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Origami: Folding Goodness · Stuff You Should Know

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Speaker 1: and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant right there, and Jerry's
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Speaker 1: in Florida. You're at your home studio or a home studio, right,
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Speaker 1: you got like eight of them. Right, You're at Elvis.
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Speaker 1: Which room is closest to me by baby, I'll just
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Speaker 1: go in there while we're recording from today. Man uh.
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Speaker 1: And now Jerry is is like a ghost haunting the
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Speaker 1: computer in here recording it remotely, right, She's like, amazing,
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Speaker 1: what's the Yeah, she's she's like a ghost. You said
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Speaker 1: it best. She just texted me two minutes in and said,
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Speaker 1: your levels are good. So that's great, go back to
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Speaker 1: sleep chairs. Sounds about right. So I was talking to
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Speaker 1: Jerry earlier and she just reminded me we're talking to
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Speaker 1: Origami today. She just reminded me that, um, I'm my
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Speaker 1: first trip to Japan. I brought her back a paper
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Speaker 1: Orgami crane and that she still has it and was
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Speaker 1: thinking about that trip, Chuck, because on that trip Umi
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Speaker 1: took me to Japan. Remember when you guys liked each other,
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Speaker 1: you and Jerry, Yeah, we still do. It's that crane
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Speaker 1: that's keeping us friends. Um. But on that trip, one
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Speaker 1: of the places you took me was Hiroshima, right, sure,
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Speaker 1: and it is one of the neatest places I've ever been.
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Speaker 1: I know I've talked about it before, but one of
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Speaker 1: the things that you'll see there are just mounds and
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Speaker 1: mounds of origami cranes UM like cranes like the bird,
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Speaker 1: basically the quintessential origami model, not like building cranes, and
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Speaker 1: that's not what they're building. You never can't tell these days.
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Speaker 1: You know, Bob the Builder had a pretty good run
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Speaker 1: for a while there, so it could have been. But apparently, UM.
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Speaker 1: One of the reasons you see those cranes is because
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Speaker 1: there was a little girl from Hiroshima named Sadako Sasaki. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I know, it's very sad. So she was I think
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Speaker 1: too when um the US dropped the nuclear bomb on
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Speaker 1: Hiroshima and she was exposed to radiation at that tender
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Speaker 1: young age and developed leukemia and she died at age twelve.
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Speaker 1: But before she died, she started this project of folding
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Speaker 1: a thousand paper cranes for in origami, which was kind
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Speaker 1: of this long standing thing that was associated with like
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Speaker 1: good luck or honor or dignity UM, and hers was
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Speaker 1: that if you there's another one that if you complete
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Speaker 1: a thousand cranes UM, you you have a wish. And
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Speaker 1: so this little girl Sadako Sasaki. Her wish was for
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Speaker 1: world peace, but she died before she could complete the
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Speaker 1: cranes and the thousand cranes, and that is upsetting. But
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Speaker 1: if to end it on a more heartwarming note, her
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Speaker 1: classmates got together and folded the remaining cranes in her
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Speaker 1: honor and they were buried with her, which is at
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Speaker 1: least a slightly uplifting ending. Right. Um, So when you
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Speaker 1: go to Hiroshima today, um at this peace memorial that
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Speaker 1: they've built, like a whole sex into the city where
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Speaker 1: the bomb went off has just been turned into this
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Speaker 1: anti nuclear, anti war peace memorial. Um. There's just tons
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Speaker 1: of cranes that were created by school children kind of
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Speaker 1: in honor of Sadako Sasaki and for this wish for
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Speaker 1: world peace. And if you stepped out of the studio
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Speaker 1: and followed me into the living room, you would see
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Speaker 1: a thousand paper cranes that you be folded just from
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Speaker 1: me too. You know who here at work has done that?
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Speaker 1: Who guess you know which? Which one of your colleagues
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Speaker 1: do you think would do this? I don't know, man,
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Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. There's so many varied, complex rich
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Speaker 1: people that we work with that, I can't even begin
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Speaker 1: to guess. I'm going to hazard a guess and say Ben, Uh,
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Speaker 1: I could see been doing that? What about the other Ben?
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Speaker 1: Probably not? Okay, Pam Peacock, Okay, yeah, our graphic designer
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Speaker 1: who is an artist easily and Um. I asked Pam
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Speaker 1: actually if I could read her Facebook post when she
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Speaker 1: completed it, because I think this is instructive on uh
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Speaker 1: and and you tell me whether it jibes with Humi's experience,
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Speaker 1: because it's sort of is instructive on the art of oregamy.
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Speaker 1: And it's more than just folding paper. It is meditative
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Speaker 1: and can be relaxing and healing and all all those things.
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Speaker 1: So Pam posted a photo of the final project and said,
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Speaker 1: this is what a thousand orgamy cranes looks like in
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Speaker 1: a pile of my coffee table tonight. I met the
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Speaker 1: goal on August to fold a thousand cranes within one
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Speaker 1: year's time. There were several reasons I wanted to take
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Speaker 1: on the challenge. The meditative quality of folding oregamy, to
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Speaker 1: practice dexterity and fine motor skills, the fun and making
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Speaker 1: a flat piece of paper into something dimensional and new
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Speaker 1: to make a whole bunch of something. There's a certain
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Speaker 1: satisfaction in that, but the biggest reason was to cultivate
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Speaker 1: more discipline within myself. To commit to a long term,
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Speaker 1: ongoing project in see it through to completion is a
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Speaker 1: big deal for me. Uh. And she goes on to
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Speaker 1: say she has a pretty long history about getting pumped
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Speaker 1: up about a project and then abandon it. And she
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Speaker 1: found with two months left she only had I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: she had five hundred left to go, so ten months. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think she just took some time off. Sure, Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean that's that's how you're supposed to do. You're
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Speaker 1: not supposed to just sit there and do it. And
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Speaker 1: one fell swoop, but kind of misses a bunch of
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Speaker 1: the point, you know. Yeah. She said that she went
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Speaker 1: several months without it, realized she had a couple of
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Speaker 1: months and the clock was sticking, and she said, I
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Speaker 1: made the decision to recommit and push myself instead of
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Speaker 1: letting it go like so many other things. I know
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Speaker 1: I'll still struggle with those issues, but as an exercise growth,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I've leveled up a bit and continue
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Speaker 1: applying these strength and skills to my art, personal and
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Speaker 1: professional lives very nice and she's like, can check out
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Speaker 1: my finger muscles that do they're ripped? Yeah, Yubi's middle
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Speaker 1: name is stick to itiveness, So I don't think she
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Speaker 1: benefited in that sense, but there's definitely like a meditating
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Speaker 1: of aspect to it, And like when she was doing
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Speaker 1: it for me, it was like I thought it was
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Speaker 1: very sweet, and then the more I learned about it,
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Speaker 1: the sweeter I realized, how you know, it was it's
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Speaker 1: a I mean, to do that for somebody, uh, is
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Speaker 1: pretty cool, and to do it for yourself to like
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Speaker 1: Pam did, it's pretty neat as well. And I think
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Speaker 1: it was also for you me she uh yeah, probably know,
