Tourist and Origami

I was a tourist in my own city today. I needed to be in Russell Square at 6.30 for a talk at the Japan Foundation, so left early and went for a wander around the British Museum first. I was going to put up a picture of the Mummy rooms in the BM, as I always find it so weird for a society that finds it so hard to talk about death is so willingly wander around rooms full of long-dead people. It was standing room only in there, with parents teasing their kids about what they would tell their friends in school about the bodies they had seen. Didn't hear any 'this will be you one day kid!', although maybe it would be aiming high to expect to become an exhibit in one of London's most famous museums.
ANYWAY, what I went with is this, which is a picture of the desk of Toshikazu Kawasaki after giving an hour long presentation on Origami. He is the first Doctor of Origami, and the inventor of the Kawasaki Rose (you can see a few scattered on the desk) and also this rather beautiful swan. He was a great speaker, very entertaining, and what I quite liked was how messy he was! For such a precise art he's pretty rough and ready with the paper, and kept losing whatever it was he was trying to demonstrate. He also told us how his twin brother uses origami to pick up ladies, but it means he isn't very good at it as his motives for paper folding aren't pure! Apparently he himself only uses it to make friends with michelin starred chefs...
There was wine after but somewhere along the way I'd picked up a headache, so we had a juice and some crisps and headed home.