On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Mark Kennedy wrote: > > I am familiar with both Yami's Model and Tomoko's Pako Pako. They are not > similar in folding sequence. My wife learned Pako Pako from Tomoko at the > book launch party. She also got Yami's model at PCOC. > >
There seems to a be a little confusion in regards to "Yami's model". It's actually designed by Akiko YAMANASHI and is called Twist Box, found in PCOC Play (which, incidentally, I purchased at PCOC last month). I first learned it from Boaz Shuval at WCOG, in 2005 I believe. At some point, I got the idea to write a sentence divided into 3 parts- one for each of the 3 sides of the model when extended open. When well-presented, you can give it the illusion when you open and close it that a new phrase "magically" appears, when in fact you are subtly rotating the sides of the twist box each time you collapse it so that a new side is presented to the spectator when opened again. Where Yami figured into all of this is when I recently showed Pam Miike my Aquarium of the Pacific video where, at the beginning of it, Yami is demonstrating the model for me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5mpPW75gA8 Essentially what I wrote on it is something to the effect of: 1. If you work really hard at it... (Close and rotate; open) 2. Someday even you.... (Close and rotate & open to punchline) 3. Can be as cute as me. Used the same concept in this model which (correct me if I'm mistaken) is by Kunihiko Kasahara in Origami Omnibus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5TQ9UZbBts I don't think Pam realized it at the time, but I was the one who wrote out the phrase he held up to the camera (Yami, bless his heart, I don't think fully knew what I wrote or what I was up to when I directed him on presenting the model in action). So whenever Pam demonstrated the model herself (with my kind of phrasing on it) to other people, she'd always excuse herself that she wasn't the one claiming she was cute, but that she was pretending to be Yami and for others to visualize that it was Yami selling the merits of this model and not her. Pam would crack me up sometimes because throughout her presentation of the model, she'd remind her audience that these weren't her words and would point to herself and say, "Yami." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjU_Ys75y0Y Prior to the Aquarium of the Pacific in the video, I had a die made that scores the crease pattern of the twist box onto cardstock: http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/2009/10/pop-beta-testing-twist-box-die.html This is the pre-scored paper I brought with me to PCOC last month that some people were folding from. Hope that helps, Carson Box (and All). michael http://havepaperwilltravel.blogspot.com/
