I am buying a house to store my Pornogami.
Hey reader!
I am in the middle of some very exciting stuff. I am closing on a house this week! You probably aren't surprised given the title of this post, but I didn't want to bury the lead. Owning a home and being able to make it my own has been a dream. I kept a binder through to my early 20's with sketches of dream rooms and decorating ideas. Nowadays I can store that kind of material on a Pinterest board instead of lugging around a 3 ring binder like some kind of gay caveman.
As you might have gathered from 42 weeks of blog posts, I enjoy making things. Getting a house is an extension of that. I am going to get to nest now. Apartments are great, but I can't paint or install skylights or put in track lighting. In my home I plan to do at least one of those things.
This blog might be changing for a while as my craft projects turn more decidedly DIY. To be honest, I am not sure. When I started this blog, I didn't expect to still be working on it nearly a year later. This whole adult responsibility thing is weird and kind of snuck up on me.
In the interest of contradictions, I am making pornigami this week, because what says "I am a grown-up with a mortgage," more than folded penis art. I got the Pornogami book almost a full year ago as a fantastically silly gift. The author of this work is Master Sugoi. Origami is an ancient Japanese art and I was interested in learning more about Master Sugoi and why he chose to use his skills to make paper penises. If my cursory googling is correct, he is a New Jersey native white dude name Eric Gibbons. I'll let you draw your own conclusions about that.
I set out to make one of my favorite projects in the book, the mouth. It seemed like a good starting place, as a relative novice in the world of porn paper folding.
I didn't have fun origami paper, but I did have a lot of paper leftover from my previous paper-based craft project way back in November - binding books.
I am not going to get too into the how-to for this project - mostly because this book is available in stores and if you are really interested in making your own paper mouth, you can throw some money at possibly Eric Gibbons. This is definitely one of the steps though. I promise I didn't just get distracted and start making paper airplanes.
It actually came together pretty easy. I did have some difficulty with reversing folds. If you don't know what I am talking about: in origami projects you will hear about valley and mountain folds. Valley folds form little valleys because the fold is pointing down, leaving the paper on either side to gently slope up. Meanwhile mountain folds are the opposite, forming tiny little low resolution paper mountains. These distinctions are super important in projects and occasionally you have to partially unfold something to "reverse" a fold or form a new fold that is a mountain or a valley.
Maybe its because I am so bad at spatial relations, but I really struggle with those concepts anytime I try origami. I have always found projects like this a bit easier to understand and conceptualize on video where I can watch the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. If that exists, I didn't google it. I figured "pornigami mouth video" might give me results I wasn't hoping for.
One of the benefits of using real origami paper is that it typically has different patterns or colors on each side that you can capitalize on in your final origami work. My paper isn't like that so I got to add coloring to my project.
All in all, I think my little paper mouth and tongue came out pretty cool. I would fold my lips bigger for my next set of lips, but other than that I am pretty happy with it.
That is some serious Gene Simmons tongue too.
I used this project as a fun little packing break. Maybe for people who don't make things constantly, making something might not be considered a break. Whatever, I had fun. Plus now I have a paper mouth. Who else can say that.
Keep making cool stuff.
Until next time,
JoshPrime
I am in the middle of some very exciting stuff. I am closing on a house this week! You probably aren't surprised given the title of this post, but I didn't want to bury the lead. Owning a home and being able to make it my own has been a dream. I kept a binder through to my early 20's with sketches of dream rooms and decorating ideas. Nowadays I can store that kind of material on a Pinterest board instead of lugging around a 3 ring binder like some kind of gay caveman.
As you might have gathered from 42 weeks of blog posts, I enjoy making things. Getting a house is an extension of that. I am going to get to nest now. Apartments are great, but I can't paint or install skylights or put in track lighting. In my home I plan to do at least one of those things.
This blog might be changing for a while as my craft projects turn more decidedly DIY. To be honest, I am not sure. When I started this blog, I didn't expect to still be working on it nearly a year later. This whole adult responsibility thing is weird and kind of snuck up on me.
I set out to make one of my favorite projects in the book, the mouth. It seemed like a good starting place, as a relative novice in the world of porn paper folding.
I didn't have fun origami paper, but I did have a lot of paper leftover from my previous paper-based craft project way back in November - binding books.
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| part of the process I swear |
It actually came together pretty easy. I did have some difficulty with reversing folds. If you don't know what I am talking about: in origami projects you will hear about valley and mountain folds. Valley folds form little valleys because the fold is pointing down, leaving the paper on either side to gently slope up. Meanwhile mountain folds are the opposite, forming tiny little low resolution paper mountains. These distinctions are super important in projects and occasionally you have to partially unfold something to "reverse" a fold or form a new fold that is a mountain or a valley.
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| Valley? Mountain? Wad of paper? |
One of the benefits of using real origami paper is that it typically has different patterns or colors on each side that you can capitalize on in your final origami work. My paper isn't like that so I got to add coloring to my project.
All in all, I think my little paper mouth and tongue came out pretty cool. I would fold my lips bigger for my next set of lips, but other than that I am pretty happy with it.
That is some serious Gene Simmons tongue too.
I used this project as a fun little packing break. Maybe for people who don't make things constantly, making something might not be considered a break. Whatever, I had fun. Plus now I have a paper mouth. Who else can say that.
Keep making cool stuff.
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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