Post #339720 by bigbrotiki on Sun, Oct 21, 2007 6:49 PM

Well, MY next projects are "The SOUNDS of Tiki", a CD compilation of rare classic Exotica that tie in to Tiki themes, like Bali Hai, Aku Aku, House of Bamboo etc, with an extensive booklet with more historic ephemera. But book-wise, it should be Jeff Chenault who publishes the ultimate tome on Exotica music and album art,

And then my next BOOK, the LOOK OF TIKI (as announced before), which will be on Hawaiian shirts and Polynesian patterns of the 50s, 60s and 70s, and their links to original Polynesian art and to modernist graphics. I will put outstanding shirt designs into context with primitivist and modernist design, my two pet subjects. This will be an all out color and eye candy feast!

I promise this book will not take 10, or 7 years to finish, but it might take one or two.

Then I want to do a book on the Tiki revival, one the Spanish and European Tiki tradition, and a book on the 20th Century Beachcomber style, and maybe one on South Seas movies and television from the 20s to the 70s...and ...and ...and

So right now, there is no quick fuel for the fire (I was hoping that TIKI MODERN might last for a while?)....but there are still more books that other folks could do: Zulu Magoo one on Apartments, Sabu and Mimi one on all menus, mugs, matchbooks, swizzles and ephemera together,