Should Tiki Central be stripped of any hawaiiana discussions? - General Tiki

C Cammo Member San Diego Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 2041	C Cammo Posted posted on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 1:12 PM "...supply over a thousand images of visual proof..." That's one of my biggest problems with the Book of Tiki, is that there's no bibliography or facts or numbers involved with any of the assumptions. It's all pretty pictures. Photos are always open to interpretation; a book of photos isn't a history book. Far from it. Photos also lie; almost all the pictures in the Book of Tiki are posed, intended to make a locale look more interesting and busy than it actually is. (Of course they do - they're advertising photos!) And you're not saying that your opinion is the only one that's valid, are you?

"...supply over a thousand images of visual proof..."

That's one of my biggest problems with the Book of Tiki, is that there's no bibliography or facts or numbers involved with any of the assumptions. It's all pretty pictures. Photos are always open to interpretation; a book of photos isn't a history book. Far from it.

Photos also lie; almost all the pictures in the Book of Tiki are posed, intended to make a locale look more interesting and busy than it actually is. (Of course they do - they're advertising photos!)

And you're not saying that your opinion is the only one that's valid, are you?

Post #430236 by Cammo on Fri, Jan 23, 2009 1:12 PM