Tiki Chris Week in Review (Friday July 27, 2007)

Very cool happenings to report this week. Juxtapoz posted an interview I conducted with London artist Paul Insect as well as my photos from the opening of his recent show and from the opening of Found, a group show featuring plenty of great artists such as Sweet Toof and Cyclops.

And while I'm on the subject of great artists ...

I posted a call for artists for my upcoming Halloween Skull Mask Project. I've already received a few images from some contributing artists. The results are killer!

I also got around to reviewing Journey to the Center of the Earth by Tallahassee surf band, the Intoxicators!

Don't forget to take a gander at this month's Daily Photos by photographer Marta Alabau over at ontoLondon.

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
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This week's posts:
London Daily Photo: Who Lives Here?
London Daily Photo: Patterns
London Daily Photo: Parking Space
P-Origins of Pommery at Bristol's Church of St Tho...
London Daily Photo: Dead Symmetry
Londonist asks "What’s for Lunch?" Exceline
Interview with Paul Insect for Juxtapoz
London Daily Photo: Plugged
London Lost and Found: From London to Bude (and B...
National Express ad campaign stinks!
London Daily Photo: Barge Theatre
Londonist asks "What’s for Lunch?" Luardo's
London Daily Photo: Rescue Boat


ontoTravel
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This week's posts:
London to Mongolia ... in an ice cream truck!


Rapa Nui News
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This week's posts:
Even New7Wonders nomination could disrupt Rapa Nui...
No Easter Island among "New 7 Wonders"
Rapa Nui as global warming lession
New7Wonders: Rapa Nui not included
"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #60
No Easter Island landmarks among New7Wonders
Rapa Nui mention in global warming article
Rapa Nui no "New Wonder"
"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #61
Rapamune mention
American songwriter's song about Birdman Cult of R...
Collapse of Rapanui Civilization
Tourism and media spotlight bring changes to Rapan...
"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #62
Moai at Museo Fonck in Viña del Mar
Jimmy Buffet to perform concert on Rapa Nui?


Tiki Chris
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This week's posts:
Nada Much' Week in Review (Friday July 20, 2007)
Photos from Paul Insect's Bullion Show at Lazaride...
Photos from Found, a group show at the Leonard Str...
Interview with Paul Insect for Juxtapoz
Call for Artists: Halloween Skull Mask Project
Tiki Bar TV episode 27: Dingo
New Music Showcase: The Intoxicators!

New Music Showcase: The Intoxicators!

One of the many highlights of attending this year's Hukilau was getting to catch a few performances by Tallahasee surf band, the Intoxicators! Here's a review of their 13-track CD, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a good mix of well executed surf tunes - classic and new, live and studio recorded. Almost as fun as listening to the CD is imaging the improbable images that the songs' titles suggest: "Prostitutes in a Clown Car," "The Claw End of the Hammer of the Gods," and "Tijuana Catfight" are a few examples.

My favorite song on Journey is the slowed down, atmospheric "Phantom Mustang" which would be the perfect song for any teenage male finding himself in the following situation: in the backseat of his daddy's '57 Chevy, necking with the girl of his dreams who has bubblegum breath and wears a fuzzy pink sweater and a skirt with a poodle on it. Yeah, the song's that good.

Of course, even better than listening to the CD is watching these boys live. They're tight.

Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007

Click here to visit the Intoxicators! website.

Click here to listen to the Intoxicators! on MySpace.

Tiki Bar TV episode 27: Dingo

Click here to visit the Tiki Bar TV website.

Call for Artists: Halloween Skull Mask Project

Call for Artists: Halloween Skull Mask Project

For each day during this year's 31 Days of Halloween Madness, this blog will feature a custom skull mask designed by a different artist. The idea is simple: 31 artists take the same basic skull image and customize it. Then from the 1st through the 31st of October, one customized image will be posted per day. Contributing artists will be credited along with a link to their websites and a brief sentence or two about them.

The only requirements are as follows:

1) The outline of the mask is not to be altered,
2) The dotted line and punch holes are to remain visible, and
3) The dimensions of the image are to remain the same as the original JPEG.

Deadline for submission is September 1, 2007.

Interested in contributing?
Contact Tiki Chris by August 1, 2007 for more info and to receive your skull mask template.

Click here to view some posts from 2006's 31 Days of Halloween Madness.

Interview with Paul Insect for Juxtapoz

Recently, I met up with London artist Paul Insect for a few pints and some convo about Shoreditch, London street art, and his one-man show, Bullion, currently on exhibition at Soho's Lazarides Gallery.

Paul Insect's Midas Touch
by Chris Osburn
Juxtapoz (website)
Monday, 23 July 2007

Our guy in London, Chris Osburn, spent some quality time with Paul Insect [JUXTAPOZ Issue #76] prior to his solo show, Bullion, at Lazarides Gallery.

Click here for complete interview.

Photos from Found, a group show at the Leonard Street Gallery

Click here for photos from the opening of Found at the Leonard Street Gallery in London, a group exhibition of original art made on found objects, discovered materials and other rarities. The show, at London's Leonard Street Gallery until an undisclosed date, features work by Matt Small, Nick Walker, Beejoir, AMP, Arofish, Mantis, Asbestos, Luc Price, Sweet Toof, Cyclops, Chris Stain, Skewville, Judith Supine, Elbow-toe and Rene Gagnon.

















Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
23 July 2007

Photos from Paul Insect's Bullion Show at Lazarides Gallery

Click here for photos from the opening of Bullion at Lazarides Gallery in London, an exhibition of new work by artist and image manipulator, Paul Insect.










Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
20 July 2007

Nada Much' Week in Review (Friday July 20, 2007)

Nada much' to report this week. Pretty busy offline happenings mean not a lot of blogging. Anyway ... make sure to check out all of this month's Daily Photos that photographer Marta Alabau has been providing to ontoLondon.

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
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This week's posts:
London Daily Photo: Family Tree
London Daily Photo: Geometry
London Daily Photo: At the Zoo
London Daily Photo: Laundry Day
London Daily Photo: The Estate
London Daily Photo: Ghost
"Found" Group Show at Leonardy Street Gallery
Old Street Roundabout "Safe"
Londonist asks "What’s for Lunch?" Just Falafs
London Daily Photo: The Eye
London Daily Photo: Men's Hair
Londonist asks "What’s for Lunch?" Yum Yum
London Daily Photo: The Barbican
London Lost and Found: jORGE HERZKA
London Daily Photo: On the Wall


ontoTravel
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This week's posts:
Report from Pamplona's Running of the Bulls
No More Starbucks in Forbidden City


Rapa Nui News
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This week's posts:
Rapa Nui not among New7Wonders
No Rapa Nui among New7Wonders
Rapa Nui not among New7Wonders


Tiki Chris
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This week's posts:
Lucky Week in Review (Friday July 13, 2007)
Tiki Magazine presents Tiki Island at Bali Hai
Photos from the Invisible Art Club Show in Bristol...

Photos from the Invisible Art Club Show in Bristol

Click here for photos from the opening of the Invisible Art Club show at Bristol's Workshop , an exhibition of limited edition prints Cy One, DScreet, Eko, Marcin Dudek, Russell Maurice, Seks, Snoe, and Sweet Toof.













Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
18 July 2007

Tiki Magazine presents Tiki Island at Bali Hai

Mark your calendars!

Click here for more info.

Lucky Week in Review (Friday July 13, 2007)

Friday the 13th! Must be my lucky day. This certainly has been a propitious week for great art and eye candy on the Tiki Chris blogs. Here are some highlights:

- Photos from Pirate Utopias featuring works by José Parla and Futura
- D*Face Interview for whitehot
- Artist Profile: Tiki Racer

And then of course, there are all those brilliant Daily Photos that photographer Marta Alabau has been providing to ontoLondon this month.

Anyway, I'm off to Bristol with my camera to check out the Invisible Art Club exhibition. Catch ya later.

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
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This week's posts:
London Daily Photo: Family Tree
London Daily Photo: Geometry
Bullion featuring Paul Insect at Lazarides
Family planning doctor suggests patient needs exor...
London Daily Photo: Old School
London Daily Photo: Double Vision
London Daily Photo: No Ball
Overheard: Flanked by Corpo-Coffee Outlets
Interview with London Artist, D*Face
London Daily Photo: Bodegon
London Lost and Found: Money in per Month
Londonist asks"What’s for Lunch?" Café on the Hill...
Invisible Art Club at the Workshop Store in Bristo...


ontoTravel
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This week's posts:
South Pacific Island Nation Vanuatu: Happiest Pla...
Report from Pamplona's Running of the Bulls


Rapa Nui News
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This week's posts:
Moai, Eco-destruction, Brief History of Rapa Nui
General article about Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Tribal exhibition in New York features Rapanui wor...
More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #59
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Photos from Rapa Nui on show in New York
More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Trip info for Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Arizona restaurant/lounge features moai
More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Even More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Yet more Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Rapa Nui not among New7Wonders
No Rapa Nui among New7Wonders


Tiki Chris
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This week's posts:
Tiki Chris Week in Review (Friday July 6, 2007)
Photos from Pirate Utopias featuring works by José...
D*Face Interview for whitehot
Artist Profile: Tiki Racer

Artist Profile: Tiki Racer

Artist Profile: Tiki Racer

A heady cocktail of lowbrow exotica Tiki hotrod art rooted in a love of toys, films, music and fashion from the fifties and sixties


Yep, that's Tiki Racer, an artist with whom regular readers of this blog should be quite familiar. He helped make Zombruary 2007 more interesting and put a ton of thought and elbow grease into the Tiki London project. In fact, content about, by or because of Tiki Racer has at times been integral to this blog ... which is a good thing because I really like his art.



He's prolific too, and that impresses me. From designing the logo and menu (and even mugs) for one of London's hottest night clubs to dabbling in lino, TR seems to have the uncanny sense of getting his head round just about any new medium he decides to tinker with.

Visit the Polynesian speedster online at tikiracer.com. Go!

