BANKNOTE ORIGAMI ANIMALS DISPLAYED IN RUSSIA
The E-Sylum (4/5/2015)
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Origami articles made of $100-dollar banknotes were put on display at an interactive exhibition, titled 100 Dollar Origami, which opened in Russia’s second largest city of St Petersburg on Saturday.
The exhibition is timed to mark the birthday of the dollar sign that is believed to have been invented by American businessman Oliver Pollock in April 1778. “The exhibits are animals, fishes, dinosaurs and various other objects, like apparel, folded out of $100 banknotes,†the press service of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture, the venue of the exhibition, said.
Visitors will be treated to “dollar teaâ€, a drink brewed from the dollar banknotes.
Apart from that, they will be able to play chess with Russian roubles and US dollars, instead of black and white chess pieces. After the exhibition, the banknotes will be carefully unfolded and deposited into Sberbank.
The organisers, however, are not certain that a banknote would still be valid after being bathed in boiling water.
There is a notation "Pics for representation only". So maybe these aren't even images of art from the exhibit. I guess everything about this article is fake. But it's dated April 5th, not April 1st. Bizarre. -Editor
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