What would you frame?

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Do you have things framed? Anything besides paintings or prints?

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000

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I've been meaning to frame my green nude. Also, I bought a nice calendar with old '40s fruit-crate pics. The guy who sold it to me (at Urban Gardener)said he'd framed the pictures for use in his kitchen. I said he needn't mind me stealing his idea, then, since I lived in a whole other city.

I always want to do corny old samplers and other needlework and have that framed, too. And I saw this thing in Woman's Day... (hush!) It was a sheet of music paper, but they'd put little pressed flowers on it in place of music notes. I mean, usually Woman's Day sucks, but that struck me as an idea worth stealing.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000


I collect postcards and usually frame my favorites.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000

I have a vintage Sixteen Candles movie poster at my flat waiting to be framed and hung. I can't decide whether or not to have it foam-core-mounted or not, is the hold up (that, and my lack of money). It's way rad. That's my favorite movie ever.
I have all five new Simpsons Pez dispensers, and considered diplaying them in a framed shadow box, but now I'm gonna wire them to a basket I have, instead.
I have an autographed postcard in a frame. Also, for years and years I had a postcard framed that a friend had sent me-- with the writing side displayed. I loved what she wrote, and liked seeing it every day. (But then I needed the frame for a diff picture.)
I gave a friend a framed, enlarged copy of a comic strip once, as a birthday present. She has it in her office.
Shadow boxes are cool. My friend Zephyr's dad has a tiny wire sculpture of a dress in one, and an equally tiny, amazingly cute ceramic dinner tabletop, complete with 4 place settings and food, that Zephie made in elementary school (she's 16, now). Every time I go to their house I have to run upstairs to see it. :-)

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000

I framed some tropical fish wrapping paper and hung it in the blue bathroom along with the real pictures.

-- Anonymous, August 24, 2000

My nephew Paul used to write me some funny as hell letters when he was first learning to write (he's 10 now). Things like:

"This is my new pet lisard Bo. He makes Mama screme."

I have a couple of those framed.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000



I want to get my old George McGovern '72 T-shirt framed, but haven't done it yet. It'll make my mama proud.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000

We already have all sorts of kewl shit framed for decor, like our Duran Duran signed wedding invitations (Thank you, Klee!) and the French Postcard Collection that we made into a collage of frames in our NY apartment and these really kewl pictures of me on our honeymoon in England petting this wild horse grazing at a churchyard in this foggy moor town- But now that we've moved into The Mansion, there's more stuff we need to frame/re-frame. Like the corny sheet music I get at antique stores (my favorite? A little ditty from 100 years ago called "Cheer up, Cherries Will Soon Be Ripe") and the collection of magazine adverts from the 1940s-1960s featuring TV dinners, Chef Boyardee, and "Radish: the king of the vegetable garden" or somesuch. We need to frame our pictures of Frankie and Dino for The Lounge upstairs, along with a few record album covers (like Yma Sumac and this stellar Annette Funicello collection).

Lest you think its all tacky/kischy, we have a great collection of old family pictures in pewter frames... like my great-gram's wedding picture, and this kick-ass tintype of The Husband-Type Man's great great GREAT grandfather Henry and wife, circa 1850something.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000


I finished my Masters in June, and as soon as I get that damned piece of paper I'm having it framed.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000

More than 10 years ago, I saw guitarist Michael Hedges in concert as part of a double-bill with Leo Kottke on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder with my brother and his friend. After the concert, we were stopped at a red light and I spotted a rain-spotted and partially ripped promotional poster for the concert stapled to a utility pole, complete with large photos of the two performers, and my brother got out and grabbed it for me. I had that framed and it's hanging in my office at home right now. I didn't bother to clean it up and there's a large but inconsequential hunk of it missing, but it's the real poster and not just some art-store print, and that's why I like it.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000

Silly little pictures my friends have drawn for me. Not real paintings, I'm talking crayons and funky colored pens that we used to make strange charictures back in forth when we were bored at school. I saved a bunch and they always make me smile.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000


ooh, I forgot. OJ Simpson.

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000

Damnit, I want a Sixteen Candles poster! I love that freakin' movie! Anywho, I have some framed ORIGNAL ART PIECES from my tender junior high years that won, like, awards in the school artshow! Hey, yeah!

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000

Ha.

I forgot... I found this SUPER BAD-ASS record at the Goodwill the other day. It's Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (something) and the pic is some chick sitting on the grass, ready for a picnic, right? And in the foreground, you see the back of some guy, from waist down, holding out a crescent-shaped piece of food at her. But he's wearing black shorts and long black socks, and the whole thing is really suggestive and hilarious. (Wouldn't wanna say "pervy" and offend any Vancouverites who might be wearing black socks right now, would I?)

Anyway. So I'm gonna have that framed coz it cracks me up, and coz I was inspired by Sarahjane of Dellazine. Sarahjane, if you're out there -- they had a whole bunch of Ray Coniff records, too!

-- Anonymous, August 25, 2000


my ass.

-- Anonymous, August 28, 2000

My own artwork.

In my next residence, if I have an odd-shaped wall or small space to fill with something colorful, I'm going to go to Target or something similar and buy a bunch of the least expensive frames (or frames they have on sale) in coordinating styles and in all different sizes. Then I'm going to create a bunch of very simple graphics in different sizes. Each one will just be a bright solid or simple-pattern background (i.e., photo of water, sky with clouds, very simple) and I will choose different fonts (and possibly different languages) and write the word "yes" on each graphic. Maybe some of the bigger ones will have multiple "yes"es on them. It will all depend on how they look once printed out. When I print them out, I'll trim and frame them and hang them as a group, probably with the larger pieces on one side trailing off in a triangle shape to the smallest ones, arranged into a point.

Collectively, it will be one big art piece and I will call it "Molly". If you understand why, you get a biscuit.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000



That was actually two answers. Most of the framed things in my current home are pencil sketches or Prismacolor/Prismapencil or chalk or pen and ink or acrylic that I did when I was more active artistically.

The other is just a quick and stupid idea that I'll do if and when I have time and space to do it.

-- Anonymous, August 30, 2000


I have Jayden's first picture framed and hanging in the dining room. A bunch of different-colored marker scribbles. I love it.

One of my best friends has a very pretty, uniquely decorated gift bag in a nice frame hanging in her stairway. It's a really cute look.

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000


Being a photographer and all, I have all kinds of images that are framed and I rotate different images to fit my mood or the seasons. Right now I have a 24x30 image of a stand of aspens swaying in the breeze on one wall in the living room. Lots of autumn leaves around on the ground. I can't wait for summer to be over with. It's been hot here at the beach with way too many zonies and other tourist types. James

-- Anonymous, September 11, 2000

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