Alleged artist turns dead cat into helicopter
The Orvillecopter takes flight. Image taken from a YouTube video.
The death of a pet can really take the wind out of your sails.
For Dutch artist Bart Jansen, the death of his beloved cat was no different.
Seeking a dignified means of honoring his pet, Orville, named after the elder Wright brother, Jansen decided to have him stuffed and miniature helicopter rotors inserted into his outstretched paws.
He calls the flying, remote controlled art piece the “Orvillecopter,” reports the Daily Mail.
Daily flights of fancy feast are on display at an art show in Amsterdam.
“After a period of mourning he received his propellers posthumously,” said Jansen.
In a related story, domesticated Dutch animals are accepting donations in hopes of inserting a Soyuz rocket into the posterior of an alleged artist.
Read the complete story @ The Daily Mail.
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37 comments Add your comment
gadem
June 4th, 2012
1:36 pm
lol…alrighty then!
Kelly
June 4th, 2012
1:41 pm
What? No pictures?
George Mathis
June 4th, 2012
1:46 pm
Unfortunately, I can only use Associated Press pictures and this was covered by Reuters. The links in the story will take you to images.
CobbGOPer
June 4th, 2012
1:48 pm
That’s the best use of a cat I’ve ever heard.
BIGDAWG
June 4th, 2012
2:00 pm
What a sick, untalented, miserable person. His must not have gotten enough attention as a child.
doug
June 4th, 2012
2:22 pm
how is this ‘dignified’? and a way of ‘honoring’ his pet?
and this pet was ‘beloved’?
he wants money and attention; pretty sickening.
Bob in Sandy Springs
June 4th, 2012
2:28 pm
That’s just wrong on so many different levels.
doug
June 4th, 2012
2:34 pm
Hey George,
you reveal a lot about yourself for considering this humor.
I will never read another word you write.
George Mathis
June 4th, 2012
2:42 pm
I found the art to be offensive as well, which you might glean from the final sentence of the blog, but I guess you didn’t read that far.
SB
June 4th, 2012
2:43 pm
This is horrible.