Post #612905 by danlovestikis on Sun, Nov 6, 2011 8:07 AM

Hi Friends, I'll do my best to answer each one of you right NOW!

The Blue Kahuna - I'm glad to have shown you something new. So many tiki collectors also have these lights. I'm thrilled to add my art to a new tiki version.

hang10tiki - thank you - I've been watching your gallery thread, your new Tiki Bob is darling.

Umeone - we need to see if one of our lamps was made by him. I sure am enjoying your sometimes shocking craft thread, you go girl.

MadDogMike - we are 1 1/2 hours away. He is in the mountains so eventually he'll have snow.

Hi Sven - its been a long hard summer. I've had two broken bones and my second surgery was only 2 weeks ago. I never stopped the flow of art, it kept me happy in spite of the pain.

Roge (he likes that better than Roger - it rhymes with Dodge) has left on a trip. When he is back I'll ask him all your questions. I would like a copy of him sitting on the Hubble lens that they had in the Sacramento Bee.

Sven here's a message from Dan. He said he saw a movie this week filmed in 1990. The name of the movie was The Mistress. It listed you as the Director of Photography. He said that made the movie so much more fun.

Here I'm sharing part of an email he sent to me;

My first exposure to Tiki was Don The Beachcombers at WAIKIKI in 1957 when I was in the Navy.

I had 2 Mai Tai’s, a couple of other drinks and when I walked out of their bar late at night, I walked right into a palm tree and fell over. My buddies got me back to the base at Pearl.

Along with this story he sent me photos of what they accomplished before he left.

Yes - he not only makes his resin pieces he makes the black goo and liquid resin used to build the lamp.

[ Edited by: danlovestikis 2011-11-06 09:38 ]