Pay to Borrow - Old Issues of Tiki News - Tiki Marketplace

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 8:31 PM On 2010-11-22 15:01, naugatiki wrote: I've always wondered what the first issue looked like, I jumped aboard on issue #2. Oh, could you please post that #2 cover, I don't even remember what it looks like anymore...was it a very early Shag? On 2010-11-22 15:11, JOHN-O wrote: So is that address in Venice the "Birthplace of the Tiki Revival" ?? :) Otto had his first Tiki Mug Parties there in his backyard, beginning in 1994. That's where I met Josh Agle for the first time. But I had known Jeff Berry since the early 90s, and in 1992 I started holding Tiki Symposiums/ slide shows with the other Tiki colllectors I knew at each others houses. By the end of '92 I had enough material together to hold my first slide lecture about Tiki Style at an architectural forum: There were a few others in the Cacaphony Society that did the occasional Tiki event, but nothing on a scholarly level: I met Mark Ryden and Bosko in '93 and In '94 I had my first full color article on Polynesian Pop published in an art director's yearly mag: But book publishers kept turning my proposal down. So I was glad that Otto approached me with the idea for Tiki News. The first issue came out in 1995, and Otto began to organize Tiki gatherings at public venues, culminating in his legendary EXOTICON '95 festival at the Park Plaza lodge. He also curated his first Tiki Art show at Cacao: Until Otto moved to San Francisco, we worked really well together as a team, on a string of his Tiki events, he being the party organizer and me being the professor providing the cultural context. But things stayed on a certain subculture level for the next 5 years. In my estimate, Tiki News could not take the hurdle of its limited format: The no color/ xerox machine quality was unfortunately incapable of conveying THE main quality of Tiki Style: That of an intriguing VISUAL art form, of EYE CANDY. It took the BOT to do that. And then Josh Agle. And then Tiki Farm, AND Tiki Oasis. AND Tiki Central. And more artists and books and events. And on it went.... Here is a 1995 article excerpt with a funny prediction by Josh: Well, that happened kinda, but what he could not predict was his OWN stellar success, and his role in propelling the revival...and the role of e-bay and the internet. WHO would have thunk!!? :D [ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-11-22 20:40 ]

On 2010-11-22 15:01, naugatiki wrote:
I've always wondered what the first issue looked like, I jumped aboard on issue #2.

Oh, could you please post that #2 cover, I don't even remember what it looks like anymore...was it a very early Shag?

On 2010-11-22 15:11, JOHN-O wrote:
So is that address in Venice the "Birthplace of the Tiki Revival" ?? :)

Otto had his first Tiki Mug Parties there in his backyard, beginning in 1994. That's where I met Josh Agle for the first time.

But I had known Jeff Berry since the early 90s, and in 1992 I started holding Tiki Symposiums/ slide shows with the other Tiki colllectors I knew at each others houses. By the end of '92 I had enough material together to hold my first slide lecture about Tiki Style at an architectural forum:

There were a few others in the Cacaphony Society that did the occasional Tiki event, but nothing on a scholarly level:

I met Mark Ryden and Bosko in '93 and In '94 I had my first full color article on Polynesian Pop published in an art director's yearly mag:

But book publishers kept turning my proposal down. So I was glad that Otto approached me with the idea for Tiki News. The first issue came out in 1995, and Otto began to organize Tiki gatherings at public venues, culminating in his legendary EXOTICON '95 festival at the Park Plaza lodge. He also curated his first Tiki Art show at Cacao:

Until Otto moved to San Francisco, we worked really well together as a team, on a string of his Tiki events, he being the party organizer and me being the professor providing the cultural context. But things stayed on a certain subculture level for the next 5 years. In my estimate, Tiki News could not take the hurdle of its limited format: The no color/ xerox machine quality was unfortunately incapable of conveying THE main quality of Tiki Style: That of an intriguing VISUAL art form, of EYE CANDY. It took the BOT to do that. And then Josh Agle. And then Tiki Farm, AND Tiki Oasis. AND Tiki Central. And more artists and books and events. And on it went....

Here is a 1995 article excerpt with a funny prediction by Josh:

Well, that happened kinda, but what he could not predict was his OWN stellar success, and his role in propelling the revival...and the role of e-bay and the internet. WHO would have thunk!!? :D

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-11-22 20:40 ]

Post #566138 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Nov 22, 2010 8:31 PM