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Friday, July 20, 2007

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

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Tiki Magazine presents Tiki Island at Bali Hai

Mark your calendars!

Click here for more info.

Friday, July 13, 2007

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
http://ontolondon.blogspot.com
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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
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
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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
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
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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!

Thursday, July 12, 2007

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.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

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

Friday, July 06, 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
http://ontolondon.blogspot.com
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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
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
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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
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
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...

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

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

Monday, July 02, 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!"

Sunday, July 01, 2007

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:

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Hukilau 2007 Photos

Here are some of my photos from Hukilau 2007. Good times! Among the many highlights was finally making it to the Mai-Kai. Wow - worth the trip alone! I hope to make it back in years to come and to bring a few more folks with me.

General Hukilau photos:

Mai-Kai photos:

Jetsetter Lounge photos:

Make sure to check out the Summer 2007 issue of Tiki Magazine for more photos as well as my review of this year's Hukilau.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Just another week with Tiki Chris (Friday June 29, 2007)

For this week's update, I would like to say a special thanks to Chris Mavergames and Jen Cwiok for their contributions to the Tiki Chris blogs. Chris, an American librarian living in Southern Germany (and loving it), wrote his second of two reports from ontoTravel's Expat Perspective. Click here for his latest. Jen, another librarian - this one living in New York, provided the latest installment of I ♥ T-Shirts with a write -up about her much beloved Up With Blimps Tee.

Are you interested in contributing to the Tiki Chris blogs? Click here to access my email address and let me know whatcha got.

In other news ...

- I've been Ligit-imized,
- I posted a new review in my South Seas Cinema series, and
- I finally got around to posting my pics from the London Luau.

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://ontolondon.blogspot.com
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This week's posts:
London Daily Photo: Smithfield
London Daily Photo: Scotch Meat
London Daily Photo: Filthy McNasty's
London Daily Photo: Wake for a Friend
Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?" Toku Restaurant...
London Daily Photo: We are not Amused
Summer Group Show at StolenSpace
London Daily Photo: Time
Londonist asks "What's for Lunch?" Kurz & Lang
London Daily Photo: Close

ontoTravel
http://www.ontotravel.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://ontotravel.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Provence: Spring in Provence
Japanese/French lead initiative to develop new sup...
Provence: Mulberry Tree
Expat Perspective: Chris in Freiburg - Summer Nigh...
Provence: entrez libres
Provence: Untitled
New UNESCO World Heritage sites
Provence: Espadrilles

Rapa Nui News
http://www.rapanuinews.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://rapanuinews.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Moai at the Museum of Natural History in New York
President Bachelet visits Rapa Nui
Rapanui pianist among finalists in international c...
"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #57
Satellite imagery used to help understand moai com...
Easter Island Marathon
Evidence of Polynesians in Americas before Europea...
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Soylent Green - Rapa Nui connection?
New Jersey couple's visit to Rapa Nui
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
University of Hawaii's Rapa Nui field research pro...
Brad Garrett: voice of moai in Night at the Museu...
Chilean Rapa Nui policy/promotions criticized in r...
Jetsetter Lounge in Lake Worth, Florida features f...
New Zealand to Valencia via Rapa Nui
"Monolithic" Pop Culture References #58
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders articles
Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders
Yet More Rapa Nui/New7Wonders

Tiki Chris
http://www.tikichris.blogspot.com/
Site feed URL: http://tikichris.blogspot.com/atom.xml
This week's posts:
A Couple of Tiki Weeks in Review (Friday June 22, ...
A Very Tiki June with Virani
Tiki Chris - it's "Ligit"
MYSTERY at Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York)
London Luau 2007 Photos
More London Luau photos!
Tiki London Posters: Available Soon!
South Seas Cinema: The Last Navigator
Dan Witz - Kilroy for the 21st Century?
I ♥ T-Shirts: Up With Blimps

Thursday, June 28, 2007

I ♥ T-Shirts: Up With Blimps

Comfortable, practical, and these days the only accessory you need to make a statement, it's hard to imagine a world without the ubiquitous T-shirt. I ♥ T-Shirts takes a subjective approach to this modern fashion phenomenon with each post dealing with a favorite shirt. Our latest T-Shirt post is provided couresty of Jen Cwiok. Thanks Jen!

Shirt: Up With Blimps
Designer: Rachel Carns
Price: $15
Purchased: A few years back on buyolympia.com
Status: Still goin' strong!

A few years back, I was newly broken-up and I had a lot of time on my hands. To mend my broken heart, I engaged in a good deal of Internet shopping. CDs, books, accessories, and T-shirts were being delivered to my address at a furious pace and dare I say a void was filled. Out of all of my frivolous purchases during that tumultuous time, my favorite is my "Up With Blimps" T-shirt.

The "Up With Blimps" T-shirt immediately attracted my attention just for the immeasurable hilarity of the words "Up With Blimps." The T-shirt was designed by Olympia, Washington based artist, Rachel Carns. I became familiar with Carns’ work through her bands Kicking Giant and The Need. Her unconventional drumming style (standing up) and her bizarre artwork that appeared on The Need’s album covers made me a diehard fan.I found the "Up With Blimps" T-shirt on the website buyolympia.com, an online market for Olympia-based artists to sell their wares.

I have yet to see another hipster sporting the "Up With Blimps" design, which makes me feel like I’ve got something special. To see more of Carns’ work, check out her website LUX.

