Post a link to a picture of the tackiest wall decoration you can find!
Here is my submission:
http://www.disturbingauctions.com/view.pl?item=56
[link=http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/bhg/chpt2/10.html]This[/link] is kind of an ensemble piece.
Another entry:
http://www.disturbingauctions.com/view.pl?item=23
(this makes MOST velvet paintings look like High Art)
Since I’m the third person to post in this thread: Hi, Opal! (So, so sorry…)
Just like Pipeliner, I immediately thought of James Lileks’ Interior Desecrators My vote? This.
Oh, and I had a question: Are you using “tackiest” in the sense of “ugly or schlocky” or in the sense of "mildly adhesive’? Because that first link could go either way, depending on how long it’s been up there…
My aunt’s downstairs bathroom has a white velveteen backed wallpaper featuring black felt patterns of silent movie stars. It’s either incredibly cool, or horribly tacky. I’m not sure which.
–Tim
this is soooooooooooo wrong! How do you turn your child into a mass murderer? With this!
opal, I do not ever ever ever never ever never never ever want to meet the person who has a deer butt on his wall. And if I was forced by court order to live with him I would always always always knock before I enter that room. always
I am instantly mortified that the boogie bass is to be found on the walls of even one human being. shudder Although I’d also like to nominate my current wall paper which my grandmother put up in 72, let me tell you, she has absolutely no taste at all. A real medical marvel. none shudder
I have a 2"X3" original pencil drawing, in stylish metal frame, of Golem; complete with a horde of screaming, fearful faces in the background.
I bought it from a street-artist in Prague, near the Jewish ghetto section of town.
It’s very dark and unnerving, but it’s done so well and it tells such an interesting story that I couildn’t resist buying it.
My wife insisted that, if I MUST have it up, she’d allow it in the hallway beside the downstairs bedroom. The light in that hallway is almost never on, and you’d never notice it was even there.
That is, until I point it out to you!
BWAAAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHA!
Opal? You’re not looking for suggestions for decorating your new house, I hope?
Anyway, my mom had a set of these on the wall of our house when I was a kid. Tacky both in concept – yeah, I want a frigging cock fight on my wall – and execution. BTW, my grandmother always insisted that fighting cocks were bad luck. My mom ignored this until one particularly unlucky day – one of those days when everything that could go wrong did – then took the ugly little bastards out to the driveway and smashed them to pieces with a rubber mallet.