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Speaker 1: um yeah, I'm sure she got a tremendous amount out
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Speaker 1: of it too, you know. But it was one of
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Speaker 1: those things where she would just kind of work on
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Speaker 1: it when she felt like it. You know. There wasn't
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Speaker 1: any rush or anything like that, so it did have
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Speaker 1: like kind of a meditative thing for for sure. I
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Speaker 1: used to think a stick tuitiveness was a weird middle name,
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Speaker 1: but when I saw it written down like in the
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Speaker 1: context of her name, it just, I don't know, it
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Speaker 1: looked great. You're like, I've been pronouncing that Alice all
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Speaker 1: these years. It was so weird. So Pam said something
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Speaker 1: that UM I saw other people mentioned too about origami
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Speaker 1: is that it's transformative, like she's taking a piece of
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Speaker 1: paper and transforming it into something and there's this really
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Speaker 1: amazing seeing It's so there's a definite zen quality to
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Speaker 1: origami paper folding, right. And there's a documentary out there
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Speaker 1: called UM Between the Folds, and it's of course, of
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Speaker 1: course a PBS documentary UM, but it has this kind
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Speaker 1: of zen vibe to it too. It's really really mellow
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Speaker 1: and low key. But some of the stuff they're talking
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Speaker 1: about and showing and there's just nuts um and I'll
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Speaker 1: talk about it from time to time. But there's this
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Speaker 1: one guy in there name Michael la Fosse, and he
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Speaker 1: describes origami as um a metamorphic type of art, where
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Speaker 1: like with painting, you're adding paint, so it's an additive
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Speaker 1: kind of art. With you know, sculpting from like marble,
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Speaker 1: it's a subtractive art. With paper folding. In origamy, you're
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Speaker 1: you're taking the same thing and it's the same thing
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Speaker 1: that that um is the finished product. You're not adding
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Speaker 1: to it or subtracting to It's still just a piece
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Speaker 1: of paper, but you're transforming it into something else, and
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Speaker 1: that is kind of the essence of Origanti itself. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this one was one that I was so sure that
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Speaker 1: we had done it before because it's just smacks of
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Speaker 1: stuff you should know. Uh, we'd love to cover Japanese
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Speaker 1: topics first of all, but I don't know. It just
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Speaker 1: felt like, surely we've done this, and I had to look.
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Speaker 1: I looked probably five different ways just to make sure
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Speaker 1: that we hadn't done it. You're like, what kind of
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Speaker 1: smart way would we title this? And well, that's what
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Speaker 1: I thought. That was My fear was that it would
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Speaker 1: be like called folding Madness or something stupid like that.
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Speaker 1: Did you search folding madness? That just made that up?
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Speaker 1: But what if that's the one that we already released.
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Speaker 1: It did seem really familiar. But I think I'm probably
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Speaker 1: just thinking about Bonzai maybe um, which I think is
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Speaker 1: similar in a way, and not just because they're both
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Speaker 1: Japanese disciplines, but I feel like the meditative quality and
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Speaker 1: the the care and the precision and the spiritual aspect,
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Speaker 1: I think they have a lot of overlapped there. One
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Speaker 1: of the big differences though, is that, um, the that
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Speaker 1: origami doesn't involve plant torture like bonsai does. Well in
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Speaker 1: bonsai does isn't. Uh, there's no paper torture involved. So
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Speaker 1: that's true. That's true. So um, when we talk about origami,
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Speaker 1: we're actually talking about this that is technically a subset
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Speaker 1: of this larger thing that actually grew out of oregami
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Speaker 1: and ended up forming this kind of umbrella art form
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Speaker 1: called paper folding appropriately enough, but origami everybody kind of
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Speaker 1: associates that with Japan. And the weird thing is when
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Speaker 1: we talk about ogamy um, which by the way, we
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Speaker 1: haven't really said it, but it's taking usually one sheet
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Speaker 1: of paper and folding it in certain ways so that
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Speaker 1: so that it it becomes some other representation of something
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Speaker 1: else or of shape or something other than that. But
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Speaker 1: the point of origami is that this this shape or
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Speaker 1: this new represent representation of like an animal or a
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Speaker 1: person or something, it's all made just by a single
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Speaker 1: sheet of paper typically and folding that paper. That's the
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Speaker 1: whole key. Yeah, And one of the other keys is
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Speaker 1: is that you're not gluing things, you're not cutting things.
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Speaker 1: It's really just folding and it can be very basic. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And I tried my hand at it today just to
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Speaker 1: make some very basic things. And I definitely get the UM,
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Speaker 1: I get the meditative aspects, although I was just doing
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Speaker 1: it to try and do something sort of quickly for
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Speaker 1: work and not in this style that you would normally
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Speaker 1: do origami. I could see how if you applied that
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Speaker 1: at your house, put on some good music, maybe turn
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Speaker 1: the lights down a little bit, shut the door, keep
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Speaker 1: keep your family far far away and your animals far
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Speaker 1: far away. I could see how it could accomplish that goal.
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Speaker 1: For me. I might start doing it. Some hadn't thought
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Speaker 1: about keeping the family far far away? Because you mean
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Speaker 1: was when she was folding that thousand cray means I'd
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Speaker 1: be like, what number are you on now? What number
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Speaker 1: are you on now? Every time she folded a new one. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think she probably was just an autopilot, which you
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Speaker 1: do answering you what you're doing over there? Is this
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Speaker 1: a crane too? Are you making another crane? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that would drive me nuts. Yeah. Um, So we should
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Speaker 1: probably go over a few of the terms. Um. The
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Speaker 1: term itself or gami they say, comes from order, which
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Speaker 1: means to fold pretty pretty smart. And then kami, which
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Speaker 1: is paper, so uru kami apparently was the original term
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Speaker 1: for it, and it's kind of, I guess, just became origami,
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Speaker 1: which as far as I could see, does is actually
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Speaker 1: not it's not actually a word. It's kind of an
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Speaker 1: offshoot of oru and kami. Yeah, and if you go
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Speaker 1: to UH, I mean you can make origami out of anything.
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Speaker 1: They talk about sticky notes and just copy paper. But
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Speaker 1: you can actually buy kami okay a m i online
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Speaker 1: if you want to go into an art store. These
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Speaker 1: days it might not be so easy to go into
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Speaker 1: a store, but um, that's what it might be called.
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Speaker 1: There are other kinds of paper that we'll talk about later,
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Speaker 1: but paper is what you need if you want to
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Speaker 1: be a paper folder. You don't need a bunch of
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Speaker 1: other stuff, which is a very low fi art form.
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Speaker 1: It's super cool in that way. And what you end
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Speaker 1: up with is called a model. Um. I guess you
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Speaker 1: could call it an art piece or something if you're
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Speaker 1: a little high flutin, but you're really just called models. Yes,
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Speaker 1: that's any any finished origami product is called the model.
