Have Paper, Will Travel: September 2018

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Saturday, September 29, 2018

Here’s another violinist also by Takashi HOJYO. It’s a two piece model (from 6” squares of tissue foil) plus the bow (don’t remember the dimensions of the paper). No glue (although I wouldn’t be opposed to it for this model), so the head and violin (black and flesh-colored duo tissue foil paper) sit precariously atop the body (purple and flesh-colored tissue foil); and the raw edge of the hand is slipped under a layer of the bow to hold it in place.

I actually folded this one somewhen around 2003-2005 (if you zoom in close, you can see the dust that I couldn't brush off the model for this photo). I believe diagrams are in an Oru book that I borrowed from Helen Sperber.

Violinist & Violin

These have long been on my bucket list of models to fold; and this past week, I finally got around to doing it.

Violinist
Designed by Takashi HOJYO
Folded by Michael Sanders
27.5” x 27.5” (70cm x 70cm) single square of elephant hide (wyndstone paper)

No glue, even though the diagrams suggest applying a little to close the skirt. I did use methyl cellulose to help with the shaping. Not digging the neck (too long), but I think I’m done with this model for now. I worked on it for 3 days (Tues-Thurs) and almost turned this into an origami boulder about 53 steps in (I suddenly realized my precreases were off by 1/40th of a column).

This is the first complex model I’ve done in a very long time. Just don’t have a lot of patience for hours of tedious precreasing.

Last night, I started folding Hagiwara's violin and completed it today:

Violin
Created by Gen Hagiwara
Folded by Michael Sanders
18.25” x 4.5” rectangle
Tissue foil

I misplaced my Tanteidan magazine (I probably set it aside years ago because I wanted to fold it- and have forgotten where I placed it for safe keeping); so I worked off of a video (ugh!). The body looks too long; so I may have to do another one (may have to do more, anyway, as I know violinists who would probably appreciate having one).

Monday, September 24, 2018

Honda celebrates its 70th anniversary

September POP

I made it to maybe my 2nd POP meeting this year.

The theme was action models.

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Sunday Funnies

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Friday, September 21, 2018

Celebrating Mr. Rogers

Blurb:

On this date, September 21, 1967, 51 years ago, Fred Rogers walked into the television studio at WQED in Pittsburgh to tape the very first episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which would premiere nationally on PBS in February 1968. He became known as Mister Rogers, nationally beloved, sweater wearing, “television neighbor,” whose groundbreaking children’s series inspired and educated generations of young viewers with warmth, sensitivity, and honesty. Today’s stop-motion, animated video Doodle celebrating Mister Rogers was created in collaboration with Fred Rogers Productions, The Fred Rogers Center, and BixPix Entertainment. Set to the iconic opening song of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (“Won’t You Be My Neighbor"), the Doodle aims to be a reminder of the nurturing, caring, and whimsy that made the show feel like a “television visit” between Mister Rogers and his young viewers.

Hat tip: Yaacov and Leslie Cefali via Origami-L