Hot
on the heels of the infamous Adult Origami ("you must be a pervert,
writing that") comes this slightly less contentious offering from
New Holland Publishing. Once again, it has been translated from English
into American, complete with "new improved" gaudy cover, but
identical contents. Completists will naturally wish to own both copies.
The book offers
a number of designs intended to
liven up
your
evenings
at the pub (or "bar"). Each is accompanied by a page brimming
with wit and erudite references. Or something like that. Clearly,
it's a subject that I (and several un-named friends like Brilly,
Wayne, Alex, Paulo etc) are highly experienced in and the contents
have had some serious road-testing over the years!
Banger / Drunkenness Test / Invisible Hair / Barf Bag
/ Basketball Hoop / Beerbomb / Butterfly / Boozy Bird / Catapult /
Peanut
Dish,
Flying
Beermat /
Jumping
Frog
/ Working Beerglass / Disguise Kit / Poppadom / Sumo Wrestlers
Aside
from a laboriously researched section covering the history of pub origami,
the book offers hours of fun for anyone with that peculiar drunken
ability to concentrate on
seemingly
impossible
tasks
for inordinate
amounts
of
time ;)
The book followed a
similar writing routine to Adult,
except I didn't take the photos this time, nor did I even attend the
photoshoot in a London pub, fearing that my keen eye for detail would
be rendered
useless by continuous beer swilling. Cover star Gareth Jones from
New Holland did a sterling job of overseeing the shooting and stuck
to soft drinks for all of ten minutes.
The
Hogarth engraving inside was orignally a full-colour version, but we
could only get copyright release for the b/w version.
Strange but true! A slight note of contention arose over the includion
of my world famous "poppadom"
design, which was renamed
"paper crisp" on US insistence. I found this an affront to
my curry-eating sensibilities, not to mention lost publicity for www.poppadom.org.uk,
but other than this, things more or less came out as I intended.
There was a nice review in the Easyjet magazine and another
in "Publicans Monthly".
