Topic: There is nothing on my walls.

[Antares]

My bedroom is fine, but my living room is almost bare of wall decoration.  I have a dilema in that I want something classier than posters but can nowhere near afford real art.

Suggestions?

[Quemaqua]

I'd say go to deviantART.com and check stuff out, but they've gotten really expensive.

[Antares]

My original plan was to wait until I could purchase real art and slowly fill out my house one bit at a time, but I'm starting to get the feeling that this isn't going to happen anytime soon, especially considering my propensity to blow my disposable income on electronics.

[idolminds]

Paint a mural?

[Antares]

Paint a mural?

HA!

[Quemaqua]

Eh.  Just give up and rasterbate until your eyes fall out.

[Pugnate]

That's an old wives's tail. Rasterbating doesn't make you go blind, and nor does it give you hairy palms.

[Cools]

Kill 10 infidels and paint your house with their blood.

[Quemaqua]

Kill 10 infidels and paint your house with their blood.

Cools wins the thread.

[TheOtherBelmont]

Wallscrolls are always nicer looking than posters and last longer.  I have several anime/video game related ones.  Ukiyo-e art is always kind of cool looking.  Big, old looking maps are kinda cool too.

[Raisa]

Then it's going to smell like dried nappies.. sorry, but what a thought.

yech

Mosaics are cool..  But can we see pics of the bare walls first?  Then we'll have an idea of what to do.. create a mirage.. that'd be cool.

[beo]

i put a load of movie posters in clip frames and put them around my living room. it's pretty cheap, but looks cool.

[Ace_O_Spades]

Is there a university near you? Lots of times they will put on a poster sale that will do mockups of great pieces of art. Can be a good way to spruce up the place

[Antares]

I suppose finding some good posters and framing them isn't a bad Idea, it has crossed my mind before.

If I were to go the rasterbating route, I would do what exactly?  Find a picture I like, rasterbate it, then take the image to a print shop to be printed or something?


Edit:  The offending walls.  The rabbit ears will thankfully be going away next week.  I've finally decided to join the 20th Century and get cable.

[TheOtherBelmont]

If I were to go the rasterbating route, I would do what exactly?  Find a picture I like, rasterbate it, then take the image to a print shop to be printed or something?

If you have a printer you can do it yourself after downloading Rasterbator and selecting an image, but it will require a good amount of ink and paper depending on the image size.

[Quemaqua]

It does work, though.  I'll attest to it.  Gets some pretty cool looking results.

[Raisa]

1. get a cool carpet to put up
2. check out some of the walls here.. http://www.artisticwallcreations.com/galleries.htm - interesting to put something there, like those rubber lizards and spiders that look real.. haha kinda freaky though
3. Put up a map, an interesting one.  In this other place I lived in, there was a huge bare wall, and so my roommate put up a map and visitors would always crowd around it and discuss.. etc..  it was interesting what conversations come around because of a map./

[Quemaqua]

My game room is almost all maps of fictional places.  There are 10 currently, with a few that aren't up, one lost, and a few more on the way I'm sure.

[Ghandi]

That's a cool idea, actually. My roommate just moved out so my walls are pretty bare in the main room. Maybe I'll get a map. 

[Pugnate]

My game room is almost all maps of fictional places.  There are 10 currently, with a few that aren't up, one lost, and a few more on the way I'm sure.

YOU SAID THOSE PLACES WERE REAL!!!!!!11111!!!!!!!11!!


And I bought a boat and everything. 

[sirean_syan]

I only have one map in my new room. Of course, it's an awesome one. It actually printed out at a decent size fairly well too. I think my fun room is nearly complete at my place though. There's still a couple good spots for posters, but I know it's going to go to one of my Darwina ones. The trick so far has just been figuring out how I want to hang it. I don't want to just paste it up, but framing is something of a problem because it's A2 sized and no where around here carries frames made to European standards. That leaves custom framing which is a lot of money.

I also did a rasterbation of my own of an image of Samus, but I still haven't put it up. I'll be damned it the thing didn't take up something like a quarter of my ink catridge though.

[TheOtherBelmont]

That map is freaking awesome Sy.  I need to get a couple more maps in my room, I have the maps that came with Lunar and Lunar 2 and the mini map that came with Super Mario World Advance.  I want to get a map of Middle Earth sometime.  I really wish I could find an awesome map of Ivalice to hang up though.

EDIT:  After looking for some good pics of Ivalice, namely the FF12 world map, I found this one, how well do you think that would print out Sy?  I would probably do some Photoshopping to get rid of the seams and label all of the places correctly before I printed it.

[Quemaqua]

Just buy the guide.  Comes with map.  Horjays!  I have it up next to my TES maps (though I'm missing my Bloodmoon map... lost it when we moved... and it depresses me to no end...)

[TheOtherBelmont]

Just buy the guide.  Comes with map.  Horjays!  I have it up next to my TES maps (though I'm missing my Bloodmoon map... lost it when we moved... and it depresses me to no end...)

Oh cool, I did not know that, I will have to buy the guide then for sure.

[Quemaqua]

The "limited edition" guide features a nice little art book... but not even half as good as the Gears of War one.

[sirean_syan]

That image... eh. I wouldn't want to take it beyond best fit on a letter size sheet of paper. It'll be a little pixelated, but not horribly.

[Antares]

I like the map idea, I'l go that route with at least one picture.  I only wish I could paint well enough to do one of those wall murals.  I think I may fill the rest out with a few framed posters for now.