Feathered Crane

October 24, 2018

Feathered Crane

Created by Riccardo Foschi

Folded by Michael Sanders

Elephant hide

Source 

I finally get to ✔ this one off my bucket list! A little messy; but that's me.

Methyl Cellulose and lots of clamps were applied as the paper layers got a bit thick

Star Puff Box

Since doing Beth Johnson's acorn, I'm starting to like folding hexagons.  I've avoided it because I'm a bit lazy at cutting out hexagon shapes from squares- I don't know why, but I feel like I'm wasting paper by cutting away the unessentials.  :-P

Anyway, I folded this last week:

Tutorial by Sara Adams:




This one by Ilan Garibi:

Sunday Funnies

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Hello, Cute Origami!

So....

I am cool and secure enough in my masculinity to post and share this.

Yes, I folded Hello Kitty. What’cha gonna do about it, huh?

Cutie Cat
Designed by Marc Kirschenbaum
Folded by Michael Sanders
10” x 10” square of tissue/Japanese foil paper
Source: Tanteidan convention book 15

Ribbon Kitty 

Designed by Michelle Fung

Folded by Michael Sanders

10” x 10” square of Japanese foil paper backed with some sort of mulberry paper?

Source: Tanteidan book 22

Happy Mail!

This arrived for me last Tuesday:

It took me a while to renew my subscription; but the good thing about Tanteidan is that you can subscribe anytime and receive all the magazines within the year's volume. 

NOA, on the other hand, I have yet to renew, and am kind of bummed I've let so many issues elapse.

Sometimes you feel like a nut...

Acorn
Created by Beth Johnson
Folded by Michael Sanders
Approximately 7-8” hexagon (lid) and circle (body). Elephant hide.

Folded just over a week ago. I don’t have a whole lot of experience folding from atypical shapes (hexagons, circles) nor in folding tessellations. So this was kind of a new challenge for me. I did enjoy the process of folding the hex tessellation (Eric Gjerde) portion of the model. The underside in particular looks beautiful to me.

This has been on my bucket list since at least 2013. I’m happy to finally check it off. But I’m not satisfied with this first effort and may fold it again someday.

David Brill Horse

October 6, 2018

Horse

Created by David Brill

Folded by Michael Sanders

Folded from (almost) 25” equilateral triangle

Not sure what kind of paper

Diagrams: BRILLiant Origami

This is probably only the third Brill horse I’ve folded. The first one many moons ago was a mess and became an origami basketball for the waste basket. The second one was my Sea Biscuit composition (Brill’s horse and rider for the fox hunt. See here. I decided to fold this one for my Brill St. George and the Dragon. I’ve been using a cheat by incorporating Montroll’s classic horse for the knight’s war steed. But yesterday decided I wanted a full Brill composition.

The Montroll horse remains my favorite mostly because it’s quick and easy for me with a good shaping look to it for the amount of work involved. It was the model that inspired me, when I saw Terry Hall fold one for a girl at my first Westcoast Origami meeting. But along with that, was Brill’s horse. That too inspired me to pursue origami as a little bit more than just a casual pastime when I saw his book, Brilliant Origami along with Montroll and Lang, at the Borders bookstore. This was around 2001-2002. Before that, I had never seen modern origami or anything so much more complex than traditional models. And the cover on Brill’s book of St George and the Dragon was whoa-inspiring.

I love the look of the Brill horse (especially the other classic horse of his for which I don’t believe there are diagrams made available); but I’m one of those origamists that’s been a bit lazy to cut and fold from anything other than squares and rectangles. Plus I think the Brill horse is a bit challenging to get the shaping just right. I had to refold the hind legs on this one a couple of times as the body looked a bit too short; then I overcompensated and made the body too long. Finally, I hit the Goldilocks zone and am satisfied with this model.

Now to go unearth my St George and the Dragon from storage boxes in the garage somewhere and retire the Montroll warhorse.

My fear is that I may have to redo a new knight because I think he may be too large to sit atop this Brill horse.

Old composition

V'Ann Cornelius' Right Angle Support Shelf

November 3, 2007 at the Aquarium of the Pacific

Need display shelves for your origami?  And want to make them yourself out of paper? 

V'Ann Cornelius created quite a number of display stands and shelves (if you attend PCOC or OUSA conventions, the model menu displays are more than likely V'Ann's designs; and sometimes also found in the exhibition room to help highlight model displays). 

These are shelves I folded and used 11 years ago, using poster tape to hang them up on the wall.  Diagrams are found in OUSA's The Paper, issue #92.

