Just came across this today. This is pretty neat, and seems environmentally
friendly too
http://gizmodo.com/an-origami-razor-uses-the-power-of-paper-cuts-to-shave-1588015794
--
Ada
www.origamipapermonster.com
After retuning home from the MFPP convention in France last night, I got these
links from an SF Friend.
The first is story on the Origami Exhibition at Cooper's Union. IT can be
viewed during the OUSA Convention.
The second is a story of the Origami Nerds at MIT celebrating Thanksgiving
Hi,
A mention to origami in today's Dilbert comic strip:
http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/30/24/64/6376762/3/628x471.jpg
Enjoy,
Marcela Brinawww.artisbellus.com
On page 41 in the May 2014 edition of Wired, there is a short article:
Origami in Space.
It mentions the prototype by Shannon Zirbel from BYU.
In a 2008 episode of CBSs Criminal Minds, The Angel Maker, has an
origami reference. Not in a good way, unfortunately. The killer folds
origami animals out of old cigarette wrappers. Anyone know who might
have created those cigarette wrapper models?
Thanks
Vishakha
NYC
It is in some ways a standard article...
Difference Maker: Sue DiCicco helps children make and share peace cranes
The Peace Crane Project is an invitation to kids everywhere to write a poem or
message – or draw or paint a picture – of peace. Then they fold it into an
origami crane and
May have been mentioned - I am behind in my reading, but Facebook has a
Capital One ad this evening with a Dollar Bill High Heel.
Way cool! Whose is it?
Dee
I just ran across this..
Brought Into the Fold of Robert Lang’s Origami
by Janine Boylan on March 17, 2014
http://www.oh-i-see.com/blog/2014/03/17/brought-into-the-fold-of-robert-langs-origami/
I read the weekend edition of Epoch News, and to my surprise I saw a model
from last year's OUSA exhibition. The article is not origami related, but a
bit of surprise on my part.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/549945-the-dominant-faith-in-the-world-today-materialism-2/
-Linda
Twitter @animemiz
I recently watched Spike Jonze's movie HER
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_%28film%29] and it was great. What caught my
attention too was the set and clothes design, which has lots of color blocking
and simplicity too. The protagonist is Theodore Twombly (actor Joaquin Phoenix)
and above his
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:29 PM, KDianne Stephens
kdiannesteph...@gmail.comwrote:
I have been blind to it all these years...today I noticed the Chase logo
!
see it here www.orifun.weebly.com
It is also the natural product of 4 dogbone business card units.
A very nice Origami-inspired candle design - which apparently floats! :
http://modernhouseinsight.com/cute-floating-candle-inspired-from-origami-boat-2012-07-08
I have been “blind” to it all these years...today I noticed the Chase logo !
see it here www.orifun.weebly.com
Orifun to all,
Dianne
From: KDianne Stephens kdiannesteph...@gmail.com
I have been “blind” to it all these years...today I noticed the Chase logo !
see it here www.orifun.weebly.com
---
Along this line of blind to, earlier today I noticed that the icons for
'send'
I was at the Metropolitan Opera last night - Massenet's Werther with Jonas
Kaufman - and was shocked to see origami!
There's a scene where the heroine's sister is trying to cheer her up, and talks
about how happiness is like a little bird with wings (very much paraphrased -
and the opera's in
Screen captured Facebook Capital One advertisement
http://orifun.weebly.com/
I got an e-mail from a Friend in France. There is a link to a gallery showing
of dresses, hats and outfits designed by Paul and Annette Hassenforder. They
have been designing paper hats and dresses for years. I first met them many
years ago at a CDO convention. They made their creations out
In Good Housekeeping magazine - p97-8 and table of contents -- dollar-bill
butterflies floating in a jar, to illustrate, Carmen Wong Ulrich, Keep
$1000 of Your Cash
You can see it online (search on p. 93);
Hello,
a friend sent me a greeting e-card and I found out that the 2014 season's
greetings video from Technicolor has an origami theme.
Watch the video here:
http://youtu.be/Ijxc98BMPos
Cheers,
Fabio
Spotted on a grocery bag from Good Eggs (goodeggs.com):
Reuse this bag! Here are 10 ways
3. REALLY BIG ORIGAMI...
6. Wrapping paper...
(This particular bag brought Christmas goodies from Brooklyn to NJ. Another
grocery bag was used to make a package decoration of aan origami blow-up
bunny,
Spotted in this week's New Yorker (page 11, opposite Contributors) --
Cartier jewelry ad. An elegant white-paper wrap, with pleats, around a box
and sealed with sealing wax. Should be relatively easy to figure out.
The leopard kitten and the jewelry are nice, too!
Karen
Karen Reeds
Another romantic comedy K-drama where an unhappy little kid and a caring
grown-up bond over origami.
