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Crazy AL Tiki !?! New stuff of old stuff? pg.19 |
little lost tiki
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Joined: Jun 12, 2006
Posts: 7460
From: Orange,CA-right near the Circle!
|  Posted: 2006-07-15 8:11 pm Permalink
AL!
That is incredible! You are INCREDDIBLE! What talent! This one is so alive and so fluid,it looks like it can can just jump up and fly away! Truly a masterpiece!
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Tiki Duddy
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Joined: Jun 04, 2006
Posts: 759
From: Manitoba, Canada
| Posted: 2006-07-15 8:39 pm Permalink
.....wow..... how did you think of this? its awsome! good work!
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hewey
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From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2006-07-15 9:22 pm Permalink
Mate, your best tiki bar far!
Great work 
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surfintiki
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Posts: 1561
From: S. Chatham, MA
| Posted: 2006-07-16 05:27 am Permalink
insanITY!
Insane in the brain. So cool.
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crazy al
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Joined: Jun 25, 2002
Posts: 1783
From: CA
| Posted: 2006-07-16 10:31 am Permalink
MAN? I should have started posting here long ago.... it's great for my manic depressive hang ups. Feeling the blues?... post two pics and reply in the morning.... thanks for all the kind words
Here's the story on this piece.... the man behind the curtain revealed... not allot of creativity, just creative use of other great creative masters' work.... (AKA stylish ripping off of ideas)...
anyway.. because the Copro/Nason Gallery asked me to do a piece for their 15 year retrospective show & book out this Dec. . I did my spin on the popular 'low-brow' hot-rod - surf culture that the Copro/Nason Gallery is so fond of.
Von Dutch was the inspiration and decorative nature of complexity
carved not painted
Big Daddy Roth was the monster inspiration of contorted gnarly-ness
A few of my first major 'artistic' tiki efforts were created for Copro/Nason gallery shows starting in '98. In '99 I produced two of my most ambitious pieces to that date. Tiki#17 and #18 appeared in Copro/Nason's Edgar Leeteg Tribute Show.......
Crazy AL Tiki#18 featured a velvet painting on it's nose....
so in retrospective, I tribute myself with this look into the soul of "VonRat Tiki" with another velvet painting.
No need to ask why the eye is so dilated.
Crazy AL Tiki#17 featured an Oceanic Art's curio tiki... (with added phallus)
So once again another OA catalog curio tiki appears in this piece....
Not only because I would not crave a tiki like this for $40... But the 'standard curio tiki' represents the cultural icon we've all obviously come to adore.
Now for the tattoos.... No creative greatness here... these are traditional designs straight from a master Tahitian artist... straight from the skin of Traveling Doug Nason who commissioned this 'Retrospective Show Tiki'.
da da da That's all folks...... I should have tuk a left at AL'ba-quirky!
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GROG
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From: Tujunga
| Posted: 2006-07-16 11:19 am Permalink
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sirginn
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Joined: Oct 20, 2003
Posts: 271
From: Sunset Cliffs , CA
| Posted: 2006-07-16 11:52 am Permalink
Incredible, your originality always blows me away.
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RevBambooBen
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Joined: Nov 12, 2002
Posts: 7198
From: Huntikington Beach
| Posted: 2006-07-16 12:34 pm Permalink
Didn't you carve a Cat Tiki recently??
How bout some pics of that too?
#17 is All Time! (or 18?)
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Tiki Diablo
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Posts: 1890
From: socal
| Posted: 2006-07-16 1:43 pm Permalink
C'Al, there is no better!
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Benzart
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Posts: 10306
From: Port Saint Lucie, Florida
| Posted: 2006-07-16 6:03 pm Permalink
SOoooThat there's Doug Nason, the Luckiest (or smartest)Dude around town to be getting this tiki. Doug, Thanks for sharing this with Tiki Central. We are really not worthy but we know too much stuff so C'Al does what we want see.
Crazy, Yes maybe, but the GOOD kind of crazy Al you Know we really Love ya' Man!
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turbosickboy
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From: Malmoe/Sweden
| Posted: 2006-07-16 7:39 pm Permalink
well... don´t know if awesome is the right word. the pinstriping is beautiful, is it really carved?? great!!!
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hewey
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From: Sydney, Australia
| Posted: 2006-07-16 7:45 pm Permalink
Wow man. Great story and thought process in that piece!
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Basement Kahuna
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From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-07-17 9:49 pm Permalink
You're a sick motherf*cker, brother. Sick.
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Basement Kahuna
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From: Jawja Province, Isle of North America
| Posted: 2006-09-30 9:50 pm Permalink
Hukilau!
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Clarita
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From: BA Arg
| Posted: 2006-10-11 1:23 pm Permalink
Wow great!! I can't believe it! Lots of talent,originality and craft...
The wood really comes to life
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