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January 15, 2005
Origami Mania
I remember going through a hobby stage of origami creation as a kid, and obtaining multiple books with illustrations of folding techniques. The interesting thing is, some books were more well-illustrated than others, so if I couldn't figure out one diagram, another book might be more useful. Anyhow, I thought in this day and age, someone should make a movie of basic fold sequences so that beginners can learn from watching a video instead of looking at still diagrams in books. I didn't find any sites like that, unfortunately.
Some people takes origami very very seriously. It looks like some of them even make a living off of the art. Check out this Alien rendition. Scary, huh? I also really liked Satoshi Kamiya's work, especially the wizard. Note the incredible facial expression details. There's also a neat-looking Yoda constructed out of copper mesh. Yoda's skin is actually colored by verdigris, which cracked me up because I've always thought Yoda was the color of oxidized copper. Of course, I also liked the origami tea set.
Posted by Kathy at January 15, 2005 07:05 PM