Posted October 25, 2020
Have you heard of the Happy Wall?
At the Life Is Beautiful concert in Las Vegas (October 24 through October 26, 2014), yesterday’s featured artist, Thomas Dambo, erected a Happy Wall like the one he’d created in Copenhagen. The Danish Happy Wall was the star of more than 7 thousand photos on Instagram, and creating Happy Walls elsewhere of course just enlarged the count!
Hashtag Happy Wall! I just checked on Instagram, and there are now 17,600 + photos with #HappyWall. But closer inspection showed me that a lot of those were just about happy-making wall decor!
customize the message – like a marriage proposal! – making it even more Insta-worthy!
The messages – and the occasional picture – are created by opening or closing little rectangular doors to make that “pixel” black or colored. Every open door makes a spot of one of the rainbow colors, and every closed door makes a black spot.
Also on this date:
Hurricane Thanksgiving in the Virgin Islands
International Artists Day
St. Crispin’s Day
World Pasta Day
Artist Pablo Picasso’s birthday
Constitution Day in Lithuania
Sourest Day
Read for the Record
Birthdays of comedians (and much more) Samantha Bee and Nancy Cartwright
Anniversary of a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates
Republic Day in Kazakhstan
Plan ahead:
Check out my Pinterest boards for:
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October holidays
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October birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in October
And here are my Pinterest boards for:
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November holidays
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November birthdays
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Historical anniversaries in November