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Speaker 1: There's also so this article says you need two things
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Speaker 1: for origami. You need a sheet of paper and some imagination.
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Speaker 1: But I would I would beg the difference. You don't
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Speaker 1: even need imagination because there's so many what are called
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Speaker 1: oregamy designs out there that are basically step by step
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Speaker 1: illustrations of the different folds you need to make. So
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Speaker 1: if you want to say, make a oregamy, donkey you.
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Speaker 1: As long as you have the paper and one of
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Speaker 1: these designs, you don't have to have any imagination whatsoever. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And when I was first reading this too, I thought, well,
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Speaker 1: you need paper and fingers, But I realized that was
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Speaker 1: quite ablest actually, because there's actually a style of origami
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Speaker 1: from a British man named John Smith in the late
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Speaker 1: seventies called pure Land or pure Origami that is very
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Speaker 1: basic and was created in part so people who had
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Speaker 1: some sort of physical impairment could still realize the joy
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Speaker 1: in the meditative qualities of folding paper. I saw that too.
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Speaker 1: That was the one that appeals to me the most
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Speaker 1: because it's so simple. Yeah, same here. Um. Also, Chuck,
14:33
Speaker 1: did you know that the world's greatest archer is Um
14:38
Speaker 1: was born with no arms? I think we talked about that, right,
14:42
Speaker 1: I don't know. No, definitely not no, because I just
14:47
Speaker 1: saw it this past Sunday, so it's not possible we
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Speaker 1: did you you just had a memory from the future
14:53
Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive in the Christopher Nolan movie. So I
14:57
Speaker 1: can't wait. But I have to say, man, I am
14:59
Speaker 1: very disappointed to see movies starting to come out on
15:02
Speaker 1: the trailers saying only in theaters. I'm like, I didn't
15:07
Speaker 1: realize we were at that point again yet. Well. I mean,
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Speaker 1: his new movie Tenant is one of the It was
15:13
Speaker 1: one of the big ones back in the early spring
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Speaker 1: when they were like, he's going to put it out
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Speaker 1: in theaters, even if he has to bump it a
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Speaker 1: month or two, Like he's not going to do an
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Speaker 1: at home thing. He's not gonna wait till next year.
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Speaker 1: And I think they're doing like pretty big time spacing
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Speaker 1: and stuff. But I ain't go into a movie theater
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Speaker 1: new and it's one of my favorite places to go.
15:33
Speaker 1: I know, like we talked about the other day and sneezing, um,
15:37
Speaker 1: how it's just so great to go see a movie
15:39
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day, you know, Yeah, can
15:41
Speaker 1: you imagine seeing a movie now and you hear someone sneeze?
15:44
Speaker 1: I would be out of there. So fast. I just
15:47
Speaker 1: start crying on the way to the movie theater. I
15:49
Speaker 1: would not be at all comfortable about that right now,
15:52
Speaker 1: So I think if actually, I think we should probably
15:55
Speaker 1: take a break. We've been yammering for fifteen minutes. I
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Speaker 1: know we've made it for through the first two paragraphs.
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Speaker 1: So we'll come back after this and we'll talk about paper.
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Speaker 1: Very key to Oregon me right after this. Alrighty, I
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Speaker 1: teased Paper, you did. Paper doesn't like to be teased.
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Speaker 1: Paper did not like that. I thought about you earlier.
16:41
Speaker 1: By the way, sidebar, I was watching some old Mitch
16:44
Speaker 1: Hedberg stuff and I immediately was like, man, Josh would
16:47
Speaker 1: love these. Somebody wrote in to say, you guys, have
16:49
Speaker 1: you heard about what was it? It? Was it based
16:52
Speaker 1: on a listener mail. No, I don't know how. I
16:54
Speaker 1: think it was just in my feed on my Facebook
16:56
Speaker 1: page and I just I don't know. It popped up.
16:59
Speaker 1: It was so good joke about the belt and the
17:01
Speaker 1: belt loops. I don't know about that one. What is it?
17:03
Speaker 1: The belt is holding up the pants, but the belt
17:06
Speaker 1: loops hold up the belt. Who's the real hero here?
17:11
Speaker 1: That guy was priceless, so good. So paper is what
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Speaker 1: you're gonna need if you want to practice origami. And
17:19
Speaker 1: China invented paper and about one oh five a d.
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Speaker 1: But it was a luxury atom. They weren't so much
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Speaker 1: into folding it, or at least into artwork, and they
17:29
Speaker 1: might have folded letters or maybe they just scrolled. At
17:31
Speaker 1: that point, I saw that they folded stuff into like
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Speaker 1: gold paper gold nuggets and then set them on fire.
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Speaker 1: Is offering offering to ancestors. So maybe pre prot origami, Yes,
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Speaker 1: definitely prot But in the sixth century Buddhist monks introduced
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Speaker 1: paper to Japan. It was pretty rare, uh and expensive
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Speaker 1: here as well, and was used for you know, special
17:54
Speaker 1: occasions and stuff like that. But as paper get got
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Speaker 1: a little more ubiquitous than they decided that they could
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Speaker 1: start folding it in interesting ways. And it wasn't a waste, right,
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Speaker 1: it was affordable, I guess. Yeah. As it became more fordable,
18:08
Speaker 1: folding became a lot more widespread, and as it became
18:11
Speaker 1: more widespread, people started doing kind of interesting things with it. Um,
18:16
Speaker 1: like you're saying, at first, it was just kind of
18:17
Speaker 1: reserved for special occasions like weddings or um. There's one
18:22
Speaker 1: called the slaw Day no she day s h I
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Speaker 1: d e. I was thinking of arda um and it's
18:29
Speaker 1: like a zigzag pattern that they used to kind of
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Speaker 1: denote like um, like religious places or altars or something
18:36
Speaker 1: like that. And then somebody said, well, wait, you can
18:39
Speaker 1: make a frog out of this. Check this out, and
18:41
Speaker 1: I think our agony kind of took off. And that's
18:44
Speaker 1: that's how it stayed, at least in Japan for several centuries,
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Speaker 1: where it was they knew how to make a kite,
18:52
Speaker 1: they knew how to make a box, they knew how
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Speaker 1: to make cranes. Cranes were huge UM and in fact,
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Speaker 1: one of the first books on origami was called Folding
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Speaker 1: one Thousand Cranes UM. Let's see Somemba zuru orikata um
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Speaker 1: a thousand crane folding. So that was a big deal
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Speaker 1: already all the way back in the eighteenth century. But
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Speaker 1: UM finally in the I believe the nineteen thirties, I
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Speaker 1: think around seven, there was a guy um whose name
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Speaker 1: was Akira Yoshizawa. And you cannot talk about origami or
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Speaker 1: paper folding, or paper or folding, or Japan or shoes
19:36
Speaker 1: without mentioning Akira Yoshizawa. This guy was this he was.
