Post #623610 by Zeta on Sat, Feb 4, 2012 1:37 PM

CheekyTiki, Mahalo for sharing. I have never been there... Seems kinda new. What else do we know about it? Why don't you start a thread.

DustyCajun. Thanks for the support as always. Real tiki diplomat. I agree, books with pictures are nice. :)
I been to that place in Torremolinos. It's new and "chill-out""Ibiza" spirited. No tiki mugs. No classic Polynesian cocktails. They have napkins with the logo printed on it put pretty much that's it. The kind of place "normal" people go to. Not my type. Give me dust, give me moldy tikis.

BigBroTiki

A) I want as little contemporary photos as possible. In that, we all agree. The older, the better.
The mugs already have GORGEOUS illustrations and pictures of them in situ. Anyway, we definitively need some of your Hollywood tiki style of lighting for many of them, so don't worry, there's hundreds of them to picture.

B) Portraits of the artist, there's just one main creator, and some other rare cases, but mainly just one person. I have a picture of him from the 70's where he is next to a tiki! Good book material. There's many other artist and famous people related to tiki in spain, but in a superficial way. Visitors, tikiphiles etc...

C)The few remaining Tiki bar owners really take care of their temples, so we can still get mostly unchanged environments, and detail shots. But also, the artist has MANY super high quality concept drawings of the fassades and construction details, decor... There's just so much material to choose from that we could put it all together online... Choosing only the very best.

The way I picture the book is we go Mondo.

Mondo Tiki.

5 continents 1 tiki god

Chapter 1 THE REAL THING / OCEANIA

Chapter 2 between wars avaunt-gardes (dada, surrealism, cubism, etcisms and tiki,) Museum stuff. Gaugain, Picasso, etc...

Chapter 3 New origins. USA the hyper real thing

Chapter 4 Tiki Spain (The cult exemplified)

Chapter 5 Tiki Europe

Chapter 6 Rest of the world Tiki (Mexico, Japan, Middle East, etc...) This chapter with a little help from our tiki friends.

Did you know that the 4 of us, el Maestro, Mr. Naufrago, Bigbrotiki and myself come from 4 different countries? Isn't that cool? International style. NOTE: (The Maestro wouldn't have to appear as one of the authors. He just deserves a whole chapter.)

I need you to orchestrate it. And to be responsible for the rest of Tiki Europe and the USA chapter.

Let's set a date for a first draft. We could publish them as fascicles and in the end bind them together as a book. (just an idea)

Let the new tiki golden age begin!