Archive for June, 2006

Origami Convention, 1

June 29th, 2006

A wonderful experience. still trying to process everything, will do some nicer writeups (and image uploading/fixing on Flickr) once I’m back from NYC at the end of the week.

Here’s Joel Cooper, Joseph Wu, and Philip Chapman-Bell (aka Oschene).

I just realized that between the 4 of us, they all have better beard/mustache combos than I do.

Next year I’m going to have to double my efforts if I want to compete!

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On my way to NYC

June 23rd, 2006

Well, I packed up most of my tessellations into a giant binder, and I’m waiting right now to board the flight to NYC. I’m looking forward to sharing some of my work “with the public”, so to speak, even though on review most of it isn’t material I’m all that excited for people to see. Regardless, it should be fun.

See (some) of you in a few hours!

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Money Folding

June 21st, 2006

Lately, prompted subliminally by a conversation on the O-list, I have been folding money. I never really cared for money folding before, and I can’t say that this represents a change in my folding focus, but there’s something really fascinating in folding unique objects out of such a common, ubiquitous item.

Folded last night, here’s a design based on a puff star tessellation:

And a few days ago, I folded this design- two octagonal negative space stars, with radial kite shapes:

It conveniently holds two half-dollar coins quite precisely in the “negative space” in the center.

I’ll probably bring both of these to the convention, although I haven’t figured out a display method yet- I’m a little worried that someone will just swipe the dollar bills off the table. Anyone with money-folding + convention experience willing to give me a suggestion on display methodology for such things?

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Many, Many new works, and some news

June 16th, 2006

It’s official- I give up on trying to keep up to date on what’s new in the Origami Tessellations Photo Group on Flickr. There has been so much new material posted in the last few weeks that I can’t even look at it all, much less keep tabs on it to make some cohesive posts! You guys have been very busy, which is wonderful.

We’ve had a number of new people join lately, and add a whole bunch of new and interesting work- warm welcomes to syngola, Lorenzo, mimickr, bentho, ckn.niwatori, and Jonathan Miller (by way of Brian Webb). If I missed you here I’m sorry, let me know and I’ll update my list here. Also good to see some posts from Andy Wilson, Kevin (and his super strong tessellations- check out how much weight his tessellations held up!) and Alex Bateman, who ventured out into "pre-creased gridland" to give it a try. His latest version of Tess is looking really sweet, which reminds me that I need to get to work and compile it properly for him (sorry, Alex!)

 As we come down to the last few weeks before the OUSA convention, several of us are in "crunch time" trying to get some good exhibition models completed. I’ll be going to the convention- my first time- as well as Joel Cooper (who is an honored guest as the recipient of the Florence Temko Award!) and folks like Philip (Oschene) who is an old pro at this event. I’m looking forward to meeting a bunch of great people.

Beyond the convention, there’s an even bigger event looming- the Tessellation Expo in Brasilia at the end of July! This international event will bring together several tessellation folders in person for an exhibition of their work at the Botanical Gardens in Brasilia, Brazil. My lovely wife and I are both going, and we’re really looking forward to this trip.

 Now here’s the deal: we’re looking for some submissions for this event from other tessellation folders out there, who would like to have their work on display at this event. A lot of the details on the final space available are being worked out, but we should have plenty of room to show off some of your work. If you are interested in submitting a piece, please contact me via email at origomi (at) mac.com (remove the (at) and replace with @- you know the drill.)

I’m looking for European and North American folders to send works to me, which I will carry down to Brazil personally. South American folders can contact me and I will put you in touch with Jane in Brazil as a mailing destination. We can work out some details on returning your piece, if you desire- I’m also happy to consider some tessellation exchanges, as I have a large wall of tessellations at home from around the world that I’m always looking to expand.

If this sounds like something you’re interested in, please get in touch! We don’t have a lot of time to work with here, so I’d like to get your works here safely and packaged up properly for the trip down to Brazil!

