Just in time for Easter, you can fold these little bunnies to tuck your holiday goodies in. By Jacky Chan.
More videos from Jacky. Pic from Orukami.
Origami Bunny for Easter
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Macross Origami
Just want to direct your attention to this Macross origami that actually transforms! It’s in Japanese, but diagrams don’t need no translating, so have at it!
What is Macross? It’s an anime. Yes, I am a geek. We’ve already established that.
Also, yes, I’m trying to get back into blogging here again. I have lots of paper n stuff to fold and show off. Also, I miss you blog.
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Any Square Piece of Paper…
I know it’s been a while since the last post. I’ve just been too lazy to take pictures and post it up.
I am still folding paper and cutting them to make my own square paper to fold. When you’re in this situation, you’ll be more likely to notice square pieces of paper appearing naturally “in the wild” and you’ll have this weird desire to fold it into something. Here’s what happened after I ate a box of chocolates and found myself a nice square to fold:
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- Using square paper from a Ferrero Rocher chocolate box
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Kusudama Flower Ball
The flowers from this Kusudama ball are all over Etsy. It is kind of annoying and it leads me to believe that it is the only thing people on Etsy know how to fold. Sure, there are a few that fold different flowers, but these Kusudama flowers comprise of 80% of the origami listings there. I personally don’t think the flower by itself is all that attractive, though having it in ball form is very cool. (Then again, I think all Kusudama balls are pretty awesome in general)
Small Kusudama Flower Ball in Progress
It’s not difficult to make. It’s just kind of tedious to put together. The ball has 12 kasudama flowers, where each includes 5 pieces of paper per flower. In total, it required 60 pieces of paper to make this flower ball. I broke the folding and assembly process into two days.
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Fabulous Origami Boxes – Bowls
I’m working through Fabulous Origami Boxes by order, so first up are the bowls. They are pretty easy to fold, but I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out the diagrams.
I folded two versions of each. One being the trial version just to get the hang of things and the second version was the final version with the least amount of creases possible for presentation.
Yes, there are lucky stars in the bowls. I figured I ought to fill it with something, right?
The bowls are created using two pieces of paper. One was used for the shell and the other piece was a liner of sorts. There are a few bowls or vessel pieces that includes minor variations of the first one.
The bowls were kind of *blah* when they were combined as is, but using double sided tape to align and affix the paper together made it look better. I’m assuming if my paper were actually square, that I wouldn’t have this problem.
In some cases, I snazzed up some of the parts to make it look a little nicer. Looks like a tulip, no?
All in all, the bowls are pretty easy to fold and are pretty useful in holding, um, more origami in.
Actual boxes to come next.
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“Origami” Paper on the Cheap
Yeah, its been a while. I do have a bunch of pictures and junk that I had since a month ago and have been meaning to post up, so here we go.
I started working on the Fabulous Origami Boxes by Tomoko Fuse and I really didn’t want to use my nicer more expensive papers, especially for the trial folds. I wanted nice colorful paper and stopped by Staples to grab a ream of their brights. It was on sale (after rebate), so I spent about $3.5 for the whole thing, including tax.
You do get what you pay for so, the problem with cheapo paper is that the corners are not square. So now, I’m going to have to look into getting a paper cutter. Maybe I’ll do a cost comparison post on them in the future.
In the meantime, I’m just cutting my squares out by hand and its not perfect by any means, but its good enough for my future experimenting.
Warning: you will see a lot of these colors in the coming posts.
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Fabulous Origami Boxes by Tomoko Fuse
I’m a little (a lot) jealous. The papers used as demonstration in the book is beautiful and probably really expensive. In my case, I’ll be using a ream of the cheapo paper I bought from staples as I follow along with this book. This should be fun.
Pictures and stuff will be forthcoming.
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Ye Olde Origami Stash
I’m probably going to sell the stars in jars for the Japan relief effort. I opened up a Storenvy shop in anticipation of it too. I spent a good few hours working on the CSS there so that the shop can match the blog somewhat.
And yes, I have 2 bag full of mini cranes. There are about 1k in each bag.
I want to hold on to the mini cranes a bit to do something with them. Not sure what yet. Maybe make a colorful mosaic of some sort.
We’ll see.
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Please Help Japan
I’ve been away from home for the past few days and have finally been able to settle down. While I was on the road, earthquakes and tsunami hit Japan. Even though I am not Japanese, Japan and its people and culture has helped shaped me into the person that I am today. So in hearing the news and then seeing the images and videos breaks my heart.
I was originally planning on selling some of the origami that I’ve been working on to make a bit of money on the side, but now, I will be donating all proceeds to the relief effort via Direct Relief International, which has a very good rating for spending most of their money on relief (as opposed to administration and promotion).
In the meantime, I’ve done the little bit that I can to help by donating to the American Red Cross.
Please help Japan.
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