Post #261838 by squid on Fri, Oct 20, 2006 10:00 AM

SWANKY SEZ: "What percent of Tiki Farm mugs have you scultped?"

First of all...HEY SWANKY!

Holden and I were mulling that over at the new bar and he whooped out his trig function slide rule. The result was something like 94.875%. Mind you, this was after working on draining the water cooler of Mai Tais for a while so the results may be a bit off. Another 2-3% have been designed on paper for his factory to sculpt for custom client jobs, usually non-tiki items.

My new jingle: Squidco....we bring flat things to life!

I love doing my own designs but I also dig the challenge of bringing great 2-d designs to 3-d. Especially the likes of Derek, Flounder, Shag, Benzart, Ruzic, etc. These guys are all top-notch and make my job enjoyable. Even though Ruzic calls me all the freakin' time and he owes me 5 bucks and a ciggy.

teaKEY sez: "Squid has a 2002 start on date but its just lately that I believe I have ever seen him post. Its like he hangs out here now and is around. Maybe there is a connection of when Smogbreather changed his name?! I wonder, maybe its the new Tikifarm bar. Just like the rebirth of tiki there seems to be a rebirth of Squid."

Perhaps the previous percentage discussion will address that. I have been totally wrapped in work for 4 years or so now. The Farm keeps me uber busy. Mrs. Squid and I are both musicians and we gig whenever possible too. I've also been developing fonts for fontbros.com. (Look for those soon!) I have other clients as well but I'm slowly being able to say "no" or "it'll have to wait".

It's time to stop and smell the tiki occassionally and go to events, meet folks and relax a bit.

Plus since 2002 I have raised my typing skills to 4 fingers!!! Sometimes I don't even look at the keyboard!!!

For grins, here's a sculpt I did recently for THQ video games. It's a promotional incense burner that will be sent out to vendors with Destroy All Humans 2.