when you're this bad a photographer, it's the subject matter that counts...

[helenic]

    

    

    

The quality is still poor - I have yet to figure out the more advanced (read all) settings on my camera. But I wanted to give you a slightly more accurate impression of what it looks like than the blurred disasters I posted last night. And in case you were wondering, yes, it is bloody enormous.

ps. a prize to whoever can spot my new jesus action figure!

Comments

[goodbyesio.livejournal.com]

wow, I want that room! or at least, to borrow it for a few months :D

[libellum.livejournal.com]

hee! yeah, these are the kind of pictures relying on their subject matter for any aesthetic quality they might have - but I thought it'd be days before I figured out how to adjust the focus better and things, and by then the novelty would have worn off. And besides, I have no guarantee how long it'll stay this tidy ...

[citra.livejournal.com]

you've nicked my borders! :p

that is one gorgeous room. i'm especially loving the star on the fireplaces - and is that a jewelled mirror! opulent + lovely! xx

[libellum.livejournal.com]

what? of course I haven't, you silly thing. everyone does black and white borders using the canvas size tool - it's so common you see it on tutorials, for goodness' sake. The ones on my site have been 1px black with 20px white for about a year. I only switched it round this time cause I tried it the way I usually have it but it looked funny with the high contrast lighting, and when I tried swapping it it worked better. Crappy photos need borders to distract from the crapness, y'see ;)

The star says "tahjuhetkia", which means "star movement" (movements? or is it moments? I forget) and was a present from andi when I was still in school. The mirror is bordered with dragons tears - I made it when I was 15. It's missing a few tho cause they're only stuck on with blutack! xx

[the-waves.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love it! It looks very homely.
If I get to Oxford, I'd love a room like that. It has a very nice feel to it, even from the photos :-)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Yes, I love it. I had a really nice room last year as well. It comes of being poor - you get to live in the ghetto staircases with practically no kitchen, a bathroom shared between six (I'm sharing with 5 blokes :S) and no central heating, but you get oak panelling and huge rooms. I think it's a fair exchange.

[the-waves.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I'm loving the Tori pictures. Tori = Goddess.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

well, almost. siren perhaps ;) I got them at the Scarlet's Walk concert we went to a in January last year. I bought the postcards but didn't get myself a poster cause they were so pricey - and then saw a guy selling old release posters in the street for £2, so I got the choirgirl one, which is much nicer than the scarlet's walk ones anyway! The postcard you can see clearest in that picture is probably my favourite.

[the-waves.livejournal.com]

Ah yes ;-) I really like the Scarlet's Walk era pictures actually, though I love the photography of Choirgirl. I was going to go and see Tori last Jan - someone offered me a ticket. But I had an important exam the next morning, so couldn't go :'( I've never seen her live before. I'd love to some day.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

they're very autumnal, aren't they? I love the one in the album inlay where she's standing against the hedge in the green shirt. You definitely should try to see her if she tours again - I don't think I'd realised from her recordings what a fantastic musician she is. She frequently played an organ and a grand piano at the same time, astride the piano stool with one foot on each pedal, even while she was singing. It was very sexual actually. Yes. Instant crushdom.

[secretxstar.livejournal.com]

very nice. i wish i had that much space in my room! and a fire ♥ our entire house has no fire at the moment and it's bloody freezing (emma won't let me use my electric heater). i have those tori postcards :) jealous jealous jealous.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I have to say the fire doesn't do much good. It's on full at the moment and I'm still freezing. But yes, space is nice. I've found that when my room is beautiful I tend to be more sociable, if only because it's so pretty I want to show it off!

[secretxstar.livejournal.com]

pfsh, fire doesn't do much good. come stay in our house for a week and you'll be worshipping that fire when you get home!
Show off. I just want space so that my books aren't falling on the floor and my cds don't have to stand in piles near the door and, God forbid, I'll actually have room for my clothes!
Want to swap?? *hopeful*
Are you on Cambridge campus then? I don't understand the college thing...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

erm, basically your college is your Halls of residence, only it's more than that 'cause you're interviewed and accepted by the college, not the university. The University of Cambridge doesn't exist per se; it's an amalgam of all the colleges and all the departments, and I suppose there must be a central admin much but they don't have anything directly to do with the students. All the letters and emails and things are from college, or your subject, not the university. It's like lots of little universities that all share subject departments, or something. So I live in Downing, which is my college, but I go to lectures at the Classics faculty, which people from all the colleges use. It's sort of confusing but it makes perfect sense once you're here.

