Post #9301 by tikijaksin on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 10:50 AM

tiki, and everything else for that matter needs mad diversity.I carve tikis all the free time i have when not tattooing,drawing,painting, and get inpiration from everything from comic books to actual people.my shit comes from old B monster movies, big daddy roth, rat fink type shit, to just about anything I like.To only allow yourself to do anything that has already been done, and not go into new ideas, all our collections will be looking like. well, munktiki says it best " does youre shit look like everyone else's ECT..." who despite not sticking stricktly to tradition, I think are putting out some of the baddest mug designs out there today .i just know if we only repeat tried and true designs we will all eventually get bored and start collecting baseball cards again.not knocking on traditon ,my tiki collection is full of traditional looking pieces from all over.but i also have some cartoony "tikis' who were made by who knows who from who knows where, that I would never part with .to finish my rant I'll just say that I love carving tikis,monsters,cartoons,and hey maybe one day I might even carve a couple of crows a lady asked if I would do a while back ,if it's fun and I'm in the mood who knows? .any ways isn't this all supposed to be about having fun? "paddlin the canoe to hell" tikijaksin