Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Shafer $ Convertible

Recycling flyers


What do you do when you have a stack of leftover flyer cards that are expired?


Recycle the origamist way:




Origami Workshop at Mitsuwa in Los Angeles



Mitsuwa off Venice Blvd and La Cienega/Bundy in Los Angeles has a small Kinokuniya bookstore.  It seems that every 4th Saturday, they have an origami workshop offered, free to their patrons.


8-5-2017






Saturday, August 05, 2017

Teaching at Descanso Gardens for Family Night

Family night at Descanso Gardens yesterday involved a showing of "Kubo and the Two Strings".   I provided the origami entertainment prior to the movie playing out on an outdoor big screen.






Sunday, July 30, 2017

Yami turns 81

Yesterday, we celebrated Yami's 81st birthday party:









Jared Needle is Superhuman tomorrow night

Via OUSA:

Pacific Ocean Paperfolders (POP) member (and origami artist extraordinaire) Jared Needle will be a contestant on a nationally televised competition show called "Superhuman<http://www.fox.com/superhuman>." There are five contestants on every show, each contestant possessing a unique, amazing skill. The contestants are given a challenge, and if they pass, they qualify for a $50,000 award, which is granted to the contestant deemed the favorite of the judges and studio audience.
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Jared will be presented with several from among 100 crease patterns, and will need to identify the models they will fold into. The episode airs on July 31 at 9:00 PM on Fox. Don't miss it!
.Jared will be presented with several from among 100 crease patterns, and will need to identify the models they will fold into. The episode airs on July 31 at 9:00 PM on Fox. Don't miss it!


Ross Symons of Capetown, South Africa

CNN African Voices featured Ross Symons.





Sunday Funnies

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Saturday, July 15, 2017

Origami Collapsible Hand Bag





Folding Chairs








Yanko Design:

We enjoy seeing how far a designer can push furniture to be portable and innovative at the same time. In a way, the Flux Chair is quite similar to the Ollie Chair since they both can compress down to a flat pack, making them a dream to store and very easy to transport/carry around. The impressive thing however about the Flux chair is its ability to do so A. in a way that makes carrying even easier because your folded chair is smaller as well as lighter, and B. using just one material that isn’t just flexible when you need it, but rigid enough to support the body’s weight too.
The beauty of Flux is in the way it transforms from a large polypropylene envelope (briefcase sized) to a fully functioning chair that takes all of 3 minutes to set up. Using curved folds to make the chair structurally sound, the designers have managed to strike a rather lovely blend between structural integrity, and a unique aesthetic that doesn’t look anything like something you would imagine would be achievable through folding (Yves Behar’s Kada Stool, for example). In fact it reminds one of an origami version of the Pantone Chair, if you ask me, personally! The curves not only give the Flux chair its incredible load-bearing abilities, they even make the chair comfortable to sit on, as the curves on the chair match those on the sitter’s bodies.
On sale for $129.99