Post #446877 by Humuhumu on Mon, Apr 13, 2009 8:55 PM

To me, it's not even so much about whether the producers and other people involved with the show will have the same understanding of Polynesian Pop that the owner of the home tiki bar will have. (The show contacted me looking for home tiki bars, but the concept of the show was about over-the-top spaces of any flavor.) To me, the offense is that they don't seem to get that any over-the-top room is a beautiful form of outsider art. Anyone who chooses to decorate in an off-the-wall way in a part of their home is doing it for a reason -- it's pure expression and creativity, and it's to be encouraged.

Sending the message that there's reason to be ashamed of creating something wacky and weird, just because you don't have the skills of a professional designer... that's just rotten.

Now, creating something and then putting it up for appraisal, as when someone puts pictures of their home tiki bar on some website full of people who love to critique tiki stuff and then says "what do you think?" That's a little different. Those folks should be treated with a lot of respect for being willing to put themselves out there, but they've done just that: decided to put a piece of themselves out there and asked for feedback.

That's not what this show is. This show is looking for people who are doing their own wacky thing in their own wacky space. There should be more of that, not less.