Can't stand pictures of people on the walls

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Quoting myself here:

Whoa! I just went to the online college archives, found the photo and not one of the 11 guys is actually looking at the camera. Man, it's good to see those guys again... it's been almost 20 years!

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I don't like to see pictures of authority figures up on a wall. Dictators, presidents, popes, generals, royalty, clericks, whoever. I have an aversion toward personality cults. Framed pictures of GWB in government offices used to make me angry. Middle east folks always seem to carry around giant pictures of some cleric. That makes me angry and sad at the same time. Some people are so easily manipulated.

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That's exactly why I don't like them. Their eyes follow me no matter where in the room I move to and I don't just imagine it, I can see them moving. Some say that it's just an illusion but even so, it's still creepy. It's like I'm just waiting for them to jump out of the picture and grab me.
I don't even like pictures of myself on the walls.

no, never had pictures or photos of people on my walls. never even a rock band poster, it would embarrass the hell out of me. the reason i have no people photos and rarely take photos with any people in them is simply because i have virtually no inteest in them.

Instead of having bare walls, here's what I did:



Usually blinds are closed in morning to keep sun off fabric - UV will degrade the nylon.

Southwestforests: Oh, how lovely!

Hah! I knew there was a reason I noticed the damndest little things in movies. I can be sitting there watching a movie and notice what magazine is sitting on the coffee table when two characters are on the couch having a very emotional discussion.

And if it's a SIGNIFICANT magazine (like, they're talking about their horribly unsatisfying sex life and the magazine is Cosmopolitan), well then ten bucks says the director or set decorator is an aspie.

I notice that in Tim Burton movies, there are all kinds of tiny details in the backgrounds.

I very much have the sense that people in photographs are really looking at me, so for me it's really a question of whether the photo is of someone I feel comfortable looking at. I have photos of me and my husband, and of friends, in various places. (Looking at my eyes looking out from photos of myself is slightly creepy, though. It's like listening to my own voice on tape, which really used to freak me out, although I'm better about it now.) And, I have Nirvana posters all over the walls in this room, and I have absolutely no problem with that.

What I don't feel comfortable with is family photos; I'd probably feel different if I got on with my family, but I actually feel like they're spying on me. Back when I lived alone and I first moved into my own apartment, it wasn't long after my father died, and when my brother had finished helping me decorate he presented me with a matted, framed photo of my dad to be hung in a place of honor to remember him by. I didn't have the heart to tell the rest of the family that I really didn't feel comfortable with that (I didn't get on with him well anyway, and I felt really weird about having him 'looking' at me when I was maybe lounging around the place in my underwear!), and I used to take it off the wall and leave it face-down somewhere when they weren't around.

wow, absolutely beautiful and colourful creations, great idea!

I dont even have any photos of people on my walls. I have a bunch of my own photos, big as posters which contains places I have been and have great memories from. Also big paintings I have made in my past but they neither contain people.

When I grew up I used to have photos with people on the walls of my room. They was all people I was a fan of, such as musicians. The more intense interest I had in them the closer in vision I wanted them. I remember as 12 year old I was a great fan of a band and I put their photo next to my pillow. I felt it was awesome to wake up with them looking at me and emediately beeing reminded of my special interest....

Thanks Do need to say I didn't make them, just bought them - compliments to those who did make them