 -Eric

 Oschene’s "Moroccan Purse" (not really a tessellation, but amazingly cool- as are all of Philip’s creations, so he gets included whether he wants to be or not…)

 

 Lorenzo’s "YAST [Hiraori]"

 

Lorenzo’s "Roses of David"

 

Lorenzo’s "Puff Stars Madness"

 

Mélisande’s "Coussinets (little cushions)"

 

Mélisande’s "Pile de Coussinets (pile of little cushions)"

 

Mélisande’s "3d Rhombic Twists"

 

Mélisande’s "Little Tess- a tribute to friends"

 

Alex Bateman’s "Swirling Octagons"

 

Jane’s "Mais uma variação da Spread lado 1"

 

Mimickr’s "Gretter hexagon tessellation"

 

 Mimickr’s "Flower for Mawelucky"

 

bentho’s "Spread Hexagon Tessellation"

 

Jonathan Miller’s "Untitled Tessellation"

 

Kevin’s "11 Stage Fujimoto Clover"

 

Andy Wilson’s "6.6.3.3; 3.3.3.3.3.3 with Joel’s variation"

 

ckn.niwatori’s "tess30b"

 

ckn.niwatori’s "tess33a" (puff stars and 3d triangle twists- nice!)

 

ckn.niwatori’s "tess17"

 

ckn.niwatori’s "tess19a"

 

syngola’s "Windmill Pattern"

 

syngola’s "That’s what happens if I am playing around"

 

syngola’s "Negative Rhombus Tessellation"

 

syngola’s "Big Puffstar Variation 01"

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One Year Anniversary - Flickr Origami Tessellation Group!

June 12th, 2006

It’s been one year since the Origami Tessellations photo pool was created, and we’re nearing 1000 photos with close to 100 members- with over 20 members who have actively contributed material to the group!
This makes me really happy; when I started using Flickr a while back there really wasn’t origami tessellation content on here, and now there’s a healthy, growing community of friendly, fun people. This is all possible because of the positive, sharing spirit you have all shown to each other, and to new members joining in.
I’d like to thank you all for being a part of something wonderful, and I hope we continue to share, contribute, and grow for years to come!

Please feel free to comment on the discussion page on Flickr (or here, if you want!)

-Eric

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Works In Progress

June 6th, 2006

Works In Progress

Originally uploaded by EricGjerde.

Flickr description text below, with more as a chaser!

My first tessellation design, “spread hexagon”, being folded from some larger paper.

Also, modified “negative space” stars, inspired by mosque tilings and my pursuit of pretty things.

Both items to be displayed at the OUSA convention in June, and the Brasilia tessellation expo in July.

Huge thanks to my good friend Jane for the precreased paper for this- without her help I would be in over my head right now!

So, I’ve been doing a lot of folding lately trying to get some halfway decent pieces together for the 2006 OUSA Convention. I decided that I would fold up my first tessellation design, the “spread hexagon” tessellation, just because I’ve always been happy with it as a simple and pleasing pattern. It also doesn’t require backlighting or anything else complex from a viewing perspective, so that’s always a good thing. I suppose I should really be folding a larger version of it, but just folding this one- made out of 1/64th creases- takes quite a while. Any more would really be pushing the limits of my patience.

I’m also folding these works, as we are heading down to Brazil in July at the invitation of my tessellation-folding-friend Jane, who lives in the capital, Brasília. I’m really looking forward to this trip, as we will also be joined by Melisande from Switzerland, and hopefully some local tessellation folders like Jorge Lucero. On July 29-30th we tentatively have an exposition at the Jardim Botanico (Botanical Garden) in Brasília, which should really be a treat. I’ll make sure that there are tons of pictures of this event.

We’re essentially having an international tessellation mini-convention, where we’ll be spending about 10 days together doing a lot of folding, talking and generally having fun! I’ll write up more about all of this in another post, but as things are really starting to come together for this event I felt it was worth mentioning.

Lots of interesting new stuff happening!

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NYC Watch Out!

June 2nd, 2006

NYC Watch Out!

Originally uploaded by EricGjerde.

… because I’m coming to town!

Going to be visiting the Origami Convention at the FIT from June 23-25, and then doing some work stuff until the 1st.

If you’ve got suggestions on things to see, places to eat, or if you feel like meeting up and telling me what a geek I am in person, now’s a good time for it!

I’ll (hopefully) have a decent display of my work at the OUSA convention exhibition during the weekend of the 24-25th, and I think it might be free to look around. By all means stop by if you have a chance.

-Eric

UPDATE

: Rich says the following:

Public Access is 10:30-12pm, 2:30-4:30pm on both Saturday and Sunday.

Just a heads up on the timing! Come by and check it out!

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Joel Cooper’s Pentagons and Negative Stars

June 1st, 2006

I posted a CP of Joel Cooper’s very impressive piece titled “Pentagons and Negative Stars”, folded back in March. He drew out a CP for the design and posted it on his Flickr page, and with his permission I have recreated it as a PDF in vector format.

For more details, go to the download page:

http://www.origamitessellations.com/joel-coopers-pentagons-and-negative-stars/

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