19:41
Speaker 1: He single handedly took what it was the centuries old
19:44
Speaker 1: school children's craft by this time, by the nineteen thirties,
19:48
Speaker 1: rolled around that had been static for centuries and said
19:51
Speaker 1: I'm going to turn this into an art form. And
19:53
Speaker 1: he did yeah, big time. And by this point it
19:56
Speaker 1: was widely referred to as origami. I think in the
20:01
Speaker 1: late eight I'm sorry, late seventeen hundreds it was still
20:03
Speaker 1: called orri kata and that was from that that book
20:06
Speaker 1: about the Thousand Cranes. But by this time it was origami.
20:11
Speaker 1: And he was a laborer for most of his life,
20:14
Speaker 1: and he was a hobbyist as far as origami went.
20:18
Speaker 1: But he started writing out these diagrams and basically sort
20:21
Speaker 1: of these how two's, and if you've ever looked at
20:23
Speaker 1: an origami book or something online, you know they if
20:27
Speaker 1: you don't know how to do it, they're these very simple,
20:29
Speaker 1: depending on the ultimate model that you want to end
20:32
Speaker 1: up with, uh, these diagrams that you can just follow
20:35
Speaker 1: along these lines and fold and just kind of copy
20:38
Speaker 1: what you're seeing. And he was the first person to
20:40
Speaker 1: do this and eventually published these in the nineteen fifties
20:44
Speaker 1: in books, and uh, it was a really big deal,
20:48
Speaker 1: Like it was already a popular thing in Japan. Um.
20:51
Speaker 1: Previous to that, it was actually in Spain and some
20:53
Speaker 1: other parts of Europe thanks to the Silk Road. But
20:56
Speaker 1: it really sort of popularized it worldwide, I think after
21:00
Speaker 1: his book. Yeah, well even before then, I think there
21:02
Speaker 1: was a magazine that celebrated like the New Year by
21:06
Speaker 1: commissioning him to do like the twelve signs of the
21:08
Speaker 1: zodiac and origami. They put it on their cover, and
21:12
Speaker 1: so you can imagine for Japan everything that had to
21:15
Speaker 1: do with oregamy was like, look at this kite that
21:18
Speaker 1: our kid made and now it's hanging on our refrigerator.
21:21
Speaker 1: Um to the twelve signs of the zodiac, and these
21:24
Speaker 1: things actually look kind of like a monkey and the
21:26
Speaker 1: fox looks amazing, and um, it's just what this guy
21:30
Speaker 1: did just completely blew everybody away. And very shortly after
21:33
Speaker 1: that he devised that system, started having exhibitions around the
21:36
Speaker 1: world and became like this, this revered master of origamy,
21:40
Speaker 1: like the first true origami artist, the one who said
21:43
Speaker 1: you can make an art form out of this, and
21:45
Speaker 1: he decided to live like this kind of um uh poverty.
21:51
Speaker 1: I don't want to say poverty stricken, but he poverty
21:54
Speaker 1: adjacent life, very nice, chuck, where he supported himself selling
21:58
Speaker 1: soup door to door. Um. He sold something called um sukadani,
22:03
Speaker 1: which is like a kind of a seaweed condiment that
22:06
Speaker 1: you put on rice. He'd sold. He'd sold that door
22:08
Speaker 1: to door, and he just made enough money to support
22:11
Speaker 1: his habit of um origami. That's what all he wanted
22:15
Speaker 1: to do. But what's amazing about him is he was
22:17
Speaker 1: like the pre eminent origami artist for decades. He made
22:21
Speaker 1: at least fifty thousand different models. Um and he it
22:27
Speaker 1: is just look him up right now, Akira Yoshizawa, um
22:31
Speaker 1: and he never sold a single one of them. He
22:33
Speaker 1: would lend him out for exhibitions, he would give them
22:35
Speaker 1: his gifts, but he never made a dime off of
22:37
Speaker 1: his origami. Yeah. And he's one of those that his
22:40
Speaker 1: reputation reached a point where he literally could have gotten
22:43
Speaker 1: rich selling his his models in the end. Oh yeah,
22:47
Speaker 1: for sure. But that's just he just wasn't about that
22:51
Speaker 1: very like very origami yesque Yeah totally. He's like, I'm
22:55
Speaker 1: not gonna sell this stuff. No, that's not the point,
22:58
Speaker 1: don't What about Tim Grant for that rhinoceros, like meet
23:04
Speaker 1: me in the back room. Some of those animals, I
23:08
Speaker 1: mean not just from him, but when you look up,
23:09
Speaker 1: you know kind of the most amazing origami and uh,
23:13
Speaker 1: and there are a lot of animals and we'll talk
23:15
Speaker 1: about that, but it's uh, it's really just astounding. It
23:19
Speaker 1: is astounding. One of the ways that he was able
23:21
Speaker 1: to take orgami from a kite and I know, I
23:24
Speaker 1: keep going back to a kite, but you know one
23:26
Speaker 1: of the base forms kind of where it was at
23:29
Speaker 1: um taking it from a kite to like he very
23:33
Speaker 1: famously made this um this gorilla, I think it's a
23:36
Speaker 1: gorilla um that you almost always see in the background
23:39
Speaker 1: behind him. It's a it's a it's an ape of
23:43
Speaker 1: it's either a gorilla or or Tyrannosaurs rex at he'd
23:47
Speaker 1: be like, you see, it's either gorilla or a car. Right.
23:51
Speaker 1: But but when he makes something, you can you know
23:54
Speaker 1: exactly what it is. Um. But one of the things
23:57
Speaker 1: about his particular kind of art was that it wasn't
24:00
Speaker 1: like every single details captured. People have taken it to
24:03
Speaker 1: that paper folders have gotten to the point where it's like, um,
24:06
Speaker 1: that guy Michael A. Fosse created a huge, easily two
24:12
Speaker 1: foot alligator, which is almost several meters at least by
24:17
Speaker 1: my estimation, um, out of a single piece of paper. UM.
24:21
Speaker 1: And it has all of like the armor, the scaly
24:24
Speaker 1: armor involved, Like there's a lot of detail. That's not
24:26
Speaker 1: what um Yoshizawa was into. His was much more expressive
24:30
Speaker 1: and um almost um impressionistic. But you knew exactly what
24:35
Speaker 1: it was when you looked at it. And he was
24:36
Speaker 1: able to do this through a technique that he created
24:38
Speaker 1: called wet folding. Yeah, and wet folding is how you
24:41
Speaker 1: can round things out. Um. You're obviously wetting the paper
24:45
Speaker 1: and that's how or you know, dampening. At least you
24:47
Speaker 1: don't want to get it too wet, and you can
24:48
Speaker 1: manipulate it a little more and you can round things
24:50
Speaker 1: out and make it look a little more like a sculpture. UM.
