BLAZE The Pot Smoking Deer

Sometimes the state of things in the world around us calls for a dose of insanity. Luckily for -FUPPETS- insanity abounds throughout the intermetanetwebs. Even better is when insanity actually comes knocking, sharing of itself! So it was for -FUPPETS- and the inspired bit of animated madness called Blaze the Pot Smoking Deer.
A fine gentleman and auteur who goes by the moniker atsonicpark is behind Blaze... and recently reminded -FUPPETS- of the trove of weird to be found in his warped cartoons. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is episode 0 (sort of a prologue if you will) of Blaze the Pot Smoking Deer.

Blaze - Episode 0

CLICK HERE to be directed to Blaze's YouTube channel, where you can absorb the other 7 episodes at your leisure.

A chaotic world requires chaotic art. It is only fitting. As the Butthole Surfers once said "In these times of counter-revolution, you're gonna encounter a counter-revolutionary man, OH! Gary Shandling, Gary Shandling, Gary..."

ART SPIEGELMAN: Line Drawing As Addiction

Art Spiegelman is a legend among the comic strip and cartooning circles, having contributed to the development of RAW magazine, his own masterwork MAUS, and countless anthologies, as well as being one of the original designers and artists for the infamous Garbage Pail Kids line of collectible stickers.
Here is a collaborative animation from Art Spiegelman and musician Pat Carney titled BE A NOSE, from McSweeney's.

Our EARTH Is So Beautiful

One of the most striking images ever taken is titled "EARTHRISE" and was taken by the Apollo 8 mission while orbiting the Moon. This is the first image taken by human beings of our home world, floating in deep dark space, a tiny beacon of blue, the (as far as we know) sole bastion of LIFE in Universe. The image is below. Click for a full size version.

This image is widely credited with inflaming the fires of ecological conservation and for influencing the rise of environmentalism in the United States and the world during the late 60's and the 70's. It is an awe-inspiring sight.

On July 4th, 2005, the space-craft Deep Impact directed a probe to impact the nucleus of Comet Tempel 1 , which succeeded admirably. Since then, Deep Impact has been cruising through our solar system and earlier this year looked back to take some remote images of it's home-world, our Earth, 31 million miles away. With the sequences of still images, scientists at NASA managed to create these animations of our Moon crossing the plane of the Earth's rotation. This first one is an infrared/blue-green color composite. That means they imaged it with an infrared camera as well as with blue green visible light, and combined the two for this video.

This next one is wthout the infrared spectrum, and uses just the red/blue/green visible light spectrum for it's images.

As you can see, the infrared spectrum images allow for the viewing of vegetation and other such terrestrial details. It is fucking awesome that we humans can design and build machines that act as our eyes in outer space.