Comments on: Epic Win: Spin Art

By: dynamite11

dynamite11 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:57:21 +0000

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.

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:04:52 +0000

Well I made one out of a box and an old record player.

By: Stick

Stick — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:42:09 +0000

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.)

By: dAndy

dAndy — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:43:03 +0000

My kids have a current version of this thing and has strobe lights too. Trippppppy duuuuuuude!

By: Bee

Bee — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:26:50 +0000

I LOVED this thing!! It was so awesome!
I think I want one of these now.

By: bentleysaundersharrisonmatthews

bentleysaundersharrisonmatthews — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:26:54 +0000

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!

By: Lume

Lume — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:58:29 +0000

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)

By: Ladytink_534

Ladytink_534 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:34:14 +0000

I bought one of these at a yard sale, played with it twice and gave it to a friend.

By: Rachel of Cyberia

Rachel of Cyberia — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:01:53 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:00:03 +0000

Oooh wow that looks like so much fun.

By: sk

sk — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:23:07 +0000

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…

By: boop

boop — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:20:35 +0000

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.

By: marcusb

marcusb — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:49:19 +0000

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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