More pics.

The last of them.

This is from a bead museum in Arizona.

http://beadmuseumaz.org/images/GX2F0760RA.jpg


ooooooooh makes me want to learn to work with glass!!!!

And Sorseress your Olla's are wonderful.....loved the nautilus!

J

Sharon,
How about showing us more of your collection!

Those are the only two that are ceph related. The rest would have to be in supporters' forum.

so, OK, I want to see :cyclops: ...

I'll post a few under Strange looks in Supporters

Only in Japan, land of cuddly monsters! This story (http://pingmag.jp/2007/08/01/picopico/)has pictures of various kigurumi, monster constumes. Scroll down to see the octomonster costume.

"This cute octopus monster in a dream of pink, “Takorone,” was worn by Atsushi himself. According to the artist, amateurs can’t possibly deal with all these limbs…"

The best bits of the article may be the descriptions of traveling with the costumes.

at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference, I ran into the booth of turbosquid (http://www.turbosquid.com) who are a company that sells 3D models and such. I really like their cartoon squid logo...

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unfortunately, I didn't get their early enough to get one of the T-shirts they were giving away, which featured the logo and some suckers going down the long sleeves!

Just found this children's book http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=30010&cgi=product&isbn=0740768492

Today's woot features a narrative about an octopus, and even takes a jab at Firefly! Mua ha ha ha!

www.woot.com.

sorry I missed it, by the time I got there they were selling a refurb GPS

I check it out every morning before work just in case they have something good. If not it's always good for a chuckle.

Dan,
One of our best friends (more like a brother with additional parents) is a fanatic and buys almost all his Xmas and birthday presents (decides who gets what, when after he examines his annual woot). He is single so gives a lot more than he receives and Woot has made gift giving a lot of fun for him as well as the receiver.

Walla Walla University unveiled their new website today, and octopuses are prominently featured on the Department of Biological Sciences webpage. Its worth a quick look-see:
http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/areas-of-study/undergraduate-programs/biological-sciences/

I was on Jonathon Coulton's site and found this song http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Octopus also check out i crush everything which is about a giant squid and skullcrusher mountain

http://www.tmcm.com/comics/tmcm070917.gif

Only someone on this forum would start to object to the first panel before discovering the correction in the second :razz:

Melissa and I found this important scientific work on the street. Some Philistine had thrown it out, little realizing that it constituted the only known scientific record of Humungopus improbabilis, better known as the Absurdly Enormous Octopus.

ahhh, NY, NY. What is the copyright date?

What is the copyright date?

According to this link (http://www.seriesbooks.com/oceanography.htm) it was published in various editions between 1968 and 1974.

From Peter Watts' novel "Starfish (http://rifters.com/real/STARFISH.htm)":


Scanlon can feel her eyes on him; he keeps his on the screen.

"Fischer," he says. "What happened to him?"

From the corner of his eye: she starts to tense, turns it into a shrug. "Who knows? Maybe Archie got him."

"Archie?"

"Archie Toothis." Scanlon doesn't recognize the name; it's not in any of his files, as far as he knows. He considers, decides not to push it.

In the "My Aquarium" group on Facebook you can buy a purple octopus for 250 coins to display in your aquarium.

Anyone here use Facebook?

KRin

Anyone here use Facebook?

KRin

Yup. I'm just "Mark Montague" in the Caltech group there...

In the "My Aquarium" group on Facebook you can buy a purple octopus for 250 coins to display in your aquarium.

Anyone here use Facebook?

KRin

Yup, I do. If you or anyone else here would like to add me as a friend on Facebook, MySpace, Tribe, or Vox -- as some of you already have -- please PM me via TONMO's system and I'll tell you my username on each of those sites. (They're not all the same....)

Your benthic buddy,
Tani

I WANT this for my house:

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=2585

What the...!

