ecorations! Frankly, I don't know why this page exists. I have an ugly apartment, primarily since I've lived here for five years and have never bothered to decorate since there's never anyone here but me, and since I've thought for the entire five years that I'd probably be moving soon.  And now (April 2003) that it looks like I might at last be doing so (in Oct 2003) I'm certainly not going to start decorating at this point. In fact I might move to a smaller place this (2003) summer to save a few hundred bucks a month, since it's looking like I might be spending 10-14 days a month out of town.

Actually I have plenty of decorations, they're just not decorative, since to live up to that word they would have to look good. It's more accurate to say that I have stuff hanging on my walls, in a half-hearted effort to cover up the light beige and fake wood paneled ugliness.

Honestly, the only reason I'm even doing this page is that I take pictures of the inside of my apartment all the time, and since the shots are already done, I might as well archive the best of the worst on a page in this here photo section.

The shots on this page are chronological, with the most recent shots on top. Not that it really matters, since none of my decorations are new, but anyway.

A few random photos from the early days of decoration in Malaya's place, July 25, 2003.

First of all, here's the second of the two living room decor shots.  I posted part one in the last update, and you can see it to the right.  It's not like we made massive changes, but both Malaya and I felt that the wall was too crowded in the first design, so we removed the snake skin and half of the artwork and moved them to different walls.  Thus improving this section of the house by uncrowding it, as well as improving others by adding decoration there.

I'd like another wall or section of the apartment in a totally different style, like all Japanese art, or all colorful Van Gogh type images, but that may have to wait until we've got a larger place, or we get the urge to totally redecorate a year or so from now.

Photos from my old apartment in San Diego, circa 2002-2003.

Modifications have been made to the auxiliary monitor surface, with Diablo gaining a burned out Halloween candle, and the little dragon thing gaining a little Mardi Gras mask thing.  Just thought you'd want to be kept up to date.
--October 21, 2002

 

My desk, a bit more crowded than usual, due to the computer repair that was ongoing at this time.  Normally both tower are 1) closed, and 2) below the desk, out of sight. The rest of the crap all over the desk is pretty much par for the course though.
--September 18, 2002

 

The only thing I like more than paintings of skulls are the real thing.  This is a coyote skull my mom got for me at some desert gift shop some years ago.  The jaw is made up of two bones that were glued at the lower teeth, but that's since fallen apart, so they just lie next to it.  If they are stuck together they fit neatly into the socket and the skull looks less bottomless.

I'm going to The Bone Room when I'm in SF this year, and credit card allowing, will return with more such "decoration".

Click it to see larger, with the jaw also.
--June 27, 2002

 

A full view of the wall that the various decorations are hanging on.  I find the faux wood paneling hideously ugly, and do what I can to cover it up with slightly less ugly artwork.  Mostly pages torn from calendars and magazines.

Click to see the even larger version of this image.
-- June 27, 2002

 

Another printed reproduction of a Georgia O'Keefe painting.  I love her bone portraits, as you might guess.
--June 27, 2002

 

A plaster cast reproduction of the tombstone etching from the grave of Susanna Jayce, d. 1776. My mom got this for me in New England some years ago, and I think it's pretty cool. I posted this shot and some info about it way back on June 28, 2002, when I first took a bunch of digicam shots, and then posted about it again months later, on Feb 25, 2003, when a guy mailed to ask about it, after googling up the original page and wanting to know where I'd gotten the artwork.  One of those amazingly interconnected international Internet stories.
--June 27, 2002

 

The favorite of my wall pictures.  This is a computer printer reproduction of one of the Georgia O'Keefe bone paintings. Hey, I didn't say it was high budget art.
--June 27, 2002

 

This is the top of my auxiliary monitor, spruced up with various satanic creatures.  The multi-headed dragon is an old D&D model, I believe.  Diablo is the star of Diablo II, and the pewter orc to the right is from a give away Blizzard ran in the UK years ago.  It would be a rare and valuable collector's item, if I believed in such things.  Elly got a box of them and gave Gaile and I one, and we've sent a few out in site contests also.  The rectangle thingie at Diablo's foot is a Blizzard keychain that they sent out for an Xmas goodie in 2001 or so.
--June 27, 2002

 

This photo can be seen on the plants page also, for obvious reasons. But since the only decoration I like is my wall of greenery, I'm putting a cropped version of the shot on this page also.
--June 27, 2002

 

Just for variety, here's how a real house looks.  This is my dad's auxiliary living room, seen from the kitchen.  This shot was taken at night and brightened up considerably in Photoshop, hence the scratchy image quality.
--June 27, 2002

This utterly worthless photo shows off my storage closet, where the big ugly heater/air conditioner lives, along with various mops, brooms, vacuums, and potting soil bags. It's not even properly dark and spooky.  You can see some of my quality decorating though, with the desk piled high with crap, the globe with a plastic Iguana on the North Pole, and a bookshelf that holds a ton of Stephen King hardcovers, and several computer game boxes. Oh, there's part of the D2 poster on the wall also.
--June 27, 2002

 

This is a misleading shot, since while these badges do exist in my apartment, they are hanging on a peg on a wall sort of behind the TV. They are not artfully-arranged on a throw rug.  I would trip over them if they were.

As for what the badges are, four are for E3, which I attended in 1999-2002, and one is for the Superbowl, which I worked at in 1998.  I also worked at it in 2003, but that was months after this photo was taken. It's a much better badge too, with holograms, a large photo, and more, since the powers that be decided security must be vastly upgraded for that event.  Don't ask me where I had to park.
--June 27, 2002

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