Pin Art

In popular culture

• The pinscreen was popularized in the 1985 music video for the Midge Ure song "If I Was", which included a giant body-sized version.
• In the 1988 film Vice Versa, Marshall Seymour keeps a pinscreen on his office desk. His son, Charlie is sitting at the desk while alone in the office. He picks up the pinscreen, pushes his face into it and sticks out his tongue.
• In the 1990 film Darkman, a pinscreen is used to duplicate a character's hand.
• In the 1993 film Super Mario Bros., Luigi is seen using a pinscreen on his face.
• A 1997 Coca-Cola ad, directed by Industrial Light & Magic, involves the use of a computer-generated imagery pinscreen.
• The 1999 film Toy Story 2 features a pinscreen that Buzz Lightyear is pushed into whilst fighting another Buzz Lightyear model.
• In the 2000 film X-Men, a computerized pinscreen displaying a model of New York City is used by the X-Men to plan an attack against Magneto.
• A digitally produced pinscreen is featured in the 2005 music video for the Nine Inch Nails song "Only", directed by David Fincher.
• Similar to "Only," a digitally produced pinscreen is featured in the 2008 music video for the Eagles of Death Metal song "Wannabe in LA".
• A 2007 advertising campaign by the Discovery Channel involved a pinscreen forming various images, such as that of the Sydney Opera House and whales.
• The 2013 film Man of Steel involves several CG pinscreens which serve as personal computers on Kal-El's homeworld of Krypton.