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blanketoctopus · 3 months

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Lesser Pacific Striped Octopus

Dear Octopus chierchiae,

I'll never be able to fully understand how much I love you. The days pass by, and I still have no clues. Try to picture a green alien outside the earth that has reached the highest level of intelligence; he would still have no idea how to explain what I feel for you.

You became part of my life around 9 years ago, and I can't be thankful enough. You are one of the unique octopus in this entire world who truly love me for who I am. You barely knew anything about me, but you still embraced me; you made me feel lovable; you made a huge effort to learn everything about me; and you truly became my friend because of who I was and am. I was an innocent, crazy, and dumb octopus who still had the chance to become besties with the most incredible octopus in the entire world. Yeah, you.

Our school at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean became my favorite place in the entire world because every day I would get to be with you. Learning everything about you, hearing your lovely voice, listening to the dumb things you used to say, sharing songs, and watching series together with you were everything I needed to be the happiest animal ever. I remember pretty well the feeling when you started to call me "best" and nothing will ever be enough to describe how happy I was. Being recognized as your best friend is among the best feelings I have ever experienced. You decided to be my best friend based on who I truly was, and that made me feel very special. Thank you for that. Calling you "best" and hearing it from you still gives me goosebumps, reminding me of the time when someone, for the first time, did that. No one in my whole life impacted me as you did.

We spent two years studying together and having the best of our lives side by side. In the second year, we became really close, and I was really excited about that. I hold on to all of our memories from that time deep in my three hearts. It is impossible not to remember you while listening to "Never Forget You", a song that means a lot to me because we used to listen and sing to it back then. It is also impossible not to think of you while watching the series we used to watch together. Those series really bonded us, and the act of watching them with you made me really happy, because I would absolutely do everything for you, and I still would. One of my favorite hobbies was to imagine fanciful scenarios where we were happy together. I loved to make plans inside my head where I was giving you gifts and going places with you. I really wanted to do and plan everything just to make you happy and lovable.

I never thought that one day I would fear losing you and not having you near me, and when I felt that for the first time when we went to different schools, I had one of the most suffering moments of my life. Going to school and knowing that you wouldn't be there was extremely hard at the beginning, and missing you became a standard feeling in my life. However, our love for each other didn't let our connection die, and even far away, our passion just grew bigger, and getting to see you became my favorite activity in the whole year. Since 8 years ago, our photos together are my cellphone's wallpaper, and octopuses used to ask all the time who was the girl in my cellphone. Every time that happened, I had the opportunity to introduce my best friend, and I never stopped talking about you day after day.

Someday, you told me that you were going to move to another ocean, and damn, I was extremely happy for you, hoping that you would have the best life ever, but it was impossible not to feel devastated about that. I used to cry a lot and tell everyone that the octopus I love the most in this world was going to move away from me. I wasn't prepared for that, and it was pretty tough. I can't express myself enough to depict what was going through my head. I remember the last days we got to be with each other, and on your last birthday here, I gave you a diary with all my feelings written there and some photos. With that, I wanted to tell you, in other words, that you are more important to me than anything else and that I will love you until the day my three hearts stop and my nine brains stop working.

I cried when you told us you were moving away. I cried when you went away. I cried while you were there. I cried everytime I thought about you. And I cry whenever I get the opportunity to be with you.

After around 4 years without seeing each other, you came to the Atlantic Ocean again. I had never been that excited when I first saw you after those many days. Being with you is my favorite thing, and those days were absolutely everything to me. Your smile, your dumb talk, the way you gossip, your smell, your eyes, your hug, and even the way you walk are among the things that make me feel delighted whenever I see you. Every single detail about you makes being away from you a harder task. You went back home after some days, and needing to say goodbye again to you was extremely painful.

And then recently, you came back after 2 years. Not a single grammar or language has enough words or expressions to detail exactly how happy I was. Sharing those days with you meant a lot to me and made me remember that you're truly the only octopus in this world who can make me feel that enchanted. On our last day together, I collapsed in tears while you were sleeping. And those were concomitantly happy and sad tears. Seeing our photos together and being with you filled my soul with joy and amusement, but recognizing that I would have to say goodbye to you again made me feel terrible. I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and I am not afraid of saying it out loud. I'll never love you less, and I'll never love you more, because I may have already reached the maximum.

You are my 'octopus'. You are my best friend. You are the love of my life. You are my Robin. And for last, you are my “Lebenslanger Schicksalsschatz.” It means a life-long treasure of destiny. This signifies that there is one octopus that everyone is destined to meet one day that they will love and treasure for life. A soul mate.

"It is not something that develops over time. It is something that happens instantaneously. It courses through you like the water of a river after a storm, filling you and emptying you all at once."

My Octopus chierchiae, I will always love you, and I will always miss every single thing about you. I will always remember you while eating pizza or listening to "unconditionally" and many other things that would take 10 long paragraphs for me to detail all of them. All of my dreams share one thing in common: being with you at the end of them. I will always be available to you. I will be waiting for you to come back to me again, just like Teddy did waiting all those years to finally be with Tracy.

With all my love,

Blanket Octopus

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nathanwilson-indn211-2018 · 6 years

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30/05/2018 Project Three - Initial Ideas

When first thinking about this project I found inspiration in the lesser pacific striped octopus:

Source: https://www.kqed.org/science/197792/harlequin-octopus-makes-scientists-question-anti-social-stereotypes

I found the patterns and contrast between the black and white parts of these animals to be particularly beautiful. My idea was to make a bottle to hold ink, using a combination of opaque white plastic and clear plastic, the clear parts would show the black ink on the inside thus giving me my black and white effect. However after discussing this idea it was pointed out to me that this technique would be a nightmare for blow-moulding adding a lot of complication and costs, since consideration of manufacture is a part of this project I decided against carrying on with this idea.

Considering a few new ideas I decided on moving forward with making an outdoor/survival water bottle, in which water can be collected and purified. I’m thinking that I can make a lid that holds purification tablets in it that will be dropped into the bottle when a tab is pushed, these would be loaded in the lid maybe in some sort of tablet packet like this:

source: https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Empty-Spaces-In-a-Medicine-Tablet/#.ma27mlffm

These will perhaps sit in a ring around the lid somewhere.

With this new direction I decided to look at some survival bottles that are currently available.

They tended to be a rugged design:

source: http://sgtmikessurvivaltips.blogspot.com/2010/06/klean-kanteen-consumate-survival-tool.html

or there were many that used this filter design:

source: https://shop.naturalsociety.com/product/essential-survival-tools-lifestraw-go-water-bottle-and-filter

either way they tended to be pretty plain looking.

I decided that I wanted to create something more inspired by natural fluid forms finding a lot of the work by Zaha Hadid to be inspiring:

source: https://www.dezeen.com/2013/04/11/serac-bench-by-zaha-hadid-for-lab23/

source: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/design/crystal-architecture/

At this point I have a direction to create a bottle to take into nature that adopts some natural fluid forms.

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