Everyone and their brother has seen a variant of the LOLcats meme – a saccharine-sweet picture of a kitten (or kitteh, in LOLcats speak) with a l33tspeak-esque caption photoshopped on, often in bitmapped Helvetica or something like it. Well, rstevens of Diesel Sweeties fame has co-opted thememe and unleashed LOL BOTS upon the world. It must be seen to be believed.
My favorites: I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?, HOW I CLIMB STAIRS? and IM IN UR LITTERACHUR EMPATHIZIN WITH UR METAFORS. Awesome.
After researching transmedia storyworlds at MIT, guiding Microsoft in its CTO/CXO's think tank, co-founding Microsoft Studios' Narrative Design team, and exploring the future of entertainment and media as the Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab, I'm now the Creative Director for USC's World Building Media Lab, a storyteller, a designer, a consultant, and a doctoral student in Media Arts and Practice at USC's School of Cinematic Arts. more »
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