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Pic o’ the Day: Pelagic Octopus

Who needs mood lighting when you’ve got one of these? Would go beautifully with the new carpet! I bet that fashionable couple the Nyarlathoteps have one already!

Pelagic Octopus, the tiki torches of the deep!

Pelagic Octopus, the tiki torches of the deep!

From Chris Newbert’s gorgeous Gallery of Translucent Creatures at National Geographic.

This entry was written by raincoaster and posted on July 5, 2008 at 2:53 am and filed under Allegory, Cthulhu, Squid, Weird, Wildlife, animals, beauty, fish, horror. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

12 Comments

  1. thebeadden
    Posted July 5, 2008 at 3:04 am | Permalink

    That is a great photograph!

  2. raincoaster
    Posted July 5, 2008 at 3:54 am | Permalink

    The whole series is pretty fracking awesome, in fact. But I liked this one the best, because it looks like some weird fibreoptic decoration AND yet also disconcertingly intelligent.

  3. chris
    Posted July 5, 2008 at 2:07 pm | Permalink

    Thats remarkable. Could you imagine being the person who was close enough to take this picture?

  4. raincoaster
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 12:45 am | Permalink

    I think it was taken by a robot camera. The pressure down there is too much for any submarine.

  5. Bunk Strutts
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 8:16 am | Permalink

    I think it’s a hat.

  6. B0bbyG
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 12:15 pm | Permalink

    Robot or no robot, that is a seriously impressive photograph.

    What an odd octopus. Shades of Metroid, actually.

  7. raincoaster
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 8:18 pm | Permalink

    Bunk, of COURSE it’s a hat!

    Bobby…Metroid?

  8. B0bbyG
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    This fella: http://www.wiiwii.tv/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/a-metroid.jpg

    Actually, browsing the gallery, they’re all great photos. This is still the weirdest, though.

  9. chris
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 9:43 pm | Permalink

    the octupus is the coolest creature on the planet.
    However i will take a submarine to meet this deep sea one.
    ‘cuase this guys down there too:
    http://www.oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/04deepscope/background/deeplight/media/fig3b_600.jpg
    (the angler fish) :(

  10. raincoaster
    Posted July 6, 2008 at 9:44 pm | Permalink

    Anglerfish are creeeeeeepy. Someone should do a horror movie about anglerfish.

    Metroids are cool. Are we entirely sure there are none down there, though?

  11. Bunk Strutts
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 3:49 am | Permalink

    But it’s not just a regular hat. Looks like a Vancouver hat to me, and I think that I might be the coolest creature on the planet… wait. New lil’ possum just spilled the catfood bowl. He might be cooler.

  12. raincoaster
    Posted July 7, 2008 at 6:00 am | Permalink

    Not unless he glows in the dark.


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