Escher's Birthday

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-06-17 05:51pm

It was today, 105 years ago.

Here's a portrait of the artist as an old man.

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-17 05:58pm

Happy Birthday, you wacky dead artist!

thecreech · Post by **thecreech** » 2003-06-17 06:38pm

I love his work... i can literally spend hours just staring at it

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-06-17 11:44pm

Wow. How cool. I have several of his prints hanging on my walls.

Google's logo today is a tribute to him:

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-17 11:49pm

Drewcifer wrote:Wow. How cool. I have several of his prints hanging on my walls.

Google's logo today is a tribute to him:

Oh man! I've been there like five times today and never noticed! Too cool!

Drewcifer · Post by **Drewcifer** » 2003-06-18 12:17am

Frank Hipper wrote:Oh man! I've been there like five times today and never noticed! Too cool!

I just noticed that if you click on the logo, it takes you to a Google image search for "MC Escher". Google rocks.

http://images.google.com/images?q=%22mc+escher%22