Post #247734 by GROG on Tue, Aug 8, 2006 9:06 PM

GROG's turn.

I was excited when I first saw this thread, because I figured it would have alot of funny images of garish items that are being passed as "tiki". such as this:

And looking back, it started out that way in the first 2 pages of the thread. Sven also hoped it would educate the masses as to why these items aren't tiki as far as TC is concerned. Then it kind of splintered into "what's wrong with TC","let's bash Sven!"," who are we to judge?","why Pockeytiki is gone'","yes, tiki is a well-defined art form", and etc, with some nice on-topic pic posts of TIKI OFFENSES thrown in as well. So, I propose that we have another thread, an educational thread, like "Tiki 101" to define what is "tiki" as far as Tiki Central is concerned. We can start with examples of all the different tikis, Moais, Maori, Marquesians, Hawaiian, etc., and why they are acceptable as poly-pop . We should have a direct link to THIS thread to show what is NOT acceptable. We should have examples of real tiki bars, and links to ones already pictured on TC, as well a link to Critiki. We should have links to previous SAVAGE RENEWALS, and the next round of Savage Renewal would go in that thread or be linked to it. That would be the thread where people could ask questions of bigbro, BK, and others who are passionate and adept in the history and heart of what is tiki/polypop. It would be the YIN to the Yang of THIS thread. It would be all of what IS tiki/poly-pop and this would be what isn't. Of course that thread would have a much more serious tone to it since this thread would have examples such as this:

Another Bamboo Ben masterpiece! (sorry Ben, I couldn't help myself----love ya---Arrrr!!!!)

Seems to me tiki pretty much started out as decoration and became an art form/, but now has "Bufetted" into a bit of a fad as far as the general public is concerned. There are alot of people who have come here that had interests that may not have been directly tiki related, such as people into all things "retro", or into "exotica" or "Hawaiiana", or what have you, but are not poly-pop tiki "purists". With theTiki 101thread we can educate the masses as to what is considered true tiki/Poly-pop, and in this thread, what is not.

GROG get off soap box now. Basement Kahuna, GROG bet your soap box has alot of nice carvings on it. :)

[ Edited by: GROG 2006-08-08 21:19 ]