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Google Logos

At this point I do not think there are many internet users who do not know what is a doodle , these artistic logos that Google displays on their website when there is a important event. Many are really creative and ease of downloading the object becomes an evocative electronic collections. And since I am always attracted to the collectible, as I said in a previous post, I got to work and treasure and 57 doodles different, yes, all of the Google website in Spain. Because many of you know that doodles are country, although some noted international standard for dates, and the height of the collection may be visited daily all Google portals in the world for possible doodles. Lately the trend

web giant is to their doodles interact with the user, a concept which reached its peak with a tribute to Pacman , with the funny colored balls fleeing the mouse or the latest video Lennon's birthday, which makes somewhat difficult to keep outside a screenshot.

Anyway, I have not written this post to show you my collection of doodles still too small and recent, but to invite you to visit the following link which makes a selection of 45 best doodle s , both overall and in different countries (There is one in Spain devoted to patios.) Some are a real waste of creativity and possibly the best that can be found in logo design. My favorites are the Pi Day and the birthday of HG Wells. I encourage everyone to comenteis about your favorites and more about a link doodles you to know.

PS: To read more about the doodles with a touch of humor, here is the entry my friend mowy published in Patapam Pish.

(Thanks to Harvey for the link: D)

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A sea of \u200b\u200bpipes

It's amazing the work that is now installed in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in London, that huge atrium open to the creativity of artists and where they have been as spectacular as assemblies of Miroslaw Balka Carten or Hoeller. It turns out that the Chinese conceptual artist Ai Weiwei has come up with the idea of \u200b\u200bfilling it with a hundred million sunflower made of porcelain, a true "work of Chinese" in 1600 who helped craft, which have been painted by hand one by one each little seed for two years.

is a work that allows full interaction with the public. Because the thing not stay in visual awe that can cause 1000 square meters filled with pipes, but the main thing is that people walk on them, touch them, lie down ... and even removes some of remembrance, although not to recommend the Tate. But now what's the big pipe? As well as aiming a direct call to the senses of the public, the idea has emerged from the evocation of China Cultural Revolution, when peasants evaded while eating pipes were represented by the propaganda like sunflowers to the sun worship Mao.

And Ai Weiwei has always tried to aerate the repression suffered in China by the communist regime and try to do something raise awareness on this issue, among other reasons because his father, the great Chinese poet Ai Quin, was harshly punished and banished to the most inhospitable country. So, helped design the national stadium of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, hoping that this would be a step towards democratization, but then refused to have anything to do with the project in view of the great farce organized by the government, its unwillingness to change. His art is heavily influenced by Dadaism and Pop Art, his most famous being the series of photographs that appear breaking a vase ancient Han Dynasty As a symbol of the liberation of cultural identity, or photographs that you see his hand with the middle finger extended in places like Tiananmen or White House. If you want to know more about this interesting artist, I recommend this report in El Pais .

(Via ABC )

Update (15/10/2010): Oh dear. I just found out that you can no longer step on the pipes because the dust off due to the large influx of visitors is damaging health. A pity.

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Nobel Vargas Llosa

After much time as possible candidate at last been granted the Nobel Prize for Literature to Mario Vargas Llosa for his "cartography of the structures of power and its scathing images individual resistance, revolt and defeat "(synthetic beautifully, as always, the reasons for the Swedish Academy.) Vargas Llosa is the author of, among others, The Feast of the Goat, City and dogs or Pantoja and the Special , and one of the most important contemporary writers. It also shuffled winners Corman McCarthy to Haruki Murakami, although it is rare for known characters get the award.

It was time that the Academy do justice to so important a writer like Vargas Llosa, although it is difficult to select candidates who will remain in the future in the annals as the key figures in the history of literature (especially whether to grant the award before they die), and so there have been many great geniuses who have been awarded the golden medal, as Leo Tolstoy, Anton Chekhov, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov , Graham Greene, Jorge Luis Borges or Julio Cortázar.

Incidentally, I recommend official website of the Nobel Prizes , where in addition to inform the winners and nominations for this year can consult the list of all the winners in any field.

(I learned from The Country , but if you want more information you can go to any means)

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When I recently saw in San Sebastian and announced a concert Tones of Pink, a Pink Floyd tribute band, I decided to go because I thought it would be a group of fans more than anything I am not surprised having seen Roger Waters playing The Dark Side of The Moon and the entrance to his upcoming concert in Madrid next March and in the pocket. But how wrong I was! The concert they gave last night in the El Tren de Granada was truly spectacular: more than two hours playing different themes of English group with incredible accuracy, the result of having studied thoroughly the songs of this great band.

And every member had assigned its role, perfectly in sync with others. Alvaro Espinosa, lead vocals and guitar, was delivered as one, played almost perfectly to the solos on the original disks, and all this with apparent calmness, carried away by the music, as if they feed on. The other members are mostly bearish Ceferino Fernandez, who also frequently intervened on vocals, Gonzalo Palacios, saxophone and guitar; Nacho Aparicio, who was driving the keyboard and sampler, so fundamental in a tribute group if you want to play the tracks closely as possible, and drummer Antonio Fernández. There

truly epic moments, like when Cefe took the megaphone in The Thin Ice or when the music volume fell sharply at the end of Have a Cigar , giving the feeling that they were actually playing the Pink Floyd tracks in stereo. My favorites were Shine on You Crazy Diamond and Money latter impeccable, from the pace of Nacho the beginning to the variations introduced Álvaro guitar at the end, past the spectacular saxophone solo Gonzalo . And all in awe, and the Lord of Malaga next to him wondering how noses could be so good, he had seen Pink Floyd performing in Madrid for some time. A group desmerecería not begin to act out of our country, possibly the next step in The similarity score after what he's doing now with Roger Waters tour.

PS: For logistical problems (I have with me the power I used the camera ¬ ¬) photography is the concert of Granada, sorry. In return I leave you a video that is of this concert, but regulera quality. By the way, the website of the Pink Tones is great, and there you can watch videos, see the setlist or inform of upcoming concerts.