“If you’re not catching up, well perhaps you will next time - and I think you will if you try.”
Robert Harbin presenting his 1967 Anglian TV series “Origami.” Featured in BBCs “Back in time for the weekend”
You couldn’t pause or rewind the TV while you tried to make sense of the last fold, but Harbin still managed to introduce huge numbers of Brits to origami.
Watch on BBC iplayer (if you want to use your modern tech to fast forward to the excerpt of Harbin’s show, it is about 46 minutes in).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b070ncn9/back-in-time-for-the-weekend-2-the-60s
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Josef Albers Discussing Paper Sculptures presented by His Students during the Preliminary Course at the Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany (1928-1929). Photo by Umbo (Otto Umbehr) © The Joseph and Anni Albers Foundation
Josef Albers examining a folded paper construction with students at Black Mountain College, 1946. Photo © Genevieve Naylor
Vorkurs study under Josef Albers: Turning two-dimensional sheets of paper into three. Bauhaus 1928, Photo © Erich Consemueller.
These strange masked figures come from the Schembart Buch, a manuscript recounting the Nuremberg Schembartlauf aka the “bearded-mask carnival.”
These outlandish costumes were used to poke fun at politicians and religious figures in festivals from 1449-1539. Sadly, they were stopped when a preacher got offended that a sculpture mocking him was being paraded around.
Starting in the 20th century, interest in these festivals has brought a resurgence of these festivities today.
Fun fact: These artichokes were used to conceal fireworks!
RepoHistory’s Queer Spaces public signage project took place in New York City in 1994. For more on this project see: Betti-Sue Hertz, Ed Eisenberg, and Lisa Maya Knauer of the REPOhistory Collective, “Queer Spaces in New York City: Places of Struggle/Places of Strength” in Gordon Brent Ingram, Anne-Marie Bouthillette, Yolanda Retter, Bay Press, eds., Queers in Space: Communities, Public Places, Sites of Resistance, Bay Press, 1997
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