17,000 pushpin mural some friends of mine made during university 17 years ago. It still hangs today!
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Love the fact that it was retro even when you made it. I simultaneously also hate that fact
Of course it is, no one’s making anything better to fill that space.
lol I’m just imagining people continuously trying to get the space with different artworks but there’s some 45 year old lecturer rejecting anything he sees.
Thanks Jason 🫡
Get the band back together and make Luigi ones
That’s-a so nice!
Your friends know ball.
Super Mario Bros 3 was released in 1988, 37 years ago.
Yes, you’re old.
My Christmas tradition, eat Turkey dinner, head up to my old room and speed run this! Haven’t beat 15.5 minutes in about 10 years, lol. Awesome job!!!!
I went there when it was still UCFV lol
Hey, fancy a trip down memory lane?
Go here and scroll down a bit.
Edit: changed the link to the full album which verifies it’s the same one.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ranadok/albums/72157608990502708/
Oh man, it’s the white block that you can randomly go behind just by putting your head down. Shit was more logical in the 90s.
So awesome!!!
That’s beautiful.
17,438 pushpins actually
> Nintendo lawyers enter the chat
Nice to know that it still hangs, I put a few pins in around the blocks. Not enough to get my name in the name section below the goombas. Shout out to UFV CISSA!
Very nice work!
Timeless
Not only is this awesome it seems like it would be fun to create
Love it!
You should try to get his name put under it.
Canadians always make good stuff
super mario brossssss
2008 was 17 years ago……
If they instead put ~3 (2.7) pins in every day, they would be finishing around now, as it would have taken them 17 years.
Legend!
I was at UFV while it was being made and a regular at the club that it was made it. Local staples and other store were constantly sold of because of this project.
I put in a dozen or so pins, but the area I help with was later redone because they found a shade that looked better, or something.
The top of the ground is the names of the major contributes all smushed in there.
How big is it?
that’s great they kept it up & even protected it and made a lil sign.
Awesomeness
Yeah, it’s covered in plexiglass.
Firstly how the hell did you get that many? Secondly, what was y’all’s schedule to allow this to be made?
Ask him to make another one with Luigi in it lol
Shiny pins
The label says that it’s made of 17,438 pushpins—the only factors of 17,438 are 2 and 8,719, so that means it can’t be a perfect grid! There are either too many or too few pins somewhere, and it haunts my perfectionist soul.