Virani's Undead Chihuahua by Munktiki (Z07.07)

my new dog...
by Virani
Virani le Beachcomber
Saturday, January 27, 2007

... Mon chihuahua-bouteille de Munktiki (2/75) ...

















Click here for Virani's complete post.
Click here to vist Munktiki online.

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Kick it into high gear with Tiki Chris!

Why is there a Tiki Chris Shift Knob on the Oddball Import website?











According to the website, this knob may be used "as a gear shift knob, hood ornament, a stand alone figure, paper weight or ?????"

Is it a compliment or an insult to have a shift knob named after me? Does this mean I'm famous? I don't even own a car. However, I must admit there is a vague resemblance. Oddball indeed!

Photos from In Selected Stores Only

Click here for photos from the opening of In Selected Stores Only - a mixed exhibition of new work by four contemporary urban artists - Adam Neate, Anthony Lister, Space Invader, and WK Interact (as well as works from Phil Frost's Seeing is Believing exhibition) - at Elms Lesters Painting Rooms.













Photography by Tiki Chris © 2007
for Juxtapoz
Sunday February 4, 2007

There are zombies outside and they are looking for us ... (Z07.06)

It is difficult to say with any certainty what happened to cause the zombie infestation. I never kept up with the news before the infestation and trying to find out things after with any certainty, is almost impossible ...

"Exclusive content submitted by alone from zombiesoutside.com: survivor stories, images and more from our zombie infested world."




Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

More celebrity zombie news! (Z07.06)

Well, it looks like Nicole Kidman isn't the only celeb who's been attacked by zombies! Amazing what cosmetic surgery can do these days, isn't it?

Clooney by thetop

Click here for more zombie photos of your favourite celebrities.

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Nicole Kidman's car attacked by zombies! (Z07.06)

Thank God she's okay!

Kidman hurt during 'zombie' crash
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman was taken to hospital after being involved in a car crash while filming a zombie scene in her latest film.
BBC News
Published: 2007/01/25 22:11:55 GMT

Kidman's publicist, Catherine Olim, said the star was trying to shake zombies off the bonnet of her Jaguar when the car spun off the road. "I think she's OK," said Ms Olim.

Click here for complete article.
Click here to view the incident.

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Zombie College (Z07.05)

First day of college: Your girlfriend (for whom you turned down MIT to be with) has just dumped you. Can it get any worse? It can at Zombie College!










Zombie College is a free podcast from Mondo Mini Shows (the same folks that brought you Happy Tree Friends). Click here to check out the "fresh meat at this creepy college."

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Zombie - 5 parts liquor 1 part undead (Z07.05)

Zombie - 5 parts liquor 1 part undead
Original work by Megz Majewski
Click here for more art by Megz!

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Happy Birthday George Romero! (Z07.04)

Happy Birthday George A. Romero - the godfather of zombie movies!

Filmography includes:
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Creepshow (1982)
Tales from the Darkside (1984)
Day of the Dead (1985)
Monkey Shines (1988)
Two Evil Eyes (1990)
The Dark Half (1993)
Land of the Dead (2005)
Diary of the Dead (2007)
Many More!






I don't get grossed out, I giggle.
- George Romero

Yes February really is Zombruary!



Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Zombies invade Madrid (Z07.04)

Gli zombie "invadono" le strade di Madrid per l'omaggio a Romero
La Repubblica
February 4, 2007

Zombie a passaggio ieri a Madrid, per un omaggio a George A. Romero, il regista della pellicola di culto 'La notte dei morti viventi'. I fan del regista americano, utilizzando il passaparola in rete, hanno deciso di scegliere il giorno del suo compleanno, il 4 febbraio, come giorno della Festa dell'orgoglio zombie. Le celebrazioni sono state poi anticipate a ieri per sfruttare il fine settimana.










Click here for an excellent slideshow of zombies invading Madrid in honour of George Romero's birthday.

