For a rather different kind of squid, here's a pretty image. There's also a mammal in the picture, which I understand some people might find not quite safe for work, so don't click through unless you can handle viewing an exposed superficial epithelium.
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See, if I'd known what a superficial epithelium was, I'd have clicked through faster.
One word: Hawt.
Reminds me of the scene with Jane Fonda from Barbarella, don't lie to me, you know -- the one with the orgasmatron.
This is the second time in as many days that I've seen the word "soilent." The biscuits in the Heston movie are called "Soylent." (IIRC, Soylent Yellow is soy, Soylent Blue is plankton, and Soylent Green is [spoiler].) Is this some kind of play on words that eludes me? What does soil have to have to do with undersea passion? Or is it just an artfully inked and colored misspelling?
According to the accompanying story, she's dead, or drowning. Conspicuous lack of fun, but interesting symbolism of being captured by the selfish obsession of a lover...
I hate to be picky but where's her right leg? Is she, perhaps, a unidexter, or even a pirate? Three days away from the International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
This is the cover of a rare Solient Green/Sulaco split EP. Soilent Green is a grindcore/doom band formerly on Relapse Records. I always knew there was a convergence between heavy metal and gain cephalopods.
Its a good day to be a metal fan.
Oh, and I think the 'i' in soilent is to avoid law suits with whoever owns the film rights.
So, other than that, is it a good album?
That's some impressive dentition on the squid, too. To my vertebrate-centric eyes, that looks like the illustrator is violating the classical unity of time by a couple hundred million years of evolution. Are those really how squid "teeth" look, or has someone been influenced by fish/reptile teeth in illustration?
Idleman,
I've got to confess, I'm not really into Soilent Green, but as far as Relpase Records bands are concerned, try Nile for a taste of the exotic, or The End for somthing truly dicordant...but I digress, last I checked this was a science/evolution/atheism/politcs/mollusc blog...
Oh, and I have to share my birthday with International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Thanks for nothing.
Looks like a PG-13 variation on the classic shunga
(erotic woodblock print) by Hiroshige called
"Dream of the Fisherman's Wife".
Wikipedia has the story (and it is definitely not
work-safe).
Er .. make that Hokusai not Hiroshige. I can't keep
my dirty old male Japanese artists straight.
There's a lot of interesting posters at that site.
That tentacle on her neck is unfortunately placed, because it creates an alternate face -- of a smiling alien medusa, with the tentacle as its mouth and the woman's mouth as its eye.
And why are there so many people who misspell "lose"?
Oh, I see it; the "medusa face" is facing toward the left...
And, truth machine, did you mean "loose?" (heh)
So, if Soilent Green and Green Day became Soilent Green Day, would they do a single called "I Dine Alone"?