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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....
I guess there are now 102 uses for a dead cat.
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
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.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
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 :-)
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.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall, re Voltaire
... 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.
Peace is easy to achieve, just surrender. Liberty is much harder get/keep.
Extermely disturbing to birds. To cats, the stuff of dreams.
I CAN HAS LANDING CLEERANS?
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.
do not read this line twice.
If one cannot give a corpse a higher purpose, then it's best to leave it alone.
The catcopter does give the corpse a higher purpose--about 5 feet in the picture and probably much higher if taken outside.