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Okay, I still have unframed posters on my walls and I'm wondering if I'll ever grow up. Mine are mostly Mexican B-movie posters, but I also have a Cuban "Solidarity with Mozambique" poster in my hallway.

What unframed posters adorn your walls?

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Ned Raggett

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

(lock thread)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

No unframed ones - I just get those glass clip frame thingies, since they are cheap enough. The last two posters I bought were of TinTin and Snowy on a motorbike (for the kitchen), and Babar in a hot air balloon (youngest daughter is crazy about elephants in general and Babar in particular).

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

none.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you need to put posters in frames? Maybe it has more to do with how bourgeoise you are rather than age.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Posters look wrong in frames Mine - "The time is now" by Moloko, Antony Gormley - Field for the British Isles, and two hippy/gith spraypainted dragon ones.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

goth*

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

my posters look fantastic framed. In fact, I might have to upload some pics here after I walk the dog.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Unframed = So not gonna happen dorm room

Framed = Better Homes & Gardens

― andy ===, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

As I said, more bourgeoise. Few of my friends have framed posters.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

a handful of posters for Futureheads shows, ones from local music & film festivals.

my only framed posters were sold to move to oregon, but somewhere I still have a framed husker du poster somewhere in michigan.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

How is decorating yr home like a student bedsit not bourgeois?

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think I wanna frame at least one: a newsprint Mexican horror film called "Satanico Pandemonium: La Sexorcista" that has picures of nuns frollicking with Satan. Sometime the wind flaps through the window and I'm afraid it's gonna be damaged.

Does Ikea have poster frames?

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Only students have posters?

(x-post)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nunsploitation.net/images/satanico/satanico.jpg

This is a lobby card, the poster I have is just the image on the right.

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

i think the answer is to not have posters

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

tons of providence/noise related silkscreens.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Unframed posters do seem very college to me, and one of the reasons why my last apartment didn't feel quite "adult."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't have frames on my posters until the apartment i'm in now. i think i just figured i wasn't settling in the places i was in for more than a year or two and didn't want to make the investment/punch holes in the wall.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

What made me think of this is that I was out on a walk last night, and I looked in an apartment window and saw unframed posters of ethnic pop singers in somebody's living room, and I started wondering if it's even okay to put up unframed posters anywhere if you're supposed to be a grownup.

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have TONS:
http://www.clodia.net/work/photobrowsr/pictures/100_2005.jpg

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

tuomas and andy otm. it's still a poster, not high art.

in fact, i would ALMOST suggest that IF an unframed poster is a symbol of youth, than a framed poster is a symbol of an inability to grow up. so to speak. ALMOST. IF.

clodia, that's nothing. a friend of mine has floor to ceiling (including ceiling) plastered with the likes of

http://images.art.com/images/-/Nirvana--C10000290.jpeg
http://home.blarg.net/~wayule/graphics/071503blog.jpg
and
http://khaoulita.afrikblog.com/images/dennis_morris_bob_marley_spliff.jpg

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think it looks tacky and doesn't show much pride of ownership of your domicle (or even pride of leasing.) but to each their own and I have plenty of friends who still tape up posters in their pads. of course there are plenty of other things to start calling them tacky on. Some of my favorite things on the walls:

http://askforjanice.com/photos/elliot.jpg
http://askforjanice.com/photos/spankers.jpg
http://askforjanice.com/photos/giant.jpg

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

does http://www.megacalendars.com/images/big/1394.jpg need to be framed?

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I am not a big fan of framed posters, myself.
Maybe it IS a grown-up thing.

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i think the better question is do items purchased at spencer gifts really belong on your wall.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I started wondering if it's even okay to put up unframed posters anywhere if you're supposed to be a grownup.

living with a woman will put an end to your unframed poster insanity

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

"living with a woman will put an end to your unframed poster insanity..."

I'm sure other things will end, too.

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

like displaying your beer can/bottle collections. My boy's now lives in a black garbage bag in the garage.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

what things like this do women give up when they move in with a man?

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Displays of feminine hygieniphenalia.

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah right. *snort*

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - hygieniphenalia - did not match any documents.

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

what things like this do women give up when they move in with a man?

leaving their vibers out in public.

― clodia pulchra (emo by proxy), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

what things like this do women give up when they move in with a man?

Hello Kitty bathrooms. :(

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Goodbye Kitty!!

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Displays of feminine hygieniphenalia.

I didn't snap the framed 1926 tampon ad that's in one of our bathrooms. Good stuff.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I put a news clipping about a rabid hyena attack on the front of my GF's fridge... she keeps trying to hide it on the side, but I move it back to the front consistently

― andy --, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

unframed, too beat up to bother:
http://homepage.mac.com/c.shaw/.cv/c.shaw/Sites/.Pictures/BILL%20GRAHAM%20PRESENTS/Shaw-KidsInTheHall.jpg-thumb_202_269.jpg

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I like unframed posters, but I'm not allowed to put blu-tak on my walls where I live, so I have to frame them. A couple do look better that way, and it saves them from getting too ripped.

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Frames are very expensive - £22!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

what's the best way to put hooks in your wall if you have old-school plaster walls? I'm afraid it'll all just crumble if I start driving nails in.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have a big poster from a Richard Serra exhibit that I went to with my family when I was like 12. It's pretty beat up.

― 31g (31g), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

If you like something enough to hang it on your wall, regardless of whether its 'art' or a poster or a sheet of wrapping paper, I think you should frame it. a) you want to show it to its best advantage and the right frame can really do that and b) you don't want it getting ripped and tatty.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

teeny find a stud or maybe use one of those plastic sleeve things to go around the screw/nail. I'm just guessing here.

The stuff I took pictures of was all custom-framed and hand-cut. A former fried did a lot of things for me and I usually just paid for materials ($50-80) and traded graphics work for labor. His framed pieces normally go for between $150-300 so it can be expensive. But they are gorgeous and I'll never do anything different in the future.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

i use these things and cheapo poster hangers. with everywhere i've lived in the last several years, i've tried to avoid holes in the walls to protect my security deposit, because i'm always hoping to be able to move somewhere better.

those might work for you too though teeny, since then you don't have to worry about how strong the walls are. the hooks are supposed to hold up to 5 pounds or something like that...

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Teeny, if your walls are lathe and plaster, get the brass picture hooks that use nails that look like long pins. The hook/base keeps the nail at a 45 deg angle to the wall. We used these in an old house where the landlord had removed the picture rail. You have to be cautious when you start the nail, but they are quite narrow and do minimal damage.

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

My only unframed poster is for the film Dungeonmaster (a.k.a. RAGEWAR) starring Richard Moll, Jeffrey Byron, many dwarfs and W.A.S.P.

http://www.coldfusionvideo.com/d/dungeonmaster-2.jpg

Aside from that, some charity shop finds, but they're all framed or on wooden canvas. I found an awesome original painting of a horse by a guy called Henry D'Anti. It was £3. From the web, it seems he used to share a studio with Picasso and is relatively well known, but I'd never heard of the dude. Might be worth some $$$.

How could I find out?? Any idea about this guy???

― Mestema (davidcorp), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

i cannot be bourgeoise, for i am a MAN!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

(i can, however, be bourgeois)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

andy,

http://www.cheappetes.com/

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

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