a few of her gorgeous prints, not swatting any flies, and eating some pineapple — which the illustrator once described as “the most outstanding of all edible fruits.”

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Mar 11 2013 02:04 PM ET

Google Doodle celebrates Douglas Adams and 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'

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Happy birthday, Douglas Adams! Today’s Google Doodle honors the brilliant sci-fi humorist who created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the radio series-turned-novel that defined a certain uncanny mix of incredibly cynical outlandish farce — think Philip K. Dick meets Monty Python. (Hitchhiker’s begins with the destruction of Earth; things get worse from there.)

The Doodle prominently features the titular Guide — rendered here as something that looks eerily like an Amazon Kindle — and if you click on it, it’ll provide you with important notes, like how Earth is “Mostly Harmless.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 8 2013 12:07 PM ET

Google Doodle celebrates International Women's Day

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google-doodle-international-womens-dayWho runs the world? Girls!

Beyoncé may be exaggerating, but if there is any day worth busting out her ode to female empowerment, it’s International Women’s Day. Google Doodle took a break from celebrating the birthdays of athletes and artists to highlight the over-100-year-old holiday on its homepage.

Today’s celebration was originally meant to acknowledge and champion the advancement of women in the working world – particularly to draw attention to poor working conditions and low wages among women working in factories. The International Women’s Day website has a pretty great timeline of the causes the group has championed over the years. Today, the day has more international appeal with women joining together to spotlight issues of inequality and access to opportunity all over the world. International Women’s Day isn’t just celebrated in the U.S. — it’s also an official holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. READ FULL STORY »

Mar 4 2013 11:45 AM ET

Google Doodle celebrates singer/activist Miriam Makeba

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google-doodle-miriam-makebaToday’s Google Doodle wants to get you ready to dance while celebrating what would have been the 81st birthday of singer and activist Miriam Makeba.

Known as “Mama Africa,” the South African popularized African music in the West over the course of her decades-long career. The Grammy winner also regularly spoke out against apartheid, leading South Africa to revoke her citizenship in 1960 for the next 30 years. In 1966 she became the first African to win a Grammy Award for her album with Harry Belafonte, An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba. She also notably – and controversially —  joined Paul Simon on his Graceland Tour in 1985. She passed away in 2008 while on her own farewell tour.

Sadly, Google missed an opportunity to add some sound to today’s drawing (when you click anywhere on the screen, Google takes you to the search results for “Miriam Makeba”). Listen to “Pata Pata,” which hit No. 12 on the U.S. Billboard charts in 1967, below: READ FULL STORY »

Feb 22 2013 11:47 AM ET

Today's Google Doodle celebrates illustrator Edward Gorey

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google-doodle-edward-gorey_510x256E is for Edward Gorey.

The famed illustrator was well-known for his delightfully macabre style, which is on display in today’s Google Doodle illustration. Gorey himself appears to sit behind the ‘G’ as some of his most popular illustrations support each letter in the soundless Doodle. Click anywhere on the image, and Google takes you to the search results for Gorey.

Gorey’s best-known and certainly most notorious work is probably The Gashlycrumb Tinies, which, letter by letter, depicts the death of 26 children (sample: “A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs.”) But his distinctive style wasn’t limited to books: The author also won a Tony for the costumes in the 1977 Broadway production of Dracula and was responsible for the animated intro to the classic PBS show, Mystery.

Gorey passed away in 2000, at age 75. Below you can check out an animated video for The Gashleycrumb Tinies. Try not to choke on a peach or get mauled by bears, okay?  READ FULL STORY »

Feb 19 2013 11:55 AM ET

New Google Doodle celebrates Renaissance man Nicolaus Copernicus

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google-doodle-copernicusEarly adopters of heliocentrism, today is for you.

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus, the Polish Renaissance man who first floated the theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe.  According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “sometime between 1510 and 1514 [Copernicus] wrote an essay that has come to be known as the ‘Commentariolus,’ [which] introduced his new cosmological idea, the heliocentric universe.” The piece also included seven now-popular axioms such as, “the center of the universe is near the sun” and “the distance from the Earth to the sun is imperceptible compared with the distance to the stars.” The theory was published in 1543, shortly before he died. READ FULL STORY »

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