Nov 30 200817,000 Push-Pin Super Mario 3 Mosiac
You know, sometimes you come across something that really makes you appreciate human ingenuity and dedication to a project. This isn't one of those.
What you're looking at it is a 17,000 push-pin mosaic mural, a product of three revisions and a total of two and a half semesters of work. The final revision took a whopping two months of work by the CIS Student Association at the University of the Fraser Valley, and it's currently sitting in the Student Computing Center over there.
17,000 push-pins, wow -- impressive work! And, whether you like the piece or not, I think we can all agree that these kids should be expelled for ganking office supplies.
Hit the jump for several more of the craziness (including an in-progress shot), along with a link to the Flickr gallery.
Flickr Gallery
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Fraser Valley students stick it to Mario 3 [thetanooki]
Thanks to Mark, Laurel, and Marcus, who don't steal office supplies. Except pens and Post-Its, because, honestly, who can resist those?
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Reader Comments
1. lolerskates - November 30, 2008 5:31 PM
that's pretty cool
2. wesxninja - November 30, 2008 5:31 PM
first! also, awesome!
3. wesxninja - November 30, 2008 5:32 PM
fail :[
4. Keanan - November 30, 2008 5:39 PM
Whats with the posts on a sunday?!
5. the koopa - November 30, 2008 5:45 PM
the koopa's mouth is missing.
6. GRAMARNAZI - November 30, 2008 5:45 PM
Why? You think geekologie guy goes to church on Sunday? You think he visits his grandmother on Sunday?..........shit,.. forgot about my grandmother again!
7. Architect - November 30, 2008 5:48 PM
YEAH SUNDAY POSTS?! BUT PRETTY COOL.
8. Verstand - November 30, 2008 5:48 PM
I suppose his breaking that commandment.... Thou shalt not Geekify on the Sabbath.
That was dumb. Shame on me.
Whats sad is that with the whole GNU thing, this could prolly be done in like.... 23.2 seconds.
or something
9. Mr. Sausage - November 30, 2008 5:52 PM
Well I never! Geekologie on a Sunday?
10. Verstand - November 30, 2008 5:52 PM
I have.
11. gfgdg - November 30, 2008 6:02 PM
i usually dont wank on sundays either BUT HELL TODAY I BEAT THE MEAT 5 TIMES.*
*in the morning
12. riz - November 30, 2008 6:10 PM
i'm not gonna lie, this is a pretty good idea. this would be badass as hell to have in your house.
13. GRAMMARNAZI - November 30, 2008 6:24 PM
YESSS,
I can see it now--thousands of multi-colored push-pins all around my house after a night of drinking.
14. wesxninja - November 30, 2008 6:56 PM
@11 only 5 times?
15. tn11 - November 30, 2008 7:26 PM
@11 pathetic. get a girlfriend, ditch your hand.
16. Amanda - November 30, 2008 7:43 PM
What is more odd is that we are all checking Geekologie on a Sunday even though there shouldn't be any posts.
17. Jay - November 30, 2008 8:25 PM
These CIS guys should take the panel off the wall, and frame it behind glass. Then they could auction it off as a fundraiser for their group, or donate it to the Child's Play Charity.
18. UFVstudent - November 30, 2008 8:40 PM
I have been a faithful geekologie student for several months now and I am completely stoked that something from th University of The Fraser Valley made it on here!!! This is awesome and I'm so going out check this out now.
19. GRAMMARNAZI - November 30, 2008 8:41 PM
...or drop it from a very tall building & watch it explode into millions of pieces.
20. Daisy - November 30, 2008 8:53 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like the scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max is pursuing a hitman, and shows a guy in Africa a map with pins highlighting the locations where the hitman struck and the African fellow says it kinda looks like Mario.
21. Cthagua - November 30, 2008 8:54 PM
Now if they could just figure out how to make office supplies play the Mario theme song, move those push-pins around on the wall and control them somehow, they'd be set!
22. eron - November 30, 2008 9:10 PM
I has a...
...no, wait... 2 and a half semesters? Did they have to place the pins with the teeth or something?
23. dan - November 30, 2008 9:40 PM
hmm. apparently this was my old university. odd.
24. formerly SPELLINGNAZI - November 30, 2008 10:11 PM
@ 21. Okay, not really office supplies, but here (I know, old):
http://www.break.com/index/mario-theme-played-with-rc-car-and-bottles.html
25. larry - December 1, 2008 12:47 AM
Dan smells.
Since I wil be in class tomorrow there, I am going to go to their office and move some of the pins around.
Then get into a big nerd fight.
26. Dr.Death - December 1, 2008 2:07 AM
i should make a sonic one or not im feeling lazy
27. Adam - December 1, 2008 2:15 AM
I think the people who made this need to get some.
28. Danielson - December 1, 2008 2:45 AM
That is pretty freaking sweet!
29. pojojuniper - December 1, 2008 10:35 AM
This is so sweet I can't even relate it to my alien abduction experience... I wonder if my husband will let me make one somewhere in my house.
30. Gail - December 1, 2008 10:50 AM
Totally Rad!
31. brad - December 1, 2008 11:39 AM
Great job! It's great to see an art project finished :).
32. rainbowcinderellageek - December 1, 2008 11:41 AM
Pretty f***ing cool.
But someone has way to much free time. Or no sex life.
33. big brown - December 1, 2008 1:56 PM
holy crap this is f***ing cool
34. NES--still-the-best - December 1, 2008 2:33 PM
I'm always a sucker for this kind of Nintendo arts and craft stuff, so I applaud these guys/gals. The thing that gets me, though, is their saying this project took two and a half semester of work. Were they working on this for only about 30 seconds per day, on average? This is something any of us could knock out with probably 20 hours or so of work.
35. big brown - December 1, 2008 3:02 PM
they probably put one pin and then the next day they put another pin and then the next day...... and so on
36. Elmo - December 1, 2008 3:09 PM
poor fat bastard. now what will he do with his life?
37. alex - June 10, 2009 11:32 PM
I'm an art student myself so i get how this could take a while. Yeah i agree 2 and a half semesters seems like a stretch, but they also said this went under 3 revisions. So at some point 3 times this guy went 'crap that's not right' and had to yank out X amount of pins. Not to mention he had to make sure to keep it all in a grid format, so if you put Mario's outline in, and then you go to fill in the background around him and you realize the pins are a little off you have to move all that crap.(and no he couldn't just leave it as is, if you take the time to do something like this you have to be a little OCD and a perfectionist) And when you just spent the time to put in however many push pins that was, only to realize you have to move them all, it makes you want to quit for a few days, which i'm sure he did. The total work time was like someone said, 20 hours or so.