Absolute Brilliance: The Book of Tiki - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 10:30 AM Mahalo everyone for the compliments, I am very grateful that the book turned out so well, too, AND that it had such a wide-ranging effect, helping to revive a pop culture that was on the cusp of dieing out. I have been an irregular visitor on TC because in the last months I have been cramming on my next book, trying to get as much as possible done before my German TV work hiatus was going to start. I have scanned almost all the images now, and layed out the first five of 19 chapters. I must say I am very excited about the way it looks, and confident it will live up to the BOT. Because I am now publishing it with Taschen again, I have expanded the initial concept from pure Witco to putting William Westenhaver's work in context with midcentury modernism and it's love affair with primitivism, which always was my favourite subject. The full title will now be "TIKI MODERN and The Wild World of Witco". I am now in Germany, and since the shipping and customs of the Kon-Id mugs to LA was so delayed, I will be busy directing the distribution of the mugs, and writing for the laid out chapters, so I will allow myself to get distracted here only occasionally. In regards to that BIG HAPPY picture of me, nobody said anything about the OTHER guy in the shot...WHAT am I holding?...and for that matter, WHAT am I wearing? Since WHERE I am was already mentioned, here's the rest of the scoop: I am clutching a very rare Sascha Brastoff designed ALOHA JHOE'S PALM SPRINGS candle holder, which Mike Senior brought into the Tiki Ti after he remembered that he and his dad gotten one when they actually visited the place in the 60s. Mike's memory was stirred by me showing him one the week before that BONGOFURY had brought into town so I could properly photograph it in my makeshift basement studio for my new book. And I am wearing a prototype of the Disney Enchanted Tiki Room shirt remake that Kevin and Jody brough to the Ti so we could measure sizes. For your info, the XL comes quite big, because it fit ME. Never would have dreamed that this would be available again one day! ....Hey, if you miss something that has become unavailable or too rare, put it in a book, and Voila! PS: I now have 4 PERSONAL MESSAGES blinking for me, but for a while now I have been unable to get to them, sorry...Hanford is working on the problem. [ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-06-30 11:17 ]

Mahalo everyone for the compliments, I am very grateful that the book turned out so well, too, AND that it had such a wide-ranging effect, helping to revive a pop culture that was on the cusp of dieing out.

I have been an irregular visitor on TC because in the last months I have been cramming on my next book, trying to get as much as possible done before my German TV work hiatus was going to start. I have scanned almost all the images now, and layed out the first five of 19 chapters. I must say I am very excited about the way it looks, and confident it will live up to the BOT. Because I am now publishing it with Taschen again, I have expanded the initial concept from pure Witco to putting William Westenhaver's work in context with midcentury modernism and it's love affair with primitivism, which always was my favourite subject. The full title will now be "TIKI MODERN and The Wild World of Witco".
I am now in Germany, and since the shipping and customs of the Kon-Id mugs to LA was so delayed, I will be busy directing the distribution of the mugs, and writing for the laid out chapters, so I will allow myself to get distracted here only occasionally.

In regards to that BIG HAPPY picture of me, nobody said anything about the OTHER guy in the shot...WHAT am I holding?...and for that matter, WHAT am I wearing? Since WHERE I am was already mentioned, here's the rest of the scoop:

I am clutching a very rare Sascha Brastoff designed ALOHA JHOE'S PALM SPRINGS candle holder, which Mike Senior brought into the Tiki Ti after he remembered that he and his dad gotten one when they actually visited the place in the 60s. Mike's memory was stirred by me showing him one the week before that BONGOFURY had brought into town so I could properly photograph it in my makeshift basement studio for my new book.

And I am wearing a prototype of the Disney Enchanted Tiki Room shirt remake that Kevin and Jody brough to the Ti so we could measure sizes. For your info, the XL comes quite big, because it fit ME.
Never would have dreamed that this would be available again one day! ....Hey, if you miss something that has become unavailable or too rare, put it in a book, and Voila!

PS: I now have 4 PERSONAL MESSAGES blinking for me, but for a while now I have been unable to get to them, sorry...Hanford is working on the problem.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki on 2005-06-30 11:17 ]

Post #168943 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Jun 30, 2005 10:30 AM