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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?"
So of the people that are complaining, how many wear a leather belt, jacket or shoes?? For the record I think this is pretty cool and hope when I did they make me into a drone and fly me over all of my ex's houses on a regular basis....
Looks heavy, but it does bring up a question:
Why is it that these UAVs are always naked? Why not build a very simple lightweight frame to stretch some nylon over or something? Give it some kind of a flashy skin.
Do it right and it might help flight in moving air (since the air would just pass around, instead of pushing against the components)
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Is cat-copter adorable, or disturbing?
I guess there are now 102 uses for a dead cat.
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that of the massive drone industry, which, more than just producing a symbol, actually is creating flying death?"
There is a clear and distinct difference between using a dead animal as a work of art (which is pushing the limit of what art really is) and using man-made tools to go after people who have expressed in both word and deed they want to kill us.
Post the article, leave out the commentary. Or would you prefer when articles are posted about government science research, commentary regarding how this only feeds the beast be included?
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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.
They're up there, occasionally letting loose a missile, sending video back to operators. Does that provide any benefit to friendlies?
Remember - all actions are viewed FROM a perspective, and WITHIN a context. Dropping the atomic bomb on Japan, from the perspective of allied troops girding for the invasion of the Japanese mainland, and viewed within the context of the greater wold war swirling about them, was a great idea. From the perspective of the Emperor, it was a terrible idea. From the perspective of the Japanese citizens about to be incinerated and crushed, it was a terrible idea.
Perspective and context. Always necessary to take into account when analyzing an action.
Clearly they're planning on adding a .22 to the cat's mouth at some point.
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."
A flying zombie kitty? Does it spew guns from it's mouth while giving out helpful life advice?
No, but it does have a rainbow streamer and a really, really annoying theme song.
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Almost had to LOL just looking at the pictures. This idea is great, he should make an entire series of dead animal RC vehicles. And then have some kind of epic death match crashing them into each other.
Fear is the mind killer.
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 :-)
I know he was going for tying in the outrage of the cat with the flying drone thing, but he missed a brilliant opportunity to use a small pig instead.
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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... is fly this thing around, meaning above, a dog kennel. Every dog who has terrorized a cat will panic big time. The rest will go nuts trying to leap up high enough to get the damn flying kittie.
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dear god help me, there's a guy running a leafblower outside my office while I look at those damn pictures!
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If you want to comment on something from TFS, make a new comment, don't reply to the first, completely unrelated comment. It's obnoxious and it completely destroys the flow of conversation.
...what happened to Schrodinger's cat
Are they though? I mean, sure, they want people to treat animals well (by PETA standards) while they're alive, and they definitely don't like it when people turn live animals into dead animals, but doing weird stuff with an animal carcass that was already dead when the guy got it? I'm not sure it fits in with their general focus...
ADDENDUM: Okay, after typing that, I had the idea to google for "peta position on eating roadkill". Yes, they actually have one. I'm thinking the catcopter may actually be okay by PETA standards....
Some bring out the best in others, some the worst. Some bring out far more.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154283/Cats-away-Artist-turns-dead-pet-flying-helicopter-killed-car.html?ITO=1490
this isn't some mad scientist-type murdering strays to build controversial art. this is an artist who taxidermied his pet after it was hit and killed by a car. the cat was already named 'orville' and the artist thought it befitting to send his pet to play with the birds it so loved in life. the article posted with the /. story tells none of the real info and offers only inflammatory and barely-relevant commentary.
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This is way, way cooler than being buried in the ground or cremated. I totally want this to happen to me when I'm dead. Sure, it's a little tacky, but having an afterlife as a helicopter sounds awesome! (and way cooler than being embalmed so I can sit under six feet of dirt in a fancy box)
The only thing in the eye of the beholder is charm, death, fear, telekinesis, serious wounds, and anti-magic.
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.
A truck with nine wheels on each side.
O.K. then, I'll pick the ball back up and run by pointing out PRIOR ART. http://srl.org/machines/oldmachines/rabotrecent.jpg The folks over at Survival Research Laboratories added dead animals to machines for entertainment decades ago. http://srl.org/machines.html shows us some of their robotic triumphs. But before you write it off as geek driven entertainment, check out their R&D. http://www.srl.org/lab.html . Really deserves a story of it's own on /. as these are definitely Supergeeks deluxe with a rich history. http://www.srl.org/
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