Tiki London: British Museum

For our upcoming Tiki London limited edition print, Tiki Racer and I came up with a list of London's 10 Most Tiki Landmarks. Next on our list (in alphabetical order) is the British Museum.

Why the British Museum? Well, with 45,000 Polynesian artefacts on premise, including the below pictured moai Hoa Hakananai'a and the Picasso-inspiring A'a, the British Museum is a perfect place to check out the real McCoys that influenced Polynesian Pop and Tiki style.

Photography by Pint Champion © 2007

Check back soon for the next in our list of London's 10 Most Tiki Landmarks and for more details about the Tiki London limited edition print.















The Tiki London limited edition print will first go on sale at the 2007 London Luau.

Tiki London: Black Pearl Boutique

For our upcoming Tiki London limited edition print, Tiki Racer and I came up with a list of London's 10 Most Tiki Landmarks. First on the list (in alphabetical order) is Black Pearl Boutique.

Black Pearl Boutique at Kingly Court (just off Carnaby Street) is a haven of rockabilly jewellery, vintage 1950’s clothing, burlesque corsets, and accessories, providing Tiki enthusiasts with a Polynesian oasis of tropical décor in the middle of central London’s retail jungle. Upon first entering Black Pearl, shoppers are whisked away to a tropic isle via the shop’s “Polynesian Tiki style,” which, according to Owner Fiona Deffenbaugh, “evokes the spirit of 1950s Tiki bars,” and sets it apart from the multitude of shops around Carnaby Street.


Check back soon for the next in our list of London's 10 Most Tiki Landmarks and for more details about the Tiki London limited edition print.















The Tiki London limited edition print will first go on sale at the 2007 London Luau.

Coming Soon: Tiki London

With the London Luau coming up in mid June, Tiki Racer and I thought it would be a worthwhile endeavour to research and document some of London's Tiki landmarks for ourselves.

Blazing through this urban jungle, mingling with its restless natives, and diligently making copious notes of our explorations and discoveries, we were able to plot and map our course, resulting in the upcoming limited edition print: Tiki London.


Over the next several days, we'll use the Tiki Chris blog to point out some of the highlights of London's Tiki landscape. Make sure to check back for more details about our Tiki London project as well as for images from our limited edition print. Until then, here's a teeny weeny sneak peek:















The Tiki London limited edition print will first go on sale at the 2007 London Luau.

Man v Leopard - incredible story

Thanks to Emiana for sharing this truly bizarre story with me. Wow.

Man Clad in Underwear Pins Leopard
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Times
Published: May 28, 2007

JERUSALEM (AP) -- A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.

Click here for complete article.

Cat-Napping In Israel
Sky New
Updated 15:39, Tuesday May 29, 2007











It's not every day you wake up to find a leopard in your bed - but ...

Click here for complete article.

Blogger Meet-Up at Trailer Happiness

It was a dark and stormy night ... No, actually, it was a pleasant sunny late afternoon when I met up with a few other bloggers at Notting Hill's Trailer Happiness. The only thing Dark and Stormy about the night was my preferred cocktail. The occasion? MrBaliHai was back in town. Last time we had a meet up was at Mahiki back in December. It was great to see MrBaliHai and Plep again and to meet Will Kane. Good times. Read more about our evening here.

Here are some pics of Will, MrBaliHai, Plep, Will with MrBaliHai:



Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007

Meet my new friend, Kan

Check out this friendly message from Kan, who would like to be my new friend. SPAM or just weirdness? Anyway, since s/he was so nice to send his/her contact details, I thought I'd share them with my readers.

Dear friend
what are you doning now
are you busy?
i want to make friend with u, bucause we are all like tiki
i fine your email from the tiki forum
what is your like games
i am kan
best regard!

