Comments on: Epic Win: Pin Art

By: ab.

ab. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:00:07 +0000

sitting in a room drunken a few months back, my inhebriated mind thought it was the perfect timing to confuse the other drunken masses around me. wearing toe socks (yes, i do.) i alerted them that they couldn’t have all their toes showing on one of these things as i could with socks on. with the others in their stupor, they did take a long while attempting. the story while i was younger is less interesting. i’d just slam my face into it to get a facial impression.

By: Chippy

Chippy — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:06:10 +0000

Yep, I put one on my face.

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:42:19 +0000

now we just have pixel art…

By: Tylonfoxx

Tylonfoxx — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:40:50 +0000

I always wanted one of those made of metal, I always like to play with them, making different shapes etc.

I also found they’re great in the summer (the metal ones) to cool off with

By: pat

pat — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:55:31 +0000

i have a metal one on my desk its so cool

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:46:37 +0000

Toledo cosi or Columbus cosi? The old columbus cosi had one, I haven’t been to the new one yet.

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:45:14 +0000

Cosi should be on nostalgic win, if only because the new one NEVER COMPARES! Even if it would be only like an Ohio thing… And the lock-ins with the girlscouts… ahh fun times, fun times.

And it was a whole FREAKING WALL! I had fun doing that.

Remember that flash still shadow thing? That was fun to make gestures and other poses in. Scared the dickens out of me the first time when I was about 5-ish.

By: DaMirrorLink

DaMirrorLink — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:17:13 +0000

I still have one of those!

By: cucuto89

cucuto89 — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:32:07 +0000

cosi was AWESOME

By: Daliddlkid

Daliddlkid — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:17:24 +0000

Yup…

By: Blenheimears

Blenheimears — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:20:23 +0000

I never had one. Some of my friends had them and the pins were always bent.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:11:08 +0000

I actually just bought one for my kids !

By: WeirdEars

WeirdEars — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:26:50 +0000

I had one of these when I was a kid. They were awesome!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:45:50 +0000

I used to kick people out of the Spencer Gifts store I worked at for doing that. Heh.

By: Atheywa

Atheywa — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:55:05 +0000

Spencer’s gifts still have metal ones

By: Rainne

Rainne — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:37:56 +0000

So many times…

By: Kitty

Kitty — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:14:44 +0000

Haha, anyone gotten in trouble for putting on of these babies to your face? ‘Cause I have…

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:44:56 +0000

xDDD My pins are all bent and to reduce the number, I’ve gotten a few out of there. But I don’t care anymore. It’s amazing fun =3

By: Sunshine

Sunshine — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:43:13 +0000

LOL! I have one of these! It was like, my sixth birthday present. xD

I would put parts of my face in it. These days, I don’t use it as much =(

By: VincentVanCrow

VincentVanCrow — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:31:14 +0000

The first time I did LSD I played with one of these for too long and saw everything as pin art for the rest of the trip… I even felt like I was walking on pin art…

By: candy

candy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:01:29 +0000

…
erm…
ok?

By: Violet

Violet — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:04:32 +0000

I got one of these as a gift at my 14th birthday party. My friend cut her finger on it and had to leave the party to go get stitches! She came back after the trip to the ER.

By: Qwepir

Qwepir — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:37:02 +0000

Was it COSI?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:35:57 +0000

At COSI, there is a huge one of these. Once while on a field trip, we had half the class flatten their bodies into it as if they were trying to jump through. It looked like one of those cartoon scenes where someone tries to run through a big metal wall.

By: Aeriyl

Aeriyl — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:21:19 +0000

Oh man that video was AWESOME.

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:44:50 +0000

I love them! I used to press my face into them. It’s great as long as you don’t open your eyes!

By: SomeGeek

SomeGeek — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:39:43 +0000

My friend put his wang in mine

By: huzzah

huzzah — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:38:57 +0000

There were several in the “Journey Into the Imagination” exhibit at Disney’s EPCOT Center. You could run your hand across the pins underneath and it created a pretty cool wave effect…

By: Max

Max — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:46:33 +0000

LOL i loved that, that was hilarious

By: HarwichVampire

HarwichVampire — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:26:09 +0000

when i was in kindergarten this handicapped kid flipped out and smashed his on the floor. there were nails scattered all over the hallway.

By: Shaungrl

Shaungrl — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:02:37 +0000

I know. I can’t count high enough to cover the number of ‘birdies’ I have seen on store shelves.

By: Brandon_ha

Brandon_ha — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:15:04 +0000

I’ve got two of the metal ones in my room right now. Anyone wanna buy it?

By: WeaselStompingDay

WeaselStompingDay — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:29:54 +0000

How did you keep from wrecking it? Did you dribble the glue down from the top?

Awesome tribute at any rate.
*walks off thinking about the Mask of Agamemnon*

By: MettanAtem

MettanAtem — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:14:13 +0000

I once went to a science museum or something on a school trip and saw one of those.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:16:41 +0000

Shiloh!???!

By: Nic

Nic — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:11:09 +0000

I just gave one of these to my neice for her birthday last week. They’re plastic now, wtf?

By: Eddy

Eddy — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:09:26 +0000

Oh, I will definitely avoid the ones at Spencer’s Gifts now that you mentioned that last part.

By: Fahzbehn

Fahzbehn — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:48:10 +0000

Not completely out of style, this was actually the centerpiece of the Nine Inch Nails video “Only” put out last year, I think.

By: sensible

sensible — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:23:40 +0000

I have a metal one, but half of the pins are all stuck and bent. There was a huge one at a museum near my house that always had imprints of screaming faces and obscene gestures… Could have been an art exhibit.

By: Itsbeentenyearsthismonth

Itsbeentenyearsthismonth — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:06:12 +0000

After the death of my father, I found one of these with his face on the top of his shelf. I preserved it with a glue gun, and it’s been a memento ever since.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:58:15 +0000

Nice! I loved these. I always put my face in it….

By: Calmor

Calmor — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:31:38 +0000

Everyone did one of two things with these, maybe three, Flipping da bird, face print, and maybe the occasional genitalia.

By: Smartinist

Smartinist — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:41:23 +0000

You can find them here…http://store.exploratorium.edu/browse.cfm/4,2687.html
This is the home of the pin screen. A really great science museum in San Francisco. Not only do they sell them but if you go there they have a GIANT table size version.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:37:26 +0000

Can still get the good ones here among other places… home of the original pin screen. http://store.exploratorium.edu/browse.cfm/4,2687.html

By: OVERRANDOM

OVERRANDOM — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:22:45 +0000

They also felt really weird and funny when you put them on your face! XD

By: Read my blog

Read my blog — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:05:11 +0000

Shouldn’t this be “giving the finger” instead of “peace sign”? If any of you say you never made an impression of the bird being flipped and left it proudly displayed on the store shelf, you’re a big, fat liar!

By: Wolfy

Wolfy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:59:06 +0000

I have one of these sitting up here in my room! (metal pins) ^_^

By: Athanar

Athanar — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:35:40 +0000

I have a metal one, it’s sitting on my dresser right now. You can still find them, it’s just a bit more of a challenge than the plastic ones. And the metal is cold on my face. X3

By: James

James — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:59:36 +0000

I loved these

I also distinctly remember the scene from Toy Story where Buzz flattens himself into one and his pose of failure showed up.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:01:39 +0000

Nixon, right?