[secretxstar.livejournal.com]

but you're still living there? in your second year? you still get to live there? hmm. i guess it's allowed to be confusing since only really clever people who poo roses are allowed to go there... *sulk*

[libellum.livejournal.com]

actually at Downing it's compulsory we live in college for three years - they're uber-poor, you see, and if they don't get rent from every room in college they're in trouble. So everyone pays college for a room apart from a few of the grads. Downing owns a few streets as well, so not everyone is actually IN college, but they're in college housing as long as they're undergraduates. I imagine for some of the smaller or less poor colleges you could live out in third year, if you wanted...

(pooing roses... owwwww!!)

[secretxstar.livejournal.com]

ahh.. i see. i can't really imagine anywhere in cambridge as 'poor' though. especially when they own streets! i think it's quite the opposite here - they kick us out after the first year 'cause they're too poor to keep us... or too full anyway. bah to lancaster and its 70s-ness!

(i don't think thorns count when pooing roses... just the flowery bit, s'all part of being extra special, or a chosen one or whatever it is these horrible universities want *more sulking* :p)

[suffragette.livejournal.com]

is that jesus next to the tori poster?

do you live in unversity housing? it's gorgeous!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

nope, close - that's actually a glow-in-the-dark Blessed Virgin Mary. I was given it on pilgrimage by my catholic friends, because they knew I wasn't. She's very scary actually - her gown glows but her face and hands don't, so it's sort of like a neon green nazgul or something.

[karajanks.livejournal.com]

I see it! In the first photo, in front of the stack of CDs. Is that the kind that has the detachable basket of bread that snaps onto his hand? I got the same one for a friend for his birthday a few years back. :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

hurrah! you win. you get a prize with your next letter!

It's not the bread one - it's this one (http://www.mcphee.com/amusements/current/10746.html), with movable two-jointed arms and gliding action!!

Lovely images.

[kiad.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photos, The Jesus figurine is in the first photo, no?

And on your bookcase, I see another figure.... an angel?

And of course, I love your Absinthe Robette print. Lovely.

Thank you.

Re: Lovely images.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

*grins at icon* yes! It's a beautiful poster. I like it because she's really sexy, but not thin at all. It always makes me smile to look at it.

The other figure is a glow-in-the-dark Blessed Virgin Mary. It's not an action figure, unfortunately, although she is next to a very tacky BVM prayer candle. Hurrah for religious kitsch.

Re: Lovely images.

[kiad.livejournal.com]

People think she looks almost exactly like me. How funny. heh.

And yes, religious kitch is the best kind.

[nightkitchen.livejournal.com]

that's your dorm room? umm, holy fuck. fireplaces are definitely verboten in Canadian university residences (they even dissuade people from using candles - as if! ha). the dark wood is so nice. it must be cozy. thanks for posting the pics. I like little glimpses of my LJ friends' lives. it's interesting to think of you moving around that room, perhaps even right now.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

not quite a dorm! In cambridge we have staircases - blocks entered by individual doors consisting of three floors with about six rooms on each, although obviously it varies. I don't think anyone shares a room unless you want to - I almost shared a double (with one room as the corridor-room) but the girl I was going to be sharing with managed to find another spare room in college and moved into that. I'm not paying for the other room so I don't use it, but it's there and empty; no-one else is in it.

I love these old college rooms. They're cold and manky but they're beautiful. All the modernised rooms with carpets and central heating and sinks in the rooms and en suites are all blue and white and hotel-esque. Call me shallow but I think I prefer prettiness to comfort (well, actually I chose it for cheapness, but still). The gas fire is because of the lack of central heating, and they're fazing them out because of the fire risk, but I'm glad I got one. They are cosy, even in big rooms, which is quite a feat. We're not meant to have candles, or incense, or smoke in our rooms, and I do all three, but what the hell. No-one notices or cares much unless you actually set fire to the place (which, incidentally, our ex-chaplain actually did .... )

I'm not moving around the room, I'm sitting at my computer :) but I know what you mean. I love bedroom photos.

[robothips.livejournal.com]

your room is seriously gorgeous. mine is just like a dorm room that recently braved a tornado.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've been there!

Sorry I missed you in the Midlands, but I'm glad you're so happy to be back.