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TSA Tiki Shark Art Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 3978	TSA Tiki Shark Art Posted posted on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 12:50 PM Aloha Tiki Tibe! Here's me still futzing around seeking to get the sky smoothed out just right. Always a tricky part for me. I want a nice smooth transition from color to color, but I want like a huge range from light to dark, so always takes me much longer than I think. Tomorrow night is Halloween! There's going to be a big wild Halloween street fair on the main drag - along Kona bay - just a few blocks from my house. Most street fairs here in this small sea side town on Kona are ... well, small and uncrowded. Very tame. However, the Halloween fair is anything but tame. Last year was the first year at this Kona location. It was packed with thousands of people. Looked like everyone from the entire island was here.... and perhaps a good amount of folks from some of the other islands. The Halloween street fair was moved here because it was banned from Lahina, on the island of Maui. It had been held there for years and years. However, it had a built up a huge reputation as "the" crazy Halloween event on the islands. Word is, it got too wild and crazy. Scared the tourists. So, now it's over here on the Big Island. The big Island is considered more one of the "outer islands" - meaning less tourist traffic, and more inhabited by folks who, for what ever reason, have stepped out of the main stream of society. Nice people, let me tell you. Sometimes they are very spiritual and consider the volcano the source of some type of mystic energy...stuff like that. People to who, perhaps, the phrase "Let your freak flag fly!" is not unknown. Also, on the Big Island is a rather rich spiritual native Hawaiian environment which was not as carelessly plowed under by agriculture or development. The Kona area was slow in population growth, no pineapple or sugar cane plantations dug up this side, and the area was the seat of King Kemehameha's last days of his reign. There are many historical sites that have been preserved. Battle fields. Ancient heiaus (temples). Many graves. Like this site in the parking lot of the Royal Kona Hotel just down the street. The Kona Inn, the oldest hotel on the island which is on the center of the street where the fair is to be held, is known to be built on top of and ancient temple or heiau - where they held human sacrifice. So, Halloween is big here in Hawaii. The culture is full of "Chicken Skin" or Ghost stories. Sightings of Ancient Hawaiian gods, like Pele, and the strange faceless hitchhikers that seem to haunt every lonely road over the island. The path of the Night Marchers around the island is greatly avoided at night, least you encounter this procession of spirits and other supernatural creatures. Meeting the Marchers is not something you want to do. If all this interests you, one of the best books about all this is "Obake Files, Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii" by Dr. Glen Grant. He compiled urban legends, ancient lore and first hand accounts. Great reading for this time of year! Further proof of Hawaiiana's connection's to Halloween: here's a solar powered tiki-o-lantern available at Lowes... dig it! And you want to hear some Halloween Exotica Music from Maui? go to: http://cudraclover.podomatic.com/ Listen to the special HALLOWEEN episode of THE EXOTICA HOUR pod cast with Curdra Clover and my bestest Witch-y female-friend and Tattoo Mistress of the Dark Rachael! They RAWK! Happy Hawaii-ween! B~ Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker http://www.tikishark.com http://www.sargentsfineart.com/artist/parker.php http://www.myspace.com/Lotus_Land http://www.cocktailnation.net [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2009-10-30 21:51 ] [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2009-10-31 00:30 ] [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2009-10-31 00:32 ]

Aloha Tiki Tibe!

Here's me still futzing around seeking to get the sky smoothed out just right. Always a tricky part for me. I want a nice smooth transition from color to color, but I want like a huge range from light to dark, so always takes me much longer than I think.

Tomorrow night is Halloween! There's going to be a big wild Halloween street fair on the main drag - along Kona bay - just a few blocks from my house.

Most street fairs here in this small sea side town on Kona are ... well, small and uncrowded. Very tame. However, the Halloween fair is anything but tame. Last year was the first year at this Kona location. It was packed with thousands of people. Looked like everyone from the entire island was here.... and perhaps a good amount of folks from some of the other islands.

The Halloween street fair was moved here because it was banned from Lahina, on the island of Maui. It had been held there for years and years. However, it had a built up a huge reputation as "the" crazy Halloween event on the islands. Word is, it got too wild and crazy. Scared the tourists. So, now it's over here on the Big Island. The big Island is considered more one of the "outer islands" - meaning less tourist traffic, and more inhabited by folks who, for what ever reason, have stepped out of the main stream of society. Nice people, let me tell you. Sometimes they are very spiritual and consider the volcano the source of some type of mystic energy...stuff like that. People to who, perhaps, the phrase "Let your freak flag fly!" is not unknown.

Also, on the Big Island is a rather rich spiritual native Hawaiian environment which was not as carelessly plowed under by agriculture or development. The Kona area was slow in population growth, no pineapple or sugar cane plantations dug up this side, and the area was the seat of King Kemehameha's last days of his reign. There are many historical sites that have been preserved. Battle fields. Ancient heiaus (temples). Many graves.

Like this site in the parking lot of the Royal Kona Hotel just down the street. The Kona Inn, the oldest hotel on the island which is on the center of the street where the fair is to be held, is known to be built on top of and ancient temple or heiau - where they held human sacrifice.

So, Halloween is big here in Hawaii. The culture is full of "Chicken Skin" or Ghost stories. Sightings of Ancient Hawaiian gods, like Pele, and the strange faceless hitchhikers that seem to haunt every lonely road over the island. The path of the Night Marchers around the island is greatly avoided at night, least you encounter this procession of spirits and other supernatural creatures. Meeting the Marchers is not something you want to do.

If all this interests you, one of the best books about all this is "Obake Files, Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawaii" by Dr. Glen Grant. He compiled urban legends, ancient lore and first hand accounts. Great reading for this time of year!

Further proof of Hawaiiana's connection's to Halloween: here's a solar powered tiki-o-lantern available at Lowes... dig it!

And you want to hear some Halloween Exotica Music from Maui?
go to:
http://cudraclover.podomatic.com/

Listen to the special HALLOWEEN episode of THE EXOTICA HOUR pod cast with Curdra Clover and my bestest Witch-y female-friend and Tattoo Mistress of the Dark Rachael!

They RAWK!

Happy Hawaii-ween!
B~

Brad (Tiki Shark) Parker

http://www.tikishark.com
http://www.sargentsfineart.com/artist/parker.php
http://www.myspace.com/Lotus_Land
http://www.cocktailnation.net

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Post #491015 by Tiki Shark Art on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 12:50 PM