Jacques Cousteau, Google Logo Celebrates Jacques Cousteau Birthday
Google’s custom logo designs, otherwise known as Google Doodles, seem to be showing up much more frequently than the past. Even entire series of Google logos are showing up such as those that were generated during the 2010 Winter Olympics. For each day during the 2010 Winter Olympics, Google celebrated with a new Google doodle logo.
Today’s Google logo is customized to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jacques Cousteau who, according to Wikipedia was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. He was commonly known as “le Commandant Cousteau” or “Captain Cousteau“.
Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau. He had one brother, Pierre-Antoine. Cousteau completed his preparatory studies at the prestigious Collège Stanislas in Paris. In 1930 he entered the École Navale and graduated as a gunnery officer. After an automobile accident cut short his career in naval aviation, Cousteau indulged his interest in the sea.
More than likely you’ll be able to find a lot of content and information about Jacques Cousteau, his birthday, and the Google logo that is now celebrating his 100th birthday.
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has he passed away yet?
at least they got rid of the awful background pictures (shudder)
Here here!
very clever logo - I'm sure the honoree would appreciate the whimsy........
What's up with the (not so) hidden 666 floating in the background? Can't say it's not there. It's even laid out in the Masonic fashion. Each 6 represents the three points of a triangle or the base of a pyramid. Was he a Mason? Is it some kind of "secret handshake"? Inquiring minds want to know.
yes, he passed away at age 87, which makes me wonder if this is the first posthumous Google Doodle?
(He WOULD have been 100, but there's no ref to 'the late/great' etc...) Curious.
My daughter is 11 and created the original design that inspired the logo. for the record when the original was sent in there were no "666" fish in the background. ....and the "o" was a clamshell.....just thougth I'd pipe in :)
Thanks for the reply Michelle. It was quite unexpected that I would get a response so close to the source. The fact that your 11 year old daughter was the inspiration for the logo minus the subliminal references to the biblical beast of Revaluations makes it even that much more less likely to be some anomalous cow-inky-dink. I think it was put there on purpose my self. I am curious to know if Jacques was a Free Mason or not. They use a lot of symbolism and much of it is embedded into the various different mediums that they produce. Things like building designs,literature, art work and even street lay outs like Washington DC for example. There is symbolic meaning to every aspect of Washington DC. Just look at a map and you will notice that the streets are laid out in the shape of various Masonic symbols. I'm not to sure what their interpretation of these symbols are or what they represent but my impression is that they don't look at them the same way Christin's do.
So how did your daughter come to this distinction? Was there a contest she entered?