Background
Jeremy Shafer grew up in Berkeley, California.
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Jeremy Shafer
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He went to high school at Berkeley High School and graduated in 1991. He attended college at University of California, Santa Cruz and graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics
Career
He has been folding origami since he was ten. He creates his own origami designs which tend to be whimsical and ridiculous, such as his "Manitoba Swatter" and "BARF Bag". Shafer is sometimes billed as Jeremy the Juggler, and his stunts include folding a burning origami bird, riding a flaming unicycle, and juggling torches.
Shafer has taught at multiple workshops and camps for both children and adults.
He taught for 13 summers at Camp Winnarainbow, a circus-arts/activities camp in California. He has taught scientists how to design their own origami models as an exercise in problem solving.
However, he decided to resign to focus on his YouTube channel. He has four YouTube channels which are called Jeremyevents, Jeremyshafervariety, Jeremyshaferorigami, and Simple Balloon Animals.
Out of all four, jeremyshaferorigami is his most popular channel, where he teaches how to fold new origami models that he designed, as well as some from his books
The channel has over 100,000 subscribers, and over 50,000,000 views.
Membership
He was an active member of ((OrigamiUSA)) and publishes a quarterly newsletter for the San Francisco Bay Area origami group, BARF (Bay Area Rapid Folders, a play on BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit).
