Showing posts with label origami underground. Show all posts
Showing posts with label origami underground. Show all posts

Monday, December 08, 2014

Drunken Origami

Inebriated folders December 5, 2014 at Bang Bang nightclub in the Gaslamp Quarter of San Diego

Last Friday, I traveled to San Diego to teach origami in a dance nightclub setting.  So low lighting and wasted party-goers made for some challenging teaching.  Conversation fun and folding devolved with one group into everything being a sexual inuendo.  I would have been off brushing up on origami underground.  Since it was also a Japanese-themed party and nightclub, and they had Sumo wrestlers perform, I think this would have been a good model to teach and have fun with:



 Since everyone was inebriated, this is probably how exciting it would have looked to them:




 And incidentally speaking of Sumo, I recently saw this cool Sumo wrestler by Yoo Tae Yong:



Photo source:  Beth Johnson Origami
You can see more angles and other models on his Flickr.

It was a closed event, business company holiday party; and I was kept over the scheduled time (which I suppose is a compliment).

I was impressed with a couple of patrons getting through folding a Carmen Sprung Stern Franziska.  My attention-getter was constantly launching my boomerang glider. 

Driving back to LA latenight, I assumed would be a breeze; but it wasn't.  That's when freeway construction and repairs happen (not that it doesn't go on in daylight, either) and I hit more than a few heavy traffic jams and annoying detours.


Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Happy Model

Well....I'm not sure what Fernando Gilgado is calling this thing....but boy, does he sure look like one handsome,  happy camper!





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This wouldn't be my first paper choice, as it's a bit thick (no inappropriate jokes, please) and so the eyes won't lay down as flat as I would like; but this modest sized, 6" square paper was already premade, left over from this project.

I swear (not expletively), I want this blog to remain family-friendly- but I just couldn't pass up sharing this adorable little guy with the larger community of folders!  After all, the model in itself is nothing dirty but perfectly natural.   And look at him!  He's got such a grin and is soooo happy! 

Not sure why, though...

His hat looks a little too tall; but I'm too lazy to go back and fix it right now.

Diagram is generously posted by its creator, Fernando Gilgado.

Friday, July 05, 2013

Origami Condoms



I heard about this being developed before (article I read); but just now when I was running a Google search for "origami female", a YouTube video came up, demonstrating how to use an origami condom product.

About the company:


Latex condoms were first introduced around 1918,  just 15 years after the Wright Brothers' first successful flight at Kitty Hawk. Airplane technology has advanced to a landing on the moon and another on Mars while the condom has essentially remained the same.
Today, almost 100 years later, condom technology has now advanced with radical re-design ideas, new materials, and significant functional changes for the 21st century. Three patented silicone innovations began US clinical trials in the fall of 2011, with clinical research funding from the National institutes of Allergies and Infectious Disease, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
I wonder if the Founder, Danny Resnic, has actually done any origami?

Please be advised:  Sexual content posted below.