It is well known that dogs and middle school – squirrel! – children are easily distracted – Squirrel!:
I am reminded of Doug the dog from the movie “UP” every time I see my students trying to focus but being unable to notice everything else around them but what they are asked to notice. Continue reading
Perusing my copy of Drawing Origami – Tome 2, I noticed a lovely little tiger designed by Oriol Esteve:
This teensy weensy tiger is very cute, has resplendent stripes and terrific proportions from paws to tail. Continue reading
I gotta learn to be more careful, the previous post (which I removed the number from) turned out to be a refold from my first 365 (years ago) that I had forgotten about (I got the fold sequence from somewhere else and did not twig to the duplication … so sue me 😛 ) Fortunately a follower pointed this out:
This is Jun Maewawa’s “Peacock 1” – a lovely exercise in Miura Ori corrugation folding for the tail and some interesting layer management to form legs and head among it. Continue reading
EDIT: as a kind reader pointed out, I have already folded this model, so it cannot count as one of the current 365. It is a relief on 2 fronts (1) Someone is reading and (2) This fold of this model is vastly superior to the original
Some call me a dinosaur, they may be justified but if I am even half as cool as this Triceratops, then it is all good:
Designed by Jun Maekawa, this delightful little dinosaur is one of my +favs so far in that it has all the triceratopsy features (3 horns, flat plate head, stocky body, lovely proportions) and still remains simple enough to achieve easily with a 40cm square (prolly smaller with more nimble fingers)
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Insects seem to be a fascination among origami designers – at the height of “bug wars” when designers were competing for the most intricate designs that were complex, had lots of legs, were thin and realistic renderings and really pushed the boundaries of existing techniques:
This astonishing model starts as a frog base. Through a torturous set of point isolation and narrowing, we get the impossibly thin legs and a lovely set of antennae. Halve this, now fold that in half, then do a double rabbit ear, now halve that … thank goodness for thiiiiin paper and accurate folding. Continue reading
Origami has featured in cinema in many ways. The Blade Runner franchise uses origami figures to accentuate certain story points and the most recent movie features an elderly “Gaff”, in a retirement home, folding a sheep:
After some research it seems the model was a tweaked Jun Maekawa model. tweaked because the original has curled horns that would make a quick-shot less clear on screen. Continue reading
I am always on the look out for well designed Kangaroos:
Interestingly, the best ones are often designed by people who do not have them around. This delightful 2-part model is designed by Kunihiko Kasahara, from the book “Origami Made Easy”. Continue reading
A 365 Challenge is a mixture of blessing and curse:
The relentless schedule amidst a full time job and part time life is challenging at times. I started this model last weekend but ran out of weekend before it was finished. Continue reading
Looking for a nice, rich, challenging fold for the day, I knew I needed to try a model from Robert Lang:
This is his model “Jackson’s Chameleon” – a deliciously complicated model with all the chameleonic bits you expect.
Working with a slightly un-square square of light green washi, the pre-folding is fascinating, layer management and seemingly impossible moves abound – there were many times I thought I had screwed up, only to find out that it worked. Continue reading
I for one think collectors of fossils need to be really careful piecing together extinct animals from scant remains.
Many a time illogical collections of bones have been cobbled together to bamboozle the public and, at first glance, a Pteranodon seems about illogical as a platypus. Continue reading
It is a full moon, 24 miles south of the OKish Corral, and the local Coyotes are howling:
This rather cute wolf/dog/coyote…thing is a rather nicely structured quadruped that I think is a useful base for modelling other such critters.
It is part of a collection of wolves/howling things I looked out for when a particular house at school decided to use a howling wolf as their mascot this year. Continue reading
I know, I am behind, but have been inexplicably tired of late, time to catch up:
This is a swallow, or more correctly a mud lark, but is a fun fold from DOT1 that I was going to try. Continue reading
Perusing my copy of Tanteidan Magazine #163, I came across a cute 2-part model that I thought I should try:
Using orange for the fish and blue for the waves seemed to make sense at the time. Continue reading
Exploring Drawing Origami Tome 2, I found this lovely little crab:
Designed by Fernando Castellano, it cleverly divides up a waterbomb base into legs and nippers, isolating them from the body. Continue reading
Busy week, nearly at the weekend, this lovely little fold is a perfectly adorable spaniel:
Designed by Patricia Kunz Tomic, in DOT1, I like the use of paper, general proportions and general spanielity. Continue reading
