Probably my shrine to Arturs Irbe. Outside of his mother, I have to be this guy’s biggest fan. I have his Starting Lineup figure, a four-card display with cards from each team he’s played for, and a large frame of his cards, including 2 that are autographed, 4 with pieces of his jersey, and 3 with pieces of his stick.
I also have a frame with pictures of me and Ben Folds and ticket stub he autographed for me.
A bunch of posters, certificates, and souvenir pennants. But my all-time favorite attention-getter is a b/w poster that looks like Mt. Rushmore but the caption reads: “The 4 Wise Guys of the 20th century”: Einstein, Ghandi, M.L. King, and Curly from the Three Stooges.
I have pictures! The big abstract is a tapestry-like “fiber composition” by Smadar Livne – it’s about 6’x4’. I have a couple of small abstract prints on the opposite wall. Click on any of the thumbnails for a larger image.
Zoe - It takes a lot of effort but its seriously worth it. you need to get them to stand on something whilst you (and preferably a helper) do the actual taping.
We’d never done it before but had heard you could do it and thought we’d give it a try - it was either that or do office chair racing again.
The best part was when the boss came back - he was meeting his wife for lunch so invited her in to meet “his guys”. He’s used to us doing stupid things when its a very slow day, so didn’t give it a second thought (has even been known to join in!). But his wife was obviously confused - she said something like:
“Andrew honey why is there a man stuck to the wall??”
and he replied (completely deadpan):
“Oh thats Adam - he’s probably just hanging around”
One of those clocks with a radio receiver that gets a signal from the atomic clock in Colorado every hour on the hour and sets itself. It’s accurate to within .003 seconds. It was my first Christmas present from Edlyn.
Seriously:
An e-bay print-out of a $20.50 NURBS sphere, a Donnie Darko posterette, a printout of a packet of Mr Sheen Spring Fresh, two playing cards with 1950’s girls printed on them (dressed, colour) a ticket stub from Sainsbury’s Deli (unused) a Monster’s Inc poster. Some Pins & a schedule for a long-overdue project
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2 squares of photos.
I think there is 42 pictures in each? I can’t remember
A mounted poster of lightening in a desert above my bed.
A mounted poster of a tree that morphs into a house by Jerry Ueslmann.
A mirror…some paint…
Yah, that’s about it.
I used to have every inch of wall and ceiling covered with pictures, but I grew out of that…
Maps. World map, country map, WA state map, a couple area maps. I like maps. There’s also a framed (Lilo &) Stitch poster that silent_rob gave me. In the living room, I have some framed prints by jinwicked.
My room back home has posters: the Atlanta Braves pitching rotation circa 1998, and two French cafe shots. More maps. There’s an anime calendar pinned to the wall, and my BA’s framed and hanging. Finally, I have a Lego biplane suspended on fishing line and thumbtacked to the wall.
There is only one thing on my wall: a Rancid poster which doubled as a lyrics booklet from their CD, cleverly called Rancid. (The second (!) one.) I’m far too cheap to actually buy, you know, a real poster.
But if I wasn’t, my walls would be plastered with posters of punk bands.
Oh, there’s also a hole in my wall shaped like this (
as well. I have no idea what made it.
On the wall behind me is a bulletin board. The most interesting thing on it could be…well…nothing much. I have my class schedule, a map of campus, my exam schedule, and a schedule of concerts at the German Embassy.
Hey, it’s a dorm! I had to fly here! I couldn’t bring stuff.
A huge self-portrait poster of Kurt Vonnegut, which he was kind enough to autograph for me with the date 11-11-97 (even though I actually met him three days earlier). 11-11-97 was his 75th birthday (which I knew), so he was kind enough to make my poster a collector’s item.
In my room, I have a bunch of watercolors that I did when I was about 11-13. The colors are gorgeous, even though the subject matter is kind of eclectic. (Two fancy dining room chair, linked by a suspension bridge with tiny cars on it, a giant trenchcoat which I drew while standing up with my carcoal/paintbrush/spongebrush taped to the end of a yardstick, and an Indonesian “tree of life” sort of thing.)
Also a bunch of handmade paper collages that I made during the same sort time period. I took a lot of art classes at the Nelson Atkins Museum when I was younger.