FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

31 January 2012

- TIME FOR A COOL CHANGE AUSSIE SUMMER -

Method: Create-a-melting-snowman leftover from Christmas and Tentacle with laptop as background

80's Wii

30 January 2012

- DAMN YOU ERNO RUBIK -

Method: Rubik's Cube salt shaker on the couch...pretty lazy I know...more complex ones to come

SUPERMAN: IS IT A BIRD, A PLANE, A MEATBALL?

29 January 2012

- A DEEP FRYER, LIGHT BREADING AND SOME SEASONING = KRYPTONITE -

Method: piece of grey paper with cut out clouds. Cape from the Super Grover figure someone bought me.

THE LAST STARFIGHTER

28 January 2012

- CLOCKED IT -

Method: Miniature Bubble Bobble arcade cabinet with photocopied arcade background and the floor is a "KISS Unmasked" record cover place-mat.

REAR WINDOW

27 January 2012

- ABNER, ABNER COME QUICKLY! -

Method: living room blinds and a tentacle (and possibly some youths causing a ruckus in the street)

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY

26 January 2012

- AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE. OI, OI, OI! -

Method: Vegemite, Aussie flag (made out of a napkin) and balloons against a BBQ apron backdrop.

Famous Australia Day Births:
It's pretty apt that Ellen DeGeneres is married to an Aussie, because she shares her Birthday with Australia Day.
Also, the Octomum's octuplets were born on Australia Day....Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi, Oi!!

KING KONG: EMPIRE STATE

25 January 2012

- GRRR....AARRGHH -

Method: Photo taken at my desk at work with photocopied NY skyline scene from original King Kong movie as background with a souvenir Empire State Building statue I bought for Meryl as well as the King Kong toy that came in Kate's cocktail the very same night I got The Tentacle at the LuWow Bar! (see below)

- THE TENTACLE WITH KING KONG LURKING IN THE BACKGROUND -

And, a Happy Birthday to my best mate Daniel for yesterday - Today's Tentacle is for you!

JURASSIC PARK: CLEVER GIRL

24 January 2012

- WHEN TENTACLES RULED THE EARTH -

Everyone needs to run like Lexy from Jurassic Park - it would make life so much more interesting:

Method: bedroom door with Welcome to Jurrassic Park sticker

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR - YEAR OF THE DRAGON

23 January 2012

- REVERSE FIST OF THE DRAGON -

Method: Dragon statue laying down on two pieces of wrapping paper

FLASHDANCE: WHAT A FEELING

22 January 2012

THE FIRST "BY REQUEST" TENTACLE PHOTO SERIES

  It's a maniac....

Maniac....

On the flo-oh-or....

Tentacle's dancing like it's never danced before!

- POLE AND TABLE TOP DANCING: SUPPLEMENTING WELDER'S INCOMES SINCE 1983 -

One of my favourite TV adverts is after the link - the Carlton Draft parody of Flashdance. Brilliant!

Method: Made a chair out of balsa wood, wrapping paper background with photocopied sign and set of rosary beads used as the handle. One shot glass full of water doused on top.

INVASION OF THE MUPPET SNATCHERS

21 January 2012

 - FILM NOIR 'NAPPING -

Method: Grover figurine against notebook

THE PUNKIEST MONKEY THAT EVER POPPED

20 January 2012

- MONKEY HAD TO DITCH HIS TENTACLE CLOUD AFTER HE FOUND IT IN BED WITH SANDY -

This week marked the 117th birthday of the Wan Brothers' who created the Monkey King (AKA Monkey Magic). Google featured a pretty awesome homepage graphic which can now be seen here.

“In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order, but the phoenix can fly only when it's feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, the moistures of the Earth,and the powers of the Sun and the Moon all worked upon a certain rock - old as creation, and it magically became fertile... Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey... The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!

Method: The Monkey 'dunny' I painted with watercolour pencils laying down against the photo of a Hawaiian sunset from my lounge room wall

CYANIDE AND TENTACLE CROSSOVER

19 January 2012

- WHO'S YOUR TENTACLE? -

Crossover episodes are fun.

