Since it is Cephalopodmas, I think it's only fitting to throw in another Friday Cephalopod, the psychedelic Wonderpus.

Wonderpus
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
More like this
From a lovely article in the New York Review of Books about octopods:
This was something of a lost weekend for me, with a lot of behind-the-scenes distractions, so I forgot to put up a Friday Cephalopod. So here's a belated Monday Cephalopod to make up for it all.
soon to be Wonderpus photogenicus or
so they say
LOL! Sounds like somebody grew up watching RoadRunner cartoons!
Now I get it; candy canes are designed after the tentacles of the wonderpus!
So that's why people always give them out at Cephalopodmas!
Wonder if it tastes like peppermint?
The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg
But maybe that is just me.
The colours and patterning remind me of the Lion Fish http://www.cameldive.com/pictures/lion-fish-big.jpg
But maybe that is just me.
Sorry about the double post above. Here is a short video of the Wunderpus in locomotion.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~chuffard/index_files/wpus-001-01.mpg
Here's something for cephalopodmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ftld7Ohojg
The picture is great but the video of this wee(?) beastie moving around is just so cool!
Have a happy cephalopodmas, y'all.