Buzzy's work: Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate - Tiki Carving

BPB Bay Park Buzzy Tiki Socialite West Bay Park, San Diego, CA Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 3066	BPB Bay Park Buzzy Posted posted on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 1:38 PM Today officially kicks off Tiki Oasis. This year's festivities started out for me this morning on the set of Fox's San Diego Living. King Kukulele, Lady Borgia, and RetroDiva joined me this year. I was asked to do some on air carving, talk about the event, and bring some tikis and decor to dress up the outside stage area. Having done this last year, I knew what to expect so I came in with the aim of shamelessly maximizing my on air exposure and manipulating the layout to do some free commercials for the Factory. I didn;t take my camera, but I have a few ghetto style screen captures that I'll share and comment on now: After working with the producer and the host, the order of the interviews and the focus of each guest was finlaized. It started with KingK giving some general information about the event: While he was speaking, I was doing some "performance" carving. You can see my mallet hand on the right Next it was my turn. Notice the layout here. I positioned two surfboards and tikis in the background when I arrived. I suggested to the producer that my carving stand would fit perfectly between them. She agreed and I had accomplished goal #1, getting center stage Renee asked me a couple questions about carving and I managed to slip in a shout out to Benzart. Another one of my goals was accomplished by mentioning him. I also have the big Benzart sticker surfboard in the background on the right: After she talked with me for a couple moments, I went back to acting like I was carving. They wanted me to carve one of my tikis live, but all my stuff is pretty much done, so I had nothing to carve on. Pat had his half finished tiki sitting in my yard, so I took it down to the show and pretended to carve it. It think it was kind of funny to be fake carving on a tiki that's not mine. I don;t think the viewers at home were any wiser to my charade. Next was lady Borgia doing a hair demonstration. Remembering where the camera guy stood last year, I put the Benzart board with the Factory script right where he would be shooting the most. I couldn't have asked for a better shot on screen of the logo. Finally, was RetroDiva talking vintage clothes. That logo board and my tikis still getting free air time! They told me to move my truck after I unloaded and set up. another goal was to get the POS on screen too, just like last year. I moved it back and hoped the camera guy would catch it in the background. Bingo! I parked in the head guy's spot. It had a big sign that said reserved at all times. I parked there anyway because I figured all that could happen was that some dude in a suit would yell at me and think I was stuipd. I could live with that. Best spot on the lot... king K played a closing song as I was overcome with the urge to hula The ladies all joined in too: Plenty more on air branding: Next year if I do this again, I'm going to look like a nascar guy, with all the ad space I'm going to rent out on myself. Our promotion of the event concluded with King K playing a song... and myself dancing away! I made my first official sale there too. retroDiva snatched up the newest Moai that I had in the background. And so it begins.... On 2009-08-13 07:15, TheBigT wrote: So now the question is: which sounds better? goat or cow? Btw, are they similarly priced? I need to do some more playing of the goat to decide. It sounds really good, but different than the really good the cow sounds like. It's more of a tactile difference than a sound difference. the goat runs about $40 a piece the cow runs about $35 a piece I can only get one head from a piece because they come with imperfections that I do not want to use. You can get a whole side of cow for about $150. you might get 5-6 heads out of that. On 2009-08-13 09:28, big daddy wrote: i keep looking at this one and my eyes have almost recovered from last years! Some have told me it burned their retinas so bad it stained the image in their brains permanently. When they close their eyes real fast, they see last year's photo. thanks for the eye candy! :wink: As seen on TV... Buzzy Out!

Today officially kicks off Tiki Oasis. This year's festivities started out for me this morning on the set of Fox's San Diego Living. King Kukulele, Lady Borgia, and RetroDiva joined me this year. I was asked to do some on air carving, talk about the event, and bring some tikis and decor to dress up the outside stage area. Having done this last year, I knew what to expect so I came in with the aim of shamelessly maximizing my on air exposure and manipulating the layout to do some free commercials for the Factory. I didn;t take my camera, but I have a few ghetto style screen captures that I'll share and comment on now:

After working with the producer and the host, the order of the interviews and the focus of each guest was finlaized. It started with KingK giving some general information about the event:

While he was speaking, I was doing some "performance" carving. You can see my mallet hand on the right

Next it was my turn. Notice the layout here. I positioned two surfboards and tikis in the background when I arrived. I suggested to the producer that my carving stand would fit perfectly between them. She agreed and I had accomplished goal #1, getting center stage

Renee asked me a couple questions about carving and I managed to slip in a shout out to Benzart. Another one of my goals was accomplished by mentioning him. I also have the big Benzart sticker surfboard in the background on the right:

After she talked with me for a couple moments, I went back to acting like I was carving. They wanted me to carve one of my tikis live, but all my stuff is pretty much done, so I had nothing to carve on. Pat had his half finished tiki sitting in my yard, so I took it down to the show and pretended to carve it. It think it was kind of funny to be fake carving on a tiki that's not mine. I don;t think the viewers at home were any wiser to my charade.

Next was lady Borgia doing a hair demonstration. Remembering where the camera guy stood last year, I put the Benzart board with the Factory script right where he would be shooting the most. I couldn't have asked for a better shot on screen of the logo.

Finally, was RetroDiva talking vintage clothes.

That logo board and my tikis still getting free air time!

They told me to move my truck after I unloaded and set up. another goal was to get the POS on screen too, just like last year. I moved it back and hoped the camera guy would catch it in the background.
Bingo!

I parked in the head guy's spot. It had a big sign that said reserved at all times. I parked there anyway because I figured all that could happen was that some dude in a suit would yell at me and think I was stuipd. I could live with that. Best spot on the lot...

king K played a closing song as I was overcome with the urge to hula

The ladies all joined in too:

Plenty more on air branding:

Next year if I do this again, I'm going to look like a nascar guy, with all the ad space I'm going to rent out on myself.

Our promotion of the event concluded with King K playing a song...

and myself dancing away!

I made my first official sale there too. retroDiva snatched up the newest Moai that I had in the background.

And so it begins....

On 2009-08-13 07:15, TheBigT wrote:
So now the question is: which sounds better? goat or cow? Btw, are they similarly priced?

I need to do some more playing of the goat to decide. It sounds really good, but different than the really good the cow sounds like. It's more of a tactile difference than a sound difference.

the goat runs about $40 a piece
the cow runs about $35 a piece
I can only get one head from a piece because they come with imperfections that I do not want to use.
You can get a whole side of cow for about $150. you might get 5-6 heads out of that.

On 2009-08-13 09:28, big daddy wrote:
i keep looking at this one and my eyes have almost recovered from last years!

Some have told me it burned their retinas so bad it stained the image in their brains permanently. When they close their eyes real fast, they see last year's photo.
thanks for the eye candy! :wink:

As seen on TV...
Buzzy Out!

Post #477052 by Bay Park Buzzy on Thu, Aug 13, 2009 1:38 PM