Stop whatever it is you’re doing and go check out these tessellations! http://community.livejournal.com/ru_pop_up/32317.html On the Russian LiveJournal Origamic Architecture group, which includes previous OT fave tekuila as a member… Oh, how much I wish that I remembered more Russian! Time to dig out my dictionaries and brush up, because this LJ group seems to be full of some amazing things! UPDATE: Alex from the O-list helps out, and says: They are all university assignments, some made to original CPs and some to anonymous CPs found in the college. I don’t know what college, but the Chair is of Communicative Design, according to comments. This makes me wonder what kind of classes they are teaching? I would love to take classes like that, for sure…

Ken’ichi wrote me the other day, asking about the Knappa Klöver lamp from IKEA: Do you know the lamp sold in Ikea called Knappa Klöver? I am more interested in the floor lamp version. I have attached a pic of this lamp, and I was wondering if you know how one comes about in making it? So I sat down and thought about it a bit, and came up with a solution. Here’s my reply: I haven’t seen this lamp in IKEA- I try to avoid going to the local IKEA and wandering through the lamp area, because I want to buy them all… but looking at the picture, I can make some guesses at how it is made. If you look at the attached image, I traced over some of the shapes on the lamp: the basic structure is an icosahedron (nice info here: http://www.miracerros.com/artwork/g_sphere_layout.htm) So, since the basic structure is an icosahedron, that means that each vertex of the icosahedron has five lines meeting together. This means the lamp is made up completely …

Try to keep in mind what is really important and not just what is most pressing. Some critical things to remember, these days. Thanks for the good words, my friend.