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Aloysius J. Gleek:
Ludwig Mies van de Rohe
Architect
March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969
(126th Birthday)
mies over model of crown hall
courtesy the illinois institute of technology
http://www.designboom.com/portrait/mies/bg.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe
Aloysius J. Gleek:
http://www.slashgear.com/google-doodle-celebrates-galloping-eadweard-muybridge-08222016/
Google Doodle celebrates
galloping Eadweard Muybridge
By Chris Davies
Apr 8th 2012
Hit up Google’s homepage today and you’ll see the company’s colorful logo devolved into a section of equine squares, commemorating the 182nd birthday of Eadweard J. Muybridge. Responsible for the zoopraxiscope in 1879, Muybridge used the stop-motion projection display to prove that all four of a horses’ hoofs leave the ground while they’re running.
In fact, the doodle itself celebrates one of Muybridge’s best-known projects, known as “Sallie Gardner at a Gallop.” Until that footage, horse experts had believed the animals were completely off the ground when the legs were at full, spread extension.
Muybridge wasn’t only interested in how horses moved; the scientist also looked at other animals, including the more lumbering bison. His motion display technology was also used for entertainment, such as stop-motion footage of dancing, with a series of lectures at the Chicago 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition recorded as the first commercial movie theater.
His life wasn’t all galloping animals, however. Muybridge was also found guilty of “justifiable homicide” after shooting his wife’s lover in 1874. The scientist died in 1904.
Sason:
I love how they stylized the word "Google"!
Sheriff Roland:
Robert Doisneau's 100th anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/14/robert-doisneau-google-doodle?newsfeed=true
His photographs once adorned the walls of student residences everywhere but now on the centenary of his birth, 14 April, Robert Doisneau, the French photographer, is himself the latest subject of Google's homepage, the Google doodle.
Doisneau was born on 14 April 1912 and is best known for the photograph, "The Kiss by the Town Hall" in which in a young couple, oblivious to the bustle around them kiss. The photograph, which has the Paris town hall in the back ground and the tables of a cafe in the foreground, has been reproduced on cards and posters.
It was first published in Life magazine in 1950 and Doisneau allowed people to think that it was not a staged photograph. One couple, believing they were featured kissing in the photograph, sued the photographer. In court, Doisneau revealed that it was another couple who he had seen kissing and then asked them to model for him. He then took them to a series of locations in Paris. The couple who wrongly believed they were in the photograph lost their claim.
Doisneau's speciality was street photos and he avoided fashion or other forms of reportage. He was awarded a series of prizes for his work and he died in 1994.
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Sheriff Roland on April 14, 2012, 03:36:34 am ---
Robert Doisneau's 100th anniversary
--- End quote ---
You beat me to it. :)
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