It's not the first or even the second time he's done a gaming themed take on the default twitter-bird, but it is the most interpretive and therefore kind of the best.
Pac Man Twitter Avatar [Adam 'Apelad' Koford]
Ape Lad (nickname: Adam Koford) has a funny shirt for sale at shirt.woot. Title: "Death has Keen Eyesight." Just $10, postpaid. Ape Lad Woot Shirt
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When Apelad saw this photo on a website in thumbnail size, he says he
"couda sworn [it] was a horned ostrich of some sort." The drawing on the bottom is what he imagined it would look like when enlarged. — Read the rest
The house for sale at 8800 Blue Lick Rd in Louisville, Kentucky has become something of a video game. Exploring the 3D tour of the home, packed to the brim with stuff, is a wonderful adventure. Over at Waxy, Andy Baio interviewed the owner:
— Read the restSome called it the best game of 2020, praising its environmental storytelling.
Back in 2007, Adam "Apelad" Koford created a marvellous, funny, weird alternate history for the then-viral phenomenon of LOLcats, running-gag memes of cats whose superimposed dialog had many odd grammatical quirks: the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats," a pair of comic-strip hobo cats straight out of the 1930s, who found obscure and clever ways to riff on our contemporary LOLcats.
All is Art, via Adam Koford:
— Read the restWhat happens when you start gluing matches together? Because the heads are slightly wider than the wooden bodies, they begin to form a sphere. This was an experiment in how many matches it would take to get all the way around to make a perfect globe.
Ape Lad writes, "I've got a shirt on woot featuring unspeakable horrors, phobias, and fears, from Hell to Nosferatu. I also threw in a few less traditional phobias like expired bacon and ugly undead quakers, for good measure."
Illustration: Adam "ApeLad" Koford
Headed to 2014 SXSW Interactive in Austin this weekend? Cory, Xeni, Mark, and Pesco will all be there participating in a variety of sessions. Here's a handy guide:
* Saturday, March 8, 3:30pm – 4:30pm, SXSW Create Long Center: "Cool Tools Show & Tell" Bring your favorite tool (hand tools, maps, how-to books, vehicles, software, specialized devices, gizmos, websites — and anything useful) and be prepared to talk about it and (if feasible) demonstrate it to other cool tools enthusiasts.
Spaghetti-Os commemorated Pearl Harbor in a special way, prompting a special twitterstorm of parodies — click through for a selection:
Adam "Ape Lad" Koford's published a new collection of his wonderful Laugh-Out-Loud Cats comics, Down with the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats. The collection is pure, distilled charm.
The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats are the lineal descendants of strips like Peanuts, which mixed extremely contemporary references (in this case, references to Internet slang) with a timeless, childlike humor, and great character design. — Read the rest
Apelad sez, "I posted the 2100th Laugh-Out-Loud Cats comic last night. My kids had me print it out so they could cut out each panel to try and recreate the tunnel route. It's not easy!"
Two of my favorite people — Adam "Apelad" Koford and Sublime Stitching's Jenny Hart — have combined their impressive creativity to produce a set of Hobotopia embroidery patterns. The world is a better place because of it.
Our dear pal Adam "Ape Lad" Koford has done us the honor of adapting Jackhammer Jill as a Twitter avatar, in his characteristic style, and plunking the result in the Boing Boing Flickr pool.
Witness more of this at Sad And Useless. (via @apelad)
Link. Some context. A related video. A NY Mag article. A Boston Globe article.
Ape Lad is the guy behind this. I give it massive uptwinkles.
Of the many absurdities that have become conventions in computer role-playing games, the nigh-unlimited inventory–packed with items that are not visible[1] on your character's person–is my favorite. Trained as we are to see every last scrap of leather as a potential Chekov's Gun, the results in otherwise realistic sandbox games can get … ridiculous. — Read the rest
After an Occupy SLC camper was found dead in his tent, the city's mayor has called for an end to the protest. "Investigators believe the man died from a combination of carbon monoxide poisoning due to a space heater inside his tent and a drug overdose." — Read the rest
Ape Lad reinterprets the unforgettable trio of "beer run guys" mug shots featured in Pesco's post yesterday.
Apelad's "Literary Fail" shirt.woot is guaranteed to assplode the pedants' heads in your life (as is this sentence).
(Thanks, Apelad!)
What will you put in your Jell-O Leftovers Salad?
Jell-O Leftovers Salad — For the hungry insinkerator (Via Ape Lad)
