Is “YoYo Island” really “Tiki”...? - General Tiki

S Son-of-Kelbo Member NOHO, CA Joined: Aug 03, 2004 Posts: 590	S Son-of-Kelbo Posted posted on Mon, Dec 10, 2007 4:12 PM Is “YoYo Island” really a “Tiki” entertainment in its style and spirit and content? As the notion has arisen hereabouts from time to time, I thought it may be alright to put the question to the Ohana openly. I can only say that its creation stems from a genuine (if demented) zeal for things I’ve always thought of as “Tiki”, in an open-minded way. And so, while allowing that I could be in error about what’s “Tiki”, and what’s not, I would submit that “YoYo Island” might be fairly judged to be 'as "Tiki" as' -- Lava Lamps Zombies Caribbean Rums Mermaids Electric Blowfish (with sunglasses) Googie signage Hot Rods Elvis’s Jungle Room Witco Schooners Leopard-skin Fez’s Rocketships Shrunken Heads Velvet Paintings Esquivel Tiki Bar TV Retro Cheesecake Voodoo Charms McGarret’s Hair VonDutch Atomic Power Animatronic Birds with Latin accents As for any specific Polynesian influences, I could add that the five stone Moai characters on YoYo are all inspired by the five South Seas sculpture, design, and head styles (e.g., “korovar” style, “tami” style, “uli” style, “triangular” style, and “round-or-oval” style) found in Erwin O. Christensen’s “Primitive Art” (Viking Press, Section V, “The South Seas and Austrailia”, p. 285, Ill.34.), even if their reinterpretation is liberally and unabashedly whimsical -- (and there has been some Easter Island-specific influence where "Gnarl'ii Tiki" is concerned...) As the song goes, Ain’t that “Tiki” enough? What I am trying to do is something new, something different, something fun and weird, and take my own take on “what’s Tiki” into the future, on the web. And I take my “Tiki” as seriously as anybody else who grooves on the majority of those elements listed above. I just do it my way. Cheers and Fabloha Nui! SOK http://www.yoyoisland.com (DSL-or-+ required) (ps: Offering a new free online poster, "Moo'lah's Mask", to any of the general Ohana who may like to download it, here: http://www.yoyoisland.com/yoyo_poster-moolah-grn.htm (1800x225, 1519k - No ad/spyware attached) As high a quality as I can beat out of the slave labor here, and as always, suitable for framing, or wrapping fish.) "Don't let it be forgot, That once there was a Spot, Where Blowfish all wore sunglasses, and Tiki-times were hot..." [ Edited by: Son-of-Kelbo 2008-07-25 14:49 ]

Is “YoYo Island” really a “Tiki” entertainment in its style and spirit and content? As the notion has arisen hereabouts from time to time, I thought it may be alright to put the question to the Ohana openly.

I can only say that its creation stems from a genuine (if demented) zeal for things I’ve always thought of as “Tiki”, in an open-minded way. And so, while allowing that I could be in error about what’s “Tiki”, and what’s not, I would submit that “YoYo Island” might be fairly judged to be 'as "Tiki" as' --

Lava Lamps

Zombies

Caribbean Rums

Mermaids

Electric Blowfish (with sunglasses)

Googie signage

Hot Rods

Elvis’s Jungle Room

Witco Schooners

Leopard-skin Fez’s

Rocketships

Shrunken Heads

Velvet Paintings

Esquivel

Tiki Bar TV

Retro Cheesecake

Voodoo Charms

McGarret’s Hair

VonDutch

Atomic Power

Animatronic Birds with Latin accents

As for any specific Polynesian influences, I could add that the five stone Moai characters on YoYo are all inspired by the five South Seas sculpture, design, and head styles (e.g., “korovar” style, “tami” style, “uli” style, “triangular” style, and “round-or-oval” style) found in Erwin O. Christensen’s “Primitive Art” (Viking Press, Section V, “The South Seas and Austrailia”, p. 285, Ill.34.), even if their reinterpretation is liberally and unabashedly whimsical --

(and there has been some Easter Island-specific influence where "Gnarl'ii Tiki" is concerned...)

As the song goes, Ain’t that “Tiki” enough?

What I am trying to do is something new, something different, something fun and weird, and take my own take on “what’s Tiki” into the future, on the web. And I take my “Tiki” as seriously as anybody else who grooves on the majority of those elements listed above.

I just do it my way.

Cheers and Fabloha Nui!
SOK

http://www.yoyoisland.com
(DSL-or-+ required)

(ps: Offering a new free online poster, "Moo'lah's Mask", to any of the general Ohana who may like to download it, here:

http://www.yoyoisland.com/yoyo_poster-moolah-grn.htm (1800x225, 1519k - No ad/spyware attached)

As high a quality as I can beat out of the slave labor here, and as always, suitable for framing, or wrapping fish.)

"Don't let it be forgot,
That once there was a Spot,
Where Blowfish all wore sunglasses,
and Tiki-times were hot..."

[ Edited by: Son-of-Kelbo 2008-07-25 14:49 ]

Post #348765 by Son-of-Kelbo on Mon, Dec 10, 2007 4:12 PM