February 24, 2003

  • Tiki Update

    A big YAY! from Eddie who has just finished doing all the sound effects for Lava Palaver, our Super Mahi Tiki pilot. Next step is outputting the Flash movie to video.

    For those who don’t know – this is a self-funded (after-hours) pilot episode we have been working on over the past year. To all the people who keep asking us WHEN the Super Mahi Tiki pilot will be ready, we can tell you now that we’re not far off.

    Some ideas we tossed around this weekend:

    • A Lava Palaver screening (Jamie Leonarder has a theatrette we can use)
    • Super Mahi Tiki figurines as promotional items / merchandise (Paul W. was sculpting a tiki figurine for us. wonder how he’s going…)
    • Getting Lava Palaver onto DVD. Transferring our Flash movies to DVD is something we need to look into. (all that quicktime/mpeg encoding business we know nuthin’ about)
    • A “Pod-Tiki Expedition” board game! – with miniature plastic characters, sea-fauna, palm trees, Easter Island moai, you know the type… it would be a South-Seas adventure ‘party’ game. Roll the dice, go forward ten paces, drop anchor and have yourself a Mai-Tai. Ah…we can dream, can’t we?

    TIKI CULTURE links:

    Tiki Central – their discussion forum is a lively place and makes one realize how BIG this tiki culture actually is. Now why oh why don’t we have any tiki events or even tiki bars in Sydney? We’re in Oceania, after all.

    Munktiki.com is the website with the coolest (and most expensive) tiki mugs. Melbourne’s outre gallery stock some munktiki mugs, but the ones I really want are these

    … Moai mugs with astroturf coasters!