Re: [Origami] Blintzed Bird Base

[Anna]

2017-03-03 20:31 GMT+01:00 Meenakshi Mukerji :

>
https://68.media.tumblr.com/71cbe319eb2561931a24c175ae336d27/tumblr_ndpoo3dsmZ1sl3qh0o5_1280.jpg
>
> 1) Is what's shown in step 8 a Blintzed Bird Base, or rather what's shown
in step 10?

Step 7 shows a blintzed bird base and even says so. No idea whether the
base from step 10 has a name on its own. The numeration of the steps is
very peculiar though.

Nice Greetings

Anna

Re: [Origami] High Heel Shoed

[Judith Powell]

Cye Newman says:

On Mar 3, 2017, at 1:06 AM, Cye Newman  wrote:

anyone recognize this model  . high heel shoe . may not have been a dollar
model.



https://www.facebook.com/CBMN.Enterprizes/photos/a.1849163585352861.10737418 

38.1802388443363709/1849163588686194/?type=3

838.1802388443363709/1849163588686194/?type=3> 


I keep getting a FB page that says, “Sorry, this page is not available.”
Judith, NC

Re: [Origami] Origami Toys to Teach Kiddos

[cafe...@pacific.net]

Flapping bird for the action.

Using large paper helps everyone to see the folds.

I point out landmarks with a knitting needle rather than my finger which 
is too big and obscures the spot or line I am describing.


Louise in NorCal

[Origami] Blintzed Bird Base

[Meenakshi Mukerji]

I have some questions about the Blintzed Bird Base.  Please refer to the
diagrams:
https://68.media.tumblr.com/71cbe319eb2561931a24c175ae336d27/tumblr_ndpoo3dsmZ1sl3qh0o5_1280.jpg

1) Is what's shown in step 8 a Blintzed Bird Base, or rather what's shown
in step 10?
2) I have seen the use of what's in step 10 in lot of designs, specially
insects.  Who can we attribute this base (step 10) to?

I've used this base (step 10) in a few of my designs and wanted to give the
right credits.

Thanks.
Meenakshi

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My Modular Origami Galleries:  http://www.origamee.net

Re: [Origami] Froebel - Seventh Gift - origami and ratios

[Laura R]

On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Matthew Gardiner  wrote:

> Dear o’listers,
> 
> I came across something quite wonderful in my PhD research today.
> 
> I picked up a book on Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect with a 
> considerable global reputation, at the University library, therein I 
> discovered that he was inspired for a series of window-frame designs, and I 
> suspect for the use of proportion in his career, by the seventh gift of 
> Froebel as his insight into proportion.

> 
> Curious if anyone knows anything more about this topic?
> 
> best, Matthew
> 

Matthew, 
You should get the book Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman. There is a 
whole chapter about the influence of kindergarten ideas (and behind that, 
Froebel’s) on Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as other modern artists. Quoting from 
its cover: “Using examples from the work of important artists who attended 
kindergarten —including Georges Braque, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Wassily 
Kandinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier, among others —he demonstrates 
that the design ideas of kindergarten prefigured modern conceptions for the 
aesthetic power of geometric abstraction.” Norman Brosterman’s amazing 
collection of Froebelian crafts was part of a MoMa exhibition, Century of the 
Child, in 2011: http://www.brosterman.com/kindergarten.shtml. 
But get the book, you’ll love it. 

Laura Rozenberg

[Origami] Froebel - Seventh Gift - origami and ratios

[Matthew Gardiner]

Dear o’listers,

I came across something quite wonderful in my PhD research today.

I picked up a book on Frank Lloyd Wright, an American architect with a 
considerable global reputation, at the University library, therein I discovered 
that he was inspired for a series of window-frame designs, and I suspect for 
the use of proportion in his career, by the seventh gift of Froebel as his 
insight into proportion.

It’s a set of 5 tiles, square, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, and 
scalar triangle, I made an illustration you can see for a short time here: 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/36p4hixaiqmwu8y/froebel-seventh-gift.png?dl=0

Its a magical set of tiles that each fit onto each other, similar to Tangram, 
but my favourite idea here is the √1 √2 √3 √4 √5 ascendence. As soon as I saw 
them, I thought, ahah! they are origami ratios, and sure enough the following 
page states the same:

http://www.froebelweb.org/gifts/seventh.html

I did not know that was one of primary reasonings behind Froebel’s love of 
origami, the beautiful ratios, and their relationships. It all reminds me of 
talking to Jun Maekawa in Tokyo, he said he loves these ratios in origami, and 
now, finally, some 10 years later, I get it. 

I guess that’s why we study, to actually learn things through our questions… 
asking what is the relationship between art and concepts, led me to 
architecture theory, back to geometry, to kindergarten education, and then to 
origami. 

Curious if anyone knows anything more about this topic?

best, Matthew

[Origami] Origami Toys to Teach Kiddos

[Dawn Tucker via Origami]

I've been asked to teach origami to a large group of 3rd-5th graders. I have 
the option of dividing them up into smaller groups. My early idea is to teach 
each of three groups a simple model they could later teach them to each other, 
so that each child eventually learns three models. I can leave internet links 
to the diagrams and/or videos for the teachers, should the kids need reminders. 
I can also leave appropriate paper for each. Opinions on this? 
Additionally, I was thinking it would be fun to teach toys with different 
characteristics to each group, such as a Chinese jumping frog for the spring 
action, a popper for the sound, and then...? What is a good/simple toy for this 
age, along the lines of a flapping bird or barking dog? Or what other types 
would you suggest? I will have approximately 30 minutes with each group. 
Depending on how the kids do, I think I should also have an extra super quick 
and easy model to fill in any extra time. I'm not sure how long it will take 
each group to get settled, or how quickly they will pick up on the folds.
I would appreciate insights from those of you who teach elementary school kids.
Thank you in advance!
Dawn Tucker,O'Fallon, MO

[Origami] High Heel Shoed

[Cye Newman]

All:

 

anyone recognize this model  . high heel shoe . may not have been a dollar
model.

 

https://www.facebook.com/CBMN.Enterprizes/photos/a.1849163585352861.10737418
38.1802388443363709/1849163588686194/?type=3
 

 

Thanks

Cye M Newman

" Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results"-  Albert Einstein