Recycling flyers

What do you do when you have a stack of leftover flyer cards that are expired?

Recycle the origamist way:

Origami Bottle Cap

Someone brought Nick Robinson's Business Card Origami.  I decided to try out the bottle cap model because it was a pretty cute concept.  I then stuck the folded model on one of the beer bottles in Marti's refridgerator.  I wasn't going to tell her; but then, couldn't resist seeing what her reaction might be.

Novelty Business Cards

Marti knows Tim and recently saw him I think in NYC (she also went to London for another puzzle convention, recently).  So I wouldn't be surprised if that origami business card modular at the end was given to him, by her.  I'll have to ask her.

I'm still trying to think of a clever business card design....

Pop-Up Geometry & More

In wake of polypopagon fun, Shafer's new pop-up book, and my continued search for a business card idea, it's led me to taking a bit of interest in stuff peripheral to origami:

Magic Moving Images

My quest for the ultimate next best business card entertainment continues.

Another idea is utilizing moving images:




Joel Bauer gave me a couple of rulers years ago, that incorporates this illusion technology.  It'd make a cool (albeit expensive) business card to have a moving picture of, say, an origami flapping bird.

 Here's an example of a business card designed for a barber:

Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function? Why, it's Tearigami!

An impossible object?

Naw, I'm not promoting Schoolhouse Rock (Oops!  See what I just did there?).

In my process of trying to figure out the next great business card design, so that my business card doesn't get accused of being crap by mentalist Joel Bauer, I stumbled across this 2006 tearigami invention:

Conjunction is a remarkable effect with a very simple description. You take one of your business cards, give it a series of folds and tears, and in the process transform it into an impossible object: two unbroken cardboard rings that end up linked through one another.

So, you may ask, what sets Conjunction apart from the multitude of other effects that have bits of card linking together? Simple: You do it for real.

According to people who have learned it, this is not a magic trick:  It is "legit", where the paper truly is linked.

On this Magic Cafe forum thread, the author, Joshua Quinn, answers some FAQ:

My 2nd 1st Sunday at Marti's House of Amazing Origami Fun

It was quite a big turnout.

Business Card Modular Tetrahedron Frame

Joel Stern learned this from someone at OUSA and taught it to me this morning:

 Folded from 6 business cards (Joel taught it to me using 3 x 5 index cards- actually, Yami's prescored doodlebug cards, which made some of the folding process easier with some of the necessary creaselines already present).

The person who taught Joel didn't know who the creator is.  So if anyone can help identify, I'd be much obliged.

Unknown Flip Book

So I've been going through my archives....



My OUSA roommate acquired this neat little flip book- a business advertisement.  It's not exactly a book and I had filmed it because I had planned to try and duplicate the process.  Does anyone know if there is a specific name for this sort of thing?  Any tutorial for it?





*UPDATE*


Hmmm....well, I Googled "How to make a flip card", and ended up finding this- a swing card.  Not what I'm looking for, but cool nonetheless and looks fun to make:


Her blogpost is here, for additional information.


These look fun, too:

How to make a pulley card
Peek-a-boo card 
Marvelous Magical Marquee Card Tutorial 
Sliding Pop Up Card tutorial 
How To Make A Twist Turn Card 
Secret Door Technique Card