Barstool Origami: The Art of Turning Sober Paper into Boozy Conversation Pieces

by Nick Robinson

If your drunken antics have gotten old, entertain your drinking buddies with the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. Barstool Origami features origami projects designed for barflies who want to enhance their bar experience with more than drunken chitchat or televised ballgames. Just saying origami is funny when you have had too many beers and folding paper becomes a feat of coordination after a couple of cosmos. Origami is a far better icebreaker than your old pick-up lines. You can use the Peanut Catapult to get the bartender's attention when it's time for another round. There's an origami replacement date when your own heartthrob fails.

Genres: Humor

96 pages, Hardcover

First published September 6, 2005

About the author

I am a professional origami artist and author and I've been folding paper for over 30 years. I never cease to be amazed by the geometric possibilities and sheer beauty that lies dormant within a sheet of paper, waiting for the careful hand of the folder to awaken it.

Over the years, origami has brought me many friends, has inspired, amused and intrigued me, as well as being a source of income. It's a lucky man who gets to work at a subject he loves.

I have been a member of the British Origami Society for over 25 years and edited their magazine as well as maintaining their website since 1996. I have written 35 books about origami, supplied photographs for articles on paper-folding and have fulfilled numerous commercial and charitable origami commissions involving origami and paper art over the last 20 years, both within the UK and abroad.

unlock your potential!I have created several hundred original designs. I regularly teach origami in schools, arts centres and many other venues & have a clean enhanced CRB check.

Let me unlock the potential of origami for your creative campaigns!

from http://www.nickrobinson.info/origami/...

Reviews

[Petra X · Rating 3 out of 5]

I once had a bar. It was a bit of a wild bar and always had stunningly beautiful barmaids ensuring the bar was always full of men (which brought the women, ha! Marketing!) Those guys with no chance at all used to come in early, around 6 pm. in order to get the barmaid's attention when they would have no competition and she was duty-bound to make conversation with them. I think this book was probably aimed at those sort of men.

However, if you sit at an almost-empty bar with a drink and only the companionship of the bartender and fold these 'conversation pieces' she's going to think you're a loser. After the third drink and the third deft little paper object, she's going to understand why you haven't got a life. Especially if you build the peanut catapult and use it to get her attention which, I guarantee, will now be elsewhere, probably a fixed gaze on the door, willing anyone to walk in.

Best use: when with a group of drunken friends let the one with the least to say (but not because he's almost passed out) entertain himself and you all with these amusing little pieces.