The Lurid low-brow Tiki-Art of Brad (tiki-shark) Parker - Other Crafts

TSA Tiki Shark Art Member Joined: Aug 31, 2006 Posts: 3978	TSA Tiki Shark Art Posted posted on Sun, May 5, 2013 11:54 PM Aloha Tiki Tribe! Let me introduce my newest MEGA Tiki-Art Patron! The TARGET'S in Hawaii have an area that sells Tourist Gifts. And I was kinda' shocked to see my stuff in so mainstream a venue. They even carry the "Monsters in Hawaii" post cards! These were designed to be very "Low Brow" and a ultra-kitschy riff on traditional Hawaii Post Cards. I wonder, do they grock the Kitsch? Do they grasp the irony in that I'm sort of turning the post card thing up side down? Well, the Target buyer must like it, as this is the second TIKI Calendar of mine they have carried. Well, I gotta tell you it's quite rewarding to see my art effecting American Pop Culture in this way. Sure maybe a small way, but just knowing people will come back from their Hawaiian vacations with some TIKI ART for their walls gives me a great sense of doing something good with my art. So, yep yep yep, I get a warm-squishy-happy feeling seeing that in some little way I am getting TIKI Art to people who may never have seen it before, and that Tiki Culture in alive and well! Big ALOHA! B~ [ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2013-05-06 00:00 ]

Aloha Tiki Tribe!

Let me introduce my newest MEGA Tiki-Art Patron!

The TARGET'S in Hawaii have an area that sells Tourist Gifts. And I was kinda' shocked to see my stuff in so mainstream a venue.

They even carry the "Monsters in Hawaii" post cards! These were designed to be very "Low Brow" and a ultra-kitschy riff on traditional Hawaii Post Cards. I wonder, do they grock the Kitsch?

Do they grasp the irony in that I'm sort of turning the post card thing up side down?

Well, the Target buyer must like it, as this is the second TIKI Calendar of mine they have carried.

Well, I gotta tell you it's quite rewarding to see my art effecting American Pop Culture in this way. Sure maybe a small way, but just knowing people will come back from their Hawaiian vacations with some TIKI ART for their walls gives me a great sense of doing something good with my art.
So, yep yep yep, I get a warm-squishy-happy feeling seeing that in some little way I am getting TIKI Art to people who may never have seen it before, and that Tiki Culture in alive and well!
Big ALOHA!
B~

[ Edited by: Tiki Shark Art 2013-05-06 00:00 ]

Post #676793 by Tiki Shark Art on Sun, May 5, 2013 11:54 PM