Post #84524 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Sun, Apr 4, 2004 4:29 PM

Oh dear... Uh... I don't think that the Professor and co. are exactly of the right time period... whew

That "Sunshine Goth" thing sounds amusing... My own TikiGoth look went off pretty well, and the bartenders even congratulated me for bringing my own paper umbrella :lol:

My own fixation on finding some Tiki Steampunk comes from my liking both Tiki and Steampunk, and my neurotic need to have everything in my life make coherent sense and have tangible connections (I may very well be guilty of G.K. Chesterton's charge: "The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty.").

In a roundabout way I did manage to get into Tiki via Goth. Basically, Goth leads to old horror movies which leads to mid-century monster chic which leads to mid-century pop culture which leads to Tiki. Now I'm looking to see if I can find some connection - even a thin, tenuous one - between that and Steampunk.

The only place I'm really expecting to find anything, though, is in mid-century adaptations of Victorian Sci-Fi, which were a part of the Atomic Age Sci-Fi movie explosion. So far, the only person who seems to have tapped into this possibility is Walt Disney, frightening as that may be.

What other sort of Alt-Tiki might there be?

Cory