Southern California television station KCET has made a short
documentary about some origami happenings in LA. Have a look:
http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/watch/#featured. You can see shots
of the exhibition The Infinite Possibilities of Paper at the Japan
American National Museum and
Gerardo asked:
Do you think it's possible to use gold or silver plating in an origami
model? Can it be done on a paper folded model or would it have to be
folded
in some other material? Has anyone tried to do this?
I tried that with Elephant Hide, and simple bronze coating in a
Where I live stores sell ordinary paper of something close to B1 size, that
would be 707 X 100 cm, which is something like 27 4/5 X 39 2/5 in.
I want to know if this paper size exists in the countries where each of you
live, ok? Can you easily find ordinary paper with those dimensions where
Before now I made posts in 2011 and 2012 about my search for an origami
illustration that changed my life. I had been searching for that
illustration since around the year 2000 and I am happy to tell you all that
after more than 12 years of searching I finally found it!
How fantastic you
I had asked: Does it make a difference in what side do I place the head
and tail of that arrow regarding the folding line?
Anna answered, The arrow should start and end on the part that actually
has to be folded over.
I now ask all of you, does everyone else agree with Anna? It makes sense
Hi!!
Can any of our Spanish friends tell me if there is a folding group in
Alicante? Or some good places to buy paper and books?
My daughter was doing a semester abroad there this last spring and her host
sister is interested in learning some origami.
Dee
:
What is the Origami diagramming symbol for ?collapse the model? ?
I vote for this:
http://tinyurl.com/jvp9vz3
That's pretty much exactly what my attempts look like...
c
Bwahahahahahahahah!! Made me laugh out loud! LOVE Bambi vs Godzilla! (But U
have a weird sense of humor ... )
Anderson Cooper was ?blown away? today ? reporting it to be an ?a-ha
moment of his life? to learn the beloved (Origami) Chinese food carry out
box unfolds into a plate.
To AC's comment how could I have never known this my daughter said
Ancient
I finally finished my small collection of toilet paper origami diagrams
which you can see here (line diagrams):
? http://www.origami-resource-center.com/toilet-paper-origami.html#diagram
?
and here (photo diagrams):
? http://www.make-origami.com/toilet-paper-origami.php
?
Some of you may
Dear all
Assia and I have finally selected these souvenirs of great days in
Edinburgh at the BOS Autumn convention. Thanks to all concerned! We really
had a wonderful time in a beautiful city.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brill/sets/72157635457702572/
If you can bear holiday snaps, here's
My auto spell checker changed origamist to organist so the dialog should
have been:
Ted: Well, call me Akira Yoshizawa?
[Quizzical looks from the other players]
Ted:?the world's most famous origamist?I fold. [Throws his cards on the
table and walks out.]
--
I looked it up just now - and they don't mention the villain's name, but
the episode is called Origami and the villain is an art thief that can
fold himself into different things.
Dee
Sorry. Accidentally hit send. Anyway, I saw that episode. The villain's
name was Kunihiko Kasahara.
Each day from the beginning of November through the end of December, ebay
is featuring a holiday-themed origami design that appears as a tiny
vignette in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. The company asked me
to make 15 designs based on specific images including a turkey, Santa
My wife just showed me this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-_riKtzsY
Enjoy!
Sy
Thanks for sharing Sy - I wasn't impressed until they threw in the ...
object ... for size comparison :-)
Dee
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No more need to squeeze the tube from the bottom, if this gets to market:
http://tinyurl.com/owh4ebm
or this
http://m.fastcodesign.com/3027711/the-toothpaste-tube-gets-an-origami-inspired-redesign#3
Scott?
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I
May have been mentioned - I am behind in my reading, but Facebook has a
Capital One ad this evening with a Dollar Bill High Heel.
Way cool! Whose is it?
Dee
Mark wrote :
This video is full of the F-bomb. I found it mildly funny and can see the
truth in it.
