Show us 5 Things on your Walls

I'm really lazy about putting stuff up. I only have 3 things on my bedroom wall and they're all maps. 2 new york and 1 paris.

http://www.raremaps.com/maps/mediumkz/21077.jpg

the paris one is from 1910ish I think? I figured out the date but forgot it. found it at a book fair there.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OBcBbXOBT-Y/S52LQljBNjI/AAAAAAAAA3w/YH_mRK-3UU8/s320/UM_TA_1980.jpg

this is a piece of the map, can't find the whole image. it's early 80s. it's an actual gigantic framed station map that I found discarded and dirty on the street. I lugged it home (it's like 100 pounds) 15 blocks while my gf shook her head and thought about relationship exit-strategies.

then I have a small cheap reproduction of a hagstrom's map of new york subways and elevated lines. I can't find it online but it's dual contracts era. dayo gave me a hk subway map but I am really lazy and haven't put it up.

er paris one:
http://www.trussel.com/parismaps/pm43-04.jpg

actually it's a different year than that one but w/e mostly looks the same but doesn't have stripes

oh nvm that was just my computer, no it's that one

IT WAS A SHANGHAI METRO MAP smh

might as well have been in chin-

I'm a bad friend, also racist

Okay I'm going in. BRB, gotta get pix

Most of my wall space has been taken up with shelving units as the place is tiny, for some reason we have garden-type lights on the few remaining walls, and my landlord is a bit of a weird person so I haven't wanted to communicate with him to ask if we can make areas to hang stuff, so currently I have *nothing at all* on my walls. I do very much know what I want to put up when we move, though, so...

5 things on walls, hypothetical edition:

1. This still from Un Chien Andalou, which I cut out of the newspaper and framed, and had up at the last house:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/wp-content/uploads/images/chien.jpg

2. This awesome picture of Klaus Schulze:
http://zero1magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/klaus-schulze4.jpg

3. At least one of these gig posters, of which I have a few (actually, I believe the catalogue here is incomplete, it may well just be the ones that he still intends to sell).

4. A print I'm about to buy of a painting my friend did called 'Admir4l H4gfish' (not sure why I'm googleproofing here, but hey) - of a cat as an old sea tar. Might sound a bit cheesy but it's done very well.

5. One of my friend D's drawings/paintings - he works from a sort of medieval/religious frame, but with a surrealist and romantic bent.

1. This mystery, framed pair of photos that my ex found at a yard sale. Love this, keep it over my front door.
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13896391855/1/tumblr_lvv0aojcHP1qzyx8y

2. Old theater lobby card for a Pigmeat Markham film
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13896403315/1/tumblr_lvv0b1Lhb41qzyx8y

3. Backside of a framed booking pitch for "Chris and His Wonder Monkey" circa 1953
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13896379828/1/tumblr_lvv0abmcKA1qzyx8y

4. Picture of my great-great grandfather. Dude apparently didn't follow his wife to America.
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13896358932/1/tumblr_lvv09ni2Nb1qzyx8y

5. Framed leaflet over my CD shelf from The Citizens Council of Greater New Orleans circa 1950s(?) demanding that citizens "Help Save the Youth of America: DON'T BUY NEGRO RECORDS"
http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13896414031/1/tumblr_lvv0beBkwg1qzyx8y

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_spCP3JtxOPc/TQdquCZvc7I/AAAAAAAAFxE/mHz55p5ZIhw/s1600/bill_buckner3-1_display_image.jpg
http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1010/416766.1010.A.jpg
http://img.diytrade.com/cdimg/1370530/20021155/0/1301388863/Dartboard_Cabinet.jpg
http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-b/barbarella_poster_07.jpg
http://0.tqn.com/d/horror/1/0/U/z/-/-/Alien_polish.jpg

Those last two are AWESOME!

guys

Hahaha, Polish film posters = always amazing (I do realise the Barbarella one isn't Polish, yes).

http://i.imgur.com/1Lbjy.jpg

shut up

that's not on my wall btw but maybe it should be

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80086308/keep-calm-and-drink-slurpees-11x17?ref=sr_gallery_2&ga_search_submit=&ga_search_query=slurpee&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_search_type=handmade&ga_facet=handmade

http://i42.tinypic.com/288412g.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/2hgfmsh.jpg
http://i40.tinypic.com/ace8wn.jpg

4) a painting my parents bought on the street in Paris 30+ years ago
5) A poster from an exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Art

Sorry those are really big.