Sunday Funnies

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Standing Jack

Hana-Ichimonme in Little Tokyo

These origami models appear in the cashier window display at Hana-Ichimonme, which is found on the third floor of the Little Tokyo Galleria.  I've known about these models for many years now; and I think I contributed a Komatsu rabbit (shown in the next photo) over a decade ago (visiting specifically to see the models and not to eat there).

Terry Hall used to head the WCOG.  He and another folder who I never had the pleasure to meet, Po-Tei, frequented this restaurant.  I think a number of these models were folded by them.  Po-Tei, in particular, is an exquisite folder of Montroll models.  I have never seen a more precise and well-shaped husky as the ones folded by Po-Tei and left at Yamaguchi's on Sawtelle and Olympic in Santa Monica (pop & grand pop store was closed down a number of years ago); and also at Rafu Bussan.

A reviewer:

Where do I even begin this review.  I have been going to Hana ichimonme for at least 25 years.  I have so many fond memories of going here and ordering the yakisoba that came on a little snail plate, and finishing off the meal with a shaved ice with condensed milk... I used to love staring at the plastic food displays in the window and then the origami by the cash register while my dad would pay for the bill.
I am so happy that hana ichimonme is still around.  Today my menu item of choice has changed a bit.  I now love getting the sansai ramen.  I really love the mountain vegetables, and this is one of the only places that I prefer getting the shoyu based ramen broth.  It's interesting to see how little has changed about this restaurant, but I really hope it doesn't.  It is one of the only things that has lasted throughout the years in the plaza, and for good reason.

Read Juliana T.'s review of Hana Ichimonme on Yelp

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September NOA #517

Origami Festival in Pasadena

From the flyer:

At the Storrier Stearns Japanese Garden on Sunday September 30, 12pm-4pm Come and learn to fold paper cranes, flowers and other fun forms with expert paper folders from the Pacific Ocean Paperfolders (POP) and our own Origami Club teacher Nick Cavallo. We will host talks on different aspects of origami from local experts and have Japanese tea and snacks for sale – all in the beautiful setting of our Japanese garden! Festival Program
 12pm to 4pm: Ongoing Origami Folding Stations in the Garden1) Paper Cranes for Peace with Sue DiCicco and our volunteers2) Fold a Flower with Michael Sanders
3) Origami Explorations with POP members, Jared Needle and Bryan Yu4) Learn to Fold ?? with Nick Cavallo Special Lectures followed by book-signings in the House (in En Gallery)12:30pm: Storigami with origami artist and children’s book author, Joel Stern
1:30pm: New Expressions in Origami Art with art historian Meher McArthur
2:30pm: SPECIAL NEW BOOK LAUNCH: The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki with animator and arts activist Sue DiCicco

LaFosse F14 Tomcat

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The other Hojyo Violinist

Here’s another violinist also by Takashi HOJYO. It’s a two piece model (from 6” squares of tissue foil) plus the bow (don’t remember the dimensions of the paper). No glue (although I wouldn’t be opposed to it for this model), so the head and violin (black and flesh-colored duo tissue foil paper) sit precariously atop the body (purple and flesh-colored tissue foil); and the raw edge of the hand is slipped under a layer of the bow to hold it in place. 

I actually folded this one somewhen around 2003-2005 (if you zoom in close, you can see the dust that I couldn't brush off the model for this photo). I believe diagrams are in an Oru book that I borrowed from Helen Sperber.

Violinist & Violin

These have long been on my bucket list of models to fold; and this past week, I finally got around to doing it.

Violinist
Designed by Takashi HOJYO
Folded by Michael Sanders
27.5” x 27.5” (70cm x 70cm) single square of elephant hide (wyndstone paper)

No glue, even though the diagrams suggest applying a little to close the skirt. I did use methyl cellulose to help with the shaping. Not digging the neck (too long), but I think I’m done with this model for now. I worked on it for 3 days (Tues-Thurs) and almost turned this into an origami boulder about 53 steps in (I suddenly realized my precreases were off by 1/40th of a column).

This is the first complex model I’ve done in a very long time. Just don’t have a lot of patience for hours of tedious precreasing.

Last night, I started folding Hagiwara's violin and completed it today:

Violin
Created by Gen Hagiwara
Folded by Michael Sanders
18.25” x 4.5” rectangle 
Tissue foil

I misplaced my Tanteidan magazine (I probably set it aside years ago because I wanted to fold it- and have forgotten where I placed it for safe keeping); so I worked off of a video (ugh!).  The body looks too long; so I may have to do another one (may have to do more, anyway, as I know violinists who would probably appreciate having one).

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