Post #386431 by bananabobs on Wed, Jun 11, 2008 4:48 PM

On 2008-06-11 11:33, bigbrotiki wrote:

Your book...Art? perhaps.
Tiki, an American art form? Most think so, yet you published your book with German text and English text...
I found it to be annoying and distracting, perhaps even arrogant. I would have done it different. I think I would have done it better/accurate/complete.

Boy, talk about an American Islander point of view. Ever consider that in order to give the public a book with that many pages of quality color reproductions for THAT affordable price, it needed to be sellable word-wide? (..and, that for 8 years, no American publisher touched the subject until a European one picked it up?) If you think you can do it better, be my guest. I am quite sure that no one else can do it like Taschen, god bless them. What sweet ignorance to call them (or even me) arrogant for having to be tri-lingual in their captions. Sigh.

You missed my point, and you miss quoted me,
I think I would have done it better/accurate/complete.
What you missed was, Who's to say?

I was trying to say that without a "yardstick" it is impossible to measure. You are saying that there is a measure, a definition, a mark that someone has to measure up to that will make it Tiki.
What is that measure? You showed something that is NOT Tiki, in your opinion (mine too but we are arguing here)(First of all it was on Etsy...)
But what is it that will define Tiki?