Re: [Origami] Your thoughts about models using other materials?
Enhancements to origami models can come from using other media or as in this case, some technology. Check Rob Ribaudo's flapping bird http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-_eWc4O3c Jorge Jaramillo -- Jorge Jaramillo
Re: [Origami] Your thoughts about models using other materials? (FWD for Yahoo/SBC user)
[Note from your list admin: I am forwarding this for Yahoo user kskn...@sbcglobal.net, please reply to the list or to the original author, not to me.] On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Gerardo @neorigami.com < gera...@neorigami.com> wrote: > > What are your thoughts regarding the use of this other materials in origami > models? I ask because I have this hypothesis that creating models that > include non-folding-materials is mostly frowned upon by the origami > community. Am I right? Personally, adding 'things' to make the fold more interesting, or to move, I have no problem in doing so. Perhaps, because I teach, and most often to children, making it fun is a way to get them hooked. Two folds I was taught while in grade school by someone coming into the classroom of 50 students, before the word origami was used, were the German Star and the German Bell. The German Star (also called Moravian Star or Swedish Star) is far from a square piece of paper, but rather 4 each with a ratio of 1:25. The finished folded star is then finished by dipping into molten wax and applying glitter to the wet wax. I'm not a glitter person, but the star looks 'dead' without it. Thankfully, there is now micro glitter in many colors. The other fold I first learned, the German Bell, requires that four letter word g**e to keep it together. As an adult, when I learned the crane, low and below, it was an epiphany for me to discover the CP for the crane and the German Bell were the same. Crayons or googlie eyes, or other mentioned items used to complete the fold, folding was done to make the item. It's origami to begin with. Do you always eat your piece of bread plain, or maybe add butter or jelly, or cinnamon sugar, or toast it - it is still bread underneath. Bread that just has been enhanced. Kathy Knapp kskn...@sbcglobal.net Kathy Knapp 1014 N Parkside Dr. Peoria, Illinois, USA Do well your part today. - Juliette Gordon Low
Re: [Origami] Your thoughts about models using other materials?
Hi Gerardo said: "Angel Ecija has many different action models that include non-folding-materials that are in order to work: "Spinning Top" uses a toothpick so you can make it spin, "Pinwheel" needs a thumbtack and a stick in order to spin as well, "Crossbow" uses string to shoot its quarrels, and "Kite" uses string also but so you can make it glide." Ángel Écija is a great creator and not only has action models but also many more. He has been in the world of origami since he was 8 and he has been creating models more than 30 years. He is not very fond of the social networks and usually he not takes the bothering to answer when some site criticized his work as in the case here or some web steals their model, etc… Having said that, I would like to make two observations. First, you need only to remember the history of Origami to see that everything was more permissible. The principle of “not cutting, not stiking to only fold” is relatively new, from second half of S. XX, and for it we adapted the size and type of paper. Besides that, he's certainly not the only one that uses a little stick to move the windlass blades. The list would be too long and include many others like Tomoko Fuse, Jeremy Shafer, Leyla Torres… But even then, the second and more importantly, the figure always is folded so I believe it is not important if one adds a ballpoint pen, pencil or a wood to rotate it. I do not mind about the material it is made figure folded paper, plastic, metal ... Best regard Inmaculada Lora . -- "Cuando las manos están ocupadas, el corazón está en paz" Akira Yoshizawa
Re: [Origami] Your thoughts about models using other materials?
> What are your thoughts regarding the use of this other materials in origami > models? I ask because I have this hypothesis that creating models that > include non-folding-materials is mostly frowned upon by the origami > community. Am I right? > I've come to appreciate mixed media approaches to origami. To view origami as art is to open it up to the flexibility of the creative process. I do think it appropriate to reveal structural sequencing and methods, particularly if one wants to take ownership in the design. -- xda www.linkedin.com/in/xander http://www.xanderfolds.com
[Origami] Your thoughts about models using other materials?
Hi guys, I wanted to ask for your opinion. Ángel Ecija has many different action models that include non-folding-materials that are in order to work: "Spinning Top" uses a toothpick so you can make it spin, "Pinwheel" needs a thumbtack and a stick in order to spin as well, "Crossbow" uses string to shoot its quarrels, and "Kite" uses string also but so you can make it glide. What are your thoughts regarding the use of this other materials in origami models? I ask because I have this hypothesis that creating models that include non-folding-materials is mostly frowned upon by the origami community. Am I right? I'd really appreciate your opinion on this : )
