*On 2008-08-22 12:59, Bay Park Buzzy wrote:*After the hotel gig, I worked on another project for the evening over at Babalu's studio.

Here I am, a proud papa with my first completed mug! Better pictures on Babalu's thread, as well as LLT's mug and Babalu's new work.

I'll be back soon to catch up on correspondence and continue on with the journal.
Buzzy Out!

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[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2008-08-22 13:03 ]

Wait.. what?

Happy Birthday, man.........Mug making scumbag! You finish that Pug Mug yet?

happy birthday buzzy! man now that youve got the drum making down you need to make some bongos! how radd would that be?

HAPPY B-DAY mug dude!

Time for a POOH party.

Happy Birthday Buzz! :tiki: :drink: :tiki:

.....happy birthday buzzy........

Indeed, felicitations, and all that. --Tara

Happy birthday Buzz!!

Happy Birthday BUZZ, or I Hope you Had a great Birthday!
Your #1 Mug looks like crap, When can I get 1? Darn COOL it is!

Happy, happy, happy... :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Buzzy's birthday weekend was fun! Here are a couple of things that were happening around the House of Buzz...

Here's Buzzy explaining to Ringo that Buddy Cat is our friend, and he likes it better when he's not chasing him.

So far so good!

Cut to 3 seconds later...

Oh well!

Then, a little later on we catch Kiva and Ringo settling into their nap position.

Oh, but before they drift off it's a little pose for the camera, SMILE!

Best friends!

Zaya

Kriminey, Ringo is getting bigger! How big is he gonna get?

Today's sunset:

I wasn't feeling well the last few days, but today I pulled myself together enough to get some work done and make a little mess of things:

All the rest of the update pictures I took after this turned into "file errors." :(

I had to work a split double shift today. Here's what I made at my new night job:

I did a lot of playing today, trying different tools, and learning a new medium. I should get it done tomorrow.

Let me take a moment and reflect upon some previous comments made here on this thread:

On 2008-08-19 19:58, kingstiedye wrote:
damn you buzzy! first you make me cry and then you go and tell everybody about it!

Sorry KTD! I forgot to tell everyone that you were crying from laughing so hard at us pussies for crying. Now you went from a crybaby to a bully! Is that better?

On 2008-08-19 21:23, HOUSE OF KU wrote:
any one know what this was originally? I think it's an auto repair shop now...

Freddie: old thread on it

Personally, I think he's freakly like dat... it makes Buzzy's shirt look almost pink.... in fact it was pink :roll: ...

It has a tropical print on it!

On 2008-08-19 22:04, LOL Tiki wrote:
Subjects for your next carvings or something to help out in case you run out of wood? :D

I always have wood...

On 2008-08-20 01:19, Benzart wrote:
Buzzy, maybe you should quit carving tiki and just become a writer, At Least till you get this journal done, WHERE's THE REST??

I never found anything to write about except carving. If I quit carving to write, it would be double suicide.
I have 88 pictures done out of a couple hundred. I'll get to it soon...

On 2008-08-20 11:30, hodadhank wrote:

I'd like me one of them too so get choppin! Not kiddin! No head though. I'll take it to the World Beat Center and get a heavy goatskin stretched over it so I can wail like a champ...

I think that if I had a list for drums you would be #3? This place has some bear skin heads: http://www.furandhide.com/default.asp

On 2008-08-20 13:25, kingstiedye wrote:
the drum came out beautifully. i was sad dan and wendy couldn't quite pull the trigger to buy it. i was hoping it would be close enough to visit from time to time.

Maybe someday I'll have a drum list and then they can get on it and i can make a drum when their turn comes and then they can get it and you can visit it.

On 2008-08-20 14:22, TravelingJones wrote:
[/b] :lol: (sorry, this is all BF..."Before Freddie")
... now I'm feeling that a menehune tribute is to follow?

Here's a couple pic's of the claymation birth of the Tiki Guy- Legend of Bay Park Buzzy... That's it...

A Freddie the michevious Menehune and the Zay hula girl. You have a list yet?
There's gotta be more than that!
Thanks again Jonesey!

On 2008-08-20 14:50, The Sperm Whale wrote:
Buzzy-
That drum looks super awesome!! How does it sound?

