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Are you guys ready for these? Because I have a lot of them!

For those just tuning in, real octopus dyed with hair dye, real nude woman in the form of Erika Moen.

Octopus wrangling provided by my husband Phillip.

This is my second version of this idea, the first (shot in 2009) has been floating all over the internet for a while, usually uncredited. You can see the whole original collection here.

Here’s a behind the scenes peek for the curious.

Yessssssssss so excited these are starting to be released! I had a blast posing for both the original set in 2009 and this red-dyed one last month!

Periscope Studio - Photo by P-mod

Left-right: Dylan Meconis (seated, just the back of her head), Erika Moen (standing), is that then-intern Matthew Rainwater sitting at Ron Randall’s desk?, then-intern Roxy Polk sitting at Karl Kesel’s desk, Steve Lieber (sitting), Ron Chan (standing), Cat Farris (seated, with head hidden by Ron’s homemade Plants vs. Zombies hat), Ben Dewey (seated, beneath the sumo wrestler banner), and Natalie Nourigat.

I like my husband so much. He’s my favorite.

Oh my gosh, how perfect are those tentacle curls?

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…

I’m sure there was a more logical way to shoot this but my way was to drape my entire studio in black fabric, wear all black and black gloves, then hide behind a curtain with my camera lens sticking out. Shooting reflections is a pain already, but convex mirrors are crazy. The other odd problem is the distortion the model was seeing and what I was seeing were completely different because I was farther away, so she couldn’t use her reflection as a reference.

Blogged: Paris!

I really love this photo of Matt’s hands with those adorable, tiny tea bags.

Awwww

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szymon:

Human flamingo by Gesine Marwedel | Photo by Thomas van de Wall

I want this to be my Halloween costume this year.

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