Indie Squid Kid

design by Fran Court

This dapper fellow is only available for three more hours! So, if you want a shirt featuring a moustachioed and bemonocled cephalopod for only $10—AND WHO DOESN’T?!?—you need to act fast! This is the first shirt from Ript Apparel that I’ve featured, and I don’t know much about them. They appear to use the TeeFury model—a new shirt every day, available for just that day.

Buy it NOW from Ript!

Eventually, I’ll get back to posting things other than t-shirts…

design by Alex Solis

Hey there! It’s the first post of 2011, and what better way is there to kick off a new year than with a new Threadless shirt? Here we have a grizzled and scarred mariner somberly reflecting on the Kraken that destroyed his ship…that or it’s not tobacco in that pipe!

$20 Black Regular Fit Guys Tee, still available in all sizes at this time. Buy it now from Threadless!

Also, while I’m here, I thought I should mention that the last Threadless shirt I featured–“Quick! Disguise!”–is currently on sale for a mere $10!

It’s that time of year again! Throughout this Cephalpodmas season, I will be posting gift suggestions for the cephalopod enthusiasts in your life. Since it’s Tuesday, let’s start with a selection of t-shirts from the Etsy community…

Cephalopod

Everyone’s favorite multi-legged, ink-squirting sea mollusks adorn this awesome cephalopod graphic tee! This shirt features a vintage 19th illustration by Ernst Haeckel. Wrap your arms around it before it’s too late!

You’ll gain amazing fashion insight and become an instant conversation starter when you slip into this comfortable and original t-shirt.

White American Apparel Mens tee – $18.00 from nonfictiontees

nonficitontees’ Science T shirt shop stocks unique handmade map tees along with Cool Graphic Art shirts inspired by Public Domain Imagery. USE COUPON CODE: gift25 for 25% off!

Mathematics of the Octo-Pi

Sleepless with daydreams of diametric circular circumferences, our octopus continues to equate.

This is silk-screened by hand using white ink onto an Asphalt Grey American Apparel 100% cotton men’s fine jersey tee, soft and comfy. Note: Binary Winter shirts have 2 armholes and are not appropriate for use by octopi or other cephalopods.

$24.00 from binarywinter. Find out more at their Etsy shop.

Steam Octopus

Long sleeve American Apparel Tee. Available in Asphalt (pictured), Raspberry, and Grass.

$16.00 from rainbowstylz.

Squid Attack

Our Squid Attack Tee featuring a squid attacking the Brooklyn Bridge is printed by hand on a high quality, sweatshop-free super soft vintage inspired American Apparel 50/25/25 tee.

$25.00 from TeeShirtGnome.

If this one is already sold, visit the Gnome Enterprises Etsy shop for more instances of this design (and lots of other cool shirts).

design by Arson

At last I’m catching a TeeFury shirt on the one day that it’s available!

At the time of this writing, there is slightly less than 5 hours left to purchase this shirt.

It’s only $9.00 at TeeFury.com!

The following amazing illustrations are plate details from Molluscs and Shells (1852-1856) by Augustus Addison Gould.

Octopus ornatus

Octopus mimus

Octopus megalocyathus

Onychoteuthis rutilus

Sighted by Chris (via BibliOdyssey)

Submitted by Skye.

Laughing Squid is more than just a web host, it is also on the front lines of culture and art. Their tentacles touch many parts of the Internet, including Tumblr. Here is a sampling of some recent cool content from http://links.laughingsquid.com:

Octopus Sculpture Made Out of Typewriter Parts

Squid Costume

We all sleep in a yellow submarine. (Photo by lane becker)

Tentacle Pot Pie

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea 3D Book Cover by Jim Tierney

Laughing Squid 15th Anniversary Poster by Josh Ellingson

(via grottu, via fymorticiaaddams)

Sorry for the lack of posts these past few weeks. My life has been rather hectic of late, with job interviews, Halloween preparation, and far too many side projects. I’ll working on getting things back on track…answering emails, responding to comments, and (*gasp*) making new posts. If you’ve contacted me recently, and I haven’t replied yet, I promise I WILL get back to you soon!

In the mean time, I hope everyone had a good Halloween! If anyone has any photos of cephalopod costumes or jack-o-lanterns, they’d like to share, please send them (or links to them) to indiesquidkid@gmail.com.

design by Redic

There are so many awesome things going on on this shirt, that I almost don’t know where to start! Given the nature of this blog, however, it’s only logical to begin with the giant octopus.

It is wearing a tiny hat!

It is brandishing a revolver!

IT IS FIGHTING VIKINGS!!!

Compared to that, the firing cannons, the anaconda, the mime juggling flaming chainsaws, and Napoleon’s ghost—all aboard a jet-powered double-decker bus that is being driven by a robot—all seem rather ho-hum.

As was the case with the TeeFury shirt I featured back in July, this particular shirt is no longer for sale on TeeFury.com. It was offered on, and only on, September 10, 2010, so we just missed it.

I’m starting to think there might be an Octopus Day curse, at least as far as this blog is concerned. As I write this, it is 11:11 (make a wish!), so it still counts, right? (Of course, who knows what time it will be when I finally click “Publish.”)

One of my goals for this blog is to maintain the most comprehensive list of cephalopod-focused (or at lest ceph-friendly) blogs possible. Over the past year, I’ve encountered a veritable shoal of Tumblr blogs dedicated to our tentacled friends, and here are three must-subscribes for any octopus enthusiast. I’ve included a sampling of recent content from each blog, and you can click on the images to see the original posts.

1. Fauna: http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com

White Spotted Octopus (Octopus macropus)

Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)

Angel Octopus (Velodona togata)

Blue-ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena sp.)

2. [Octopoda]: http://octopoda.tumblr.com

Mimic Octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus)

Augustus A. Gould, Mollusca and Shells, 1856, Argonauta geniculata; Octopus megalocyathus

"icarus"

"Underdog" by Devin McGrath

3. Octopus Watch: http://octopuswatch.tumblr.com

"The Sea"

steampunk octopus

ninja octopus