You know we love tentacles. So, when Bonnie Burton announced she was hosting a tentacle art show at Ltd. Art Gallery in Seattle, we had to be involved. Our very own designer Jim Koch supplied the blood curdling painting above. 

The show open tomorrow, May 4th, at 7PM. It runs until June 1st and is must see for all hardcore cephalopod fans! 

[via Ltd Art Gallery and Jim Koch]

If you ask us (and we’re so glad you did), there’s no such thing as a home decked out with too many tentacles. The “Octo-Labra” and the Octopus Punch Bowl, both offered by The Source Collection, seem like they would add the sort of of high-end natural elegance that you just can’t get by asking a live octopus to hold your candles or your punch. We know they’re intelligent creatures, but that doesn’t mean we’d trust them not to wander off with our lights and beverages. In fact, they might actually do it on purpose just to save themselves a trip to the store.

[via Laughing Squid]

Artist Adam Wallacavage created these incredibly awesome octopus chandeliers for his solo exhibition, entitled Shiny Monsters, which took place last year at the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

“Inspired by an obsession with the ocean and a fascination with extravagant interiors of old churches, Adam Wallacavage transformed the dining room of his South Philadelphia Victorian Brownstone into something from the pages of a Jules Verne novel. Teaching himself the ancient art of ornamental plastering, Adam evolved his new found skills into making plaster cast octopus shaped chandeliers as the final touch to his underwater themed room.”

Click here to view more pieces from the Shiny Monsters show.

Adam is officially welcome to come over and transform any and all of our rooms. We can’t think of a single space at Geyser of Awesome headquarters that wouldn’t benefit from the addition of more tentacles.

[via Hi-Fructose and Laughing Squid]

From the Department of Awesome Animal Hybrids come Octopussy and Seahorse 2, two more wonderfully weird and tentacular paintings created by San Francisco-based artist Robert Bowen (previously featured here).

Both are currently available here as signed, limited edition prints.

[via OMG Posters!]

It’s Tentacle Day on Geyser of Awesome!

These awesome and incredibly detrailed animal sculptures are the work of Canadian artist Ellen Jewett. They feel like creatures who’ve managed to wander out of people’s dreams and into this world.

To Ellen, sculpting has always been about life; biological narratives, emotions, movement, balance and observations about life’s subtleties and overtures. Her aesthetic ranges from the hyper-real, to the surreal,fantastic, and the grotesque. Ellen’s creative process is truly her own, she enjoys making and engineering original material combinations to suit her needs.

Ellen’s beautiful sculptures are available for purchase through her Etsy shop, including custom order pieces.

[via Laughing Squid]

For an awesome sculpture series entitled Alive Without Breath, Singapore-based artist Keng Lye creates incredibly life-like depictions of animals using little more than paint and resin.

“Lye slowly fills bowls, buckets, and boxes with alternating layers of acrylic paint and resin, creating aquatic animal life that looks so real it could almost pass for a photograph.”

“I started my first series in 2012 where all the illustrations were “flat” and depth was created using the layering of resin and acrylic over the different parts of the illustration. This year, I started on the octopus and it was purely an experiment; I just wanted to see whether I could push this technique to a higher level. After applying acrylic paint straight onto the resin, I incorporated a 3-D element in this instance, it was a small pebble for the ranchu and octopus. For the turtle, I used an egg shell for the turtle shell and acrylic paint for the rest of the finishing. The whole idea here was to give the art work an even more 3D effect therefore you can have a better view from any angle. I think there are still many other techniques to explore.”

Head over to Keng Lye’s DeviantART gallery to view more of his astonishing artwork.

[via Colossal]

Behold the KR-KN! Iain Heath, aka Ochre Jelly, built this awesome LEGO sculpture of a monstrous octopus savaging a Star Wars Star Destroyer. 

The inspiration for this amazing scene, crafted with tiny plastic bricks, was Iain’s frustration with people critizing the LEGO Super Star Destroyer as being “a big dull gray set.”

He said, “I decided to change that…”

“After the death of the Emperor Palpatine and Lord Vader, the Empire made a last ditch attempt to thwart their enemies by rushing to complete their fleet of Venator class super star destroyers. However, by the time these vessels could be deployed, the Rebel Alliance had already developed its own super weapon, designation KR-KN.

The Legend of the KR-KN: A rare species of Space Kraken, known to exist only in the vast Dreighton Nebula, were sought out using the the Jedi’s most powerful clairvoyants, and brought under the Alliance’s control by flying super-computers directly into their brains. Many brave Ewok pilots were unwillingly sacrificed to accomplish this difficult task. Far from being cruel to the Kraken, this arrangement was completely symbiotic, as the creatures had evolved to prey on starships, their diet being composed entirely of metals such as quadanium steel.”

Space Kraken = Awesome

[via Obvious Winner]

Illustrator Itzel Najera (aka NEWS) and illustrator and animator DOZEREK, both of whom are based in Mexico, recently collaborated on an awesome 3D design project entitled Abismo (Abyss), which features an adorable pair of characters who appear to have found themselves inside the belly of a whale. 

We’re crossing our fingers and toes in hopes that these characters might turn into actual toys some day. We’d love to add them to our collection and have no doubt that there are many other people out there who would happily do the same. 

[via NFGraphics]