Tweak Today: Take a picture of the most interesting thing hanging on a wall at your home or work place.

From sydtheskeptic at Nov 14, 2009 03:10

sydtheskeptic — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:10:31 -0800

Not a very good pic of it, but this is a painting by one of my students (age 12). I love it.

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From thebradymachine at Nov 14, 2009 06:07

thebradymachine — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:07:53 -0800

One day, my boss walked into my office and said "I'll pay you $1 to not watch Hamlett 2." I took him up on that offer.

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From jdproductions at Nov 14, 2009 06:29

jdproductions — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:29:59 -0800

Mardis Gras mask made in San Francisco, bought in New Orleans, has been on the wall for over 20 years. The cat always hated it.

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From emily216 at Nov 14, 2009 06:47

emily216 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:47:27 -0800

an awesome picture frame of bad faces...

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From rapscallion at Nov 14, 2009 07:32

rapscallion — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:32:29 -0800

Aluminum foil magnet monsters by a local artist

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From endroine at Nov 14, 2009 07:32

endroine — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:32:52 -0800

The left one is something i won (with autographs yay), and the right one is my asian hottie wall XD ~yay

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From obvio at Nov 14, 2009 07:42

obvio — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:42:36 -0800

a wedding gift we got.

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From chaomancer at Nov 14, 2009 07:58

chaomancer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:58:13 -0800

Special gift from a very special person.

I don't have too much on my walls. The most 'interesting' to the voyeurs out there might actually be my "board 'o memories" that holds all kinds of flight, train, and event tickets and other paper memorabilia, but that holds too much private information to (also) post.

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From athanie at Nov 14, 2009 08:00

athanie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:00:28 -0800

A Gyotaku Fish Print. Used to be the way Japanese fishers recorded the size of their catch.

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From discomeg2 at Nov 14, 2009 08:38

discomeg2 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:38:51 -0800

We've got a ton of crazy crap on our walls but this one has a story to it I think you artists will like. When I was 22ish my friend picked me up from school (friend is an understatement, he was my bff and also a Columbian guy I married so he could stay in the country) and he said, I have to go to New York, do you want to come? I said ok. We went for the weekend and spent it with some of his friends who were professional artists and actors. One girl had just sold one of her paintings to a law firm for $20,000. The other girl, the painters sister, was moving back to Columbia to be on a soap opera. Her boyfriend was an actor and had just received a $230 check from Disney for being an extra on a show - he was like 35. Everyone else was in their late 20s. We were all out to brunch and the guy kept talking about his check and stuff. So we got into this conversation about art and money. The guy was saying if you become very independently wealthy you have "sold out". He said something like this, "Only bad artists surround themselves with things, like swimming pools and tennis courts, you need to minimalize to be a good artist." And the girl who had just sold the 20k painting said, "How are you a bad artist if you have a swimming pool?" I wrote it down on a napkin then later wrote it larger and hung it up where I am working as motivation.

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From thedigitalghost at Nov 14, 2009 09:36

thedigitalghost — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:36:29 -0800

There is nothing on the walls at all at the moment as I am washing the walls today. Ahh, timing.

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From cineloh at Nov 14, 2009 10:00

cineloh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:00:37 -0800

I made this for my nieces Birthday this weekend.

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From saxchik at Nov 14, 2009 10:16

saxchik — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:16:14 -0800

A friend of mine stole this for me when we ate at a German restaurant in New Hampshire years ago. My dough boy has been hanging in my kitchen ever since. I like the way the flash from the Blackberry made a vignette around the pic.

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From lmnewman at Nov 14, 2009 11:31

lmnewman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:31:10 -0800

Wooden mermaid purchased at the county fair a couple years back was the beginning of a mermaid collection.

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From kellydna at Nov 14, 2009 12:49

kellydna — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:49:32 -0800

My cat also likes to admire interesting things on the wall. These are woodcuts that I did over the course of many years at a friend's annual get-together. Artistic types would gather at his farm every summer for a day of making art using the farm and surrounding land as inspiration. Woodcuts are the only art I make by hand because the medium is crude enough to forgive my inadequacies of talent. Sometimes the results are quite charming. I have not gotten around to framing all of them.