Prime Minister and I (see episode 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_and_I
Karen
karenmre...@gmail.com
The cover, by Todd St. JOhn, of today's New York Times Book Review
912/15/2013) has an assortment of bookjackets folded into paper airplanes,
with paper-folded clouds in the background.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/
Karen
karenmre...@gmail.com
http://www.creators.com/comics/chuckle-bros/113850.html
I just saw this ad for gum. The father makes a little traditional crane out of
the gum wrapper.
It reminds me of how my love for origami started. When I was a kid, my father
made cranes out of chocolate wrappers for us :)
[yeah, a collective awww, I know :) ]
Here's the yTube video of the
http://www.instructables.com/id/10-Life-Hacks-You-Need-To-Know-For-Christmas/step4/Better-Letters/Step
4: Better Letters -- you'll recognize the envelope fold, I'm sure, even if
the word origami doesn't appear. (One commenter noted that Canada's post
office doesn't accept letters that aren't in
This is close to being folding but maybe not quite... check it out...
Shadow art http://t.co/3vujiUOCJt
Vishakha
NYC
In today's comics.
http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2013/12/01/
Rebecca Gieseking
http://rebecca.gieseking.us
Spotted in the New York Times Education Life Supplement, Sunday, Nov. 3,
2013, p17
Shape your Mind with the classic origami crane, held by shadowy fingers,
and a wad of crumpled paper in the background.
Also on web:
Was in HongKong not long ago with my family. Dad, who likes exploring by
himself, walked into a gallery with lots of origami by chance - so like all
obliging Dads he took me there.
Glen Clarke is an Australian Artist based in SE Asia, using various currencies,
folding them into shirts and
Take a look at The Carpenter's Gift, by David Rubel, illustrations by Jim
La Marche (2011). The book tells a lovely story about the first Rockefeller
Center Christmas Tree, 80 years ago.
For diagrams and a reproduction of the 12/24/1931 New York Times front page
to fold it with:
Dear friends,
On occasion of their Magritte exhibition, the Museum of Modern Art of
New York, MoMA, organized an online event called Magritte through
Your Eyes. People were invited to make an interpretation of a famous
Magritte painting called The False Mirror
I entered an image that includes
I don't know if this public origami event was noticed on the Origami list
back in 2000. I just spotted it on Project Passenger Pigeon, a website
about the unhappy centennial of the extinction of the passenger pigeon.
http://passengerpigeon.org/ideacenter.html
An Origami *Flight of the
On Oct 28, 2013, at 19:37, Paper Dragon paperdra...@rcn.com wrote:
Anyway the second episode of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, the genie,
Cyrus, shows Alice what looked liked a white Kawasaki Rose. A few moments
later, it opened up to a full bloom and later turned red. Cyrus offers to
In Volume 1 of the book, Full Bloom co. 2013 by long time French magician,
Gaetan Bloom is a nice effect called The Hen.
The magician holds a small lightweight board like a tray. She places a piece of
paper on it. With invisible hands the paper folds into the classic Pajarita
model.
The article begins with, Could the solution to the impending battery crunch
be… origami? Scientists at Arizona State University have created a lithium-ion
battery out of carbon nanotube-coated paper — and then, by folding it like a
map, they have increased the battery’s energy density by 14
I received this from a friend, and since I have not seen it posted here, I am
passing it along.
The Gulf-times is Qatars English paper.
Check out what these women did. I guess tanks are a common thing in
Arabia ! They create what they see?
VCU-Q hosts exhibition of 'Trifold' creations Gulf
My husband spotted this passage in Episode 2, part 1: a little kid's
treasures include the origami models she had made with her mother, now
dead. (You can watch, with English subtitles, at:
http://www.gooddrama.net/korean-drama/the-suspicious-housekeeper-episode-2)
I won't be surprised if
During an episode of BBC's show QI (Quite Interesting), aired on Monday
(Sept. 9th) in Edinburgh, Scotland, host Stephen Fry, challenged all four
members of the panel to fold various paper airplanes launch their folded
models. Two glided, while the others crashed on launch. The segment
Hi,
I just found Paper, An Elegy, by Ian Sansom (William Morrow, imprint
of HarperCollins, 2012) in the Princeton Public Library.
I don't think this book has been mentioned on the list yet. I haven't
read much yet, but so far I'm enjoying it a lot -- he's a very good
writer.
Sansom has lots
I never thought it would be possible to to see the two together, but for a
few seconds at the end of a documentary on Bach one can see some origami
placed on his grave:
http://youtu.be/UiQbppQq54E?t=1h27m10s
I was watching QI (BBC Stephen Fry) on television tonight, and noticed that
Sandi Toksvig was wearing a brooch on her top, which looked a pound or euro
origami shirt with tie!
