#Lardverse
In 2021, I dropped out of PhD land, built a volcano in my house, transitioned into a banana, and declared to the world:
“I, Lard, am an alcoholic and #terrorist (albeit in recovery), and I identify as a terrorClown, #clone!”
This was not a breakdown. This was the beginning.
Welcome to the Lardverse—a living, breathing multiverse built from ash, absurdity, and ancestral debt. At once a performance, a provocation, and a pilgrimage, the Lardverse uses the architecture of myth, theater, and trauma to blow up reality from the inside.
My first act of war? Choosing love.
Specifically: terrorizing Dolores, the most beautiful seed, in a kamikaze devotion act of such intimate proportions it had to be disguised as art.
Or else be institutionalized.
So I disguised it.
In 2022, I publicly launched LardLabs, LLC., a “visual. think. tank.” and converted the first floor of my home into a semi-legal, immersive art installation: #EavMuseum. Then, in 2023, I made it Airbnb-official with #ExperienceLard, rebranding my volcano as a conceptual museum honoring my late father, Dr. Pentti Kouri—a Finnish economist, venture capitalist, and art collector.
This was not just a tribute. It was a Trojan Horse. A performance in camouflage. A smoke-and-mirrors ritual staged from inside the belly of the consumer beast.
The Lardverse is not a brand. It is not a business. It is a threshold—where sacred meets farce, where grief becomes theater, where identity combusts into myth.
If we are living in the end times, then Welcome to the Lardverse is what comes after.
Not survival. Not spectacle.
But the rebirth that comes only after you’ve already died.
#Forthcoming
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#Forthcoming 🤳
Welcome to the Lardverse: AR Edition
By fusing technology with myth, I’m transforming the exterior of my home and property into a living skin—an interactive layer revealing the secrets, storylines, and surreal dimensions of the Lardverse.
Hiding in plain sight, augmented reality will usher my volcanic rock, #MagmaHead, into the next phase of his life. A QR code in the front lawn unlocks the portal. Anyone strolling by is invited to peer into my supernatural, speculative world.
Guided by the narrative laid out in my comic book, Lardverse AR will evolve into its own immersive myth—with a dedicated website soon to follow.
The only question that remains:
How far down the rabbit hole are y’all willing to go?
Comparable
Chronos App
Why It’s Relevant to Lardverse
A digital resurrection of ancient ruins. Like Lardverse, it overlays myth onto reality, turning an ordinary space into a sacred timeline.
Concept Brief: Lardverse AR x Chronos Framework
Lardverse AR transforms a residential property into a mythic site, using augmented reality to reveal what lies beneath and beyond the visible world. Like the Chronos app in Athens, which resurrects ancient ruins through AR, Lardverse remaps physical space through digital myth-making. The key difference? No app download required—just scan the QR code in the front yard to enter a parallel dimension.
Core Premise: Myth Embedded in Matter
Chronos lets viewers see Athens as it once was. Lardverse AR shows the volcano as it truly is—not a metaphor, but a metaphysical assertion made real through technology.
Lardverse doesn’t reconstruct a city lost to time. It reveals a personal and cosmic myth layered invisibly over the mundane. The volcano skin erupts through the house and yard, pulling viewers into a surrealist timeline where memory, spirit, and landscape are inseparable.
🔥 Thematic Parallels
Chronos: Ancient ruins restored through historical reconstruction.
Lardverse AR: Residential architecture re-skinned with metaphysical mythology.
Both challenge the surface of reality and ask: What’s hiding in plain sight?
🕳 Portals Through Time + Space
Chronos: Turns the present-day city into a portal to its classical past.
Lardverse: Turns the present moment into a gateway to an alternate, hyperpersonal timeline.
Visitors scan a simple QR code in the yard. The screen becomes a shovel. What they unearth are psychic strata:
A volcano
An ancient love story
A cosmic glitch
A surrealist resurrection
Each layer reveals a truth not found in textbooks—but in dream logic, in myth memory, in Lard.
💡 Conceptual Leverage: Personal Archaeology
Where Chronos reveals public history, Lardverse reveals personal cosmology.
The house is not a home—it’s a sacred mound.
The AR skin is not decoration—it’s a ritual unveiling.
The experience is not passive—it’s a mirror held to the observer, inviting them to question their own reality layers.
Just as Athens has temples beneath its traffic, my yard hides a mythic underworld. The lawn becomes a mask. The driveway, a threshold. The volcano is real—it just turned out to be an exhibitionist.
🔓 Accessibility as Design Ethos
While Chronos requires an app, Lardverse is open-source in spirit:
No barriers to entry.
No downloads.
Just a QR code—democracy meets dream logic.
This ensures the Lardverse mythology remains accessible to passersby, wanderers, seekers, and strangers—a true public portal embedded into the everyday.
Welcome to the Lardverse. Lets make HIS-STORY! #InvestLARD