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From derpagat at Nov 14, 2009 13:13

derpagat — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:13:52 -0800

paradise island for daddy ..... done 1999 by my daugther

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From sunsetlover68 at Nov 14, 2009 14:03

sunsetlover68 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:03:56 -0800

This is a picture of a puzzle that was done... Years ago. You really can't tell that its a puzzle because I have it behind glass.

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From cantfindagoodname at Nov 14, 2009 14:13

cantfindagoodname — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:13:32 -0800

My grandfather was an incredible craftsman. Very few items he did were of the hanging variety. The dusty rose is from his funeral four years ago.

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From passepartout at Nov 14, 2009 14:14

passepartout — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:14:56 -0800

This is a small prayer bell from Wat Doi Suthep in Thailand. I have several of different size around garden, hanging from the trees. They are cast bronze and each has a single,clear note.

A Buddhist monk tried to explain them to me. Through pantomime I guessed something about a prayer when the wind stirs the bell's clapper. All about the glittery temple were many sizes of bells, mostly hung by people, each bell with a private prayer. I asked a Thai man to write the names of some friends and my family on them. The writing has faded, but the bells still sing their prayers all the same.

Here's a link to Wat Doi Suthep if you want to learn more about it. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wat_Phrathat_Doi_Suthep)

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From rabbitdan at Nov 14, 2009 14:26

rabbitdan — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:26:07 -0800

I don't have much on my wall. Most of it's on this board. Post cards from the recent Kuniyoshi exhibition at the Royal Academy, a couple of postcards from an exhibtion of Arabic script, an old Irish hymn, you can see most of it for yourself though, huh?

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From lachamuca at Nov 14, 2009 17:54

lachamuca — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:54:49 -0800

A boyfriend gave this to me when he returned from Egypt. He said it's supposed to be the Egyptian Goddess of Love, but he was probably just trying to get laid.

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From leopicado at Nov 14, 2009 18:53

leopicado — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:53:36 -0800

A collection of pictures I took in the first couple of months we had Lucy.

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From stephie at Nov 14, 2009 19:41

stephie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:41:15 -0800

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From cupcakechica at Nov 14, 2009 20:01

cupcakechica — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:01:18 -0800

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From cupcakechica at Nov 14, 2009 20:05

cupcakechica — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:05:27 -0800

My son and I moved in with my dad recently. He had a spare room which he used as an office. I packed up all of his wall hangings (picture frames, award plaques, etc) and then it came time to take down this giant poster of an Aztec warrior. When I was going to take it down, my 7 yr old son said "No mommy! please don't!" I asked him why he didn't want me to take the poster down and he said "It's a picture of God, I like it." Where he got the idea that it's a picture of God I have no idea. I told him that it wasn't a picture of God and he said he still wanted to keep it up. So now I have this poster hanging over my bed. Nothing against it, but it's just not me!

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From mlr21 at Nov 14, 2009 20:54

mlr21 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:54:25 -0800

a shelf of pigs.

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From jenaissance at Nov 14, 2009 21:41

jenaissance — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:41:19 -0800

My father in law is very traditional in both his Taiwanese culture and in Buddhism. We have had wisdom naming ceremonies for all of us but my youngest. These are our names.

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From kandilquick at Nov 14, 2009 23:55

kandilquick — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:55:31 -0800

not necessarily the most interesting - but rather the only thing up on my wall at work

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From coco-tidan at Nov 15, 2009 03:34

coco-tidan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:34:19 -0800

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From soarkaios at Nov 17, 2009 09:14

soarkaios — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:14:54 -0800

Too cool, huh :o

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From a_noob at Nov 21, 2009 05:41

a_noob — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:41:27 -0800

A Greek Orthodox icon of a saint - given to me on my 16th birthday by my grandparents.

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From mithredat at Dec 09, 2009 07:37

mithredat — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:37:41 -0800

I only finished putting this on my wall very recently. It's fifty photos, featuring my friends, family, countries I've visited and so on. The collection will be growing I think, photos from my trip to Madrid and to Texel are missing at the moment.

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