D*Face Interview for whitehot

Chris Osburn interviews D*Face
by Chris Osburn
whitehot magazine of contemporary art
July 2007









A spot had been spied, and the only way to hit it was around the outside of a stairwell that had steel bars, in a cage-like structure covering it. To get to the spot, you had to shimmy along the outer railings which overhung the frozen canal, then up a few flights of stairs. Fine on the way up, but coming back down with paste-covered frozen hands was another story. Climbing around and along the railings, each shimmy made my hands slip further and further downwards to the point I was hunched up in a near ball-like posture and had to take a leap of faith for the canal wall.

Click here for complete interview.

Photos from Pirate Utopias featuring works by José Parla and Futura

Click here for photos from opening of Pirate Utopias at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms in London, featuring works by legendary New York graffiti artists José Parla and Futura.










Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
Tuesday, 10 July 2007

Tiki Chris Week in Review (Friday July 6, 2007)

Big thanks to Marta Alabau for supplying ontoLondon with all of this month's Daily Photos. I've been a fan of her photography for awhile and was really pleased when she agreed to contribute! Her shots are great - give 'em a look!

And speaking of ontoLondon's contributing photographers, many of last month's Daily Photos, such as this cool shot, were taken by my old buddy Pint Champion during his recent trip here.

So while those cats were filling in here on the homefront, I slipped out and had some photo fun in the South of France.

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
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This week's posts:
London Daily Photo: Atrium at the British Museum
London Daily Photo: Is this London?
No More Smoky Pubs in the New Smoke-Free London
London Daily Photo: Summer of Sport
Olympics 2012 Logo "evolves"
London Daily Photo: Favourite
Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?" F. Cooke
Gold Bullion Found at Old Street Roundabout in Lon...
London Daily Photo: Anywhere
Pirate Utopias at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
Prius Taxis to Hit London's Streets
Overheard: US or Canada?
London Daily Photo: 5 Minutes at the Lights
Londonist asks"What’s for Lunch?" Sfizio Café
London Daily Photo: 76


ontoTravel
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This week's posts:
Provence: Prior
Provence: Cotignac
Provence: Entrecasteaux
Provence: Salernes
Provence: Chain
Provence: Tiled Roof
South Pacific Island Nation Vanuatu: Happiest Pla...


Rapa Nui News
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This week's posts:
Eco-crisis led to cannibalism on Rapa Nui
Clearest point in SE Pacific near Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Piles of garbage on Rapa Nui
More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Breast cancer survivor ran in Easter Island Marath...
Clearest point in SE Pacific near Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Clear waters near Rapa Nui
New adventure comedy filmed partly on Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui researcher receives grant


Tiki Chris
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This week's posts:
Just another week with Tiki Chris (Friday June 29,...
Hukilau 2007 Photos
Me and My New Theremin!
Doing the Macarena Macadamia-Style with CHARO!
Von Franco Cover Art for Next Issue of Tiki Magazi...
Photos from the StolenSpace Summer Group Show
7-Eleven Transformed into Simpsons-Style Kwik-E-Ma...

7-Eleven Transformed into Simpsons-Style Kwik-E-Mart

News of 7-Elevens transforming into Kwik-E-Marts across America seemed just the thing to post about on the 4th of July.

Kwik-E-Mart Comes to Mountain View
Posted by Humuhumu
Junkyard Clubhouse
July 1, 2007












I was a little disappointed to see Bart & Milhouse flanking the Kwik-E-Mart logo, it kind of took away from any authenticity, but it’s a silly quibble, really. They did a better and more thorough job than I was expecting.

Click here for complete article.

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Now I Can Die Happy
Coop
Positive Ape Index
Monday, July 02, 2007

Box of Krusty-O's, designed using fonts I created for House Industries. It's all downhill from here.

Click here for complete post.

















Find out more at 7-Eleven.com.

Photos from the StolenSpace Summer Group Show

Click here for photos from the StolenSpace Summer Group Show, an exhibition of works by Mysterious Al, David Bray, D*Face, Chloe Early, Conor Harrington, Jessica Harrison, Haroun Haward, Ben Johnson, Charles Krafft, Andrew McAttee, Word to Mother, Emma Reeves, Ronzo, and Kirsty Whiten.

















Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
Tuesday, 03 July 2007

Von Franco Cover Art for Next Issue of Tiki Magazine

Here's a sneak peek at the Summer 07 cover art for Tiki Magazine:

Doing the Macarena Macadamia-Style with CHARO!

Okay. I haven't posted any Charo in awhile. Here's a clip of her doing the Macarena in Hawaii! Nice. If you can't make it through the whole video, at least check out the bit around one minute and 50 seconds into when Charo screeches "I love it!"

Me and My New Theremin!

Say hello to my newest toy - the Moog Etherwave Theremin! I bought this baby second hand from Theremin maestro Virani when he was in town for the London Luau. Why'd he give it up? He moved on to a bigger better model of this electronic musical instrument that's meant to be played without being touched.

I'm progressing slowly and haven't had much time to practice, but it seems rather intuitive to play. My main problem is hitting notes based on feel and sound alone. I'm so used to relying on my eyes to find notes on piano and guitar.

Anyway, until I get a lot better at playing this wonderful contraption, enjoy the maestro's version of one of my all time favorite songs: