The more observant amongst you may have noticed that Thorn Davis and myself have just moved into a new flatshare. As it is a rented property, there is the usual guff about no nails/blu tack on the pristine white walls. There is only one existing nail in the lounge, from where we got the landlord to move an ugly "modern art" thing. This means we only have one chance to legally hang a picture.
We have decided a movie poster would be best. It has to be non-studenty (ie Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction etc), a nice visual as well as being from a film we both like.
What picture shall we have? You could also post anecdotes/advice about the decor in places where you have resided!
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: What about lovely Marilyn?
Lovely, lovely Marilyn.
You said "no" to lovely, lovely Orlando & Johnny posters in Forbidden Planet yesterday.
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Or pictures you found in the street, or in the charity shop. Or something your friend's bipolar mother painted in the eighties. Nutter chic. Or project slide collections onto the walls, that you got from house clearances. Clunk-clunk. Clunk-clunk. That wouldn't drive you mad at all, and it would be very industrial renaissance cloche chic. Or scrumple some fabric between two sheets of glass. Perhaps Thorn's stained duvet, with annotations scribbled on. Very personal-history diviniation revelation shabby shamen chic. Very very.
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Natalie Portman is the only thing that is going to make this worth watching, and even that's pretty damned doubtful.
As to pictures - movie stills are too easy. If you're going to be looking at this day-in-day-out, you need something with a bit of complexity, otherwise you might just as well have the blank wall for all the attention you'll pay it. Your brain'll tune it out. Have a Heath-Robinson or something.
I nearly lived in a student-place once that had been entirely wallpapered in comics. It was fantastic, it took you hours to get from one end of the house to the other, and you ended up with a huge crick in your neck. Doubt they let you do that these days. Anyway, didn't live there because the bathroom didn't work, but it would've been cool.
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quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: *your pubic hairs mingled with masturbatory fluid sellotaped to the wall
Pay attention dude - no sellotape or Blu-tack or anything that damages paintwork. Although you could frame it in one of those cheap nasty glass-and-hardboard jobs, then hang it, I suppose.
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quote:Originally posted by jnhoj: *your pubic hairs mingled with masturbatory fluid sellotaped to the wall
Pay attention dude - no sellotape or Blu-tack or anything that damages paintwork. Although you could frame it in one of those cheap nasty glass-and-handjobs, then hang it, I suppose.
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I had initially posted up a famous poster of the Führer, but I thought this would be a more appropriate suggestion. I think it's rather atmospheric, and has more to it that the rather cartoony version we all saw here in the UK.
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