Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Google Celebrates Art Clokey’s 90th Birthday

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Technology (Gctnews24.blogspot.com) Google is back with yet one more interesting doodle. The popular search engine is celebrating the 90th birthday of Arthur `Art` Clokey today.

Clokey was the first artist to popularize stop movement and clay moving picture. He made a film titled ‘Gumbasia’ in the year 1955 as an research and got great hold up from his lecturer.


The master artist along with his wife Ruth, shaped 'Gumby'. The iconic nature and his horse Pokey were a enormous hit on television and appear with 'Howdy Doody Show' and 'The Adventures of Gumby'.

Hollywood actor Eddie Murphy got so enthused by the character that he parody Gumby in the 1980s on `Saturday Night Live`. And in the 1990s more and new number of people in progress following the character with the release of `Gumby: The Movie.

Clokey also fashioned `Davey and Goliath`. And to have a good time Clokey, Google has paid its tribute in its own doodle way!

Google doodles have gained immense standing over the past few years and the Google team has put out commemorative doodles on proceedings ranging from news events, civic milestones, birthdays, death anniversaries and significant dates in history.

Google estimates it has created more than 900 doodles since 1998, with 270 of them running in 2010 and about 200 in 2011.

1 comments:

  • October 11, 2011 at 11:46 PM
    ADMIN says:

    so cool... The popular search engine is celebrating the 90th birthday of Arthur `Art` Clokey today.

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