Hula Sue's South Seas Hideaway - Home Tiki Bars

MPP Mr. Pupu Pants Member Edmonds, WA Joined: Mar 06, 2008 Posts: 337	MPP Mr. Pupu Pants Posted posted on Sat, Jun 20, 2009 11:01 PM Thanks very much Thortiki. :) My work history is in film and video production and I've built a fair number of sets along the way -- so I've just applied some of the construction techniques I picked up from doing that. Some of this has also been learning as I go. Growing up, my brother and I always had some art project under way--drawing, sculpting, painting, model building, fiddling wih electronics, etc. (he has gone on to being a director at Dreamworks). This project has been such a blast because it has combined all those things. I'm hoping to be 'finished' with Hula Sue's by the end of the summer. The purpose of the room is just as a place to have family and friends over for alittle 'escape' and quality time together. Our house is slowly becoming our own personal theme park (themed rooms throughout) and once the basement is done, I'll be moving on to finish the space-themed theater room (with 'Mission to Mars' spacesuit, 'Sunshine' film-used spaceship setpieces and some Disneyland park-used Tommorrowland props), the vintage cowboy/cabin-themed den (with rounded pine walls, fake fireplace, etc.) and an outdoor deck, themed as an old dock on a tropical island (with building facades and a row boat docked alongside as a seating area). Lots of fun work to do :) The airplane window will have a flat screen TV that will loop a DVD of footage I took of the view on our favorite beach (Tunnels) on Kauai. I was talking with my excellent friend, Dave Spafford, and he had the genius idea of cutting together a reel of movie scenes with a similar aerial window view -- (Superman saving Air Force One by lifting the wing in Superman the Movie, the Gremlin pulling wires out of the engine in the Twilight Zone and the homage shot in Madagascar 2 (directed by my brother), Wicked witch flying by the window in the Tornado from Wizard of Oz, etc.). Would be a fun alternate. MadDogMike, you may be right about the need for a psychiatric evaluation :) You guessed it on the plan for that porthole window (per above). Here are the seats I plan to use on the airplane section (I'm also be adding seatbelts and making head-liners that will have the United Airlines logo on them. [ Edited by: Mr. Pupu Pants 2009-06-21 03:11 ] [ Edited by: Mr. Pupu Pants 2009-06-21 12:46 ]

Thanks very much Thortiki. :)

My work history is in film and video production and I've built a fair number of sets along the way -- so I've just applied some of the construction techniques I picked up from doing that. Some of this has also been learning as I go.
Growing up, my brother and I always had some art project under way--drawing, sculpting, painting, model building, fiddling wih electronics, etc. (he has gone on to being a director at Dreamworks). This project has been such a blast because it has combined all those things.
I'm hoping to be 'finished' with Hula Sue's by the end of the summer. The purpose of the room is just as a place to have family and friends over for alittle 'escape' and quality time together. Our house is slowly becoming our own personal theme park (themed rooms throughout) and once the basement is done, I'll be moving on to finish the space-themed theater room (with 'Mission to Mars' spacesuit, 'Sunshine' film-used spaceship setpieces and some Disneyland park-used Tommorrowland props), the vintage cowboy/cabin-themed den (with rounded pine walls, fake fireplace, etc.) and an outdoor deck, themed as an old dock on a tropical island (with building facades and a row boat docked alongside as a seating area). Lots of fun work to do :)
The airplane window will have a flat screen TV that will loop a DVD of footage I took of the view on our favorite beach (Tunnels) on Kauai.
I was talking with my excellent friend, Dave Spafford, and he had the genius idea of cutting together a reel of movie scenes with a similar aerial window view -- (Superman saving Air Force One by lifting the wing in Superman the Movie, the Gremlin pulling wires out of the engine in the Twilight Zone and the homage shot in Madagascar 2 (directed by my brother), Wicked witch flying by the window in the Tornado from Wizard of Oz, etc.). Would be a fun alternate.

MadDogMike, you may be right about the need for a psychiatric evaluation :)
You guessed it on the plan for that porthole window (per above).

Here are the seats I plan to use on the airplane section (I'm also be adding seatbelts and making head-liners that will have the United Airlines logo on them.

[ Edited by: Mr. Pupu Pants 2009-06-21 03:11 ]

[ Edited by: Mr. Pupu Pants 2009-06-21 12:46 ]

Post #463358 by Mr. Pupu Pants on Sat, Jun 20, 2009 11:01 PM