Last Monday, a huge maze of poster boards welcomed me at the Nest:
Honestly, I had already walked up to the second (third?) floor before I even noticed what was happening below; my observation skills are great.
Turns out there was a poster sale going on for the whole week.
My first thought: Ohhhhhhhh no.
I have a fascination for posters, postcards, stickers, buttons etc etc.. Basically any form of decor you can collect endlessly. My self restraint was at risk here -.-
After classes ended on Monday, I went straight to the Nest, and delved into the tall rows of posters that surrounded me. It was really fun walking among the posters, it was like I was in a jungle with trees made out of aesthetic posters that I really really wanted to buy.
There were all sorts of posters, from science fiction to photography, aesthetics to pop culture, watercolours to ink, cartoons to movies, infographics to quotes, and everything else in between.
It seemed like there were hundreds of posters available, and the ones above were only a tiny sample that I remembered to take pictures of and send to my friends (that weren’t in UBC and couldn’t bask in the glory of posters >:D ).
After browsing and browsing for wayy too long, my impulse to want to buy them all increased more and more.
Which was really bad, because this was before I started work for the school year again… goodbye wallet.
I made a list of all the posters I wanted to buy, and told myself that I will only choose one out of all of them, as a gift to myself for surviving my first week of uni (what a lame excuse I know but whatever~). After sleeping on it for a day, I decided to get this one:
If I remember correctly, this one is called London Skyline by Summer Thornton.
I really like blue and I also really like things that involve watercolor, so this poster stood out from all my other potential choices.
Hopefully I won’t regret putting this on my wall a few months down… Too late.
I am proud to say I stopped myself from buying 5+ posters, which is what some of my friends did. Another one of my friends chose not to buy anything at all, which I thought was way too sensible. Great, now you’re making the rest of us look bad..
I bought the poster on Tuesday, but I liked looking at the posters so much that we ate lunch on the large staircase facing the posters for the rest of the week.
I was looking at all the posters I could’ve bought but did not buy~~ At least I have an addition to my slowly growing wall of posters.
Turns out IMAGINUS does this 2 times a year, once in September and once in January.
Great. Time to set some money aside and figure out what wall space I have…
This time it’ll be a gift to myself for surviving one whole term. (oh wow)
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