This orange cirrate octopus was observed by MBARI’s ROV Doc Ricketts swimming over the Taney Seamounts. These finned octopuses belong to an order of animals called Cirrata named for the presence of hair-like structures called “cirri” on their arms which may aid these animals in capturing food.The Taney Seamounts are a linear, near mid-ocean ridge chain consisting of five volcanoes located on the Pacific plate 300 kilometers (nearly 200 miles) west of San Francisco, California. Seamounts formed adjacent to mid-ocean ridges are the most abundant on Earth, numbering several orders of magnitude higher than hotspot-related seamounts.
Can’t wait till that big octopusy thingie behind my back will be finished! I’m so happy in the pic, because giant flying eye balls and cosmic tentacles are the things that always cheer me up! *Tool - Literalus album playing in the background* . . . #psychedelic #psychedelicart #psychedelicartists #visualart #painting #cosmic #octopus #happy #alien #tenracles #eyeballs #alienssmile #inked #art #dreadlocks #dreadlove #piercing #tribalcat https://www.instagram.com/p/By2t5fhInnV/?igshid=86yfutw5o03z
Terracotta stirrup jar with octopus. Date/Period: ca. 1200–1100 BC. Culture: Helladic, Mycenaean. Heavily influenced by the preceding Minoan culture of Crete, the city of Mycenae became the dominant power on the Greek peninsula from 1400 - 1100 BC.
Our t-shirt/tank-top/v-neck designs are inspired by this vase available on Amazon & Redbubble (onelink): https://geni.us/myceneanoctopus2
This year, every time I feel like I am burning out working on big projects, I take a break and do some silly 30 second blind contours of animals from memory, and it is so freeing, I can’t help but laugh as I try to recall the shape of the animal and feel its form with my hand without looking at what I am doing. I think I did a pretty good job, I am proud of them :) I suggest everyone do this when they feel stuck and frustrated, whether as an artist or not.
