link: iGoogle – Introducing artist themes for iGoogle
Introducing artist themes for iGoogle: Now you can put the work of world-class artists and innovators on your personalized Google homepage.
txt: Google: art – www.artworldsalon.com
Most of the custom themes are from the hands and keypads of web designers and animators whose names few gallery-goers would recognize. Many are from Asia (but no Murakami here). Then there’s Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Lance Armstrong, and Mark Morris. Lesson? Though Google’s developers are clearly not trying to draw an all-inclusive map of global visual culture here, what if their selections are, in fact, faithful to what our society understands under the rubric of “artists”? Is Koons the best choice for this virtual Noah’s Ark?
img: Lily Franky (リリー・フランキー)’s theme for iGoogle
One of Japan’s best-selling writers, Lily Franky is the author of the novel Tokyo Tower:Mom, Me and Sometimes Dad and the illustrated book Oden-kun, the subject of an animated series. He is also an illustrator and actor. www.lilyfranky.com
