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Big Stone Head and Tiki Road Trip
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| 一般 | James Teitelbaum travels the world, researches 1920s to 1960s pop culture, takes pictures, watches films, admires art and architecture, creates elaborate cocktails, works in the music industry, teaches sound engineering at a Chicago college, and writes extensively on all of these topics.
His books are Tiki Road Trip (2003 and 2007), Big Stone Head (2009), plus a forthcoming book on the cocktail revival, and a forthcoming collection of his travel writings. James has also written for Playboy, American Heritage, Film Threat, Tiki Magazine, Road Trip America, Beverage World, and many other publications.
James lives in Chicago with two tortoises, but is usually somewhere else - such as on Easter Island, which he has visited twice. | | 書籍 | Um, Big Stone Head, and Tiki Road Trip! | | 偶像 | Hotu Matu'a |
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| 狀態: | 性開放 | | 來這裡是為了: | 好友 | | 性傾向: | 異性戀 | | 星座: | 摩羯座 | | 抽煙 / 喝酒: | 否 / 是 |
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Big Stone Head blurb on Chicagoist
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Big Stone Head: everything's gone green!
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Tiki Road Trip radio: MP3 available for limited time
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Tiki Road Trip: Chicago (9/13), Milwaukee (9/22), Atlanta (9/29)
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"BIG STONE HEAD: Easter Island and Pop Culture" is the new book from Tiki Road Trip author James Teitelbaum.
"Big Stone Head: Easter Island and Pop Culture" by James Teitelbaum
Book design by Gary Blaney.
Cover image by Heather Watts.
Mug designed by Doug Horne for Tiki Farm.
http://www.bigstonehead.com/
Synopsis:
On a sunny April morning in 1722, the western world had its first contact with Easter Island (or Rapa Nui), and the nearly one thousand big stone heads (or moai) erected there. Two centuries later, people in America were drinking cocktails out of ceramic mugs shaped like the moai, people in Japan were erecting fake moai in their cemeteries, and people in Europe were tattooing moai images on their biceps. Comic books in the 1960s imagined the moai coming to life, just as hippies of the era ate LSD tablets with tiny moai printed on them, while listening to rock albums with moai on the cover.
How did this happen?
Why did this happen?
How did this effect the Rapa Nui people?
Illustrated with nearly 350 images of Rapa Nui, of pop culture artifacts inspired by the island�s mysterious moai figures, and an art gallery of contemporary interpretations of the moai, Big Stone Head: Easter Island and Pop Culture is a lively, fun, and educational peek at how millennia-old rock art on the world's most remote inhabited island inspired cartoons, action figures, and bar decor.
Format:
Big Stone Head: Easter Island and Pop Culture deals in part with the environmental disaster that befell the Rapa Nui people centuries ago. The complete deforestation of an entire island, which once contained an estimated 16,000,000 palm trees, was part of a century of disaster that reduced a healthy population of as many as 20,000 people to a starving remnant of 110 survivors.
Given the lessons learned by the collapse of Easter Island, it seemed hypocritical to print this book on trees. Therefore, a decision was made to release it as a downloadable PDF file, or for collectors, as a bamboo USB drive within a full color greeting card. The card is printed on 100% recycled paper. Bamboo, of course, is one of the fastest growing and most readily renewable materials on the planet.
The author is aware that many people like to have a hard copy of a book in their hands, and is also aware that a book as lushly filled with spectacular color images as Big Stone Head is, begs to exist as a "real" book. The possibility of Big Stone Head coming out as a printed book does exist in the future (pending an appropriate printing and distribution scenario), but for now we are interested in exploring the possibilities of the experimental, futuristic, and environmentally-friendly eBook format.
We think of it as "a coffee table book for your computer screen", but if you must print the book out at home, we urge you to at least set up your print queue to use both sides of each sheet of paper!
The eBook is in a high-resolution print-ready PDF format, compatible will all modern computers and many palm devices.
We will also be shipping a tiki mug (by Tiki Farm, designed by Doug Horne) limited to 150 copies.
The mug (IN PROGRESS):
see my images for a preview of the mug!
About Tiki Road Trip 2:
Tiki Road Trip by James Teitelbaum was released in 2003 to universal acclaim among the Tiki, roadside attraction, mid century modern, Exotica, vintage/retro, and Polynesian Pop communities. This guidebook to the whens and wheres of all things Tiki sent thousands of people on six continents to hundreds of destinations, where they all gleefully imbibed exotic rum drinks, chowed down on sumptuous feasts, reveled in (pop) cultural history, worshiped at the altar of Tiki, and attempted contact with the opposite sex (sometimes all of these things at once).
Inevitably, the information contained in the book fell a bit out of date over the next four years, so in May of 2007, Tiki Road Trip, 2nd edition was released. The new edition
contained a full update to the entire text, that moves recently closed places to the closed section, adds newly opened places, and offers more historical information on classic places. Almost every entry has been revised; most have been completely re-written.
The new edition contains more photos than before, with high quality room shots of new and classic locations, as well as graphics such as menus, postcards, matchbooks, and artifacts such as Tiki mugs and carvings.
The book now features an expanded drink recipes section, Hawaiian vocabulary, and glossary, plus a new design that makes it easier to find what you're looking for, and makes the division between existing places and closed places more clearly defined. There is a larger International section, particularly spotlighting the booming Spain, England, and Germany Tiki scenes. Much larger Hawai’i section as well.
Shag has modified his cover art: play "spot-the-difference"!
The book is eighty (80) pages longer, but the cover price is the same - whatta bargain!
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