"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

[larryhammer]

:-)

I am thinking, if we make Sirens this year, of proposing a workshop to teach how to fold the mouse. Even if I can't find a thematic excuse.

---L.

[janni.livejournal.com]

It doesn't fall under "monsters"? :-)

[larryhammer]

Hmm.

Folding from a diagram is a retelling ...