The Aesthetic: Creativity in the Bedroom

I am incredibly dissatisfied with the aesthetic appeal of my bedroom. If I'm going to be alone it in 364 out of 365 days a year, I should probably have some cool stuff on the walls to look at and play with. But, for that one day a year that I'm not alone, I should most definitely have some ill aesthetic shit up in there.

Sure, framed photographs and art are the obvious direction to go in, but I'm pretty sure that was played out a long time ago. In college I had a hippie friend come and paint a tree on my wall in exchange for pot. Since I don't buy pot anymore and she lives in Texas (what an idiot!), I had to find another way to have a cool wall. That's when ThatDude sent me a link for Blik, a company that sells affordable and easily installable decals for your wall. There's nothing that screams playful in the sack like airplanes above your bed. Do it.

Don't be a masturbator, be a rasterbator! If you can't afford the $50 Blik graphics, kill yourself, and then can go the bootleg route of Rasterbater.com, a free online service that divides any image you want into single sheets of printer paper, allowing you to create a mural by piecing the sheets together. Just look at Joey from Brighton Beach who put up a 5' x 7' image of David Bowie in the corner of his bedroom. Do you see anything else on those walls? Nope. He doesn't need anything else. He gets all the girls.

If mural art isn't your thing, maybe you'd enjoy any number of things from the MoMA store. My favorite being the Muji wall-mounted CD player. It has no track skip, rewind or fast forward ability. It just has a chord that stops and starts the CD. Queue the CD to Kind of Blue and pull the chord as soon as you walk in the room with your one night stand. Then point at them and pull an imaginary trigger. You win.

Lastly, I found this really cool site on what to with old computers. In hipster culture, techy things from the 90's are really popular. Turn your old monitor into an ash tray and you'll bag the girl or boy of your (skinny) jreams.