Adventures in Paperfolding

While teaching origami at the Chinese-American Museum Lantern Festival today in Los Angeles (with Jim Cowling and Chila Caldera), a mom was laughing hysterically saying I just gave her the quote of the week. Apparently in the midst of teaching her son how to fold a panda, I stammered at him, "Uh-uh-uh-uh!...Stop! Stop! You're hurting the paper!" She thought that was just the funnies thing.

Then there was this girl who was having a heck of a time folding the same panda no matter how I explained it to her and no matter how I tried to get her to think about it; I'd end up doing the folding maneuver for her, hand the model back...and then she'd hold it back up to me and say, "Like this?" (>_<)

New Year Display

I will be at the Chinese-American Museum in Los Angeles tomorrow for their Lantern Festival, 12pm to 7pm, along with Yami and Jim Cowling and Yukie Parthos. Here's one of the displays I've been working on:




Rabbits are designed by MOMOTANI Yoshihide
Leaf-shaped dish YAMANASHI Akiko (NOA #254
Table and chairs by NAGATA Noriko (NOA #254)

Happy Chinese New Year!

Photos of last Saturday's Lantern Festival at the Chinese-American Museum, here.

Chinese-American Museum Lantern Festival (2006)

For more pictures, click on the photo.

I was cleaning through my files, and found this half-baked project. It's dated February 18th, 2006. The Year of the Dog. There's nothing special in this video, that hasn't been seen in others; but it's memories for Yami, Joe, and myself.

Lantern Festival at Chinese-American Museum, Los Angeles

This was our 3rd year at this event. Filmed back on March 3, 2007.

"Year of the Butterfly" (Chinese New Year Festival)