Found during one of my late-night image trawls, a ripping yarn from the Sea of Okhotsk:

We had about a hundred codfish and halibut when Mr. Fraser hooked something heavy. Giving him a hand, we both hauled in on the line. Soon something greenish brown appeared and recognizing our catch, with a yell of warning, I cut the line. It was, however, too late as the object kept rising until it reached the boat. It was a monster 'Octopus' or 'Devilfish,' the most loathsome and dangerous of animals. Its eight long arms are studded with several hundred suckers, like cupping glasses...capable to suck the blood and vitality out of a man's body... The eyes are large and always glaring, it is vulnerable only in the head. This specimen had arms about seven or eight feet long. After reaching the surface, he at once proceeded to climb into the boat. Had it been rough or had he been amidship instead of astern, he would either have swamped us or rolled us over. On my frenzied shout of warning, the other four men had crawled forward out of the way, but Mr. Fraser and myself were instantly held prisoner by two of those terribly snaky arms.

We were both fighting madly, Mr. Fraser with the boat hatchet while I was desperately stabbing and hacking away with a sheath knife at one tentacle that held me, while another one was trying to [capture?] my knife hand which I however managed to keep free. The other men were ... jabbing away at the monster with our whaling lances. The lances being long and unwieldy for such close fighting, the 'Octopus' soon got possession of both of them. Our bow oarsman ventured too close and got within reach of an arm. He was promptly seized, both arms being pinned fast. Twice he was pulled out of the boat and returned and the third time, thru some vagaries of the monster, he was released and flung more than twenty feet from the boat.

He nearly capsized the boat several times. The beast was always protecting his head by holding it outboard and under water as much as possible, where we could not reach it from the boat. He soon gave up and sank, leaving several pieces of his tentacles behind.

Cripes almighty. That's from the memoirs of Captain John Justus Bertonccini, (http://www.nps.gov/archive/safr/local/bert.html) (b.1893-d.1947) whaler, fisherman and folk artist. Bertonccini illustrated the encounter in an ink and watercolor sketch (see attachment). Strip away the tall elements of the tale and we're left with a very early account of a giant cephalopod preying on baited longlines. Neat stuff.

Clem

Source page: kahnfoundation.org (http://www.kahnfoundation.org/Bertonccini.htm)

Here is a plush cuttlefish.

http://cgi.ebay.ie/BNWT-SUMA-PLUSH-CUTTLEFISH-CUTE-SOFT-CUDDLY-TOY_W0QQitemZ260166111207QQihZ016QQcateg oryZ230QQcmdZViewItem

Here's a good shot of a squid on a line, inking the fisherman (http://shim1.shutterfly.com/procgserv/47b7ce34b3127cce98548f47c8cd00000027108A ZNGzdk4ZtR)

Good find Melissa!

Someone at eBay Germany seems to be obsessed with octopus...
http://promotions.ebay.de/schau_mal/

You can download a PC-Wallpaper, instructions to create an octopus mask or a jumping-jack, ring-tones, etc.

English comment:
http://mmaglobal.com/modules/article/view.article.php/1695

Found this little beauty, if anyone is interested.

http://www.mataortiz.com/mata/juanreyessea.htm

Chupa Chup's Octoshot: a lollipop holder shooting foam darts...

http://www.sg-network.org/ism/neuheiten/chupa_chups.html

Thank goodness the ad is in German (I think) and I can't order on-line, my daughter would have killed me if these would have shown up in my grandson's stocking at Xmas :sagrin:

Here's a clever advert for a restaurant in Rovinj, Croatia.8-)

I had to have this.....Jess thinks I'm nuts....

I plan to get by Target before Xmas to get a couple of these for the grand kids. Very creative idea and I know my grandson will love it!

http://cgi.ebay.com/RADIOACTIVE-OCTOPUS-vs-FROGMEN-Sci-Fi-Fun_W0QQitemZ200168905918QQihZ010QQcateg oryZ19196QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrd Z1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/HAND-PAINTED-OCTOPUS-MARINE-DIVER-MUG-FAB-HANDLE_W0QQitemZ270183560719QQihZ017QQca tegoryZ14899QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQ QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Here is the latest thing I want for xmas (http://www.plantationhomeaccessories.com/fi-octreds.html).

