Good Lord This Gyrating Giant Mechanical Squid Is Gorgeous
The movements of this giant sculpture are so organic, it looks like it comes alive in front of you
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Crocheted Darkmantle Hat
Those who’ve played Dungeons & Dragons might recognize this amazing crocheted cave beast as a darkmantle, which Craftster user sprocketfish made into a hat for her boyfriend.
Yarn Bombed Squid Tree
Sisters Jill Watt of Dapper Toad and Lorna Watt of Knits For Life teamed up to turn branches into arms and tentacles with this fantastic yarn bombed squid tree.
Do squid send secret messages using polarized light?
Here’s a neat article about squid — it appears that they can control the allowing them to send ‘secret’ messages that are only visible to the few other animals capable of detecting polarization.
Articulate Matter – A Sculptural Web Comic
San Francisco-based Justina Kochansky maintains a delightful sculptural web comic on Flickr, called Articulate Matter. Featuring mainly squid and other sea creatures, it is quirky and clever. The squid find themselves in all sorts of situations: Zombie squid, The Birth of Venus, ninja squid, Kal-El Mar-Ee (on his way to Earth), catfish burglers … You […]
Build a squid!
What *is* it about cephalopods? You can build your own adorable squid at Te Papa’s Colossal Squid site – there’s lots of information about the real colossal squid, too.
Magnapinna squid has elbows!
Wow – a Shell oil remotely operated vehicle in the Gulf of Mexico caught footage of this amazing squid! Based on analysis of videos not unlike the one captured at the Perdido site, scientists know that the adult Magnapinna observed to date range from 5 to 23 feet (1.5 to 7 meters) long, Vecchione said. […]
