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Cultjam
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Apr 21, 2002
Posts: 367
From: Phoenix, Arizona
|  Posted: 2003-05-21 12:42 pm Permalink
Cool thread!
Timelapse is an old PC game that came out on the crest of the Myst craze. It starts on Easter Island and takes you back to Mayan temples, Ancient Egypt and an Anasazi village in the search for Atlantis. GTE Entertainment issued it and did a lot of research to make it historically accurate. It's lush and gorgeous and you can usually find a copy on eBay or buy it from Hammerhead Entertainment:
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/barracuda/asprog.html
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texastiki
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 28, 2004
Posts: 23
From: Austin, TX
| Posted: 2004-05-03 11:54 am Permalink
in the Crash Bandicoot series for Playstation 1 &2, Crash is protected by a floating tiki mask named Aku Aku- though he's not really a true Hawaiian tiki, more of a generic wooden "witch doctor" thing...in one of the PS1 games- the 3rd one I think- you get to battle a pair of guys called the Tiki brothers. the whole series has a cool jungle-y/ tribal art kind of feel to it.
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texastiki
Tiki Centralite
Joined: Apr 28, 2004
Posts: 23
From: Austin, TX
| Posted: 2004-05-05 08:34 am Permalink
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Kenike
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jul 24, 2003
Posts: 1201
From: McKinney, TX
| Posted: 2004-05-05 10:59 am Permalink
Remember Elf Bowl from a few years back?? On the Elf Bowl 2 game (Elf Shuffleboard)during a random part of the game a giant Moai head comes down and says "Hi there!" and then a giant hand comes out of the sky and takes him away.
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suburbanpagan
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Joined: Jan 02, 2004
Posts: 797
From: southern cal
| Posted: 2004-06-11 12:53 pm Permalink
I broke out my Playstation 2 for the first time in a while today....my 4 year old girl wanted to play a driving game.....well, I dusted off the old "Test Drive Off Road Wide Open" game and set it up to drive in Hawaii because I remember there were some tikis in the landscape. Little did I know that they are Bosko Tikis torn right from the "Taboo: The Art of Tiki" book, page 69. Not just similar......exact copies! I wonder if he knows! I'll try to take a pic of the screen and upload it....funny where famialiar tikis will pop up!
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Unga Bunga
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Joined: Jun 06, 2003
Posts: 5734
From: CaliTikifornia
| Posted: 2004-06-11 1:23 pm Permalink
You should get a finders fee!
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The Ragin' Rarotongan
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Joined: Mar 26, 2004
Posts: 282
From: Now, Ocala Florida
| Posted: 2004-06-11 2:12 pm Permalink
Playststion kicks ass. I still want an x-box, but my old lady will kill me. I play enough video games as is.
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MEAN GENE
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 09, 2004
Posts: 385
From: San Diego
| Posted: 2004-06-11 5:01 pm Permalink
I talked to Bosko today and he said he didn't know. He hasn't seen the game.
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suburbanpagan
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Joined: Jan 02, 2004
Posts: 797
From: southern cal
| Posted: 2004-06-12 10:08 am Permalink
As promised, here is Bosko's handiwork that has been "appropriated"
now, one would have been coincidence but....
....2?!?
Some texture designer must have been told "we need tikis for our offroad game....find them!"
"No prob", thinks our heroic designer," I'll just steal a couple of Bosko's from this here tiki art book! No one will notice! Don't all tikis look the same?"
I'm afraid not, my little plagiarising friend! I'm curious to think what Bosko thinks of this.
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crazy al
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Jun 25, 2002
Posts: 1782
From: CA
| Posted: 2004-06-15 3:37 pm Permalink
the image/design of my cocktail/candle holder #CCH
http://tikimania.com/docs/cockhold.html
was used many times on a 'Space Ghost'
kid's CD long ago. I just saw it this year in a band mate's mini-van... next to the car seat. An illustrator must have photoed and painted my image... it is very exact, but looks painted...
Copywrite letter on the way....
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Humuhumu
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Joined: Aug 22, 2002
Posts: 3536
From: San Francisco
| Posted: 2004-06-15 3:46 pm Permalink
Hey, C'Al, you're right! (Not that I would have doubted you.) This is the CD you're talking about, yes?
I don't have this CD, but I have a mix CD that Mig made for me that contains a song from it, Brak's Hawaiian Vacation. Mig & I listened to that song at *least* two dozen times at Oasis. It's a short, stoopid song, but it makes me almost wet my pants every time I hear it. It sounds like a song my brother would have written when he was four, and I LUV IT!
Now I feel so conflicted! I love Crazy Al, but I also love Brak! Further complicating it, Brak ripped off Crazy Al's design, but then I ripped off Brak by accepting a copy of the song that Mig ripped off from the CD! Does that make it better, or worse? I suddenly feel so... dirty.
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crazy al
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Joined: Jun 25, 2002
Posts: 1782
From: CA
| Posted: 2004-06-15 3:56 pm Permalink
thanks for the pic!!!!...Humu stikes again!! i do not have a copy of this cd yet and would love to also.
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lanikai
Tiki Socialite
Joined: May 15, 2004
Posts: 490
From: Hawaii
| Posted: 2004-06-15 4:01 pm Permalink
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On 2004-06-15 15:37, crazy al wrote:
the image/design of my cocktail/candle holder
was used many times on a 'Space Ghost' Copywrite letter on the way....
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even if you send a copyright infringement letter heres how it works;
the one with the most money (and lawyers) wins. they have lawyers on retianer. do you? They assume you do not.
It costs 5000. just to go to court. they know this and assume the lil artist has not the wherewithall to go after the corporations who believe, again, that it's "easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission".
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suburbanpagan
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Joined: Jan 02, 2004
Posts: 797
From: southern cal
| Posted: 2004-06-15 4:07 pm Permalink
It's really amazing that so many "art directors" don't understand that copyright infringement applies to tiki as well as anything else....they just assume that all tikis are made by "anonymous carver"....amazing.....go get 'em C' Al!
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lanikai
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Joined: May 15, 2004
Posts: 490
From: Hawaii
| Posted: 2004-06-15 4:10 pm Permalink
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The cool bosko tiki mask designs were also lifted right from his web site and used on a few of those cardboard tiki coasters we see on every tiki product vendor web site and on ebay.
A while ago, some dude made a "tiki beer" t shirt and used one of Bosko's distinctive tiki designs in the artwork.
just because it's easy to lift artwork off the internet and use for ones own purpose doesn't make it right.
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