How about this:
http://www.modcloth.com/store/Womens/Accessories/Necklaces/The+Octopus+Necklace

Nancy

Melissa,
For the money, I would much rather have this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300170172012&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

and here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Octopus-Jellyfish-Sea-Life-Ocean-Art-Clear-Pint-Glass_W0QQitemZ200170036923QQihZ010QQcat egoryZ3921QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

if you pint beer glass :beer:

And one more for the night - if it just was a different time of the year, I would bid on this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/glass-octopus-paperweight-art-sculpture-lampworked-N-R_W0QQitemZ220168276558QQihZ012QQcategor yZ2743QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1Q QcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

D, you are a good shopper. I'm lazy and just post the links sent to me by friends. These are all sweet. I have to bookmark the site with the glasses for my return to NYC.

I know my sister loves me because she gave me a pin like the pendant Nancy posted. I'll post a picture when I go home in a few months.

Animial Planet - Mutual of Omaha has a show on right now on octopuses. 7:30PM EST.

Caught the last 15 min and then the replay at 11:00. Although it was interesting, I hate the shows that give as much time to commercials as to the topic and repeat the last few minutes when they finally return to the primary show. I also do not understand why a science expedition would allow them to call it a "common octopus" (assumption from size and location is vulgaris) and the comments that the mother gives up her life for the young when her life (and her mates - not mentioned) are programmed for the short life span and the death would occur eggs or no. I find those kinds of statements unnessarily misleading for no apparent reason and cheapens the expedition.

I was wondering why they did not give a species. They looked like vulgaris to me. While I enjoyed seeing them interact with the camera man, etc and the escape across the boat deck, cracked me up, I too was disappointed. My oldest son clued me that this was on.

The deck walk was a definite highlight and the fact that a long term study was done. I am hoping there is more footage that will show up in a more comprehensive program since there was a lot of time and money spent. I would even be happy with subtitles :wink:

Very nice forum, I'm an italian reader and your english is simple and easily understanded from me :-)

Regards,
Jessica

http://danhillier.com has a number of octopus chimera pictures...

Here's a squidivity for you.

Here are some Merry Squidmas cards...

http://www.cafepress.com/orderofstnick/4174665

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COZ5hQHAZl4

Stressed octopus mum relaxes thanks to Air Wick. I like the romper-suit on the ironing-board!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELivL3ZWVU

Here is a really cute cuttlefish puppet.

http://raggyrat.blogspot.com/search/label/cuttlefish

and here are some directions for a make-your-own cuttlefish puppet...

A cuttlefish costume...

http://www.flickr.com/groups/octopushead/pool/

(via http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/12/a_mystery_1.php )

I have no idea what this play is actually about but the title was interesting:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Dodie-Smith-1st-Ed-DEAR-OCTOPUS-First-Edition-SIGNED_W0QQitemZ140189517215QQihZ004QQca tegoryZ145702QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVW QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and it was written by the author of 101 Dalmations

D, I'm glad you posted a literary sighting, because I've just read Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. This novel takes place in places where you don't see squid unless they've been served for dinner, but she uses lots of squiddly imagery. Her first reference to the Archi uses the size of its eye, so she must have been reading all about the giant squid and some other marine inverts while she was writing. :read:

Silly me, I just gave the book to my Kannada translator (not :canada:, unless you want people to laugh), so I can't quote it tonight.

Adventures of a plush octopus named Karakiri.

http://www.karakiri.com/blog/

Your own karakiri: http://www.karakiri.com

I bought a book of oceanography-themed poetry from ebay a couple weeks ago called "The Id of the Squid," by Arch E. Benthic, illustrated by John C. Holden, copyright 1970. I give you now the title poem:

The Id of the Squid

Does the squid consider with only revulsion
The prospect of sex under jet propulsion?
Or does he think it all slightly spectacular,
This flying embrace so tightly tentacular?
Or perhaps he is shy, so he cleverly thinks,
"Any loving we do will be hid by our inks."
But when they embrace, whether flying or hid,
They're a couple of crazy and mixed-up squid.

