Post #486957 by abstractiki on Wed, Oct 7, 2009 6:14 PM

Thanks very much everyone for all your great comments! I do appreciate them! :)

Tikicleen said-

"these are so much more crisp than the crummy low-grade library copies i obtained."

LOL Tiki said-

"Is the artist rendering you posted from the newspaper or an actual copy?"

These are awesome in the sense that we all love the Islander but these are all crummy low-grade copies like tikicleen said. What i did was re-photograph them with my cannon 10-D camera and worked the brightness and contrast over to make them a bit better to see.

I would love to get my hands on the original artist rendering, that would be a treasure find.

LOL Tiki said-

"I wonder if the Islander's Bumatay mug was based on the tiki in this photo?"

Can someone post a picture of the Bumatay Mug for comparison? uummm...I've never seen one.