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发信人: meditate (meditate), 信区: pets
标 题: Man builds box tower as apology to cat
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 13 18:59:14 2012, 美东)
I feel it is quite moving.
"Rufus Tower" isn't your average internet cat video. Popular AV cat memes
mostly fall into two categories: cats cutely doing something human, like
playing the piano; or cats cutely being somewhere they shouldn't be, like on
top of a Roomba. "Rufus Tower," shot by Australian commercial and music-
video director Billy Browne, is different. It's about a cat feeling sad, and
his owner trying to cheer him up – by building him a large and complex
tower of cardboard boxes to play in.
The five-minute video, starring Browne and his beleaguered orange cat Rufus,
is up to a half million YouTube page views as of this writing. It kicks off
with an explanation from Browne about what led to this architectural marvel
. Rufus had an ear infection; the treatment was ear drops, which Rufus hated
, running away from Browne when Browne came home from work. Browne admits
that Rufus has been hiding from him for two weeks now (we know the feeling,
although with our sulking orange tabby, it was eye drops).
Once the ear drops had run out, Browne came up with the cardboard-tower idea
as a way of making it up to Rufus – dozens of boxes, connected with
packing tape. The video shows the tower as Browne builds it, and the sped-up
footage includes a wary Rufus "supervising" while a somewhat mournful indie
-rock tune plays. (It's from Browne's brother Ollie's band, Parallel Lions.)
So is Rufus thrilled with his new play mansion? Well…we'll let you judge
for yourselves. In the meantime, we're going to hoard some boxes and see if
we can't rig up a kitty condo of our own.
发信人: meditate (meditate), 信区: pets
标 题: Man builds box tower as apology to cat
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Sep 13 18:59:14 2012, 美东)
I feel it is quite moving.
"Rufus Tower" isn't your average internet cat video. Popular AV cat memes
mostly fall into two categories: cats cutely doing something human, like
playing the piano; or cats cutely being somewhere they shouldn't be, like on
top of a Roomba. "Rufus Tower," shot by Australian commercial and music-
video director Billy Browne, is different. It's about a cat feeling sad, and
his owner trying to cheer him up – by building him a large and complex
tower of cardboard boxes to play in.
The five-minute video, starring Browne and his beleaguered orange cat Rufus,
is up to a half million YouTube page views as of this writing. It kicks off
with an explanation from Browne about what led to this architectural marvel
. Rufus had an ear infection; the treatment was ear drops, which Rufus hated
, running away from Browne when Browne came home from work. Browne admits
that Rufus has been hiding from him for two weeks now (we know the feeling,
although with our sulking orange tabby, it was eye drops).
Once the ear drops had run out, Browne came up with the cardboard-tower idea
as a way of making it up to Rufus – dozens of boxes, connected with
packing tape. The video shows the tower as Browne builds it, and the sped-up
footage includes a wary Rufus "supervising" while a somewhat mournful indie
-rock tune plays. (It's from Browne's brother Ollie's band, Parallel Lions.)
So is Rufus thrilled with his new play mansion? Well…we'll let you judge
for yourselves. In the meantime, we're going to hoard some boxes and see if
we can't rig up a kitty condo of our own.