Post #726658 by pjc5150 on Mon, Sep 1, 2014 12:55 PM

seeing this reminds me of the first time I saw "Green Day" performing their bubble-gum crap and was faced with the sad reality that punk rock was dead.

the difference between this and a carved tiki is that this has no soul... it is a lifeless shell. empty & void.

the "big box-ifcation" of tiki will surely ruin it. it'll put guys like me who barely make it as tiki artists out of business... then there will be hardly any "real art" out there, and then you'll have nothing but this crap top chose from. as soon as we allow the "merchants of cool", who have no love for anything but money to homogenize something authentic and package it for the masses, it is essentially ruined...