The top ten Google logos of 2009

So here are the top ten Google logos of 2009 in random order (According to me!)

01 – Mar 02, 2009
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Courtesy of Dr. Seuss Enterprises

02 – Feb 10, 2009
Israeli Election Day – (Israel)

03 – May 22, 2009
Mary Cassatt’s Birthday – (Global)

04 – May 07, 2009
Alexander Popov’s Invention of the Radio – (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus)

05 – Apr 27, 2009
Samuel Morse’s Birthday – (Global)

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The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

The first periodic table was published in 1869. One hundred and forty years later, the Periodic Table Printmaking Project was born. The idea is to promote both science and the arts by creating 118 prints in any medium; woodcut, linocut, monotype, etching, lithograph, silkscreen, or any combination. Each of the participating artists retain the rights to their images.

Periodic Table Printmaking ProjectBasic Rules & Guidelines
Contributing Artists
Project Blog
Official Flickr Group

Thought provoking UK graffiti artist Banksy

Banksy is a anonymous graffiti artist from the UK. His work is quite extraordinary and has a social commentary angle. According to Wikipedia:

He is believed to be a native of Yate, South Gloucestershire, near Bristol^[2] and to have been born in 1974,^[5] but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details.^[6] According to Tristan Manco, Banksy “was born in 1974 and raised in Bristol, England. The son of a photocopier technician, he trained as a butcher but became involved in graffiti during the great Bristol aerosol boom of the late 1980s.”^[7] His artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture, and ethics. His street art, which combines graffiti writing with a distinctive stencilling technique, is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass who maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His art has appeared in cities around the world.^[8] Banksy’s work was born out of the Bristol underground scene which involved collaborations between artists and musicians.

One of the most impressive things about Banksy is that he doesn’t sell photos or merchandising of his work. Instead, he posts high resolution images on his Web site and encourages people to make their own stuff. He only asks that it is for non-commercial use. Very generous and true to the intention of the art work.

David Bowie’s first American fan

In 1967, fourteen year old Sandra Adams wrote a fan letter to David Bowie. Bowie enthusiastically replied:

25th., September 1967

Dear Sandra,
When I called in this, my manager‘s office, a few moments ago I was handed my very first American fan letter – and it was from you I was so pleased that I had to sit down and type an immediate reply, even though Ken is shouting at me to get on with a script he badly needs. That can wiat (wi-at? That’s a new English word which means wait)

I’ve been waiting for some reaction to the album from American listeners There were reviews in Billboard and Cash Box, but they
were by professional critics and they rarely reflect the opinions of the public The critics were very flatterlng however. They even liked the single “Love You Till Tuesday” I’ve pot a copy of the American album and they’ve printed the picture a little yellow. I’m really not that blond. I think the picture on the back is more ‘me’. Hope vou like those enclosed

In answer to your questions,my real name is David Jones and I don’t have to tell you why I changed lt. “Nobody’s going to make
a monkey out of you” said my manager. My birthday is January 8th and I guess I’m 5′l0. There is a Fan C1ub here 1n Fngland, but
if things go well in the States then we’ll have one there I suppose. It’s a little early to even think about it

I hope one day to get to America. My manager tells me lots about it as he has been there many times with other acts he manages. I waswatching an old film on TV the other night called “No Down Payment” a great tilm, but rather depressing if it is a true reflection ot The American Way Of Life. However, shortly after that they showed a documentary about Robert Frost the American poet, filmed mainly at his home in Vermont, and that evened the score. I am sure that that is nearer the real America. I made my first movie last week. Just a fifteen minutes short, but if  gave me some good experience for a full length deal I have starting in January.

Thank you for be1ng so klnd as to write to me and do please
write again and let me kno: some more about yourself.

Yours Sincerely

David Bowie

Read more about Sandra’s letter here.