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A new academic year is fast approaching and while poor students are moving into their broken down flats and apartments, poster manufacturers are making a killing. Whether it be to express your god awful taste in music, your dumb uneducated political beliefs or maybe just to hide the hole created when your best friend tried to bottle you one drunken evening, everyone needs poo poo to chuck on their walls. As for my poster of choice throughout my University career, this one's always been a personal favourite:  Like many people I'm moving into a new place this year and I'm looking to retire my numerous Che Guevara, Katy Perry and puppy dog posters and try something new. So have at it folks, let's share decoration ideas and try to make the world of student housing a little less goony! What this thread is for:
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| # ? Feb 7, 2013 16:06 |
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| # ? May 18, 2013 13:32 |
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You should just remove the poster and scrawl, "I AM A RED FLAG PARADING AS A HUMAN BEING" in marker on your wall, it sends the same message. I have this:  poster on my wall, it's pretty snazzy and I really like the Gorillaz.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2013 20:17 |
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Is this next to your Scarface poster? One year in college, a friend of mine showed up on move-in day with a 4 foot tall rasterbation of his roommate's face. Disco Godfather fucked around with this message at Feb 7, 2013 around 22:29 |
| # ? Feb 7, 2013 22:27 |
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I'll bite. The Good Will by my house is a goddamn goldmine, and has enabled my questionable taste for several years now. Thrift stores are where it's at, especially if you're just starting out. Framed blueprints of Star Wars vehicles.  Giant framed poster of Cyclops being choked by something tentacled.  Tin star, wooden Thai dagger things, and a print of dapper bird men I bought from Comic Con a few years back.  Praying hands tambourine. This was a gift, actually.  Very shiny rendition of a 1626 map of the world, and a print of "The Seizure of the English Frigate Starthope" by Cortellini.  Print of a very grumpy Quaker gentleman.  The wall behind my bed. Vintage silk scarves and other pretty things.  Color plates scissored out of an old anatomy textbook, with various cheap frames.  Indian (?) poster illustrating Bad Habits. I've gotten way too much amusement out of this.  And last but certainly not least is this dapper fellow, who hangs at about head height beside my toilet. He has startled and enthralled many visitors.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2013 23:20 |
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Sorry if this is too provoking for the forum, but I've got this badboy on my wall currently.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2013 23:24 |
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My ex kept this in his room.  
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| # ? Feb 7, 2013 23:38 |
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 He's my boy .
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| # ? Feb 7, 2013 23:52 |
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I have a USSR flag I bought at Checkpoint Charlie on my wall. It's pretty funny how much it straight up freaks people out when they see it.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 01:16 |
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Disco Godfather posted:Is this next to your Scarface poster? It's funny you should say that. I seem to recall reading something about certain posters/works of art you should never hang on your walls. I can't recall if it was an internet article or something I read on SA. I say you should hang up whatever the hell you want. Anyway, I have a Blade Runner movie poster and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks on my walls.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 02:06 |
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Disco Godfather posted:Is this next to your Scarface poster? Yeah yeah, I know. Just needed some content for the OP and that's the thing that's been up on my wall the past few years.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 03:18 |
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Silent Hill 4 was actually based on my apartment in college.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 03:19 |
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 I have this on my wall in my apartment.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 03:50 |
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One day you'll wake up and you'll be forty. You'll regret all the time you spent drinking cheap beer, listening to bad music and doing weird drugs. You'll grow up. Maybe you'll buy a cardigan. You'll realize that dudes getting hit in the balls just isn't that funny to you. You want a comedy with some substance. You want a smart comedy. Then you hang this bad boy up.  Congratulations, you're an adult now.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 04:00 |
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She still has to wear them though.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 04:22 |
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The only poster that matters to a New Jerseyan:
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 04:32 |
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This has been hanging on my bathroom wall for years now ... This has been hanging in my living room  At some point, someone made a Rodin's Thinker road sign; it hangs in my garage - I can snap a pic if anyone's interested ...
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 04:34 |
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in my post - that means I'm right no matter what.
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I'm a big awful nerd and I have this three posters in my wall(and door):   I love them to pieces. I just wish I had the "Why so Serious" poster, that one is so good.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 04:48 |
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 05:51 |
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Did someone say horrible posters I have in college? I've been looking for ways to make the cottage-cheese-texture institutional walls in my room look like home for two years now. Mostly it's dorky movie posters (Foxy Brown, Trollhunter, etc) though I've managed to avoid the Tarantino/James Dean/Boondock Saints trap my freshman year roommate fell into. I might actually keep these two things post-college though:  I got them both in Brazil. The orange one is being used as a curtain because when my house flooded over the summer the dudes fixing my room somehow managed to lose a set of blinds and gave me a shittier set instead. The picture of the sun one has been taken at a weird angle because it's hanging above my dresser and I'm embarrassed by the massive heap of laundry and feminine products sitting right under it. I've also kind of got a thing for the Who.  (Ticket to the Who show in Oakland last week below, Papilio blumei and Salvador Bonfim wish ribbons to the right). Not shown: The Kids Are Alright poster (the documentary, not the Julianne Moore movie); Pete Townshend's Empty Glass record (Jesus Townshend side facing outwards); Keith Moon on a polar bear rug pinup. I'm set to graduate and my decorations are pretty trapped in freshman year. Figuring out how to fix that. Getting frames for some of the posters might boost me all the way up to grad student  .
