Air Krakens!

Kites, that is. From The Berkeley Kite Festival, which set a record for the number of giant octopus kites flown simultaneously.

Berkley Kite Festival 2010 by amadne [Youtube]
Berkeley Kite Festival

Abstract: The recovery of an ancient gold headdress illuminates a manifestation of the poorly understood “Cthulhu” archetype in ancient Peruvian cosmovision.

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Scott Radke creates beautiful sculptures that take shape into delicate, bizarre and often frightening form.

They offer a darkness. Pretty and sinister. The expressions of his pieces are impactful. Sometimes giving one a feeling of uneasiness as if the piece is alive, then sometimes giving one an urge to protect them. They are helpless and beautiful. They have you under their spell.

Some film makers have brought the creatures to life with stop animation. Check out the Dark Matters project here.

His work is somewhat derivitage of my favourite sculptor Sergio Bustamante. Who’s sculpture of a crocodile on the toilet crying has been my conquest for the last 12 or 15 years. However Scott’s execution is unique and the range of emotion and cloak of mystery his pieces have are truly captivating and unsettling. Our fear of inanimate objects coming to life are burried deep with in them.

Scott’s work was in the recent Alice in Wonderland movie and can be found in this book.

A stunning short film by the trio of South African artists known as The Blackheart Gang, The Tale of How is the story of a giant octopus who consumes the kiwi bird-like denizens of a tiny island. One of them places messages in a bottle, in the hope that someone will come to rescue them. But who?

It’s a truly beautiful piece of animation and they even have a book/DVD set and an upcoming series of prints available in their shop.

The Tale of How [vimeo] : Super Punch

Woe is the giant monster movie. In recent years it has fallen by the wayside, its corpse bludgeoned by the likes of Matthew Broderick and shaky-cam footage. For the giant monster movie enthusiast, the film landscape is a wasteland, populated by the picked over bones of long forgotten titans. Luckily there are those that remember fondly the heady days of Godzilla and Gamera.

The Asylum are a group of such like-minded people and do they have the perfect film for you, Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus. Even the title lets you know that they are not fucking around. There will be no philosophical exposition here about, say, man’s impact on the environment. No, this movie is about a shark that can eat the Golden Gate bridge and an octopus that can crush a submarine with one arm going head to head to see just who is the most bad-ass imaginary monster in the world. Period. End of story.

What, you need more? How about Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson? Yeah, you read that correctly. Go ahead, picture it in your mind: A silhouette of a man on steel wheels rises over the hill, a blood red sky to his back. Suddenly, a voice!

He was an octopus cop, and good at his job. But he committed the ultimate sin, and testified against other octopus cops gone bad. Octopus cops that tried to kill him, but got the shark he loved instead. Framed for murder, now he prowls the badlands. An outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter, a Renegade.

Then, BAM, right into “Foolish Beat”. Then a giant shark jumps out of the water and eats a goddamn jumbo jet.

Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus trailer : poeTV : Thanks, kid icarus!

Trader Joe’s cephalopodal chef shows you his favorite recipes.

Trader Joe’s Culinary Compendium [Trader Joe's] : NOTCOT

Having documented the battles betwixt warring cephalopods in Feudal Japan, and having failed to convince the denizens of Threadless of the hipster coolness of his t-shirt design, Phineas X. Jones does what he should have done all along and put out another spectacular print with which he shall drain your bank account.

Octopus Samurai [octophant[x]us]