Halloween Witch interactive Google doodle

Halloween Witch gets you playing with an interactive Google doodle

Halloween is celebrated every year on October 31 in a number of countries around the world. And like last year, Google is celebrating the event with an interactive doodle. The doodle on the Google homepage features a witch flipping through the pages of a book which seems to include information about witchcraft.

Meet William J Schnoebelen, former "witch high priest" – funny how ex-Satanists always insist that they were senior devil-worshippers, not just part of the demonic rank and file. He writes:

Halloween used to be called Samhain, and is still celebrated as an ancient pagan festival of the dead by witches all over the world. Unfortunately, just giving the date a "holy" name like All Hallows' Eve or All Saints' Eve cannot change its grisly character. Halloween is an occasion when the ancient gods (actually demons) are worshiped with human sacrifice. The apostle Paul warns us: "But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils" (1 Cor. 10:20).

If you are a Christian parent, God has given you a precious responsibility in your children. Remember, their ability to resist spiritual wickedness is much less than yours. If you allow your children to participate in Halloween (Trick or Treating, costume parties, etc.) you are allowing them to play on "the devil's turf," and Satan will definitely press his home court advantage. You are opening up doorways into their young lives for evil by bringing them into a kind of "fellowship" with these ancient "gods".

Some of this is actually true: the Celtic festival of Samhain, when the spirits of the dead were supposed to return, does seem to have been adapted by the early Church to become Halloween. But Halloween as an occasion for human sacrifices? There's no evidence of that – you just have to guess that if the Celtic druids were into human sacrifice, which they were, then they may have killed people on this feast day.

Google Doodle Claude Debussy 151st Birthday (22 August 2013)

Today 22 August 2013, As you can see, todays Google Doodle celebrates the 151th birthday of French composer Claude Debussy. Clicking on the Google Doodle in Google Now has the same effect as clicking the Doodle on the Google Search webpage, it takes you to the search results for ‘Claude Debussy’s 151th Birthday‘.

Claude Debussy Biography

Claude Debussy was born into a poor family in France, but his obvious gift at the piano sent him to the Paris Conservatory at age 11. At age 22, he won the Prix de Rome, which financed two years of further musical study in the Italian capital. After the turn of the century, Debussy established himself as the leading figure of French music. During World War I, while Paris was being bombed by the German air force, he succumbed to colon cancer at the age of 55.

Claude Debussy Early Life

The oldest of five children, Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. While his family had little money, Debussy showed an early affinity for the piano, and he began taking lessons at age seven. By age 10 or 11, he had entered the Paris Conservatory, where his instructors and fellow students recognized his talent but often found his attempts at musical innovation strange.

Clair de Lune (poem)

Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fanciful disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains among marble statues. (Source)

Google Celebrates Saul Bass Birthday

Google Doodle Celebrates Saul Bass 93rd Birthday

Today’s Google Doodle pay homage to the designs and work of Saul Bass and provides him well deserved recondition for his work on the 93rd birthday of American graphic designerThe doodle appeared on the home page was an animated one which included beautiful colors and unsquare dance music of Dave Brubeck.

Who was Saul Bass?

Saul Bass was born in New York City, New York in the United States of America on May 8, 2013. He was an American Graphic Designer and Film Maker.He died in Los Angeles California in April 25, 1996 at the age of 75.

Why is Saul Bass honored by a Google Doodle?

He was a legendary Film Producer, Graphic Designer and Corporate Logo Designer responsible for some of the most well-known corporate logos in the world. Some of Saul Bass most well-known corporate logo designs include the Girl Scouts of the USA logo, the United Airlines Logo, the US Postage logo, the Minolta Logo, Continental Airlines, Frontier Airlines, General Foods, Geffen Records and the Dixie logos.

Saul Bass also designed the well-known logo for AT&T Corporation in 1969 and again the redesign in 1983.

Whats in Saul Bass Google Doodle?

By clicking on the Saul Bass Google Doodle a movie started playing showing some of the methods invented for film titles by Saul Bass. The Graphic styles in the doodle is very similar to his finest work which breathed fresh air into the usual boringness of film titles and introductions.

Satyajit Rays Birthday Google Honours Doodle

Google honoured legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray

The legendary filmmaker Satajit Ray honored by Google by presenting a black and white doodle on showing a scene from his iconic movie 'Pather Panchali'. The doodle showed a famous scene from the movie where Apu, the protagonist, runs along with his sister Durga across the Kash-reed fields to watch a train go by.

Who was Satyajit Ray ?

Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta India (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992). He was an Indian filmmaker and regarded as one of the great auteurs of world cinema. He directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He authored several books including the famous Feluda series and Professor Sanku series. 

Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Satyajit Ray developed his own style of lyrical realism in this film.

Ray won the Oscar award in 1992 for his contribution to the world of filmmaking.

About Pather Panchali 

Pather Panchali is a  Bengali drama film directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of the Indian state of West Bengal. Film won eleven international prizes, including Best Human Documentary at the Cannes Film Festival. Pather Panchali is today considered one of the greatest films ever made. With budget of 1,50,000/- Rs and amateur actors was made by an inexperienced crew, which was a critical and popular success.

Labours day 2013 celebrated by Google Doodle

Google is saluting the workers of the world with a building doodle on the occasion of Labour Day.

The doodle features the Google logo in the shape of a building with several workers on their job. 

1st May 2013 Google features Labour's Day Doodle. 

"G" from Google features female IT professional on computer, where as there is gardener at the top of "G" watering a tree. 

