Puerto Rican artist Alexis Diaz spent the last week applying thousands of tiny brushstrokes to create this unholy meld of elephant and octopus on Hanbury Street off Brick Lane in London.
It is somewhat awesome.
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Created by Karen Torres of Sew Much 2 Luv (available for $30 at her Etsy Shop)
http://vimeo.com/40001582
A cute octopus moves the tin can it adapted as its home away from a nosy diver.
But, lest we’re tempted to underestimate the cephalopod, here – in the interests of balance – is a photo sequence of one turning the tables on a hungry gull and devouring it whole.
Footage captured by Roger Hanlon, senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, who studies camouflage in cephalopods–squid, cuttlefish and octopus.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfzFIERJIg
Duane Flatmo’s flame-spewing steampunk octopus at Burning Man 2011.
Cephalotastic.
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This is the Octopus Chair, designed by Spanish painter and sculptor, Maximo Riera.
It’s the first in a planned series of animal chairs, and the artist describes it as a ‘base and a point of departure for the pieces to come’.
Cephalopodtacular.
