Mr. Love Bomb Loves You

Portland, Oregon's Mr. Love Bomb, talking about his ideas and work in his own words ... as you'll read, he likes hearts in every colour except red, so we'll change the house colour used for quotes for this post : )

I have always wanted to do things I saw in my mind, the things that I thought about, felt, experienced. Mr. Love BomB embodies these actions of outward expressions of love and compassion, and makes them realities for others to experience.

i was shocked by the different kinds of love there is, forms it can take, its special unique qualities and its incredible power to stop suffering instantly for others.

Remember: Love is not Pain, because it's Love. Love destroys pain in an instant...

I don't want my Love here to be misconstrued for that sticky Love that people feel, the attachment- dont let me go, the grossness.

My hearts will never the have standard 'red' color, always different to symbolize a different kinds of love, as well as my painted hearts will become drippier and drippier outside the lines to show that my love does not conform to the usual idea of what love is and goes way outside itself to find you. My love is not to remain inside me

this is what love from a stranger feels like 

Thanks to Sandra Istjetztda for sharing Mr. Love Bomb's work on the I Love You Graffiti Project's Facebook wall.

Claire Middleton I Love You Will U Marry Me

Image swiped from The Glow Company.

Found this BBC radio program about the I Love You Bridge while writing a long piece about romantic graffiti. The reporter, Penny Woolcock, goes to great lengths to find the love graffiti writer and his story.

A quest for the original lovers of the 'I Love You Bridge' - a fabulously incongruous message painted on a footbridge on a hollowed-out housing estate in Sheffield. 

Perhaps you quietly ask yourself "How do they live like this." / Then out of nowhere the answer / "I love you"/ scrawled on the highest bridge." (Rowan Blair Colver). Funny how graffiti can transform cement. How a simple love message scrawled on a bridge between two empty flanks of Brutalist flats can lift our hearts. That's what happened when somebody, somehow, leaned over the perilous edge of this narrow footbridge on Norwich Row at Park Hill flats, high above Sheffield's train station, and painted:

Clare Middleton I love you will u marry me

We call it The I Love You Bridge. It's visible for miles, from town. When we set off on this journey we don't know who wrote it or when, or even if it all went up at once. We don't know whether she said 'Yes' or what happened next. Nobody knows, not even the people who've worked on the Estate for years - caretaker, needle exchange worker, decorator, or the few (like writer, Rowan, above) who still live there; not even the local builders who are regenerating the first flank that the bridge links. 

In this programme we follow up all kinds of rumours in the hope of sourcing the graffiti and its lovers.

Orange Honey I Love You

I was looking for a Japanese video game named "Orange Honey I Love You" and came across "Honey I Love You" at the University of Illinois Extension's list of party games:

Honey I Love You, is an icebreaker that's fun to play. Your group should be sitting in a circle again with one person in the middle. The person in the middle can go to anyone in the circle and say "Honey I love you, won't you give me a smile?" The person who was asked the question has to answer back "Honey I love you, but I just can't smile" (without smiling.) The person in the middle can do anything to the other person to make them smile except touch them. You have to be the judge as to what you call smiling.

Anyway, I continued to search for the video game. As you might imagine, not many are titled I Love You. The following Japanese video came up, but not much else -- just forums of confused North American gamers wondering how to play it. The only description given is, "A love simulation game for the PS2."

Get More: GameTrailers.com, Orange Honey - Japanese Trailer, PC Games, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

If you've played "Orange Honey I Love You," please let us know how the love simulation went, okay?

I Love You Lego

I knew there was a lot of love out there for Lego, but didn't know about I Love You Lego. Sing it:

I'm gonna pick up the pieces

And build a lego house

If things go wrong we can knock it down

My three words have two meanings

there's one thing on my mind

It's all for you

Ed Sheeran, "Lego House"

Some say their love reaches stratospheric heights. These Toronto kids sent their Lego out of Earth's atomosphere!

And some propose marriage with Lego?  A filmmaker renders his love story with a food blogger in Lego, complete with Star Wars references:

Dharma Comics Love You

Wanted to share the love that is Dharma Comics with you and thank the artist, Leah Perlman, for allowing me to post her excellent work here. I love to receive her comics every few days via the Dharma Comics Facebook page (please feel invited to check out the I Love You World Graffiti Project's page too).

Leah is also one of the founders of San Francisco's Happiness Institute -- looks like a fun place to visit! Wishing Leah all the best with her wonderful projects.

St. Dwynwen's Day

Today is St. Dwynwen's Day, a Welsh "romantic" holiday, named for the patron saint of friendship and love. I'm not wishing you a "happy" St. Dwynwen's Day because its story is brutal and violent. According to the  National Museum of Wales, it begins:

Dwynwen lived during the 5th century and was, by all accounts, one of the prettiest of Brychan Brycheiniog's 24 daughters. The story goes that Dwynwen fell in love with Maelon Dafodrill, but unfortunately her father had already arranged that she should marry someone else. Maelon was so outraged that he raped Dwynwen and left her. 

The Welsh are also known for their love spoons, often designed with keys, which are thought to be the origin of  "key to my heart." For a list of Welsh love traditions please visit the BBC's Welsh Courting Customs.