November 16, 2004

For those who need more than kittens to feel better. Turn your ceiling into a surreal pond surface. via boingboing.

Something about this is oddly compelling. I've exhausted my google-fu for the day--anyone have any sources on where such lovely things might be procured? Add a few fish hanging from invisible thread and I could relax, sure.

posted by patita 20 years ago
  • How about a card? I think this has been FPPed here before. But it's still nice :) Enchanted Ceiling was something inspired by the Harry Potter novels, where in Hogwarts the ceiling of the Great Hall would reflect the sky outside. And for those who have to spend alot of time in bed, staring at the ceiling. Finally, DIY ceiling.
  • The last freaking thing I want hanging over my head is a duck ass.
  • And for those who have to spend alot of time in bed, staring at the ceiling. Calling MoneyJane...
  • A truly lovely and tasteful display of duck's ass is here at the Forest Cafe (scroll down the page a little), right next to the welcoming Motel Trees, and right across the road from Trees of Mystery. ++++ A for the entire package experience, marred only by the lack of mural behind our bed at the motel. I really wanted the seascape.
  • Sorry. But only slightly.
  • skrik, bwhaaaaaa! my gynecologist always tapes tacky posters (like koala bears) on the ceiling to enjoy while your feet are in the stirrups. doesn't help.
  • I have a fish hanging from my living room ceiling. In fact, I have this fish. Didn't buy him from this site though, so I can't vouch for them, but I do love my fish!
  • It's definitely worth clicking through the TAP Plastics examples, both forward and backwards from the duck's bottom. Some very random stuff, including a kiteboard, a dinosaur saxophonist, a guitar motorcycle, elevator buttons, a wheelbarrel for snow, and G.I.Joe battle accessories. Along with multiple hovercrafts, lots of sculptures, boats, figurines, dioramas, and aquariums.
  • I would love to surprise my grandma with this one morning. She's been bedridden for a few years post-stroke and I imagine she spends a lot of time looking at the ceiling. Of course, I also imagine that she'd want me to take it down after a couple hours. And I should probably take my flying-through-the-window magnetic birds out of the box they came in before I go looking for more ways to part with my money. Still, if I ever did get something like this for myself it would be neat to go the whole nine fathoms and have lily pads with dangling stems, the bottom of a canoe, maybe a bottle with a message, etc.
  • The TAP Plastics site can apparently help you out with the bottom of a canoe thing, as well.
  • I can just imagine combining these things with a projector that simulates refraction ripples on the ceiling. Plus kittens. Kittens are still good.
  • I swear that waking up to a ceiling full of duck crotch would be aces, but those things are probably expensive. They'd be a perfect gift for a buddy of mine, who taught me the expression "hungry enough to eat the crotch out of a low-flying duck."
  • Hee hee hee. Boy, Skrik, you are SOOOO gonna be in trouble ... Hey, I think this would make a great gag--redecorate for a friend--Imagine the surprise when they come home to a living room with carp pellows on the couch, 38 duck asses hanging from the ceiling, and their walls painted crap green.
  • those flying through the window birds seem like a cruel joke to regular songbirds. "Hey look over there, Louie is on his way into the house! I'll go too *THONK*"
  • skrik...you are so not sorry! I can tell from here. Plus, I'm so not looking at the ceiling...I'm looking at my watch over his shoulder. Is there anything missionary isn't good for? Re: ducks...holy crap people, that's exactly why I don't swim, because that's what large hungry fishes see when I hang my ass down through their ceiling. Now if you were in your living room, and looked up to see such a duck ass in your ceiling, do you not think you would just have to reach up there and tweak it? Not unlike a large hungry dangerous impolite and malicious fish?!!! Who, lacking an opposable thumb would have to do so with his awful mean pointy teeth?!!! See where I'm going with this?
  • Dunno where you're going, but I'm going to dream about female arses hanging through the ceiling tonight. Again.
  • moneyjane, may I introduce you to the lovely modern amenity called THE SWIMMING POOL™? I can almost guarantee that your local one would not have impolite and malicious fish with mean pointy teeth. Almost certainly. Probably. :)
  • One never knows! I prefere jacuzzis as the bubbles confuse impolite fish and force them to simply sulk at the bottom where I can use them as footstools.