"but every vessel pitching hard to starboard / lay its head on summer's freckled knees"

[larryhammer]

While I continue convalescing, some origami photos -- because I've being working my way through Jun Maekawa's Genuine Origami and there's some very nice models. Like this whiskery oriental dragon and her BFF frog:



(Click to embiggen ETA: embiggening code fixed.)

I knew about the "Bug Wars" of the 1990s, in which origami designers one-upped each other with the complexity and realism of their insect models. (Thus my interest in this book out later this year.) But was there a time when everyone rushed to add fingers and toes to every freaking model? Because they're all OVER the place lately.

Anyway, here's two proud and dapper birds -- without toes:



This is the simpler version of the peacock -- the full one has many more, smaller pleats in the tail, and I haven't finished it yet. What it really wants is two-sided paper, like this lotka used for the triceratops:



But all of this is distraction from what I really wanted to post: evidence of my obsessive tendencies.




Waaaay cute model. Just way. Too. Cute.

---L.

Comments

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

The images load in situ for me, but they're not linked, FWIW. End-of-post link works fine.

The dragon is awesome. "The mice look up"?

[larryhammer]

You're right -- LJ seems to have stopped linking through by default. Fixed.

"The Mice Look Up" sounds like a dystopian picture book.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

"The Mice Look Up" sounds like a dystopian picture book.

Ooooh. (ponders)

[larryhammer]

Your dibs.

---L.