Two years ago I moved to Baltimore, and in all that time, I never bothered to hang my poster collection.<\/p>\n
My poster collection amounted to not much at all, but it was my collection, and I never hung them up.<\/p>\n
There was many and multiple reasons for this. There’s really no place to hang posters, unless I were to hang them in the stairwell. After I bought Jim Cauty’s Gandalf poster<\/a>, I bought a frame and hung that in the stairwell. But other posters? No.<\/p>\n Today, I started taking my posters and hanging them, giving the stairwell an art gallery-like look.<\/p>\n There’s a poster of Wrigley Field. There’s a map of Middle-Earth. A P. Buckley Moss print. A diploma.<\/p>\n And then there’s some video game posters. When I managed a store for EB Games, sometimes I would snag our marketing posters when we were done with them, if the artwork was striking and not marred by sales information or things like that. LEGO Star Wars<\/i> had a fabulous poster. So, too, did Vivendi’s Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> game. I particularly liked the poster for the Nintendo DS version of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings<\/i>.<\/p>\n Those are hanging in the stairwell, as well.<\/p>\n I’m not finished. I need more poster frames, for some recent — and not so recent — purchases, such as a poster of The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night<\/i> cover. Or the theatrical one-sheet from The Dark Knight<\/i>, the one that used 9-11 iconography as a backdrop to Batman. And comic book posters, as well, such as Jeff Smith’s Captain Marvel poster, taken from the first issue of The Monster Society of Evil<\/i> series.<\/p>\n That sounds like a lot. But I have one whole side of the stairwell I’ve not decorated yet.<\/p>\n I’m happy with how it’s fitting together. I love where I placed the map of Middle-Earth, for instance — it’s on the stairwell overhang. Wrigley Field dominates the top, as the ceiling angles downward.<\/p>\n It’s looking good. I’ll be glad when it’s done. Fortunately, that<\/i> won’t take me another two years. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two years ago I moved to Baltimore, and in all that time, I never bothered to hang my poster collection. My poster collection amounted to not much at all, but it was my collection, and I never hung them up. There was many and multiple reasons for this. There’s really no place to hang posters,Continue reading “On Hanging Posters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}