Also, a friend of mine is an arteest, and made this snazzy digital octo piece, "I Dreamt I Was a Sailor" (available from his DeviantArt page as a computer desktop):

http://fc.deviantart.com/fs17/i/2007/145/7/3/Calamari_by_1ASP1.jpg

http://1asp1.deviantart.com/art/Calamari-56097647

The Id of the Squid leads in well to this quip from the novel I mentioned earlier:

"No human had ever seen a giant squid alive, and though they had eyes as big as apples to scope the dark of the ocean, theirs wa a solitude so profound they might never encounter another of their tribe."

No wonder Mr Hell (http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11856&highlight=horny) said, "God I'm horny."

Here's an Archi-inspired sculpture (http://www.nemomatic.com/nemomatic/portfolio_blog/E5740473-F980-46B5-A00F-CEA43D3A367C.html), with moving parts. There is also a violinopus (http://www.nemomatic.com/nemomatic/news/CD655CEA-97C6-4064-A884-742D74959598.html) with tentacular action. Neat stuff!

I have wanted to keep jellys ever since I saw the moon jellyfish at our aquarium. We thought we had the perfect tank already set up but after a little research (it didn't take much) we found that it was not a viable part of the hobby. I even asked the diver/collector I know in the Keys about keeping the very bland upside down one that are very common there - no go. Tonight, however, I found an alternate and next B'day, I might just have to get this!

http://www.hammacher.com/publish/74633.asp?source=NEWS1508&cm_ven=WC&cm_cat=20080212_News15&cm_pla=BYR&cm_ite=74633_Hypnotic_Jellyfish_Aquarium

It's a tank that even I could take care of!

Cravat with Minoan octopuses.

http://www.museion-versand.de/epages/308039.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/308039/Products/K3081 (in German)

The Dog, The Cat, and the Giant Squid: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/chemsetcomics/119374.html

Good stuff.

A novel in six words by Margaret Atwood:

"Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved."

:roflmao:

She just ripped that off from naughty manga.

very odd dancing squid video seen on Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/everyone_must_dance.php):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNStVlJWy88

A curiously weird balance of knowledge of the real animals (the patterns flashed are absurd, but they follow the speed and style of real cephs.) Also a good example of why I'd like to make a more reasonable model of how ceph arms and tentacles move for use in animation.

For all of you cooks out there...

You can find these at (blank) they are designed in France by Pylones. We sell these where I work! They are sooo cute! I've got one... Check for them on Ebay, too.

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( via Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/this_could_be_a_logo_for_the_s.php) who got it from here (http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/04/24/shiva-squid/) )

Antique octopus salt bowl - price on application ...

http://www.elizabethbradwin.com/Gallery/4794/octopus.html

Hokay...

Some of this really needs to be under the Ceph Furniture thread (http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7381).

Here are the sub-groups under it as you will see from the headings:

Ceph Furniture... Kitchen (the salt bowl would definitely fit there)
Ceph Furniture... Door (doors, gates, handles, and knockers)
Ceph Furniture... Bathroom (tiles, holders, dispensers)
Ceph Furniture... Clothing
Ceph Furniture... Tables
Ceph Furniture... Lamps
Ceph Furniture... Knobs (Handles, drawer pulls, knobs, etc...)
Ceph Furniture... Toys

I love some of these posts in this thread. I just wish we had all once spot to view them all at once. Like a giant thumb-nail gallery.

Donnerboy (Nancy),
I agree that it would be great if all the "found" stuff for the house could be in one thread with the initial entry suggesting topic for what should go there AND have the thread as a sticky so it is not so hard to find when you want to post.

two weirdness-posts today:

:cthulhu: bot: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/09/lord-cthulhu-the-sol.html

tentacle-infested building: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/09/building-festooned-w.html

The Baitful Dead (http://store.trollart.com/product.php?productid=304&cat=23&page=1)

with many other cephs 8-)

He should make a Splendor (http://www.trollart.com/) neath the Ammonite, I'd probably get one.

