Indie Squid Kid

Giant squid, originally uploaded by Max Sparber.

Max says, “An occasional hobby of mine is converting two-dimensional illustrations into 3D graphics. These can be seen using the traditional red/cyan glasses.”

Avatar, eat your heart out!

Octopus bar, originally uploaded by Kraken Mosaics [Eve Lynch]. © Eve Lynch – Kraken Mosaics

Eve Lynch is an artist from Fort Myers, Florida who specializes in mosaic and polymer clay sculpture. Subjects of her fabulous creations include: zombies, skulls, aliens, clockwork hearts, and, of course, cephalopods, cephalopods, and more cephalopods!

The Octopus bar (aka, “The Kraken”) is definitely my favorite piece. Made in 2006, this 11′ x 3′ mosaic installation is comprised of ceramic tile, vitreous glass, glass gems, millefiori and glazed earthenware. I don’t know how much a commission on this scale would cost, but how awesome would it be to have something like this your kitchen?

See more of Eve’s work (you can even buy some!) at KrakenMosaics.com.

Leo’s Seafood
902 N Alston Ave.
Durham, NC

Here are two surreal Star Wars/octopus mashups that were posted recently at Distracted by Star Wars, one of my favorite Tumblr sites.

Star Wars and cephalopods, two great tastes that taste great together!

"The Disorder is Me" ©Rubens Cantuni

See more by this artist at TokyoCandies.com.

"Octotrooper" ©Aaron Jasinski

Visit this artist at deviantArt for Octo-Fett, Octo-Vader, and more!

Dan Beard, 1887

Via Cephalolove (via finegarten)

Via Succeed Blog

For his senior thesis in the Illustration department at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Jim Tierney re-designed the dust jackets of four classic Jules Verne novels, including a particularly squid-tastic cover for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. If these books were for sale I would totally buy them. With money!

Jules Verne cover designs by Jim Tierney from Jim Tierney on Vimeo.

Via Faceout Books

Visit www.jimtierneyart.com to find out more about the designer and his process, and for detailed views of these beautiful creations.

IN SQUID WE TRUST, originally uploaded by Ben Templesmith.

Ben Templesmith has one of the most distinct and evocative artistic styles in comics. His most notable works include 30 Days of Night and Fell, and he is both the artist and writer on Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse (my personal favorite), Welcome to Hoxford, and Singularity 7.

This intriguing declaration appeared on his blog yesterday, and about it Mr. Templesmith says,

Future tax doge and excuse for mass murder here we come!

Alright then.

IN SQUID WE TRUST is available as an 11″ x 17″ print (for $14.99) on his CafePress store.

At long last, Dr. John Zoidberg makes his debut appearance on Indie Squid Kid!

I don’t know the identity of the artist who did this, so I have to assume it was spontaneously generated by the Internet just to make me happy.

Thanks to my brother-in-law Alec for sending this my way!

I realized that I left out a couple of things from last night’s post, so here’s there rest…

The big book is Prehistoric Life: The Definitive History of Life On Earth by DK Publishing. It’s opened to the the section on Cretaceous invertebrates, and the reconstructed ammonite depicted there is the genus Scaphites.

The ceramic octopus was a gift from my friend Mur, and as soon as I know who made it (or where she got it) I will post an update here.

Lastly, we have one of this year’s Hallmark Keepsake ornaments. “Learning with Mr. Ray” depicts one of my favorite scenes from Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo. One of Nemo’s classmates is a young Flapjack Octopus (Opisthoteuthis californiana) named Pearl. Flapjacks, like all Cirrate octopuses, are deep-sea cephalopods, so, if she could have even survived living in a coral reef at all, Pearl must have been a transfer student or something. All the same, it’s nice to see obscure cephalopod species depicted in popular culture!