Double Happiness – a billboard swing for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Bi-City Biennial of Urbanism and Architecture by French-Portuguese artist/architect Didier Faustino who sez:

Double Happiness responds to the society of materialism where individual desires seem to be prevailing over all. This nomad piece of urban furniture allows the reactivation of different public spaces and enables inhabitants to reappropriate fragments of their city. They will both escape and dominate public space through a game of equilibrium and desequilibrium. By playing this “risky” game, and testing their own limits, two persons can experience together a new perception of space and recover an awareness of the physical world.

Whatever.

We want a go.

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A man dressed as SpongeBob SquarePants was detained by police outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, officials said Wednesday.

The man was questioned but not arrested Tuesday in what a Los Angeles Police Department official described as a “brief incident with two females.” No other details were available.

Ah but they are now.

LAPD detains man in SpongeBob SquarePants outfit (LA Times Blog)

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On Monday Heidi (right) gave birth to a fit and healthy 30kg female hippo calf (left). This is the first hippo calf to be born at Dublin Zoo in 10 years.

Yes, but how happy?

This happy:


Sez African Plains team-leader Helen Clarke-Bennett:

“Mum Heidi is taking to motherhood very well. Before she goes for her daily nap in the pool she lifts the baby out of the water and places the young calf onto the water bank.

Then she props the baby onto her nose to make sure the youngster doesn’t fall into the pool while she is sleeping. It’s a joy to see Heidi taking good care of her young calf.”

Name the hippo calf (based on her African origins) here.

(Patrick Bolger)

Peter Fleming sez:

That’s some of my parents turf in Galway…. unfortunately I live in the UK so can’t help them with it….

The holidays may be over but, man, that’s bleak right there.

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