Building festooned with inflatable tentacles

DeviantArt's FilthyLuker produced this fantastic be-tentacled building installation somewhere in France with collaborator Pedro Estrellas. FilthyLuker's terse description: "Octo-pied Building: a house with tentacular cancer." Link (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

[#1 posted by Matt Eric , July 9, 2008 9:40 AM]

That is magnificent.

[#2 posted by Nobilis , July 9, 2008 9:41 AM]

"Martha, I told you not to eat the green ones. They're for work. Now please get your carapace out of the way so I can get to the stairs."

[#3 posted by Takuan , July 9, 2008 9:48 AM]

there should be carmine rivers gushing from some of the other windows

[#4 posted by Santa's Knee , July 9, 2008 9:48 AM]

After that last article on octopusoirs and Rubik's cubes - shouldn't that be "Building festooned with inflatable ARMS"...? :)

[#5 posted by Santa's Knee , July 9, 2008 9:49 AM]

Oh, and it's very cool.

[#6 posted by Church , July 9, 2008 10:30 AM]

I'm betting this ends up getting installed in NYC as a Watchmen promo.

[#7 posted by monkey , July 9, 2008 10:35 AM]

i would love to be able to give people directions to my house "you take a left and you'll see my house on the right. it's the one with my pet octopus in the window."

[#8 posted by ion_stasi , July 9, 2008 10:39 AM]

haha, this is great. I wonder if the collaborator is a fan of Futurama's recent feature length film: The Beast with a Billion Backs

[#9 posted by pepsi_max2k , July 9, 2008 10:49 AM]

just calls for a big eye peeking out one of those top floor windows and it'd be perfect :o)

[#10 posted by bazzargh , July 9, 2008 11:05 AM]

I presume these are flapping wildly? Please let there be video. And James Mason standing in the window saying "It's a recipe of my own, sautee of unborn octopus."

[#11 posted by Patrick Nielsen Hayden , July 9, 2008 11:12 AM]

That is the most wonderful thing I have seen ALL DAY.

[#12 posted by Art , July 9, 2008 11:41 AM]

Hooray for the Kraaken!

Maagniifiiceent. Thaanks.

[#13 posted by jimh , July 9, 2008 11:58 AM]

Wonderful!

I picture an unaware, portly Charles Addams-style couple walking toward the building on the sidewalk, with the caption "Relax dear, I left it in the bathtub- I'm sure it's just fine."

[#14 posted by Snowpea , July 9, 2008 12:06 PM]

I love LOVE LOVE this -- It's utterly brilliant!

Now I'm in the mood for a lil game of Arkham Horror :madgrin:

[#15 posted by squirrelgirl , July 9, 2008 1:18 PM]

god i want a higher-res version so i can use it as my desktop wallpaper

[#16 posted by Daemon , July 9, 2008 1:33 PM]

Allow me to be the first to say,
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!

[#17 posted by Teapunk , July 9, 2008 2:12 PM]

If this isn't a wonderful thing I don't know what is. Almost as good as an unicorn chaser.

[#18 posted by padster123 , July 9, 2008 3:04 PM]

MAGNIFIQUE!

[#19 posted by genericvox , July 9, 2008 4:33 PM]

WANT.

"My apartment is easy to find... just look for the TENTACLES, flailing outside the windows."

[#20 posted by fnc , July 9, 2008 4:44 PM]

"What you have here, ma'am, is a Hermitoth."

[#21 posted by 4Liberty , July 9, 2008 6:16 PM]

Did anyone watch Conan last night? This reminds me of it. He had one of those big, "dancing man" inflatables of HIMSELF flailing out the window of his building. It was hilarious.

[#22 posted by Nin Harris , July 9, 2008 8:08 PM]

Awesome! Brings a whole new dimension to uh, "Edo Porn".

*snicker*

[#23 posted by eustace , July 9, 2008 8:09 PM]

This is beyond cool, into whole new realms of coolosity. Having made them, perhaps Filthyluker would be willing to rent them out?

[#24 posted by Anonymous , July 10, 2008 12:15 AM]

I'm currently in Spain and have seen a similar installment.. I'll be back with pictures as soon as I can be!

[#25 posted by Torporous , July 10, 2008 2:48 AM]

Beautiful. I wonder if any car crashes resulted. I would have been staring up as I drove by, that's for certain.

Imagine the whole building, brightly lit from the inside and turned into one big rave base.

[#26 posted by andygates , July 10, 2008 6:44 AM]

Ia! Ia!

[#27 posted by Anonymous , July 11, 2008 6:40 AM]

"Well, ma'am, what you've got here is your basic C'thulu infestation. I'll get some of my best guys on it.

"HARRY! WE'RE GONNA NEED THE NECRONOMICON AGAIN! No... the blue one."

Matt A

[#28 posted by Anonymous , August 27, 2008 12:21 PM]

We were there ! Here is another photo.