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
Curzen
June 4th, 2012
2:46 pm
that is AWESOME! Flying sharks which shoot lazers out of their eyes are obviously the next step.
Peggy
June 4th, 2012
2:57 pm
I love my German Shephard Lady Justice but I be damn if I turn her into anything but dust after she dies. Her dust will be sittine next to the ashes of my late Rotty Lady
Alex
June 4th, 2012
3:11 pm
What a miserable, untalented JACKA$$.
S
June 4th, 2012
3:19 pm
Leave it to the Dutch… who else could come up with something like this…?
KitCatClub
June 4th, 2012
3:21 pm
You HAVE TO read all the way to the end!
Atlanta Native and Journalist
June 4th, 2012
3:22 pm
So the AJC has now resorted to the low-life exploitation journalism level of the Daily Mail? With all the other truly newsworthy or helpful or hopeful items you might possibly cover you choose this disgusting garbage? This doesn’t just reflect on the subject of the article, but on the lack of editorial decency of the AJC.
Meowwww
June 4th, 2012
3:41 pm
This explains why drugs are legal in Amsterdam! What a wacko!
jake's mom
June 4th, 2012
3:42 pm
sick,sick,sick
Katie
June 4th, 2012
3:42 pm
This is absolutely disgusting! I lost my cat yesterday and this is really making me sick.
Catmandu
June 4th, 2012
3:48 pm
lol, that is hilarious.