From the age of the dinosaurs Cars have run on gasoline Where, where have they gone? Now, it’s nothing but flowers -Talking Heads This is a compass rose. When I look at my visitor logs, I notice that I get a lot of traffic based on the fact that this site contains the words rose […]
One of those four-in-the-morning ideas – what if we graft an iris closure onto a Fujimoto cube? Wow – two great tastes that taste great together. Here’s the CP and I know what you’re saying. You’re saying, “Yetch! What’s with the green lines? Blue for mountain, okay, red for valley, sure, but green?” Relax – […]
But only briefly. When I posted about the Three Card Monte back in November, the Flog had maybe three readers and they were all, I think, Americans. Now we have a lot more and only 37% of you have regular access to good old 8½×11 inch American letter paper. (For the rest of you out […]
Which is pretty much exactly the same as the previous model, the 8-Sided Compass Rose Jar. The difference is that this one is made from American letter paper (and it could be any size rectangle, really) and that instead of using that ?2/2 section to make the closure, this one repeats that section over and […]
I’ve been doing some more complicated things – but I thought I probably ought to put out the simple version before getting all publicly jiggy with it. This one has an iris closure going to every second corner, a nice basket weave look. This is probably the easiest version of this model to learn, but […]
Please note the cool little flags in the upper right corner. If you push on one, it will translate all this slang-ridden jargonese into bad French, worse German, tortured Portugese – whatever flavor you like. I doubt it will help with communication, but it may make you feel more at home. Over half of the […]
Purists sometimes look at our work and say, “Oh, how very special – do you ever fold anything from a square?” The back of our hand to their froward ways. Purists! Yeah, sometimes. We like rectangles. A square is a kind of rectangle, as we’ll sometimes remind them. We try not to get superstitious about […]
Okay, I had blog envy. Everyone else was so Web 2.0 and I was all humdrumbloggery, well, it got a little embarrassing. Of course, now I have to pretend I understand what all these bells and whistles do. Already found the Blows-Everything-Up button. Pressed it twice. If you subscribe, I put a forward on the […]
A Mister Richard Feder of Fort Lee, New Jersey writes in to say, “Hey, what’s the deal with the Puff Stars? How do I fold a Puff Star? Does CP stand for something? How will I know if I have folded a Puff Star or something else? What’s a perf strip? Will folding Puff Stars […]
Dreidl is a Yiddish word meaning “top” or “little spinning thing.” Geflocktne means “twisted” or “interwoven.” I’m not in the least sure about the inflection – please feel free to send corrections. This one is showing nun up, meaning that you win nichts, nada, niente, nichievo, not so much. Spin again, please. At Hanukkah, it […]
