* I like the idea of randomness. Obviously, other people also like the idea of randomness. Would you choose to have a rotating theme of the day on your i-Google page if you didn't? Within randomness is the chance of disappointment. [I'm getting a feeling of deja vu—I've ranted about this before haven't I?] All I can say, then, is that if you choose randomness, can you complain because you get what you don't like—if you do have to complain, just choose 'Sweet Dreams' and watch your computer pass through the earth's orbit, and nothing random will ever happen. There's free speech, I know, but why does it have to be so annoying!
1. Today's theme, brought to us by NIGO(R), a Japanese streetwear producer and DJ, is camo of sorts, blobs of colour. This one must be the urban camo—greys with bright blues and yellows. What is hilariously ironic, and illustrates the age of the people who comment all the time and drive me mad, is that this theme doesn't float my boat (its blobby and ugly, although, I wont make a comment ranting and raving about it), but there isn't a negative comment in sight! So Y-gen is okay for NIGO(R) to blatantly advertise through so-called art, just not any other 'producer' who is marketed at anyone but themselves, eg. Tommy Hilfiger's beautiful boatscapes, Philip Stark's monochromatic axioms. This is such a great start to the list, upends everything. I love it.
2. Today's theme, brought to us by Ronnie Wood, Rolling Stone and artist, is art on a wall. It's actually nice (sorry about the boring word, I'm thesis frazzled)—landscapes, soft, on a white wall. I had to double take on the name, this can't be THE Ronny Woods. It's Ronnie Woods turned Constable. I love the comment about the person who likes it because she can't see how she is being sold to. Personally, I like my propaganda obvious—if you don't know you are being sold to doesn't mean you aren't being sold to. Buy his records, buy his art, visit his gallery. You're being sold to, believe me.
3. Today's theme, brought to us by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba, artists it seems, is fabulous. They are simple pictures but very emotive—line drawings with a bit of colour. I have only seen two so far but the shortened perspective, just taking in a bit of detail is great. I really like it. So does everybody else!
4. Today's theme, brought to us by Jeff Koons has examples of his quite iconic artwork. I find it funny because he is on the the most marketing savvy and entrepreneurial artists I can think of (admittedly I cant think of many) in that he uses other people's labour to make a name for himself. He makes the designs and then someone else makes the piece. He makes industrial design into art. And he is not cheap. All the commentators who think yay, not another advertising space for Google theme of the day—you're being fooled again!
5. Today's theme, brought to us by Nagi Noda, a Japanese pop artist is full of Han Panda, a comic panda bear. It's cute enough—which sentiment is shared with one commentator, but, regardless, they still find it too yellow. When I can't find something else to complain about, I always say it's too yellow.
6. Today's theme, brought to us by Ken Done, is a painting of Sydney and its icons. It changes light with the day which is a bit spesh, even including a pair of parakeets who have flown off somewhere now. I, personally, and sorry to all those who are, am not a Ken Done fan. Maybe I don't like naive. And if anyone in the list thinks, yay, no advertising, again all I can say is: fool! Let's see what they have to say. No, they are all just saying they are glad to see art for a change. I am not judging, I am not judging. Now who is kidding who. No one.
7. Today's theme, brought to us by Fatima Lopez, a fashion designer, is a runway with drawn fashion models. Being, in another life time, a person who loved to draw fashion illustrations, I kinda like this one. On the whole comments are the usual complaints about skinny models and too much white and the theme of the day taking a whole day to change—can't it go faster. I do like the person who liked the theme, and took time from their busy day to comment on how people should get a life if all they have time for is commenting negatively on it. Does it take less time to comment positively, including a time comment on the negativity. Time really is relative isn't it.
8. Today's theme, brought to us by Mark Morris, dancer, choreographer and opera director, is a changing collection of photographs of dancers. There is a bit of whining about the black background obliterating people's 'friends' names—if you can't remember your friend's names, are they really friends? In cyber-culture a friend seems to be just a number. These are possibly the same people who complain on the light coloured backgrounds that you can't see the google writing. I don't have any 'friends' so I like the dark just fine.
9. Today's theme, brought to us by Gustavo Rosa, artist, is of a rather chubby man lying on the beach. He seems to move across the page as the day goes on. He looks happy enough. You can tell he is in the northern hemisphere though. (Portugal). (Although it may be Brazil—I shouldn't assume). He doesn't get pinker over the course of a whole day in the sun. Someone doesn't like it because he looks like a 'fat banker' who has stolen everyone's money and retired to the beach. I thought I had made a grand assumption assuming he was Portuguese.
10. Today's theme, brought to us by John Maeda, graphic designer, artist and computer scientist, is an image, seemingly, of out-of-focus glasswear, but is possibly, instead, from the description, computer animated colour. I didn't really like the one on my page, but the one on the 'About this Theme' page looks lovely. Most of the critics seemed to think it was the 'shizzle', or 'the rose off the thorn', so possibly consensus will rule on that one.
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