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growabrain — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:24:31 -0800

from some Russian LiveJournal Octopus Blog. (Some odd stuff inside, beware)

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:41:32 -0800

~~octopi~~ octopuses. octopodes

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:45:10 -0800

Yeah, NSFW, but I'm not at work. Wow, what a strange fetish. I'm not sure even what to say. Dead fish, um... I don't know. I like octopi, very cool. I can understand the art and tatoos, but dead octopus drapped over naked female?

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:54:08 -0800

Ok, that wasn't what I was expecting exactly. But, ok.

By: nightchrome

nightchrome — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:03:56 -0800

Awesome, I am gonna start posting all my porn links to mefi! </sarcasm>

By: gurple

gurple — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:19:16 -0800

IA! IA! Cthulhu Ftagn! Phnglui mglwnafh Cthulhu Rlyeh wgahnagl Ftagn!

By: NewBornHippy

NewBornHippy — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:44:40 -0800

> but dead octopus drapped over naked female? Dead? You sure?

By: greasepig

greasepig — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:52:36 -0800

This is interesting, but I don't think it's really Metafilter material.

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:57:14 -0800

It's like live action tentacle hentai.

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:01:56 -0800

greasepig writes "This is interesting, but I don't think it's really Metafilter material." It's odd. It's artistic in a twisted sort of way. AND it's interesting in a fetish sort of way. I would have thought those criteria alone make it an admirable post. 5 minutes of your time to be weirded out in a not-over-the-top-shocking way. Thanks growatentacle.

By: agropyron

agropyron — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:13:34 -0800

Definitely more interesting than a simple porn site. I liked it. More weird links!

By: growabrain

growabrain — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:16:44 -0800

It's the 2nd link, Tonto, that weirded me out

By: joedharma

joedharma — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:17:47 -0800

I agree peacay. This isn't just porn. The images definitely have a disturbing quality and they are certainly in the realm of art in a way that most porn isn't. octopus draped over naked female Whenever I think I've seen all the really weird fetishes, a new one comes along....

By: teece

teece — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:34:17 -0800

The photography on the first link is actually rather interesting. The subject matter ain't much my thing on most of them, but it is still an interesting photographer. What's up with the photog. I wonder? I naked woman with an octopus over here genitals. OK, weird fetish. Some naked, torpedo boob lady with a strange look on here face. A fairly normal shot of a fetching topless woman looking in a mirror. A naked woman with a strap-on that has a roll of toilet paper over the dildo. What the hell is the common thread?

By: joedharma

joedharma — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:39:02 -0800

What the hell is the common thread? I'd like to know too....

By: Rothko

Rothko — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:41:03 -0800

Times have been tough for the Suicide Girls, ever since their text ads were turned away...

By: loquacious

loquacious — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:56:07 -0800

Cthulhu thinks you would make a nice snack, indeed.

By: crunchywelch

crunchywelch — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:09:20 -0800

Best to perhaps peruse the introduction which gives a pretty interesting explanation of the photographer as well as the Carlton Arms Hotel where he took the pictures. Some very interesting and provocative stuff here, and the photography is very good even if you don't care for the subject matter.

By: bardic

bardic — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:26:07 -0800

It's the kind of thing I hoped for when I was 18 and went to Europe on a whirlwind Eurorail frenzy. Mostly it was me and Australian blokes snoring in bunk-beds at the hostel. I think the photography stands on its merits, but some of it is definitely porn.

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:06:41 -0800

The Octopus blog is deeply strange: I was fascinated & slightly appalled by its tentacle-y contents. The first link isn’t working for me, but I think I’ve seen enough cepaholopods for one day already...

By: misteraitch

misteraitch — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:18:42 -0800

One of the links on that blog led me, by the way, to this list of books at what presumably is a Japanese book-collector’s site: they’re mostly old volumes of Natural History, and clicking on each title shows a small but quite interesting selection of images from the relevant book.

By: asok

asok — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 02:47:19 -0800

I am sure I have seen an octopus on someone's head in a famous image. Maplethorp? Y'know like Whoopie in the bath of milk.

By: peacay

peacay — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 04:35:35 -0800

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 07:19:55 -0800

BoingBoing post with links to all sorts of Japanese octopus-fetish goodness, starting with Hokusai.

By: fungible

fungible — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:05:50 -0800

I think this is friggin awesome. Arty octopus porn. I love it. Much better than another Iraq/Bushsucks post, although I sometimes like those too.

By: nixerman

nixerman — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:31:43 -0800

This is a pretty old 'fetish' (man, I hate that word) and it's not as strange as you might think. Most of those pictures are quite pretty and intense and I wouldn't consider them pornography. Ironically, I was just reading about how people claimed the original King Kong was pornography and 'twisted' because it had this big black animal grooving for this lilly white woman.

By: eas98

eas98 — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 08:40:53 -0800

To whoever thinks this is NOT mefi material... Have you seen the crap littering the front page lately? Sheesh, this is probably the most interesting thing poster here in weeks.

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:02:55 -0800

Great stuff (I like octopodes) and that's some interesting work by Bob Coulter. There are some other subjects that you can peruse from the Introduction link.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 02:39:32 -0800

Thanks growabrain, that was really interesting. The octopus is an amazing critter. Loved the fifth image from the bottom by Ken Brown in the Octopus Blog. And languagehat, that Hokusai image is wonderful. There's another one along similar lines. And misteraitch thanks for the excellent link to those lovely old prints. Nice.

By: _sirmissalot_

_sirmissalot_ — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:59:55 -0800

Very odd.