24:53
Speaker 1: But I really liked his style. It wasn't because it
24:56
Speaker 1: didn't seem like, uh boy, I'm out to all you
25:00
Speaker 1: and impress you with um, just something that's so detailed
25:04
Speaker 1: it'll blow your mind. They were detailed, but it wasn't
25:07
Speaker 1: like that other guy that you were talking about, Michael
25:10
Speaker 1: la Fosse. Yeah, which is you know, they're both great,
25:12
Speaker 1: but it just seemed a little more intuitive and organic. Uh.
25:17
Speaker 1: In terms of what Yoshizawa was doing. I think his
25:21
Speaker 1: technique screams, oh you like that not for sale, get
25:26
Speaker 1: out of my kitchen, and why were you here in
25:29
Speaker 1: the first place? Exactly. They're like, I work for Time magazine,
25:32
Speaker 1: but but help yourself to some soup that I sell
25:34
Speaker 1: door to doing exactly. So, Um, I guess we should
25:39
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, if somebody has, if someone's listening
25:42
Speaker 1: to this, interest has been peaked and wants to know
25:44
Speaker 1: how to how to fold them. Um, we should teach people,
25:49
Speaker 1: I think, chuck. Uh, yeah, well we'll tell you the
25:52
Speaker 1: basics at least. Um, there are you know, many, many,
25:56
Speaker 1: many types of folds. But you mentioned the kite base
25:59
Speaker 1: or the kite full old, and I said, that's one
26:00
Speaker 1: of the basics, and it is there. You can oftentimes
26:03
Speaker 1: start from a base, which is just sort of your
26:06
Speaker 1: starting shape. Um, that's your your point where you start,
26:11
Speaker 1: and then get more detail from there. And there is
26:13
Speaker 1: the kite base, the fish base, the bird base, and
26:17
Speaker 1: the frog base, and those are listed in order of
26:20
Speaker 1: difficulty from easy to hard. There's a really great site
26:24
Speaker 1: called paper Kawaii. It's spelled like Hawaii but with a K.
26:28
Speaker 1: It means cute in Japanese. And the the person who
26:32
Speaker 1: runs that site has made a huge depository of resources
26:37
Speaker 1: and um, instructional videos and diagrams and everything you could
26:41
Speaker 1: possibly want. But um, she says that there's twelve bases,
26:45
Speaker 1: or at least she instructs you on making twelve bases,
26:49
Speaker 1: so it gets even richer than those four. Yeah, I
26:51
Speaker 1: mean that's I got the picture that that was the
26:54
Speaker 1: four most basic original basis, and I was I was
26:57
Speaker 1: probably sure that there were more. So, Um, there's some
27:01
Speaker 1: that there's some types of models that tend to pop
27:04
Speaker 1: up more often than others, and animals are frequently created. Um.
27:10
Speaker 1: And like I was saying, like, it's not it's not
27:12
Speaker 1: necessarily you're like you're going for ultra realism. It's would
27:16
Speaker 1: be impossible to make it ultra real um. Because I
27:19
Speaker 1: don't know if we've said this yet, Like you're not
27:21
Speaker 1: supposed to use like, um, scissors or glue or tape
27:27
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Um. And some people still use
27:30
Speaker 1: scissors every once in a while, but definitely you don't
27:33
Speaker 1: use glue or tape. That's not what'sh holding these together.
27:35
Speaker 1: These models are held entirely from different types of folds
27:39
Speaker 1: that you learned from doing or a gami like. It's
27:41
Speaker 1: not just fold this direction, fold that direction. There's like
27:44
Speaker 1: reverse folds, their sinks. There's all sorts of different and
27:48
Speaker 1: interesting stuff you can do to make the paper take
27:50
Speaker 1: a certain shape that you wanted to and then also
27:53
Speaker 1: to hold itself in shape permanently from that point on.
27:57
Speaker 1: That's right, and there are a lot of ways that
28:00
Speaker 1: you can go about it. I would imagine that, Um,
28:03
Speaker 1: you me probably did it on like a coffee table
28:05
Speaker 1: or something. Maybe, oh nobody should do it in her lap? Okay,
28:09
Speaker 1: well then you can do it in the air. Yeah,
28:11
Speaker 1: I mean that is uh. When you're at that point,
28:13
Speaker 1: then you're pretty skilled as an origami artist. If you
28:17
Speaker 1: are just using your hands and you're not putting it
28:19
Speaker 1: on anything hard, then that that's pretty skilled. Um. But
28:23
Speaker 1: I would say a beginner should probably use a desk
28:26
Speaker 1: or something with a little help, maybe a clipboard if
28:29
Speaker 1: you want to do it in your lap. Sometimes people
28:31
Speaker 1: will use paper clips to help really get a nice
28:35
Speaker 1: fine crease in there. Yeah, I got the impression. That
28:37
Speaker 1: that's allowed. Yeah, I mean anything's allowed. Come on. I mean,
28:42
Speaker 1: anytime you're talking about something that Japanese people do, they're
28:45
Speaker 1: not gonna go in there and start screaming at you. Right.
28:48
Speaker 1: If you're like to do it right, you may be
28:51
Speaker 1: at risk of dishonoring your ancestors, but nobody's going to
28:55
Speaker 1: judge you personally for it. Yeah, but I would imagine
28:57
Speaker 1: a paper clip two might help if you don't have
28:59
Speaker 1: fingernail Also, if you're a fingernail biter and you just
29:02
Speaker 1: have just stubby nubs like I used to, then you
29:06
Speaker 1: should you should maybe get a little paper clip out
29:08
Speaker 1: that might help you along. I've also seen um like
29:11
Speaker 1: a wooden a letter opener kind of thing. People. I've
29:14
Speaker 1: seen people use that to make a really you know,
29:16
Speaker 1: tight crease, or to poke a fold into another fold,
29:20
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. What nothing, did I accidentally get
29:25
Speaker 1: sexy or something a couple of times? That's all right though, poke?
29:28
Speaker 1: Oh you guys, Well, this is keep moving along, so
29:34
Speaker 1: nothing to see here. We should talk to you about
29:36
Speaker 1: a few of the different categories of origami. There are
29:39
Speaker 1: many many categories that you can focus on if you
29:43
Speaker 1: want to kind of drill down into a specific um discipline.
29:48
Speaker 1: One is called modular or a gamy, and that is
29:51
Speaker 1: when you have U And I would encourage people obviously
29:55
Speaker 1: not if you're driving, but to kind of look up
29:57
Speaker 1: pictures and follow along with a lot of these because
29:59
Speaker 1: it really d lives at home and it's also beautiful
30:01
Speaker 1: to look at. But modular is when you use um
30:05
Speaker 1: different sheets of paper, but you're generally kind of making
30:07
Speaker 1: the same shape and then bringing those uh together to
30:11
Speaker 1: form some larger piece from those same shapes. Very beautiful,
30:14
Speaker 1: it really is. And with modular chuck, that's one of
30:18
Speaker 1: the few types of um of paper folding or a
30:22
Speaker 1: gamy that uses more than one sheet. Well, it's mind
30:25
Speaker 1: blowing about origamies when you're looking at just about any
30:29
Speaker 1: type aside for modular, despite what it looks like, it's
30:32
Speaker 1: probably just one sheet of paper. Yeah, it's just amazing.
