Tiki Central / California Events / "Tiki Farm - the Hardest Working Company in Tiki" Oct. 16th Opening Night at La Luz de Jesus
Post #556925 by MakeDaMug on Wed, Sep 29, 2010 5:42 PM
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Plus 6 new limiteds available at the show, 2 new open editions, a handful of "weirdos" and "hard-to-gets" Come and take a tour of our Farm-like, chicken coup themed monstrosity of a display, occupying the entire front gallery at La Luz de Jesus! Watch out for the rubber chickens as you rubber neck our 7'6" tall display coups, park your rear end on a bale of hay while you regain your breath and mosey on out to the back parking lot for entertainment but that there ain't no country music playin'. See rarities that you may have never seen before... Tiki Farm "odds and ends" from our very busy last 10 years including (but not limited to) posters, old catalogs, unearthed trinkets, early advertising promos, a bunch of "what the heck is that" crap, one-of-one's, none-of-none's, amazing project developmental work that never saw the light of day, weird articles on us, incorrect articles on us, great early Tiki resurgent era photos (we've aged!), old rubber molds... and some old Farmers. Plus some mugs, shots, bowls & decanters will be on display. Longtime TF collaborator Joe Vitale's flyin' in from Florida so shake his hand. Our newest designer Ghost is flying in from Japan so bow. As many of the artists that we can round up will be hanging out... but alas, our great old pal Sven Kirsten will be out of town so perhaps we should consider making "Sven masks" like we did back at Bamboo Ben's party in 2002! The show will be presented to you chronologically and we will have have a small compendium for all to use to walk the show. There will though, be areas of the show dedicated to not-so-chronological groupings of... Large, ongoing commission clients. Mugs that have absolutely nothing to do with Tiki. Old glaze prototypes that never made it to production. Broken mugs that broke our hearts (brace yourself for that part of the exhibit). Dedicated Shag, Disneyland, Trader Vic's, Mai Kai, Bali Hai, Island Systems, Plus, if all goes as planned, we may have as many as 31 exclusive previews for you at the show, too... stuff rollin' out. We should have at least 20 or so though. Fun props that kind of tell the story will be strewn throughout the shelves. The very first part of the display as you walk it chronologically will be a tribute to the predecessor to Tiki Farm, the early dot com (pre huge dot bomb massive fall-out) boom biz that started it all... ebachelorpad.com
Hope to see you there! ps - come back on Sunday at noon and I'll do a 1-hour walk through for anybody interested and will be happy to answer most of your questions. [ Edited by: MakeDaMug 2010-09-29 17:44 ] |
