Hi everyone, It's the first Saturday of the month - time for another origami video tutorial! This time I'm showing you how to fold some modular origami: the Sparaxis unit, a star from 6 units and a sphere (kusudama) from 30 units. Thanks to Ekaterina Lukasheva from http://kusudama.me/ for this fantastic design and permission to present it to you!
Picture of a fold: http://www.happyfolding.com/gallery-lukasheva-star_and_kusudama Video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/mJ6SsdzpClc Video on happyfolding: http://www.happyfolding.com/instructions-lukasheva_sparaxis_star_and_kusudama And do check out Ekaterina's YouTube channel (with instructional videos!) https://www.youtube.com/user/aradddia and her book "Kusudama", details here: http://www.happyfolding.com/book-lukasheva-kusudama_origami But there's more news. :) On May 9th at 11:26pm I gave birth to my second son, Niklas Adams. We're well and about and enjoying life as a family of four. For the curious amongst you, here's a picture from the first day when Felix (my older son) met Niklas: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JobE2DKBCXU/U275pi7KtUI/AAAAAAAA3lo/cyPkZyL3oQI/w924-h1232-no/9167-SMILE.jpg And if that's not enough, let's add some more origami-related news! I received many great letters in celebration of reaching 50,000 subscribers, and it inspired me to start a new effort to connect more with you out there. That's why I decided to launch a new video series called "Your origami folds". In each video, I'll show photos of folds you completed of the model in my most recent origami video. Details are in the video http://youtu.be/EevKZTEFymw - but to keep things short: The deadline for submissions of photos of "Mother and Child" by Stephen Weiss ( http://youtu.be/tPegXeyEIwY) is a week from now, on June 14th 2014. I'll publish the first "Your Origami Folds" a week after, on June 21st 2014. Finally, you may be wondering about Ilan Garibi's and Gadi Vishne's newest paper review. This time - in celebration of 20 reviews - it's a special article, which features opinions on paper choice from Giang Dinh, Beth Johnson, and Robert Lang. Now if that isn't a special treat! Read the article at http://www.happyfolding.com/paper-survey_dinh_johnson_lang or https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/paper-review-special-paper-survey Now, enjoy the weekend and of course happy folding, -- Sara
