Post #113,019
8/7/03 8:06:49 AM
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You know...
..they make plastic, glow-in-the-dark stars with self-adhesive backing.
And I told mine that the ceiling is black when the light is off ;-)
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #113,021
8/7/03 8:33:42 AM
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Yep, that's what I had in my yoof.
Stick-on glow in the dark stars. Though I went the whole hog and had the black ceiling as well.
The amusing (to me at least) bit was that, when I moved out of home,my parents painted it white basically the very next day. I guess Mum wasn't real keen on a black-ceiling'd sewing/ironing/quilting/calligraphy/computer/whatever room :)
John. Busy lad.
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Post #113,035
8/7/03 9:30:31 AM
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I had the "earth seen from the moon" mural.
Well, it's actually a picture of the surface of the moon, yes. Then they photoshopped a picture of the Earth as seen from an Indian satellite in. Still looked pretty cool. Dark blue shades, dark blue carpet, grey walls.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #113,069
8/7/03 12:16:52 PM
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Re: Yep, that's what I had in my yoof.
Oh man, I almost had the black ceiling! When I lived at home and wanted a Star Wars room, Dad built me a loft bed all painted different shades of blue. We painted two walls white, for the inside of the spaceship look, and two walls dark blue, for the outer space look. I so wanted a black ceiling and a silver painted door, but mom stomped her foot down on that part. I settled for a lighter blue ceiling, and ordinary door covered in Star Wars posters.
The loft bed moved here to the house with us, (although we had to saw it apart and bolt it back together, hehe), and like your parents, as soon as I left home, man that room was back to a normal paint job! Blue, I think! Hehehee!
Nightowl >8#
"I learned to be the door, instead of the mat!" "illegitimi nil carborundum"
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Post #113,158
8/8/03 12:00:07 AM
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Beat yah
Loosely hanging mylar covering the ceiling.
Gave a funhouse mirror effect.
2 x 4 foot blacklights on the ceiling.
Crisscrossing red and green nets hanging across the
entire ceiling.
A 4 foot fluorescent red light hanging vertically
on one wall.
A 4 foot fluorescent green light buried under a dresser,
too bright to put out in the open.
Depending on my mood I'd have a single color lit, which
in turn was cause an interesting effect with the matching
net.
Mylar and black contruction paper covering the windows.
No evil outside light was allowed in, even during daylight
hours.
About a pound of glow in the dark putty, pieces stuck
everywhere. In the nets, on the ceiling, on the walls,
on the furniture, EVERYWHERE. Glow in the dark material
picks up black light and get fully "energized" in about
5 seconds. Amazing.
Black light posters convering all the walls, Building a
Rainbow, etc.
All area between posters drawn with black light crayons.
You should have seen the look on my father's face when he
"caught" my 17 year old artistic brother drawing on the
wall. We showed to him that it "disapeared" under normal
light and were allowed to continue.
Occasionally a very artistic person would visit me. I'd
take down a poster and they would get the full area to
themself.
Can you say PARTY ROOM? I knew you could.
I'm sure the next owner had a hell of a time dealing with the
wax covered walls!
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Post #113,163
8/8/03 3:21:54 AM
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LRPD sez "Wow. I am just. Wow. Un-. Wow. You'd think...Nah."
Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed
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Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please
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Post #113,178
8/8/03 9:02:40 AM
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Next owner?
I thought you were describing your current digs.
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Post #113,222
8/8/03 4:07:49 PM
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Yup
I lived in that room age 14 to 18.
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Post #113,223
8/8/03 4:08:53 PM
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You didn't say whether the Hookah
was in plain sight, with the tube artfully concealed behind some of the mesh..
AAAAaaaaaUUUuuuuuMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm
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Post #113,238
8/8/03 6:30:17 PM
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Plain sight
Large engraved brass base, about 10 inches wide.
4 handwoven wooden tipped pipes.
3 foot high carved wooden pipe-stem.
The actual bowl was missing so when we used it we
would carve a bowl out of an apple and pop a screen
in it.
