That's just wrong! The un-Tiki thread: - General Tiki

P Paipo Member Aotearoa / NZ Joined: Jun 22, 2006 Posts: 1886	P Paipo Posted posted on Wed, Aug 9, 2006 2:49 PM On 2006-08-09 14:13, ZuluMagoo wrote: I knew I wouldn't be able to slip these buy bigbro. I intentionally took these images out of their original context for comparison with the intent to show the full image in a later post. Here are the full images for comparison. The Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa, CA. It's interesting that this one is the only example that isn't a restaurant logo or mascot, as it stood out against the others in your original post to me as an example of a design by someone who doesn't "get" tiki and probably hadn't done their homework. It's wrong on so many levels (baboon/moai hybrid, huge African style hoop earrings) that, to me at least, it's "un-tiki". As is this: [ Edited by: Paipo 2006-08-09 15:08 ]

On 2006-08-09 14:13, ZuluMagoo wrote:

I knew I wouldn't be able to slip these buy bigbro. I intentionally took these images out of their original context for comparison with the intent to show the full image in a later post. Here are the full images for comparison.

The Orange County Fair in Costa Mesa, CA.

It's interesting that this one is the only example that isn't a restaurant logo or mascot, as it stood out against the others in your original post to me as an example of a design by someone who doesn't "get" tiki and probably hadn't done their homework. It's wrong on so many levels (baboon/moai hybrid, huge African style hoop earrings) that, to me at least, it's "un-tiki". As is this:

[ Edited by: Paipo 2006-08-09 15:08 ]

Post #247894 by Paipo on Wed, Aug 9, 2006 2:49 PM