what kinds of posters/pictures/paintings, etc do you have decorating your place?
Chief’s Domain - http://www.seas.ucla.edu/~ravi
(Only allowed in den by strict orders of Mrs. Bluepony)
My complete set of black velvet “Dogs Playing Pool and Poker”
These underappreciated classics will one day be understood by the rest of the world.
…send lawyers, guns, and money…
Warren ZevonSwords. Collection is pretty small right now, but we have a 56" Claymore, a Horseman’s Saber, and a Katana. Should have a nice rapier, once I find someone I trust enough to forge it for me.
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Clerks - Just because they serve you doesn’t mean they like you.
We have a copy of a Dali painting in the living room. I’m anxiously waiting for our wedding pictures to be ready so I can hang up those.
I have many angels all over my house. Some are hanging, some on shelves. By my computer I have a couple of pictures, one of PCW and myself on a whitewater rafting trip last summer, one of me and another friend.
Various family pictures on the hallway and living room walls as well as my dad’s war medals which have been mounted and hang below a picture of him in his uniform in 1944.
In my bedroom, a picture of our lord that has been passed down since my great grandmother, with my mom’s last palm sunday cross on it, and another picture of an angel.
Throughout the house are also various pics of my son as well as his art work. My home is pretty warm and personal I think, definitely not full of Rembrandts
We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another
Hang on, I’ll check…
Paint.
I have many nautical things. MY life has been by the ocean. So I bring the ocean in to me. I also have one favorite lighthouse. It’s on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The Bodie Light. Pronounced (Body) I have pictures of it throughout the house. Took ChiefScott to see it. He took many beautiful pictures. I must say though that the mosquito’s liked him very much that day. Whenever I look at that picture, I’ll always remember the day he gave blood…
Girlbysea (AKA: ChiefScott’s GBS)
A Thomas Hart Benton (don’t know the name, but it’s harvest time and there’s lightning and everyone’s running for cover)
Poster of Seattle skyline, also with lightning
Another Seattle poster – Kingdome Under Water – don’t know who does these, but there’s a series, and I wanted to get more but we moved
The picture everyone in Iowa has – the dog (looks like a Border collie) guarding a lamb – this one’s flanked by two pictures with wolves
Another Seattle picture - skyline at night, looks like it was taken from Queen Anne Hill
Three signed drawings by Fredrik King – he’s awesome – “A Dream”, “Vampire Wind”, and “House of Relativity”
Life-sized nude pictures of the Pope (I’m a Papal person),
Anime posters, wallscrolls, the like,
Swords, a Vachiacraft Archers Sword -42 inches (and I don’t mean on-line inches baby)a Daisho consisting of an unnamed Katana and Wakizashi, the legendary Masamune Katana, Oberon’s Firebrand, Excaliber, The Master Sword of Hyrule, and the Biggoron Sword,
Various daggers,
Some odd Ass-pennies,
And a Dildo-Bong.
All were placed there with duct tape.
I’m back! … Oh so NO-ONE knew I was gone? Well that’s just freakin great.
Lessee . . . . Mostly stuff with some connection to our wedding or our kids.
Downstairs:
My wife’s ketubah (wedding contract) in a frame handmade by my father. The ketubah and cut-paper matting for it were purchased in Israel by my wife.
A signed limited edition print of a view of downtown Asheville, NC, with the focal point being the old S&W Cafeteria building, where our wedding reception was held. The artist is a friend of a friend of my wife, and my wife had mentioned how much she liked the print in her friend’s condo. He bought the print as a wedding present and had it re-signed with a personal inscription by the artist, even before we’d decided on the S&W as a location for the reception.
A signed limited edition print of a wedding scene in Jerusalem by Israeli artist Ben Avram, inscribed to us by the artist (a wedding gift from a cousin).
Two large hand-tinted B&W photographs taken on our wedding day by the wedding photographer. One features my wife and I, her looking down demurely and me looking somewhat ill at ease, in front of the 1930 Chevrolet that her mother hired to take us from the synagogue to the reception, at an old gas station that’s been converted into an ice cream shop called “The Hop” – very 1940s style – located a block or so from the synagogue. The chauffeur is visible, sitting with his hands on his knees, on a bench beside the building in the background. The other is dominated by the entire facade of the S&W Cafeteria (see above – a wonderful old Art Deco building), with my wife leading me by the hand from the Chevrolet toward the door of the building.
A couple of smaller wedding photos of my wife taken a couple of weeks before the wedding inside the S&W Cafeteria.
A collage including a picture of my wife at age 2 or 3 and one of me at the same age, a picture of the two of us during our engagement, together with our wedding invitation and invitations to various showers, etc. held for us before our wedding.
Another signed limited edition print entitled “Shabbat”, by an artist whose signature I can’t quite make out, another wedding gift from an aunt.
A large photograph of my wife in full Taiwanese wedding attire, far more heavily made up than usual but looking smashing nonetheless, taken in Hsinchu while she was teaching there, at one of the wedding studios that are so much a part of Taiwanese culture.
A collage of photographs of our son, taken at one-month intervals from birth to his first birthday.