I love the first one, really nice.

so many things. ill take a picture in the daylight but my bf and i keep finding really nice signed group of seven prints at the antiques fair we actually have exactly five of them: two a.j. carsons, a lawren harris and a jeh macdonald. i think theyre all from a series, cuz they have similar formats and theyre roughly the same size

forks yr place is awesome; the picture of yr great grandfather (by the condiments) & the NOLA save the children thing partic

my bedroom is themed like a hunting lodge. on the walls we have:

http://www.woodlandsclocks.com/RiverCity/cuckoo-1D-12-09p.jpg

http://ocanadagear.com/graphics/stuffed-head-moose1.jpg

http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_fullxfull.196339893.jpg

http://www.black-bear-haversack.com/images/Rubberband_Gun_Rifle.jpg

and on the floor

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nfPvfj-XJpM/S4bGvEaIIAI/AAAAAAAAA6g/ebT_GW-O80c/s400/DSCN0548.JPG

and for a mural we have this on our wall 8 x 10 feet:

http://www.apartmentsinteriordesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/River-Stone-Wallpaper-Mural-Forest-Image.jpg

:D

currently this is up in the office, but it usually belongs in my classroom

http://roundworldproducts.com/media/catalog/product/cache/14/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/r/w/rwp_-_dinos_-_dinosanctwld_-_map_of_the_ancient_world_-_rgb-web_-_1k.jpg

thanks schlump
much more around the house.

awesome Jack Robinson print my gf got me of Sam & Dave & horns at Soul Together concert in Madison Square Garden
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/Soul_Together04.jpg

local volunteer radio 30th anniversary poster
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/WEVL30.jpg

old leaded glass window i found lying in the attic when i moved in my house
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/IMG_0373.jpg

hilariously dramatic photo of my gf's mom wearing a serape(?) thing in the early 70s
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c163/wvferrell/IMG_0370.jpg

Found my no. 4 from the intro post:

http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/1615035/12-Joan-Kiddell-Monroe--West-Indian-Fold-Tales-1.jpg

And my no. 3!
http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/88505/1254678/01-Paper-Zoo0001_900.jpg

:)

1. This, framed, which eventually led to a weird obsession with Ramon Novarro and his personal history. Found it at an old music professor's garage sale in Ohio.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5194VJEVhIL._SS500_.jpg

2. This ceramic tile, which my dear friend Siobhan gave me. It is one of my prized possessions.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/390727_615533493824_4302681_32591250_2131503768_n.jpg

3. An old fucked-up oak desk drawer holding a picture of a young sailor taken in 1937 in Hawaii, and a sewing kit complete with brittle old thread dating from the 1910s.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/386709_615533478854_4302681_32591249_51968255_n.jpg

4. The turk's head knot as used by divers to rest their diving helmets on when not in water, done by my good friend when he was on acid.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/377178_615533518774_4302681_32591251_1698616698_n.jpg

5. Four photos improperly exposed so that two exposures appear on half of each piece of paper, from some family's 1950s era trip to Turkey. Plus an old horse-shoe.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/384942_615533438934_4302681_32591248_1794487297_n.jpg

1. signed poster from a ray caesar exhibition

http://www.richardgoodallgallery.com/contemporaryart/images/imagecache/Raycaesar%20London%20poster.jpg

2. signed joe vaux print

http://www.richardgoodallgallery.com/contemporaryart/images/imagecache/Raycaesar%20London%20poster.jpg

3. skinner print

http://www.richardgoodallgallery.com/contemporaryart/images/imagecache/Raycaesar%20London%20poster.jpg

4. original c@rol 3s piece

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6475016545_da8ebacbaf_b.jpg

5. a trio of jim woodring letterpress prints

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bNZA34S3xC8/Sh2p6wAftPI/AAAAAAAAAeM/7Fr7M4CGqjo/s400/DSC_3891.png

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bNZA34S3xC8/Sh2p6WLRk_I/AAAAAAAAAeE/-CXD12YJtDo/s400/DSC_3886.png

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bNZA34S3xC8/Sh2p7OOzBcI/AAAAAAAAAeU/wqb_OO8Icyo/s400/DSC_3888.png

well i fucked that up!

