Correction: Google has taken down the latest logo - for Juan Miro's birthday. Read here. And here.

Artsy Altered Logos and Images

All right, I realize as an "almost" librarian/current SLIS student, I can find merits with Google and the Google Empire, even though - technically many in the library field think that Google will be the death of all good search strategies and give all people the option of mis-information. Not to mention the fascination with "self-googlization." And yes, I have done this and periodically check to see what's new with Susan Winkler, the big and important pharmacist.

That being said, there are some very cool things in the works as part of the Google Empire. Picassa being one of the neater downloadable image management software programs. And, okay, sort of off the main stream - how about all those awesome logos they come up with for holidays and special events?


I can forsee a book entering the Fine Arts library in the future, where artists and marketing majors will study the variations of the Google logo in the same manner that people circulate the many derivations on Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Just take a look at some of these greats.

And the fan logos are nice also. Though mine would be a bumpersticker saying "I want Google to bare my children"

On a semi-related note...a recent contest challenged users of Photoshop to alter famous images in some recognizable way, without ruining the integrity of the piece. Sort of artist's highbrow/lowbrow version of "What's Wrong with this Picture"
Sponsored by Worth1000.com I find it a particularly fun (and challenging) assessment of masterpieces and works I've never seen before...even with an Art History BA. Take a look see for yourself.

High Five Drew

So, I watched My Date with Drew today. I highly recommend this docucomi to anybody and everybody who needs a little pickme up and some artificial sunshine in their life. (read: ME at the moment). Upon watching the film though, i realized the main focus of the film, on this guy's life and accomplishing his dream of getting a date with Drew Barrymore, he gives a number of high fives, and I had to ask myself, what was the origin of the highfive?

Being the librarian that I am, I quickly went to the main source that every non-librarian also goes to. Google. Honestly, Google is the reason why more librarians don't have to answer phonecalls from the younger generation asking these types of questions of their reference librarian at the local public library anymore.

So, for those of you wishing to know the "TRUE" origin: check out National High Five Day.

Also I found this really great shirt today. I was in Scheels here in IC and was wearing my Indiana Sweatshirt. The ONLY sweatshirt I packed for my days in IA (I also forgot to pack my hairbrush - cause I packed fast, and at 8 am after getting an hour of sleep). So, the Indiana Ohio State game was on, and I was looking for a new Iowa sweatshirt. Indiana lost, and I picked out an Iowa sweatshirt, so I guess I was planning to show my true loyalties. I found a t-shirt with GROVER. Yes, SUPER GROVER in fact. which says "Super Iowa Fan" sooo very cute!!! I couldn't pass it up.

Also, good luck to a fellow friend who reads this quite often as he embarks on a new experience. And hopefully everything is okay with two other friends' mothers at this point, because I haven't asked how they are doing in a while.