{"id":663,"date":"2011-06-09T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/?p=663"},"modified":"2011-06-09T23:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T03:20:08","slug":"there-are-just-some-really-smart-creative-people-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2011\/06\/there-are-just-some-really-smart-creative-people-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"There are just some really smart, creative people out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_664\" style=\"width: 618px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-664\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/2011\/06\/there-are-just-some-really-smart-creative-people-out-there\/picture-6-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"size-full wp-image-664\" title=\"Google Doodle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Picture-6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Picture-6.png 608w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Picture-6-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Doodle June 9, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In honor of Les Paul&#8217;s birthday, Google created a playable guitar for its homepage on which you can record yourself!<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Mashable Google Doodle\" href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2011\/06\/09\/les-paul-google-doodle\/\">Mashable<\/a><\/em> listed their favorite recordings from today, as if we needed further proof that no one actually works at their jobs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1.<\/strong> Lady Gaga\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kaJSKgZ9yXE\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPaparazzi\u201d<\/a> is at the top of the heap, and not just because it\u2019s Gaga. It\u2019s a great rendition of a complicated song done by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4df0bf625198400d910000a7\/\">Leila Dossetto-Becker<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2.<\/strong> The Beatles\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?tune=cAQliDDXDICMMZ1iwBhMiHCM4ZDTmgBMSIg6CAAIOQUhFLQgglCOQU5IjpkmNINc054BTGiEkaA*\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHey Jude,\u201d<\/a> performed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4df0f3e1b589e4764400017f\/\">Rosales<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>3.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4df10928b589e46450000130\/\">Wanderchick<\/a> brings us \u201cOde to Joy\u201d in two parts:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/doodle\/hOau\" target=\"_blank\">one<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/doodle\/ozFE\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a>. Serious skills!<\/li>\n<li><strong>4.<\/strong> Proving our point about this being a procrastination engine,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4df107d43182972c5c0000d1\/\">Leslitab<\/a> and her co-worker figured out how to play\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/doodle\/6lCt\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cOh Suzanna!\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>5.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4df0f5aeb589e4043f0000f3\/\">Refilljuarez<\/a> was nostalgic for the last decade, so the band played\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/doodle\/2ZNt\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAdam\u2019s Song\u201d<\/a> by Blink 182.<\/li>\n<li><strong>6.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4df0fd1d3182976f9100005c\/\">Cole Johnson<\/a> tackles Sigur Ros\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/doodle\/ZqZh\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTakk Hoppipolla.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>7.<\/strong> The opening to The Beatles\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?tune=lAAoYRiTFGEWEgoFIQlnPAcQgI5IQlkDQGCQ4FSkAUA1gA**\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHere Comes the Sun,\u201d<\/a> played beautifully by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/follow\/people\/4dcc6e4d51984044f60001ad\/\">myurow<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think anything could beat Martha Graham&#8217;s, but the recording feature is just over the top fantastic. 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Lady Gaga\u2019s\u00a0\u201cPaparazzi\u201d is at the top of the heap, and not just because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/lifesapitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}