Earlier this afternoon San Francisco artist Josh Zubkoff, with the help from some friends, created what is possibly the world’s largest Lolcat image, an “Invisible Bike” mural painted on the side of a building at the end of the alley on Quincy Street in San Francisco. See Josh’s blog for more info on the project, including photos of the mural being created.
Ben Huh, who runs the infamous Lolcat blog I Can Has Cheezburger?, was on hand for this historic occasion.
Here’s the original “Invisible Bike” Lolcat image from I Can Has Cheezburger?.
Troy McClure SF shot a great photo of the finished mural as well as a bunch of photos of the mural being created.
UPDATE 1: Dogster & Catster founder Ted Rheingold also stopped by with his new “O Hai” Lolplate.
UPDATE 2: Here are more great photos of the mural by Trisha Weir, including one of Ben Huh riding his invisible bike along with the Lolcat mural.
UPDATE 3: Here are more photos of the mural by Daniel Quinlan and Eris Stassi.
More Coverage:
- I Can Has Cheezburger?
- Digg
- Fark
- Yahoo! Buzz
- Mixx
- Reddit
- del.icio.us
- Current
See Previously:
- Lolcats, A Bad Grammar Cat Macro Meme Explosion
- Roll Your Own LOL, Not Just For Cats Anymore
Thanks to Michelle Clay for the tip!
photos via Josh Zubkoff, Troy McClure SF & Trisha Weir
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- Missing Lolcat, Responds to “Cheezburger”
- The World’s Oldest LOLcat, A Postcard From 1905
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MOAR!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/sets/72157605110886192/
lol at the photo
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Here’s a bit of video of the “Let’s go haz CheezBurgers” meet that evening:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cirne/2501316464/
Love that last pick. So funny.
Not an lolcats plate, but a well known vanity plate on an Audi, so, technically relevant: http://is.gd/idc
I like this one! It is captivating.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/2500191979/in/set-72157605110886192/
Lolcats have run their course.
Lolz . Me luvz moar cheez!
I don’t know what I like more, the cat or the numberplates.
More photos here
http://picasaweb.google.com/daniel.quinlan/WorldSLargestLOLcat/
Way to drag the garbage of the internet into the real world. At least it wasn’t one of those dreadful “I has a _____.” or other “lolcat” language failures. Sure you might not approve this message because people like you can’t handle negative criticism, but you’re still going to read it to approve it or disapprove it and that’s the only people who need to.
Deer Anonimus: Mebbe u needz a vizit frum teh Ceiling Cat Witnessesses? Kan we haz yur addres out dare in teh reel wurld plz? kthxbai
I think mr. anonymous needz cheezburger!
It’s really such a pity that there are people who feel they need to voice a negative, self righteous opinion regarding light hearted, innocent humour. lolcats make people laugh. They lower blood pressure with their cuteness. They’re a sweet bit of brevity that are appreciated by a wide audience. Why don’t you save your criticisms for articles about things that actually harm people? Your negativity may be more adequately placed on a forum regarding crimes against humanity. Google for “stoning women” and you may come to realize that it is good to have people who do nice things like make pictures that give other people a smile.
Thanks lolcat guys. I haz a grin.
laitun up, anonymous. itsa djowk. you maight not find it funnah. thats ohkay. otherz maight think it is. thats ohkay two. get owvur it!
Well done you guys and gals! We’re moving to SF soon and I’m going to HAVE to photograph this!
Man this is so cooool
I haz a laugh, lol
Well done!!!
Thanks for a great start to my Monday morning!
Pay no attention to “Anonymous”
He haz lost hiz happy and sits all alone with nothing to laugh at but him sad self. So sad.
Lolcats make people happy. Now Lolcats make people happy in a BIG way; now there is art where there was abandonment.
And I’m sure you make people happy in your own special way, “anonymous”.
Love the mural and the pics of it in the making! Wondering why that one in particular was chosen?
That is amazing.
Great job! I wonder if the original owner of this cat knows?
Oh hai!
Bravo. The appreciation of whimsy is one of life’s great pleasures. We can only sigh for those too limited to share it.
…people like you can’t handle negative criticism, but you’re still going to read it to approve it or disapprove it and that’s the only people who need to.
I can handle negative criticism. Josh, Dan, Trisha, we cool with negative criticism? OK, cool. Yeah, we’re cool with negative criticism, anonymous guy on the internet.
That’s pretty neat! They just need some way of attracting teenagers who’ll leave silly comments on the wall and ground underneath ..
O hai.
That is amazing! Nao ah wanna go to SAN n’ see it myself! >w<
N’ ah agree wiff Donncha O Caoimh, people should leave silly comments everywhere! : D
Great Job!!!
Ya. I haz a grin. Yu gievs eet. I tanks yu.
MOAR!!!
PLZ2HAVLOLKATINLAKTHXBAI!
i love you
invisible bike lolcat can haz gas?