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TEL: 086-574-27725662
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MSN: pumashoes110@hotmail.com
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Posts with the Most (Friday May 25, 2007)

This week, I started writing a new weekly series for Londonist, which is cool because I'm a fan of the site. The series is called What's for Lunch? and examines "that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break." I also took a trip over to the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms for Juxtapoz to take some pics of the Don't Do That group exhibition. I posted lots of pics from my recent trip to Amsterdam and even some of my own original bored air travel doodles. And, of course, I uploaded plenty of London Daily Photos for you to enjoy too.

Have a great weekend,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.

ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Blair likes his tea "properly strong"
London Daily Photo: Carlo
Dinner Party on the Jubilee Line
London Daily Photo: S&M Tools & Hardware
London Lost and Found: Mutual Exchange
London Daily Photo: Barbican Grill
Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?"
London Daily Photo: Soho
Chloe Early at StolenSpace
Fire delays rail travel in/out of London
London Daily Photo: Coca-Cola, Toni&Guy
Upper Playground opens in London
London may host language museum
London Daily Photo: Looking Back
Designer Sales UK
London Daily Photo: Untitled


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Amsterdam: Record Highs
Amsterdam: Chet Baker RIP
Amsterdam: Untitled
Amsterdam: Old Sailor
Amsterdam: RLD
Amsterdam: Rembrandtplein
Amsterdam: Neighborhood Watch
Anger for Children
Amsterdam: Green and Orange
Amsterdam: Untitled


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Diamond: Rapa Nui is "metaphor for our planet"
Small ship cruise to Rapa Nui
Monolithic Pop Culture References #52
Around the World by Private Jet/Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui spoof
Rapa Nui background report
Mat Lauer/Rapa Nui
Rapanui people: "What to do with moai?"
Hope for Rapa Nui's mahute plant
DS game features moai
Rapanui shares language ties with vast region
Monolithic Pop Culture References #53
Auckland yachtsman's New Zealand to Rapa Nui saili...
Rapa Nui's economy led to deforestation
New7Wonders and Rapa Nui


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Tiki Chris Update (Friday May 18, 2007)
Photos from Don't Do That for Juxtapoz
A heady donation for the the Pitt Rivers Museum in...
End of an era for Asbury Park Boadwalk
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End of an era for Asbury Park Boadwalk

No mo' HoJo in Asbury Park. I'm sad to read that the gloriously "worn-out HoJo's" has been gutted. I should probably dig up some old AP pics by Emiana and me. Until then, enjoy this one by Emiana © 2007:


Boardwalk cafe to open where HoJo's used to be
ASBURY EATERY'S DEBUT SATURDAY
BY NANCY SHIELDS - COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
Asbury Park Press
05/23/07

The national retail-development specialists are investing $150 million to $200 million to rebuild and renovate the entertainment and retail sector of the waterfront, gutted the worn-out HoJo's and created a stylish beach cafe with new lighting, flooring, bar and ceiling fans in the Fifth Avenue Pavilion. The project was completed in less than three months.

Click here for complete article.

A heady donation for the the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford

Thanks to Tiki Racer for drawing my attention to this article about one of my favorite museums and some unusual happenings going on there!

Museum offered head for shrinking
An artist is offering to donate his own head to an Oxford museum - if a collection of shrunken heads has to be returned to South America.
By Sean Coughlan BBC News education reporter
BBC News
Last Updated: Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 10:18 GMT 11:18 UK

The Pitt Rivers Museum's shrunken heads, held in a case entitled Treatment of Dead Enemies, were examples of how Amazon tribesmen took their enemies' heads as trophies.

Click here for complete article.

Photos from Don't Do That for Juxtapoz

Click here for photos from Don't Do That, a group exhibition of works by Delta, Ron English, Andrew McAttee, Dalek, Stash, and Mark Dean Veca at London's Elms Lesters Painting Rooms.











Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
Friday, 18 May 2007

Tiki Chris Update (Friday May 18, 2007)

Lots of posts to wade through. Here are some highlights:

• I finished up ontoTravel's Santiago de Compostela photo series and started with a new series of photos from Amsterdam.
• ontoTravel also features a great guest post by Chris Mavergames about his expat perspective as an American living in Germany.
• There's a new Artist Profile of fab/fun Belgian artist Spacepafpaf.
• There's also a link to my interview for whitehot magazine with London street artist Cyclops.
• In honor of the 60th anniversary of the Kon-Tiki voyage, I wrote a review of the corresponding documentary as part of my South Seas Cinema series.

Have a great weekend,
Tiki Chris

Below is information about four blogs that I administer: ontoLondon, ontoTravel, Rapa Nui News, and Tiki Chris. Each Friday, I hope to provide a weekly review of what I've posted. If a particular blog interests you, keep in mind that I’ve been blogging since well before this past week. You may want to take a look through the archives of any blog that interests you. Thanks.

ontoLondon
http://www.ontoLondon.com
Site feed URL: http://ontolondon.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Shilpa Shetty Dining Hall
Emelie Salford's Fragmented Portraits
London Daily Photo: Untitled
London Daily Photo: Summer Already?
London Daily Photo: Better Bankside
London Daily Photo: Play on Dude
London Daily Photo: Soho Square
London Daily Photo: On the 38
London Daily Photo: Special Report
London Daily Photo: Fann(y) Street
London Daily Photo: Extra Stomachs
London Daily Photo: Very Very Very Wrong Indeed
London Daily Photo: Dots
London Daily Photo: Barbican
London Daily Photo: Golden Lane Estate
London Daily Photo: Golden Lane Estate
London Daily Photo: Time
London Daily Photo: Closed
Interview with London street artist, Cyclops
London Daily Photo: Holborn
London Daily Photo: Holborn
Indian tourists now outspend/outnumber Japanese
London Daily Photo: Knowing Me, Knowing You
Amwell Veterinary Practice
London Daily Photo: Untitled
London Daily Photo: Smile


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Santiago de Compostela: DIM Moda Intima
Santiago de Compostela: Botafumeiro
Santiago de Compostela: Catedral de Santiago de C...
Santiago de Compostela: Celtic Ashtrays
Santiago de Compostela: Gracias por su visita
Santiago de Compostela: RIP
Elvis Napkin Airport Art
Amsterdam: For Two
Amsterdam: Untitled
Amsterdam: "Amsterdam"
Amsterdam: Hond in the Goot
Amsterdam: In the Way
Amsterdam: Clichés
Amsterdam: Dutch Magnets
Amsterdam: Bloemenmarkt
Amsterdam: At de Cantine
Amsterdam: Elegance
Amsterdam: Hawai Ketting
Amsterdam: Albert Cuypmarkt
Amsterdam: Art Deco
Amsterdam: Untitled
Amsterdam: In the Hour of Revolt
Amsterdam: Untitled
Amsterdam: 86X869
Amsterdam: Dutch Sandwiches
Amsterdam: Henk's Herring
Amsterdam: Raw-Milk Cheese Manifesto
Amsterdam: Photo Op
Amsterdam: Smokey
Amsterdam: Untitled
Amsterdam: Street Art
Expat Perspective
Expat Perspective: Chris in Freiburg - Arvo Meets...
Amsterdam: Space Invader
Movin' to Kauai
Amsterdam: Vlaams Frites
Amsterdam: Congestion
Amsterdam: Untitled
Amsterdam: Bloedstraat
Amsterdam: Monnikenwarsstraat
Amsterdam: Oost-West

Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Matt Lauer/Rapa Nui
Posada de Mike Rapu
New7Wonders/Rapa Nui
VOICE award winner visited Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui's "dilema faced by Rome, Anasazi, Mayans ...
Moai said to represent elders, judges, and ancestr...
Around the world travel includes stop at Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui travel info and history
Easter Island Marathon articles
Manulife president set himself apart with visit to...
Abercrombie & Kent private jet tour to Rapa Nui
Luxury travel to Rapa Nui
Monolithic Pop Culture References #51
More Night at the Museum articles


