Is there a tiki documentary? One in the works? - General Tiki

RA Registered Astronaut Member Joined: Mar 05, 2006 Posts: 66	RA Registered Astronaut Posted posted on Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:46 PM Sven, funny, the other day I was wondering if you were going to do a documentary based on the Book of Tiki. I would like a copy of the dvd, I live in Silverlake so maybe you could just meet me at the 7-11 on the boulevard, or LaMill coffee. My interest in Tiki is constantly invigorated by the intellectual questions I've not been able yet to answer. Were Americans the first to develop, market and package "theming"? Even if we weren't, we definitely took it further than any other culture. Why? Was Don the Beachcomber the original "themer," and did Disney get the notion from Tiki bars? What is the American fascination with escape in a safe, digestible, non-offensive format that Tiki embodied and sold better than any other themes like western restaurants, etc? Are the south seas Islands the closest thing we have to eden, thus explaining the Tiki revival and celebration of its former? From what I understand, you're in the media business. Maybe questions like these could be answered in a kick-ass documentary. I think it'd be way more interesting than wheelchair bound basketball. Astronaut the 3rd

Sven,
funny, the other day I was wondering if you were going to do a documentary based on the Book of Tiki. I would like a copy of the dvd, I live in Silverlake so maybe you could just meet me at the 7-11 on the boulevard, or LaMill coffee. My interest in Tiki is constantly invigorated by the intellectual questions I've not been able yet to answer. Were Americans the first to develop, market and package "theming"? Even if we weren't, we definitely took it further than any other culture. Why? Was Don the Beachcomber the original "themer," and did Disney get the notion from Tiki bars? What is the American fascination with escape in a safe, digestible, non-offensive format that Tiki embodied and sold better than any other themes like western restaurants, etc? Are the south seas Islands the closest thing we have to eden, thus explaining the Tiki revival and celebration of its former?

From what I understand, you're in the media business. Maybe questions like these could be answered in a kick-ass documentary. I think it'd be way more interesting than wheelchair bound basketball.

Astronaut the 3rd

Post #412051 by Registered Astronaut on Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:46 PM