{"id":7609,"date":"2018-10-19T21:13:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T21:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2018-10-19T23:19:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T23:19:51","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-sven-kirsten-about-tiki-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=7609","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Sven Kirsten about Tiki Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark talks to Sven Kirsten<\/a> about Tiki Culture. Sven Kirsten is a Director of Photography, urban archaeologist\u00a0and self-admitted \u201cvisual junkie.\u201d Sven has spent over 20 years researching and documenting the world of\u00a0 Tiki and Polynesian Pop. Sven’s four books on Tiki include\u00a0The Book of Tiki<\/a>,\u00a0Tiki Pop<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Tiki Modern<\/a> and The Art of Tiki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sven’s background as a cinematographer and his work on music videos for Madonna, Bill Joel, and The Cramps(IMDB Filmography<\/a>)
\nThe West’s fascination with Tiki, originating in Polynesia, from the explorer James Cook to the artist Paul Gauguin
\nTiki’s popularity in Southern California in the Film Industry and in 50’s design
\nThe Current Tiki revival
\nSven’s favorite bar\u00a0Tiki Ti<\/a>
\nHistory of\u00a0Trader Vic’s<\/a>, the venue at the\u00a0Hotel Bayerischer Hof<\/a> in Munich, and Sven’s upcoming book
\nThe handcrafted wood carvings of Tiki venues
\nTiki Neon and the building as a sign
\nThe difference between Tiki and\u00a0Hawaiiana<\/a>
\nDevolution of Tiki style to the “Fantasy Island”\/Fern bar style in the 70’s
\nHistoric preservation losses and victories
\nThe\u00a0Tonga Room<\/a> in San Francisco, it’s preservation, and the Tiki lounge as\u00a0an urban oasis
\nThe Tiki Room<\/a> and defunct Tahitian Terrace<\/a> at Disneyland
\nExhibition at the Musee de Quai Branley in Paris
\nSven’s upcoming book “Aztec Hotel” about Art Deco Mayan and Aztec revival<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Sven-Kirsten-Tiki.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click Here<\/a> to download!<\/p>\n

This show is brought to you by Robert Stark’s Paintings<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Stark Truth TV<\/a>, and his novel\u00a0Journey to Vapor Island<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n


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                        Robert Stark talks to Sven Kirsten about Tiki Culture. Sven Kirsten is a Director of Photography, urban archaeologist and self-admitted “visual junkie.” Sven has spent over 20 years researching and documenting the world of  Tiki and Polynesian Pop. Sven’s four books on Tiki include The … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Sven Kirsten about Tiki Culture<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1030,664,807,542,221,623,457,629,6,459,1093,428,449,276,684,270,624,600,636,527,1206,1207,516],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1950s","category-1960s","category-1970s","category-aesthetics","category-american-culture","category-architecture","category-art","category-art-deco","category-california","category-culture","category-disneyland","category-film","category-historic-preservation","category-history","category-hollywood","category-los-angeles","category-mid-century-modern","category-neon","category-photography","category-san-francisco","category-sven-kirsten","category-tiki","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}