origami updated
Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. It involves taking a piece of paper, folding it a lot, swearing a few times, screwing it up, throwing it across the room and starting again.
If you persevere and keep your cool, you'll eventually end up with something elegant and beautiful, like the roof of a house. Here's one I made yesterday after several aborted attempts.
After mastering the roof of a house, I moved on to the most popular object for origami experts, the crane.
Japanese people can make a crane with their eyes closed. It's almost as if they're hard-wired to do it.
Wishing to emulate their marvellous skills, I donned a blindfold, grabbed a large piece of paper and attempted my own crane. In retrospect, the blindfold was an unwise move.
You see, being an Englishman, I'm more hard-wired for drinking beer at speed (with eyes open or closed) than folding paper into artful shapes.
However, with a little dedication, great things can be achieved.
Here's my non-blindfold attempt at a crane, exquisitely folded in the small hours of this morning. The results are, I'm sure you'll agree, stunning.........
In the past few years, more up-to-date forms of origami have grown in popularity. Here are three that recently caught my eye:
orizukue - the art of folding tables.
This isn't particularly difficult, especially if it's been correctly hinged before you start.
origaisha - the art of folding companies.
This is really easy if it's inefficiently run and wastes lots of money.
oridori - the art of folding chickens.
Self-explanatory.
If you persevere and keep your cool, you'll eventually end up with something elegant and beautiful, like the roof of a house. Here's one I made yesterday after several aborted attempts.
After mastering the roof of a house, I moved on to the most popular object for origami experts, the crane.
Japanese people can make a crane with their eyes closed. It's almost as if they're hard-wired to do it.
Wishing to emulate their marvellous skills, I donned a blindfold, grabbed a large piece of paper and attempted my own crane. In retrospect, the blindfold was an unwise move.
You see, being an Englishman, I'm more hard-wired for drinking beer at speed (with eyes open or closed) than folding paper into artful shapes.
However, with a little dedication, great things can be achieved.
Here's my non-blindfold attempt at a crane, exquisitely folded in the small hours of this morning. The results are, I'm sure you'll agree, stunning.........
In the past few years, more up-to-date forms of origami have grown in popularity. Here are three that recently caught my eye:
orizukue - the art of folding tables.
This isn't particularly difficult, especially if it's been correctly hinged before you start.
origaisha - the art of folding companies.
This is really easy if it's inefficiently run and wastes lots of money.
oridori - the art of folding chickens.
Self-explanatory.
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On Saturday, 03 November, 2007,
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Umm...yeah...
On Tuesday, 06 November, 2007,
Anonymous said:
Or even sit down. You're hilarious man.
On Saturday, 10 November, 2007,
Anonymous said:
best post ever
On Saturday, 10 November, 2007,
Anonymous said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhSjtXKsSJQ
Who ever would've thought that origami was such as classic comic topic??
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