Another week, another collection of tentacular oddities from the mailbag. Keep sending 'em in!
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Some days, I just have to get the cephalopod obsession out of my system with a quick purge of links from the mailbag.
Robot tentacles (via Amygdala)
Squid guts ice cream
Japanese manhole covers
Ancient octopus cartoon (via Holbo)
Octopus T-shirts
It Came from Beneath the Sea
Cephalopods get…
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Octodog!
http://www.octodog.net/
O come let us espy them
O come let us be nigh them
O come let us deep-fry the-em
Cephalopods!
You've probably already seen this one- the artist reads your blog, I believe- but when can you ever get enough cephalopod hats?
(There's a jellyfish hat, too.)
Just a couple of weeks now to cephalopodmas and time for my next decoration attempt. This one's a (baby) decapod. I think it's rather obvious how it's made. I used my own pattern software to print the grid though before scoring, cutting, folding and sticking it manually. Eyes can be drawn on, stuck on or a mixture. To suspend it you only need a bead or small button to hold a thread going through the top. It's so light it could even hang from a twisted ribbon garland or paper chain.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/_SEF_/cephalopodmas/decapodL.jpg
Shouldn't the movie be called "Innsmouth" or something? "Cthulhu" is just too obvious.
In the trailer for Cthulhu, I'm pretty sure I recognized bits of Peter Gabriel's music from The Last Temptation of Christ, though I don't see his name in the credits for the film on IMDB. Perhaps the film's composer isn't done yet, so they just used Gabriel's score for the trailer.