"O" from Google features a painter painting O.

"G" There is a helicopter hovering above the second G.

"L" features real-estate around the world.

"E" is indication of modern-day communication which dish antenna at the top and a technician doing a job.

About Labour Day !!

Labour Day is an annual holiday to mark the celebration of the economic and social achievements of workers. It generally sees organised street demonstrations and marches by labourers and their unions, on this day. The purpose of the day is for employers to recognize the work done by their employees. Its also a day meant for workers to rest. It is an official public holiday.

Labours Day in India

In India, Labour Day is celebrated on May 1 every year.  The first May Day celebration in India took place in Madras by the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan on May 1, 1923

Labours Day around the World

The Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the state and territory governments, and so it varies considerably.

May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries including Bolivia, India, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Israel, Philippines, Nepal and Pakistan. It is also celebrated unofficially in various other countries.

1st Monday of every October: Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia, celebrates Labour Day

1st Monday of every September: Canada  

Google doodles Earth Day 2013

Google doodles Earth Day 2013

Mountain View, California: Earth Day 2013 is being marked in style by search giant Google with an animated doodle adorning its home page on April 22, 2013.

Doodle shows change in season. Where user can play and pause the animation by clicking in 'sun' and 'moon'. There are also cave, flowers and other clickable area on which special animation shown.

Google doodle earth day 2013 Animation starts from morning sunshine spring day and sun moves westwards and sets. Then moon rises and starts its transition and sets.

Its starts raining when user clicks on clouds.

Earth Day is held every year to highlight green issues with events being held around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

First ever Earth Day was held in 1970, although the name and concept was pioneered a year earlier by activist John McConnell.

Google Doodle on Earth Day So Far :

2012: Google posted a flower-themed doodle on its home page. It featured an animated image of blooming flowers in purple, red and yellow colours that spelt Google.

2011: Earth Day doodle that had in it ticklish pandas, frolicking penguins, a growling lion, a cascading waterfall, waterfall climbing fish, a fish devouring bear, birds, butterflies, a koala and a jumping frog.

2010: was the 40th anniversary of the Earth Day and the search engine giant transformed its logo into an illustration of a forest with sunlight filtering through the leaves creating an impression of the Google logo.

2009: Google went partially underwater with its Earth Day doodle to highlight the rich diversity of life in the water.

What is Doodle4Google competitions?

Doodle4Google Competition:

What are Doodles:

Doodle are the fun, surprising and somtims spontaneous changes made to Google logo on Google.com's home page. Google celebrates public holidays, anniversaries, and lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists by changing www.google.com 's home page logo. "Doodles really touch people in a profound way, and make them laugh, and create a human connection between users" says Dutton, who studied illustration at the Art Academy in San Francisco.

About Doodle4Google Competition:

 Once a year, Google hands that paintbrush over to students and invites them to design their very own Google logo in the Doodle 4 Google competition.  Doodle4Google is an annual program that Google conducts for student of different countries, for their country specific domains and country specific events, days.

Like for India Google conducts competition for all students who are attending schools. There are different group for participation Group 1: Class 1-3 ,Group 2: Class 4-6 and Group 3: Class 7-10.  

The 'Doodle 4 Google – Unity in Diversity'  was subject for Doodle4Google competition in 2012 India. 

This year 2013 at United States of America Doodle4Google completion subject was, "My Best Day Ever". The public vote (at www.google.com/doodle4google) will help Google pick the national finalists and winner, who will be announced at a May 22 ceremony in New York — with the winner’s Doodle appearing on the Google.com home-page the following day.

Doodle4Google Prices:

Winning entry of Doodle4Google displays on home page of www.gooogle.com also receives some cool prices.

How Judgement are made?

1. Groups of ages , use of colors in doodle and artistic hand these factors are considered..
2. Judgment panel exams representation of theme and use of the Google logo. 
3. "Subject" of the competition, how well the concept of the theme is expressed and explained.
4. And finally there is vision statement as "Supporting statement" which is judged by panel experts.

How Google Doodle started?

Google Doodles

About Doodles:

Google celebrates public holidays, anniversaries, and lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists by changing www.google.com 's home page logo. Doodles are the fun, surprising and games. Over 1000 are published by Google so far. The first google doodle was designed and published in 1999 by  Sergey Brin and Lawerence E. Page  when they were attending the Burning Man Festival to show that they were away if the systems were to crash.

First Google Doodle

Here is Google's first doodle Burning Man Festival.

Since it was the first doodle it was relatively very simple as compare to the other doodles that Google has celebrated. Here the idea of celebrating notable events by creating doodle was born.
In 1998 three doodle were published by Google. Other two doodle were "Google Beta" on 28-Oct-1998 and "Thanksgiving" on 26-Nov-1998.

How its started?

Then in 2000 Google published another doodle it was for "Bastille Day" which was designed by Dennis Hwang who was intern at the time. Then onwards Dennis was appointed as Google's chief doodler. In the beginning, the doodles mostly celebrated familiar holidays; nowadays, they highlight a wide array of events and anniversaries from the Birthday of John James Audubon.

Who decides event and doodle?

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To create a doodle there are group of Googlers who sits togather brainstorms which events to celebrated with doodle. Once event is decided then there are team of talented illustrators and engineers who actually creates doodle for event. They are called as doodlers. Their efforts brings to smiles to Google users by creative doodles.

You can also share your doodle ideas: 

Any one can share their ideas for next Google doodle by an email at proposals@google.com.