Writer's Block Helper
Writer's Block Question:
When you were a kid, what posters and pictures adorned your room's walls -- TV/movie stars, singers/bands, athletes, Einstein, bio-hazard warning signs? Why were they worthy of display (and did your parents ever yell at you to take them down)?
I went through a phase where I bought fluffy kitten posters from the scholastic magazine at school, then a phaze where I hung magazine page portraits of "beautiful people" from teen magazines, before I was really a teen--I was always afraid the minimarket owner would say, "Hey, you can't buy those, they're for teens!" What's funny to me now is that my daughter is obsessed with Johnny Depp, and I had a picture of him on my wall. He was a pretty much unknown "B" movie actor, but I liked his look. Also he had made an unsuccessful movie called the "The Gypsy King" which I never had the opportunity to see, but I was big on the idea of gypsies.
Later I convinced my parents to let me use colored chalk to write graffiti on the walls. I don't remember what I wrote. Then we moved, and I had panelled walls and a very grown up type of bedroom--it had been the "master bedroom" of a married couple living in the basement of a mother's house, which I kept that way throughout my teen years.
In college I enlarged line-drawing self-portraits of artists I liked from books I bought and hung them on the walls along with cartoons I liked.
Now I have pieces of original art that I bought as a young adult, before all my money had to go toward grown up, mommy-type responsibilities.
When you were a kid, what posters and pictures adorned your room's walls -- TV/movie stars, singers/bands, athletes, Einstein, bio-hazard warning signs? Why were they worthy of display (and did your parents ever yell at you to take them down)?
I went through a phase where I bought fluffy kitten posters from the scholastic magazine at school, then a phaze where I hung magazine page portraits of "beautiful people" from teen magazines, before I was really a teen--I was always afraid the minimarket owner would say, "Hey, you can't buy those, they're for teens!" What's funny to me now is that my daughter is obsessed with Johnny Depp, and I had a picture of him on my wall. He was a pretty much unknown "B" movie actor, but I liked his look. Also he had made an unsuccessful movie called the "The Gypsy King" which I never had the opportunity to see, but I was big on the idea of gypsies.
Later I convinced my parents to let me use colored chalk to write graffiti on the walls. I don't remember what I wrote. Then we moved, and I had panelled walls and a very grown up type of bedroom--it had been the "master bedroom" of a married couple living in the basement of a mother's house, which I kept that way throughout my teen years.
In college I enlarged line-drawing self-portraits of artists I liked from books I bought and hung them on the walls along with cartoons I liked.
Now I have pieces of original art that I bought as a young adult, before all my money had to go toward grown up, mommy-type responsibilities.