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 06:21 |
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 I put it inbetween my pulp fiction poster and my "keep calm and carry on" poster
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 06:31 |
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Took me like a month to make this with a sharpie but I was pretty pumped. Pretty much the only thing I had in my room besides a gigantic Sidney Crosby fathead that I didn't really want but I got it for Christmas so I was like, yeah.. whatever.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 07:45 |
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:
To the same degree all laser labs have this posted somewhere. 
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 07:52 |
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This thread is inspiring me to do some digging at flea markets once it gets warmer. I got a lot of stuff on my walls, but the most notable things include a framed Mötley Crüe poster from my dad, a Star Trek mini poster with the wrong date, and the poster for Invasion of the Saucer Men.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 07:56 |
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When my husband and I were still dating and I was in mortuary school I asked him to get me this poster for my birthday: The website had their posters so cheap he ended up buying me three more random ones that I hung above my mantle/library. To the left is a collection of original art work I've gotten from friends (we're clearly still moving things around so they're all wonky) and to the right is an original promotional Oingo Boingo poster from the mid 80s and Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace At Night.  I wish I could find a larger picture but I couldn't. One of my prize possessions is my 2008 Bumbershoot poster. Probably one of the best weekends of my life. I love Seattle (but I live in Dallas) and a friend of mine in Tacoma let me come stay with her for a week so I could go. I've wanted to go back but since that time money's been a little tight (school, marriage, etc.)  Other than that I have several black and white photographs of lighthouses around Massachusetts that my mother took and had framed for me and some original Japanese Ghibli posters. I feel like I just shared my whole life in one post but when I was with my ex I lived in a double master condo where his Nightmare Before Christmas collection covered every surface. It was a nice collection but after six years of barely being able to make a dent with personal items I made it a mission when I got my own place to just express myself on every surface. I totally encourage anyone to do the same, never take a blank wall for granted.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 08:34 |
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I've got a thing for Polish movie posters. Right now this is hanging above my bed: Need to try and track down one of the Empire Strikes Back too:  Most of the rest of my room is covered in a random selection of photos I've taken.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 09:37 |
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Crow Jane posted:Indian (?) poster illustrating Bad Habits. I've gotten way too much amusement out of this. OppositeOfLove posted:This has been hanging on my bathroom wall for years now ... I have both of these posters and am very surprised to see that anyone else has them.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 11:54 |
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I also have one of these  Free flags through mail, that rocked.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 14:09 |
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Crow Jane posted:
Howdy shiny flea-market map buddy!  This is a collection of authentic LOTR film sections with card thingys my husband got for his birthday one year.  This is my daughter's room, and I love this because my older kids did all of this for her. There are dozens of these stars on every wall, but I especially like how they did her name over her crib. 
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 20:03 |
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 21:10 |
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Kelmo posted:Took me like a month to make this with a sharpie but I was pretty pumped. Pretty much the only thing I had in my room besides a gigantic Sidney Crosby fathead that I didn't really want but I got it for Christmas so I was like, yeah.. whatever. This is beautiful, I was going to ask where you bought this before I read what you said. Goddamn people with their loving talent.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 21:26 |
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Here's the things I hang up in my dorm room which is pretty small and hard to take photos in.   Since that angle sucks for the middle photo of most of my photos here's a better look at them.     Unfortunately some of those posters took a hit in quality after some struggles with adhesive devices and their inability to be adhesive to the right things.
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| # ? Feb 8, 2013 23:25 |
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Desperado Bones posted:I also have one of these Free flags? How does that work? I'm fond of my Max Payne 2 poster 
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 02:13 |
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A cloth painting that a family friend found at a garage sale a long time ago. His wife didn't want it in their house, so he gave it to me. 
Khorne Flakes fucked around with this message at Feb 9, 2013 around 02:40 |
| # ? Feb 9, 2013 02:37 |
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I have two rules. One: Nothing goes on the wall without a frame. Two: No nerd posters that are clearly nerd posters. Find nerd posters that don't look like nerd posters. Here's an example. (Print on color paper and a cheap frame from Walmart will do.)  It's from Star Trek! http://bid.profilesinhistory.com/Br...art-1_i10500194 More nerdy, but for a Dune fan it beats having a giant sandworm on the bathroom wall:   
Omi-Polari fucked around with this message at Feb 9, 2013 around 03:55 |
| # ? Feb 9, 2013 03:37 |
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Fleet Foxes' last album came with a really ballin' poster It looks like this except without the color or the black bar along the perimeter.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 03:49 |
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I found this couple at an antique store somewhere in Eastern NY. I snatched it up immediately, I love them.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 04:39 |
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This Steve Jobs mini-poster is one of my favorites since it's unique and I made it myself about 10 years ago. I printed out a hi-res Associated Press image on two pieces of letter size paper, and very carefully taped them together. I put sheet protectors on the outside to keep it nice. Steve Jobs was a jerk, but he was so dreamy  And I also have a Fonz poster. I like Happy Days but I'm not a huge fan-- I just wanted a Fonz poster. It's a 70s original, too.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 07:00 |
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Nckdictator posted:Free flags? How does that work? It was during my country's Independence bicentenary, so the government gifted flags and history books through mail. Sadly I didn't manage to get a sweet book.
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| # ? Feb 9, 2013 07:16 |
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My Zelda posters (not the exact ones - mine are all from Versus Books):   This one's special. I travelled from Winnipeg to Toronto in a freezing train car to see the show (and WHAT a show!), and carefully carried it back home on a Greyhound bus trip through the Ontario hinterlands...  In addition, I'd LOVE to have a Bouguereau painting on my wall: http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=7 Maybe just a print, to avoid breaking the bank... 
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