I have to confess that I haven't seen the shirt with tie before, only the
shirt with no tie.
So - off I go tonight on
I just ran across a reference to paper bags in a late 17th century
pharmacy manual. * That got me curious about their history and led me
to this lovely photograph of a a London paper bag baron wearing a a
traditional paper hat.
Hi!
I searched the list with no luck so I guess nobody has posted this already?
This commercial for Kellogg's Spcial K is shown here in Sweden at the
moment. I seem to recognise the butterfly, maybe you can identify more of
the models?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLKVkLkFAnQ
Regards,
On holiday in Venice this past month, I happened upon a lovely little
Japanese arts and crafts shop, Sabbie e Nebbie (Sand and Mist
http://www.italiadiscovery.it/ve/sabbieenebbie/ ). On the counter,
with pride of place among exquisite handmade cards and fabrics, stood
the 2013 Origami Page-A-Day
In today's 'Pearls before Swine' comic strip:
http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2013/06/13/
Rebecca Gieseking
http://rebecca.gieseking.us
The Japan Times has had two origami cartoons in the last few weeks.
Noodles - May 19, 2013
by Gwen Muranaka
More origami
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/cartoons/
Noodles - May 12, 2013
by Gwen Muranaka
Frogs
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/cartoons/
I saw this commercial on tv last night, and needed to make sure that I really
did see what I thought I saw. Hence, Don't blink, at about :02 -:03 there is a
folded 'football' being flicked toward the goal post of another man's fingers.
http://youtu.be/aOtifZ2-r6M
Here is a video on how to
Sunday 5/19 episode of Call the Midwife on BBC America had Doctor Turner
teaching a traditional frog to a scout troop. The show is set in the 1950's
London.
John Scully
http://www.instructables.com/id/K2-complex-modular-origami-sculpture-no-glue
/
On Apr 2, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Diana Lee boostdi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Although I have not spoken with the creator of the book sculptures, I am sure
he cuts the pages in selective areas to achive the letters. For example, the
circle inside a P cannot be achieved unless you make cuts and then
More origami art: This artist takes photographs of people, prints
multiple copies, then uses the prints to make modular origami. She then
sticks the modular on top of the original portrait and photographs the
whole business again. Decide for yourself how beautiful and artistic it
all is:
This artist takes photographs of people, prints
multiple copies, then uses the prints to make modular origami
Maybe this artist is pointing out the many side of character the mere photo
often does not capture. Interesting
For 10 years now I have taken photos to make commemorative Froebelian
New York Times Magazine
The Allergy Buster
Can a Radical New Treatment Save Children With Severe Food Allergies?
By MELANIE THERNSTROM
Published: March 7, 2013
...p 50 At one of Jack’s many long appointments, I asked him what it
was like to have allergies. He looked down, his long lashes
The Japan Times had the following story:
Miss International finds link with U.S. students
SEANA K. MAGEE
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20130208f2.html
Picture: Ikumi Yoshimatsu, Miss International 2012,
shows third-graders at Public School 307 in
Brooklyn, New York, how to fold origami
A friend sent me this link. There are two pages, and the second page can be
found by moving your mouse around near the center of the right side, in the
black space, to find the arrow to get to the second page that has a less than 3
minute video on folding.
Does anyone know her?
I am currently reading the biography of Chinese acrobat and magician
Long Tack Sam written by his great granddaughter Ann Marie Fleming.
On page 9 is a small crude origami diagram of something she folded as
a child which she called either a bra or a hat
The book is a follow up to her
From: Ray Takeuchi takeu...@mindspring.com
Here's the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Magical-Life-Long-Tack-Sam/dp/1594482640/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1358975426sr=1-1
Thanks, Ray, and at the Amazon site, you can view quite a bit of the inside of
the
Origami cranes make several appearances in this video by Brazilian
singing star Daniel:
http://youtu.be/P-F90uraZ0I
Richard
(Piracicaba, SP, Brazil)
Today I saw an ad put out by the Sandy Ad Council that had many dollar bill
models.
It was a heart, a house, a bed, and a hand made out of dollar bills. It was I
believe to raise money for the people affected by hurricane Sandy, if you
wanted to donate. Anyone know who folded the models? Nice
A colleague from work spotted this and pointed it out to me. It is an
extraordinary rendering of the Svyato-Spassky Cathedral in Minusinsk done in
block origami using approximately 60,000 units. In the background sits a
different origami cathedral.
It can be found in BBC News in Piictures
You can see more photos here:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/russian-teacher-creates-mind-blowing-modular-origami-models-of-famous-cathedrals.html
Great stuff!
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http://www.origami-resource-center.com/
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