It’s amazing what people can do with video via computer editing these days. There’s a content creator on YouTube called OwlKitty who uses a green screen to put his black cat into famous movies and video games. These are short clips and they’re worth your time (if you like cats and/or parodies). It’s not your ordinary LOLcatz videos. And I’m fairly certain this is why YouTube was invented in the first place. 🙂
OwlKitty has replaced “Baby Yoda” (i.e., Grogu) in The Mandalorian. (This is my favorite one.)
Here’s a famous Jurassic Park scene but with OwlKitty replacing the T-Rex:
Want more? Here’s a Lord of the Rings parody:
For a video game parody, OwlKitty is now a character in Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros Ultimate:
Have you ever wondered what animals think of humans? We take it for granted that we are many times more intelligent than our pets, but what do they think about us? Your dog might think you’re a mutant with super powers. You can do things that transcend his understanding. Imagine it from his perspective…
Now some scientists think that we may have super powers compared to other animals, that humans are mutants and a “copyediting error” in the brain is what separates us from other animals. To that I say, “WHATEVER”. God designed us this way. Although even if you believe in evolution, does that account for mutants with super powers? If so, I wasn’t taught that in school. Science and biology classes would’ve been a lot more interesting if we’d talked about how to get super powers.
It’s impossible to know how an animal would think of all this. Although it’s probably safe to say that if you were born a cat instead of a human, you wouldn’t be thinking about these things, nor would you even be aware that such a discussion could exist. Your life would center around eating, sleeping, and playing. Although I reckon that’s what a lot of humans focus on, not making much use of our superior intellect. To each their own. Actually, on second thought, eating a big mound of nachos and taking a nap sounds pretty good right now, super powers or not.
There’s a lot of strange stuff out there in the world and on teh internets. That’s no surprise to you. But this is one of the weirdest stories I’ve ever come across.
A Dutch artist named Bart Jansen had a cat named Orville (which is ironic, as you will see) who died after being hit by a car. So he mourned for a while, then converted his dead cat into a helicopter. This isn’t just art — it actually flies. He calls it the Orvillecopter, and describes it as “half-cat, half-machine”. (You could also call it the cat-mobile.) It is literally a taxidermied cat with a propeller attached to each paw and an engine in his stomach, and it is controlled via a remote control.
The artist’s statement says he focuses on the meeting-point between technological progress and human error. I suppose it’s better to wax philosophical about turning your dead cat into a helicopter rather than doing it just because you can. Although I wonder if he came up with that saying before or after this art project. Whatever…
The artist says about his cat “he received his wings posthumously” and “now he is flying with the birds — the greatest goal a cat could ever reach!” (I’m sure there are more puns to be had at this, but that’s enough for this post.)
Of course this “art” has sparked outrage among some animal rights groups. The owner clearly says no animals were harmed for this project, which technically is true. Nonetheless, some people will get offended at anything. At an art fair showcasing Orvillecopter, some anonymous animal rights activists wrote graffiti saying “Kill the animal killers”. Apparently they don’t know the story. That’s like those people (sometimes called trolls) who leave hateful comments without even reading the article. Another activist said the artist should be thrown in a vat of manure when he dies. So is the message that you should do something mean to someone if you disagree with them on ethical issues? Isn’t that highly ironic (and hypocritical)?
Personally, I wouldn’t do this to a family pet. But if he’s going to do it, he might as well go all out. He should make the blades as transparent as possible and have the stand fold up underneath. Then it would look like just a flying cat. He could also consider mounting water pistols on it, to shoot people or animals while dive-bombing them.
If you want to see the Orvillecopter in action, flying around and terrorizing cows, here’s a video (which even features the theme song from Airwolf*):
* Some of you may not know about Airwolf. It was a TV show in the ’80s that featured a secret high-tech military helicopter tricked-out for fighting criminals, who usually flew helicopters, too. I don’t know if the show has aged well (I’ve never seen reruns of it), but as a kid, I thought it was cool. There was cool music and sound effects, and there was usually real explosions. There’s not enough TV sitcoms these days that feature explosions… But I digress… Here’s a brief introduction to Airwolf.
You will get a caption contest this week after all! (There’s some big doin’s goin’ on around here this week, if you haven’t heard.) This week’s photo features a cat attacking an unsuspecting guy walking by. You know what to do — write something funny about it. 🙂
(To see our other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)
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