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25. Nov, 2009 
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Happy Thanksgiving. I could get all maudlin on you, but I’m feeling generous.
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Creating an accent wall in my bedroom was the topic of one of my very first posts back in March of 2008. Of course, at the time I had no idea it would be but the first in a multi-part series of posts about my bedroom. After a long hiatus, I was recently inspired to write about my first experience with plaid flannel sheets, a departure from my typical style in pattern, color and material. And last (until now) but most certainly not least, you likely heard all the buzz about my recent post, the penultimate of the series, about my controversial decision to use human-shaped targets as art. Did you just flinch? Sorry, but I’m a bit sensitive about the topic. The post, which I have nicknamed Bad Bedroom Mojo or No?, has inspired a raucous mojo debate, at least among a handful of people. If by raucous, you mean not very raucous actually.
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But to complicate matters further, I recently bought a radically awesome 60’s-era German snake anatomy poster from former guest poster and Le Trip co-founder Jill Mitchell’s Ebay store. I felt a bit of buyer’s remorse in that no man’s land after I paid the bill but before it arrived. The feeling was short-lived, however, because as soon as I saw the frayed canvas edge and the patina of the wood rods, I felt better, and now I love it. As an added bonus, it relates to and thus pulls together the room’s various hues.
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But now comes the big question. How do these additions impact the mojo equation, a value which was still being debated at the time of this writing? Care to chime in? Does the snake help or hinder? Does the horseshoe counter any residual negative energy? Do I need crystals? Incense? Or am I all good?
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On an unrelated note, isn’t this a beautiful magazine cover?
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Isn’t Chicagoan Chris Ware’s cover for the Believer Magazine’s 2009 Art Issue wonderful? It’s clean and comic book-y colorful, but it feels quiet and poignant to me. Poor guy has no idea he’s about to get vaporized. Check out The Believer magazine. It’s a magazine you actually have to read, the kind of magazine you’ll find in the lobby of the hipster-swank Ace Hotel in Portland, OR. I realize this recommendation is light on specifics, but it’s the night before Thanksgiving, so that’s all she wrote.
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I bought the framed mugshot from my good friend Albert Tanquero’s Ebay store, and he also supplied the journal on the end table and my use of targets as possibly bad mojo art. And my friend Martha, who hails from Kentucky, inspired the lucky horseshoe above the door. The rust-red colored but rubber horse shoe (Alan Robandt) is actually a piece from some kind of crazy 50’s-era game(?), so that adds sufficient color coordinated irony. Oh, I stole the idea to create an accent wall using molding from Apartment Therapy. But I’m responsible for the flannel sheets (serendipitously at least) and the vintage Argentinian air force helmet (Jayson Home + Garden). Vintage off-white rotary dial phone (Edgewater Antique Mall).
OMG and Urgent. Your very happiness depends on one critical detail in the room. The horseshoe over the door is upside down. Endless hours of debate won’t sort out the mojo until you turn it to collect the luck vs. having it spill right out.
Yes! Turn that Horseshoe ’round. It must catch the luck, you see. I like all of the new additions. V. jealous of the new school house piece.
Another branch of the uuber stylish (and cheap!)ace hotel has opened in NYC. Tate, I think you need to take a tax deductible trip to take a look and write a review; the end result of my experiences with the ace brand is a collection of 300 old player piano rolls that are going to transform the foyer in my house into a ’sing along salon.’ I am hip…but sadly have an innate old lady component to my personal style that prevents me from being a hipster.
Tate I love that poster!!! OMG!!!
The whole room feels very manly and you know how that makes me feel….inside.
Seriously, it’s a very kind of edgy take on a bedroom and those risks paid off. HAPPY TUKEY DAY.
I’ll be the third to mention the horseshoe with all your good luck spilling out and then we’ll let it rest. Can I get a set of those targets? A confirmed “manhunter” like me could use ‘em!
Hope you are doing well in business and enjoying yourself. Take it easy and have a great Thanksgiving.
while i like all the elements shown, there does seem to be something just a bit…off. can’t put a finger on it as the images don’t give a great overall feel (view) of the room. as an interior designer it can be hard to get a perfect feel from images on a monitor. you are on the right track though. perhaps i’ll take a look at the older posts to try and get a better feel and post a suggestion or two.
Yes, immediately go and flip that horseshoe so the luck doesn’t fall out.
I love, love, that snake anatomy poster! Not sure it fits with the modern severity of the repeated targets? Would have to see what else is going on.
Agree with all about the horseshoe, and with Gale about the snake poster. Love the mix going on in the room, but let the snakes slither over to another part of the house…
Tate–the human target idea is awesome. It reminds me of a jasper johns piece the way it is put together. Also, the snake poster is amazing, but seems from the photo that it could hang a bit higher. I think that it should stay in the room.
What about some of those bullet hole decals around the targets? You know, the kind you see on cars sometimes. Of course that would cross the line and make the whole thing look tacky, but I couldn’t resist the thought.