Post #275620 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Dec 30, 2006 6:12 AM

While this is not fully Tiki, but more "outsider art" or "roadside art", often these kind of environments have Tiki-like elements. There could also be a thread on "Tikis in strange places"

But I want to support Tim's call to urban archeology. I often regret not having photographed some Tiki sites because I felt they had been compromised too much by renovation. But it is those kind of images that tell an important part of the story of Tiki's rise and fall. And without the "fall" part, Tiki's history would only be half as interesting.

The challenge to find angles and perspectives on "devolved" Tiki locales that give you an image that is symbolic of the downfall is much more difficult to meet, of course, than photographing still existent Tiki palaces.
One way is to concentrate on showing the remnants, like lava rock landscaping, outrigger beams, and rotted Tiki stumps. And the most effective is to find a place that one has a photo/postcard from in its Tiki heyday, and shoot the place that is there now from the same angle, to get a "Before" and "After" effect.

I am very self-critical, and fear that too often I have not photographed at all, using the "not good enough to be published" criterium, but once a place is going down, it's going-gone! real fast and won't come back.