Harry's Place Arts

A guest post by the Chair-boogle of the Connoisseurs of the Google Gif

One of our more recondite hobbies is the collection of Google gifs where the Google logo is customised to celebrate a famous person’s birthday or to mark a special day, for example, Earth Day.

Here is a small selection from the society’s archives.

St George’s Day. 23 April 2009

At first sight St George looks a bit like a spaceman or one of Dr Who’s cybermen, and the dragon, a Barbified dinosaur. Though closer inspection shows that it is indeed a reworking of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale where the ‘Other,’ i.e. the dragon, is transformed into an object of affection.

Earth Day. 22 April 2009

April 22, 1970, Earth Day marks the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Approximately 20 million Americans participated, with a goal of a healthy, sustainable environment.

Dr Seuss. 2 March 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss

Giovanni Schiaparelli. 14 March 2009

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. Among Schiaparelli’s contributions are his telescopic observations of Mars. In his initial observations, he named the “seas” and “continents” of Mars, and later gave rise to much speculation after seeming to discover ‘canals.’