2. joe vaux

http://www.aadstatic.com/uploads/vaux_465456.jpg

3. skinner

http://myloveforyou.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834cad15053ef0133f4dd51b1970b-800wi

we're interesting people aren't we

i think so!!!

I have

http://www.rare-maps.com/MAPS_PIC/RM-1912-TORONTO.JPG
map of Toronto, 1912. Our street doesn't even make the cut because we're in midtown, which didn't exist then except as farms.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/46934_438137398577_516053577_5136990_3816519_n.jpg
Mostly sexist vintage advertising, my favourite is the cigarette one which promises 'Blow in her face and she'll follow you everywhere.'

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/47112_438139358577_516053577_5137084_3556052_n.jpg
Collages made from the three Modest Mouse setlists I've snagged - made the first one because it was first time I went to Chicago/Madison and I was excite (has map of Madison as background, iHop sugar packet, Marlboros) but then made Toronto & Kingston versions because got engaged at Kingston show - I actually put in the temp fake diamond ring that I wore while I waited for my custom ring.

The original version of the Rolling Stones' Some Girls, which I cut up like an asshole ;_;
A melting Dali clock
Radiohead poster that I bought long after I should have, and hung sideways
Revolving band of framed album covers
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/47379_438739433577_516053577_5148474_6886564_n.jpg

bonus round, because I love my handiwork - I rescued this shelf *11 years ago* from the garbage, repainted, recently added a back to stabilize it and last week cut old record covers to act as wallpaper! Really liked the effect over boring old plywood.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/391668_10150431098813578_516053577_8722108_1017453592_n.jpg

Poster (right) on wall above my computer:

http://991.com/newGallery/Blue-Orchids-The-Greatest-Hit-308356.jpg

woah a lotta catching up to do but:

― remy bean in exile, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:29 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

:D

― your voice of treason, Thursday, 8 December 2011 01:34 (13 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^, so cute

& re:

thanks schlump
much more around the house.

― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu)

i e-mailed the NOLA thing to a couple of people & got this back:

Fantastic. Dated when? 1987?

that toronto map's lovely, yr place has like positive clutter

I will show you six things on the walls in the room I am in.

Above this computer:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xlEMmctlL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Above the dining-room table:

http://oi51.tinypic.com/f0wzk8.jpg

Above the love seat (in this triptych formation):

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/c52276e04a02963d12709b34797113a1/390759.jpghttp://oi53.tinypic.com/2kfwv8.jpghttp://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200405/08/96/a0009196_94057.jpg

Above the corner table (where we keep our liquor bottles even though it's not strictly a liquor cabinet):

http://www.blueq-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HD410.jpg

wait is there another record missing there or is it a diptych?>

(Corn painting, btw, is one of three paintings in my apartment by infrequent ILXor D3rek Erdm@n.)

wait is there another record missing there or is it a diptych?>

Oh shoot, the first one just disappeared.

It's this:

http://oi41.tinypic.com/w22dyc.jpg

awesome

Use your imagination to arrange it into the triptych.

I moved in to a new apartmen a couple of months ago, and at the moment I have nothing on the walls. In the previous one I had two movie posters, for Totoro and Innocence (the French movie about the mystrious girl school). The current one has much more wall space though, so I guess I should come up with more and/or larger posters.

These are the two posters:

http://www.jykke.fi/phpdvdprofiler/images/6416335177623.16f.jpg (minus the DVD logo)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WVGtACCa8m0/TbWXuTS1qPI/AAAAAAAABMk/Akx2exLNPH0/s1600/Innocence.jpg

That skeleton of type is a great idea

jenny, where did you get those ornate frames from??? I LOVE THEM

In two parts.

