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Sat, Jul 22, 2006 7:56 PM
I LOVE that "gem stand" tiki. How big is it? if it's big enough, it would make a great end table. slap some clear on top, add a carved tiki stand and you have a Kick ass table! Totally dig your "where's tiki-waldo" work. I'm glad that you found this site and started posting. I'm looking forward to the next ones! |
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Mon, Jul 24, 2006 9:59 AM
Thanks Polynesiac! |
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Mon, Jul 24, 2006 5:32 PM
I love seeing tiki art on left of field items :) You're taking an old item with mana already and giving it some more. Kool |
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Mon, Jul 24, 2006 6:15 PM
thanks Hewey! |
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Fri, Jul 28, 2006 9:25 PM
Wow thanks! Let me know where I can get the coloring books when they are done. My kids love coloring your stuff! |
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Sat, Jul 29, 2006 9:40 AM
Hey Mauitiki! |
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Sat, Jul 29, 2006 4:22 PM
All of that sounds good, but when are you creating some more art? :) :) Good to hear its all happening for you! |
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Sat, Jul 29, 2006 10:04 PM
Hewey! |
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Sun, Jul 30, 2006 3:38 AM
Nice, and thanks :) Cant wait to see pics of the show |
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 4:54 AM
How did the Tiki art show go? |
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teaKEY
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 7:03 AM
So are there any coloring books left for the fans of your work here in Michigan |
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little lost tiki
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 8:39 AM
Hey yooz guys! |
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teaKEY
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 11:30 AM
For over 15 years and 60 exhibitions. I was always wondering were all this art was coming from. Hey talk to you later |
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little lost tiki
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 12:00 PM
Most of the Tiki stuff is at the most 3 years old-I move in phases,tackling a subject and trying to examine it completely until I feel enough paintings are completed for that "period".Then of course, these past subjects always creep into the new work. This Tiki "period" doesn't seem to wanna let up,so I guess I'm stuck doing tiki paintings and working on my book this upcoming year.Not a bad place to be,and with my Ohana inspiring me,I see no end in sight! [ Edited by: little lost tiki 2006-08-08 12:03 ] |
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 1:43 PM
Although I would of liked to have hooked up with you at the Tiki Invasion I am Glad to hear your show was a success Ken! Chongolio |
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Tue, Aug 8, 2006 1:50 PM
I hope to meet all the TC Ohana one day! You guys are such a warm bunch! Must be all that Tropical Air! Closing Reception Sept 9th 7-11(or 1 or 2) same place! Just posted some photos from the Opening Reception.I put them under my announcement in Tiki Events (California) [ Edited by: little lost tiki 2006-08-13 09:24 ] |
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Tue, Aug 15, 2006 11:57 PM
Hey TC Ohana! |
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Wed, Aug 16, 2006 9:40 AM
Cool stuff Lost, I like those pen and ink pieces. |
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little lost tiki
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Wed, Aug 16, 2006 10:05 AM
THANKS DOUG! |
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Wed, Aug 16, 2006 10:12 AM
Man! This is one jumpin' thread! Been gone for a few days and so much has happened here. Glad the show was a success and wish I could make it out for the closing in Sept. but that is a long haul. I really dig your 'night-time' paintings (The Evening Visit, Blue Hawaii and the one with the singing fish for example). You have a way of capturing a warm, balmy, tropical night as opposed to just a dark sky with stars. All of it just ROCKS! All the details and implied motion make for some real 'eyeball ticklers'!