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Kooch-e-koo and zombies too! (Z07.04)

It's a real pleasure to post this pic of a zombie by Miles Thompson. Make sure to check out his blog to see more stuff he did when working for Rob Zombie ... along with all sorts of other images of pretty much everything quirky that pop culture has to offer.

Want more? Visit www.kooch-e-koo.com and tell Miles that Tiki Chris says thanks(!) for letting me use his image on this blog!

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Open call for Zombie anything! (Z07.04)

This blog will be deadicated to any-and-everything undead for the entire month of February. Know a cool website? Wrote a movie review? Have some killer artwork? Well, here's your chance to plug/share/promote anything that has to do with zombies.

Interested? Click here to access my email address. Then, send me an email with a brief description of what you have in mind and any relevant online links.

Thanks,
Tiki Chris

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

For fast relief from necro-infection (Z07.03)

For fast relief from necro-infection [Zombie] attack, reach for stayalive ... because they are worth it.

stayalive is a proud sponsor of Zombruary 2007.
Distributed by PharmaRacer (Necropharmacy Division).

iPod for Undead Americans (Z07.03)

"We are proud to introduce our first product for Undead Americans," stated Apple president Steve Jobs. "In addition to being our third iPod model this year, it's also the first to be able to transmit music to customers without a brain or central nervous system."










Click here for more.

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Undead Rodents Day (Friday February 2, 2007)

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Groundhog Day back in the USofA. BORING!

Now, Zombie Groundhog Day, that would be interesting: undead rodents rising from their graves to eat the brains of Andie MacDowell, leaving a hapless Bill Murray to look on as only a hapless Bill Murray could.

Here in the Tiki-Chris-O-Verse, February is Zombruary. Click here to find out why - IF YOU DARE! Otherwise, kick back, retox, make a happy list, and enjoy the shortest month of the year.

And make sure to check out Tiki Racer - an official sponsor of Zombruary 2007!





Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

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:
Daily Photo: Casino Cosmic
Overheard: Grocery shop on St John St
Daily Photo: Kong
2007 Globe season announced
Alvar Aalto at Barbican
Daily Photo: mic ROBO
Daily Photo: Target
Heroic animals and Moore at the Imperial War Museu...
Daily Photo - Pied Piper
Harry Pye's Me, Me, Me at Sartorial Contemporary A...
Daily Photo - Aspirations
Daily Photo: Tate Modern Chimney
Nidology?
Daily Photo - RETOX HERE


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
British Airways strike called off
On The Road Travel: Airport Food


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Rapa Nui's moai are "more traditional, ancient" Ne...
EcoTeam to visit Rapa Nui
Sundance director previously made film about Rapa ...
"Monolithic" pop culture references #36


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Tiki Chris week in review (Friday January 25, 2007...
Coconut Wired Adventure #11
Anti-Fascism Fantasy
5 Good Reasons ... to be happy!
It's National Gorilla Suit Day!
Kono Tiki Island: vintage vinyl reviews and eye-c...

Welcome to Zombruary! (Z07.01)
Zombruary 2007 Sponsored by Tiki Racer (Z07.02)

Zombruary 2007 Sponsored by Tiki Racer (Z07.02)

I would like to thank Tiki Racer for helping to make Zombruary 2007 a reality. I'm a big fan of his style and I appreciate his sponsorship (and the cool "Zombruary 07" banners he made)!

Click here to check out more of Tiki Racer's heady cocktail of low brow exotica tiki hot rod art.

Be warned: this won't be the last you hear about Tiki Racer this month!

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Welcome to Zombruary! (Z07.01)

February sucks! December cheer is ancient history and New Year glee has all but whithered. Will spring ever arrive? Come this time of year, everybody seems to walk around like the living dead ... including myself! So, in honour of these interminable days of gloomy doom, I'm dedicating the whole month to the undead! Yes, here in Tiki Chris land, it's not February - it's Zombruary!

A whole February's worth of Zombie madness is also a great opportunity for me to flagrantly ignore that most insipid of holidays - Valentine's Day. I'm no fan of VD. Luckily, Emiana ain't big on it either. However, this does mean that I'm required to be a Romeo the other 364 days of the year.

