Post #248676 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Aug 12, 2006 11:32 PM

I believe that most people here know and understand that this thread was never aimed at the artistic community of the Tiki revival, which I have always supported, and never individually criticized. I wrote the foreword of the first book on nouveau Tiki art, Taboo, The Art of Tiki (here I go again, tiz tiz..) and count many of the Tiki artists of today as my good friends.

(If I am guilty of something, it is that have not watched and posted much in the Creating Tiki forum lately, but simply because I am trying to restrict my time here and get some real writing done.)

It is preposterous to try to twist this thread into being a "jihad" (or was it Nazi censorship?) against nouveau Tiki art. I am sorry that individuals were picked on here, that was not the intention.

(And please don't come back with some kind of b.s. like "so how is corporate commercial art different from individual..." and so on. We all don't have the time for that here.)

When coming on this site, there is a well-founded assumption that there is a basic common knowledge and understanding here, and based on that, a BASIC ability to DIFFERENTIATE.

When even that is not present, all attempts at intelligent communication are futile.