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I will forever remember spin art, because when I was 8 years old I thought it would be a good idea to use a pencil to draw on it while it was spinning. I now have this cool little blue mark where the pencil graphite is lodged forever in my index finger.
Everytime I look at it, I remember the spin art machine that I broke when trying to write on it with a pencil. I was a dumb 8 year old.
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I forever will remember it too, especially the moment I ran out of paper and decided it’d be fun NOT to use anything. And as result, my favorite shirt was ruined. Even so, Spin Art is still as awesome as it was before!
Although, I do have a pencil graphite lodged into my hand, but from my own doing trying to get a rubber holder around a pencil(which I am, without reason, quite proud of)
Oh wow. I wanted this thing SO bad when I was a kid, and of course, the little bitch down the road got one, so I had to sit and stare while she played. This was one of the coolest things to play with though (when she did let me play). Coincidentally, she got the barbie car, too.
LOL!
I wanted one of these, so I came up with the brilliant idea of making my own. The kid across the street was a juvenile delinquent, forever pillaging electronics, and he had given me one of those little battery-run motors, without the batteries, and I used that as a base, with a little flip switch, some wires, a couple of batteries and a rubbermaid bin. I still can’t believe that none of the adults thought it odd to allow a 9-10 year old girl with no previous experience use a soldering iron without supervision…ah, the 80s, when safety was a cute idea…
Oooh wow that looks like so much fun.
DOOOOD!! I loved this thing. Yet more proof that they put drugs in the water supply in the 70s so even the kids were tripping.
I bought one of these at a yard sale, played with it twice and gave it to a friend.
I run an art program where we use fabric paint on these machines and then press the results onto bandannas, t-shirts, and pillowcases. Some of the kids spell words backwards on cards, spin them, and transfer the designs, giving a neat splattered appearance. Creativity WIN!
I LOVED this thing!! It was so awesome!
I think I want one of these now.
My kids have a current version of this thing and has strobe lights too. Trippppppy duuuuuuude!
My grade school had a carnival for us for some reason and this was the big attracion. (Shows you how small and lame my town is.)
Well I made one out of a box and an old record player.
OMG i remember these
however, they always looked better while spinning than when they were done…
and back then we had the luxury of simplicity. today we have the souped-up splatter-proof (half the fun was watching the paint fly everywhere) glow-in-the dark fancy shmancy versions…oh well. a very epic win.