Kyn and I had a wonderful time at the Academy of Sciences at Golden Gate Park yesterday. It's really a fantastic museum and aquarium, and is always good for the cephalopods. This time, it boasted dwarf and flamboyant cuttles, chambered nautilus, a giant Pacific octopus and an absolutely adorable, very active little coconut octopus. I managed a couple of nice photos of some of these.



( Cephalopods and friends )

Sepia ink was originally obtained from cuttlefish, 'sepia' being the generic name of said cephalopod. When used on paper, the stuff is...sepia colored.

Ok, so now the stuff is edible (questionably, IMHO. At least, octopus ink is eaten on pasta...) and an art supply. Obviously, I need to go do something interesting with this information.

I am working on a few cuttlefish pictures, although so far I still vastly prefer to draw octopodes. Maybe I should ink them in sepia (artificial, of course ;) out of homage.

...nothing better to cheer ya up than some cephalopods, huh?

This is an awesome site I just found. Photos!!!!

http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/

and this is an, um, less serious one. Thanks to FA's agouti_rex.

http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

I'm gonna be on the lookout for Northwest tree octopodes now. :P

EDIT: The CephBase site has VIDEO.
http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/viddb/vidsrch3.cfm?ID=37&CephID=

so cool! It shows so much of what is delightful about the graceful octopus. oh my, the way they move...! And pretty predation, too.