Rude, crude and Not in the least bit Safe For Work. A claymation Joe
Pesci rehashing his Goodfellas shtick on a piece of paper. Don't say you
weren't warned.
Scott
LOL!! I only watched
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Day Everyone
I am working on a Facebook page for the PCOC in to be held October 2015 in
beautiful Boulder, Colorado.
Please check out the page and Like it to get updates about the convention!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/PCOC-Boulder/1485583218338220
Dee Lynch
Delta Airlines, which people from Minneapolis love to hate, produced a
feel-good video with an attractive arrangement of paper airplanes. It?s
here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOwFpkaUH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEOwFpkaUH4
I don't think they folded all million airplanes,
Square Origami Paper - That's Never Square !!!
Why is it not square when folded corner to corner (diagonally).
It's packaged as square origami paper.
It probably was square when it was cut.
Paper is made with water and is never totally dry.
I live in Colorado - where it is very dry
Thanks to all the origami folks who voted for the BYU entry in the NSF
Vizzie awards, because WE WON!!! Woo-hoo! See, the internet is good for
more than cat videos and photos of food, it's also good for crashing polls
and stuffing ballot boxes!
So thanks to everyone, and if you'd like to
What is your recommendation for people who are eager to
fold Origami models but have the problem of excessive sweaty
hands which causes the paper to get wet after folding very few steps?
Cloth gloves seems to make the precise folding hard and disposable
gloves(medical gloves?) make the
Perusing the latest Sporcle trivia questions - this one caught my eye.
http://www.sporcle.com/games/gris379/folded-into-life-some-more
Dee
So in that spirit, we on the OrigamiUSA Special Folding Fun Sessions team
are developing more on-line classes that can be taken by ANYONE with
computer internet access ANYWHERE!
Is there still an enrollment fee for these online classes?
Dee
After 14 conventions, I managed to have a lovely collection of Origami
games. Here is the incomplete guide for the late nights hours activities.
Incomplete, as I am sure there are many more! Please add your games by a
comment at the end of the article, and help me complete it!
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>
> >A few years back I had a need for duo tissue paper (2 pieces of tissue
> >bonded together) and used my standard method for foil-backing paper...
> >Anyone have any ideas or experience with duo-tissue preparation?
> >-- JC
>
At PCOC Michael Verry taught a class on making tissue foilk that I
Hi all -
Trying to do the Locomotive in Momotani's "Origami Amusement Park" and I
can get all of it except the two finishing touches. :-P
I don't see how the lock works, to hold the front together and I doing
understand what is going on with how to do that twisty thing on the back
roof area.
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>
>
> As a child, were you taught to color the outer flaps and add numbers
> inside or to just color the inner flaps?
>
We just wrote the name of the color on the outermost flap, numbers on the
inside and fortunes down deep ... This fold is what got me started in
origami. I was folding one in
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>
>
> I have some binders full of old newsletters from clubs. Rather then just
> toss them into the recycle bin, I thought I would see if anyone were
> interested in having them.
>
Nothing is being recycled! Thanks everyone - will contact you personally
for addresses, etc. :-)
Dee
Hi All -
I am downsizing a bit, so I am getting rid of - gasp - paper things ;-)
I have some binders full of old newsletters from clubs. Rather then just
toss them into the recycle bin, I thought I would see if anyone were
interested in having them.
I have CHAOS, OCOP, and WCOG in the main.
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> Origami scofflaws:
>
> What kind of glue do you use when you're attaching modules together
> permanently for sturdiness?
>
> Constraints: in the United States, need it quickly so ordering online isn't
> an optio
>
>
Probably to late to answer, but I like Elmer's Glue stick ... up to a
>
>
> Can you please help me with a second question regarding fortune tellers: to
> your knowledge, around what grade and age are fortune tellers particularly
> popular among kids?
>
>
Oh gosh - that was SO LONG AGO ;-)
I think, as someone mentioned before, that it was mostly the girls that
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>
> I have looked on this feature like the take a penny/leave a penny at many
> stores.
