One of the reasons I didn’t like the Dutch Pavilion was the name: Happy Street. A colorful street, painted in bright colors white, green and red with a shiny yellow crown on top. I think I saw this structure right after some depressing news item about Dutch intolerance, the contrast between this Happy Street and the news seemed enormous at that time. Happy Street turned into a facade, an empty cynical marketing campaign, a billboard for something that doesn’t exist.

Another reason I didn’t like it is because of how it looks. No, that’s not true, I didn’t like it because of how I thought it looks. I thought that some cynical marketeers collected all sorts of corny buildings like the old wooden ones you may find in Zaanstad. What I saw was a reflection of a conservative utopia, an epoch somewhere in the nineteen fifties, after World War II but before the Sixties and Seventies. An era where everybody worked hard, never complained and lived together, in the streets, the happy streets. And and era where everybody obeyed authority, thus the Crown of our undisputed Royal Family.

I was wrong.

Yes, it is a utopian structure. The artist has a clear vision of what a happy street should be like. But it’s not the nineteen fifties in the Netherlands, it’s the street life he found in Hong Kong in the nineteen eighties where industry, housing and shops could be found in one and the same street, where work and living were not separated, that’s what his Happy Street is like. That’s not cynical. It might be a bit naïve but it’s definitely no evil marketing campaign for the conservatives in the Netherlands. It might be abused by these marketeers though.

But is it nonsensical, does it belong on this site? The structure makes sense. It shows the visitors many major export qualities of the Netherlands: architecture, high tech, water management, design. Every detail seems to have a meaning in this building. That’s the opposite of nonsense.
And the fact that it will be demolished in October, 6 months after it was finished is in itself bizarre. But that doesn’t make this pavilion unique, all pavilions await the same fate, it’s the nature of the World Expo in itself that is absurd.
But still, after seeing this Dutch documentary and after being encouraged by dxtr I decided this building and especially it’s architect deserved a spot on Love Nonsense. Unfortunately both the tweet and the documentary are in Dutch, both are well worth your time though, even if you don’t understand every word they say.

If you don’t agree with me and believe this is a sensible structure in every way please forgive me. In order to make it up to you I give you some other works by John Körmeling, the artist we’re talking about. The Rotating house on a roundabout, the drive-in ferris wheel and the parking carpet. And as a bonus I give you the website of Happy Street which loads the images in reversed order: it starts with the last ones so it takes much more time than needed to load which makes it a perfect example of anti-efficiency.

Google does it’s best to protect our privacy by blurring the faces of all people and by dignifying the clothing of loose women 1 but still some people get angry and wayward when a google street view car passes by. Sometimes this rage is understandable. Imagine you and a good friend are just enjoying the sun, reading a newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee on your favorite spot in the city, the entrance to a parking lot and suddenly this car with an allmighty eye on top of it comes by and takes pictures of you without asking! I would be throwing spears at it if I had them with me 2.

• 1. Here’s a screenshot of the loose lady for those of us without flash ↑
• 2. Here’s the whole sequence in pictures, for those of us without flash: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, ↑

ShadyURL does what it says on the tin; it converts all your links into something suspicious looking. E.g. http://www.bigtube.com/5112_a-teen-gets-her-tight-pussy-fucked-hard.html becomes http://5z8.info/IE-exploiter_s6h4r_INCREDIBLE-DEAL-CANT-MISS and http://aryanwear.com/white-power-skinhead-tshirt-p-103.html changes to http://5z8.info/bomb-plans_n0w5k_foodporn. The possiblities are sheer endless. The shortlinks are perfect whenever you don’t want people to click your link.

How about a good glass of whiskey. Unfortunately it seems like I can’t get single glass without breaking the rest. I hate efficiency, I can’t even sit down.
If Michael Johansson someday can’t make a living with his incredible installations anymore he can start a career as a camper and caravan designer.

Thanks to free blogging tools you see more and more blogs devoted to nonsense. Some of them, like this incredible collection of female breast on unexpected places (totally safe for work) just show us pictures on one single subject.
Others create their own silly content. Like these animals with lightsabers, an enormous and ever growing collection of the same photoshop trick on pictures of different animals. Good for a few giggles. But the site that made me laugh out loud today is this site with pictures with Selleck, a waterfall and a sandwich on them. The beauty of this site is again in the details. Below every picture there’s a small caption which reads the most important part of the picture, the featured sandwich. To complement this utter nonsense there’s even an Official Selleck Waterfall Sandwich Theme Song.

Another artist who used maps as an art form is Richard Long. Where On Kawara’s lines consist of random shapes, created by the functional route of that day, Richard Longs routes are carefully planned. When you plot these routes on a map they create an almost perfect circle.

I always wanted to walk or drive a project like this. But I never really had a good subject. On Kawara had his daily routine, Richard Long had his circles but I had dick. And there we have it, a new site where everybody is encouraged to send in their own GPS cocks. I hope to walk my first penis soon.

I never used the graphic operating systems until Windows 95, and I still think we could do without a lot of the eye-candy for basic tasks if it would speed up the computing process. Either way, you can now experience the old Windows 3.1 in your own browser, online. The application features inter alia notepad, calculator, DOS prompt, minesweeper, and even an Internet browser! Party like it’s 1992 on http://www.michaelv.org.nyud.net/

The iPhone responds to movement so game developers build games where by moving your phone you steer a car. A very simple and intuitive interface, no wonder this phone, and the games on it are so popular.
But you can’t control a car with your phone, you need a steering wheel to do that! So in order to make the gaming experience more realistic this clever dude built just the thing we need: a steering wheel for your iPhone.