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Over the weekend, a Dutch artist named Bart Jansen turned his dead cat into a taxidermied helicopter and everyone is, pardon the curse, totally shitting their pants about it. My goodness. People can’t get enough of this awful thing! Daily Mail talked to the artist about it and this is what he had to say:
Jansen said the Orvillecopter is ‘half cat, half machine’, and part of a visual art project to pay tribute to his cat Orville.
Jansen, part of the art cooperative Generaal Pardon, said: ‘After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously.’
He added that Orville will soon be ‘flying with the birds’ stating: ‘Oh how he loved birds. He will receive more powerful engines and larger props for his birthday. So this hopping will soon change into steady flight.’
Oh how he loved birds. We can all only hope that upon our own deaths someone turns us into a machine version of something they assume we loved to do, just because we did it a lot. “She’s an RSS feed now. Oh how she loved blogs.” “Nooooooooooooo!” So let’s watch this kind of horrifying video already. YOU GUYS WANTED THIS!
There you go. A dead cat helicopter piece of artwork that no one asked for, yet EVERYONE received and then passed along to someone else who didn’t ask for it. Life’s crazy, man, but not as crazy as DEATH. (Thanks for the tip, everybody.)
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Just for the record, I most certainly did NOT want this. I am entirely opposed to cybernetics in cats, ever since what happened to Acoustic Kitty.
Now you know what that Swedish doctor in the tv show The Kingdom was on about it when he would always rant, “DANISH SCUM!”
No I don’t. This guy’s Dutch. From the Netherlands. Not from Denmark. BOOM! Looks like someone’s been hoisted by their own Winwoodian pitard.
LAWYER’D.
Lawblog’s right. The director of Human Centipede is Dutch, you can probably make a tighter connection there than to Lars Von Trier.
Lars Von Trier did not direct the Human Centipede?
No; it’s his style, but you can tell it wasn’t him by the film’s utter lack of Stellan Skarsgard.
I’d prefer not to think about Human Centipede and a “tighter connection”, please.
Glad SOMEBODY got that pun. I was starting to think nobody was taking in what I’m putting out here.
Wherever there’s a buttpun, I’ll be there.
True. This is at least your #2 in as many weeks.
Winwoodian Pitard is a SWEET name for a Baroque String Quartet or perhaps, alternatively, your daughter.
Knowing how mean kids are I would never name any of my own something that sounds like “retard.” It’s like, if they’re going to make fun of my children I want them to work for it. You know?
I’m surprised you aren’t equally as worried about kids going the route of “Thin Wood, We Can Be Hard.” That’s the sort of thing that would scar a sensitive soul for life.
The ladyblog was recently going through some old school things her parents had saved from when she was a wee child. One of the papers was was a list of all the Native American names the kids chose for themselves in kindergarten. Like “Running Wolf,” “Brave Tiger,” etc. One of them chose the name for himself of “He Who Comes Quickly.” Because he was so prompt, obviously. But I just felt so bad for the teacher who had to be like “Oh! What a clever name!” with a straight face.
I assume that child grew up to be Tobias Funke?
Sustained!
Thank you.
Congrats garfield, you are now only the second most hated cat
Mew Thunder
APAWcalypse ROWR
The Purrrrrrrminator
helicatter?
helicatpurrr
Wow! That thing really purrs.
ART!
“Oh how Summer Estherson loved chocolate. Which is why we’ve encased her entire body in chocolate and she now lies in state in a fully realized replica of the chocolate waterfall room from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.“
I’ll be right there next to you.
I love sex, whiskey, and sleeping all day on the beach, but none of those things are going to make me very useful when I’m dead… Hey! Maybe you guys could turn me into some sort of tiki idol or killer robot that would warn people away from the things I HATE in life: laundry, oversleeping, and most popular music!
Consider it done.
Thanks! I also hate phones.
Nah, we’ll just recreate Weekend at Bernie’s with you.
It’s the fucking Catalina Wine Meow Mixer!
I can’t wait for someone to turn their dog into a wave runner or four-wheeler!
#RIPSEANKINGSTON
Gonna turn my bird into a bottle opener. When it dies, replace the beak with something more durable and appropriately-shaped.
Step 1: get a bird.
“Oh, how Squawky loved beer.”
You could turn a pet crane into one of those drinking water birds, or a pet parrot into a sweet telephone! Or a pet turtle into a sweet cell phone case! OR A COW INTO A JACKET! OR A SNAKE INTO A SICK PAIR OF BOOTS! OR MINKS INTO– waitaminute… Now I’m just describing regular animal products. Uh oh…
Aaaaaand as soon as I pressed submit, I realized that might have sounded racist but it wasn’t you guys! Wave runners! I was thinking of the wave runners!
And that goes above. I’ll see myself out.
Except that your story doesn’t check out. He crashed on a Jet Ski, which is manufactured by Kawasaki. WaveRunners, on the other hand, are made by Yamaha. ALSO, Jet skis are driven standing up, and WaveRunners use a sitting position. So I’m calling shenanigans here! RACIST shenanigans!
But I have…ah, nevermind.
Were you going to say “But I have a Jet Ski?”
Yes, I call it “Arsenio Hall”
I call mine Waveley Snipes
Uh, as a cat-lover and owner of two cats, and also as someone who thinks RC helicopters are cool, I think this is unequivocally awesome. It sure beats the paw-print in a little clay mold that I got when my last kitty (whom I miss very much) passed away.
how unoriginal.
Gonna be real hard for that thing to land on its feet.
This makes me too sad to even make a “surprise there’s a _______ to see you” joke.
wait until you see what we do to the grannies we’ve immorally euthanized in our death camps – i mean hospitals.
I spent a good portion of my work-day yesterday making mashups of this video with ‘I Believe I Can Fly’, “Wind Beneath My Wings”, “Fly” (Sugar Ray), and “I Want to Know What Love Is” via YouTubeDoubler with my friends over gChat. Day at work spent well.
Well played, sir, well played.
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I’m sorry (not really), but that was absolutely hilarious
seriously. I’m dying over here.
it looks really cool but its so bad..