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I'm finally getting stuff to make my walls less bare. It's not quite like my ickle uni flat, where I literally used posters as wallpaper, but I've got loads of all new ones. Just need to ship more older ones in. Anyway, shit that tells people my geek is showing.

• - 30 years and still going strong.
  
  - Their war. Our world.
  
  - "Pass the Wensleydale..."
  
  - "He's coming home..."
  
  - ARGH! MY BWAIN!
  
  - Likes toast. Possibly pie, also.
  
  - "Victims... were apparently eaten."
  
  - Prime time.
  
  - What? No prequels?!
  
  - For the inner Shep.
  
  - "Say hello to my little friend!"
  
  - Da da da, DAAA da da...
  
  - "Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?"
  
  - "Permission to speak, sir?"
  
  - The cake is a lie.

What about you lot?

Heh, I hadn't seen that Grommit HMV one before

They were giving them out free last year for a limited time, so I went and got one. They should do a model figurine too. I need more things to put on top of my main telly (to go with Blackout, the High Wind and Faye Valentine ).

My camera is knackered, but my walls are rather dull anyway

- several pictures of my g/f and I from the Pride and Prejudice photo shoot thing I got her for Christmas, a painting she did of us, that sort of thing.

- a funky drawing Pick did for me a few years ago of a moose monster

- a volcano (of course)

The main feature however is a large print of what I think is a fairly limited edition A2 poster of the cover art of Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. I worship at the alter of eBay.

The porter of the Thunder Child scene? I wish I had one of that given how great the paintings are. I did used to have family and friends up in photos, but I haven't got the selection I had in my flat and could do with newer shots anyway.

Plus, takes more such photos to cover the walls than does take movie posters.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:The porter of the Thunder Child scene? I wish I had one of that given how great the paintings are. I did used to have family and friends up in photos, but I haven't got the selection I had in my flat and could do with newer shots anyway.

Plus, takes more such photos to cover the walls than does take movie posters.

Yeh, it's pretty damn awesome, I did used to have the poster of the FSM talking to Adam ala Sistine Chapel on my wall as well, but my g/f complained that I had too many freaky posters on my walls. So I shifted that one off to work instead, where it now worries the lecturers adjoining my office. One of them tried to censor it with a delicately placed post it note, so I called her an art hating fascist.

Admiral Valdemar
You should get some frames for those.

I stopped using posters a few years back. All I've got is wall scrolls.



Hanging directly above my comics hardcover shelf is the wall scroll from DC based on Doug Mahnke's cover to JLA # 61.



Directly opposite from my desk and hanging above my bed are two anime scrolls from Sakura Taisen (left) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (right).

I found this framed collection of mission patches from Apollo 7 to Apollo 17 at my old grade school tag sale about 20 years ago. They are sealed in the frame and on the back, in pencil, is written:

"Valley Forge
January 7, 1973"

I live in Pennsylvania (where Valley Forge is located, for those who don't know) but other than that, I know nothing else about the collection.

The patch in the center on the bottom is not a specific Apollo mission patch. It reads:

"General Electric Transatel Terminal
Apollo Spashdowns"

Sorry about the bad angle. It's hanging pretty high up on the wall here.

(Edit: moved the picture to one of my real image hosts, as Tiny Pic seems to be shooting blanks)

Interesting. I need to find my patch collection, they all seem to still be with my parents. My 7th Cavalry one used to be on our lounge door, while I had a US Coastguard and RAF fighter squadron ones around along with assorted aircraft patches.

I would frame the pictures my dad took of Lightnings, Victors and so on when stationed at RAF Akrotiri in the early '70s, but that might go against national security.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Interesting. I need to find my patch collection, they all seem to still be with my parents. My 7th Cavalry one used to be on our lounge door, while I had a US Coastguard and RAF fighter squadron ones around along with assorted aircraft patches.

I would frame the pictures my dad took of Lightnings, Victors and so on when stationed at RAF Akrotiri in the early '70s, but that might go against national security.

That sounds like quite a collection!

I know it's slightly blurry, but I especially like the Apollo XII patch, (2nd row, on the right). It's a sailing ship orbiting the moon.

Anyway, I like that "Mind Warp" poster you have there. The spinning... it's... hypnotic...

The Mind Warp one freaks most people out. They know their brain is doing it and it's not a hologram, so they go mad. I find it hilarious, myself. I should buy dozens and wallpaper the house with them.

I can get the warp effect to stop, if I look at it right.


I'll get some pictures of these eventually... that said:

My bedroom has Mr. Bean in mid-jump, an abstract painting one of my uncles brought back from Mexico, and a big beaver. The entrance to my bedroom has a copy of an X-ray of my entire skull posted above it.

My computer room has various game posters, including Klingon Academy, Supreme Commander, Ultimate Doom, Independence War... and a postcard for DEFCON. Oh, and the marriage license telling me I was authorized to marry a couple last year. The entrance to said room has a "Fallout Shelter" sign posted next to it.


I've also got two posters on order currently; one of them for Galaxy Express 999, and the other for Space Pirate Captain Harlock. Those are immediately going into the computer room and into the most prominent places available.


Oh, here's the Fallout Shelter sign:



Yes, the wall on the right side there is incredibly bare. That's because it serves as the screen for my projector.

Uraniun235 wrote:Oh, here's the Fallout Shelter sign:

Grr, I want that sign.

Actually, I know where there is one in particular, attached to a certain wall near the front doors of a certain school in a certain part of Philadelphia I am particularly familiar with. If I had no compunctions about stealing it, it would be in my hands so fast... Well, and assuming I wasn't thwarted by the police.

No doubt there are other signs like that around the city, but it's the only one I remember seeing.

I want a biohazard sign and I know where to get them. But if I took them, strangers may suddenly find themselves being unprepared for what lies in the room the sign once guarded.

Humph.

Wide angle view


View from a nearby bridge and Merrimack Caverns


Calender and cars


Gateway Arch and an airplane

What good is a fallout shelter if you're sharing it with Uraniun?

Uraniun235
Dude. Clean your room.