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Lamb's Life in the Hands of the Internet, all for the Sake of Art

Two German art students have constructed a guillotine and are planning on executing a sheep as part of their project. Since it's a controversial stunt, they've turned the animal's fate over to the public, who can vote on whether or not the lamb lives online. We hope this sheep dodges the guillotine!

"There were people who wanted to forbid us to do this. There were people who celebrated the idea from day one. And there were some people who were afraid of us," says Materne in a video of the "performance piece" uploaded online last week.

The two are inviting users to vote on the young sheep's fate at Die-Guillotine.com

Here's a video 9in German, of the two artists putting together their guillotine. The hookah seems to be an important part of the process

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Lamb's Life in the Hands of the Internet, all for the Sake of Art