San Francisco, Tentacle City
Undersea world overhead.
Tentacle City is a conceptual compositing art project around the idea of giant jellyfish and other sea creatures living in the skies of our world. Day to day we tend to ignore wildlife that shares living space with us, especially in city environments. Despite native hawk populations, coyotes, and an abundance of sea life, San Francisco can seem barren of anything except humanity most of the time. What if wildlife were too large and visible for us to ignore, how would this impact the ways we live and move through our city? How would it change the ways we think about our world?
Tentacle City #5 — Masthead Image
Moon Jellies above Downtown.
Tentacle City #4
Partygoers watch from the roof deck as the Jellyfish swarm.
Tentacle City #6
Dumbo Octopodes flying about South San Francisco and the bay.
Special thanks to the NOAA Ocean Explorer for use of their Dumbo Octopus pic and . Please see the original here.
Tentacle City #4
Octopus looming over Twin Peaks and grasping the Sutro Tower.
Special thanks to Joachim S. Müller for use of his octopus photo for the main subject. please see his original photo
Tentacle City #2
Jellyfish move through the fog over San Francisco’s Mission District.
Tentacle City #1
The Bank of America building snared by a Jellyfish in the golden light of the afternoon.
Tentacle City #9
Nautili float above the city.
Tentacle City #8
Jellyfish fill the sky, drawn by the lights of the city.
Tentacle City #7
A Jellyfish soars in the night over downtown San Francisco, passing above the Transamerica Pyramid.
This project was made using images taken of jellyfish from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Academy of Sciences and the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, along with cityscapes of San Francisco and South San Francisco. All images were taken by me, with the exception of the red octopus image which is by Joachim S. Müller and the dumbo octopus image which is by the NOAA Ocean Explorer. All compositing work was done in Adobe Photoshop CC with all color toning and final touch-ups done in Adobe Lightroom 5. Please view more of my work on my website below.
