So when I asked for suggestions on what to fold, Janet suggested a Starfish which prompted me to try Riccardo Foschi’s model:
Made from a pentagon, a lovely little fold that has some charming qualities. Continue reading
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911: (361/365) Tiny Teddy
There are many bears out there in the origami design community, and I have folded most of them:
This is Robyn Glynn’s “Teddy”, a charming bi-color fold that looks cuddly and seems quite poseable. Continue reading
908: (358/365) ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas …
…and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse:
Prep for festivities is always fun. Family feast tomorrow, lots to do. I hope you and your families enjoy the prep time as much as the day itself. Continue reading
907: (357/365) Mr Origami
Always on the look out for a model that somehow incorporates traditional cranes (Tsuru), I stumbled across this design and knew I had to try it:
A clever pre-folding sequence caches paper that later emerges as “bird-baseable” end points you can locate at the ends of arms. Continue reading
906: (356/365) Top of the Food Chain
As custodians of this planet, we do a pretty lousy job overall at looking after it. We see apex predators as threats and demonise them for acting naturally in their own domain:
In Australia, we employ shark nets which each year kill more OTHER things things than keep out sharks – time to think more about our place in this complex ecosystem. It is heartening to see activist groups like Sea Shepherds and Greenpeace actively working to change peoples perspectives but our News and media have much to learn about this – headlines are seductive but rarely paint a balanced or objective picture. Continue reading
905: (355/365) Emperor Palpatine
I am sure you remember the good old days, when things were better. In the Star Wars Universe this meant Luke, Leia and Han battling the dark side of the force wearing cheesy costumes, in squeeky clean spaceships, among a rain of pew pew pew:
The truth is there were no “good old days”, they were just days, and at the time they seemed amazing but you know, they were just days. This is Lee Armstrong’s “Emperor Palpatine” – you know that evil prune who bar-b-qued people with lightning by channelling the dark side of the force. Continue reading
904: (354/365) Caterpillar
When looking for a simple fold, one’s attention naturally falls on a torturous corrugation-based model that takes an age to fold (not):
This is Maarten Van Gelder Caterpillar – an exhaustive corrugation executed on an 8×1 rectangle (although I think it would be more effective on even longer paper). Continue reading
903: (353/365) Slippery Little Sucker
I must admit to being a bit of a fanboy when it comes to the works of Satoshi Kamiya. His designs are genius, fabulously complicated to fold and make good use of the sheet:
This is his Octopus – an amazing fold from an octagon that yields lovely little legs, a beady set of eyes and a pendulous 3D head/body with a modicum of paper torture. Continue reading
902: (352/365) Satan
So apparently a symbol of the festive season is a portly old beardy man in a red suit that gives presents to kids who have been nice (and not naughty):
This is Steven Casey’s “Santa”, a lovely exercise in colour change and layer management. Continue reading
901: (351/365) Little Bird
On my “must fold” for some time has been this design bu Hideo Komatso:
Entitled “little bird”, I folded it in black to make an obese crow. A deliciously complex fold that ends up being a 3d representation of a robin-like bird. Continue reading
900: (350/365) Calamari
I stumbled across a “dollar fold” designed by Daniel Brown and decided to try it:
An interesting exercise in sinking, point isolation and layer management, this charming squid looks fresh enough to cook. Continue reading
895: (345/365) Tightrope
Life is a delicate balance, kind of like being on a tightrope way above the ground in the bigtop. Balance is important, lots of things effect balance:
Work, life, play, people, things that all take their toll on our balance, and we all struggle to walk the line sometimes, tipping this way and that as various forces pull at us. Continue reading
894: (344/365) Baby Harp Seal
Sad but true, baby harp seals up until fairly recently were hunted for their pelts – the fashion industry could not get enough of them:
While seal hunting still continues today for food, oil and pelts, the clubbing of baby harp seals has largely been banned. Continue reading
893: (343/365) Teddy
It has been said that “you are never alone with a rubber duck” – equally true with a teddy bear I suspect:
I must experiment with the posture. designed for bi-colour paper, you cannot see the colour changes for eyes and the rest with this fold, but the arms and legs are charming, cutie ears and general body morphology is pleasing. Continue reading
889: (339/365) Sitting Duck
There has been a lot of talk in the media about people demonstrably doing the wrong thing, over a really long period of time. Interesting that one of the defences offered was that they were a “sitting duck” in the post-weinstein era. Regardless, a backyard should be a safe place to play:
This is Henry Pham’s “Little Duck” – a charming model I watched a video about before folding it. Continue reading