"Let those big words come right out"

[larryhammer]

A mylar balloon from last month's birthday party is still hanging around. Today it reached neutral buoyancy and has floated from room to room at eye level, on the furnace currents, and startling one as one putters. Right now, it's circling about in the convection of my body heat. Creepy and cool.

So is knowing that tyrannosaurs look pretty in pink but moose most definitely do not. Robert Lang's scorpion, OTOH, is just plain cool:



(jamiam, this is what you saw me working on.) Yes, that's eight legs, two claws with pincers, a jointed tail, and mouth parts -- all from one square sheet of paper, no cuts. Origami designers have been doing some amazing things, these past two decades.

Have a good Year's Long Night, you all. Unless, of course, it's Year's Long Day.

---L.

Comments

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Looks like it came out okay!

[larryhammer]

With much pulling apart and retrying at times.

Now I want to do something suicidal, like try the model with so-called elephant's hide paper. The sort where you fold then press under a stack of books for a couple hours, before going to the next one.

---L.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

Try the scorpion?

Not that I lack faith in your mad origami skillz....

[larryhammer]

Yeah, the scorpion in elephant hide.

Not so much mad skillz as just plain mad.

OTOH, I did fold Tiamat from 6" paper today.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Creepy because said balloon has a picture of the Grim Reaper on it, and even if the balloon cheerfully declares said reaper is only here for the cake, still, being followed around by same makes one feel just a little bit stalked ...

[harvestar.livejournal.com]

hmm... yes, very creepy.

[larryhammer]

It was still neutral buoyant this morning, if floating a little closer to the floor. Quite startling to find in the early dawn living room -- in your face.

---L.

[harvestar.livejournal.com]

wow, that's so cool!!!

that pink is a bit startling on the moose... perhaps a soft rose would be better? ;)

[larryhammer]

Don't think I have any rose of a size. That model requires a large square, to get that rack with any decent detail.

---L.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

I quite like the pink moose.

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

That is so, so utterly cool. I am seriously impressed with all your folded creatures.

[sfmarty.livejournal.com]

Folding paper is an awesome talent.

Here is a link, btw, that I quite liked.

http://lol.ianloic.com/lj/lnhammer

Because I like Daniel Pinkwater books

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

Ohhh, are you capable of making a blue moose?

Heh

[larryhammer]

I do indeed have blue paper. Don't know if I've any light blue that size, but definitely navy.

---L.

Re: Heh

[http://users.livejournal.com/_twilight_/]

http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Moose-Manus-Pinkwater/dp/0396071511

He also wrote books about you. Okay, not really. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0761451781/ref=pd_cp_b_1?pf_rd_p=317711001&pf_rd_s=center-41&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0761451897&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1TNJYP9W5DM79C1ZMR2T