Post #23584 by tweedtone on Wed, Feb 19, 2003 4:09 PM

Personally, I was/am waiting to hear what the power-that-be in Pinellas County government have to say before sending in money. IMHO, that should have been the sequence of events from the get-go as no approval equals no tiki. If Cy reports that it's a go, a check from me will be in the mail the next day. We should know in 24 hours. Tick, tock, tick, tock ...

As for the choice of the actual tiki to be carved, my understanding is that was more or less decided upon by the carver, who rejected the notion of Kahono (I believe) as it was a bastardization in his view and not a "true" tiki. He basically said it's gonna be Lono, the one used in the TG logo and advertisements, which is fine. The small prototype does look pretty damn cool.

Again IMHO, the communication was always there, just scattered throughout the various threads. If the project ever does get rolling, a regularly updated website with the whole project detailed, showing progress, would seem to be pretty much essential. As I live near the site and have web authoring skillz, I'll gladly take that on.