MadDog Mike's Platterful of Pupule - El Tiki/Ben Wilson Wall Finished - Other Crafts

M MadDogMike Grand Member (8 years) The Anvil of the Sun Joined: Mar 30, 2008 Posts: 11035	M MadDogMike Posted posted on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 9:36 PM Chris, Wendy, Ernie, ZeroTiki, Amy, Beachbumz, Regan, Robb- thanks for all the aloha gang :D FUGU's back!! Fugu, you introduced me to Baining :) I wore my shirt to Mojave Oasis, I thought I looked damned handsome in it (I was probably the only one who thought that :lol: ) I got a little guff for the shirt, that it was "flamboyant and self-advertising". But it served it's purpose well - because I am geographically out of the SoCal Tiki loop, I "know" many people online but there are several I have never met and don't know what they look like. There were several people who came up to me and said "you must be MadDog" so it gave me the opportunity to meet several new people :D My shirt also matched my Mojave tent and chairs The netted ball is being held in the beak of a carved bird and there is a solar tiki lamp mounted on top. Please note that the scenery behind my tent is outside of the Mojave Oasis campground and is NOT representative of the paradise Amy has made in the middle of the desert. I'm going to wax philosophic for a moment. I got an opportunity to relax this weekend at Mojave Oasis and chat with some of the great tiki artists of our age. I came to realize how BLESSED I am to have a dayjob to support myself and do art (if you call it that) as a hobby. Yes, you read that right. It would seem that the aspiring artist's dream would be to become a full-time artist. But I understand now that it's not all roses. A full-time artist can't afford the luxury of spending a week on an experiment that may not work because they've got bills to pay! - So tomorrow I'll trudge off to my dayjob with a little more spring in my step :D

Chris, Wendy, Ernie, ZeroTiki, Amy, Beachbumz, Regan, Robb- thanks for all the aloha gang :D
FUGU's back!! Fugu, you introduced me to Baining :)

I wore my shirt to Mojave Oasis, I thought I looked damned handsome in it (I was probably the only one who thought that :lol: ) I got a little guff for the shirt, that it was "flamboyant and self-advertising". But it served it's purpose well - because I am geographically out of the SoCal Tiki loop, I "know" many people online but there are several I have never met and don't know what they look like. There were several people who came up to me and said "you must be MadDog" so it gave me the opportunity to meet several new people :D

My shirt also matched my Mojave tent and chairs

The netted ball is being held in the beak of a carved bird and there is a solar tiki lamp mounted on top. Please note that the scenery behind my tent is outside of the Mojave Oasis campground and is NOT representative of the paradise Amy has made in the middle of the desert.

I'm going to wax philosophic for a moment. I got an opportunity to relax this weekend at Mojave Oasis and chat with some of the great tiki artists of our age. I came to realize how BLESSED I am to have a dayjob to support myself and do art (if you call it that) as a hobby. Yes, you read that right. It would seem that the aspiring artist's dream would be to become a full-time artist. But I understand now that it's not all roses. A full-time artist can't afford the luxury of spending a week on an experiment that may not work because they've got bills to pay! - So tomorrow I'll trudge off to my dayjob with a little more spring in my step :D

Post #585364 by MadDogMike on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 9:36 PM