Post #570754 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 2:26 PM

Mahalo, Martian, your passion for your subject and the work you do to share it is much appreciated! I believe I had asked here before if it is known which coast Sandy Lane was working at: Would it be Florida, the Voodoo sculpture could very well be a Van DerCar work. Is it L.A., that ridiculous devil doll would most likely have hailed from the ROSHU prop house, like the Tiki I mention in this thread:

http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=2910&forum=1&17

Roshu was a supper tacky 60s prop rental house which I had the fortune to have set pieces rented from for several music videos I shot in the 80s.

The "Tabu Drinks" and "Cathy's Pagan Isle" articles are nice too, but considering what the photos COULD have been like with the addition of a few Tiki mugs and statues (which would have been readily available back then) they are a little disappointing. Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that these skin mags basically bought generic photo sessions from photographers, and then gave their copy writers the job to come up with evocative headlines and captions - or vice versa, an article written about a specific subject like pagan drink rituals would be illustrated by some nude pics with only faint relation to the text because they were available. That would explain the stylistic disconnect.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2010-12-31 14:36 ]