And that’s what I get for not using the Preview button. (relurks)
pjsays
A lovely translucent colour and graceful shape. I don’t know…somehow it seems wrong that a cephalopod should look like something out of Neuschwanstein.
His prophecy is being fullfilled as described in the Pnakotic fragments!
“I, the Great Cthulhu, exalted among the Old Ones, shall make a messenger in the likeness of the cephalod, translucent and white as if a jellyfish from the depths.”
In the darkness of the Greater Deeps, no one see your camouflage.
–
cicely, Disturber of the Peassays
can see….
Jamiesays
It’s so cute! The way its tentacles are positioned makes it look like it’s hiding something under it or that it’s just nonchalantly watching the human with the camera.
Your reference to Neuschwanstein is a bit too cryptic for me. What does a pale, yet beautiful cephalapod have to do with “Mad” King Ludwig II. The slightly “crazy” eyes, maybe.
I think the photographer interrupted a deep sea poker game. The other players split and this little fella got left behind.
Irene Delsesays
“Paparazzi, even in the abyss? Where must I go to keep private my pale prettiness?”
thunderbird5says
Hai Sweetie!
(Pours a saucer of milk)
Meanwhile @18 – I would say the ref to Neuschwanstein might be to those scalloped tentacled thingies popping out all over the shop which are looking somewhat like Ludvig’s Wagneresque towers n’ turrets job.
The octopretty looks like it wouldn’t be out of place in Ludwig’s quintessential fairy-tale castle that has inspired all the further manifestations of fairy-taleness, including those in Disneyland(s). And that’s not something I’d expect from Cthulhu’s younger sibling. Where’s the menace? Where’s the awe? That up there is a princessy octopus.
Can’t wait to see get rule thirty-foured.
And that’s what I get for not using the Preview button. (relurks)
A lovely translucent colour and graceful shape. I don’t know…somehow it seems wrong that a cephalopod should look like something out of Neuschwanstein.
Reminds me of the IDiots.
Suckers!
Glen Davidson
PRAISE THE LORD CTHULHU!!
His prophecy is being fullfilled as described in the Pnakotic fragments!
“I, the Great Cthulhu, exalted among the Old Ones, shall make a messenger in the likeness of the cephalod, translucent and white as if a jellyfish from the depths.”
CTHULHU IS COMING!!
PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!PRAISE HIM!
I saw that one already, it’s so cute! It looks like it’s looking up into the camera and wondering what it is. Ah~ I want to snuggle it!
He’s a happy looking little chap/she’s a happy looking little… chapette?
You got scooped by Craig Ferguson on this one.
After all the talk about pink, this choice is rather ironic.
The bottom of the ocean appears to be “whites only”. The ocean is racist!
Sci-Am has some details on this little fella. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/2012/01/05/why-is-the-new-deep-sea-antarctic-octopus-so-pale/
It looks so wide-eyed and innocent. And cute.
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In the darkness of the Greater Deeps, no one see your camouflage.
–
can see….
It’s so cute! The way its tentacles are positioned makes it look like it’s hiding something under it or that it’s just nonchalantly watching the human with the camera.
Wow! Beauty and brains.
Come closer…closer…just a little bit more……
pj @#3
Your reference to Neuschwanstein is a bit too cryptic for me. What does a pale, yet beautiful cephalapod have to do with “Mad” King Ludwig II. The slightly “crazy” eyes, maybe.
Please elaborate.
Jamie @ #15
I think the photographer interrupted a deep sea poker game. The other players split and this little fella got left behind.
“Paparazzi, even in the abyss? Where must I go to keep private my pale prettiness?”
Hai Sweetie!
(Pours a saucer of milk)
Meanwhile @18 – I would say the ref to Neuschwanstein might be to those scalloped tentacled thingies popping out all over the shop which are looking somewhat like Ludvig’s Wagneresque towers n’ turrets job.
RNA editing in response to environment, in Octopus vulgaris
Interesting stuff, I think.
Glen Davidson
pj elaborates:
The octopretty looks like it wouldn’t be out of place in Ludwig’s quintessential fairy-tale castle that has inspired all the further manifestations of fairy-taleness, including those in Disneyland(s). And that’s not something I’d expect from Cthulhu’s younger sibling. Where’s the menace? Where’s the awe? That up there is a princessy octopus.