Giant cat head!

April 17, 2015 • 2:15 pm

We shall end the week with a GIANT WOOLEN CAT HEAD, links to which were sent by at least four readers. And I have to say that if “awesome” retains any meaning as a word, this GIANT CAT HEAD fills the bill. You can find it at several sites; I’ll refer you, though, to the information at Laughing Squid.

Housetu Sato and his students at the Japan School of Wool Art created a giant, creepy, realistic needle-felted wool cat head that can be worn as a mask. The head will be on exhibit from April 18-23, 2015 at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.

These photos are taken from the original Japanese site. Imagine the possibilities!

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I dearly want one of these, though there is only one in existence. (The makers are thinking of either renting it or making more.) Imagine giving a talk while wearing one. (Yes, I know it would distract from the material and you probably wouldn’t be heard anyway.) Or wearing it on an airplane!

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Where would you wear it? (Don’t bother responding if your answer is “I wouldn’t wear it anywhere!”)


82 thoughts on “Giant cat head!”

    2. Actually…I think it’d be particularly fascinating to wear it to the zoo and see the reactions of the real big cats. I strongly suspect they’d show a great deal of interest….

      b&

      1. Wearing it to a zoo would be very cool for aesthetic reasons, but I doubt many of the animals would take notice. Remember, compared to most animals we absolutely suck at smell. They don’t need to see the cat head to know what it is: by the time it comes into view, they’ve probably known for 5 minutes that some big non-cat-smelling, plastic-smelling thing is coming their way.

        1. I wouldn’t be too sure. Visual cues are also very important to animals, especially including cats. Manes are a big thing for lions — both literally and psychologically. And for domestic cats; the “cone of shame” gives an instant mane to them and changes inter-cat dynamics pretty obviously.

          I’m pretty sure it’d get their attention, at least at first.

          b&

          1. Cone of shame! I will henceforth call it that instead of E-collar.

            Re: cats and visual cues – our former feral was looking at me intensely for a few days, as if he didn’t quite recognize me. finally realized it was because I was wearing new glasses.

  5. I’d wear it to the annual Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden, NYC — during the Best (d*g) of Show Award!

  8. I want!

    Love that it’s a silver tabby, because my first and favorite cat was one. And he was The Best Cat in the World.

    Wearing this anywhere would be better than the most creative practical joke, prank text, etc. Unless you were able to combine all of them into one gloriously whimsical event.

  14. It would be great on a public bus or trolley car! Think of the looks you would get by people on the street!

  16. I think at the next Halloween party would be good. Around the house the real cats would probably go nuts.

    Would also guess this is pretty pricey. The art work is very good.

  18. I’d wear it racing my boat, because then it would be a catamaran, and a lot faster than a dumb old monohull!

      1. I’m a male homo Sapiens, and surely we know mice are afraid of the smell of males of any species. Male dogs, guinea pigs, and cats as well. The disguise, coupled with the appropriate female pheromone would naturally normalize experiments on mice. This cannot be the basis for any guideline violation.

  21. If you’re gonna wear it for more than a few minutes, you’ll prolly need an astronaut’s space suit air conditioner in there with you. Wool and all that.

    OK for a Chicago winter, I suppose, however.

  23. O, I likey … … likey!

    Ppppshaw, I want to wear it to work!

    Just think, re there, running ‘round for their very live(lihood)s — all of the ratz!

    Blue

  24. On a plane seated next to a group of misogynistic Orthodox Jews who refuse to be seated next to women because nothing will unnerve them more than to having to stare at a giant pussy.

  26. At the ending of Vanilla Sky, when Tom Cruise says that he meets Penolope Cruz in another life when they’re both cats. At that moment, I want to stand up in the cinema wearing the GIANT WOOLEN CAT HEAD.

    Too bad Vanilla Sky isn’t played in the cinema anymore.

    2. Wasn’t it Cruz who delivered that line? (Cruise repeats it immediately afterwards, but he’s quoting.)

        1. I have to admit, I didn’t recall the words being reprised towards the end at all.

  27. I like the look of it, but having seen Frank, I’d feel I was coming across as a bit creepy.

    1. Sorry – somehow I didn’t notice the injunction beneath the final photograph.

      I’d wear it in front of my cat, to get her reaction. (When the dog wasn’t around; no need to unduly alarm her.

  28. It looks as though you can change the eye colour, some photos they are light grey and others they are yellow.

    I’d love to wear it anywhere!

  29. I’d bring it along to public meetings and if there was a prayer, I’d put it on until the prayer was over.

  31. The cat head would wreak utter havoc at just about any equestrian event I can think of, especially if the person wearing it suddenly peeked the head over a railing or barrier, or lounged insouciantly near one of the dressage letters.

    Not that I would ever do such a thing, having the experience of horses that completely lose their stuff at the sight of a butterfly, plastic bag, pot-bellied pig, or curious llama.

    1. I also wanted to say that in my next life, I hope to attend the Japan School of Wool Art.

    2. There are horses next door to me. One night, years ago, I was taking out my telescope, which I kept in a big padded hockey bag. I was hunched down & carrying it over my shoulder in complete darkness when suddenly I heard panicked horse snorting & galloping. I immediately took down the bag and stood up and the calmed down. I thought they’d crash through the fence next.

      1. Of course the horses were certain that you weren’t actually carrying a harmless telescope in that bag, but rather a pack of small, fierce, horse-incinerating dragons. Just as my horses are sure that each and every llama hides a sharp flesh-tearing beak and huge claws … a disguised gryphon, essentially.

        1. Despite a lifetime of several years to the contrary and my constant assurances, Baihu still tends to assume that, whatever it is, it wants to eat him….

          b&

  33. A co-worker of mine is really into cats. She wears all kinds of socks, stockings, blouses, etc. with cat designs. I would think of a way to sneak up on her and peek in her car window or something.

    1. Then I would remove a ceiling tile in the office and have the world’s largest Ceiling Cat.(no fleas be upon him)

      1. That would be awesome! I’d love it if Mammoth Ceiling Cat showed up at my workplace.

  34. While cats are my favorite pet, it was the opening phrase that caught my eye.
    [i]We shall end the week …[/I]

    End of the week on a Friday? That would imply that Saturday was the first day of the week. On moving to Canada it took a while to understand Sunday was the first day of the week. I must admit I feel the week ends on Friday at 4:30.

    Just pondering and musing.

    1. There’s actually a great deal of complexity buried in your simple pondering and musing.

      The work week usually ends at the close of business Friday after starting Monday morning. The first day of the week is typically defined as Sunday. However, you can find an example of every day of the week defined as either the first or last day, depending on which culture you wish to pick.

      For a quick technical overview in one particular programming application, see here:

      https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181598.aspx

      b&

      1. The first day of the week is typically defined as Sunday

        In North America for sure …
        In Europe the MTWTFSS calendars are standard.

        I suppose it depends on which bit of the Earth our Universe revolves around 🙂

  39. I would wear it while working. Doesn’t sound like much but……I’m a train driver (engineer for those in the US) and I’d love to see the looks on peoples faces as I arrive at each station. It might even get rid of some of those commuter blues.

  41. If I could get one to fit my german shepherd it would definitely freak out the d*gs and cats in my neighbourhood.

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