30:38
Speaker 1: Some of the stuff that people are making is just
30:39
Speaker 1: ridiculously amazing. You've got action orgamy, which are kind of
30:43
Speaker 1: fun because these little guys can move sometimes obviously it's
30:47
Speaker 1: gonna take human manipulation. They don't just move on their own,
30:52
Speaker 1: like you can't make a wind up to way or
30:53
Speaker 1: anything like that. But you can flap a bird wings
30:57
Speaker 1: sometimes a bird's wing, or you might be able to
31:00
Speaker 1: make a frog that jumps. Yeah, or remember the origami
31:04
Speaker 1: fortune teller, that little folded thing you could learn who
31:08
Speaker 1: you're gonna marry or that kind of thing. Yeah, what
31:11
Speaker 1: what what was that called the oregonmy fortune Teller? From
31:14
Speaker 1: what I saw, I mean, we didn't call it that
31:16
Speaker 1: in elementary school, and I could not find it. I
31:20
Speaker 1: could not find the name of it. I know what
31:22
Speaker 1: you're talking. What was it? Yeah? Those were always fun.
31:24
Speaker 1: There's something called mash Mansion Apartment scheck House, but I
31:31
Speaker 1: don't think that involves paper or a gami. But it's
31:33
Speaker 1: a similar game. Yeah that. Janet Varney plays that with
31:36
Speaker 1: her guests at the end of her j V Club episodes.
31:38
Speaker 1: The match game sure a lot of fun. So that's
31:42
Speaker 1: different from the Origami fortune Teller. Ye, has nothing to
31:45
Speaker 1: do with paper. Yeah, you always end up married to
31:47
Speaker 1: Rob Low somehow if you're lucky. Well, that's called the
31:51
Speaker 1: fantasy game. Um, let's see what else can you do
31:55
Speaker 1: with origami? Chuck, people make origami out of dollar bills. Yeah,
32:00
Speaker 1: I see those. I used to get those occasionally when
32:02
Speaker 1: you if you've ever you work at a cash job,
32:04
Speaker 1: like I worked at a convenient story, You're gonna get
32:06
Speaker 1: some wise acre that pays for cigarettes with a couple
32:09
Speaker 1: of cranes. Some wise acre. People make them out of
32:13
Speaker 1: sticky notes like post it notes is what most people
32:16
Speaker 1: call them. From what I saw, it basically just ends
32:19
Speaker 1: up being Pikachu every time. Oh yeah, because it's yellow
32:22
Speaker 1: and small. So yeah, jewelry if you've you can make
32:26
Speaker 1: jewelry or a gamy. I think you can certainly buy
32:29
Speaker 1: that kind of thing on Etsy. And then one of
32:31
Speaker 1: the other styles that you see um or schools is tessellations.
32:37
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a if it's a school
32:39
Speaker 1: in and of itself, but it's kind of like modular
32:42
Speaker 1: or a gami or it yields like kind of repeating
32:45
Speaker 1: three D patterns, but it's typically made from just one
32:49
Speaker 1: sheet folded in just not so intricate ways. UM. I
32:54
Speaker 1: saw in a three D hydrangea pattern UM on this
32:58
Speaker 1: little sheet that the person in the pictures holding it
33:00
Speaker 1: covers about the top half of their hand, but there's
33:04
Speaker 1: I think at least a dozen little hydranges folded into
33:08
Speaker 1: it and repeating room. It's just and then when you
33:12
Speaker 1: step back and you think that is one sheet of
33:14
Speaker 1: paper somebody figured out how to fold perfectly. Because there's
33:17
Speaker 1: one thing that they don't tell you about orgami that
33:20
Speaker 1: you figure out pretty quickly on your own. If you
33:22
Speaker 1: don't make the right folds in the right order, you
33:26
Speaker 1: just you just screwed up. Like it's never gonna look
33:29
Speaker 1: quite right. Yeah, it's hard to undo a good crease.
33:32
Speaker 1: I think that's where scissors come in sometimes. Yeah, you
33:36
Speaker 1: know what I didn't do for this, which I usually do,
33:38
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'll do it later. Is watch a good
33:41
Speaker 1: YouTube of someone doing something pretty complex. Check out paper Kawaii.
33:46
Speaker 1: She's she's good and it's also easy to follow too.
33:50
Speaker 1: Does she get super detailed and stuff or is it
33:52
Speaker 1: a little more basic both, it's it's basically everything you want.
33:55
Speaker 1: And then there's also like a lot of instructionals well,
33:58
Speaker 1: like she teaches to base shapes. I don't think she
34:01
Speaker 1: gets into like modular but actually it's not true. She
34:04
Speaker 1: does have modular stuff on there. She does it all
34:06
Speaker 1: basically um, but she's also got a lot of stuff
34:09
Speaker 1: where like if you want to make a little gift
34:11
Speaker 1: box to put your gift in she's got instructionals on
34:14
Speaker 1: how to do that, so practical stuff as well. So
34:16
Speaker 1: you can put Oorgamy in an origami box as a gift,
34:20
Speaker 1: you could. That's pretty mind blowing. It's amazing. What's neat though,
34:25
Speaker 1: is all of her videos are set to um led Zeppelin,
34:28
Speaker 1: so that adds like an extra layer? Does it? Is
34:31
Speaker 1: it really? Okay? Man? I was like, that'd be amazing,
34:36
Speaker 1: especially if it was just really out of whack with
34:38
Speaker 1: what she was making, it would be great. Yeah. I
34:40
Speaker 1: was just thinking, maybe, uh, well, I can't think of
34:43
Speaker 1: it now. Come from the Land of the Ice and snow.
34:45
Speaker 1: What's immigrant immigrant song do? Yeah? But none of the
34:50
Speaker 1: folding is keeping up with it. The songs has to
34:53
Speaker 1: start over, over and over. Of course, if you're a
34:56
Speaker 1: fan of Blade Runner, you remember that has a nice
35:00
Speaker 1: um origami motif reoccurring motif in there with Edward James
35:04
Speaker 1: almost as character. I have no idea what you're talking about.
35:08
Speaker 1: You've seen Blade Runner, yeah, and I know the character,
35:10
Speaker 1: but what is it? Oh? Does he keep making origami stuff?
35:13
Speaker 1: He leaves it behind, right, okay? And uh it plays
35:17
Speaker 1: a key role sort of at the end of the movie.
35:20
Speaker 1: I don't remember that. Yeah, it's good, a great movie though.
35:24
Speaker 1: Did you see the second one? Uh? Well, I've seen
35:27
Speaker 1: all the versions of the first one, and of course
35:30
Speaker 1: he has all the second one. I thought the second
35:31
Speaker 1: one was really great. Yeah, it was very good. I
35:33
Speaker 1: loved it. And there's nothing that Ryan Goslin can't do.
