I discovered Alexander Calder when I was in a museum in Washington D.C. a few years ago. I fell in love with his wonderful mobiles instantly. The balance of these art pieces is amazing, how the weight of the different sections in the mobile support one another is clever and meticulous, and how each section spontaneously dances with the air is captivating, just like how a drop of ink dissolves into a glass of water, silky and just flows with the current, very beautiful.
Kudos to today’s GoogleDoodle for featuring Alexander Calder’s mobile (happy 113th birthday!). Look at the detail of the doodle, even the shadow underneath the search box moves as the mobile moves! (doesn’t work in IE8 though, please use Firefox or Chrome or Safari for the cool animation).
Alexander Calder's mobile is featured as Google Doodle on July 22, 2011
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July 22, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Jonathan
How come it doesn’t work with IE8?
I don’t get it….
July 23, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Shirley
It’s probably because the way those fancy features are coded is not understood by IE8… well, at least the mobile shows up =)