Octagonal Twist Originally uploaded by Origomi. I was playing around with octagonal twists, and came up with this little shape. it looked neat. I tagged this as tessellations, which isn’t exactly true; but it will become one for sure. folding octagonal stuff is sort of a pain, but I’ll have to figure it out… something new to know!
Tiled Hex Tessellation, folded by Danilo Originally uploaded by Origomi. Danilo sent me a bunch of photos of his attempt at the Tiled Hex Tessellation. They came out very, very well! He used some insanely thin tissue paper (or some sort of crepe-like thin stuff) to fold it. the texture is fabulous. very Snazzy!
I really dig it when people send me photos of some of my models they have folded- it’s a great feeling. and there’s nothing wrong with things that make you feel happy! Here’s a link to Christiane’s photo gallery- take a minute to poke around some of the other great photo pages there too. http://origami-art.org Thanks, Christiane!
So I read a great little blurb in Make Magazine that talked about using Minwax Wood Hardener to turn things like cardboard into a plastic-like substance. the minwax product is basically plastics suspended in a solvent which evaporates once it’s penetrated the wood (or paper, cardboard, brushes, fabric, etc…) and leaves the plastics behind. more or less, anyway. I finally picked up some and I tried it out this morning. I think it will work! The origami I was coating seemed to suck it up pretty easily. the chiyogami and heavier papers did much better than the really thin shiny stuff, but that’s to be expected. here’s a handy tip- don’t try to pour some into a styrofoam cup. big mistake! it starts bubbling and eats right through the styrofoam in a second. I’ll post some photos of the whole process to my flickr account later- it’s www.flickr.com/photos/origomi. I’m still waiting for the first layers to dry, after which we’ll see how well it worked or not. -Eric
Yay! Russian origami bloggers! http://www.livejournal.com/users/elha/! Здравствуйте, мой Русский оригами друг! Sorry that’s all just so very wrong, but I have a hard time remembering the proper russian syntax… -Эрик Джэрди
