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The elephant has long been considered mystical here in old Siam, though this isn’t among the reasons why.

The Eye of God Nebula. Freaky.

Actually, and I’m updating this on March 13, there is no “Eye of God Nebula”. According to the truth ferrets at Snopes.com, this is a photograph of the Helix Nebula, although it’s technically a composite of several photographs taken by NASA’s orbiting Hubble Space Telescope and a land-based telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. This image was NASA’s “Astronomy Picture of the Day” for May 10, 2003.
The tinting of the image is artificial; the Helix Nebula does not naturally appear with the colors shown above. The picture’s “Eye of God” appellation is a title coined by an admirer of the photo due to the nebula’s resemblance to a human eye, not something designated by NASA. The nebula is also visible all the time, not merely “once in 3000 years”.

Other bloggers have picked up on this guy’s whimsical creations, and I don’t see why I should be any different. Eric Feng uses the alter ego “Feric” to, as he puts it, “generate bizarre translucent images that touch upon organic anthromorphism, cybernetic anatomy from the future and infinite cuteness”.
See his website, where he touts prints and a book called “Fevolution”, advising that “your friends will be equally impressed and concerned”.
If you look up “Feric” at the usually reliable Wikipedia, by the way, he’s got nothing to do with Mirosław Ferić, the Polish fighter pilot ace of World War II. Or maybe that’s him in the drawing!

From our esteemed mentor, Dali himself: “Board of Demented Associations (Fireworks)”, from about 1931.