Artist's Catcopter Causes a Stir 360
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?"
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No, according to PETA you must not eat the animals, or use their fur, or skin, only kill them and trash the bodies making sure it is a complete waste of an animal's life and corpse.
PETA is the same group that tries to make it seem like my well-fed, mostly-indoor, spoiled-to-hell pets are enslaved. [yahoo.com] Obviously whoever came up with that concept has never belonged to a cat.
Every time I come across that particular group of terrorists (yes, they are terrorists), I make it a point to outline my wife's plan to turn our 2 cats into a pair of mittens and socks, respectively, once they pass away.
Seriously, I do that. Fuckers hate me, and the feeling is mutual.
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Think of the historical uses of dead animals. Battlewear skull helms. Femur clubs, jawbone clubs.Costumery to frighten the opponent in battle. Clothes, tools, fertilizer,food,games, the dead animal has been with us through war and peace throughout the ages. Let's hope that artists like Jansen or Survival Research Laboratories continue to show the world the value of recycling ANY dead animal. In the media we have Disney propaganda that involves a cartoon armadillo recently run over, yet able to talk. The Beverly Hillbillies ate grannys "road kill stew" and look how Ellie Mae and Jethro turned out! In the beautiful work of art " Un Chien Andalou" by Dali and Bunuel, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xH2PV_S4QI [youtube.com] we see manifestation of Dalis obsession with rotting asses, which appear in later paintings and sketches. Let us celebrate dead animals and teach the children the fascination and value of lifes end product.