"electric word, life / it means forever and that's a mighty long time"

[larryhammer]

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.

Comments

[sovay]

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

Both of those creatures have a lot of personality.

[cmcmck]

These are fun! :o)

[thistleingrey]

Wow--being able to keep models in your head is especially impressive. I can usually follow an intermediate diagram, but unaided, I can barely remember the steps for a basic cup or boat. :P

(35 years! Congratulations(?). I bought a friend's slow modem 25 years ago and met BBSes that way. (Actually slow: 1200 or 2400 baud in the age of 14.4k meant being able to read text as it came up on the screen.))

[asakiyume]

Very, very impressed. I wouldn't have thought it was possible to fold paper so as to create the three necks of that first model without cutting. Wow! And the apatosaurus from memory is very impressive too.