true duran fan

okay, let me start right off by saying this chick is NOT me... as a matter of fact i have no idea who she is... but i do know she has true love for the fab five in her crazy 80's heart. and hey, please understand i'm not mocking this girl at all... there was a time where my bedroom walls looked more or less just like that. i can see some of the picksh she has back there... i know some of them were on my walls, too. that being said, lets take a look at that outfit. nick rhodes fedora-hat? check. 'played' collar on a lemon-colored men's shirt? check. made-in-japan fan 'tunic-thing?' check. ugh, it makes me kind of nauze to know that there were probably a lot of male teenage duran fans at that time, 'rockin'' that tunic with nothing on underneath, thus letting their skinny-shanks ribs and fragrant boy-pits breathe free. and hey, you gotta love the fake jive-ass string of pearls... and the 'thin black belt holding-up-nothing' around her waist. i can't believe she's not sporting a couple dozen black rubber bracelets, you know. maybe those came along a little bit later; like closer to 'arcadia' and 'power station' times. the eye makeup is great too. so, wherever you are, miss duran-fan chick, we salute you and your undying loyalty to the 'ragged rio' five. (click to enlarge)

wonderwall - the free world

here is yet another idea for a cure, a cure for blank wallspace. i made this one a long, long time ago, and some of the colors don't get along as well as i'd like them to, but the tools weren't as sophisticated then as they are now. it's still pretty groovy. it shows the decorative powers of the blow-up poster, the candy center from which this entire idea spread out. its a little crooked too, but overall still pretty cool.

wonderwall

i used to love to orchestrate posters on walls, using any pictures i could get my hands on...from all sources, all sizes. when i ran out of actual walls, i used black cardstock, and smaller pictures. here is one idea for picture arrangement i did i very long time ago. there is not much significance in the pictures, except that they all worked well together. i absolutely hate blank wall space. like, you go to some guy's apartment, and there's not a damn thing on his walls but a vintage corvette calendar and a ball cap on a nail. terrifying. anyway, here is one idea for one wall. dig it.