Bennett Arnstein's Yin-Yang 20-Piece Spike Ball

I'm blogging this on behalf of Bennett. 

The Yin Yang Spike Ball:  Two colors wrap around each other. Each color is comprised of 10 modules. For folding instructions, check out the ebook "Spike Ball Heaven", sold as a pdf download on the OUSA website.

Bennett Arnstein shows off a Star of David spinner

I folded Carmen Sprung's Stern Franziska for the first time; then turned it into a cool spinner.

Biggest surprise of the day was Jared Needle dropping in.  He apparently moved back here two days ago from his stint in Dayton, Ohio.

Photos of today's POP meeting here.

Bennett Arnstein Shows off a spinner

From 2008:

WCOG June Meeting

Bennett Arnstein made his first WCOG meeting since his accident.

Yami sporting a gorgeous book of photographs by Kazuyoshi ITO

More photos here.

POP this Sunday: Temporary new location!

The Roxbury Community Center where POP typically meets every 4th Sunday of the month is closed down for construction.  So POP will temporarily be meeting at a new location.  Message from fearless folding leader, Joel Stern:

POP: April 28, 2013

Some photos from POP's meeting last month.  Roxbury Community Center will be under construction; so starting this month, the meeting will be held elsewhere (Joel Stern has information for anyone interested in attending; I wasn't paying attention when he announced the location; but he's good at sending out an email reminder right before).

My first Spring into Action, thanks to Youna for teaching!

For those who know Bennett Arnstein, he is recovering nicely from a fall he had last February.  He should be released by next Saturday.  He's been folding and teaching others while on the mends in the healthcare center.

All the World's a Spinner

I haven't attended a POP meeting in ages. The late Dorothy Engelman arranged the group (I believe I attended the first meeting), and Joel Stern has since taken over the helm. I first met Neil Eisman at POP, and later, Jared Needle.

Joe Hamamoto seems to see every modular as a model he can blow and make spin between his thumb and finger; and Yami seems to see everything as a challenge to turn into a spinner. He did that about two months ago with a model someone showed him, where he added a center unit to make it spinnable, and I joked that everything can be made to spin, and proceeded to turn my John Szinger turtle over onto its back and spin it on its shell.

I missed last week's WCOG meeting, but it sounds like Bennett brought a model shown to him by Mark Kennedy 20 years ago and Yami added one more unit to make it spin. Author of the original design is not known, but maybe Mark can shed some light on it.

I believe Bennett said he submitted diagrams to OUSA.