Jen Cwiok is a librarian living in New York City. She administers a little blog she likes to call Chive Talk.

Interested in contributing a review of a favourite T-shirt or perhaps sending along a sample to be reviewed? Click here to access my email address. Then, send an email with a brief description of your idea/product along with any relevant online links.

I ♥ T-Shirts is sponsored by Chongolio's Lost-Isle.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Dan Witz - Kilroy for the 21st Century?

Click here for more of Dan Witz's Do Not Enter street art series.

South Seas Cinema: The Last Navigator

Welcome to South Seas Cinema, a series of posts about films set in – or pertaining to – Polynesia and the South Pacific.

If you like Kon-Tiki then check out The Last Navigator, a 50-minute film directed by Andre Singer in 1989. Set in Micronesia, The Last Navigator documents a 500-plus mile open sea voyage from the Micronesian island of Satawal to Saipan in a traditional outrigger and without the aid of modern navigational equipment.

Among the crew is American navigator Stephen Thomas, who spent nine months learning the navigation traditions of the Satawal islanders. Thomas is taught by Piailug, to whom the film’s title refers. Piailug is considered the most experienced of the Satawal islanders, if not all of Micronesia. Discouraged by the younger islanders’ lack of interest in learning traditional navigation, Piailug reluctantly agrees to teach Thomas, lest his cultural knowledge be forgotten.

I caught the film at the British Museum as part of their Power and Taboo exhibition. From my brief search on the Internet, I've come to the conclusion that it's pretty hard to catch a viewing of this film and that it's not on DVD or at least not readily available to the public. However, I did notice that a paperback written by Stephen Thomas and sharing the same title as the film is for sale on Amazon.

Click here for more info about The Last Navigator.

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The content of this post originally appeared on this blog November 27, 2006.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Tiki London Posters: Available Soon!

The Tiki London limited edition print were first available for purchase from Tiki Racer's stall at this year's London Luau. Soon these prints will be available for sale online. Click here for an index of London's 10 Most Tiki Landmarks and make sure to come back for more details about how to get your Tiki London limited edition print!

More London Luau photos!

Click here to visit TikiSavage.com and see more great pics from the London Luau!

Monday, June 25, 2007

London Luau 2007 Photos

I finally found the time to go through some of my London Luau photos. What a fun weekend! The best thing about it, of course, was just getting to hang out with good friends. Make sure to check out the Summer 2007 issue of Tiki Magazine for more photos as well as my review of this year's London Luau.

MYSTERY at Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York)

I know there's more than a few of you New Yorkers out there reading this blog. So, I thought I'd pass the word on about an upcoming Manhattan show which includes the work of Brooklyn photographer Jeremy Helton.

MYSTERY
July 10 - August 10
Opening: Thursday July 12, 2007
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
6th Floor
New York, NY 10011

(image by Victoria Fu)

Frederieke Taylor Gallery presents Mystery, a group show of photography and video featuring twelve artists and curated by George Spencer. An uncanny feeling of dislocation of the familiar pervades the works selected for the show. Stark landscapes, glimpses into domestic daily routines, levitating buildings,voyeuristic views, all seem to offer clues to the "who, what, where, and when" of life today. Artists included in the exhibition are: Victoria Fu, Daniel Gordon, Jeremy Helton, Wayne Hodge, Katrin Korfmann, Sangbin Im, Bill Jacobson, Matthew Pillsbury, Ray Rapp, Matthew Schenning and Evan Schwartz.

Click here for more information.

For the show, Jeremy Helton will exhibit 20x24 Polariods of videos which were originally shot on Super 8 film. Jeremy Helton's work focuses on perception and memory, creating environments where an immediate and present experience is connected to an implied and sometimes fictionalized past as interlocking points of reference.

Click here to visit Jeremy's website.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Tiki Chris - it's "Lijit"

Customized filter search engine, Lijit, recently dubbed me a "Tiki expert" and featured my profile in it's Blogger Spotlight. I'm not sure just how expert I am but the rest of the write-up, which says I'm Tiki fanatic that "loves himself some Tiki" is certainly true. Gosh, now I feel all validated and "Lijit - imized." Thanks.

Saturday, June 23, 2007

A Very Tiki June with Virani

I had the distinct privilege of experiencing this year's London Luau and Hukilau with my good friend (and roommate for much of June) Virani le Beachcomber. Now that the Tiki festivities are over, it seems Virani's a little more quick on the draw to share his photos from the events. So, until I can get around to posting my own pics and recollections, here are the links to Virani's:

Photos [from Hukilau]
Virani
Virani le Beachcomber
Monday, June 18, 2007

Click here for more of Virani's photos from this year's Hukilau.

London Luau 007
Virani
Virani le Beachcomber
Monday, June 11, 2007

Click here for more of Virani's photos from this year's London Luau.

Friday, June 22, 2007

A Couple of Tiki Weeks in Review (Friday June 22, 2007)

Okay, sorry I skipped last week's update. After a great London Luau weekend, I jetted off to Florida to cover the Hukilau for Tiki Magazine. Such an adventure provided me with enough blog fodder for oodles of future posts (if only I can find enough time to write them).

In the meantime, check out my Artist Profile of Heather Watts that I posted before my trip. Heather's a super cool artist who was really kind to take the time to respond so thoughtfully to my interview questions.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

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