What would you do if you happened to find yourself with an overabundance of various colored thumbtacks, a spare sixty days, and an all-consuming love for short, fictional, Italian plumbers? You would create a 17,000 push-pin Super Mario Brothers-themed mosaic of course. Constructed by the CIS Student Association at the University of the Fraser Valley, this pointy labor of love took two months to complete (longer if you factor in the three revisions they did as well). Because they put such a colossal amount of effort into this project, I will not mention the slight imperfection on the left-hand side of the picture that is absolutely bugging the shit out of me and instead will tell you that if you like the picture of the very last push-pin going in, you will adore the completed images waiting for you after the jump.
Source [The Tanooki]
Posted by CrazedOne1988 on November 27, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Holy Crap dude! That is one awesomelicious mosaic!
Posted by Jim 028 on November 27, 2008 at 12:38 pm
My eye is just drawn to the incomplete left side now you have pointed it out. You would think they would finish that edge. :D
Posted by Das Kalk on November 27, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Epic Win, that is SO cool
Posted by DethPwn on November 27, 2008 at 1:21 pm
That’s lame. Jk, I’m drooling
Posted by AT-AT on November 27, 2008 at 4:15 pm
*Hums Mario theme*
Posted by Naepa34 on November 27, 2008 at 5:09 pm
How do you always find the projects of the people with the most free time and the most epic results?
Posted by Ragingterror on November 27, 2008 at 5:20 pm
If they have that kind of time on their hands, they should try rearranging the push-pins a few times and make a stop-motion video. ;)
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Posted by John Killer118 on November 29, 2008 at 11:08 am
I want to see one of Super Mario Galaxy!
Posted by Dusty Boy T on December 17, 2008 at 4:11 pm
I KNEW I SAW THIS ON HERE BEFORE!!!
One of the guys who helped create this actually came to our computers class. As soon as he showed us the pictures, I thought “I’ve seen this somewhere before…”.
Posted by bs angel on December 17, 2008 at 4:48 pm
That’s really cool! I bet that was a fun presentation.
Posted by Dusty Boy T on December 17, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Actually, it was pretty lame. They were trying to interest students in going to UFV for post-secondary education, but they made a really tacky (no pun intended) powerpoint presentation that looked as if it was made in 10 minutes. The only exciting part of the presentation was when I realized I’d seen that thumbnail picture on here and numerous other sites.
Posted by Dusty Boy T on December 17, 2008 at 4:58 pm
THUMBTACK. I mean thumbtack.
Posted by bs angel on December 17, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Aaahhh, that’s too bad. They should have just talked about their cool Mario project, eh?!
Posted by Dusty Boy T on December 17, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Yeah…one can wish =P