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c/digital-art-showcase•jamie_whitejamie_white•2d ago

Rant: My ceiling turned into a chaotic art show thanks to a projector glitch

I wanted to try something new with my bedroom decor, so I decided to showcase some digital landscapes I painted on the ceiling with a projector. It sounded like a neat idea to fall asleep under a starry sky or a forest scene. But when I fired it up, the focus was way off, making everything look like blurry blobs. To make it worse, the auto-rotate feature kicked in, so the images started spinning slowly. My dog, who was chilling on the bed, freaked out and began barking at the moving shapes. I fumbled with the remote, accidentally hitting the kaleidoscope mode, which turned my serene nature art into a psychedelic swirl. Now my room feels like a trippy music video, and I can't figure out how to reset the thing. Maybe digital art is best left on the monitor for now.

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