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B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 10:49 PM I get a kick out of recognizing and tracing Tikis back to their origin (who would have guessed!), even modern ones. I have a photographic memory for Tikis. So it was very gratifying to get a replica of a Tiki that I had admired since years, last weekend at a party given by a special effects make up guy whose company had actually made it for a 1996 Levi's Jeans ad. Back then I noted it as one of my favourite retro Tiki designs, a Ku with a very small body and a huge head. From the Levi's postcard it was ripped off for the Luau Polynesian Lounge in Seattle (what ever happened to that one?), and this summer I found it in Atlanta, as a fine tatoo on Tikiluvgirl's boyfriend. So it's good to now have a physical replica of it in my bathroom. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-10-15 22:50 ]

I get a kick out of recognizing and tracing Tikis back to their origin (who would have guessed!), even modern ones. I have a photographic memory for Tikis.

So it was very gratifying to get a replica of a Tiki that I had admired since years, last weekend at a party given by a special effects make up guy whose company had actually made it for a 1996 Levi's Jeans ad. Back then I noted it as one of my favourite retro Tiki designs, a Ku with a very small body and a huge head.

From the Levi's postcard it was ripped off for the Luau Polynesian Lounge in Seattle (what ever happened to that one?), and this summer I found it in Atlanta, as a fine tatoo on Tikiluvgirl's boyfriend.

So it's good to now have a physical replica of it in my bathroom.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2002-10-15 22:50 ]

Post #11112 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Oct 15, 2002 10:49 PM