3D Transforming 8-pointed Ninja Star

Happy Thanksgivinnukkah!

Another one from Garibi Ilan:



And from Janessa Munt:




How about a hand at some Roast Chicken?

StarPuff Box

By Garibi Ilan:

Munt's Dollar Dogs

Folded Janessa Munt's bulldog yesterday:

I think I need to redo the head and make the length of the face less long.

Check out Janessa's West Highland Terrier, another nice dollar dog model:

A Gift for a Gift

November 10, 2013

Finally had a chance to give Joe a gift from Michael LaFosse.  Folded by LaFosse, the paper was made by Richard Alexander.

Joe had loaded me up with a bunch of modular giveaways that he had folded (from envelopes) and which I took with me to PCOC. 

POP, 5th Sunday

Joel Stern taught Janessa Munt's $ turkey just in time for Thanksgiving, at yesterday's POP meeting:





And since Thanksgiving and Channukah coincide this year....I taught Carmen Sprung's Bonner Stern (Semblance to a Star of David), which I had learned from Joe Hamamoto:

I gave a Jeremy Shafer Loud Mouth to a little Jewish boy and he told his mom, "A talking Torah!"

Might add a link to more photos later (I have computer issues at the moment).

Flapping $ Butterfly

This looks pretty cool....

Friday Ritual

November 1, 2013

 Every Friday, I give my Hot Shots (team developmental, age 6) origami.  It's become pretty much a weekly ritual.  Fortunately, there's only 4 of them in the class.

I also give origami periodically to the other team girls.  But that's a lot more kids! 

October 25, 2013

Some of the girls give right back, as good as they get....

October 19, 2013

Leaping Willy/Polypagon has been my favorite prize giveaway to all the kids (I also give them out every to random people everywhere I go) because they are so easy to mass produce:

Don't put a hole in one dollar bills

Created by Jesse Barr:

Photographed by Janessa Munt   My dad loves golfing.  I could never get into it.  For me, it's akin to watching grass grow and paint dry.   I've seen (and folded) golf clubs with a golfing bag; but this is a nice concept- clubs and golf bag all from one piece.   Source of the photo is on Jesse Barr's Origami FB page.

Sunday Folding Funnies

Tissue Animals

About:

Origami Twisted Tower

Joe Hamamoto has been folding these out of envelope paper.



Van Nuys Japanese Gardens, November 3, 2013

Here is one that Pam Miike folded:




Fold your own.

NOA #459 November Review

Halloween Folding

Just some quick links to Halloween-themed origami:


http://dosisdiaria.blogspot.com/2006/10/tricks-and-treats.html


Jack 'O Lantern (Noboru MIYAJIMA's blog)

Fun Halloween Party Ideas: Make Origami Candy Corn!

Polypopagon at POP

At Sunday's POP meeting, I had planned to share the Leaping Willy model that Mark Kennedy had shown me at PCOC.  Joel Stern recognized it as a model he learned years ago as "polypopagon".  Rather than pressing the "ears" down, the way Joel learned it was to fold the model in half and then watch it "self-pop":

The paper plane problem in baseball

Maureen Burt made mention of a paper glider that made its way near the pitcher's mound at the World Series.  

I looked for a video and believe this is the one in question:

http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=31191647&topic_id=47149486

And it would also appear that this isn't a unique occurrence.

May 29th at Dodger stadium:

http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=26623523

June 29th or 28th:

http://wapc.mlb.com/play/?content_id=28433937&topic_id=21753540

Here's an interesting article:

July 22, 2013

Pebble Hunting

Baseball's Paper Airplane Problem

by Sam Miller

“As the game ground to a crawl in the late innings,” the LAist wrote last week, “each pitch taking on more importance on both sides, the scene throughout the stadium began to resemble the opening scene of M.I.A.'s ‘Paper Planes’ video. As the crowd of 50,796 got more and more restless, they decided to make their own entertainment, to give themselves something to cheer for as plane after plane get [sic] tantalyzingly close to touch [sic] the field.”

Paper planes are having a moment. Two weeks earlier, while Skip Schumaker was on the mound, a well-crafted plane landed with a flourish between the mound and home plate

Sunday Folding Funnies

Halloween Fold-and-Give

First published in Creased Magazine, issue #5, I've been folding lots and lots of Talo Kawasaki's patty bat and giving them away- to my gymnasts, to random strangers...always bringing smiles to faces.  Not only does it create a great sound with the movement, but this model lends itself very well to shaping- from the face to the wings, if you want to go that extra fold.

I bought 500 black linen paper in bulk for about $27.


Diagrams on OUSA
Sara Adams' video

Sunday Funnies

NOA - Origami exhibited in shop of Nippon Origami Association, Tokyo

Ashok Saraf:

This place is amazing. They publish Origami magazines, certify teachers of Origami and arrange training classes and exhibitions of Origami .