September 2024 - Museum of Photocopies

PINS Rule fifty-four: The End of the Game

Nowt to say here, but plenty to say over there. Until next time, that is, when we get the players out of the box for more PINS.

A photo of a Polaroid photo of a place, no longer in the game.

A photo of a book of a person, no longer in the game.

A photo of a book showing a game, no longer in play.

A photo of a book recording many games, long since played.

A photo of a Polaroid photo of another place, no longer in the game.

Dreams that could have started a game, but didn’t.

PINS – Rule Fifty-three: A Good Giggle

PINS is a game and you can have fun playing it. Maybe not as much fun as a works outing where you can go to the place where they laminated the letters from satisfied customers, praising the consistency and cooking methods of their fried chips.

A colour photograph using n iPhone on a collage using photocopies from the main bedroom wallpaper from Whalley Road, and mixed media. Depicting a day out at Blackpool during the late 1950s, where folk are sure to have a good giggle. #1 the works accountant.

PINS – Rule Fifty-two: Resurrection

It’s a pain that you have to resurrect a game of PINS after the pieces have been put away, especially if you are using Clash of Empires pieces with their attractive cardboard counters showing Hapsburg and Prussian units. But that’s life and you are used to its irritations. You may have passed out in a creche at an afternoon jazz club – after drinking with an old Polish fellow -but you’ll get up and carry on, like you did here!

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing what to do when you need to come back from a fallen state. Remember your past glories as a nearly-man in football, or toy with your dad’s old mills bomb. It’ll be reet with PINS…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing what to do when you need to come back from a fallen state. Remember to not wear one brown show and one black, to school . It’ll be reet with PINS…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing what to do when you need to come back from a fallen state. Remember to line up those Prussian grenadiers and the Britains pengiun. It’ll be reet with PINS…

PINS – Rule Fifty-one: Casualties and The Dead

No-one says it’s not nice talking about the dead , because that’s all your older relatives seem to do! It’s that or the Great War. This is what to do if you want to keep those thoughts at bay, during an invigorating game of PINS.

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing a casualty of the cruelties of life, from many years ago, outside a very important church. Churches are useful if PINS has many casualties to deal with…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing a casualty of the cruelties of life, from hundreds of years ago…

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing on very thin paper showing two casualties of the cruelties of life, from many years ago, but who came good and are now enjoying a right good do in another dimension. PINS can be fun, now and again…

PINS – Rule Fifty: Despair

Despair is all around, as we know, even in PINS, though maybe the maker of the game tried not to think too much about that, as there had been plenty of *that* over the years. You can peruse the images below, or read about despair, here.