Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)
I have also seen science experiments where water was boiled in a waterbomb (bunsen burner, gauze mat) - the water stops the paper from burning - quite surprising I, on the other hand taught my kids to make them as a fun activity on a hot afternoon, with a cool watery payoff - they throw full of water quite nicely but do not survive catapult flings very well, sadly regards Peter Whitehouse* http://www.wonko.info *some assembly required - Email sent using Optus Webmail
Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)
On Jun 13, 2015, at 6:04 PM, Anne LaVin anne.la...@gmail.com wrote: PS: I also always wondered why that name, where it originated. I thought it was called a water bomb base because it is the base you use for the water bomb model/blown up cube, which one can actually fill with water and use like a water balloon; thus a water bomb.
Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)
On 14/06/15 04.54, cafe...@pacific.net wrote: 65 years ago, when I first learned origami in first grade at Whittier Elementary School in Berkeley California, water bombs were literally water bombs. We folded them, blew them up, filled them with water (not always totally successfully) and threw them. Messy, wet and really fun. Exactly, except my experience is from Gørslev, a Danish country side school some 45 years ago. Today, when I teach the model children politely fold along, until I finally tell them how to use it: then their faces brighten up, eagerly. The Danish 1944 origami book Folderier (Foldings) calls the model Tærningen (the cube). A few later books do not include the model. Not until Robert Harbins Origami, translated and published in Danish 1968, it is called Vandbombe (Waterbomb) in origami books, though it sadly fails to explain why. My own 2008 book Origami: Teknik og tradition illustrates a splashed out waterbomb on a wet wall (for some reason my wife vehemently objected to being the illustrative target). In contrast to Gershon (cited earlier in this thread) I've always found it great that in origami, the known bombs explode in water or butterflies and are pure fun. And yes, I know about there being persons objecting to the term butterfly bomb due to some soldiers' experiences during the now ancient World War II, but these connotations do not exist in Danish, so we happily call them sommerfuglebomber. Regards, Hans Hans Dybkjær papirfoldning.dk society: foldning.dk
Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)
(Forwarding a reply for Yahoo user Laura sea4...@yahoo.com, please reply to the list or to her, not to me!): On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Gerardo @neorigami.com gera...@neorigami.com wrote: So in a nutshell, where does the waterbomb name come from, in the case of the traditional origami ,and what made the name so popular? I can add very little backwards. But this is what I know: by the late 50`s there was quite a discussion about the names of the origami bases, and Gershon Legman was totally against calling it a waterbomb as he thought it unnecessary to give children more violent ideas (he advocated against violence in the mass media). So he discussed the topic with Randlett and Harbin who were leading the subject on the base names, but it seems the old name prevailed. Laura Rozenberg PS: I also always wondered why that name, where it originated.
Re: [Origami] Fwd: The name waterbomb? (FWD for Yahoo user Laura Rozenberg)
65 years ago, when I first learned origami in first grade at Whittier Elementary School in Berkeley California, water bombs were literally water bombs. We folded them, blew them up, filled them with water (not always totally successfully) and threw them. Messy, wet and really fun. Louise -
