Post #402142 by Bay Park Buzzy on Mon, Aug 18, 2008 11:00 PM

I cannot possibly cover the last week in one post, so I'll start a series of Tiki Oasis journal entries with this post.

Buzzy's Tiki Oaisis Journal Entry #1: House of Ku Day at the House of Buzz and Pre Event promotion.

Oh good lord, what a whirlwind this last week was! Tiki Oasis started for me with a very special visitor from da islands, House of Ku! It was great hanging out with good friend Freddie finally. I didn't take any pictures while he was here, but hopefully he'll be able to post up some he took here when he gets home and recovers. That friend of his worked him like slave labor while he was here! I'll do my Tiki Oasis journal entry about that day after I have some visuals. I'll skip all the sanding, staining, and work I did after Freddie left that day and skip forward to the next morning, when I went down to the local Fox studio to promote the event on some morning show I never heard of.
we didn't have any specifics about it prior, and were under the impression that it would be a short live tv spot on the event site on Thursday morning. That was great for me because I was supposed to be helping set up the stage at the same time. We found out that evening that it was to be a panel of people from the event filmed in the local fox studio, instead of at the hotel. I was told that I was only going to be talking about the event. I brought a few props that I hoped to sneak in to the segment.
When I got there, they sent me out back to the rear "stage" and asked me where my chainsaw was because they wanted me to carve live on tv. Crap! I thought i was going to be sitting on a couch blahblahblahing about the event. Luckily, I had my hookknives and small hand tools for props just in case I needed to fill some air time talking about the craft. I had one uncarved pendant on my tiki pendant on a stick on a rope stack and I told the producers I'd do some quiet hand carving on camera for my part of the segment. It was on a local morning show called San Diego Living, and was broadcast live at 9AM Friday morning. We were the second segment, after a live on location segment from a swimming pool with a bunch of kids who now wanted to be Michael Phelps and right before a back to school segment on how to stop your teenage daughter from dressing like a slut at school this upcoming year. It was about a seven minute segment and is archived on the Fox San diego website.

Now for the visuals:

I pulled my truck into the back lot where they do the outside segments. there was a big tarp to block the sun and a big crane camera

The stack of stuff I was going to try to use as product placement. I wanted to take the tall Lono, but when I went to load him in the morning, he was still wet. I brought the newku, a couple older pieces, tools, bling, and a couple other things I was going to try and get on camera

Wrinkled clothes are the new style this season, as well as a hat made by Cammo:

The panel turned out to be only King Kukuklele and myself. I'm setting up while he warms up

He tried to memorize eight pages of events, bands, happenings and seminars that Otto wnated us to mention while I get hooked up to audio

After that, the staff all disappeared and we were left outside again wondering what was up. All we knew was that we had less than three minutes until we went live. All set up and ready to go:

I can see my dirty truck right behind the fence!

Suddenly the back doors fly open, a whole production crew comes out with cameras, walkie talkies, and papers. Renee Kohn was the host who was to interview us. She said "hi", gave zaya a dirty look, they said "3-2-1" and we were a go

She talked about the event and asked King K some questions first

then he sang, she made some Baboon noises along with him while I did a hula dance

Then it was my turn to talk tiki

I rocked the bling and held it up for the viewers at home to marvel at> She asked me if they were comfortable and I answered that when I wore them, my hands felt like they were nude.

She couldn't help but admire my bling. She was so overtaken by its quality, she had to touch it to make sure it wasn't an illusion:

After that, I did a hooknife carving demo and talked about the carving hut and tiki vending that would be at Oasis.
Live tv hookknifing

Carving with bling on tv:

Check the cheesecake photo I tried to sneak into the frame

At the very end of the segment, I flashed the photo but they put a banner over it when they showed it on tv. Here's the stuff I tried to get on camera:

About two seconds after the segment was filmed, the entire staff disappeared, the doors to the studio were shut and locked, and King K and I were left standing in the parking lot alone again. A whole seven minutes had elapsed.

I went from there to the event to drop off some tikis for the stage and the photo shoots. Immediately after setting up the tikis, I had to run home and get ready for the the next chapter of my Tiki Oasis 2008 journal:

Bullet and Jonesey visit the House of Buzz!

Oh so much more later...
As seen on TV!
Buzzy Out!

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2008-08-18 23:09 ]