I sold it so fast I never got to hear it. I can't wait to hear what the second one sounds like- after I carve it.

On 2008-08-21 15:47, Lake Surfer wrote:
Swing down to the Tiki Mag Art Show opening and say hi if you get the chance, I'll be in town.

Yeah, I'll definitely be there. C-ya there!
Everyone else come too.

On 2008-08-22 09:15, teaKEY wrote:

How bout you one of your links (homepage or Comicbook) a link to the House of Buzz.

I'll get right on it. It's almost broadcast season...

On 2008-08-22 14:04, Tornhalo wrote:

Wait.. what?

I voted "Buzzy for Spare Change" in '08 and won by a landslide!!

Thanks for all the Birthday love folks!

Back to the journal tomorrow!
Buzzy Out!

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[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2008-08-26 00:06 ]

[ Edited by: Bay Park Buzzy 2008-08-26 00:09 ]

Tiki Oasis 2008 Journal Entry Part 5: Friday night fun

After I attatched the rawhide to the drum, I had to get ready to go to the night's festivities. I wore my Sunday's best and Zaya and I went down to the hotel. Most of the night was spent scurrying around from room to room meeting up with old and new friends alike. we didn't take the camera with us, but Freddie snapped a few. In this group shot that Freddie had someone take, I'm the only one wearing real socks:

I think after 19 straight hours of Tiki Oasis setup and party filled madness, I came home to get ready for vending bright and early the next morning. Unfortunately, right when I settled in for the evening, the dogs, who had been sleeping all day, decided 2am was play time. They do this new thing called lazy fighting. They lay side by side in bed next to each other and bark, growl, and fight. Since they are not stand up fighting, they don't get tired as fast and can play that much longer. After about 45 minutes of trying to sleep in something like an illegal City Heights dog fighting pit, I got up and did the last few things I was going to do in the morning. the dogs finally settled in and I only got about 45 minutes sleep that night. And, Saturday was going be an even longer and more fast paced day...

Now were going to go back to that Pulp Fiction Time jump thing for a hint of some of the coming action:

Tiki Oasis 2008 Supplementary Journal Entry: The 2008 Chippin' Males Mr Tiki Meet and Greet Autograph Line and Picture Signing Event

Once again, one of the most popular attractions at this year's event was my annual Pin Up photo signing event. It was the first official event scheduled for Saturday morning. I got there at the crack of dawn and found that there was a rather long line of fans waiting to get their limited edition prints and posters. Here I am to officially kick off the weekend of Tiki Oasis 2008!

In fact, the first three young men in line had actually been camping out since Wednesday afternoon to get the coveted low numbered prints. I'd like to thank these young fellows for being such fervent Buzzy loyalists!:

Enjoy your autographed prints boys!
I'll have more on this noteworthy part of the event later on.

Tiki Oasis 2008 Journal Entry Part 6: The start of my vending day

After the prints were all handed out, I still had about an hour or so to get my vending area all set up.
Here's the vintage table part of my vending area.

I really cleaned house this year and got rid of a bunch of stuff I don't have room for.

A lot of it was really nice stuff I liked, but I need room for stuff I like better

My mug collection is now a comfortable 8, and one special one of one. Most all this stuff went to new homes:

At some point in my pricing of my stuff, I turned around to notice that someone had piled up all of Cammo's hand painted extra cool hats in a stack, and placed a plastic display of $4 coasters in front of them. In this picture, you can see his hats stacked like those $5 ones at the swap meet right behind me:

I took the coasters, moved them in back of the table, and neatly arranged the hats in front of them so that everything could be seen. I priced some more stuff, turned around, and saw that the hats were all stacked up again. For the second time, I moved everything back and explained to the six other vendors behind me that those hats needed to stay there. Then the coaster guy gets in my face and starts yelling at me for moving his stuff and all this other crap I can't remember any more. Since I didn't know him, and it was my booth, I handed him his stuff and told him to get the F* out of here and take his S* wth him. He got back in my face and said he was going to have me thrown out of the event. that really was the turning point in my further tolerance with this man. I communicated to this man through my, tone, volume, posture and choice of words that I was the capable of the type of crazy fury that he could never truly comprehend unless he continued to push me further, which he kept doing. Eventually, he figured out it was my booth and he was not a legit vendor and I was just about to make this the worst day he could have. He slithered off with his stuff and found some other booth to sell his stuff out of. Based on the recent trend started by TikiDan at the Tiki Farm sale, and continued on en masse at this years Oasis, I am no longer going to pay for or reserve a vending space at any tiki event in the future. I'm just going to show up and pirate vend. The organizers are usually to drunk or busy to deal with it, so it's a cool free pass. It won't stop at vending, either. I think I'm going to start putting my stuff up in those art shows at that taco shop gallery in Costa Mesa. Just show up with a tiki doodle and a hammer and nail and I'm in. Those Tonga Hut art shows: I'll just photoshop my name in on all the flyers, show up and sell, sell, sell!

