Friday Cephalopod: Dancing!

shall i be the first to say "chris cunningham"?

(Yaaawn) [Stretches, octally]

I thought I might be watching the trailer for SAW 8<-Octo.

I like the beat but the melody needs a lot of work.

Technopods.

He isn't very graceful ("He?" I didn't check for gender)--
Does it really count to bust a move while pulsing in a blender?
I was hoping for more melody--or something more than beat;
But hey, this Cuttlefish can't dance at all... eight left feet.

Maaan, that brings back a mushroom experience...

Whoah!! I know that guy (the author of the vid I mean).

I'll let him know he's famous :)

PS he's Iranian and lives in Dundee, Scotland, as do I.

Meh. I'd rather have a menuëtte.

Watch this video with "Shakira--Arabic Dance" on in the backround.. :)

toni

Why do I suspect that is more the sort of music I'm into rather than the sort PZ is into. Why does it look like it's in some sort of salad dressing?

That's! Just creepy.

I have to say, that's one of the more interesting Friday cephalopod entries I've seen on your blog PZ but perhaps the video's author should be encouraged to rename his creation something like "blenderpod" or something similar.

I want Reza Dolatabadi to stay the hell off my lawn.

"shall i be the first to say "chris cunningham"?"

I'm sure you were thinking of David Fincher

Was anyone else expecting a video of beautiful movements by our tentacled overlords? I was, and all I found was some jerkily-edited footage of octopuses stirring up bottom-gunk.

Wha...I think I just had a seizure.

I second #16.

Can a dead cephalopod really be dancing?

Eeewww!

Gathers up dainty skirts and leaves the room.

Chris Cunnigham? I thought Aphex Twins.

I kinda liked it but wasn't sure until I confirmed @ Reza's site the creature was dead. People can sure do lots of interesting things with time on & tools in their hands.

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This octopus is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't stuffed 'im in a bowl 'e'd be pushing up the kelp! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the coral! 'E's kicked the chum bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-OCTOPUS!!

I find them much more interesting when they're alive.

If something crawls out of my computer monitor later, I'll be very upset.

Not related at all but I just listened to the debate with PZ and Geoffrey Simmons.

It was beautiful.
Sniff.

Speaking of music, PZ, you should use this as your theme music:
http://www.imeem.com/people/_YT0p7/music/QXhWK9Rz/fzero_gx_fzero_gx_oct…

Ocky ok, the noises (music?) - definitely not Ludwig van!

On another note, and a tiny bit outside, here's a Norwegian cartoon that sums up the shrub legacy:
http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/grodum/article2843067.ece

Meh. Color me unimpressed. Music, video all sux.

If you're inebriated and expecting a happy octopus doing a jig to The Star of the County Down or something, that gives you a little bit of a shock...
I enjoyed it, it made me squirm like a dancing dead octopus.

More like "twitching". Man that was lame.

Eeeeww. Brings to mind the canned octopus I got in my xmas stocking three years ago that's still sitting on a shelf in the pantry...

Eeeeww. Brings to mind the canned octopus I got in my xmas stocking three years ago that's still sitting on a shelf in the pantry...

There's two minutes of my life I'll never get back again.

Was he deliberately trying to keep us from seeing the octopus with any clarity? Very annoying.

Bad.

Just on the off chance the friday threads aren't entirely dead, boingboing.net just posted up a cephalopod gallery... of sorts.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookelynn23/sets/72157594255560457/

Pretty substantially NSFW. It's called "Cephalerotica", for obvious reasons. I'm not quite sure how I feel about the fact that any real cephalopods in these pics are quite obviously dead, but it's... interesting, nonetheless.

That suck[er]ed, bigtime.

Those octopi would be good contestants on "Dancing with the Starfish".