Diego Rivera 125 birthday google doodle

Diego Rivera 125 birthday

Born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1886, Rivera was considered the leader of the Mexican muralists who sought to expose ordinary people to art through large-scale works in public buildings. He is credited with re-introducing frescoes – murals painted on fresh plaster – into modern art and architecture.

His murals, which retold Mexico's turbulent history, adorned the walls of buildings throughout the capital city. He was also commissioned to paint huge murals in the USA.

Among the most famous of his works is his mural on the walls of the Detroit Institute of Arts that celebrates the American worker, particularly those on the production lines of car plants, which was completed in 1933

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Art Clokey - 90th birthday doodle on Google

Mr. Arthur Art Clokey’s 90th birthday. Mr. Clokey is the man behind the popular TV show character Gumby. I should point out that Gumby is made of clay, so Google’s Doodle for Art Clokey features clays transforming into humanoids. If you’re in North America, you will see this new Doodle starting Wednesday, October 12.

According to Art Clokey’s WikiPedia entry, he was born on October 12, 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. The site also noted that Art Clokey’s birth name is Arthur C. Farrington, but he was adopted by Joseph Clokey when he was 12. The older Clokey was a composer working at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Art Clokey loved digging fossils and studied Geology, said Wikipedia, and he made his first film in 1955, the Gumbasia, the clay animation parody of Disney’s Fantasia. This film was discovered by Samuel G. Engel, and in 1957, and the first episode of The Gumby Show was aired by NBC.

Gumby The Movie was released in 1995, and Namco created a Gumby video game for the Game Boy Advance titled “Gumby vs. the Astrobots.” In 2007, Google-owned YouTube featured all 200+ full-length episodes of Gumby in celebration of the TV character’s 50th anniversary.

Art Clokey died in his sleep on January 8, 2010 due to a recurrent bladder infection.

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Google 13th Birthday Google Celebrated Doodle

Now officially a teenager, Google has celebrated turning 13 in its customarily simple manner with a doodle showing the five letters of the company logo sitting around a cake.

With the search engine giant barely out of short trousers, the birthday celebrations come at a time when it is locked in an increasingly intense rivalry with an even younger pretender, Facebook.

Amid suggestions that Facebook could become the default form of online navigation, Google recently tried to overhaul its rival with Google+

At the same time, Google enjoys a 90% share of the global internet search market, according to the most recent figures from metrics firm StatsCounter, although its share varies considerably by country.

The doodle is in keeping with Google's low-key approach to celebrating its birthday. Unlike other doodles, it has no animated features and is based instead on a simple design

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