A painting of my wife, done by a parent of one of her students several years ago, painted from one of the other shots (this one in Occidental attire) taken at the Taiwanese studio.
A cross-stitched version of our wedding invitation done by a relative.
Various other family photos.
Upstairs:
Several old poster prints, one of a Picasso dove and one of a panda, one a rather treacly teddy bear and hearts on a bed.
Our chuppah, the canopy beneath which Jewish couples are wed. Ours was made from squares of fabric decorated by relations and special friends and sewed together by a very close friend of our wife’s family. It’s suspended at one end from a rod placed well out over our bed parallel to the wall, then passed behind another rod on the wall, so that it’s part canopy, part headboard for our bed.
More pictures of our son (we haven’t yet framed and hung the pix of our daughter – it *is different with the second one, no matter how you try).
Pending:
A series of 8x10 B&W George Burke photographs of baseball players from Arkansas, made from the original negatives: Arky Vaughan, Dizzy Dean, Travis Jackson, etc.
A print of a portrait of Thomas Jefferson that I bought at the Jefferson Memorial.
My first thought was to expand upon the thin layer of smoke and tar, but somehow that isn’t appropriate.
Wolf pictures, all over the place ( I love wolves ) Mirrors, I have mirrors in the kitchen, look like windows (used to be a window and door sales rep they used to be in my home office.)
My favorite picture though is a print of a water color in the mountains. The basics of it is a stream with some aspens in the winter with snow along it…hard to explain but I spent nearly $100 to have it framed for a $20 print, go figure.
unfortunately, not much.
My wife painted a mural (or has at least started one) of a comic book character on the walls of my step-sons room. I’m supposed to finish the scene - mostly water and sky on the other 3 walls.
In my infant sons room, it’s mostly blue, though I’m adding in more purple. The lower half (chairr-rail height and below) is a dark blue and I’ve painted cartoonish fish there. The above looks like sky.
Mostly pictures in the hallway. Some of my step-sons better school art on a couple of the walls. Would love to collect art, but can’t afford my tastes.
I am large,
I contradict myself,
I contain multitudes.
~Walt Whitman
Mostly pictures of my kids, my VERY favorite is a caricature that was done of them together when we were at Busch Gardens in Virginia.
In our hallway going down the stairs, we have historical items. The original newspaper heading when Roosevelt died is in a frame starting at the top stair, going down is Lincoln then an old treasure map, I’m still hoping it is real! Kind of an old age pension plan!
“Consider it a challenge…”
We did this long ago. At that time I had a Dilbert calendar hanging on the wall (I now have a new 2000 one) and to avoid room-check trouble, a page 5 girl from the weekly world news. (Still there) In actuality, she’s been joined by a Trojan ad and a DKNY ad.
God I’m pathetic.
–John
They aren’t even full sized ads, I cut them out of a catalog of posters you could order.
Besides pictures: a ceramic cast of my wife and I kissing.
We got plastered (sculpting plaster, thank you) at the local RenFest. The artist took the casting back to her studio, made a positive cast from the plaster one, adorned it with leaves around the edge, and painted it with pastels. It’s really cool-looking!
Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.
I have family pictures. Picture of violin with the poem “Touch of the Master’s Hand” (which I love). I love lighthouses so I have a miniature of each one in North Carolina.
Two posters, Rene Magritte’s The Empire of Lights, and Van Gogh’s Starry night.
A couple of old AOL CD’s, with the shiny sides facing outwards.
Also a lot of bookshelves.
Thats about it.
I have possibly the strangest and most varied collection of stuff on my walls.
Living room–a bazillion pictures of my kids and grandkids interspersed with bookshelves and plants.
Kitchen/dining room–a bunch of goofy signs like the one that says “grandchildren spoiled here”, or the one that says “a nurse lives here”.
Bedroom–more pictures of grandkids, picture of MY grandparents.
Computer room/office–painting of a covered bridge, my honorable discharge(framed) flanked by pictures and history of the two submarines I served on, bulls horn bugle, calendar depicting various barns throughout the country. Shelves containing a replica of the ledge light lighthouse which for me was the beacon signifying “home” when I served aboard a diesel submarine, a bronze replica of an “s” class diesel submarine, several “safed” 30mm shells from an A-10 aircraft, a stainless steel blade from the second stage compressor of a pratt & whitney jet engine, and several seed casings from a type of seaweed that is prolific in Long Island Sound.
I have various and assorted other things that are either too numerous or too complicated to include here.
FixedBack
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.”~~*G.K.Chesterton 1908 *
Swords? You have swords? I…I…I want one! But, alas, they tend to frown upon those things in university housing. And, since I am a Resident Assistant, I don’t think it would be looked upon favorably. Although, who would be the one to write me up?
Right now, I have several cheap pictures that I got at Walmart over my years in college (various cars, skylines, etc.) RA stuff…people who have been kicked out, my residents’ SS #s, etc.
I also have some things that I’ve put together in Publisher and Word and printed out. they turned out really well! (pictures with words printed across them)
That’s it. I’m boring.
“If we submit everything to reason, our religion will have no mysterious or supernatural element. If we offend the principles of reason, our religion will be absurd and ridiculous.” Blaise Pascal