[Origami] Origami sighting - NYTimes Sunday Style T Magazine

2020-03-09 Thread Jacob Metzger
In an article about the artist Haegue Yang in the NY Times Sunday Style Magazine, they say: "One of Yang’s first big comeback pieces, and the one that launched her career, was 2006’s “Sadong 30,” which took place in Incheon, a port city in South Korea, inside her late grandmother’s old house, aband

[Origami] Paper Folding Sighting in NYTimes

2020-07-07 Thread Jacob Metzger
Seen in this past weekend's NY Times "At Home" section: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/at-home/coronavirus-paper-planes.html Yaacov Metzger

[Origami] Unlocking 300-year-old Letter Folds

2021-03-02 Thread Jacob Metzger
>From the New York Times: SCIENCE New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were ma

Re: [Origami] Unlocking 300-year-old Letter Folds

2021-03-03 Thread Jacob Metzger
From: Evelyn -Evi- Binzinger science https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21326-w/figures/1 another article, which shows different folding techniques. Evi, thanks for this. Not surprising to see Martin and Erik Demaine's names on the author list! Yaacov

[Origami] Not-Quite-Origami Sighting - NYTimes

2021-03-09 Thread Jacob Metzger
>From the NY Times: The Latest Wrinkle in Crumple Theory >From studies of “geometric frustration,” scientists learn how paper folds under pressure. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/science/math-crumple-fragmentation-andrejevic.html Yaacov Metzger

[Origami] Marking a Pandemic, One Crane at a Time

2021-07-26 Thread Jacob Metzger
>From the NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/style/pandemic-origami-cranes.html Marking a Pandemic, One Crane at a Time My son and I took on what seemed like a simple project: fold one origami crane every day during the pandemic. Together, we discovered over the year how making art help

[Origami] Origami Sighting - Morbius Movie

2022-04-01 Thread Jacob Metzger
It seems that the new Marvel movie "Morbius" (I have not seen it) has a bit of origami in its plot. See review snippet here: "Born with a rare blood disease, Michael Morbius has spent his entire life working on two things — a cure, and origami paper-folding. Natch, it occurs to him to fold togethe

[Origami] Origami Sighting

2017-08-22 Thread Jacob Metzger
A coworker gave me his Summer 2017 issue of Binghampton (NY) University Magazine. It has Robert Neale's Magic Star on the cover, with the title: "Paper Power: Origami batteries energize ideas for future" The excellent article describes Binghamton University professor Seokheun Choi's work on paper

[Origami] Origami Sighting (toot toot)

2017-10-10 Thread Jacob Metzger
To all, A local paper did a very nice writeup on my Sukkah, which I've been decorating with origami for over 20 years: https://www.jewishlinknj.com/community-news/bergen/21013- origami-sculptures-adorn-teaneck-sukkah Here is a description of what a Sukkah (part of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot) i

[Origami] Origami Sighting

2018-03-14 Thread Jacob Metzger
NYC subway ad for NY lottery Cash4Life: https://www.gosee.us/image/analog-digital-photoby-952076/news/39320 Pictured, 15 or so origami models in the sunlight on a windowsill. Copy: If you won $1,000 a day for life, how would you spend it? "I'd spend way more time relaxing" Chloe S., Ithaca Yaaco

[Origami] Origami Sighting

2018-08-14 Thread Jacob Metzger
Really cute toddler t-shirt - "ROAR-AGAMI!"- only $4 at Target! (USA) Sizes 12 months to 5T https://bit.ly/2BiAlia Yaacov Metzger

Re: [Origami] Check out today's Google Doodle honoring "Mister Rogers!"

2018-09-21 Thread Jacob Metzger
Today's Google Doodle for those outside US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=Rd7X0NsOeRk Celebrating Mister Rogers (with an origami surprise!) Yaacov On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:48 AM Jacob Metzger wrote: > Sept 21, 2018 - enough said! >

Re: [Origami] NYTimes: Why Is Japan Still So Attached to Paper?

2018-11-24 Thread Jacob Metzger
Let's try that again, with a proper URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/t-magazine/japanese-paper-washi.html from The New York Times: Washi is to the Japanese something like what wine is to the French ? a national obsession and point of pride.

[Origami] From NYTimes: This Is the Way the Paper Crumples

2018-11-29 Thread Jacob Metzger
Doesn't actually mention the word origami in the article, but still... "Paper is an ideal model for studying other crumpling challenges, such as how DNA packs into a cell, or how best to cram a giant solar sail into a small satellite" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/science/crumple-paper-math.

[Origami] NYTimes: Origami Sighting

2018-12-18 Thread Jacob Metzger
https://nyti.ms/2GjaIjp Not quite origami, but thought many list members would find this article in the New York Times, about Donald Knuth, famous computer scientist and author of the seminal computer science book The Art of Computer Programming

Re: [Origami] multicolor kusudama schemes

2020-01-08 Thread Jacob Metzger
>>snip > There are too many single and duo-colored kusudamas in the world. I think > it's because most of us couldn't find how to symmetrically arrange > different color units > together. If more people knew about your chart there would probably be > more multicolor kusudamas in the world. So how