Sunday Funnies

Hat tip:  Kathy Knapp

Calyx for the Pentagonal Sato Rose

Kade Chan uploaded a tutorial for the Naomiki SATO pentagonal rose:

Saturday Morning Cartoon

March NOA Issue 463 Review

Curlicue gifts

2-28-2014

For this Friday's origami giveaway ritual to my Hot Shots, I folded curlicues for them and placed them in these letterfold envelopes (acquired by reversing one that Marrigje Barnard of the Netherlands had sent me many years ago).

Sara Adams has now posted a video on how to fold the single strip square curlicue:

There might still be time to enter her curlicue book giveaway!

Photo of the Week: Giant Pegasus

By Kevin Box:

Source

Hat tip:  Deb Pun

I missed out on the post-Conference tour of Kevin's Studio last year since I had to get back home early from PCOC, for work.

Foldable Smartphone of the Future

Hat tip to Maureen Burt on the O-List:

Researchers at Hasselt University iMinds in Belgium have built a shape-shifting prototype phone. Called Paddle, it's design is based on 3-D Rubik’s Magic Puzzle, a loop of 8 squares that can currently fold into 15 different iterations. It unfolds for a map, scrolls a list in a circular loop, or flips "pages" for viewing album photos.

Check out the photos

Ranoshi

September 4, 2011

Ranoshi on Lilly Pad

Created by David Derudas

Folded by Michael Sanders

3" x 6" rectangle of tant

Quick and simple with a great look.  I think the first time I folded one might have been with Ben Muller.  I think he taught me.

Diagrams
Video tutorial

Renault Clio Nokia Ad

The Doritos Super Bowl commercial contestant used the same basic idea as this Nokia ad.

Description:

An ad for the Renault Clio car had some pretty girls pull up next to a young man in a Clio. The girls flirt by blowing bubble gum bubbles, and the young man responds by putting a candy wrapper in his mouth and folding a crane with his tongue.

Paper Gliders in Perpetual Flight

Description:

The principal is the same as in real aviation: thermals. Thermals allow real sailplanes to fly for hours. As real thermals are to strong for our selfmade paper airplane, we are using a miniature thermal that everyone has in his kitchen: Hotplates. Four hot plates producing hot air which rises and let our paperplane fly as long as we want. The paper aeroplane must be centered while it performs it turns, in the middle of the for heating plates. so it took me about 87 takes to produce this video. if the paper airplane isn´t exactly in the centre of the plates, it will drop off.

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:

Frog Prince Trick with Origami Folding & Storytelling

 Combining origami storytelling with a bit of card magic:

The Frog Prince Trick is considered by many who study the finer arts of magic to be a modern day classic. It was first devised by Mike Close and published on 'Workers 2' out of the 'Workers' DVD and book series. He was the first person to fold a playing card into an Origami frog and then incorporate that folded card into a card routine.

History of the 5 Pigs Puzzle

The first time I saw this (and another related one) was at my first OUSA convention.  It might have been Cyril Tessier who had them to give out.  I still have them somewhere.


Puzzle of the Five Pigs

History behind it, according to psywarrior.com:

For many years prior to WWII various venders made and sold puzzles to children.  These puzzles had a number of different pictures on the front, and when folded in a special complex way depicted a hidden picture of an old man, or sometimes a political laeder, sports figure or movie star.

Pig Puzzle

During WWII the British Special Operations executive is believed to have produced a number of different puzzles showing four pigs on the front, that when folded depicted the face of Adolf Hitler.  At least four types of the pig puzzle are known, and it is believed that besides being used in Allied countries as a morale booster, they were also shipped to partisans in Nazi-occupied nations to attack and belittle the German Fuhrer.

One type with English text says, "Fold as directed to find the biggest pig of all."  Another English-language puzzle says, "Puzzle of the pig.  Here is the puzzle of the fifth pig.  To find a fifth one fold as directed."  A third puzzle is found in both French and English and was also distributed in Australia.  

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Apparently, many of these puzzles were also dropped by the Royal Air Force.  In 2008, I received a letter that stated:

My father came to Canada from the Netherlands in the 1950s.  When he was a young man in Holland during the war he collected different things.  He has a paper he said they threw out of an airplane.  It is written in Dutch and English.  "Can you find the 5th pig." There are four pigs on the picture, and when folded right the four pigs together make a face that resembles Hitler.

Some more people mentioning inheriting one of these from a grandparent.

If anyone has anymore information on the background and history of this and related, let me know.

A Seamless Jacket Made From a Single Piece of Origami-Folded Fabric?

Well, not really:

Seams can be your biggest enemy when you're trying to design a jacket that's both lightweight and wind/waterproof. So The North Face engineered its new Fuse Uno jacket to assemble from a single piece of fabric like a complex origami model, reducing the number of seams that need to be stitched and sealed.

Hat tip:  Patricia Grodner

Morphing Paper Fish

Description:

The main part of this toy is a piece of corrugated paper that can flex into different shapes. However the addition of a fin and a pair of eyes makes it into a kind of a fish! Squeeze the tail and the mouth opens, in quite a realistic way. But Tim always likes exploring new options, and the toy can be folded into a hat, rather like the traditional pith helmet that was worn in the tropics. But there's more... fold it another way, and you get a very strange hat, where the eyes give a very strange effect indeed!

This toy was bought back in 1995, and has not been available for a long time now.

And now I feel like opening up Tanteidan Convention Book 14 and fold Mabona's Puffer Fish:

Topic at the Origami Forum

Pulling Art from Thin Air

Megan Hicks is a wonderful storyteller who also utilizes origami to engage the listeners' imagination.


Here's an example of one of her teaching tales, posted just in time for next year's Valentine's Day (^_~) :

She has a wonderful post illustrating how "what goes around comes around", and how we impact lives both seen and unseen; and our influence upon the world, like ripples in a pond, can reach far and wide.....and come back to us:

And then at lunch…something Came Around.

Behind me in the lunch line, one of the women in my session thanked me for giving her a couple of new paperfolding stories. She said, “I already do a story with the paper cup. And I do that hat — you know, the one with the feathers…”

I perked up.

“…and the little girl — Triangle Girl…”

I got very still.

“Tell me that story,” I said.

Gay Merrill Gross Origami Poem

When I first discovered the wonders of the internet and having my own computer around 2001-2002 around the same time I was becoming immersed in origami, I remember being fascinated with Gay's storytelling during a segment of the Carol Duvall Show on the HGTV website, in which they covered an origami conference, I think in San Francisco.  I think this is the one:

"The Carol Duvall Show," aired two episodes (934 and 941)  showing footage from last year's Pacific Coast Origami Conference (PCOC) in San Francisco. Their website contains a 4 minute video clip from the second episode. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_paper_crafts_origami/article/0,1789,HGTV_3293_1383567,00.html

But the episode is no longer available.  I'd love to see it again but don't know if anyone has a link to a video clip of that segment.

At OUSA, Gay showed me the wonderful way she fanned out the stack of paper in that presentation.  I'll have to ask who she learned that from; as she told me, but I forget.

Here is the poem to one of the teaching tales I remember from that PCOC in 2000:

Did you hear about the kite that bumped its nose

and bent its tail

turned into a whale

stood on its head

and became a penguin instead

but the last I heard

it was a flapping bird

I wonder if any of you who have not heard this storigami before can guess as to what the folds are (at the end of the tale, you have a version of a flapping bird).

Flip Panel Door

A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to Klemens Torggler's Evolution Door.

Here's one from 2008:

Magic Origami Box Illusion

Doug Henning:

David Copperfield:

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"?  (^_~)