Remember when Murder, She Wrote's Jessica Fletcher rocked up at Magnum P.I's house and stank the place out with the smell of Werther's Originals, moth-balls and urine? No? Well trust me, they are fun (although usually there is less hot-and-happening octogenarian Cabot Cove amateur sleuth cleavage on display).

Moving right along...the same day this photo was taken, Cyanide & Happiness posted a tentacle-centric cartoon. 

Head on over for PET PEEVE and try not to read with your mouth open.

Method: Cyanide & Hapiness 'naked' plushie laying on the pillow on my bed

THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS

18 January 2012

- THE DESCENT OF TENTACLE CONTINUES -

Method: Mokey 'dunny', Metal Scottie dog and Hypercolour duck against a paper background with magic marker

POLE DANCING: WORKING HARD FOR THE MONEY

17 January 2012

- POLE POSITION -

Method: wrapping paper backdrop with metal chopstick and American currency

EGG SUCKING GUTTER TRASH

16 January 2012

- THE MORNING AFTER -

Method: Cigarette butts and  minature 42-Below vodka bottles on the floor of my mate Dehlia's garage

BIG RED CAR

15 January 2012

- FEELING THE SUN ON YOUR TENTACLE ON A SUMMERS DAY -

Method: A work colleagues 'Zhu Zhu Pet' hot-rod against the background of a pencil case.

REACH OUT AND TOUCH SOMEONE

14 January 2012

- TENTACLEMUNICATIONS -

Method: Mini telephone booth from Super Grover model I got as a gift, photographed on th end of my work desk with a potted plant in the background.

FRIDAY THE 13th

13 January 2012

- PSYCHO ESCHER -

Method: Shopping bag from 'Urban Attitude", kitchen knife and a couple of squirts of Watties tomato sauce.

I WEED ON MY DESK

12 January 2012


- PHOTOSYNTHESIS PHOTO - 

Method: Work colleagues 'grass pen holder' against the background of a pencil case on my work desk.

BUNNY SNUFF FILM

11 January 2012

- SORRY TIMMY, BUGS RAN AWAY. NOW, FINISH YOUR POT ROAST -

Method: Grass bunny from my bookshelf against the green shag pile rug in my lounge room.

MY BIRTHDAY

10 January 2012

- TENTACLE WEBSTER -

Method: Inflated water ballons and kitchen string taken sitting on the top of a laptop.

CLOCKED IT

9 January 2012

- GAMING ONE -

Method: Playstation 3 controller on envelope.

IDIOT BOX

8 January 2012


-MEXICAN TV- 

Method: Mini TV model from my bookshelf laying on a 'propoganda pillow' from my couch

DAVEY JONES' CHEST

7 January 2012


-LOCKED OUT - 

Method: Antique lock from my bookshelf on envelope

MUTANT

6 January 2012

- GIMME A HAND -

Method: tentacle over my pinkie finger with my loungeroom wall as background

ABC's

5 January 2012



-TENTACLE BLOCKED - 

Method: "Fred ABC" building blocks from my bookshelf

HERE I COME

4 JANUARY 2012



- MORTAR AND TENTACLE SPERM -

Method: 'Josep Joseph' mortar and pestle, with the tentacle in the pestle hole on my dining table

ULTIMATE FIGHTING CHAMPION

3 January 2012

- CRUSTACEAN VERSUS CEPHALAPOD - 

Method: The metal blue crab statue I got from Fremantle, Western Australia, with tentacle resting on pincers with old oild box and tram lamp as background.

STOW AWAY

2 JANUARY 2011

- TARDIS TENTACLE - 

Method: The Doctor Who police box in my bookshelf with tentacle wedged in the door

YEAR OF THE TENTACLE: ORIGINS

1 JANUARY 2012

The tentacle came in a cocktail from the Luwow Hawiian Tiki bar in Melbourne.


It was several cocktails into the night so all I really remember was that there was a circus strongman with a handlebar moustache, a monkey, and a dare to photograph the tentacle in different situations and post them on line.


You can't argue with that really.

RULES: No photo-shopping - all pictures need to be taken as is with the Hipstamatic app (photo filters) on my iPhone (or digital camera if no access to the iPhone). I will post the method for each photo.

-THE COCKTAIL -

- THE MOUSTACHE -


And so it begins.......