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bigbrotiki
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Tiki Island, above the Silverlake
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On 2007-10-23 12:48, AlienTiki wrote:
A book about Don the Beachcomber? It was after all where the cannibal trio got their start in poly-pop. Donn Beach gave them cannibals a chance....
Exactly, if Don ever had logo Tikis, these would be it. But the Beachcomber Book would also be about Eli Hedley, and other historic Beachcombers, and the whole style. Of course the Don part would have to co-written by Jeff Berry, he knows more about the man than even his ex-wives. ---BUT it won't be next, here is what my schedule looks like:
On 2007-10-21 18:49, bigbrotiki wrote:
.....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.......
Then I want to do a book on the Tiki revival, one on 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
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