Origami at odd places

mrsriggins · Post by **mrsriggins** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:13 pm

I'll have to start doing some random origami, just wish I could see the people's faces when they pick up a Joisel rat and smile

Another random sighting- I saw some modular origami flowers from post it notes on the recetionist's desk at my optometrist.

DShpak · Post by **DShpak** » May 22nd, 2008, 11:42 pm

I've left a few models behind when traveling before...most memorably, some that I folded while waiting in a train station for a train that was 4-5 hours delayed. It's enjoyable, and you know that when they get found, they'll almost certainly make somebody smile.

Unfortunately, there are only two or three models that I can fold completely from memory. I've learned many models over the years, even some farily complex ones, but if I don't do them often, I completely forget them. I learned Kawasaki's rose a couple years ago, and made dozens of them from memory over several months...and then last week I tried to make one and would have been hopeless without the diagrams. Luckily I had a couple books with me when I was at the train station.

qtrollip · Post by **qtrollip** » May 23rd, 2008, 6:13 am

Dont worry DShpak, my memory is so bad I cant even remember where the train station is!!!
Just kidding... I have an awful time to remember how to fold my own designs. My brother tells everyone I do origami, and then when they meet me for the first time, they ask me to fold something. Usually I get half-way and then realise I'm totally wrong... with my own model!!!

So dont feel bad!

JeossMayhem · Post by **JeossMayhem** » May 23rd, 2008, 7:21 am

Ugh, I know, it's so hard for me to remember designs unless it's either Jedimaster Yoda or my own (of the few that exist). I can't even remember how to fold the flowers and hearts people show me, though it's fairly easy to reverse-engineer it by looking at it.

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » May 23rd, 2008, 10:15 am

I left boeing 757 in the bus. Again without photo...

kitsune134 · Post by **kitsune134** » September 25th, 2008, 12:32 am

I saw a vase of traditional lilies in my guidance counselor's office when i went to get my schedule changed.

I then left about three cranes because i was so freaking BORED waiting for her to finish talking with a teacher.

I get bored so easily. . .

romane · Post by **romane** » September 30th, 2008, 8:06 pm

here is something i found in italy on monte isola(an island) in lake iseo (i have a house there)
it's maybe a traditional hat but it's stil origami:D
http://www.-romane-.piczo.com/origami

Sadarac · Post by **Sadarac** » October 2nd, 2008, 7:18 am

LOL this gave me a halarious idea.

I made a sea serpent out of paper and made a CP. but i can also make it from memory. At my school the lights a hanging down from the celing. and i could put sea serpents on the lights!

Wizmatt · Post by **Wizmatt** » March 11th, 2009, 8:33 pm

When I went up to London for a weekend last year we used the tube a lot. I folded some simple ducks whilst on the train and when we got off I tried to put them on top of the advertising boards around the station.

I wonder if anyone has found origami in places like this and found they have a real interest in it......

Morgan · Post by **Morgan** » March 11th, 2009, 11:23 pm

ya, ive made many origami things...caterpillars and things, and leave them at bus stops, and tables at restaraunts etc.....ive never found one from someone else..and upon returning, the objects always have been taken.. ya, i wonder what those people do when they find these creations also

Ondrej.Cibulka · Post by **Ondrej.Cibulka** » March 12th, 2009, 7:47 am

Some time ago I put crane on the seat in the tram and one man who just got on noticed the crane on the seat and... sit.

Trekker_1983 · Post by **Trekker_1983** » March 12th, 2009, 2:18 pm

I left Forcher's Fox on a train seat with small writing on the side of it..
no it's not my phone number.

InsomniacFolder · Post by **InsomniacFolder** » March 12th, 2009, 4:00 pm

I almost always leave a model or two on my train seat, even for the 6 minute journey from Slough to Windsor.

Sometimes I save up a bunch and sprinkle them surreptitiously throughout the carriage early in the mornings when it's empty.

I do the same in lifts and restaurants.

I have nowhere to store any more models, and at least they're easy to dispose of if people don't like them.

I also always carry a £10 note folded into something or other, just to confound some poor shop clerk (I bet they hate it)

Zoraz · Post by **Zoraz** » March 13th, 2009, 9:18 pm

Whenever Im in a class with computers, I tape my origami to the top of them. Usually people like them and they stay there for the rest of the year.

akugami · Post by **akugami** » May 5th, 2009, 9:14 pm

usually i can't stand a restaurant visit without any folding. so i ask for some paper or take the bill (after having paid) to change it into a butterfly or - lately - a little moose ...
today i left a moose at my library, too. may be it'll start some peoples' interest in origami - it stands now at the shelf of paper craft.