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Post #347837 by PrimoDakine on Tue, Dec 4, 2007 11:49 PM

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This tiki face design was one created for use by an ad agency and used in the Levi's silvertab jeans print ads almost a decade ago. Also available as giveaway postcards, everyone picked up a few back then.
It is a distinctive tiki design appropriated by others through the following years.
Old timers to da tiki dakine will remmeber the popstcard.
It had a cool ceramic terracotta tiki god with that face and hollowed out eyes on left half of the postcard. Right side, was the POV of the tiki; silhouette of his eyeholes thru which you are looking at a few 20 somethings cavorting in a loft all wearing Levi's silvertab jeans.

these shirts resemble the now modern and unlocal Crazy Shirts available for the tourons in Waikiki.
crazy shirts was a very kama'aina business way back then. I knew Rick Ralston who created the company and watched him create many t shirts in the Int. market place decades ago.
Now, the company ( a shadow of its former self ) sells mainland designs, created by haoles on the mainland, sold to tourists. Not many locals wanna wear da stuff. solly cholly.

[ Edited by: PrimoDakine 2007-12-04 23:56 ]