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!)

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Anonymous

We were there ! Here is another photo.
Teapunk

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

That is magnificent.
Nobilis

“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.”
Takuan

there should be carmine rivers gushing from some of the other windows
Santa’s Knee

After that last article on octopusoirs and Rubik’s cubes – shouldn’t that be “Building festooned with inflatable ARMS”…? :)
Santa’s Knee

Oh, and it’s very cool.
Anonymous

“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
padster123

MAGNIFIQUE!
Church

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

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.”
ion_stasi

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
pepsi_max2k

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

WANT.

“My apartment is easy to find… just look for the TENTACLES, flailing outside the windows.”
bazzargh

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.”
fnc

“What you have here, ma’am, is a Hermitoth.”
Anonymous

â€Ž”After adding water, Jake finds out why the ‘Instant Cthulhu’ he bought at the novelty store was such a steal…”
Anonymous

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

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

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.
Art

Hooray for the Kraaken!

Maagniifiiceent. Thaanks.
4Liberty

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.
jimh

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.”
Snowpea

I love LOVE LOVE this — It’s utterly brilliant!

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

Ia! Ia!
squirrelgirl

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

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

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

*snicker*
eustace

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