Armed with a new camera I packed up my Ohana & headed for Tiki Beach (Long Beach Tiki Fest 8/21).
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I’m posting here at “Creating Tiki” rather than “Tiki Events”, because this is all about the carvers.
Here’s some pics of the carvers and their wares.
This guy is from Visalia & carves lots of tikis as well as some native American art. His name is Zachary.(Name correction coutesy of Tiki5-0). His Tikis shown below...
All are in various stages of completion.
Here’s my future carver. No, make that future part time carver/full time Doctor, Lawyer, or Engineer like his Dad. He’s almost 3.
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This guy’s name is Horatio, and he wants to start carving. The guy just walked up & took over TikiTony’s demo log – Tony didn’t mind at all. I steered him to TC – so maybe we’ll see him here in future.
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TC’s very own TikiTony on the left, I’m on the right. Tony’s super cool & works out of Ventura. I could probably have sat & talked with him for an hour or more if I had the time. Tony does most of his work with a chainsaw & had lots of good tips.
This is Dave Avila, who works out of Long Beach. He hasn’t posted at TC yet, but you can see some of his work at http://www.islandtikis.com.
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This is Tiki-Ray, who lives in Rancho Cucamonga. Real nice guy, crappy picture.
His Tikis…
One in the works.
Nice nose ring.
“Real Tiki Woodchips $5.00” I think Tiki-Ray’s on to something here. If this worked, we’d all be millionaires.
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Here’s Matt & Todd of Bartiki. Matt’s on the left, Todd on the right.
I really liked their tikis. The Bartikis were a little mysterious about where they came from. Apparently they were carved by “a guy named Gary...”.
Some more tikis w/ a nice tiki bar setup.
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Danny aka Chikkitiki aka Diablo Tiki. Well known on TC, it was a real pleasure to finally meet this guy. Super friendly and had plenty of time to “talk tiki”. Here he is holding up his new Witco Style tiki mug, which really looked great. He didn’t have any tikis out at the time – I think he was going to do some carving demo on Sunday. He had plenty of Tiki Diablo shirts on display, and was even nice enough to give a kid’s shirt to my son – gratis. Thanks a bunch, Bro.
Coincidentally, Danny happens to be working on some display material for the Trader Joe’s in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – just down the street from my house. Small world.
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Here’s Crazy Al, peddlin’ tiki paraphernalia. Busy with customers, I didn’t really get a chance to talk w/ him much.
Crazy Al’s booth
Too much shadow for a good view here, but these tikis looked real nice.
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Also met Tiki5-0 briefly, met Phil Falcon & a real nice lady (forgot her name) who posts on TC as "Weence" at the "Tiki Madness" booth, and narrowly missed Polynesiac Jim. I think Sunday was going to be even better, with lots of good music, etc. You can let me know how it went.
Great to see everyone…
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"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
-Pablo Picasso
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