35:37
Speaker 1: I know, right. I saw him in a hotel lobby
35:38
Speaker 1: once and I just wanted to kiss his handsome face.
35:41
Speaker 1: Did you know I should have? Do you remember when
35:44
Speaker 1: we went to upfronts once when we had our show
35:47
Speaker 1: on Science Channel. We looked over and there's Fred Armison
35:51
Speaker 1: and we waved like like we were peers any way back,
35:54
Speaker 1: like I don't know who you are, but good to
35:56
Speaker 1: see you for the first time ever. The other funny
35:59
Speaker 1: thing I don't know if you remember of this on
36:00
Speaker 1: that trip was uh and for people that know, the
36:02
Speaker 1: upfronts is where you if you have a TV show
36:05
Speaker 1: or something coming out the next year or quarter is
36:07
Speaker 1: it yearly you gather at a place and all the
36:11
Speaker 1: presses there and you kind of just tell everyone what
36:13
Speaker 1: you're doing and they hopefully write about it. But we
36:15
Speaker 1: saw Michael Douglas and Matt Damon passed us walking down
36:19
Speaker 1: the sidewalk and I was like, what are those guys
36:22
Speaker 1: doing together? And like, little did I know it was coming. Man,
36:26
Speaker 1: that was such a good movie. It was awesome. I'd
36:28
Speaker 1: like to see that again soon. Actually it's on if
36:31
Speaker 1: you get a free trial the HBO on Amazon Prime.
36:34
Speaker 1: I think it's on there right now. Man, I gotta
36:36
Speaker 1: see that. Such a good movie. Um, let's see Technical Oregony.
36:41
Speaker 1: I think is where we left off. Well, yeah, we
36:43
Speaker 1: because we had already talked about pure Land, right yeah,
36:46
Speaker 1: and this technical Oregonmy from what I could gather, is
36:48
Speaker 1: this just the worksheets that you get sort of the
36:52
Speaker 1: how to? Or is yourn actual style. It's it's kind
36:58
Speaker 1: of both. So I think that that's thing about the
37:00
Speaker 1: style is that the work she's the diagrams are not
37:04
Speaker 1: step by step. It is a picture of the paper
37:08
Speaker 1: with every fold in it. But it's like if you
37:11
Speaker 1: went through the whole process of making this incredibly detailed,
37:15
Speaker 1: very technically precise or a gami shape, and then unfolded
37:20
Speaker 1: it but left all the creases in there and then
37:22
Speaker 1: took a picture of that. That's what the diagram is.
37:25
Speaker 1: But that doesn't say which one to do first. Which
37:29
Speaker 1: which I find very unnerving because that means that there
37:32
Speaker 1: are people out there who can look at that and
37:33
Speaker 1: tell how to do it. It's just by looking at that.
37:37
Speaker 1: And so in that UM that documentary Between the Folds,
37:40
Speaker 1: this is made back in two thousand and eight, I think,
37:43
Speaker 1: but they really kind of documented this tension between this
37:47
Speaker 1: push toward more and more technical or a gami and
37:51
Speaker 1: paper folding that's just pushing the limits and the boundaries
37:54
Speaker 1: of like what can you possibly do? UM that it
37:57
Speaker 1: started to use like CAD and other computer programs to
38:00
Speaker 1: plot out, you know, what what folds you needed to
38:03
Speaker 1: make in what order to make these really technical ones.
38:06
Speaker 1: And then on the other side of that, pulling the
38:09
Speaker 1: other direction, or the artists who were just like I
38:11
Speaker 1: just listened to like my hands and my imagination and
38:14
Speaker 1: you know, come up with these new folds and um
38:16
Speaker 1: there's this one French artist who makes masks and kind
38:20
Speaker 1: of almost Tolkien esque from like a seventies illustrated version
38:24
Speaker 1: of like Lord of the Rings maybe, um, like like
38:28
Speaker 1: witches and wizards and things like that, and it's very
38:31
Speaker 1: like free form and flowing and they're like, you know,
38:33
Speaker 1: when you get too technical, you lose like the emotion,
38:36
Speaker 1: you lose the art side of it. And then this
38:38
Speaker 1: one guy made the case. His name is Long. I
38:42
Speaker 1: can't remember his first name, but he's just an amazing
38:44
Speaker 1: technical guy. And he said, you know, no, these technical
38:46
Speaker 1: people are figuring this out. They're making studies of stuff
38:49
Speaker 1: that you could eventually incorporate into larger art. So it's
38:52
Speaker 1: good that it's good to have both. Yeah, I don't
38:55
Speaker 1: think there's a wrong way. I'm pretty sure his name
38:57
Speaker 1: is David Long. Check him out. He's just up to
39:00
Speaker 1: some amazing stuff. All right, Well, let's take another break
39:04
Speaker 1: and we're gonna come back and finish up with a
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Speaker 1: little bit on the kind of paper you might want
39:08
Speaker 1: to get if you want to try this out right
39:10
Speaker 1: for this, Hey, Chuck, I looked and we did not
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Speaker 1: ever do an episode on paper, unless we named it
39:45
Speaker 1: in a smart alec way too. Uh, what you're writing
39:49
Speaker 1: on We did toilet paper? Do you want sure? And
39:55
Speaker 1: I think that'd be interestingly. We did one on grass.
39:58
Speaker 1: We can do one on paper. Oh absolutely. Uh. And paper,
40:02
Speaker 1: like we said, is what you want to buy if
40:04
Speaker 1: you want to start practicing origami and kami or coit
40:09
Speaker 1: paper is if you if you're not just you know,
40:11
Speaker 1: if you want to step it up from just copy
40:13
Speaker 1: paper or something like that, and you go to an
40:15
Speaker 1: art supply store, this is a good place to start.
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Speaker 1: It is designed for origami and paper folding. It is
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Speaker 1: very crisp, very thin, holds its shape really well, very
40:26
Speaker 1: easy to fold, and it stays pretty it's pretty robust,
40:30
Speaker 1: Like after you fold it, it doesn't you know, it
40:33
Speaker 1: stays pretty strong. Yeah. Um, that's that's like if you
40:37
Speaker 1: go to a stationary store and you look forward gami paper,
40:39
Speaker 1: that's probably what you're gonna get, is that comi paper. Yeah.
40:42
Speaker 1: I might have a nice pattern on it. Uh, usually square,
40:46
Speaker 1: and you can get it in different sizes from like
40:48
Speaker 1: sticky note size to the Granddaddy's size. Yeah. Um, there's
40:52
Speaker 1: there's Uh. There's also another kind of paper called washy
40:56
Speaker 1: um that is this um. It's like thicker, obviously handmade.
41:03
Speaker 1: It might still have some of the the grains from
41:07
Speaker 1: the pulp still mashed into it. Um, and it is
41:11
Speaker 1: much harder to fold and keep like a tight crease in.
41:14
Speaker 1: But it's much better for using when you're when you're
41:18
Speaker 1: doing like wet folding technique, which is where you don't
41:21
Speaker 1: know if we ever said you damp in the paper.
