Tiki mug sculpting time-lapse

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, October 13, 2008 8:57 AM | permalink

Steve of The Sneeze says:

For the uninitiated, last year I thought we should start a theoretical band that we could all be in. We named ourselves The Tree Brains after the annual fungus that grows on my tree. Gary Taxali made a kick-ass logo, there were some shirts (which are all gone), a big Tree Brains Facebook group and now master tiki mug sculptor Henrik Van Ryzin agreed join in.
As you can see from the following video of Henrik in action, The Tree Brain Tiki Mugs are coming along beautifully.

Tree Brain Tiki Mug Time Lapse Video

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#1 posted by Pipenta , October 13, 2008 10:39 AM

Those are pretty great.

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#2 posted by Bob , October 13, 2008 11:09 AM

Where's the vid? I just have a big blank space where it should be. Same when I follow the link.

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#3 posted by Tom Hale , October 13, 2008 11:23 AM

The video works fine for me.

Beautiful artwork, I'm not familiar with "The Sneeze." Are they affiliated with BB or just a site that BB likes? I'll check it out.

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#4 posted by artbot , October 13, 2008 11:29 AM

Neat to see this in time-lapse. Believe it or not, there are two schools of tiki carving/design (perhaps more, even): Big-toothed and normal or non-toothed tikis.

To me, the big toothed ones are garish and cartoony, and I much prefer the classic, vintage style. Check out the stuff at tikifarm.com for some fun mass-produced tiki items, or munktiki.com for what I think are the finest craftsman-like tikis out there, though they are priced accordingly.

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#5 posted by avraamov , October 13, 2008 12:57 PM

i'm gonna raise the game.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_JD00jhKWusM/SD3TLr1uoCI/AAAAAAAAN1E/TeKBvRdCj7M/IMG_0635.JPG

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#6 posted by kaiza , October 14, 2008 4:26 AM

@#5

You just lost the game (link's not working).

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#7 posted by hellojess , October 14, 2008 8:46 AM

Whoah! You can't call that tiki!
It's a fucking monster face! Jeez.....

I'm from NZ, am part Maori, and don't get offended easily, but that is really really eurocentric and just plain unsensitive!

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#8 posted by DavidPFarrell , October 22, 2008 12:44 PM

I like how he places plastic over one tiki as he's working on the other, so that neither knows exactly what is happening to the other until the big reveal.