"He beams art with his eyes ... it's laser cat!"
- (Don't complain to me that there's no image for you to see here; Just because Blogger refuses to play URLs from Vimeo, doesn't mean that I'm about to post an inferior clip from YouTube, so just go ahead and follow the link provided buster.)
I'd take a wild guess that this all started way back in early 2011 with the YouTube Nyan cat video, but has since morphed into further catnip treats such as SNL's laser cats or anything that pops up when you simply google Laser cats or better still: laser cats on unicorns farting rainbows.
Laser cat was designed by Irishman Kill Cooper and Australian David Glass who together own a Design agency in Spain called Hungry Castle, their side hustle called 'Cool Shit' lets them leave the advertising world behind and have fun creating public art for their own amusement. Previously they had gained fame after raising funds on Kickstarter to make a giant inflatable Lionel Ritchie Head that festival goers could climb inside and listen to the crooners thoughts. That was for the 2013 Bestival festival in England, after which they were then invited to create an internet meme themed art piece for the Miami ADC Festival of Art & craft in 2014 by Ignacio Oreamuno. Laser Cat projects 10,000 unique original works of art that were sent to the duo from other designers around the world to showcase their personal artwork. To participate you simply climb on board, hit the button and ... "Pew, pew, meow!" art is projected.
You can plainly see on their "Coolshit' website that this trend for meme inspired inflatables has since kicked off for them as now they have a baker's dozen that they display at different music festivals around the world. Their success implies that artwork derived from and imitating momentarily popular cultural images and fads that are spread like wildfire through the internet by the masses is chintz, okay everyone is being very ironic about it especially the hipsters, but it's definitely back baby! Bigger, better and bolder than ever.
"You can stick that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Greenberg."
"Mumble, mumble"
"Sorry Clement, what was that you said?"
"Ceci nes pas une pipe."
"Oh go stuff your head up a pig you pompous prig!"
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| Laser cat projecting a pair of Carlton Banks dancing either side of ballet cat, probably to the dulcet tones of Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual". |
Links and References:
https://vimeo.com/78712745
-What I want you to watch, so what are you waiting for?
https://coolshit.art/art/laser-cat
-Their art and merchandise site. Go spend your money biatches.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/daveglass/lionel-richies-head-bestival-2013
-Get on in there ... Lionel's head I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
-Nyan Cat ... nuff said.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/mar/25/laser-cat-digital-art-projector-technology
-Someone else's viewpoint which is not as good as mine ... obviously.
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