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A Lovelorn Octopus Hits The Beach In This Charming Pixel Collage

“Memory Beach” from artist Ashley Anderson is where pixel art meets aquatic love.

When it comes to pixel art collages, you can never really have enough, especially not when they feature a brokenhearted octopus trying to get over his ex by heading to the beach to hang out, wear sunglasses and party with a sociopathic crab. It’s a theme that “image-maker” Ashley Anderson has taken up in his series Memory Beach, which concluded in December with Part III, where the lovelorn cephalopod takes up surfing.

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The project started out, like all great art, as a commission from a local pizza place, but when that fell through, Anderson carried on regardless. From his blog:

The whole process of making the work was a cycle of combing through hundreds of webpages and thousands of files, cutting bits out, arranging, rearranging, then coming back to it a few days later with a fresh eye, printing the image out (which basically functioned as my state proof), making notes, and repeating the process. The process took months, but it cultivated a density and firmness about the pieces.

The resulting pixel collage features images from Japanese pornographic Mahjong video games to the NES’ Goonies game (the end screenshot of which features as the background for Part II) and Konami’s Mr Goemon, as well as lots more. You can read more about the project on his blog and buy the prints from his Etsy page.

Part I

Part II

Part III

[via Prosthetic Knowledge]