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Tini'sTiki Weekend '07

Here is my personal account of the yearly Finnish pinstripe event hosted by Tiki connoisseur and pinstripe painter of 20 years Tini aka "TiN"welcomed by a lone tiki, Stripers from all over Finland head to Tini's for this years Tiki weekend. Tini's house is filled with all kinds of pinstripe and tiki art. This is a piece from Australian artist Simon Watts.This striped tiki panel is made by Platu who is behind Finlands best kustom kulture magazine, Primer.Here's a nicely balanced design by TiN (Tini) viewed from the toilet seat.On TiN's paint box, the scallops match those that where painted on his car during the last Stripe-O-Rama (see the previous post)Robin has painted his box up whith a Von Dutch theme.Here's look the inside his classicaly constructed signwriting box. Painting took place out in the Garage.The overall mood was very relaxed,"well.....aahhh...yeah...well" People giving each other advice.People painted and drank together all day You had the time to just get lost in the painting process.......well you know what I'm talking about! It was nice to view the results with sober eyes in the morning. This above is the work of -8- otherwise known as Pasi I belive. A piece by the very talented Timo.I painted this panel which I traded for a awsome stripe panel by Robin.This is a late night one eye group panel by Timo, Robin and myself. Tini's moterbike got clobbered with the most stripes ever,painted on over the whole weekend,regardless of the condition of the painter...the lines where laid...The letters where outlined,and eventually we ran out of room So then a panel was painted to comemerate the momentous occasion "The World's most striped Custom Angel" Then Pekka took this nice picture of everyone. I had a great weekend and now only have kind words to discribe this strange group of pinstripers that keep tikis in their snowbanks.

A special thanks to Tini is due, for having been such a good host!

vonSven

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