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July 22, 2009

| New Liberal Arts in the Boston Phoenix >>

This Is Not CGI

Found this via Ezra Klein, whose admonishment to watch all the way to the end for the Pixar-worthy octopus feat is worth heeding:

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Posted July 22, 2009 at 10:16 | Comments (6) | Permasnark
File under: Beauty, Briefly Noted

Comments

You. have got. to be kidding. me.

That is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen on my computer screen.

I can't believe it's real!

!!!

Posted by: Robin on July 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM

timely! there was an awesome NOVA about cuttlefish last night. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/camo/)

Posted by: josh on July 22, 2009 at 11:45 PM

Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: david on July 23, 2009 at 09:38 AM

sigh. This was the kind of thing More Fantasticness was pretty much organized around. We had quite a collection of these building up, but a lot of my archives have been lost. I love that video. I'm rather fond of the octopus as bouncing coconut too.

Posted by: Saheli on July 23, 2009 at 10:57 PM

Seconding the recommendation of NOVA's Cuttlefish: Kings of Camouflage. It's on Netflix.

Posted by: Peter on July 24, 2009 at 08:54 AM

Always liked these little guys. Not quite so sophisticated daytime camouflage, although their nighttime counter-illumination is pretty awesome.

http://www.oceanfootage.com/video_clips/RG01_055

Posted by: Peter on July 24, 2009 at 08:59 AM
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