Matthew Green's Rhombus with a Twist

Just concluded a live feed online origami class with Matthew Green teaching his Rhombase with a twist model. This is a 4-piece version that spins!

Excellent, enjoyable interactive teaching in Spanish and in English!

For future classes, like the page, Origamex.

For Rhombus twist class, tutorial is still available, post-live feed.

Carmen Sprung's Stern Franziska as a Blow Spinner

Folded one of these for the first time at Sunday's POP; and then spontaneously just decided to hold it between two fingers and blow.  It spins pretty well!

I had one of my gymnasts demonstrate how:

A Pajarita Puzzle Cube

Dr. Robert Lang, via the O-List:

A couple of years ago I wrote a paper for the Journal of Mathematics and the
Arts, titled "A Pajarita Puzzle Cube in Papiroflexia", about the underlying
mathematics of a modular cube that has the silhouette of a Pajarita on each
face. The "puzzle" aspect is that even after you've folded the 12 units, it
is not at all obvious how to assemble them in such a way that one obtains a
perfect Pajarita on each face.

I just learned that for a brief time, JMA is offering the paper as a free
download (normally it's behind a paywall), and so if you'd like to fold the
units (folding instructions included), try the puzzle, or create your own
version, here's the link:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17513472.2013.765311

Enjoy!

Robert

P.S. Oh, and I also just learned that it was awarded "Best paper of 2014" by
the journal. That's the "tootiness" of this post.

Celes60 tutorial by Miyuki NAWAMURA

Bubbledrop

dutchpapergirl:

This stunning kusudama is called bubbledrop. Desigmed by Miyuki Kawamura.

I've used 15x15 cm. and 6x6cm. sized paper. I used origami paper, but that is a bit to thin, because the ball will flatten a bit when you put it down. So use sturdy enough paper, or smaller paper. This ball measures about 28 cm cross section!!!

It Came to Him....In a Dream

Jeremy Shafer's Dream Cube story reminds me of Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, where he wakes up from a dream in which Laura Palmer whispers the name of her killer in his ear: