Yaztromo's Journal: Googlewhacking

Tonight I needed to get a new pair of pyjamas out, so I dug into the drawer to get a pair of bottoms and an old t-shirt out. Tonights selection is a very old t-shirt I have that was given to me in the early 90's with an image of a painting by Robt. Williams called "The Mystic Rabbitmaster".

I've owned this shirt for a long time, and due to its age it's relegated to pyjama-shirt status. Parts of the image and text are a bit faded, but otherwise it's clean, and the stitching is fine, and there are no holes of any sort, so it suffices for the task.

However, in the 15+ years I've owned it, I never really knew anything about the painting or the artist. It was given to me as an impromptu gift (someone gave it to the general manager of the company I was working for at the time, and he gave it to me). So tonight, putting it on, I decided to see if I could learn anything about the painting and the artist in question.

So I typed in "Mystic Rabbitmaster" into Google, and it spat out one result. There are no pictures online unfortunately (at least not anywhere I can find), and no other information about the painting other than the fact that it was included in a card collection called "Crimes Against the Eye". The artists name, painting title, Colloquial title, and Museum Catalog Title are all printed on the back of the shirt (as apparently they were printed on the backs of the cards).

I always find it interesting in this day and age when I type something into Google and find one (or no) results at all. It's rare, but it's always interesting to find those corners of the realm of data that aren't online.

Yaz.