El Bastardo's Hellhole (Room)
Hello folks. Below are the necessary bullet point facts but before I want to say some words to the photos.
So why are my photos more special than any other photos you ask?? - Because they are authentic and real.
With the (obvious) exception of the katana on the bed (which is in fact a real one) everything is exactly as it is every day. No posing of figures in special ways, no piling up of all my manga and DVDs, this is the real room I live in.
And no this is not just an excuse for not cleaning it before the photo shooting ^_^ (hey it's not that dirty anyway).
Please excuse the poor lighting of the pictures but this room has poor lighting conditions to begin with and I do not own an SLR just a compact digital camera with a normal crappy flash light.
On the walls you see my poster arrangement like I had it for the last "I can't remember anymore how long" years so this is a premiere. Only for you (OK not only but you are the trigger for doing it), live and now I do a "before after" and rearrange my wallpapers collection. See the new version I call "maximum space exploitation" with the last two photos!!
- Nickname: El Bastardo
- Age: 27
- Have been an otaku since 1994 (over 15 years)
- Nationality: German
- Location of the room: Germany
- My collection consists of everything nerdy: Figures (including over 100 Gashapons), video games, anime, manga, artbooks and all the good stuff. Especially my figure collection can be seen at MyFigureCollection.net
- How much money it already drained out of my life I can't say but that's what life is for!!
- Favorite Item?? - I'm the type of guy that can't just focus on one aspect (like MMORPG players can) but I'm proud of my Mononoke Hime hard cover Japanese first edition artbook
- You can find my latest thoughts at my personal shrine http://figurefan.blogspot.com/
- Why my room is a unique example: It's maximum "otakuness" on limited space, figure love to the best and it just has the "fan factor".
- Some people ask me "Hey when do you stop with these childish hobby of yours. Will you still do it when you are over 50??" - And I say "YES" ^_^ !!
If someone want to ask: Yes, the two non anime related posters on the wall you see is from the "X-Files". I was a huge fan back in the days and I just loves Gillian Anderson. Not visible is the classic "I want to believe" poster from agent Mulder.
If the tiny possibility might happen that my exotic room is chosen to be shown to the world in the book I can make additional and/or better photos.
And also yes I know it's not only packed it's jammed. So many things in only 13m² is nuts. Subwoofer under the tables, seven loudspeakers cramped in every little nook but it's effective and I like it that way.
Hope you like it too and if not that's even better because that would proof I'm unique ^_- !!
Everything starts at the portal... I mean door and even that is "posterized" ^_^ !!
My bed and "my ladies"!!
A more tele feel of the room!!
My weapon of choice at it's special day every month: Oiling day!!
The divine holy shrine of sacred divinities: My KOS-MOS collection!!
Yeah there should be more student stuff on the desk!!
While standing in front of my two desks in the middle of the room (all architects please do not listen)!!
What the... how am I... on TV and there too... am I seeing double... WHATEVER (stupid parody)!!
The new poster arrangement staring Sunday July, 19 2009
And here from in front of my main desks!!
^,^
Hello from an other German!! ^,^
You need more room for your stuff, but i like it.
How dare you of accuse the rest of us of loading up our rooms just for the photo. I'll have you know that my are is 100% natural... just a bit tidied up. ;)
Ditto that. :P
Hehe I just noticed that some people piled up all their stuff on the bed or on their desks to show as much as possible.
So i thought I need a better way to stand out in the broad mass so I used it as a lead headline ^_^
And hey it worked people react to it.
And sure don't take it too seriously I know that all other rooms are also authentic (the power of marketing *cough*)!!
Well aside from the extra dakimakura cover on my bed, my room naturally looks like that ^^;;;
I like you, anyone who loves Kos-Mos as much as I do must be a good person.
People that come visit me, always look arround and say:
Your not an otaku, your room is much to tidy.
I like my appartment nice and clean.
And don't want to stack up posters and everything
Yeah, that seems to be the general consensus, isn't it? I prefer my space to be usable instead of filled to the brim with stuff. ^.^;;
yep most people think a room will be messy
because im a otaku
the same with figure cabinets
I hate it to stack up figures
I want to see each and every figure by it self, not behind other figures
or even 1/8 and other scales in the same space XD
In general I share your opinion about the figures and I know with most of my friends it's the same.
The optimum is a nice clean space for every one of them, separated and with good visibility. It's just this dilemma between limited space and "I want more figures".
So I guess most of use try to conter this with creativity -_^
But posters have to be. They aren't called "wallpapers" in English for nothing!!
in my opinion wallpapers make a room look cramped and a bit less adult
(not if they are ero XD)
also a bit messy
no matter how good you clean
but thats just my opinion
maybe its like that because im a designer
Maybe it's because you are a designer but maybe it's just because you like your visual heavy hobby world and your relaxing home world separated -_^
Either way is fine and different opinions are also important and fine too. If we all would have the same we would be clone robots.
For me I like to be reminded what I like. Maybe it's because my every day live is hard enough so my room is my escaping pod?!
