Sven Kirsten's book: Tiki Pop - General Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Aug 12, 2014 8:25 PM On 2014-08-12 07:25, naugatiki wrote: ...I wish there were more text and history with some chapters being a few scant paragraphs long... Me too, me too…but alas, I had to give half of the text up for the damn French, because the book was conceived as the catalog for the Tiki Pop exhibition. Mind you, if the damn French wouldn't have mounted the exhibition - the damn book would not exist! :D And to tell the whole story of Pre-Tiki and Tiki Pop from its earliest beginnings to its end (and its revival) in one volume, something had to give. As a visual storyteller, the images are holy to me, and tell the tale first, the text is secondary to them.

On 2014-08-12 07:25, naugatiki wrote:
...I wish there were more text and history with some chapters being a few scant paragraphs long...

Me too, me too…but alas, I had to give half of the text up for the damn French, because the book was conceived as the catalog for the Tiki Pop exhibition. Mind you, if the damn French wouldn't have mounted the exhibition - the damn book would not exist! :D

And to tell the whole story of Pre-Tiki and Tiki Pop from its earliest beginnings to its end (and its revival) in one volume, something had to give. As a visual storyteller, the images are holy to me, and tell the tale first, the text is secondary to them.

Post #725269 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Aug 12, 2014 8:25 PM