Who hasn't read The Book of Tiki? (Not a poll) - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 12:22 PM I appreciate your post, but I believe it's a tough call to ask people to step forward and admit "ignorance" of ANYTHING, if asked like this, so I do not have high hopes for this poll. I just would like to contribute two factors: One is that the Book of Tiki has been out of print for many months now (sigh!), the other that (as I said once before) it is inevitable that Tiki will become a self perpetuating pop culture more and more, and that the BOT will become unknown to many NEW Tiki-philes that have entered the Tiki Revival from other points of inspiration, be it because of Tiki Farm mugs, or Shag, or ANY nouveaux Tiki art for example. I like to compare this phenomenon to movies like "Citizen Kane" or "Hitchcock's" Psycho: When these films came out originally, their style was so innovative, people were shocked and thrilled. All these innovations have since been used so many times and have become such a common part of film language that today's viewers of these films can never see them again with the same enthusiasm than when they were released in their time, we can't be in that place of not knowing. When I am aghast at how filmmakers are nowadays simply stealing plots and ideas from classic movies, it does not matter to a generation whose idea of a "classic" film (as in vintage) is "Star Wars". To them it's all new. There is so much Tiki out there these days that many newcomers cannot fathom how the days of absolutely NO Tiki were, to many of them it must seem as if it was ALWAYS around. That today's prolificness of the image and term of TIKI is in large part due to the Book of Tiki is inconsequential here, since it was not there first for them. I have to accept that, and my best way to keep the ball rolling is to put out ANOTHER book that will be just as much an eye candy inspiration, which I am in the process off doing, thank you very much :)

I appreciate your post, but I believe it's a tough call to ask people to step forward and admit "ignorance" of ANYTHING, if asked like this, so I do not have high hopes for this poll.
I just would like to contribute two factors: One is that the Book of Tiki has been out of print for many months now (sigh!), the other that (as I said once before) it is inevitable that Tiki will become a self perpetuating pop culture more and more, and that the BOT will become unknown to many NEW Tiki-philes that have entered the Tiki Revival from other points of inspiration, be it because of Tiki Farm mugs, or Shag, or ANY nouveaux Tiki art for example.

I like to compare this phenomenon to movies like "Citizen Kane" or "Hitchcock's" Psycho: When these films came out originally, their style was so innovative, people were shocked and thrilled. All these innovations have since been used so many times and have become such a common part of film language that today's viewers of these films can never see them again with the same enthusiasm than when they were released in their time, we can't be in that place of not knowing.

When I am aghast at how filmmakers are nowadays simply stealing plots and ideas from classic movies, it does not matter to a generation whose idea of a "classic" film (as in vintage) is "Star Wars". To them it's all new.

There is so much Tiki out there these days that many newcomers cannot fathom how the days of absolutely NO Tiki were, to many of them it must seem as if it was ALWAYS around. That today's prolificness of the image and term of TIKI is in large part due to the Book of Tiki is inconsequential here, since it was not there first for them.

I have to accept that, and my best way to keep the ball rolling is to put out ANOTHER book that will be just as much an eye candy inspiration, which I am in the process off doing, thank you very much :)

Post #265755 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Nov 10, 2006 12:22 PM