40 Perfectly Captured Animal Images Get Turned Into Hilarious Sculptures By Japanese Artist
We love our memes here at Bored Panda; I mean, come on, who doesn't? The combination of funny animal pictures and witty captioning is hard to beat, all wrapped up in an easily sharable format so we can spread the love with our friends! But did you ever wonder what your favorite silly animals from memes would look like in the real world?
Japanese artist Meetissai has your answer. Specializing in those awkward animal fails, the sculptor makes tiny figurines from viral internet moments that you are sure to recognize. It all began when Meetissai was searching for a 'real-life' version of a favorite meme. Unable to find one, the artist got to work making it at home! The cool art project has proven so popular that there is now a whole collection of funny animal memes immortalized forever in 3D form, all thanks to the creativity and imagination of Meetissai.
Scroll down below to check them all out for yourself and let us know what you think of this unique art in the comments!
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Just Rocket Raccoon disguised as a normal raccoon, saving cats.
Load More Replies...Do you know where the concept of memes originally came from? This popular form of communication actually has its roots in academia, and the term was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his famous 1976 book, The Selfish Gene. His original idea of a meme was “a unit of cultural transmission or imitation,” with examples including the concept of God, nursery rhymes and jokes, catchphrases and fashion trends.
According to The Conversation, the word "comes from the Greek “mimema”, meaning imitated, which Dawkins supposedly shortened to rhyme with gene; a nod to the similarities between the survival of certain memes through the evolution of culture, and the survival of certain genes through the process of natural selection."
this reminds me of the speeders from star wars in the return of the jedi
Today's internet memes are units of popular culture that are shared, copied and modified by people. Memes go far beyond the original image itself, but are whole subspecies of items that evolved from the founding idea.
"The first meme on the internet was actually the sideways “smiley,” created in 1982 by American computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman," The Conversation writes. "The practice of using punctuation markers to show emotion was quickly picked up by internet users all over the world, and several other expressions, such as :-( and ;-), were added to the repertoire of the “emoticon” meme."
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
"In 1998, when the web was enjoying more mainstream use, the Hampster Dance meme – depicting rows of dancing hamster GIFs, on the website of Canadian art student Deidre Lacarte – became popular. By the end of June 1999, the site had been visited 17m times. It later spawned a catchy song by the Cuban Boys and a viral remix by Hampton the Hamster, as well as several copycat sites. This meme, as simple as it may be, is one of the first examples of viral digital content."
Later on, things like LOLCats, Grumpy Cat and the Shiba Inu meme became part of internet culture, and even affected the way we speak to each other. Memes inevitably began to be used by people to promote certain political ideas or ideologies. "Pepe the Frog, for example, was appropriated from the comic series Boy’s Club by the alt-Right, ultimately becoming a racist symbol before being killed off by his creator Matt Furie."
Like nature itself memes continue to evolve, giving us new and creative means of communication, especially for those people 'in the know.' It is no surprise that animals, particularly cats feature heavily, they have long been a part of culture and communication, from ancient Egypt to Garfield. While some things change, others remain the same and where there are jokes and pictures to share, there will be cats!
kinda reminds me of that movie BRAVE when that girl Mereda gave her mom a poison cake. Brave-disn...8f1b33.jpg
I'd like to see him tackle this cat falling off a table, lol. cat-fallin...2626e9.jpg
I have a cat just like that but we don’t need glasses to get the effect;)
Is it just me or does the cat look like a huge, square brain with a cat head on it?
In French we say "croquette"... ahem, sorry for this dad joke x)
Load More Replies...Awww but more crow-like in the sculpture. I see a smooth, velvety kitty that needs pets.( until he bites!)
Me walking into my parents' room at night when I was little to tell them I wet the bed
...and everybody was Kung Fu fightin' with fists as fast as lightnings...
Maybe ecause it/she looks like she is trying to pee!
Load More Replies...Looks like a dad pulling up his jeans to dip his feet in a river.
panda"i just dont feel like standing up today, u know wu=hat i mean bros"
Omg his face looks just like my little guys face! He does not sit like that, unfortunately!
Cat: I thought this was an UBER Pig: .................................GET THE F**K OFF
Oh he will move when human have to step over him.... hopefully
Load More Replies...I'd like to see him do that with this pic of my kitty. Lucy-over-...ae8850.jpg
I too, have a dog blur. Well right now she’s not blurry at 0 mph but trust me, it’s this or 100 mph.
Tha.......okay, well this is my cat when he hears something and he's been sitting on the washing machine
"What's, "come at me bro?"" Lol you know...like that Geico commercial
Load More Replies...Oh the hair on the belly that grows in opposite ways.. i want to pet it!! 🦝
The mouth is real but I think the eyes are shopped
Load More Replies...Alpaca sandwich ... I know where the door is.
Load More Replies...Wait, whe... Aaaaah. I first thought it was the tail in the front, so I wondered where it's body is. But I reckon the cat sits IN the box and its one or two front paws, right?
Yes, I think it's the two front paws. Don't know about the body though!
Load More Replies...Yes, totally a buff arm with the feet going the other way
Load More Replies...Calmest not calm cat pose. I don’t know if that made sense. Like the scary cat pose used in cartoons but somehow this cat looks calmer...
All are great with the exception of #36. The artist totally missed the mark on this one. Those are the cat’s front legs and paws, not the back legs and paws.
Oh my, they're EXCELLENT! Some of them, I'd love to buy - either for me, or for some friends I know would love tham as much as I do. I hope BP doesn't shorten the series again. For everyone to know, it's 40 pics at the moment.
No, we won't! It would be a crime to shorten this article
Load More Replies...Oh my, they're EXCELLENT! Some of them, I'd love to buy - either for me, or for some friends I know would love tham as much as I do. I hope BP doesn't shorten the series again. For everyone to know, it's 40 pics at the moment.
No, we won't! It would be a crime to shorten this article
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