Flying Pins - Eindhoven, NL
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N 51° 26.711 E 005° 28.838
31U E 672381 N 5702252
These are the Flying Pins. The Flying Pins is a large public image in Eindhoven. It was designed by the sculptors Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen and unveiled on May 31, 2000. The Flying Pins were used in a Zippy comic.
Waymark Code: WM157KB
Location: Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
Date Posted: 11/01/2021
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About the Flying Pins
"The Flying Pins is located at the head of John F. Kennedylaan on the south side of the street, corner Fellenoord.
It is a depiction of a bowling ball with ten flying pins. The artists saw a bowling alley (bowling lane) in Kennedylaan and that is how they came up with the idea. In the vision of the artists, the dynamics of the sinking bowling ball with the flying and sinking pins fits well with this busy point in Eindhoven. The yellow color of the cones was chosen by Van Bruggen and refers to the yellow daffodils that brighten up Kennedylaan every spring.
The highest point of the artwork is approximately 8.5 meters high. The ball has a diameter of approximately 6.7 meters. The statue is made of steel and reinforced plastic with a polyester-polyurethane coating. The costs amounted to approximately (converted) € 1.1 million and were mainly paid by the business community of Eindhoven."
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About the comic
The Time and Tide comic was published on the May 13th 2005. It shows the Flying pins from different directions.
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