Compiled by Janet Hamilton
Some years ago, the Spanish lottery, which benefits the national organization for the blind, ONCE, used the parajita on their lottery ticket for one drawing.
In the "Ripley's Believe It or Not" museum in Gatlinburg, TN (USA) was an exhibit of a 15 foot by 6 foot (approximately) rug made out of bubble gum wrappers. There were around 60000 wrappers of assorted kinds: Wrigley's, Spearmint, Juicy Fruit, etc. The rug took 18 years to make. The sign also said that "Ripley’s Believe or Not" was spelled out in Morse code with some of the links.
The Girl Scout (USA) Badge for Paper Arts for Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts features an origami crane.
October 2004 - National Pastoral Care Week. The theme was
"Imagining Peace,". The logo included an origami crane and the website
had cranes flying around on it! The website included links to the Sadako story http://www.sadako.org/sadakostory.htm
http://www.pastoralcareweek.org
The 2001 Annual Report for EPCOR (an energy company with
holdings in Canada and the US) had a theme of "Transformation". The
document featured many photos of folded origami models and crease patterns.
Airigami - the art of folding air in specially prepared latex containers (translation - balloons). This is more balloon sculpture than balloon folding. Also a fundraising Halloween event called "Balloon Manor" (from Scarigami Productions), classes called "Airigami University", and the "Flying Octopus" - http://www.airigami.com/ and http://www.balloonfunhouse.com/
11/17/2006 - A team of four from the British Origami Society assisted in fund-raising activities for the BBC Children in Need at Duxford airfield. The activities included a paper airplane contest and teaching origami models. The BOS group also created a large origami version of the of the organization mascot Pudsey. http://www.britishorigami.info/society/meetings/london/newsletters/children%20in%20need%202006.html
December 2006 - In Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe and Museum in Seattle is a large display of various origami dollar bill models. The display covers all of the shelves on the wall. It seems they are still taking donations for the display. They include your name and the date that you donate a model with it in the display.
For Christmas 2006, employees of BIG Images (a printing company) got an iPod
shuffle inside two origami boxes made of $100 bills. http://www.big-images.com/1-877-781-9301/iPod_Shuffle_Christmas_Present_2006.html
For the 2007 New Year's greeting e-card, MIT's Publishing Services Bureau
used a flash animation showing origami cranes flying by. You click on a crane to
get your personal fortune. http://web.mit.edu/psb/greeting07/
April 2007 - Robert Lang appeared at Redpath Museum at McGill University in
Montreal, folding a giant Pteranodon from a 4-meter sheet of handmade paper from
Papeterie Saint-Armand, a paper mill in Montreal. Real-time photographs showing
the folding of the one-of-a-kind sheet of paper were posted: http://www.mcgill.ca/architecture/events/#origami07
The Wish Upon a Crane (Australia) organization aims to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation by making 100,000 paper cranes out of used paper. Part of their effort was a challenge to the beat 98 minutes for folding 100 cranes as reported in the Guinness Book of Records. October 12, 2007 over 20 minutes was cut off that record. Hiromi Ashlin from Broome folded the 100 cranes in 1 hour, 14 minutes and 23 seconds (74 minutes 23 seconds) from 15 cm paper. She folded them one at a time. Keiko Kokofu was closely behind, finishing in 1 hr 22 mins 10 secs. The old record was 1 hr 38 mins 36 secs. http://www.wishuponacrane.com
On the cover of the 2007 Individual Income Tax Return form for the State of Illinois is the statement, "Make life less taxing, file electronically". Pictured is a picture of a paper airplane folded form the form.
Phone cards from Italy, China, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Brazil have featured photos of origami and even origami diagrams. A very impressive website showing pictures of the phone cards was compiled by David Petty - http://members.aol.com/ukpetd/origami_telecards.htm
As a motivation not to spit your gum into the street, designer Jung-taek Choi
has created the Gum Flower. The Gum Flower’s wrapper has folding
instructions and crease lines printed on it. The wrapper is folded into an
origami flower and put the chewed gum goes inside the flower. You don't have to
touch the gum, you have incentive to put it into the flower rather than throw it
on the street, and it looks pretty in the trash.
