Tiki Unity by Steve Blake
Shaenon: Just a quick Sunday update today. Steve Blake was awesome enough to color one of my old tiki sketches. I… draw a lot of tiki sketches.
Channing: This is more adorable before you realize that it’s Unity and she’s holding fire, and not in the “hold your fire” sense of the phrase. Then it becomes a little distressing.
(TUNE: “Mona Lisa”, Nat King Cole)
Uni-Tiki, Uni-Tiki, Shaenon drew you,
Then the sketch was colored in by Mister Blake!
They would never give you torches if they knew you …
What a lovely conflagration you could make!
I would like someday to meet you, Uni-Tiki,
As you’re testing my combustibility …
Heart aglow, I don’t know what you’re made of …
But I’m learning
As I’m burning …
Your physique makes me weak, Uni-Tiki!
You set my heart ablaze, plus all the rest of me!
Now THIS is a torch song!
It reminds me of one of Mell’s lines, where she explains to Artie that people can last a long time unless you set them on fire.
I still think it’s adorable, from my position safely on this side of the fourth wall.
She’s just upset because when they said they were going out for a little Polynesian, she wasn’t expecting Trader Vic’s…
She was expecting Trader Vic himself.
Old guys with wooden legs just aren’t as tasty as you think.
How do they compare to old tires and GODOT’s brain?
Am I the only one who hears this playing when I see this?
“Tookie bo waba!!!
I laila au a k’ila
No malihini ohana!
Welcome cousins, a’come on by;
Aloha e komo mai!”
mnem
Yeah, I Googled it; I’m SURE they mangled it. Moving forward…
Is she setting fire to the Kahiki?
I can’t tell…she still wearing that dress!
Ba-dum Tish!
‘not in the “hold your fire” sense of the phrase’
Though possibly in the only sense of the phrase Unity actually understands….
Gives a ‘lord of the flies’ vibe to me, altho a cheerful one.
Free the tikis! Burn them until the spirits rise and party with the mortals!
Speaking of which, I’m trying to make Skin Horse tiki’s to print out on my 3D printer, but ain’t at all satisfied with what I’m coming up with. Any suggestions?
I’m intrigued, but would hafta kind of see what you’re trying. (Absolutly no experience with 3D printing, but curious.)
Something like this, but easily identifiable as the Skin Horse crew. I’m new at this so I know it will take a lot of practice, but still you’d think I’d get close by now.
Sweetheart would be easy, just a doggie with a lei. The hard part would be getting her expression right, a balance between fun and admonition.
I’d see Tip in a dress like this, barefoot and a wavy-handed hula pose.
Unity would be in jams, tee-shirt and a Hawaiian shirt over it. Back bent a little with her hands in the pockets of the jams.
Actually, I could see Unity climbed part way up a 6′ Tiki idol taking a bite out of it, but it wouldn’t fit with the individuality of the other two.
Save that one for a diorama that the bases fit together for a whole…
Just blue skying here.
Reaction A: “I don’t want to set the world on fi…Oh, wait! Yes I do!”
Reaction B: Some Zombies Just want to make the world burn…