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Post #661384 by Tiki Shark Art on Wed, Dec 12, 2012 11:17 PM
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Aloha Tiki Tribe! Why have I been painting "The Body Glove Sea Creature"? Well, that's a long story, and here it is:There's a Surf Magazine which holds a swanky contest to promote surf photography. It's invite only, and only open to big sport brands like Nike, Bill-a-Bong, Volcom, and like that... so, Body Glove was asked, and Last year Body Glove won first place! They were asked again this year, and thought hard and long how to up their game and win again. So created (after gawking at stuff hanging in their office like my Monsters in Hawaii post cards, and pop-surreal calendar. I'm very flattered that they had my "Creature from Kona" post cards up ... and maybe I helped along in their creative process) and they, headed by Greg Browning (pro surfer since he was 13 now a professional film maker for Body Glove) ... chose to create a surf film, that was also a MONSTER movie! They made the movie... it's Sort of the "Blair Witch Project" except with a professional surf team. Then.... THEY WON FIRST PLACE ! So, how cool was that?! Way WAAYY Cool! A surf film with a Sea Creature! Love it! I loved it so much, I decided to paint a painting of it for my next big art show at "La Luz de Jesus Gallery" in LA in 2014. This is a once in a life time chance when these thing just fall in your lap, so you GOTTA' do 'em! I asked Body Glove if they were OK with me painting it, and not only were they OK, they loved it. Greg Browning, surfer /director who directed the short film is really excited... we had a special meeting last time I was on the mainland and at Body Glove HQ, he told me how happy he was that some one else out there was having as much fun with this whole thing as he was. So, the Body Glove Sea Creature has made a few more film festivals, and won more awards, and the Creature himself has shown up at some surf/trade shows and caused much excitement. So we want to keep having fun with this as long as we can. We have a Body Glove super quick dry style of board shorts called Amphibious that we want to tie the Sea Creature to next season...and maybe the finished art from the painting can make it onto tee-shirts, or Board Shorts, or aloha shirts... All that was going on and then my buddy Holdren Westland called me about doing some tiki-mugs for TIKI FARM if I had time. I thought this was a chance to make more fun swanky tiki / sea creature stuff and ...thus the meeting about tiki mugs with Body Glove at DEMA. OK long story over... (WHEW!) Anyways... There are two tikis in the BG (back ground) of the Sea Creature painting...so I figured 3 mugs - two of the BG tikis, an d1 of the Body Glove Sea Creature it self. Cool? Well, after all that it's been going on after my own big art show this last summer at La Luz De Jesus Gallery, and all the commissions and follow through that caused, so I have been bug crazy busy, and I just got had not had a chance to get around to doing some sketches and starting designs yet . BIG ALOHA!! |
