New Nirve Bike - Tahitian Sunset (tiki laced) - Collecting Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Wed, May 12, 2010 8:28 PM Kool for kids. But here is a good opportunity for me to point out my pet peeve again, because we don't know the artist, and folks have not jumped in and oooh-ed and aaaah-ed about this bike yet, so nobody will feel personally attacked or like I am intending to "spoil their fun": To me, this is another sad example of uninspired, generic Tiki, with the designer not having looked further than the internet, and copying a bunch of standard Tiki revival designs from it. Here is one, a cheapo (but cool) Tiki lighter, I could dig up each and every one, it's just to tiresome: As I said many times: Drawing a cartoony face with a toothy grin and slapping the label TIKI on it does not make it a Tiki. The joke of Polynesian pop lies in using original Oceanic AND mid-century concepts as inspiration and giving them a new twist. By just repeating standard Tiki revival Tikis, Tiki culture will go in circles creatively, and become as cliche and redundant as Cadillac tail fins and Marilyn Monroe. And that would be a shame, considering that the initial appeal of Polynesian pop lies in its infinite variety of re-interpreting an art form in unique, creative ways.

Kool for kids. But here is a good opportunity for me to point out my pet peeve again, because we don't know the artist, and folks have not jumped in and oooh-ed and aaaah-ed about this bike yet, so nobody will feel personally attacked or like I am intending to "spoil their fun":

To me, this is another sad example of uninspired, generic Tiki, with the designer not having looked further than the internet, and copying a bunch of standard Tiki revival designs from it. Here is one, a cheapo (but cool) Tiki lighter, I could dig up each and every one, it's just to tiresome:

As I said many times: Drawing a cartoony face with a toothy grin and slapping the label TIKI on it does not make it a Tiki. The joke of Polynesian pop lies in using original Oceanic AND mid-century concepts as inspiration and giving them a new twist. By just repeating standard Tiki revival Tikis, Tiki culture will go in circles creatively, and become as cliche and redundant as Cadillac tail fins and Marilyn Monroe. And that would be a shame, considering that the initial appeal of Polynesian pop lies in its infinite variety of re-interpreting an art form in unique, creative ways.

Post #529851 by bigbrotiki on Wed, May 12, 2010 8:28 PM