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Category: Blogosphere
I don't know who commissions a steampunk wedding cake, but whoever they are, I like the way they think. Check out these whimsical steampunk cakes (including a metallic, Jules Verne-esque cephalopod) at the normally frightening Cake Wrecks. And big...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
I'm still tickled by the British scientists who discovered a cache of ancient squid ink and used it for. . . art: Paleontologists discovered the remains of the creature, called a Belemnotheutis antiquus, during a dig at a Victorian...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 1:15 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
. . .Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. According to editor Jason Rekulak, I know there are a lot of vampire fans, but the genre feels exhausted to me. Whereas Sea Monsters allowed us to draw inspiration from so...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Artists & Art
Artomatic just wouldn't be complete without a sinister cephalopod, and luckily Kurt Peterson stepped in to make it happen.
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:29 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopodmania
The Princeton Art of Science competition has named its 2009 winners. The image above, by Celeste Nelson, is a bright field micrograph of baby squid (Loligo pealeii). See the rest of the winners here....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:00 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopodmania
One of the sucky things about viral interest in offbeat art from small vendors is that it always immediately depletes the supply. Like this fabulous minimalist plywood octopus from inthewoods' etsy shop. Sure, you can still get a plywood...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 5:40 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Biology
Lately, I've been seeing a lot of dinnerware that's just too fascinating to cover with food. Like Hiroshi Tsunoda's Bodylicious plates, available at DesignCode. According to Street Anatomy, Tsunoda was inspired by Nyotaimori, a tradition where food is presented...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopodmania
It wasn't that long ago that Otto the octopus was bent on destroying the electrical system in his German aquarium. Now a cephalopod at the Santa Monica aquarium is following in his footsteps, flooding the building overnight with a few...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 8:13 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopodmania
My favorite Academy Award nomination: Oktopodi. By Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand. Read an interview with Mokhberi - chock full of storyboard images, video, and other goodies - here....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 7:35 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Wonder Cabinets
These charming photos by bre pettis capture a lovely, detailed diorama at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. I'm not sure how old it is, but it's very cool....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 11:30 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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