>
> There have been constant comments on the various lists, on what do I do
> with my excess origami models. This is your perfect chance to get rid of
> those excess models and for them to find a good home.
>
>
>
> And it is a *beautiful* model. Thanks!!
>
> /bernie\
>
>
>
It is one of my favorite snowflakes. There is a very similar one in
Kasahara's Creative Origami - or maybe it is Amazing Origami - I bought
them at the same time and I don't remember which is which.
In there he claims that
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> Let me know ASAP if anyone wants them.
>
> Dee
>
>
The strung cranes are already asked for. Thanks everyone!
Dee
Hi everyone!
Got a question for you all - would anyone like to be the recipient of
several thousand strung cranes?
The librarian that has them is moving and can't take them with her. I have
no need for them, or room for that matter.
I can keep them for short term, but I need to tell her in a
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>
>
> The Source is working on getting our hexagon paper restocked.
>
>
I had no idea - after cutting my own all these years! Will check this our
for sure :-)
Dee
This has probably been mentioned a bunch already - but I am now binge
watching "House of Cards." In season 1, Clair Underwood does some folding
... although you never actually see Robin Wright doing the folding :-)
Dee
Just ordered Ken Liu's "Paper Menagerie" after is showed up in my "Kindle
Daily Deal." It caught my eye since it has - I believe - Quentin Trollip's
lovely "Tiger " (which I just saw in the BOS magazine)! Maybe someone else
mentioned it before, but I didn't realize it had won so many sci-fi
I saw this Sonobe Unit globe several years ago. It is actually quite cool -
I still have a folded 30 unit around somewhere. There is a three piece, a
six piece and a 12 piece as well. Just be aware it is hard on color ink :-)
http://www.tonysplate.org/sonobe/sonobe-earth-30.pdf
Dee
Watched this wonderful show last night - amazing! I was glad to see some
familiar faces and there were a LOT of new names! Cool!
I had to laugh, though, one young man in the protein lab (I have forgotten
his name) was talking about how a flat piece of paper that has been creased
can be folded
Hi guys!
One of the local libraries has contacted me about teaching an origami class
for teens this coming June. The theme of the classes is "Building for the
Future" (or something like that). In view of the recent NOVA program, I
thought it would be really cool to do a flasher.
There is a
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have recently released a book of my dollar models "The Dollar Bill
> Origami Book: 30 Designs That Turn Money into Art?.
>
> It contains 30 dollar origami models and the diagrams are done by the very
> talented Marcio Noguchi.
>
> The book can
Recently listening to "The Outstretched Shadow" by Mercedes Lackey and
James Mallory and one of the characters, a small Elf boy, is introduced
playing with paper boats on a lake.
>
>
> A week ago I showed a couple of pictures of how I presented my models for
> the exhibition that was a part of the IV International Origami Meeting in
> Facatativ?. ... Two days after Dee (Dee and Bob) mentioned her husband
> had made some of those for her over the years.
>
>
> The "glass case" is made of a transparency sheet with electrical tape to
> attach the walls and give it a different look : )
>
>
I am so glad to know someone else does this! My husband has made a couple
of these for me over the years. They look pretty sharp until the tape
starts shrinking,
>
>
>
> I folded this variation of the water bomb:
> https://www.facebook.com/neorigami2/videos/vb.10179635552/
> 1573818892634083/?type=3
>
> Can you please tell me who created this particular variation?
>
> I learned to fold it from one of Gay Merrill Gross' books ... Paper
Creations, and
>
>
> I have been given a new challenge this time: a week-long (M-F), 2 to
> 3-hour per day "origami camp." I don't have a roster yet, but the kids will
> likely be 4th to 6th grade. In addition to scheduling the origami
> curriculum, I can break up the afternoon with a recess and a snack.
> My
>
>
> 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. Or what other
> types would you suggest?
My two favorite models for teaching are:
Topsy Turvy - designed by Seiryo Takekawa
Found in "Origami for
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