Ape Lad: Hobo Life

Posted on January 10, 2008 10:42 PM |
Today on Boing Boing tv, another exclusive interview with Aloysius, the hoboist great-grandpappy of illustrator Adam "Ape Lad" Koford. The elder Koford shares never-before-known knowledge with us about what it was like to live la vida hobo while he developed that famous comic strip about cats. Previous BBtv episodes featuring Ape Lad and Aloysius are here, here, and here.

Next, we feature some floating, mobile, hobo homes, in Walterrobot's short film Moon Avenue Box Man.

Creative Commons-licensed images from Flickr were used in the Hobo Life segment: by Flickr user cudmore "WANTED," by Ken Lund, "Rock Candy Mtn," by IamSAM "CANDY," by -goob- "Cigarette tree" by ponanwi "Whiskey" by pink hats, red shoes "STEW", by moonjazz "Lake" by raindog "NT STARS," by Aliento Más Allá, "Camping out", by prkos "GULLY," by mmechtley "DITCH", by compujeramey "CULVERT", by T.M.O.F "SHANTY.jpg", by alex.ch "SHACK", by dave_7 "RAMBLER", by lordsutch "MANSION", by Nesster "MANSION", by Jace "Storm Drain", by tsc_traveler "yert", by SqueakyMarmot "Quansot HUT" by The_Jester "PUP tent", by saruwine "Lean To," by covilha "VAN", by Jasmic "Wheel", by Dom H UK "Ampitheater", by Beige Alert "BEEF," by Jasmic "MONKEYS", by pingnews.com "ASTRONAUT", by babasteve "MONKEYS", by dospaz "ASTRONAUT", by procsilas "ASTRONAUT", by skampy "MONKEYS", by keeping it real "Stephen Hawking", by elisfanclub "WALRUS", by hawk684 "HAPPY HOBO" by iboy_daniel "Doll head."

No hoboes were harmed in the making of this BBtv episode.

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#1 posted by biphenyl , January 11, 2008 1:10 PM

Haha! I recognize that ditch at 0:57!

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#2 posted by minTphresh , January 11, 2008 1:26 PM

hey! that's my old friend ralphie the rag picker ( the renny-dudewith the spankin phresh tites!) there at the end of yer video. im sure he would be honoredf to be considered a hobo, but he's really a hard workin actor/entrepenuer from st.pete fl.! glad to see he still be workin that shizzle!

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#3 posted by Xeni Jardin Author Profile Page, January 11, 2008 1:31 PM

Hey Biphenyl, looks like we neglected to credit you properly -- my apols! Folks, that cool ditch photo is from http://biphenyl.org.

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#4 posted by biphenyl , January 11, 2008 6:14 PM

Hahaha, it's a pretty excellent ditch yeah? I'm just glad I'm not going crazy! Come to think of it, there may have been hobo signs in there.

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#5 posted by Stefan Jones Author Profile Page, January 11, 2008 10:05 PM

A hobo tried to light me on fire once.

Well, he might have just been a bum.

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