"you can't have my fear, I've got nothing to lose, I'm not getting out of here alive anyway"

[larryhammer]

So I, uh, seem to have agreed to run an origami workshop at our local science fiction convention. Prior experience consists of teaching Brownies the traditional water bomb. The audience will probably be mixed adults and children. I'm planning to teach the cutest mouse in the world, but that won't be enough for the full hour.

Any suggestions for other models?

Also, have a timelapse of telescopes shooting lasers into space (via) and photos of a sea serpent found off California (via). Because coolness.

---L.

Subject quote from "No Bad News," Patty Griffin.

Comments

[jennifer-j-s.livejournal.com]

How about an elephant? Because mice and elephants go together.

[larryhammer]

Hmm. And I do have a relatively simple and reasonably cute model, though the diagrams I have are ... not the easiest to follow, which means no handouts for that one. A thought.

---L.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Hopping frogs often go down well. And butterflies, if you have an elegant pattern.

[larryhammer]

Ah -- hop-frogs, yes. I don't have a really simple as well as elegant butterfly -- one as complicated as the mouse, that results in pretty neat but is not elegant along the way and can be confusing. Hmm.

Thanks!

---L.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Hah! I found instructions for the one I was thinking of on the web. This one gets folded off a waterbomb base and it's really easy. And, pretty.

http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-yoshizawa-butterfly.html

[larryhammer]

Oh, yes -- this one. I'd totally forgotten about it. That is perfect for this. Thanks!

---L.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :-)

Have fun at the workshop.

[cat-i-th-adage.livejournal.com]

Hang on - livejournal settings marked my earlier comment with the link as spam, so I'm not sure if you can read it or not.

I found the elegant(!), easy (!!) butterfly pattern I was thinking of - google "butterfly" and "waterbomb base" or "yoshizawa" and it will come up.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Bats! There should be some simple ones, though I am partial to Michael LaFosse's wet-folded ones which are probably beyond the scope of your demo. Are there any simple rocketships?

[larryhammer]

I haven't found a simple bat that uses square paper and looks as well as I feel it ought to. Some simple ones from triangles, but I probably don't want to get into that any more than wet-folding. (I'm not all that good at wet-folding myself, yet.) But I'll look around.

---L.