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May. 23rd, 2011 08:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I thought, it's Monday, it's been kind of stressful, maybe I'll fold something easy today. I know! A tulip! What could be easier than a tulip?
EVERYTHING, AS IT TURNS OUT.

Granted, part of the problem was the paper I was using, but still. That is a SAD TULIP.
(You can find the stem fold here; it does tend to make any flower look much more distinguished and professional, even the really badly folded ones.)
EVERYTHING, AS IT TURNS OUT.
Granted, part of the problem was the paper I was using, but still. That is a SAD TULIP.
(You can find the stem fold here; it does tend to make any flower look much more distinguished and professional, even the really badly folded ones.)
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Date: 2011-05-24 02:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 02:33 am (UTC)On a related topic, you need this -- http://www.bleedingcool.com/?p=80181 -- in your life.
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Date: 2011-05-24 02:46 am (UTC)I wish someone would explain how to translate those incomprehensible line diagrams into one of those awesome and amazing folds.
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Date: 2011-05-24 03:33 am (UTC)I got her a book at the library this weekend, 'Jurassic Origami', that has a folded dinosaur fight scene. So cool.
http://www.amazon.com/Jurassic-Origami-Edwin-Ee/dp/0893468614
Also, this -- http://www.fishgoth.com/origami/theropoda.html
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Date: 2011-05-24 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 02:36 am (UTC)Addendum: Apparently, you are psychic. The Canadian Tulip Festival was this weekend. Not, you know, that any of us Canadians outside of Ottawa have even heard of it before, but whatevs. ;) Go, Sam!
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Date: 2011-05-24 11:57 am (UTC)...but that's only because my family are there. :)
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Date: 2011-05-24 12:59 pm (UTC)Paper varies not just in thickness (which is the main problem with the calendar paper, it's too thick) but also in the length of the fibres used and the quality, type, and quantity of additives like linen and cotton -- for instance, "onionskin" paper used in bibles versus "rag" paper used in dollar bills. :) But whatever works best for you is what you should stick with!
I did know ABOUT the tulip festival, though I didn't know it was this weekend :D
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Date: 2011-05-24 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 03:02 am (UTC)One Mothers' Day I made my mum a little origami vase full of these tulips. She still keeps it on top of the piano.
Because I am a sucker for a pun.
Date: 2011-05-24 03:42 am (UTC)Incidentally, I like your tulip much better than the perfect and crisp one in the destructions. Real tulips don't have 90-degree angles!
Re: Because I am a sucker for a pun.
Date: 2011-05-24 09:08 am (UTC)Re: Because I am a sucker for a pun.
Date: 2011-05-24 01:05 pm (UTC)Re: Because I am a sucker for a pun.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:30 pm (UTC)I blame you :P
(Now I'm going to go ransack your "studying the folds" tag.)
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:41 pm (UTC)Here are some free online origami archives if you want.
http://www.en.origami-club.com/ <--- Free, simple, with animations of difficult folds, kid-friendly. The best origami site I've found. :)
http://www.origami-fun.com/index.html <-- mostly easy but heavily skewed towards marketing her origami book
http://www.origamiaustria.at/diagrams.php?lang=2 <-- moderately advanced stuff, mostly
http://www.origami.as/Files/models.php <-- seriously advanced stuff
http://marckrsh.home.pipeline.com/ <-- do not link children to this, he does porny origami as well as regular.
You must let me know how it goes :D
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Date: 2011-05-26 03:45 am (UTC)(My coworker was extremely amused by the pornographic origami at the last link. :P)
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Date: 2011-08-13 03:08 pm (UTC)I remembered yesterday that I'd forgotten to get back to you when I gave two cranes and a jumping frog to some kids in the library. They were fascinated, and the boy ended up checking out The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.
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Date: 2011-08-14 03:15 pm (UTC)I have a video somewhere for an origami yoda....
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Date: 2011-08-14 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-24 09:58 pm (UTC)