Tropicana Lodge, Fresno, CA (motel) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Fri, Aug 5, 2011 4:23 PM DC and hmdTiki, it's great to see those Tikis still exist - and those stone masks, too! I did a better scan of that all-time greatest Tiki Moderne rendering... ...to demonstrate that the artist (WHO was he?) incorporated the five stone masks in his piece: I never got a good shot of these guys, black stone carvings are very hard to photograph, like fern Tiki carvings they suck up the light, you need just the right angle of sun to model their features. But I have always been fond of them, they have that pre-historic primitive look, like this one I own:

DC and hmdTiki, it's great to see those Tikis still exist - and those stone masks, too!

I did a better scan of that all-time greatest Tiki Moderne rendering...

...to demonstrate that the artist (WHO was he?) incorporated the five stone masks in his piece:

I never got a good shot of these guys, black stone carvings are very hard to photograph, like fern Tiki carvings they suck up the light, you need just the right angle of sun to model their features.

But I have always been fond of them, they have that pre-historic primitive look, like this one I own:

Post #601116 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Aug 5, 2011 4:23 PM