That reminds me: I went to the gas station/convenience store yesterday to buy some TUMS. I put them on the counter and the cashier glanced out the window at all the cars at the gas pumps then looks at me and asks "any gas?". I just looked down at my Tums on the counter and said, "no, just a little indigestion." :lol: Keep up the great work Talkatchalater- |
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Wed, Aug 23, 2006 6:07 PM
Hey Surf-n-Turf! |
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Thu, Aug 24, 2006 4:54 PM
Nice work LL Tiki...I especially like the "scribe"....more of a PNG look....very nice |
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Thu, Aug 24, 2006 6:10 PM
Mahaloz Congatiki! The scribe is totally inspired by Papua New Guinea art-what a walking reference you are! I'll keep posting whenever I get the time!Just got a whole page review of the show in this week's OC Weekly (our orange County alternative press) which I'll post as soon as I can find the time to scan it! In the meantime, here's another oldie but goodie...It's called "Arrival of the Ancient One" and it's gouache on gessoed burlap.Great texture to paint on! |
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Fri, Aug 25, 2006 6:25 AM
Here's the StoryKen Ruzic’s tikis give us back our very Brady childhood "Arrival of the Pineapple Kings" by Ken Ruzic. Image courtesy Caged Chameleon I would posit, also, that we’ve got a world-view shaped by Carol Brady. We all know, with our collectible toys (best captured by Ben Stiller in Reality Bites) and our inability to properly yell at our kids, that Gen X has been nostalgic for its childhood since before it actually left its childhood—at least the childhood before our parents divorced. It’s a childhood far more realistic than the nonexistent ’50s one. Ours is more concerned with bike rides to 7-Eleven and OP shirts and the backyard parties our parents used to throw, complete with roast pig and marijuana, than with women who vacuumed in high pumps and pearls and colored people knowing their place. The ’70s may have been marked by malaise, but there was an awful lot of freedom too. With our current bloodlust for Iran and our obsessive focus on gas prices, it might as well be ’79 all over again. And the Xers are responding to it as they did back then: with Wonka colors and puka shells and a reliance on the goodness of Carol and Mike’s generation of kids. I can still remember saying plaintively to my mom, following one of our better family brawls, that I wished we could be more like the Brady Bunch. She actually snarled in response. Caged Chameleon, a lovely, expansive gallery in a Santa Ana Craftsman home, returns us to the Bradys’ thrilling Hawaiian vacation with Ken Ruzic’s “Talking Palms and Pineapple Kings.” Someone bring a ukulele. The talking palms don’t say much. The pineapple kings say even less; they don’t, you see, have mouths. But with dozens of bright cartoon canvases showing a land of happy, with a universe of creatures acting in harmony while doing their creaturely things, you can almost taste the escape. It tastes, of course, of piña coladas. Ruzic’s closed his eyes and found his happy place, and it’s a place of teals and forests and glimmering golds. It’s a place where dozens of tiki gods and tortoises, pineapple kings and magical fishes join together on epic canvases in a whole Where’s Waldo of tiki cosmology. They rattle their bones, they perform small dramas, and they stir cauldrons of (probably cannibal) stew. In the back, always, smiles the Happy Place Made Obvious: Ruzic’s Happy Hut. Take The Sun Visits the Happy Hut. There is the sun, beaming down, happy. There is the Happy Hut; but it is not happy. In the tale Ruzic’s spun to go along with his anthropomorphic canvas, the sun explains to the lonesome hut that its tattoos, its inscriptions, its hieroglyphic carvings are friends and family enough, whereupon the tattoos anthropomorphize their own bad selves, jump off the walls, play around like happy monkeys, and then settle down for a night nestled in the Happy Hut. Could there be more beneficence, more cooperation, a happier ending? Maybe it’s our Brady heritage, maybe it’s our tats, but have you ever heard an Xer advocate nuking Iraq? KEN RUZIC’S “TALKING PALMS AND PINEAPPLE KINGS” AT CAGED CHAMELEON, 1505 N. MAIN ST., SANTA ANA, (714) 836-5137. ENDING PARTY SEPT. 9. CALL GALLERY FOR HOURS. |
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little lost tiki
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Fri, Aug 25, 2006 9:30 AM
Thanks Ben! BTW: that article listed the show date September 9th and the TIME is from 7pm to 11pm [ Edited by: little lost tiki 2006-08-25 09:33 ] |
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Fri, Aug 25, 2006 10:38 AM
i think im gonna go with a wow on this one. great work, REALLY great work. i like "the evening visit" the best i think. i like all the little hiddin tiki guys. good stuff |
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Fri, Aug 25, 2006 9:00 PM
Bula,Bula Little lost tiki |
