My Room from High School
This is my room from my parents house that I 'decorated' while
I was in High School. To this day the room still looks
like this (in fact, these pictures were taken in 2001). I think it's part of
the reason my Dad is scared to move out of the
house. :) Whenever I make it home, I still add things to the walls.
We'll start just inside the door (seen on the left). The first wall
is covered with arcade game marquees, neon beer signs and a few other random things. ![]() Continuing along that wall and around the corner we find more neon
beer signs (I think I have about 20 of these total), and a small section
of my X-Men, Aliens and Micro Machines toy collections. You can also
see a payphone on the desk, and my loose Kenner 18" Alien figure
throttling an inoccent little sucker-footted kitty.. (If you look
closely, you can see these little kitties all over the room- look
at the neon beer signs...) Past the window and around the next corner it now becomes more apparent
that another hobby I have is collecting scrap neon from where ever
I can get it and wiring it up all over my ceiling... More neon (and
non-neon) beer signs (and the ironic thing is I don't drink... :)
but I love the advertising!). On the four shelves you can see an original
stuffed Smurf from back when they first got popular and the bottom
shelf has about 100 of the little airplane-serving sized bottles of
liquor (yet another thing I collect...). I also collect credit cards,
you can see 3 of them hanging from the ceiling roughly in the middle. Turning again to take in the next corner you start to see the 'Wall
of a Million Random Objects'. :) On this wall (from the curtain, all
the way around both sets of closet doors) I just hung any and every
little random object I could find. Some of it is part of a collection
of things (like, I collect keys, those little cotton-balls with feet
that are stickers, bumper stickers, Chinese throwing stars, etc.),
and some things are just one-of-a-kind random objects. There's also
an original 1960's Lava Lamp in veiw, and right next to it a couple
of odd 3-D wood sculptures I made in college (the white things, the
one black thing, and the wood-grain round thing...). Unfortunately
I can't find a picture of the rest of this wall... And not one to leave an empty canvas, here's more of the ceiling.
Neon everywhere, even beer signs suspended from the ceiling (and covered
in little trinkets, collectibles and cats). And, as you can see above, there's two large flourescent black-lights
on the ceiling that add a completely different experience to the room
(which is hard to do justice to with a camera). In case you didn't
see all the little kitties I was refering to earlier, here you can
see them much better. Their paws light up as little white balls in
the black light. So I think I see 15 or 16 in this picture. (This
is the same shot as the second from the top with the Aliens toys and
the M&M character sitting above the window.) I hope you enjoyed the virtual experience of my high school days... If anyone reading this went to Clear Lake High School, lived in Seabrook, TX, Kemah, TX or anywhere near the Baybrook Mall area in the 1980s and 1990s, you might look closer at some of this stuff, as most of it came from that area (for example, the large neon 'O' around the ceiling fan came from a restaurant called 'Spoons' located in the parking lot across from Baybrook Mall. You'd remember that if you lived in the area in the late 80's - early 90's. |