In researching (ie goofing off) for Zombruary, I came to realize that there are a lot of people interested in the zombie phenomenon. Believe me, there was no problem finding enough material. It must be said that the upcoming series of posts is in no way an exhaustive guide to zombies.

I also found that many zombie aficionados take this zombie thing very seriously. For these zombie-philes, the question isn't What if zombies were real? but When the zombie plague begins, will I be prepared?

Creepy stuff! Just the antidote for a lousy month and a mushy holiday.

Grrr Argh,
Tiki Chris

Zombruary 2007 is sponsored by Tiki Racer.

Kono Tiki Island: vintage vinyl reviews and eye-candy

Interested in vintage vinyl, especially Hawaiian and exotica?













Then book a trip to Kono Tiki Island for a look at some excellent album covers and good reviews too!

It's National Gorilla Suit Day!

National? I decree today be INTERNATIONAL Gorilla Suit Day!

National Gorilla Suit Day, which mysteriously falls on January 31 of each year, is perhaps the important holiday of the year. Every National Gorilla Suit Day, people of all shapes and colors around the world get their gorilla suits out of the closet, put them on and go door-to-door.

Click here for details.

5 Good Reasons ... to be happy!

Prone to get the blues?

One little trick I've developed to combat the blues is to make a mental list of five things that - right off the top of my head - make me happy. Nothing too profound, just the first few positive things that occur to me. I find that this technique usually picks me up and results in my realizing a long list of other happy thoughts.

I was thinking that my 'five good reasons' idea might make a cool model for a blog - a platform for folks to list and share happy things with others.

So ...

Last week, I started 5GoodReasons.

Vist 5GoodReasons at http://5goodreasons.blogspot.com.

If interested in participating, just send an email to 5goodreasons@gmail.com. I’ll be happy to set you up. There are already a few contributors.

Anti-Fascism Fantasy

I finally got around to seeing Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, and, boy, am I glad I did! Shadowy and grotesque, poignant and alluring - this fairytale, set during the end of the Spanish Civil War, warns of what may happen when nature and virtue become relegated to the shadows.

























Pan's Labyrinth tells the story of Ofelia, a little girl, who - under the weight of tremendous emotional burden - retreats to a fantasy world of fairies and monsters. Perhaps her retreat is an escape from reality or - possibly - it's the only way she has to process the turbulent upheavel in her life. Played by the gifted twelve-year old Ivana Baquero, Ofelia is the embodiment of sympathy. Her fantasy world exists behind the walls and beneath the floorboards of an old, creaky house.

Was this behind the scenes fantasy world a nod to CS Lewis? Maybe if Lewis had been raised Catholic and resentful of that fact. Another obvious connection would be to Lewis Carroll's Alice, if only Carroll had grown up listening to Slayer. This is not a cutesy movie. Humankind's capacity for cruelty is held to the light for full examination.

Maribel Verdú (who also played Luisa in Y Tu Mamá También) is brilliant as Mercedes, Ofelia's bastion of hope and mercy.

I could go on. However, I think it better to direct you to a recent interview with director Del Toro on the radio show Fresh Air. Click here to access that interview, in which Del Toro explains how he came to take monsters into his heart at an early age.

Coconut Wired Adventure #11

Coconut Wired Adventure #11: Hay Wired
Click here to listen to the sonic surf, tropical tunes and exotic ambiance of the latest Coconut Wired episode.

Tiki Chris week in review (Friday January 25, 2007)

I promise I'll try to come up with a witty and/or insightful weekly update for next week.

Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

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:
Daily Photo: Queen in Red
Daily Photo: Out for a Sunday Stroll
London Calling - The Clash
Daily Photo: Ironic Iconic
Insane price for "flat" in Chelsea - YIKES!
Daily Photo: Chilly "G"
How was the Hockney exhibition?
Urgent funds needed for five-year old with rare ca...
Roll with this bloody good idea for Valentine's Da...
Daily Photo - Arf Off Sale
Daily Photo: On New North Road
Daily Photo: Casino Cosmic


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
British Airways Cabin Crew to strike?
British Airways strike update


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Should Rapa Nui's moai be picked as New7Wonder?
Night at the American Museum of Natural History
Moai-style climbing walls
Rats the cause of Rapanui deforestation?
Hawaiian forest disappearance similar to Rapanui's...
"Monolithic" pop culture references #34
Rapa Nui/moai-inspired graffiti photographed in Lo...
Deforestation led to extinction of dodo on Rapanui...
Popular around-the-world dancer danced in Rapa Nui...
Rough landing at Hangroa Airport
Erecting moai inconsistent with Rapanui ecology
Another mention of Rapamune
Rapa Nui as eco-morality tale
"Monolithic" pop culture references #35
Diamond book a stark warning
Moai a highlight in popular museum movie


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Another great week in review (Friday January 19, 2...
Moai Graffiti in London
Tiki Art Exhibition: April 15 - May 20 in Amsterd...

Tiki Art Exhibition: April 15 - May 20 in Amsterdam

I'll be covering the April 15 opening of the Tiki Art Exhibition at De Cantine in Amsterdam (!!!) for Tiki Magazine.

Anybody else going? Could be fun!
Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki!

Moai Graffiti in London

The other day while strolling along Regents Canal and Essex Street in Islington, Emiana and I came across these samples of street art with a bit of Polynesian flair.

IF ANYBODY knows anything about the artist(s) responsible for this Easter Island street art, please contact me! I would love to feature more of this work and to interview the artist(s) involved. Thanks.

The first photo appears as today's ontoLondon Daily Photo. Click here to check out more London photography at ontoLondon.

Photography by Emiana © 2007

Another great week in review (Friday January 19, 2007)

Another great week with an excellent artist profiled, a brilliant album reviewed, plenty of London photography, and a new survey that I'd love for you to answer (thanks to everyone who already has!).

Per usual, there's oodles more. So ...

Please see below for a complete listing of all of this week's posts.

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:
Daily Photo - Disused Factory Wall
Daily Photo - Special Offers
Daily Photo - Sale
Overheard: St John St and Clerkenwell Rd
Daily Photo - Metal Grate
Automated buses: innovative design or future cock...
Daily Photo - To be Demolished
Daily Photo - Back End
Dave Gorman on Flickr
Daily Photo - Untitled


ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
What? But, I already paid for my ticket!


Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
"Monolithic" pop culture references #33
More Rapamune mentions
January's Conde Nast Traveler has Rapa Nui info
Rapanui divided over future of moai
Imaginative Traveller's "Easter Island Extension"
Rapanui culturally connected to other peoples in O...
Custom climbing walls can be made to look like moa...
Hurst TV to feature Rapa Nui
Moai stood guard at Ohio's Kahiki
Rapa Nui News now on MySpace
Rapanui "ignored nature"
Panel experts included Rapa Nui among New7Wonders ...
TV show mixed Rapa Nui speculation with spirituali...


Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Week in Review (Friday January 12, 2007)
Artist Profile: C. Michael Frey
New Tiki Chris survey
Hawaiian War Chant in Norwich Union commercial
What would you do for Robert Drasnin's Voodoo 2?
Rapa Nui News now on MySpace
New Music Showcase: Ash Valley
Little Chimp Society - Art! Art! Art!

Little Chimp Society - Art! Art! Art!

Here's a link to a great site for a little lunch break eye-candy or for reference next time you need to hire an illustrator: thelittlechimpsociety.com

And, here's a great little blurp about the LCS on Juxtapoz:

Little Chimp Society
Juxtapoz
Thursday, 11 January 2007

There's a little website out there with so many contributions, links, and resources, that it's hard to believe they incorporate the word "little" into their name, but the Little Chimp Society keeps getting bigger and better with their fourth incarnation of the website.

Click here for complete article.