# Google Art? Who likes todays Escher ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 17, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435 "2003-06-17T12:36:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/1 "2003-06-17T12:36:55Z")
So check out todays google art. It’s an escher I think… Anyone know where to find the list of all of them? ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/2 "2003-06-17T12:45:51Z")
Do you mean a list of all of the Google art? Or a list of Escher? Because I didn’t know there WAS a list of the “Googles.” It always brightens my day a little when they change the logo art! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/3 "2003-06-17T13:12:21Z")
Well, here’s the list of [2003 Google Holiday Logos](http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html), if that’s what you mean ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/4 "2003-06-17T13:25:25Z")
woo! google art! not sure if you knew, **Phlosphr** , but if you hover over it the alt description will tell you why it is like that. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/5 "2003-06-17T13:48:27Z")
Oh yeah!! Thats great. And if you click it it brings you to the google search of Escher… Oh the simple things in life! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/6 "2003-06-17T14:03:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hyperjes \* > \*\*\ It always brightens my day a little when they change the logo art! 🙂 \*\* It would mine too - if I were observant enough to notice! 🙂 Oh well, at least you guys keep me informed. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/7 "2003-06-17T14:03:22Z")
I appreciate the heads up – I keep google in my toolbar at work, so I don’t usually go the the home page; I miss all the good art. sniff. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/8 "2003-06-17T16:05:40Z")
I like that one. Always enjoyed Escher. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/9 "2003-06-17T19:39:18Z")
Yeah, Google art kicks butt. The great thing about it is it’s not always the obvious holidays. You can learn quite a bit by setting Google as your home page… ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/10 "2003-06-17T19:44:32Z")
Yay for Escher! Yay for Google art! That’s all I have to say. ---
**Author:** ![presidebt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c37758/32.png) [@presidebt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/presidebt)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/11 "2003-06-17T19:48:27Z")
What \*\* Kn\*ckers \*\* said! That’s just damn awesome–the whole idea. ---
**Author:** ![Trigonal\_Planar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/0ea827/32.png) [@Trigonal\_Planar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trigonal_Planar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/12 "2003-06-17T20:05:59Z")
Is it Escher’s birthday or something? Usually the Google arts are done for some occasion. Oh, and M C Escher is my favourite artist. ---
**Author:** ![that.sound.again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@that.sound.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that.sound.again)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/13 "2003-06-17T20:07:36Z")
Well, yay for Escher. He’s amazing. Yay for Google for doing the logo thing and promoting great art. But am I the only one to think that that logo isn’t up to the standard of old M.C? He’s hard to match, of course, and the format is pretty restrictive, but I had to hover and see the text to get it. In my opinion, Escher´s appeal lies as much in the high level of craftmanship and understanding of the media as in his amazing ideas and paradoxical subject matter. At least to me, that’s what makes his stuff recognizable. Am I just being unfair & whiny here? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/14 "2003-06-17T21:17:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by that.sound.again \* > \*\*Am I just being unfair & whiny here? \*\* Yes, I think you are 😃 But that’s OK - Escher is not one of the “masters,” as it were. But he still created beautiful things. I recognized what Google was getting at immediately. My first thought was: “What? Is there an Escher festival somewhere today?” But the I did the hover thingy and saw it was his birthday. Three Cheers For Google for remembering the esoterical as well as the everyday stuff. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/15 "2003-06-18T01:21:09Z")
It’s cool when they do this. Last year they had a Dali logo up briefly on the day before his birthday, and they didn’t put it up the next day. I assume there were legal problems. Too bad, because it was very cool - the Google logo over “The Persistence of Memory” with two of the watches as the “oo”. Fortunately I saved it. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/16 "2003-06-18T02:06:35Z")
I liked it. I did a really geeky and emailed google art to some friends. heh ---
**Author:** ![Tradnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/17 "2003-06-18T11:11:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rowrrbazzle \* > **Last year they had a Dali logo up briefly on the day before his birthday, and they didn’t put it up the next day. I assume there were legal problems.** That would explain it. I always wondered why unlike every other holiday logo, the Dali one is not included in the archive linked above. Does anyone know anything more about this? ---
**Author:** ![mazirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@mazirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazirian)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/18 "2003-06-18T11:31:19Z")
You can see the Dali logo here: [http://www.chim.be/google/en/art.php](http://www.chim.be/google/en/art.php) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/19 "2003-06-18T11:31:36Z")
I like the sentiment, and most Google art, but I didn’t think that was very well executed. ---
**Author:** ![that.sound.again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@that.sound.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that.sound.again)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435/20 "2003-06-18T11:47:38Z")
**rico** , I’ll just go hide somewhere then 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-art-who-likes-todays-escher/182435.md?page=2)