Maybe it's because you are a designer but maybe it's just because you like your visual heavy hobby world and your relaxing home world separated -_^
yep both I think
and im glad every person likes it differrent
I agree with the being the escape pod ^^
Nobody knows what my hobbies are until they enter my room.
Its like I'm a different person altogether -_^
I think a few well placed posters or wall hangings has the ability to break up the empty space of a wall. Now, if they were plastered all over the place without any wall showing... now that's just crazy ;)
I keep my separation by leaving all of my otaku stuff on the second floor of my house. I generally entertain guests downstairs, so it's mostly normal decoration there.
Hey wow do you two realize we three are a good example of three extremes: yakumo likes it clean in his room and to separate his hobby, I like it extremely filled where my room reflects my likings and Asian Ed likes a balanced middle.
We three are like the pillars of otakuness choices ^_^ !!
Yeah, posters make me feel like a room's cramped, too, so I avoid them for the most part. :P Which is why all I have in terms of anime stuff in my room is my figures.
Yeah, not hot on having lots of wall posters either. My room used to be like that but they all came down about 2 years ago... now there's just enough there to cover up where the paint came off ^^;
As I said before it's interesting how different oppinions between similar people are present. I (and many more people) like it cramped with their hobby stuff and there are equally many people that think differently. That is why live is interesting!!
nice sanctuary, like especially the dakimuras on the wall ^^
I never realized that youre from Germany aswell buddy!
Its nice to see an unaltered room aswell!
Good Luck!
Nice room, I see you have sporting a few Feena merchandise as well!
Cool Gillian Anderson Posters! Im an X-File Fan too!
I really was a big X-Files Fan. Heck I even still am but only the first five seasons and the movie. Mayyybe the sith season too -_^
But Gilian Anderson. Man I loved her so much. To this day I think she is still a "dream woman". It's not all about "long blond hair" and "model sizes".
In fact this is really close to my dream woman hehe!!
Yeah i know man Scully is SEXY! "Truth is out there!"
I don't really get your logic on how your room is "special" just because you left it the way it is. I'd rather see a clean room than a dirty one especially if its going to be published in a magazine. Just thought I'd put that out there.
As I said some comments above (http://www.figure.fm/post/en/410/El+Bastardo+s+Hellhole+Room.html#comment-3550) it is just a kind of lead story. So a way to catch a reader's attention (you know like newspapers do -_^).
And for the clean/dirty discussion: What is your definition of dirty?? - I really doubt that anyone's room is really dirty in terms of the word.
If you mean empty and clearly arranged versus full and stuffed like a storage that's just a question of taste (as you can read in the posts above).
I know many people that are quite the same and love to be closely surrounded by their loved stuff as do I know some that love their room more empty like a "demopnstration room" in a catalog.
But again just different tastes (a good thing)!!
Holy KOS-MOS Shrine! Definitely another rival to the Rei shrine!
Heheh nice self picture too! *thumbs up*
Desks in middle of room? Architects might not like it but Apartment Therapy may approve =P
Getting this weird Beeblebrox vibe off your ID photo.
Hehe yeah it's not that but it's a parody!!
Hmm... needs more clashing orange sash =P
Nah that would look really bad P.
Even if this is a parody I like wearing it normally. The jacket (it's not a sports coat) is a real Hugo Boss I found in a second hand shop iand it's real nice velvet!!
Guild Wars and Evangelion?
/brofist
Sorry I do not know what "/brofist" does but I really like the evangelion series and the Guild Wars poster is a preorder bonus in Germany (or perhaps in europe) for preordering the Collector's Edition of the first game. I played the hell out of that game because (at least for me) online MMORPGs are all about PVP and "Magic" like strategizing!!
Haha, it just means knocking each others fists against each other in brotherhood (Often in anime) :p
I got the Assassin-poster which came as a freebie with the first bunch of Factions CE's.
It's pretty. Still playing from time to time, mainly waiting on GW2.
I like your old school anime posters especially Slayers and Iczer!
Nice! I love the "X-Files" too, remember when it first aired way back, it wa s areal revolution. I bought the full 9 season DVD boxset not too long ago, it's absolutely huge!
Too bad the series went downhill the last seasons, I never even finished the very last episode because it was that disappointing.
I should have listened to my mother. Your figures look cool on that dude, especially the ones on top.
Nice work with the cramped space of your room. I felt shy compared to my own room.
And heal yeah; we’ll be otaku until our last breath.
Greetings from Guatemala.
nice cosmos collection you got there! :P
Love the set up <3 Your posters are great!
Yes, yes, swords have to be oiled for a period of time, isn't it? XD
ANOTHER EPIC OTACOOL ROOM. NICE!
An army of kosmos , nice display btw
i love Gillian Anderson too. If i remembered correctly, she was the 1st celebrity whom i had crush on ^^;
BTW, anyone care to tell me whos that sexy lady on image ID#1667?
Nice room! Your weapon looks amazing ^^
X-Files spotted~ (my showwww desu)
Dragon Slave!!!
The truth is out there.
Come to me my noble einherjar!