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Hat tip:  Matthew Green

Ranger Roll!

Seen at the Cherry Blossom Festival

Last weekend at the Monterey Park Cherry Blossom Festival, one mother was carrying this purse that was very much like a series of waterbombs:

This is wearable:

I suddenly want to make one of these:

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Plush Tsuru

Plush Bahamut/Divine Dragon is next, right?

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Plush Origami

By Blythe Creamer

Very charming look.

I'm sure some in the origami community would be interested in purchasing any handmade plush origami models she cares to make and sell.

Bloom Blanket by Bianca Cheng Costanzo

The Bloom blanket was created by Bianca Cheng Costanzo, an ex-Apple designer and veteran of the MIT

Blanket inspired by art and science:

As chilly weather drags on, there's still time to curl up on the couch under a nice cozy blanket. But most blankets are just so...flat. Not in terms of color or impact, but literally, they're flat, because they're a flat piece or knit of fabric. Not so with the Bloom, an art- and science-inspired blanket that's currently on Kickstarter.

Bloom was created by Bianca Cheng Costanzo, a Brazilian-born half-Chinese and half-Italian woman raised in California who dropped out of MIT (where she was a part of the famous MIT Media Lab) and worked as a designer at Apple (phew!). All of that, she says, comes into play with Bloom: a blanket inspired by both the origami she played with as a child and the tessellations she explored at MIT, created from soft Italian fabric.

Bloom is a blanket with a surprisingly three-dimensional design, constructed by sewing woolen tetrahedrons together. The final result is familiar, a pleasantly bumpy spread of pyramids that looks like a paper fortune teller. The material, Costanzo says, is Italian cashmere, and just stiff enough to maintain its shape. It's available in both white and grey and costs $249. At the moment, Costanzo is raising money on Kickstarter, where she's already demolished her funding goal. From a goal of $14,050, she's secured well over $160,000 already, with more than a week to go.

On her Kickstarter page:

Origamagic Crane Arrived!

Took only two days to arrive (It shipped from Torrance, which is Yami-Joe country) .  I received it on my doorstep this afternoon, took it to work and tested it out:

The material for this is polyester fabric with shape-memory.  It kind of reminds me a bit like the paper-memory of Chris Palmers' Hat Tent.

According to the care notice, it warns that the shape memory feature is not permanent; so heat and humidity can potentially affect its shape-memory.

This is a great addition to my repertoire when it comes to performance/entertainment origami.

*UPDATE*  3/1/2014 06:30

Hans Dybkaer posted the following to Origami-L:

Origamagic Crane

Advertised as "the hottest item from Japan", this product from SEO MAGIC-USA.com was added just last Wednesday, a week ago, retailing at $26.  Pretty cool effect:

This would be a nice performance addition to anyone that likes to entertain an audience with the magic of paperfolding.  By the brief description, it seems like it essentially folds itself and no particular skill is required.

A red crane version of this item was released last November:

Now the question is:  When will they release an instant Ryujin 3.5 that "folds itself"?  (^_~)