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Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir
derekmead writes "I'm not sure that Dutch artist Bart Jansen had political commentary in mind when he created the Orvillecopter — combining a stuffed cat with a quadrotor, and naming it after Orville Wright — but indeed it's art, whose meaning will lie in the eye of the beholder. And for those that say stitching up a dead animal around the guts of a helicopter and flying it around is 'sick,' what of the massive drone industry, which, more than just producing a symbol, actually is creating flying death?"
It is not very respectful to take a dead animal and put it on a quadcopter.
Its a lot more respectful to put the thing in the dirt where you may potentially drive over it time and time again. I mean, thats how it died and I am sure it died doing what it loved.
Its freaking dead. For all I care he catapulted it into the moon. Its not like he killed it to make his quadcopter skin. People are fucking retarded.
The commentary IS the art. To leave out the commentary would be to miss the entire point.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Should have used a live cat instead, that would be much more tasteful.
Personally I don't see any difference between this and what Damian Hurst produces (It's not for everyone I suppose), except that this flies, which is cool :-)
From the perspective of all the Japanese citizens that survived vs would have been killed in the course of invasion or even just a sustained firebombing campaign over all of Japan's major cities. the nukes were also a good idea.
Didn't realize the dead have feelings with which to empathize. And since when has humanity possessed any respect for life? Only when it serves an agenda.
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I dunno. I respect life and so forth, but once my pet are dead, or i am dead, who cares ? A corpse is a dead heap of rotting protein and has no intrinsic empathic value. People when they visit tomb in a cemetery are rarely visiting the corpse, but rather re-visiting the memory of the person, working on their grief. At least he found a value to his dead pet : big fat advertising.
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It's a media stunt. Had it been a pet owner that was an rc enthusiast I could possibly see, but this guy sought out someone to do this. Most likely for the notoriety.
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I think it's funny because when the thing crashes it won't be a big deal. Cats always land on their feet.
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You mean people like Tariq Aziz and his 12 year old cousin? There is no evidence that they expressed any such wish at any point. Wouldnt be surprising if their families feel that way now, though.
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It is confusing why some animals are protected & their killing outlawed,
It's really no more complicated than this: Cute animals are protected. They're protected because people get outraged when an animal with an attractive face is harmed, and a politician can create a law protecting them and get some votes. That's all there is too it.
You really can't grasp the meaning of that? It means they recommend participating in existing threads rather than starting new ones, not to post off-topic messages to other thread.
That's pretty sad coming from a 5 digit uid. You should know better by now.
Also keep in mind, there is no -1, Incorrect for a reason.
Your law may differ, but AFAIK, the law in my country doesn't discriminate based on cuteness on animal. It's illegal to kill certain species because they are endangered. It's illegal to kill animals that belong to another person. It's illegal to kill any animal in painful or inhumane way, or to deliberately injure any animal without good reason.
There might be more public outrage or political posturing when it's a cute penguin that gets kicked to death, but the law doesn't distinguish between animals on that basis.
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I "free" my cat every eff'ing morning and guess what, that stupid slave just comes back all the time. What a stupid slave, doesn't even understand he can just run away and go free. I understand your PETA point in the scope of farm animals.. but cats? really? I am the cat's stupid slave, trust me..