Too bad these are little girls shoes... I would wear them!

http://www.keds.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=1330&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=eleanor&sColor=

:mrgreen: I already catch snide remarks from my 29 year old son about the black with white octopus Vans I have so it is probably a good thing these "sneaks are for kids" silly wabbit.

My feet are small enough to wear kids shoes....hmmmmm.

I had to sneak this on my daughter's beach cake...

Very cute!

Are those marshmellow candies like the Easter basket ducks or some kind of marzipan?

Are those marshmellow candies like the Easter basket ducks or some kind of marzipan?

I wanted to use gum paste, but I didn't have time to get to the cake store, so I used marzipan and colored it with food coloring.

Nice!

The Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha has a lovely new octo sculpture outside the Aquarium.

Kat, did you get a chance to read the plaque? Very nice sculpture and find.

I meant to... but it was 95 degrees out and the cool interior beckoned. :oops:

'Oktapodi (http://www.vimeo.com/1703939)' - very cool animation. 8-) Didn't even notice the six arms and two siphons until the second time around... :roll:

Prince Valiant was attacked by a giant octopus arm in today's Sunday comics.

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2374012.htm

Last nights ABC science program Catalyst(in Australia that is) screened a segment on the squid disection at the Melbourne Museum recently. The video of this is at the above link.

KRin

I just came back from visiting a city block of artists' lofts, where I was helping an artist friend get her giant canvas-ready printer configured to get the colors right making prints of her work (which was, I might add, a pain in the neck.) When i was lost in the maze of art, I walked past an open garage door, and saw a 20' across octopus wrestling with an oldsmobile door:

http://a246.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/94/l_2e2ec98573f0eaad4ac938af767c926d.jpg

check the "pics" on his myspace page for jellyfish, sea horses, sea dragons, non-sea dragons, and assorted other beasties. He's got a lot of internal illumination, but I thought they were impressive in daylight without their internal lights on, too.

http://www.myspace.com/sandmancreations

After finding my friend's loft and wrestling the printer (I beat it to a draw, roughly) she offered to pay me in food, money, or art. I opted for this art (a print, not an original, but impressive anyway):

http://www.annerpino.com/2001/zephyrsdrum.jpg

Ann also did a "cuttles under the dining room table" for someone:

http://www.annerpino.com/2008/cephalopond.jpg

Love the octo print!

some great prints there monty

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Dont be too quick to judge http://photo-shack.com/img/735b90b4568125ed6c3f678819b6e058.gif

http://cgi.ebay.com/RUCINNI-Swarovski-Jeweled-CUTTLEFISH-Squid-Trinket-Box_W0QQitemZ140268736429QQcmdZViewItem? hash=item140268736429&_trkparms=72%3A1420%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C 65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Cute trinket box.

I may need this for my ceph-less aquarium.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AQUAROID-AMMONITE-BT-BREATHES-Robot-Aibo-Fish-Japan_W0QQitemZ200267347380QQcmdZViewIte m?hash=item200267347380&_trkparms=72%3A1420%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C 65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

I want the jelly!

Ohh, cuttlefish jewelry... I am writing to Santa right now!!!

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6288550

http://cgi.ebay.com/Lots-20Pcs-70mm-Cuttlefish-Lampwork-Glass-Pendants_W0QQitemZ310077152532QQcmdZView Item#ht_2402wt_0

Octopus beads...

I bought 3 of them last Feb. gave one to Erich.

Here are two really cute books. I just got them out of the library, I may have to buy them for my collection...
http://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Thing-Ocean-Kevin-Sherry/dp/0803731922/ref=pd_rhf_p_img_1
http://www.amazon.com/Biggest-Thing-Ocean-Kevin-Sherry/dp/0803731922/ref=pd_rhf_p_img_1