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Sat, Aug 26, 2006 9:08 AM
Aloha Duddy and Dawn! |
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Sat, Aug 26, 2006 9:21 AM
Morning Little lost Tiki |
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little lost tiki
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Sun, Aug 27, 2006 8:05 AM
Aloha Dawn! |
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Sun, Aug 27, 2006 9:30 AM
My painting skills border on barely being able to hit the broadside of a barn with a can of spray paint, so to see work like this... Amazing!! |
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Sun, Aug 27, 2006 3:34 PM
You've posted some great work in this thread, but this one really hits the spot for me. It looks sort of like a stained glass window with the bold black linework and the subtle colouring. I love pictures within pictures too. Very, very nice. |
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Sun, Aug 27, 2006 8:07 PM
Meka Leka hi |
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little lost tiki
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Sun, Aug 27, 2006 8:53 PM
Thanks Heath and Paipo! |
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Sun, Aug 27, 2006 9:48 PM
Hey LLT, Congrats on the write up in the paper and more thankys going your way. It's very cool of you to not only share your art but to also take the time to explain the process and materials that you use. I didnt realize how big your pieces are in real life. That makes them even more awesome. I really dig the elephant picture and the textured look you got going on. I got to say it again your art is way hypnotizing and very inspirational. I spent this whole weekend playing around in my studio and experimenting with materials and techniques that I have never tried before. I wish I could make it down to the gallery to see your work up close, but I am stuck up north for awhile why I regroup from a busy summer. I think it's really says something strong about the Tiki Artist here on TC when this forum still is getting plenty of new post and great art work is getting posted everyday while the others forums seem to have slowed down a bit and even appear to shut down all together over the weekends. I wish I had more time to comment on everybody's work, because I really enjoy looking at it all and get very inspired by all the creativity that is bubbin' in here. Chongolio |
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Mon, Aug 28, 2006 10:08 AM
man does your stuff look great. i really like "the herald". good job and i look forward to seeing more. |
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hewey
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Tue, Aug 29, 2006 4:10 AM
More amazig art. Great stuff :) |
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teaKEY
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Tue, Aug 29, 2006 6:47 AM
gessoed burlap- sounds cool. Man, you post with more pictures that you have done, faster than I can even pick up a brush. Everything is looking great. Usually I like to narrow down a couple of favorites from a artist collection and think about which ones I would like to own best. Your work is hard to do that with and I just like it all. Those Tikifarm mugs should be cool. I thought Tikifarm had a slow year with mugs, but it looks like they have the right idea now using some of the best tiki artist. |
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little lost tiki
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Mon, Sep 4, 2006 4:52 PM
AAAAAAALLLLLLOOOOOHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA Friends! |
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Wed, Sep 6, 2006 12:12 AM
ALOOOOOHAH! |
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Wed, Sep 6, 2006 4:39 AM
Very cool, way better than the crappy contest shirts you usually see (well, round here anyway). I was reading an article about Rell Sunn the other week, I guess I probably found it via TC somehow now I think about it. |
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Wed, Sep 6, 2006 8:48 AM
does that shirt come in a 3XL or XXLT . I like the Menehune name. And yes, the brown outline |
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Wed, Sep 6, 2006 1:23 PM
Thanks TeaKEY and Paipo! |
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Chongolio
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Wed, Sep 6, 2006 3:48 PM
That shirt say aloha. Dig dig diggin' it. That would be a nice poster too. Chongolio |
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Thu, Sep 7, 2006 10:43 AM
Thanks Chongo! |
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Thu, Sep 7, 2006 10:55 AM
Wow awesome designs! Thanks for the eye candy. ST |
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Thu, Sep 7, 2006 11:04 AM
That shirt design is so darn cute! Thanks Ken! |
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Fri, Sep 8, 2006 11:29 AM
Mucho mucho Mahaloz Shani! |
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