I also had a silkscreen cloth of the caterpiller in
Alice and Wonderland sitting on top of a mushroom,
sucking on a hookah just like this one. The cloth "poster"
was about 6 feet by 4 feet.
For some reason, this type of object can be hidden in plain sight.
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Post #113,248
8/8/03 9:10:52 PM
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Howdah, partner____You Dah MAN!
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Post #113,277
8/9/03 10:11:29 AM
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Nah
Just got away with much in my youth.
I'm amazed I'm still alive.
I even forgot to breathe for a couple of minutes in a Pink Floyd concert once.
If I hadn't stopped at age 18 I sure wouldn't have a career, house, family, etc.
I lucked out to accomplish what I did do since I have no college education.
And the reason for no college is I was stoned throughout highshool.
I simply did not learn how to learn until I was about 20.
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Post #113,326
8/9/03 3:52:21 PM
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Can dig that
Willful bastard, weren't ya !?
I hadn't enough imagination to kick the 'fill-brain-with factoids' crap, quite early enough.. Motorcycles.. dope.. there seem to be many forms it takes - that revulsion for the organized, codifed, euphemized Kultur of planned homogenized mediocrity.
[Especially before one has either the words or knows exactly Why .. it sucks]
Glad ya made it back to long-term survival mode though .. as tha Man said -
victory ain't dyin fer your discontent; it's afflictin the ones Comfortable and wallowin in that BS (but be sure that remains a hobby, not a compulsion) He Said. :-0
Ashton,
Saved.. via impure sloth
combined with 'speed' of the mechano-kind
yin/yang?
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Post #113,033
8/7/03 9:29:04 AM
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There's another story there...
My son's room had those self-adhesive stars when we moved in, but since at that point we needed a nursery and not a 9-year-old's room, we took them off (boy, was that a bitch, too).
What my wife didn't realize was that while she was taking them off, I was sneaking into our room and putting up a little constellation right over her side of the bed. 3 days later she finally noticed after we'd gone to bed:
"WHAT the HELL is THAT??"
"Eh?" (I had nearly forgotten about them at this point)
"There's something on the ceiling!" (puts her glasses on, shrieks, and starts hitting me) "You asshole! I wondered what you were up to!"
A few years later we moved the bedroom around so that the bed was against a different wall. I made sure to move the stars again when she wasn't looking. Pretty much had a repeat of the first time.
The stars are still there to this day. ;-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #113,034
8/7/03 9:30:15 AM
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Re: There's another story there...
"What the hell is that?"
"I think it's Canopus."
-drl
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Post #113,036
8/7/03 9:30:46 AM
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Muah.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #113,041
8/7/03 9:35:28 AM
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Dude, wrong kind
The ones we've got are plastic, and you use a little bit of that poster hanging clay on each one. Totally removeable.
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Post #113,050
8/7/03 10:25:30 AM
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I'm going to use a stencil.
Easier all around. When we're done with it, paint it over.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #113,085
8/7/03 2:14:33 PM
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Per ardua ad astra___cize.
or..
"Stars in the bedroom.. Again !?"
Get the flock outta here, you *&$&#@ two-timin Hollywood sleaze!
:-\ufffd
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Post #113,292
8/9/03 11:19:55 AM
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Durned glow-stars ...
The apartment wife & I settled in in Sydney had these funny 'glow-worm' things on the cieling in our bed room. We thought it must have been odd reflections.
After a week or two of realising they weren't reflections of light from the venitian blinds, I decided to take a closer look -
'stick on stars' under a very thin coat of paint - must have been there for years - but they still glow faintly thru the paint.
Cheers - Doug M
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Post #113,328
8/9/03 3:59:58 PM
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Heh, Doug - yer livin in a metaphor!
that er coat of paint..?
That's the "through the glass darkly" aspect of
Seeing the LIGHT
:-\ufffd
Ashton,
lookin fer them Rose-coloured Glasses, just now
before heading out
to support a fund raiser for some folks whose Main raison d'etre
..is takin care of animals too old; can't be cared-for by
(The Normal Repositories for the Unwanted & Discarded) animal toys
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