1. Patti Smith. Four photos, but counts as one thing on my wall, IMO.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/patti-photos.jpg

2. Archie Bell and the Drells, in a floating frame.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/tighten-up.jpg

3. Play Time.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/play-time.jpg

4. The Third Man.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/third-man.jpg

5. Bruce.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/springsteen-darkness.jpg

jenny, where did you get those ornate frames from??? I LOVE THEM

The two bigger ones I bought at a chain craft store in NC in the early 00s, like a Michael's or a Hobby Lobby or something. They were white and I painted them with cast iron-effect craft paint. The other one I bought at TJ Maxxxxxx/Marshall's/one of those places.

many xps waaauuuuu abbott I want a framed Archie print!! Jealous!

and now that I went and looked at everything else that y'all have posted I want all those too. I loooove the idea of painting on a map, may do something similar. Love!

Okay, in my office:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy1n1T6OV1qzyx8yo1_500.jpg
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy1qrxxba1qzyx8yo1_500.jpg
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy1vbMX0a1qzyx8yo1_500.jpg
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy1wuRKzj1qzyx8yo1_500.jpg
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy25fejZs1qzyx8yo1_500.jpg

The walls of my office cubicle:

1. Watercolor of Big Ben that I bought in an antique mall outside of Hartford, MI.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6482932643_a7af2d6cae.jpg

2. That Doctors Without Borders map that like, everybody got in the mail and hung on their wall at work, with bonus quipping Kirk-n-Spock.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7144/6482933719_046bc52907.jpg

3. Feminist fist bump.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7005/6482903357_c48318d055.jpg

4. Calendar I bought from someone on Etsy.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6483018115_7a80979794.jpg

5. Map to Pierogi Heaven.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6482884693_b04d1e8012.jpg

there are only two things on my office wall (i only have one)
these two pictures, at eye level, so i can turn my chair away from the room and remember that there is beauty in the world
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6483077279_ecf57a1c8a.jpg

and that i have seen it with mine eyes

That's why I keep the map to Pierogi Heaven.

I want to go to pierogi heaven! Chicago sounds more awesome each time I learn something new about it. Pierogi Heaven!

On the walls of my cube I have:

1) a calendar I got from Etsy (lol thejenny)
2) two cartoons of pugs
3) picture of Benson wrapped in a blanket
4) a card from my boss

None of which are really interesting enough to warrant taking pics of right now.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/24761_505177745183_259200096_154274_5508225_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/67483_506237671083_259200096_189528_4545940_n.jpg (lol i like both ts eliot and the chocolate war! and apparently defacing my own art prints)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BauoWOjwL._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SbxdcCzBL.jpg

http://www.soho-art.com/shopinfo/uploads/1277864480_large-image_carlocarraleavingthetheatre1910002oilpaintinglarge.jpg (this is one of the little postcards in the first pic)

Kenan I love those Patti/Robert photos!!

that list is the first time i was able to connect curious orange as being E.

Ha, a few weeks ago (and again, a few days ago), I got into a long argument with someone who thought Burt Lancaster, in The Sweet Smell of Success, and I have the same glasses. Evidently not having the same glasses isn't convincing enough.

My roommate, pregnant with a bowling ball
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6483648203_c86dd505c7_z.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

eh movie, great poster
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7152/6483646035_74a11de378_z.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

household whiteboard
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6483614817_a7e470da43_z.jpg
Untitled by celluloidpropaganda, on Flickr

Raiders of the Lost Ark inna Popeye stylee
http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/27322270/Raiders.Popeye.72.Smalllll.jpg

Ramones vs. Misfits
http://grayhood.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Wants3ndEdition.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindy/sets/72157628350626355/

andre in 1984:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6483793831_0e7af3b79f_z.jpg

the fall:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6483792951_3cb31abae0_z.jpg

james ensor postcards:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6483791855_4a3181129b_z.jpg

l.a.'s old red car line:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7148/6483790731_7b22d3cf62_z.jpg

edward weston's "hot coffee":

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7010/6483789723_1024875677_z.jpg

venturi, scott brown and associates:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7030/6483788981_5a16018300_z.jpg

neutra's chuey house, 1958:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6483788371_f1e233e07c_z.jpg

(trudy campbell = jbr/get bent btw)

awww, little andre!

that's more than 5. but i was having fun!