Speaking of sell, I also wanted to sell some tikis.

This was part of my tiki display/sale area. A couple of these were sold, but I was using them later in the day as decor for some book signings by some author and some painter guy. I had a few up on stage too. Those would stay up there for the night's show and then be moved into my vending area on Sunday morning. So here's the Saturday "stock."

I like the two of these side by side for comparision. The Lono on the left, I just finished. the Lono on the right was finished two years ago.

I was so sick of dragging it to every show and not having it sell, that I priced it at $100 to get rid of it. My plan worked! It sold.

More tikis

The same tikis, just closer.

And the drum that I still needed to finish...

I had hoped to finish the drum after the autograph signing and booth setup, and before the vending time started. Unfortuneately, that plan didn't work out because as soon as I started pulling stuff out of boxes, it sold right away, and there were four deep people looking at my stuff for the first couple hours.
I didn't even have time to change out of my dirty load in clothes and put on my trunks and take a dip in the pool. It was non stop action from the moment I got there.
Here I am in the middle of the melee, hard at work bringing vintage tiki collectables to the hoards of tiki collectors that come to this event.

I do most of my best work from the seated position.

After it slowed down a little, I was able to get the drum finished.
That is where we will pick up the next chapter of this epic recounting of my experiences during this event.

Buzzy Out!

Buzzy you funny!!

This is not supposed to be funny. This is a highly realistic account of the busiest booth at Oasis, told up front and personal by the Buzz Man of Buzzland, Buzz Central.

His telling of the "Coaster Guy" story is acurate in every detail, I was there for the ending when that reptile slithered away, Buzzy yelling profanities and throwing razor-sharp chisels at his retreating feet. It was breathtaking.

Buzzy was made for Oasis.

Who are those handsome young men lining up for the beefcake photos, anyway? Not that I'm interested.

I hardly got to your side of the pool Buzz! Vintage goodies looking great. So this is why you and Erik race each other around the swap meet! lol

Kind of an ugly story about the squatter but I have a hard time believing this was as widespread as it certainly seemed to you at the time. Thanks for keeping a lid on that loco streak! Sorry you had to put up with that. I wish you'd told me or Mark or Matt right away. Since assisting Mr Riddle with the indoor vending area in the Lanai as well as assisting Mr Reese with outdoor shenanagins, I assure you this is the first I've heard of an gate crasher harassing or otherwise interfering with a vendors exhibition space. As a former Philly bouncer I'd have been happy to escort the gentleman from the event if so instructed.

Was this on Saturday?

On 2008-08-26 17:39, Cammo wrote:

Who are those handsome young men lining up for the beefcake photos, anyway? Not that I'm interested.

After they met me, they went out and started a Buzzy International Fan Club. Here's the world headquarters they set up in artists alley later that weekend:

I'm the first vendor at Oasis to franchise out. Oops! Check that! Coaster guy was selling in 4 other booths...

I may be small time in the tiki business world compared to tiki coasters guy, but I have a Fan Club and a Statue!
Buzzy Out!

This thread is certainly very entertaining! Keep up the good work.

What a sweet couple of darling fellows!

And they can carve, too?

Actually, a "Buzzy Fan Club Troop #1" would make a nice t-shirt...

I didn't have a chance to take an update picture of my day job, but I assure you all that it is going quite well. I'm working on a prototype test carving to make sure the ideas I have will actually work out on the final pieces. So far, so good and it is all working out as planned. More on this later as I start on the real pieces...

Last night was another work night for me at the House of Babalu.

