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Artists Catch Rats and Turn Them Into Stuffed Pikachus

Lauri Apple · 10/26/11 08:53AM

For their project "Super Rat," the members of the Japanese performance art collective ChimPom ran around the streets of Tokyo catching gigantic, poison-immune rats, took the rats home, then stuffed them and painted them up to look like the Pokemon character Pikachu. Art! It's a living.