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Hello everyone,
So Evil Mastermind Miles and I finally went through the storage to look at the mugs. If you remember, our short lived company, Ona Tiki, was around in 2002 and gone in 2003. There was a company launch party at Tiki Ti where we handed out around 200 or so one of a kind ceramic amulets and shot glasses, and raffled off mugs and other goodies( that night Miles and I found out why you do not down two "Green Lizard" shots in a single evening, and why that shot is not on Tiki Ti's menu.)
***If you happened to have gotten any of those giveaway shots or amulets, and are willing to take a pic, we would appreciate it. We never took pics of them.
We only produced a handful of each mug design before loosing our studio space and ability to make mugs. At that time we only got around to selling the black version Coltrane mug (not a tribute to John Coltrane.) In going through the storage we pulled out the mugs we had made and found stuff we did not know was there.
To those of you who have continued to contact me about my Zombie (moai), there are just a few available. I have kept those names and will contact those folks about that mug in the next few weeks. Right now Kingstyedie, Stuckie, and Jeff Berry (he has the one from the Zombie shoot of Sippin Safari) are the only ones that have them outside of Miles and myself.
The first one we will be selling is the green edition of Miles' Lama Akua. I will post when it is time to sell them. There are only 15, 14 of which we will be selling for $45.00 plus shipping. There is also a red edition Lama Akua, with about the same number made, that we will sell after the green edition. Once these sell that will be it, the molds were destroyed some time ago.
***The Lama Akua green edition is an example of what made our mugs unique from other companies; we tinted the slip so that the color of the foot was not white (except for the Black Coltrane), and that the glaze colors were more interesting because of how they responded to a colored base clay. The green edition is a beautiful aqua green over a canary yellow bisque.
We found unglazed, but already underpainted Coltranes, so we will be putting out another color edition of that mug. Once again a very small number. These mugs already have the fired-on stamped Ona Tiki logo. There will be no more of these made, that mold was already destroyed.
As far Hugo, Miles' streamlined aqua blue moai mug, turns out we did have a few of those made. There are only five that will be available, 2 are artists editions that we own. Those molds were destroyed. I will collaborate with Miles on a new, not so streamlined version of this mug, put out through my (newer) company Ocea Otica later this year.
Pohaku aa ipu, the hand painted lava rock mug, will also finally be sold, the number at around 10. I will make a simpler version of mug later this year and put it out through Ocea Otica.
Ocea Otica's second release, Tumbuna, had been put on hold for the last 6 or so months. I am about half way through making them, and hope to release them in the next few months. There are a few variations, but the total number made will be 50.
I have gotten some replies from people who think Tumbuna is a blend between an alien and a tiki. This is definitely not the case. This mug is based on a traditional PNG image, and i will post a picture of the original carving that the Tumbuna is based on for those of you to see. If at that point you are still seeing the X Files, then please still buy one and fly it around in your Roswell play set.
This brings me to pictures. Pictures of all these mugs. I will dig them out and post them soon. Some pics are up on my Ocea Otica myspace page, and the Ona Tiki Zombie (moai) and Coltrane can be seen on Ooga Mooga.
Thanks for reading, thank you for your patience and to those of you that have been pushing me for 5 years to go through my storage unit.
Cass
Aloha kaua
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