Map to Pierogi Heaven.

I actually almost went to Pierogi Heaven for lunch today. As in, I dawdled outside and peered in before deciding to get a sandwich somewhere else.

Ronan: A poster for Stalker! Where did you come by that? I love it.

pierogi heaven

i want to go to there

Great thread idea :)

This, as a large framed print:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41qUSSPwgHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

This woodcut print by Australian 30s artist Christian Waller as a framed postcard I got from the ANG (would LOVE to find a poster sized version)
http://cs.nga.gov.au/IMAGES/LRG/32161.JPG
Along with a bunch of other various B&W pics I took myself, postcardy sized, in littl frames in an arrangement

This is the kitchen wall, our corkboard: many of those postcards are from ILXors!
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/180852_496653207756_726857756_6533386_2388178_n.jpg
(also featuring a scribbled pizza dough recipe that I cleverly noted needs "4 cups warm water" and "2 tbsp warm water". o_0

jaymc when you are out lunching that close to my work, you should let me know! If you want lunch company, that is.

He probably doesn't. The jaymc I know likes to eat his pierogies in peace. Metta World Peace.

Fuck you, pierogi.

entryway (diagram of the electrical system of a 1974 cadillac, from my grandfather's garage):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6484216185_941e40fae1.jpg

livingroom (my favorite hammer, from my father's garage):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7028/6484216409_5e3dd6cfb8.jpg

kitchen (example of my street art project):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6484216557_0ffb3abbf4.jpg

workroom (measuring devices over my work table):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7169/6484216019_1057e68fce.jpg

basement (clippings montage left behind by the original house owner):
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7165/6484215795_202e7d104f.jpg

'because it's there' is so good

that '74 caddy diagram is a beaut.

many xposts, Kenan I am in love with yr walls

a prized possession
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6484877285_1eea41d584.jpg

over the couch
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7141/6484881487_6203c3bd48.jpg

in the hallway
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6484878907_5406689b95.jpg

with bonus holiday cheer
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7153/6484880145_b0d7d890ab.jpg

in the bathroom
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7156/6484874881_14b67894ce.jpg

there are others (signed shirley collins thing with my name on it, chicago tentet print, picture of my grandma when she was 4, others) but i stuck with 5

James Ensor! Belgium's famous painter! Pick him up and shake his hand! Appreciate the man!

i thought the lyric was "dig him up and shake his hand"!

Ronan: A poster for Stalker! Where did you come by that? I love it.

I got it on Amazon actually, it's quite small and was fairly expensive for the size. I really should get it framed as I currently just have it stuck on the wall.

yeah, it is "dig him up" now that you mention it.

http://zedequalszee.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/orgasm-addict.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/209792.1020.A.jpg

http://www.arsmagazine.com/uploads/images//000/002/034/news_story_detail-Schiele_Selbstportraet1.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tMzBRTJJL.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MIYFrY65L.jpg

These Kevin Dart pics:
http://imgs.abduzeedo.com/files/articles/kevin-dart/006_large.jpg
http://grainedit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/bikini.jpg

Anja Percival print:
http://www.anjapercival.co.uk/Resources/palmhouse9.jpg

England by rail calendar:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519V6tV8qsL._SS400_.jpg

And some more stuff I can't be bothered to take pics of...

I love this thread so much i forgot to post in it.
Some chairs
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7006/6540084421_7c0a525e71_z.jpg
A fish by Cesar Manrique
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7160/6540096849_9bb6fb8c7f_z.jpg
And I couldn't choose three things from this so see it more as "a piece"
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6540108445_e229db135f_z.jpg
includes Mrs Trifle's grandfather in his police cape, his truncheon and an ILXOR other than myself. See if you can spot them all!