Moya — yeah, I was wondering about that too.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/05/18/worlds-largest-cat-lolcat-mural-irl/#comment-325530
wonderful! i sawz it too today
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petebeck/2505862785/
My kittiez haz da gaz….all de tyme and berry chezebergery to. He mite haz extraz four dat inbisabal bik, cauz he gaz we cant see, justa smelliez! Maibee varry strongz and be potent.
Oh my gosh, this is wonderful! Two years ago, when I was working in a vet clinic, “Invisible Bike” was the first lolcat I ever saw. Throughout the workday, as we vet assistants would pass each other in the pharmacy, the thing to do was to leap up in the air, strike a pose, and shout “Invisible bike!” in a sing-song voice before landing. This particular lolcat has lightened a lot of dark days for me.
I may have just discovered the mural theme for the inside of my new apartment…kthxbai!
I have to say… I’m rather sad.
ONLY ‘COS I BE’S LIVIN THE TEH UK AND I CAN’T COME AND SEE IT!!! =[ =[ =[
I’m SUPER impressed! The artwork itself is actually pretty amazing too. And I WELL remember the original lolcat!!!!
Ahhhh gud tymes gud tymes…
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Now cum to teh UK. Plz?
KTHNXBAI!!! LUFF U!!!
Cool! I love the LOL cats. So cute! :)
to anonymous, I have an old cat saying for you. it goes thusly:
“purr, and the world purrs with you.
hiss, and you hiss alone.”
U has done a grait thing. And if only u could have 2 kinds of playtes on ur car — O HAI on the front and KTHXBYE on the back
I wonder how many hits asians.com is getting because of this post.
Asians kan haz KatBurgers
You maked a giant lolcat! I has a happy nao! ‘kthnx!
Ceiling cat wud approve.
Poor Mr. Annoymous! Oh noes! Sumboddy be takin’ his happy face! Mebbe basement cat taked his happy face. Too bad.
thnxbai!
lolcats have made me roar with laughter more times than I deserve. I’m delighted to see the world picking up on this animal-loving, people-soothing apostolate.
Somebody once sent me a ‘can I has cheezeburger’ I laughed myself silly. Then forgot about it . recently I came across it again and loved it. I invited it in like and old friend . Now my friends get a daily copy form me.. by the clicking on some of the links I came to your home page and here I is. Enjoying a bloody good laugh for I’m really down and this is a wonderful pick me upper.
Thanx guys and gals
I live an hour away from San Fran now i wanna go see that :D. My friends recently sent me to the lolCats site and i go to it daily now. I want to say that is great work! ^^ thanx for making someone elses day brighter ^^
This is viral marketing for Asians.com and you all fell for it.
Thanks for leaving the post by “anonymous” and thanks everyone for handling it so very well. :-) Ceiling cat approves, I’m sure. I love commenters with humor and compassion. Just like on Lolcats.
::PREEN::
YAY JOSH! :) :)
(PROUD) YAY JOSH!
I love icanhascheezburger and I keep on promoting it to friends who appreciate lolcatz humor and kans reeds da gramer. Ceiling Cat has room for lolcatz-hoomans; Basement Cat has room for non-lolcatz hoomans, =)
Lolcatz cheers me up – I has a happy! :-D
LoLCats RULESZZ
So awesome!! If only I’d thought to do that, haha. *heads over to blog to spread the excitement to others*
I was JUST thinking yesterday about how it would be awesome to have ‘O hai’ on a license plate. Looks like great minds must think alike.
O hai
you might also enjoy this post about Lolcat Literacy:
http://wordandimage.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/lolcat-literacy/
Lolcats rock!
Yeah. Totally dig the vanity plates. Nice choice.
lolcats is cute. ain’t no one complainin.
but i like the thoughtful, ORIGINAL random artwork i’ve seen SF (not a local). they’re funny online, but if i saw a giant lolcat ona building, i think i’d feel a tad miffed. granted; not for long…it’s just something i’d expect to see on a billboard in LA. advertising/obsessive.
here is my sad:
:c(
i showed him to you.
Excellent. All you need now is an ambulance with a license plate reading: HALP.
Either that, or the above printed backwards on the front :)
That…is a thing of beauty. Very cool.
I was visiting a good friend in the Bay area over the 4th of July weekend. So our first stop was to see the mural, loved it! LOL Cats rule!
This mural knocks my hat in the creek!
can’t find it on street view
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=quincy+street,+san+francisco&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=71.847638,64.423828&ie=UTF8&ll=37.791541,-122.405452&spn=0.00181,0.003449&z=18&layer=c&cbll=37.791553,-122.405436&panoid=OpuKxqxMLnUIMsjU_7GHNQ&cbp=12,168.93,,2,2.68
Howdy
I went to visit the Invisible Bike lolcat when I was in SF just a little while ago.
I’m from Sydney Australia.
To my amazement it was less than 50 meters from the front door of the hotel where I usually stay.
I’m glad to see that it remains relatively-unscathed by rogue graffitiers. Lets hope it stays that way!
Now, what about Ceiling Cat!?