Squid and Octopus spotting

[DWhatley]

Level_Head, Great commercial! (I was, of course, going to ask )

SgS180, I like the ceph in the tank better as an alien being but impressive graphics all the same.

 

[Level_Head]

Here's another commercial -- by Pepsi.

 

[Level_Head]

I've perhaps written more about fictional octopus romance than anyone else here -- not to mention the relationships between sharks and octopuses. So I was amused to see this:

The shark is obviously male, and the octopus just looks female. But it appears that she's rubbing off on him. My Lady has certainly improved me in a perhaps philosophically similar way, so I understand this -- but this seems a rather literal effect.

 

[DWhatley]

and the octopus just looks female

and has a hair ribbon

but I am afraid this romance is a case of when hell freezes over ... but then again

 

[Level_Head]

One of my beta readers is a big fan of elasmobranchs, and insists that they are much more intelligent than most people believe. One figures a bit into Book 2, but I cannot really work up to an intelligent role for this shark.

The title of your video put a Jackson Browne song in my mind.

I actually didn't recognize the hair ribbon for what it was. Silly me.

Best wishes!

 

[DWhatley]

speaking of beta readers and book 2 ...

So you have not elevated the shark in your ocean evolutionary concept, why mess with a successful strategy I guess.

 

[Level_Head]

Uhmmm... would you believe "beta late than never"?

I'm writing furiously -- but it's projects for DARPA and the NIH. I've got to get back to Sistur the Shaker.

 

[DWhatley]

You are encoding the wings of butterflys?

 

[Mike Bauer]

I love Dr. Who, both old and new. Plus tourchwood and Sarajane....

 

[Level_Head]

You are encoding the wings of butterflys?

Nope. Tiny implantable medical devices for different purposes, one of which is similar to one installed in me. And I had projects due Feb 1, Feb 3, April 5, and now May 10 and June 1.

You've been letting me skate ... but not, perhaps, on a surface like this:

More pictures of this Swiss pool here.

 

[DWhatley]

Well, if you are now bionic, it would seem you could do both

 

[nanoteuthis]

You know I just had to share this one, posted by my Facebook buddy Mike Lewi -- who adds that "Serial Squadron is still in the midst of their pledge drive to pay for the DVD's release; the more people that throw their cash down, the sooner we can see the serial!" (At a $40 pledge per set, it does seem fairly reasonable.... and yes, I believe I've successfully proselytized Mike to join TONMO. )

The Trail of the Octopus DVD Set

 

[nanoteuthis]

Tako Luka, the Cephalovocaloid

I think I may have posted this video before, but for the sake of any new TONMOers I feel duty-bound to post it again. Besides, as one YouTuber pointed out: "Only in Japan do they have dancing octopuses singing about vegetable juice."

[video]

 

[OB]

Ooooh!!! Meh likez!

 

[Level_Head]

There's this rather more realistic version on the same site:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/laughingmantis/art/5299634-ocean-invasion-1-octopus-arborealus

That's assuming "realistic" applies to such a situation...