I worked on and finished my second mug. I did a lavaesque background for it

It's marked from an old tikibar restaurant in Bay Park:

I hear that restaurant used to go off, back in the heyday.

I still had a little time before I turned into a pumpkin so I started another mug, which is a redo of one I started a couple months ago and never finished:

I think it will commemorate the second anniversary of The San Diego Tiki Factory, which happened earlier this year. If I lag too much, it will be for the third.

Days are for carving.
Buzzy Out!

:o :o :o Great work there Buzzy! Great that you now work day and night..:)....Sleep is over rated...:wink:
Freddie

Bravo BUZZER

Today's sun going behind the clouds moment:

The prototype I worked on yesterday showed me that my ideas would work for my next piece. Here's Kiva frustrated because I took over the living room floor with my work again:

That's the test piece sitting there in the foreground.

So today, it was back to the day job. I used what I learned on the prototype and applied it to my new piece

I carved this tiki into a log. Nothing special, I will admit.

However, there is more to be revealed with this one...

Check it out from this side.

A little more carving was done here than on the other side

It's a chair for a dining room table...

Leg detail:

On 2008-08-27 10:28, HOUSE OF KU wrote:
Great that you now work day and night

Yo Freddie! I;'m taking the evening off tonight. Don't know about graveyard shift yet...

On 2008-08-27 16:50, Benzart wrote:
Bravo BUZZER

Gracias BENZO

What's on tv, I have the night off!
Buzzy Out!

Buzzy Rocks!

The test piece looked like it was going to be drum #2, but whoa, a chair!

20th century - Witco.

21st century - Buzzco!

Buzzy Rocks Hard!

Don't give up the night job just yet brother...your a natural. I took tonight off too. Trying to work with China bites!

Don't let me down Buzz. Brass knuckles!

Jonesey the Buzzy tiki is just so terrific. I didn't know Buzzy when you first showed the project to me. Now that I know him and see it finished I am just so impressed with your talent. You rock, Buzzy rocks, I just love all the great people that tiki has brought into our lives, cool, Wendy

Here's yesterday's sunset from the hotel:

After working at the factory all day, it was nice to take my show on the road and spend some time under the clouds. I took the prototype turned drum to work on.

I hardly took any stuff with me, but I had a good day nonetheless. This was last week of this gig.

Aside from back to back wedding rehearsals, the only other excitement was...

The guitar dudes right speaker went out and he couldn't fix it. He still rocked on the whole second half of the set!

The wine and cheese crowd had a great time, despite the diminished soud quality

In other tiki news, I finished another chair this afternoon:

One side of this log couldn't hold any detail at all, so the design is kinda chunky there

This log gave me a real neat naturally tapered shape to the whole thing

Two down, one more started today

On 2008-08-28 18:19, danlovestikis wrote:
You rock, Buzzy rocks, I just love all the great people that tiki has brought into our lives, cool, Wendy

Hey Wendy! The whole world will soon share in the moment when this person was brought into your lives. Stay tuned for a forthcoming journal entry from this year's Oasis, featuring Buzzy meeting Dan of Danlovestikis and Wendy of Danslovestikis. Coming soon to this thread!

On 2008-08-28 14:59, Tornhalo wrote:
Don't let me down Buzz. Brass knuckles!

Go back a few more pages on Babalu's other crafts mug making thread. :wink:

On 2008-08-27 22:53, Babalu wrote:
I took tonight off too. Trying to work with China bites!

Waitaminnit! Everytime you say that, I see that Cammo came over. Why did you and Cammo vote me out of the Southern California Coastal Polynesian San Diego Touring Hand Built Tiki Mug Ceramics Club?

On 2008-08-27 21:06, 4WDtiki wrote:
21st century - Buzzco!

That has a nice ring to it.

On 2008-08-27 20:42, RevBambooBen wrote:
Buzzy Rocks!

And I'll keep on rockin,
Aint never gonna stop.
Gotta keep on rockin,
Some day I'll make it to the top.
And be a Tiki Guy Hero,
woodchips in my eyes...

I'm also working on the drum at home tonight since I was BANNED from Babalu's studio and couldn't go over there tonigt.
Buzzy Out!

That Cam guy is like the wind.......he freakin' BLOWS!