http://origami.oschene.com A Folder's Intermittent Weblog Sun, 03 May 2009 11:15:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You have to compare. So you can get a little distance from things. Like Laika. She really must have seen things in perspective. It's important to keep a certain distance. [audio:PR.mp3|titles=Far jag kan inte få upp min kokosnöt|artists=Povel Ramel] That's what Ingemar says in one of my favorite movies, Mitt liv som ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/04/05/perspective/ Photo and hand by Andrew Hudson Just a note to alert our readers to another publication well worth a visit and a read: Origami Weekly began publication earlier this year and has been warmly received by the greater folding community. It is the ambitious project of two young men out West, ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/04/01/zhoubi-bowl-on-origami-weekly/ That's my old friend, Catullus, who often wrote in hendecasyllabics, that is, an eleven syllable line. Here, he's saying, To whom shall I give this pretty little blog entry? To you, gentle reader... It occurred to me the other day that twist stars, such as the nine- and ten-pointed models I ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/03/29/twist-stars-a-method-of-construction/ Indiscipline I do remember one thing. It took hours and hours but... by the time I was done with it, I was so involved, I didn't know what to think. I carried it around with me for days and days... playing little games like not looking at it for a whole day and then... looking at it. to see ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/03/15/claudines-tato/ This is Nathan Austin, after a long night of working on a tessellation. We're sure many of our readers know this feeling. Nathan is a film director, an occasional poet (that is, he writes nonce verse, not poems every so often), and an alumnus of the College where I work. ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/02/13/emmas-dress/ [audio:DB.mp3|titles=I'm Afraid of Americans|artists=David Bowie] So, I was on the bus the other day, cheerfully folding away and rocking out to an old Bowie/Eno song and got to thinking about culture. The song was ostensibly about culture, you see -- Bowie says: It's not as truly hostile about Americans as say "Born ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/01/29/im-afraid-of-hegemony/ Though the most credulous of men, I have trouble believing many things. For instance, I don't believe an Airbus A320 can float. Just took one from Madrid to Milan and I don't really believe they can fly, either. It's morning on Inauguration Day and I don't believe those cynical criminals ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/01/20/new-dawn/ Our friend and unindicted co-conspirator, origamijoel, said that to me recently and it sounded immensely wise. Joel is a soft-spoken man with an air of affable gravitas and he often says things that strike me as being immensely wise. It's just his way. When we were sitting on the concrete on ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/01/19/normal-has-nothing-to-teach/ Well, rather a left-handed apology, as the injury to him is largely imaginary and thoroughly unintentional, but an apology, nevertheless. This is a tato box: by which I mean, an origami box with radial symmetry and a closure the resembles that of a tato, a traditional Japanese purse. In the past year, ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/01/11/with-apologies-to-mr-ekiguchi/ An idea I had, early one morning -- a trompe-l'œil tato box, very impure. A magician, perhaps, could work up some patter for collapsing the box, but it would be far beyond my talents. Whist is an old game -- I learnt when I was in school -- all I remember is ... http://origami.oschene.com/archives/2009/01/01/whist-box/