-New Set in Member Review: The Fisherman's Wife: Cherry and I share a fascination with all things cephalopod. We are both long-time members of the Hentai Group here on SG, and we've discussed our love of tentacles for quite a while. When she came up to San Francisco for Wonder Con, we decided to combine her photographic and artistic skills with my skills with dead things into one big, tentacle-filled extravaganza.

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The octopi here fall into two classes: the ones Cherry drew and the real ones. The real ones came from the Korean grocery by my house, and went through a dye job (Easter egg dye works great!), in some cases some basic taxidermy to give them shape, and for the large ones I gave them fake eyes, as well. If you are wondering what came of them after the shoot, I still have all but one that suffered a nasty tentacle blowout. They've been preserved in alcohol and jarred, and are sitting on my bookcase in the hall. While Cherry and I both love octopi greatly, we felt that these little guys would be appreciated far more, and for far longer, than if they had ended up as a bowl of Nakji Bokkeum.



Thanks much to Bob for kitten wrangling (to a cat, octopi are the greatest thing ever: strings made of fish), and for telling us all about chromotophores. Thanks to Trillian for putting up with the bizarre shit I do in the kitchen, and most of all thanks to Cherry for making this happen!

The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, Katsushika Hokusai, woodcut, @1820