-FUPPETS- Loves Artificial Butterflies

The Japanese are some kick-ass people. They have a passion for the bizarre and the outlandish as well as a deep-seated respect for culture and tradition. These things are not mutually exclusive. It just seems that way to didactic morons.
Scientists in Japan have been studying the way butterflies fly. They have built a mechanical replica of a swallowtail butterfly.

Among the various types of butterflies, swallowtails are unique in that their wing area is very large relative to their body mass. This combined with their overlapping fore wings means that their flapping frequency is comparatively low and their general wing motion severely restricted.
As a result, swallowtails' ability to actively control the aerodynamic force of their wings is limited and their body motion is a passive reaction to the simple flapping motion, and not -- as common in other types of butterfly -- an active reaction to aerodynamics. ( Science Daily )

Below is a short movie of this artificial swallowtail butterfly in flight. The replica model is properly called an ornithopter. The study of aerodynamics is a relatively young one, and there are still great discoveries waiting to be made.

HARD GAY For The New Year

It would not be a proper -FUPPETS- New Year without some weird Japanese hilarity, and nothing is better for that than Razor "Hard Gay" Ramon!

Here is a HARD GAY trifecta. The world should be grateful to him for he is a fighter for that which is right and true and noble, and for that -FUPPETS- gives him thanks.

HARD GAY helps teach a young man to eat his vegetables! (Specifically Green Peppers)



HARD GAY celebrates Father's Day!



HARD GAY visits the offices of YAHOO! to lay claim to the "Hoooo!" in Ya-Hoooo! (part 1)



HARD GAY visits the offices of YAHOO! to lay claim to the "Hoooo!" in Ya-Hoooo! (part 2)

Japanese Funky Freaks Part II

These Japanese never let up! They corner the market on freaky fetishes. The U.S.A. may have the world beat when it comes to serial killers, convenience stores, and obesity, but the Japanese have the goods when it comes to tentacle porn! Why do they find octopus and squid sexy? -FUPPETS- does not know. Here for your viewing pleasure, are assorted freaky shits.

And it is not just modern-day Japanese that get off on this funky cephalopod action. Check out the old masters! Here is Hokusai.

Japanese Funky Freaks

Timothy Leary once said that the "alien" intelligences he has communicated with during some of his more intense psychedelic experiences told him that the most advanced "race" on Earth were the Japanese. Many mystics and visionaries claim that the human race is on the climb towards the next phase of our evolution, and that we are to essentially become non-corporeal beings, creatures existing of pure energy, able to travel the stars and flit through time. Apparently the Japanese are way ahead of the curve on this.

It is also the case that in human endeavors, like in physics, equal and opposite reactions occur. For all their enlightened nature and zen simplicity and advanced spirituality, the Japanese are also masters of some of the most depraved and twisted sexual fetishes, for example, tentacle porn. The Japanese gobble up hentai movies of women being sodomized by monsters with penis-tentacles. They love this freaky shit! They also enjoy making twisted images of nubile young women engaging in bizarre masturbation. Japan is the future, and the future looks kinky.

The artist is named Yuji Moriguchi. An interview with him can be found here, from PingMag.com .

(*Thanks to floatingslowly from the Sonic Youth Forum for the images.)