Spider-Pig! Spider-Pig! He's made of folders, Spider-Pig is! Can you make him into bacon? No you can't! He's foldspider pig! Lookout! Here comes Spider-Pig! Today a reader sent us an ad illustration made out of Finder folders and document icons, which gave me an excuse for two things: 1) organize a desktop clutter art contest for Mac and PC users, and 2) get out my head the song that I've been humming all morning. Full high definition Spider-Pig "illustration" and instructions about how to do it right after the jump.
As I've discovered after making Homer and Spider-Pig, these things are not easy. Follow these steps to make one.
1. Clean up your desktop.
2. Get an empty folder (or a set of folders in different colors,) document icons, or whatever other thing is around your desktop. Don't get big documents, as you will need to duplicate them to create your image.
3. Third, deactivate automatic snap-to-grid in the view desktop options in Windows or Mac OS X.
4. Optionally, load an image in the background to "trace."
5. Start placing your folders/icons/whatever, always on a row and rendering the subject matter from top to bottom to ensure that no text from the icons on the top rows overlaps the icons on the bottom rows.
Please send your illustration to tips@gizmodo.com.

This is the original image that we saw from Teknograd











Comments
I love the space invaders.. looks so threatening to that HD.
Wow. Who knew desktop folder art could be so cool. Awesome.
OH NOES!!! There goes your harddisk.
I am so making that Spiderpig my background on my computer at home. I'm too lazy to actually replicate it, though.
awesome.
Seeing that many folders on a desktop makes me tense.
seems like alot of hard work, but thats very cool
You know what helps you forget the rest of the song? When you think about the 2 hours of total and complete rage-inducing UNfunniness they wrapped around that one sort of amusing moment, and you start to want to slit some throats.
...does whatever a spider pig does!
*pew* *pew*
@Pope John Peeps II: oh JP... come now :)
Spider Pig, Spider Pig. Crap, now I'm stuck with the song in my head for the rest of the day :)
nice... if i had the skills i would do a star wars one.
(kinda like how the guy made the star wars last supper out of a bunch of screenshots from the movie--->[gizmodo.com])
those are badass, i cant think of a better way to spend an afternoon at work
OUR ECOSYSTEM ROCKS!
His name isn't Spider Pig anymore.
It's Harry Clutter.
Ah yes, boredom at its finest.
That is artsy. And he must have been extremely bored..but impressive.
I call shenanigans. There's no way they could have gotten those top two space invaders without clearing the ones below them first.
*Note* I know it's possible, but with the spread out fire the player demonstrates above, I claim there's no way...
Is this what they mean when they say, "Macs are used by creative professionals"?
GREAT! SIMPLY GENIUS!
@strider_mt2k: I didn't think anyone would go there, but you did!
Space Invaders = brilliant. The shark one in the link isn't bad either.
If only I didn't have a Macbook... not nearly enough space on my monitor to make anything particularly detailed. Oh well.
@Pope John Peeps II: *shakes fist*
@Pope John Peeps II: I sentence you to death by Snoo Snoo.
@Geisrud: He started out all sniper-like, but as they got close, his blood pressure went up; he went berserker; and then he just started firing like mad.
And that's...the rest of the story.
Very good idea, and cool folder-mosaics.
When's the contest due? And I'm guessing the prize is "recognition, fame, coolness, etc"?
Please sent your illustration to tips@gizmodo.com.
or you could just have a wallpaper :(
I thought I was the only one with the spider-pig-song-stuck-in-my-head problem.
I'm trying to make some folder art, but I'm a Mac rookie and there's a bit of a learning curve. I'm trying to install a utility to enable me to change the color of folders, and figure out how to overlap them without moving a folder into another...
I could use a batch rename utility for Mac as well. To keep the folder name small and simple
This is a really creative idea. I might try it :)
@Pope John Peeps II:
Hey now.. that was uncalled for.
That movie was every bit as funny as the show has been recen.. oh wait. Nevermind.
Carry on.
LOL. Someone has WAYYYYY too much time on their hands.
BRILLIANT!!!!! i want to do that!!
I now set this as my background. A background as a background, nice and abstract =)
@riflehunter: Yes. Every last one of us is creative…just not productive. Besides, get halfway through this on Vista and you'll get a dialogue box prompting you to clean up your unused desktop items!
@VishusBurn: Oh good, I wasn't the only one who noticed. Methinks they've run out of steam.
"Please sent your illustration to tips@gizmodo.com"
Did you mean please send? :p
Hope you guys didnt throw away your sparetime and did this @work :D
Buen post, Jesusito ;)
@strider_mt2k: His name was harry plopper, that SS was amazing all I can make is a smiley face and pretty sure any 2 year old could do it :( gg giz, gg
How do you change those folder icon colors in mac OS X 10.5?
where do you get different color folder icons for osx
Why?
Harry "just why" Wang
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