The Jungle-style Thread - Pop Culture Iconography of the Dark Continent - General Tiki

J JOHN-O Tiki Socialite Dogtown, USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Posts: 2721	J JOHN-O Posted posted on Sat, Jan 9, 2010 5:38 PM I like a good discussion too.... On 2010-01-09 14:03, bigbrotiki wrote: ...and where do you get this strange need from to continuously post and ask for all this non-Tiki related stuff on TIKI CENTRAL? I am all for expanding creative horizons, and discussing other influences and facets of Tiki, and toying with them, and I am gladly playing along as long as I see SOME connection to Tiki concepts somewhere, but Afro is Afro, Mayan is Mayan, and this not WORLD PRIMITIVISM Central. C'mon BigBro, even at the beginning of this thread you acknowledged we weren't talking about Tiki.... On 2009-12-01 19:05, bigbrotiki wrote: No no, we know this is not a TIKI thread, but a side subject/ related/ Exotica thread. And scholarly shmolarly, this is visceral fun...... I don't think it's so strange to include "Afro velvet" discussion since a lot of those Black pride images were based on African iconography, i.e. the whole point of this thread. And isn't this type of exotica and black velvet art complementary to Tiki in spirit? As for "my asking for things", I intended that to be taken rhetorically not literally. Sorry if it didn't come across that way. You did however give me my Spanish velvet image anyway. :) As for TC not being WORLD PRIMITIVISM Central, are you saying we should avoid any discussion of Pop Primitivism which isn't Polynesian or Oceanic based? I gotta believe I'm misinterpreting your comment there. And as for my continuous posting of non-Tiki related stuff, it was my original (non-Tiki) thread on Embers Lounge that lead to the identification of Frank Bowers as the artist for many of the Polynesian murals in pre-Tiki LA. If any of this stuff needs to be in "Beyond Tiki" please feel free to relocate the thread. I do however try to make the Tiki connection where ever I feel it exists. As for the use of my name in the titles of my posts, OK I'll stop doing that. :) I didn't think people found it THAT annoying. I come from a Sales background, so I'm all about building a brand. For some of my other threads however, I am providing 90% of the content. I treat my Las Vegas and San Gabriel threads almost like blogs. Anyone else care to comment? [ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-01-10 10:10 ]

I like a good discussion too....

On 2010-01-09 14:03, bigbrotiki wrote:
...and where do you get this strange need from to continuously post and ask for all this non-Tiki related stuff on TIKI CENTRAL? I am all for expanding creative horizons, and discussing other influences and facets of Tiki, and toying with them, and I am gladly playing along as long as I see SOME connection to Tiki concepts somewhere, but Afro is Afro, Mayan is Mayan, and this not WORLD PRIMITIVISM Central.

C'mon BigBro, even at the beginning of this thread you acknowledged we weren't talking about Tiki....

On 2009-12-01 19:05, bigbrotiki wrote:
No no, we know this is not a TIKI thread, but a side subject/ related/ Exotica thread. And scholarly shmolarly, this is visceral fun......

I don't think it's so strange to include "Afro velvet" discussion since a lot of those Black pride images were based on African iconography, i.e. the whole point of this thread. And isn't this type of exotica and black velvet art complementary to Tiki in spirit?

As for "my asking for things", I intended that to be taken rhetorically not literally. Sorry if it didn't come across that way. You did however give me my Spanish velvet image anyway. :)

As for TC not being WORLD PRIMITIVISM Central, are you saying we should avoid any discussion of Pop Primitivism which isn't Polynesian or Oceanic based? I gotta believe I'm misinterpreting your comment there.

And as for my continuous posting of non-Tiki related stuff, it was my original (non-Tiki) thread on Embers Lounge that lead to the identification of Frank Bowers as the artist for many of the Polynesian murals in pre-Tiki LA. If any of this stuff needs to be in "Beyond Tiki" please feel free to relocate the thread. I do however try to make the Tiki connection where ever I feel it exists.

As for the use of my name in the titles of my posts, OK I'll stop doing that. :) I didn't think people found it THAT annoying. I come from a Sales background, so I'm all about building a brand. For some of my other threads however, I am providing 90% of the content. I treat my Las Vegas and San Gabriel threads almost like blogs.

Anyone else care to comment?

[ Edited by: JOHN-O 2010-01-10 10:10 ]

Post #503279 by JOHN-O on Sat, Jan 9, 2010 5:38 PM