Post #376131 by Tipsy McStagger on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 7:51 AM

On 2008-04-24 23:14, The Granite Tiki wrote:
I personally like the one where the water flows out of the Tiki's mouth and onto the green leaf.

I don't know fellas, I just plain appreciate that somehow, in the usually garish colored world of cheap mass produced chain store tikis, someone managed to get at least 3 separate fountain designs approved, that actually work, are really inexpensive, aren't multi-colored Party City style, and probably could pass for great if they were born 45 years earlier and were sitting on table tops at your favorite old school Tiki Lounge. Lord knows I've seen some old stuff, even respected stuff that doesn't seem to follow the design cues of classic tiki style as much as these do.

Opinions are great on threads like this, pro or con, but it's a shame when they sometimes get insulting, intentionally or not.

I wish the cons on this thread (and it's never too late) would point out design problems with these fountains. Point out why this is not good tiki style, instead of dwelling on the place where they were bought.

A great way to start would be:

"even if this fountain was made 40 years ago, and spent 20 years on a table at the Mai-Kai, here's why I would have hated it..."

Or "here are 10 stylistic reasons why this fountain would never have sat on a table at the Mai-Kai..."

You know what I mean? That'd be a really great discussion that wouldn't be as prone to be sidetracked by people feeling their taste was being insulted, or the red herring issue regarding how Walgreen's business plan destroyed a great Tiki palace.

Anyway, that's my take on it all.

My main complaint about my fountains, I wish they were bigger.

[ Edited by: The Granite Tiki 2008-04-25 00:17 ]

...now that's more like it. well put......i won't get into a long monolog here about the why's and how's, but i will say this....it takes just along to make something the wrong way as it does to make it the right way...and by that i mean that i can't understand that with all the great tiki references in the world, why these cheapy tiki companies insist on reinventing tiki in these ugly forms when they could have just as easily stolen the maori lookin tikis from kona kai or trader vics to model these after....now THAT would have made a nice lookin cheapy tiki fountain....for me it's aesthetics and the reason i'm so hell bent about it is because i am a creator...i make things and it's important to me that the things i make look right in terms of style and when i see sculpts like this, or have to listen to windbags defend that which they have no business defending (i'm not refering to anyone in particular here)it really chaps my ass!! okay- now i'm done....