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larryhammer) wrote2017-07-06 08:19 am
larryhammer) wrote2017-07-06 08:19 am
"electric word, life / it means forever and that's a mighty long time"
Realization while talking with branna: I've been folding origami for 40 years. My usual personal marker for no longer being a youngster is my time online (35 years, starting with dial-up BBSs) but this is an even longer measure. And in its way more impressive.
Since, however significant this may be to me, that's not enough to make a post, here's a couple recent results of all that practice:
Folded from a 10" (25cm) square, no cuts: three long necks with dragon heads, four legs, wings, and a tail. This was something like the 5th or 6th time I've made this model, and despite it being several years since the last one, it was not the technical challenge I remembered -- just long and complicated. Huh.
A tiny apatosaurus* folded from 3" (7.5cm) paper from memory, by way of stretching myself. I can hold about a dozen models in my head at any given time, and this is the most complicated one I've ever memorized. With TBD old enough I don't have to pocket a tissue pack everywhere I go, I now carry small folding papers. I managed this model without resorting to a toothpick or the like, for working the smaller folds. And then repeated the feat in light green (not shown).
---L.
* AKA the Artist Formerly Known As Brontosaurus.
Subject quote from "Let's Go Crazy," Prince.
branna: I've been folding origami for 40 years. My usual personal marker for no longer being a youngster is my time online (35 years, starting with dial-up BBSs) but this is an even longer measure. And in its way more impressive.Since, however significant this may be to me, that's not enough to make a post, here's a couple recent results of all that practice:
Folded from a 10" (25cm) square, no cuts: three long necks with dragon heads, four legs, wings, and a tail. This was something like the 5th or 6th time I've made this model, and despite it being several years since the last one, it was not the technical challenge I remembered -- just long and complicated. Huh.
A tiny apatosaurus* folded from 3" (7.5cm) paper from memory, by way of stretching myself. I can hold about a dozen models in my head at any given time, and this is the most complicated one I've ever memorized. With TBD old enough I don't have to pocket a tissue pack everywhere I go, I now carry small folding papers. I managed this model without resorting to a toothpick or the like, for working the smaller folds. And then repeated the feat in light green (not shown).
---L.
* AKA the Artist Formerly Known As Brontosaurus.
Subject quote from "Let's Go Crazy," Prince.
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If we ever meet up, I'd love to see you in origami action.
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ETA: For an example of something that started with very large paper: the last pic in this post. The result is about 8" high, and based on techniques that I know had to have gone into it, my guess is the original was about 1m square.
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The strap is not a. complete loop ...
It's a single piece of paper without cuts, I pretty darn sure. Advanced origami techniques can produce amazing effects.
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