41:23
Speaker 1: You don't get it wet, but you damp in it
41:24
Speaker 1: so that it it folds more than creases, and then
41:28
Speaker 1: it'll hold that shape as it dries to Yeah. And
41:31
Speaker 1: it said in the article, which by the way, came
41:34
Speaker 1: from house stuff works dot com or world website, um,
41:37
Speaker 1: that it's very costly. And I looked it up and
41:39
Speaker 1: I saw some and and and it seems to me
41:42
Speaker 1: like you can't like if you want washy, it's coming
41:44
Speaker 1: from Japan. I saw some stuff on Amazon that they
41:47
Speaker 1: call washy paper, but it is not washy, but it
41:52
Speaker 1: it's more witchy than washy, alright dad, um. And it
41:56
Speaker 1: was fifty bucks for a role that was sixty inches
42:00
Speaker 1: by thirty two feet though, which is okay. Um, Like
42:04
Speaker 1: fifty bucks is a lot of money for paper, but
42:06
Speaker 1: thirty two ft it's nothing. You know, that's a lot
42:08
Speaker 1: of paper. Sure, yeah, that's nothing. That's a pretty good
42:11
Speaker 1: price on washy. That's what I thought. You're just turning
42:16
Speaker 1: into granddad. Yeah, for my glasses. And I said that
42:21
Speaker 1: what about the foil. That's another thing that I thought
42:23
Speaker 1: was cami, But um, there there are two different things. Yeah,
42:27
Speaker 1: that's it's so often called Japanese foil. It's just paper
42:30
Speaker 1: with a foil backing on one side, and the foil
42:32
Speaker 1: comes in different colors, so it can really make your
42:35
Speaker 1: origami paper cream pop. Yeah, and you can bake cookies
42:39
Speaker 1: on it when you're done. And you said something earlier
42:41
Speaker 1: about how um kami might have like a pattern on
42:44
Speaker 1: one side, or one color on one side one color
42:46
Speaker 1: on another side. Um, that actually fools a lot of
42:49
Speaker 1: people into thinking that they're looking at an origami model
42:52
Speaker 1: that's made from more than one type of paper, but
42:54
Speaker 1: it's actually just two sided paper that's just still one sheet.
42:59
Speaker 1: Like just just remember this when you're inevitably going and
43:02
Speaker 1: looking at pictures of origami today. Uh, most of that
43:06
Speaker 1: is just one big or small sheet of paper. Uh.
43:10
Speaker 1: And the other cool thing here at the end, which
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Speaker 1: I think we should mention, and this is very very neat,
43:16
Speaker 1: is it is art and it is a hobby and
43:18
Speaker 1: it is in like, but it has practical applications in
43:22
Speaker 1: the world at large. Um Like, when you think about
43:25
Speaker 1: manufacturing things that need to be folded into a small space,
43:30
Speaker 1: where better to look than an origami master to say, like, hey,
43:34
Speaker 1: how would you fold this air bag into this thing
43:37
Speaker 1: or this solar array? Like, how can we make this
43:40
Speaker 1: large thing small? Even if only for packaging? And Yoshi's
43:44
Speaker 1: I was like, I've died, leave me alone. I've given up.
43:49
Speaker 1: Didn't I tell you I hated money? Right? But what
43:53
Speaker 1: about ten tho dollars? Is that the magic number for him?
43:57
Speaker 1: I guess so everybody's got a price, even you shoes out.
44:01
Speaker 1: Uh and Oregony is great for the classroom for younger
44:03
Speaker 1: kids to help teach geometry and stuff like that, really
44:07
Speaker 1: really good stuff. Um. I got one more sweet Yumi
44:10
Speaker 1: story um with Origami. Her her dad is in the hospital,
44:14
Speaker 1: has been for a while, and he was an ICEU
44:16
Speaker 1: for a little while, and thanks to COVID, we couldn't visit,
44:19
Speaker 1: and we couldn't even send flowers like they were super
44:23
Speaker 1: on lockdown trying to keep everything out. So um, she
44:27
Speaker 1: folded some paper flowers and sent them to him, and
44:29
Speaker 1: he had him on his bedside, at his bedside with him,
44:32
Speaker 1: which he said he credits for helping him get well.
44:36
Speaker 1: And that's amazing and they allowed that. Huh they did
44:39
Speaker 1: no flowers, but paper flowers is okay. Interesting folded by
44:44
Speaker 1: human hands exactly, very clean human hands. I can assure
44:47
Speaker 1: you sure. I mean, I'm glad they allowed it. That's great. So,
44:51
Speaker 1: by the way, Bob, we're wishing you here stuff you
44:53
Speaker 1: should know, a good and healthy recovery, and we'll see
44:56
Speaker 1: you home soon. Thanks Chuck. If you guys want to
45:01
Speaker 1: know more about origami, you can start looking it up.
45:04
Speaker 1: Get yourself some paper. That's another thing we said that
45:07
Speaker 1: I think we should point out you don't have to
45:08
Speaker 1: have kami or washy or foil or anything like that.
45:12
Speaker 1: You can just you can use copy paper to start
45:14
Speaker 1: if you want whatever is handy. Um, just go ahead
45:17
Speaker 1: and have some fun with it. That's the point. Have
45:20
Speaker 1: some fun. Uh. And since I said have some fun,
45:22
Speaker 1: it's time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this sexy sneeze.
45:29
Speaker 1: Remember when we talked a little bit at the end
45:31
Speaker 1: of the Sneezing episode about sneezes being linked to orgasms
45:35
Speaker 1: and and sexual pleasure, Yeah, and arousal. Yes, Well we
45:40
Speaker 1: heard from Darcy about that. She said, Hey, guys, have
45:43
Speaker 1: an avid listener, been listening to all of your episodes,
45:46
Speaker 1: and this is the first time I've ever thought I
45:48
Speaker 1: really should send them an email. About this. I'm trying
45:51
Speaker 1: to keep it family friendly. But in your discussion, uh,
45:54
Speaker 1: during sneezing was sneezing when becoming sexually aroused. In my case,
45:59
Speaker 1: my no is becomes very running, and I often do
46:02
Speaker 1: the my nose is running sniff thing during amorous activities.
46:07
Speaker 1: I don't always end up sneezing, but I can tell
46:09
Speaker 1: you that there's a direct link in my body from
46:12
Speaker 1: my nose to other areas. And she said the uncensored
46:16
Speaker 1: version is I know it's been a good time when
46:19
Speaker 1: my nose starts running. Anyway, I just wanted to share
46:23
Speaker 1: my experience. Keep on finding stuff to talk about and
46:25
Speaker 1: now keep listening. And that is from Darcy. And she
46:28
Speaker 1: did say I could read this and just use her
46:30
Speaker 1: first name. Thanks a lot, Darcy. That's very brave of you.
46:33
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46:36
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46:40
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46:42
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46:45
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