Santa Squid is coming to town!
December 21, 2010
Santa Squid at San Francisco Santacon 2010
(Via Laughing Squid)
Halloween Week/Flickr Friday: Home-made Costumes
October 30, 2009
In contrast to last night’s post about store-bought costumes (which were, admittedly, a little disappointing), here is an assortment of hand-crafted cephalopod costumes from the Flickr community.
Photo by atomicglassworks
Photo by stacy d
Photo by kiethbcg
Photo by baking with medusa
Photo by timsueocs
Photo by Jessemy
Photo by luminea
Halloween Week: Store-bought Cephalopod Costumes
October 30, 2009
I’ve been working on my costume for our office Halloween party tomorrow, and, surprisingly, it came together fairly quickly. I’m keeping it a secret for now, but all we be revealed on Saturday!
In the meantime, here is a selection of store-bought cephalopod Halloween costumes:
Pirates of the Caribbean Davy Jones latex mask (by Party America, I think) from my local Halloween Express. The price tag is about $60, but you can get it for about half that on Amazon.
From the same Halloween Express, the full Davy Jones costume (this time by Disguise). In the store, it costs $99.99, but you can get it for $70 at BuyCostumes.com.
Cthulhu mask from Halloween-Mask.com. Currently out of stock.
This awesome tentacle arm was made by The Gaiastore, but tragically it no longer seems to be available. It retailed for a mere $15, so I’m not surprised it sold out!
Child’s octopus costume from Pottery Barn Kids. Retails for $59, but the current online price is $34.99.
Infant costume from CostumeExpress.com. Currently out of stock.
Discontinued “Stuck On You” octopus costume from BabyStyle.com.
Lastly we have “Lil’ Squirt,” which was made for Target by the Charles S. Anderson Design Co. Of all the children’s octopus costumes I’ve seen, this is the one I’d most like to get for Kid Indie Squid Kid. Unfortunately, it was only available for one season several years ago.
Flickr Friday: Dragon*Con 2009—Vicarious Edition
September 11, 2009
Dragon*Con has been over for nearly a week, which is plenty of time for the Internet to help me find all (well, nearly) the cephalopod-themed costumes from this year’s menagerie of the weird. Enjoy.
photo by vladeb
Davy Jones ( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) from the Dragon*Con parade.
photo by Hueyatl
Netherworld squid monster.
photo by sarberry
Ursula the Sea Witch from Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
photo by Clockwork_Dandy
The Fruity Oaty Bar commercial from Joss Whedon’s Serenity come to life!
photo by TheKingInYellow
MINDstyle’s “Stephen Le Podd” con exclusives.
photo by Sarcasm-hime
Cthulhu bustle!
photo by sudrin
Victorian cecaelia!
photo by Petrona09
It’s this guy! He’s back!
Flickr Friday: Dragon*Con Edition
September 4, 2009
Like I said yesterday, Dragon*Con is this weekend, and I am rather bummed not to be in attendance this year. The con is more than just a science-fiction or comic book convention, it is a chaotic multi-media/multi-genre extravaganza celebrating every corner of geeky popular culture. Here is but a small tentacled taste of Dragon*Con from the past few years. All photos are from my Flickr account, unless otherwise noted.
Doctor Octopus (Dragon*Con 2008)
Stygian Depths booth (Dragon*Con 2008)
"Doctor Cthulhu" (Dragon*Con 2008)
Photo by Foenix
Cthulhu and Ichigo (Dragon*Con 2007)
Photo by Futuregirl_LeahRiley
"tentacle monster" (Dragon*Con 2005)
