Today is apparently Alexander Calder’s 113th Birthday and to celebrate, Google have replaced the usual search logo with one of their frequent commemorative logos (doodles), in this case an interactive 2d representation of one of Alex Calder’s famous mobiles.Also, note the shadow below the search box and buttons, and on some laptops, if you rock the laptop from side to side, the mobile moves and swings, making use of the inbuilt accelerometer (Not on iPad though)Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blogAmazing Alex Calder Logo on GoogleRelated posts:SearchWiki from Google is LIVEAt last google reader has a search boxGoogle vs Yahoo
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Amazing Alex Calder Logo on Google
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July 22 2011, 2:04am | Comments »
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Drowning on Dry Land – review
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Theatre review of Alan Ayckbourn’s Drowning on Dry Land at the at the Jermyn Street theatre.
This article titled “Drowning on Dry Land – review” was written by Michael Billington, for The Guardian on Sunday 27th February 2011 17.58 UTC Long before it became trendy to attack celebrity culture, Alan Ayckbourn satirised it brilliantly in his 1988 Man of the Moment. He returned to the theme in this play, which had its Scarborough premiere in 2004: the year that The X Factor made its debut. And, even if the fame game is now madder than even Ayckbourn foresaw, it’s salutary to be reminded that comedy, at its best, can have a moral purpose. Ayckbourn’s hero, Charlie Conrad, is a TV celebrity who has charm but no talent: he has risen to the top by his persistent failure, first as a middle-distance athlete and then as a hopeless quiz contestant. But Charlie’s world unravels when he is caught in a compromising position with a female clown at his son’s birthday party. Even if Ayckbourn takes time establishing Charlie’s epic incompetence, he is very good at showing what happens when the bubble bursts. While Charlie’s wife, agent and the sexually impetuous clown all benefit from his humiliating downfall, he himself retreats into a shrunken private life. Although Ayckbourn ends with a faint gesture of hope, the play burns with indignation at the way fame is now divorced from hard work and achievement. Christopher Coghill makes Charlie a little too blandly apologetic. Otherwise, Guy Retallack’s production nails all the key points. Mark Farrelly is buoyantly funny as a vain celebrity lawyer who helicopters in to destroy the charges brought by the litigious clown, played by Helen Mortimer with a touching solemnity. Emma Swain as Charlie’s resentful wife and Les Dennis, who knows a thing or two about the whirligig of fame, as his agent also lend weight to a play that may not be major Ayckbourn but is one that effectively harpoons our society’s elevation of the untalented.
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February 27 2011, 12:18pm | Comments »
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St Andrew’s Day
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Today, 30th November is St Andrew’s day. So in some countries, this would be my namesake saint’s day, which is like a kind of second birthday. Happy Birthday me. St Andrew’s Day in Edinburgh, however, has been cancelled due to snow! Tomorrow’s St Andrew’s Day celebrations have been cancelled. Organisers said the snow damaged two of the marquees, creating a potential public safety issue, and with the extreme weather set to continue, all events, including Tuesday evening’s Ceilidh Finale, have been cancelled. – Edinburgh Snowed Under at St Andrew’s Day
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November 29 2010, 6:16pm | Comments »
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St Andrews Day
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Today is St Andrews Day, Scotland’s national day and according to French tradition, a sort of birthday for anybody called Andrew. So here’s a picture of the city of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, showing a bit of a cliff where the fulmars glide and the St Andrews harbour wall. St Andrews St Andrew himself, if he existed as such, never went to Scotland, he lived in Greece.
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