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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Can You Figure Out Today's Google Logo?

I couldn't. Dear readers, I am curious. Without mousing over the live Google doodle, what do you think the below illustration is?


11 comments:

  1. Well, Clara Schumann had eight children...

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  2. I didn't know she had eight children.

    It was nice for Google to honor her, and a little surprising. I thought hardly anybody knew or cared about her, except for some musicians. Somehow this doesn't seem to best tribute.

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  3. I'm livid over the doodle, myself, for exactly that reason.

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  4. God's honest truth, I was making a joke. I just clicked on the logo to find out that's actually what they meant!

    Unglaublich.

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  5. "...seem the best tribute" I meant to say, of course.

    Yes, Lisa - one of the great piano virtuosos of her time, a fine composer, a tremendously influential musical intellectual - and the doodle suggests The Sound of Music more than anything else. It trivializes her.

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  6. One of my co-workers thought it was Maria von Trapp.

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  7. OK - as if the doodle weren't bad enough - both the LA Times and the Monitor did little articles about it; both manage to refer to her as "sassy". WTF?

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  8. Unglaublich, indeed. It looked more like a happy-faced illustration for a Louisa May Alcott novel.

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