Jamie Tanner created a wonderful comic “The Squid” specifically for the funding platform Kickstarter to help promote his new graphic novel project.

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Printmakers Todd Freeman and Meg Perec of Freeman & Perec recently created “Sixty Foot Ghost”, a site specific art installation that recreates a 60′ giant squid. The project was created for ArtPrize 2009 and is currently on display at 47 Commerce SW in Grand Rapids, MI.

Large animals captivate like few other beings can. They are deified, hunted, consumed and catalogued. While our culture has seemingly amassed a working knowledge of all living species on the planet, one of the world’s giants has successfully eluded the scientific community for centuries. Save for a few partially decomposed specimens virtually nothing is known of Architeuthis dux, the Giant Squid. Architeuthis is a 60 foot ghost, moving unnoticed through deep and dark.

Our representation of the giant squid was conceived out of a need to see the animal for ourselves, beyond pale museum subjects or small renderings in books. At life size, the true scale of Architeuthis becomes clear, a massive, unfamiliar animal deserving of the same fascination and wonder owed to any whale, elephant or dinosaur. Our intent is to bring the myth into a gratifying real space, and give the viewer a chance to be confronted with one of the largest and most secretive animals to ever live.

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An Alien Squid makes an appearance in the trailer for the new Japanese film “It’s On Me” (Watashi Dasuwa) by Yoshimitsu Morita. The film was shot in Hakodate, Japan, a city known for its obsession with squid. The Alien Squid cameo is part of a promotion for Hakodate’s Giant Robot vs. Alien Squid tourism campaign.

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Michael Folmer Hansen recently came across the squidastic Raging River Squid while at Ocean Park in Hong Kong. It looks like a place where they might eat squid, but let’s not discuss that shall we.

Speaking of Michael, I would like to officially welcome him San Francisco. He recently relocated here along with the rest of the Zendesk team (we use Zendesk as our web hosting support system), which recently moved their world headquarters to San Francisco. They are having their HQ Office Warming Party on Thursday, October 29th.

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Colin Fahrion has posted an event wrap-up of Balsa Man 2009 and one of this year’s Tiny Art Grants was the awesome installation “Squid Dreams” by Justina Kochansky.

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“The Sea Also Rises”, an awesome giant squid art print by Tim Doyle and Kevin Tong.

Thanks to Abraham Pierce for the tip!

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At a dig in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, paleontologists discovered a 150 million year-old fossilized squid (Belemnotheutis antiquus) that was so well preserved they were able to use its ink to draw a image of the pre-historic squid-like creature.

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San Francisco’s Sutro Tower is under attack by a ginormous squid in “Sutro Squid”, a brand new t-shirt design by GAMA-GO.

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San Francisco Citizen has photos of the bizarre Pabst Blue Ribbon mural featuring a giant squid located on corner 7th and Stephenson in San Francisco. The mural “I Am Pabst” was created by Jacob White of Los Gatos, CA and is part of the 2009 PBR Art Contest. Special thanks to our friend Dylan who originally brought this to our attention.

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“Dude, Watch This!” a Shirt.Woot! Derby entry by Trevor Watts.

Those damn giant squid, always trying to show off!

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An 4.0 earthquake taking place in the Pacific Ocean 19 miles out to sea may have caused dozens of dazed Humboldt Squid to wash up on a La Jolla beach.

Thanks to Ken Duffy for the tip!

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Little known fact, the Giant Squid’s arch enemy is not the Sperm Whale, but in fact an enormous Hot Dog, as evidenced in this wonderful painting by Dan Zettwoch.

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Derek Powazek commissioned Len Peralta to create a “Monster by Mail” drawing of “The Giant Squid (who just wants to be loved)”, inspired by the Jonathan Coulton song “I Crush Everything”.

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Nathan Mazur designed a really great “I Love Teuthology” t-shirt for our friends over at Neatorama that celebrates Teuthology, the scientific study of cephalopods.

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The Squidolin is exactly what it sounds like, a violin made in the shape of a squid. Carlos R. Mendez created this beauty as a self-teaching violin whereby you connect the piece to a television and it will work you through a series of lessons. Along with having the most awesome musical instrument on the block, you will have the smartest one as well.

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Architeuthis Libation Appreciation Society

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While generally know to be laughing, here we see a rather angry looking squid.

This above specimen was spotted a few weeks ago on Treasure Island, lurking on the side of a dumpster.

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“Squid Can’t Win (Pinstripes)” by Phineas X. Jones, a follow-up to his previous illustration “Squid Can’t Win”. Prints are available through octophant[x]us.

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illustration by Michael Rogalski

Maggie Koerth-Baker has a guest great post on Boing Boing about “How to Capture a Giant Squid” which includes a wonderful illustration by Michael Rogalski.

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A giant squid (Architeuthis dux) is currently on display at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, the world’s largest aquarium. The giant squid is on loan from Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and will be on display at the aquarium for up to two years.

The giant squid was discovered dead on a beach at the Plum Island National Wildlife Refuge in Mass., north of Boston, in 1980. Its long feeding tentacles were missing, and most of the tips of its arms were broken off. But otherwise, the specimen was in good condition. After being examined, it was determined that while alive, the animal was maroon in color, nearly 30 feet long and weighed approximately 450 pounds. It is now cased in a specially constructed nine-foot-long wood and fiber glass container, covered with a plastic window.

Thanks to Widgett Walls for the tip!

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