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BINMAN from Mylenn on Vimeo: 

At the end of autumn, a binman is gathering dead leaves to give life to the next season.

Hat tip:  Jeff Ligon, Origami-L

Heather with a follow up from her earlier videos:

Printable design here

Happy Valentine's Day!

I blogged this one before; but, since it's V-Day....

And for a more adult parody of this.

If you love someone, set her free.....

....if she flies back to you.....

Spinning Heart

Love is in the Air

Diagrams on Francis Ow's page hosted by Nick Robinson; or on his Flickr

I realize the coach in the video has a weak release; but If anyone has any advice for me on model shaping itself- the steepness of the dihedral angle of the wings or whether the rear elevators should be gently curled, etc., let me know.  

Maybe I was just tossing around a bad, defective love note.

Origami Chocolate and Handmade Box

Related:
Origami Chocolate Bar
Daniel Brown's Box of Chocolate CP

Origami Wine

2010 Clos Pegase Napal Valley origami red blend wine.

Looks like Kawahata's pegasus on the label:

About the Label Art

Features a Pegasus created from the namesake Japanese sculptural craft created through the precise decorative folding of paper. Much like the art form, this wine folds together the characteristics of unique Bordeaux varieties.

Hat tip:  Joel Stern on the O-List

Are You Able to Fold Abe?

Photo source

This is one of the simplest party tricks, easy to teach to non-folders who ask you to teach them some origami.

I usually accompany it with something along the lines of:

Me:  "How does the president look to you?" 

[Holding it tilted down]
Person:  "Sad."
Me:  "When the stock market is down, he's sad.  When it goes up....[I tilt it up]...see how his mood changes?"

Happy Birthday President Lincoln!  My favorite quote from you:

"Don't believe everything you read or see on the internet."
-President Abraham Lincoln

3D Hearts

From Marti's Origami Fun meeting

This 3D heart by Hyo Ahn is more involved than this one:

How To Make Paper Hearts

If the embed is not working, just click the link.

Here's one by Ekaterina Lukasheva:




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Evolution Door

From Business Insider:

Austrian artist Klemens Torggler has reinvented the door with his latest project.

Called the Evolution Door (which we first spotted on the blog Colossal), the 4-panel door opens and closes elegantly as though it's made of pieces of paper. Roggler calls it a "flip panel door" (or "Dryehplattentür").

Torggler has a few variations on this door, one with the origami-esque triangles that fold out to help the door move, and another system with rods that rotate two square panels.

Currently the door is a prototype, and comes in a glass, steel, and wood version.

The door's really cool; but the floor sure sounds creaky!

Click the link to check out the other door.

Hat tip:  Beth Johnson

Year of the Folded Horse

With Origami Sculptures now out of print, diagrams for John Montroll's Classic Horse is now found in his recent book, "Horses in Origami", which came out last year (I think as early as last summer), just in time for 2014- the Year of the Horse.  There are 27 wonderful, diagrammed models by Mr. Montroll and other designers, from high intermediate to simple. 

I haven't made time yet to fold the other models presented in "Horses in Origami"; but I've long wanted to know how to fold some of these, like Hatori KOSHIRO's Ponytail Pony.

Read Patsy Wang-Iverson review

My all-time favorite daily fold...the Montroll horse is what first inspired me into going more complex.  Before seeing it, I was unaware that origami had evolved beyond childhood traditional models and elevated into the world of playful and serious art; that new designs and techniques were being formulated by modern designers all over the world.

 It was turning point in my own life, and hooked me onto origami as something a lot more than just a passing fancy and childhood past-time.

At my very first WCOG meeting (2002?), Terry Hall (group leader, who has only since been to about 3 meetings in the last 7 years) had folded a beautiful 3-dimensional, elegant Montroll horse for a young girl. I went to Borders and immediately picked up Montroll's Origami Sculptures and a few other books.

One of these was David Brill's "Brilliant Origami".  That one influenced my thinking in how I should fold the head to the Montroll horse.

I obtain nostrils by denting the center and pinching the sides together

The model lends itself well to personal touches of artistic self-expression.  The model itself starts out with Montroll's "dog base", and a wide array of animal forms can be had from there.

Over the years, there has been some interest in my method of folding the classic horse.  So I sought and received permission from John Montroll to show you how I shape the head.

I don't show it in this video, but for the tail, I like to fan-fold it to give it the look of a "wavy tapestry".  

The hooves are obtained by opening up the layers and spreading them out.

 

By spread-squashing this section of the double sink (just the triangular part shown), the inside layer of the tail section will now lay in the center.

There are a couple of other minor touches I didn't think of showing until just now (like rounding out the belly).  




FYI:  For those using single sided paper and who don't like the color on the inside hind legs, there are a couple of ways you can get a color-change to keep the horse all one color.  

I meant to get this up by the beginning of the Chinese New Year.  Obviously, that didn't happen.  I guess I was just too busy horsing around; sometimes with my neigh-bors.  But that's a tail I'll save for another time.  Hay, what can I say?  This post is manely about the Montroll horse, of course.

Ok, I'll stop now. 

Apple & Origami Desktop

liquid-crystal display screen, keyboard, mouse by Ryo Aoki. I used this at the 2002 Pasadena Cherry Blossom Festival as my "do not touch" sign.

Joseph Wu's iSad

Artur Biernacki's Sad Apple

Magic FlipBook

I was thinking about creating my own flipbook.  While researching, I came across this:

I should contact Lar DeSouza about doing a flip book based off of the Japanese woodblock of the magician who folded a paper crane so perfectly it took flight; and maybe an origami version of the Jaguar keys, gold watch, and executive pen shown above.


Subsequently, after finding one of those prediction books on eBay and making a purchase, I stumbled across this book....and also ordered it from eBay.

Large as Life

The Nick Robinson one Himanshu Agrawal folded last year is from a 42-ft. square. The final model stands at 13-ft in height.

For more oversized origami, check out the OUSA Convention competition:

Garibi Ilan's Zipper Box

From a 7 x 38 grid:

Sunday Funnies

WCOG Meeting for February

Another light turnout at WCOG.


Bennett Arnstein, Helen Sperber, Jim Cowling, John Andrisan, and yours truly were the stalwarts.

A woman, Susan, dropped in, having looked us up.  She shared a moving story about her deceased high school son and how he had folded a heart for a young girl.  She came in hopes of learning a simple heart that she could teach to school kids, honoring her son.  John taught her one while Jim multitasked folding a heart box which I was teaching; and at the same time drew diagrams for Susan while John taught her the heart model.

Jim Cowling

 Akiko Yamanashi's Heart Box was a great model from several years ago (came out in an issue of NOA- I'm too lazy to dig it up); but neither Jim nor Helen remember ever having folded it before.

Helen with her Heart Box

 We had another newcomer drop in, a young boy named Daniel, along with his father and sister.  He'd been folding for about 2 years on his own.  Jim taught him a killer whale and John taught the LaFosse F-14 Tomcat.  The dad, Javier, sat with Bennett who taught him some models.

Shaping the head on the Montroll horse:


Photos here.

Saturday Morning Cartoon

Paper Cranes Story:

Little Caesar's Pizza Box Pterodactyl

From 1988, featuring Kevin West: