Dutch artist turns dead pet cat into helicopter

[Rev. Powell]

http://news.sky.com/home/strange-news/article/16240998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNdcdNm9fY&feature=player_embedded

On a completely unrelated note, the Dutch have decided to recriminalize marijuana...

[Psycho Circus]

I've been watching and reading about this all day. It's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. I mean, cat's in general put me in fits of hysterics even when they're not doing anything. But THIS! This is truly the work of twisted genius...

[The Gravekeeper]

I love the comments on the page. All these accusations that it's sick because it's "not normal" (esp love the accusation that now kids will want to do this with a live cat...how many kids do you know who have any interest in the news, let alone contemporary art news?). I don't find this to be much stranger than when people get their beloved pets stuffed or buried in a pet cemetery. Everyone grieves differently and has a different idea of what makes for a good tribute. He evidently wanted to make something light-hearted he could share out of a personal tragedy.

Besides, I find Damien Hirst's animals much more disturbing. I can't say I'm a fan of the way formaldehyde kind of distorts the things it's supposed to be preserving...

[indianasmith]

That is the strangest thing I have ever seen in my life.  It should have been invented in Japan . . . 

[Criswell]

Can't think of a pun for this.... I guess the helicopter cat's got my tongue.