The Making of Mens et Manus, by Brian Chan

July 30, 2007

Prolific origami genius Brian Chan created this how-to video for one of his creations, Mens et Manus. It’s so very, very funny.

Video thumbnail. Click to play.
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You can view (and download) the movie in larger formats here:

http://chosetec.techtv.mit.edu/file/93/

(Thanks to Brian Webb for the link!)

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18 Comments

  1. Bekah
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    as always, a pleasure to see his work. now you have made it a pleasure to watch him work! wonderful!!!

    Reply
  2. brdparker
    Posted July 30, 2007 at 7:54 pm | Permalink

    that was awesome eric. thanks for the post!

    Reply
  3. no haha
    Posted August 6, 2007 at 11:19 am | Permalink

    wow only three steps….. from hell. Brian Chan is great

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  4. LorenzoMarchi
    Posted August 11, 2007 at 3:49 pm | Permalink

    Easy! …maybe not… :D

    Reply
  5. Bob Ogilvie
    Posted August 14, 2007 at 9:29 am | Permalink

    Brian
    A fantastic job. It is hard to believe that the final structure started with a 3 foot square piece of paper.
    Are you still making Samurai Swords?
    Best of everything.
    Bob

    Reply
  6. origamipatterns
    Posted August 27, 2007 at 9:27 am | Permalink

    Absolutely amazing! I loved it. It’s great to know such origami is even possible.

    Reply
  7. DK
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 5:13 pm | Permalink

    My son is 11 years old in 6th grade and his class is working on making 1,000 paper cranes in a week… he loves doing it. we happened upon your video while searching for other origami patterns…. he and I were both mesmerized watching you make the MIT logo!! Thank you for posting it :-)

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