This Octopus Grips My Arm (It’s Cake)
Special thanks to Vinted for sponsoring this video. Give your clothes a second life. Download the Vinted app for free and start listing. With no seller fees, you keep every dollar you earn: https://vinted.com. Is it a real, wet octopus, or is it cake? I built a hyperrealistic, life-sized octopus cake designed to wrap entirely around my real arm without breaking when I let go. To pull off this illusion, I had to hide a steel and wire skeleton inside the tentacles, stretch edible wafer paper so thin that light passes through it, and use a cantaloupe to stamp the perfect skin texture. Watch the…
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