Animatronic Taxidermy

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Because taxidermy can never be too creepy, Dutch (and super talented) designer Erik Klarenbeek has created Poekie. The battery-operated stuffed cat is fitted with a mechanism that re-creates the animal's breathing and purring.

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com...ves/008619.php

[nikrem]

that's very sinister. nice website.

[wheezer]

proper philip k. dick style

[wheezer]

Reminded me of this, Keita Tashahaki and his sleeping cat game controller

[Daddys Girl]

The Taxidermy Kitty Carrier on that site is interesting, if not slightly eerie. I'm not sure that I'd want to carry Domino around with me like that.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Originally Posted by Daddys Girl

I'm not sure that I'd want to carry Domino around with me like that.

look into his eyes and ask him what he wants..
one blink for shoebox in the back garden..
two blinks for glorious animatrodigital immortality.

[Daddys Girl]

Argh! See, that's something else I think about (which is a bit grim). She's nine years old this month (how much is that in cat years?)

Anyway, Dom's still got loads of life in her, but I wonder what we're gonna do with her when she does go to the big cat home in the sky. We could put her in the back garden or do what my sister-in-law did with her dog and cremate her... I dunno why I think about shit like that - possibly as this is the 1st proper pet I've had for so long (gave up our last cat when it buggered with my asthma).

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

so why is domino better for your asthma? Is it a long haired cat?

[Daddys Girl]

Domino is a short haired cat, which doesn't fuck me up as bad as the old kitty did

We got T.C (our old cat) when I was about 5 - my asthma started when I was 7 & having him around was an allergy nightmare. We had to give him up, which probably felt like my parents were punishing me when 7 years old.

Fast-Forward to me aged 14 & realising that everytime I went to my mate Sue's house, her pregnant short-haired cat didn't make me sneeze or my tongue swell. Convinced my mum that she should have one of the Kittens - and there is the story of Dom-Dom

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

oh ok, my girlfriend is badly allergic to cats, it turns out it is actually something in their saliva which affects her.. she was told a long hair cat probably wouldn't affect her because they don't groom themselves.

[Daddys Girl]

Really? - that's interesting. I didn't know that there was something in kitty spit that could do that. Long haired cats really mess me up - my allergies are still there (i.e - when I handle Dom' I have to wash my hands every time, she can't sleep on my bed & if she scratches me, it flails up something ugly).

She's malting at the moment which is rubbish for my asthma - the "combing the cat" duties fall to anyone else but me...

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

yeah.. to be honest we've never actually tested the thery yet though.

[Daddys Girl]

I do find it strange though that my allergies/asthma can tollerate having a cat in the house again - maybe my system had a chance to sort itself out a bit over those seven years or something. We all assumed that it was 100% of cats that affected me - maybe she could somehow test it out (that's if you want a cat in the end )

[Daddys Girl]

Sorry

All this talk of cats calls for this website, innit:

http://www.stuffonmycat.com

[Spandex]

Originally Posted by Numbnuts

yeah.. to be honest we've never actually tested the thery yet though.

Give it a go.. rub a long haired cat all over her and see if she ends up in hospital or not.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Originally Posted by Daddys Girl

I do find it strange though that my allergies/asthma can tollerate having a cat in the house again - maybe my system had a chance to sort itself out a bit over those seven years or something. We all assumed that it was 100% of cats that affected me - maybe she could somehow test it out (that's if you want a cat in the end )

Yeah we would both like a cat, dogs affect her just as badly though. She lived with a cat for 18 years, went to Uni, came back and then was suddenly violently allergic and has been ever since.

[love_tempo]

I have/have farily severe asthma that was triggered by lots of things, especially cats. It was getting worse and my doctor prescribed seretide, which practically cured it, with no noticable side-effects. I can't recommend it highly enough.

[kams]

i've heard the cat spit thing too...

we have both a fluffy mog and a short haired mog.. i'd say the short haired one causes more allergic reation..

and she bloody whines all day.

my mate wrote a song called 'Your not a twat (if you dont like your cat)', the lyrics of which covered this sentiment perfectly... or should that be puuurrrfectly??

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Yeah my girlfriend was offered some form of steroid treatment, but the thing for her it's not too hard to generally avoid cats and dogs most of the time... she was advised by a friend who is a GP it really wasn't worth going on steroids if you can just avoid the problem easily.

[wheezer]

I was desensibilized against a wide variety of insects and pollen at an early age after a whole boatload of allergies appeared seemingly out of nowhere - doesn't work from a certain age onwards though afaik

[Daddys Girl]

Originally Posted by Numbnuts

Yeah we would both like a cat, dogs affect her just as badly though. She lived with a cat for 18 years, went to Uni, came back and then was suddenly violently allergic and has been ever since.

dogs are no good to me either. Said (now dead) dog of my sister-in-law: the fur on that thing really used to mess me up something rotten.

my uncle got a doberman last december & brought it over on boxing day when him & his missus visted. he was a beautiful puppy & I couldn't resist stroking him just once, but I paid for it.

[Laszlo]

That reminds me of a stuffed breathing fox that was in the Goldsmiths MA show 3 years ago - it just sat on the floor and it's chest opened slowly.....by the same people?

[JE:5]

It reminds me of The Day Today

"DAVELEY: I have this little dream whereby there's this whole village of reanimated corpses, and if you like, a kind of control tower at the centre of that village with a bank of monitors, and I control all the corpses.

WINTERGREEN: Why use corpses? Why not normal people? Why don't you just leave things the way they are?

DAVELEY: Because... because normal people... because I wouldn't have my tower! I want a tower."