Why Your Tiki Finds Deserve Their Own Threads - Collecting Tiki

H Humuhumu Member San Francisco Joined: Aug 22, 2002 Posts: 3691	H Humuhumu Posted posted on Sat, Nov 5, 2005 7:00 AM MrBaliHai - we did merge it! Your post is right here: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1099&forum=5&vpost=195583 Unkle John, on the topic of common items, they deserve just as much, perhaps even more, to be in their own threads. I don't mean that each individual find should mean a new thread, but rather I mean that these items deserve a thread for discussion of that type of item, which can't take place effectively in Tiki Finds. I'll quote what I said above: Sometimes folks think "My finds aren't worthy of their own thread." Here's why I don't think that's true: even common items are worth some discussion. Heck, the more common the item, the more likely it is that it will strike a chord with a wide audience, and the more likely it is that there will be plenty to talk about on the topic. Some great recent examples: badmojo's excellent thread on coconut monkeys, the drunkenhat and tikicleen's thread on ashtrays, and Sweet Daddy Tiki's thread on souvenir glasses. In each of these threads, folks anted up with items from their own finds, and people were able to learn a bit more about the background and history of the items. After a while, it becomes easy to overlook items as being "common"... but what's common in California isn't common in Texas; what's common to an old salty tikiphile isn't common to a newcomer here to learn. Your Leilani thread example is perfect. Furthermore, how much do we actually know about some "common" items? Who designed the very, very common two-face glass? What company manufactured it initially? What company manufactures it today? Where & when it was first used? How many colors and sizes it comes in? (On that last one, from what I can tell so far, it comes in clear short & tall, frosted short & tall, white tall, black short, green tall and amber tall.)

MrBaliHai - we did merge it! Your post is right here:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1099&forum=5&vpost=195583

Unkle John, on the topic of common items, they deserve just as much, perhaps even more, to be in their own threads. I don't mean that each individual find should mean a new thread, but rather I mean that these items deserve a thread for discussion of that type of item, which can't take place effectively in Tiki Finds. I'll quote what I said above:

Sometimes folks think "My finds aren't worthy of their own thread." Here's why I don't think that's true: even common items are worth some discussion. Heck, the more common the item, the more likely it is that it will strike a chord with a wide audience, and the more likely it is that there will be plenty to talk about on the topic.

Some great recent examples: badmojo's excellent thread on coconut monkeys, the drunkenhat and tikicleen's thread on ashtrays, and Sweet Daddy Tiki's thread on souvenir glasses. In each of these threads, folks anted up with items from their own finds, and people were able to learn a bit more about the background and history of the items.

After a while, it becomes easy to overlook items as being "common"... but what's common in California isn't common in Texas; what's common to an old salty tikiphile isn't common to a newcomer here to learn. Your Leilani thread example is perfect. Furthermore, how much do we actually know about some "common" items? Who designed the very, very common two-face glass? What company manufactured it initially? What company manufactures it today? Where & when it was first used? How many colors and sizes it comes in? (On that last one, from what I can tell so far, it comes in clear short & tall, frosted short & tall, white tall, black short, green tall and amber tall.)

Post #196530 by Humuhumu on Sat, Nov 5, 2005 7:00 AM