The making of GikiTiki
What is a GikiTiki?
I have been asked a couple of times what gikitiki means.
Some think it's related to Quagmire in Family Guy - sort of a play on Giggity-Giggity. As amusing as that is to me, that's not it.
Like many on Steemit, I'm a Systems Engineer (living in Canada). I spend my days trying to figure out other peoples computer problems. I work at a company that designs computers, so when the problems arise, they are usually "interesting" ones. To keep the mood light, I started wearing tiki shirts to work on a regular basis. (I've also been to Hawai'i quite a few times and love their culture - particularly 'da Big Island).
So ... back in 2008, I started using the handle of gikitiki as in "A geek with a Polynesian flare."
I've been on Steemit for a little more than a year, I tend to read more posts than I create, but I definitely enjoy the posts on here and like to comment on the posts I enjoy the most. Looking around Steemit, I noticed that everyone has there own logos. I decided it was time to make myself a logo. With the Tiki style in mind, I thought it would be interesting to virtually carve a tiki.
So, I grabbed my tools (MS Paint and a mouse), took a 2-D blog of brown pixels and got to work...
For a normal tiki, the head is the same size as the rest of the body. So I started there.
Then some arms
A little bit of a neck
Some pectoral muscles
Legs are nice
Hands and Feet
Abdomen and Groin (note:When the Christians arrived at the Polynesian Islands, they cut off all the Phallus' from all Tiki Statues they found)
Time to spend a little time at the gym (Some refer to this as burning the Steem Fat)
First Attempt at a face - it didn't match the style of the body, so it didn't make the "cut"
Changed the face - the nose looks a little ... suspicious so far... I'll say that it looks like the Peace Tower at our Parliament building
Added some Eyes and Teeth
Now some glasses and a little colour
No geek it complete without the stereotypical pocket protector and the tape holding the glasses together.
No geek it complete without the stereotypical pocket protector and the tape holding the glasses together.
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