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Marine invertebrate temptations
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: September 15, 2007 2:15 PM, by PZ Myers
People, don't do this to me. I've got all this work I've got to get done so that I'm free to go on a date this evening, and you keep sending me these distractions. Like, for instance, this link to a collection of Marine Invertebrate Video and Film Stock Footage. Cephalopods and nudibranchs and crustaceans and salps, all categorized (there's even an invertebrate mating category! With 421 clips! It's free porn!) and with thousands of high resolution videos. The previews are all free, but you can also license HD video of these beautiful action shots.
I will be disciplined, though. I'm closing the web page. I will get my writing done. I will put these links here though, so I can later return to "Brain coral spawning" and "Moray tears arms from octopus" and "Flamboyant cuttlefish feeding" and "Siphonophore With Extending Tenacles".
Back to work.
Maybe there's time for "Pelagic Tunicate In The Twilight Zone"?
No. Work. Get things done.
Oh, but I want…!
Comments
I'm going to be honest with you, PZ. Since finding Pharyngula, I have thought to myself, "this guy has some really awesome ideas, but what is the deal with this cephalopod...obession??"
Until now. Camouflaged squids? Crazy scintillating colours? Fights with massive snails? I'm hooked.
Posted by: Chaz | September 15, 2007 2:51 PM
This is possibly the coolest thing I've ever seen on the 'tubes. Of course, it's not like I needed another distraction either, but at least I can claim that this one's educational.
Posted by: Jon | September 15, 2007 3:01 PM
Is this date with the Trophy Wife or are you anthropomorphizing the affections of your Cephalopod 'friends' again? ;p
Posted by: K. Engels | September 15, 2007 3:51 PM
Then again it could be that parrot on his shoulder. Arrrgh.
Posted by: JohnnieCanuck, FCD | September 15, 2007 4:14 PM
Yer welcome...knew you'd appreciate that site. I have just
wastedspent several hours there myself, and must Must MUST quit and work on next week's lectures.Posted by: Sven DiMilo | September 15, 2007 4:18 PM
PZ's got a date?!?
They grow up so fast, don't they?
If things go well, will the two of you head up to Lookout Point to watch the submarine races?
Posted by: Dan | September 15, 2007 4:41 PM
A trophy wife who lets you "date" and all that State associate professor money! Now he gets free squid movies? God must be setting him up.
Posted by: Bert Chadick | September 15, 2007 4:59 PM
Heh heh heh heh. He said, "tenacles". Heh heh heh. :)
Posted by: jeffox backtrollin' | September 15, 2007 6:07 PM
Thank you for the link. I'm a 3D artist and I'm always looking for more reference materials. This is fabulous!
Thanks again.
Posted by: Brenda von Ahsen | September 15, 2007 6:35 PM
p.s. If you liked that video-clip site, you could also probably spend a couple of hours checking out a dive-boat-load of unbelievable tropical reef photography here:
www.atmospheres.tv/Galleries.html
(sorry, I can't seem to post a hyperlink)
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | September 15, 2007 6:57 PM
Chas (#1): There are only two kinds of people in the world: People who love cephalopods, and people who have yet to learn about cephalopods.
Posted by: HP | September 15, 2007 8:55 PM
HP, you forgot the third category: people who ARE cephalopods.
Posted by: K. Engels | September 15, 2007 9:18 PM
K. Engels: Wouldn't they fall into the first category, since they could hardly fail to be aware of cephalopods?
Posted by: Trip the Space Parasite | September 18, 2007 1:11 PM