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Back in review (Friday April 20, 2007)
Published! Week in Review (Friday April 27, 2007)
Next time you're feeling small and lonely ...
What are Words for ... when you've got an abstract...
South Seas Cinema: Kon-Tiki
Offline
Online
Artist Profile: Spacepafpaf
Jungle Psychotica by the Fisherman
Cyclops Interview for whitehot
Charo does the Love Boat
Murder of Crows group show in Vancouver
Tiki Bar TV episode 25: Blue Hawaiian
Studio 360 interview with Joss Whedon
Movin' to Kauai
Hukilau 2007 Munktiki Mug

Hukilau 2007 Munktiki Mug

Yep. Hukilau is coming soon. Along with all the festivities is a very cool limited edition mug. There are only 300 of these Munktiki designed mugs. Click here to learn more, see more cool pics and to pre-order your own Hukilau 2007 mug!

Movin' to Kauai

No. Not me. Chongolio. Good luck, Chongo!

Aloha Kauai
by Chongolio
Barefoot Bloggin'
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

My first priority once I get over to Kauai is to jump in the water and then lay on the beach and bask in the Hawaiian sunshine for a few hours. Then I am gonna get busy scouring the local paper, bulletin boards and craigslist for rooms or commercial space where I can get my studio set up.

Click here for complete post.

Studio 360 interview with Joss Whedon

The new Buffy comics series means Joss Whedon's back in action, which is a very good thing. Here's an interview with Whedon in which he talks about why he decided to continue the Buffy saga - and why he chose to do it as a comic book. This one's for you, Emiana.

Buffy Returns
from the Miller, Second Life, Buffy episode
Produced by Eric Molinsky
Studio 360
PRI
May 11, 2007








Four years after Buffy the Vampire Slayer ended, creator Joss Whedon has resurrected his cult hit TV series in a very surprising fashion: as a comic book. .

Click here for more info.
Click here for the interview (RealPlayer).
Click here for the interview (iTunes).

Tiki Bar TV episode 25: Blue Hawaiian

Murder of Crows group show in Vancouver

A couple of Zombruary 07 contributors, Megz Majewski and JIRISH, are exhibiting some new paintings along with some other artists that are probably pretty cool too. The show's at Subeez Cafe in Vancouver and opens Thursday June 14, 2007.

Click here for details.

Just passing the word on.

Charo does the Love Boat

Click here to check out Charo performing the Love Boat theme song. You'll be glad you did.

Cyclops Interview for whitehot

Chris Osburn interviews Cyclops
by Chris Osburn (with photography by Marta Abalau)
whitehot magazine of contemporary art
May 2007










I like painting on the street because there's more democracy. You can just do your thing; you don't have to pay for gallery space or be curated or any of that. You just do your thing, where you like, how you like, and then it's out there. You haven't been paid and anyone can fuck it up or be inspired on the way to work by what you've made. And, once it's up, that's it: It doesn't belong to you any more.

Click here for complete interview.

Jungle Psychotica by the Fisherman

Artist Profile: Spacepafpaf

Artist Profile: Spacepafpaf


This month's profiled artist, Spacepafpaf (alias Laurence Gonry) was born in a small town in Southern Belgium. Today, she lives and works in Brussels. She studied printmaking at the Ecole d’Art de la Cambre. Spacepafpaf works primarily in wood-cut and lino-cut printing as well as serigraphy. Her artwork has exhibited in Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Quebec.

Among her influences, she lists: "horror and fantastic cinema ( 50's to 70's), vintage publicity, humour and nonsense, UFO and creatures from outer space, jungle vegetation, old medieval painters, comics from 50's to70's, rock'n roll, tiki and exotic stuff."















I discovered Spacepafpaf's work on MySpace and immediately became a fan. Something about the way she sees the world clicks with my own view (I suppose my own list of influences would be similar to hers).


http://www.myspace.com/spacepafpaf
www.spacepafpaf.be/

Online

Okay. I'm back.