Comments on: O or Non-O?

By: Dave Brill

Dave Brill — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:47:29 +0000

Here’s more about Vincent and his extraordinary work: have a look at the catalogue produced by the Freising Origami Gallery (buy one if you don’t have it already!)

http://www.origami-galerie.de/crumpling/index.htm

From a dyed-in-the-wool Floderer foldie…

By: oschene

oschene — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:53:21 +0000

@malachi Thank you, a compliment worth having. Children observe their surroundings and learn to generalize: they make rules and try to force the environment to conform to them. (This is where grammar comes from, but don’t tell anyone.) Children amend the rules as they grow and learn about new exceptions. Somewhere around age 13, that stops. As adults, we generalize our observations and accept the results as gospel truth. Nowhere is that more evident than in the comments on that bOING-bOING post. Half-ignorant dogmatism will kill art faster than most things, I think.

@Norberto Thanks for the link. I like the definition he gives very much, “Origami is bringing out, through folding, the shape of paper which was not evident before folding.” That totally works for me.

By: Norberto Kawakami

Norberto Kawakami — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:56:36 +0000

Koshiro Hatoshi, an origamist of Japan Origami Academic Society, arises some issues in his article One Crease Origami: What Is Origami? where some boundaries in paperfolding are discussed. So, how can common people see a paperwork as a Origami or not, if the matter is controvertial even to origamists? By the way, the Crumpling Folding (or froissage) was invented by Paul Jackson and it is considered ORIGAMI by the origami community, so the negative commenters at boing-boing seems to be unaware of that.

By: malachi

malachi — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:13:23 +0000

Preach it, brother. It always raises my hackles when someone tries to box or constrain origami too much, almost always citing “tradition” as the excuse for what are really somewhat arbitrary restrictions.

You just keep adding to the litany of reasons that I respect you and the work you do. Keep up the good work.

thanks,
malachi