The tutorial for the paper quilt pieces is up!
Check it out:
Sorry the volume is a little low, but you can hear it pretty well if you turn up the volume.
Happy Folding!
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Another blogs in a sea of blogs
Oh how our hobbies expand.
Like cellular biology, I hated origami in school. I hated it. They would schlep it out during rainy days of elementary school and I would sit there and hate at it. Children were forced to fold easy things like hats or cups or dogs that you could draw smiley faces on and take home to your parents.
It looked nothing like a dog.
Now that I am an avid origami enthusiast, I see now how underutilized the art form is. It is a natural companion to geometry and would have been better suited to introduce bisecting lines and angles than to impress upon children that their parents will, in fact, praise them for pretty much anything (even lopsided folded dogs).
Origami found its way back to me in grad school when I discovered modular origami kusudamas. During that time, my brain was constantly overloaded, and folding modular pieces took little brainpower but still felt relaxing. Most importantly, it helped me to feel as though something was getting accomplished, even if the thesis edits, SAS code, and graph manipulations appeared as if they would never be complete.
Undoubtedly, I enjoy origami for the same reason that I enjoy ornamental plant breeding: with enough attention, any permutation is possible. More importantly, once you understand the process, simple, but competent designs, or breeding lines, suddenly take shape, and build until you are designing complex pieces yourself. Each fold builds on the next, as does each generation in breeding. Finally, anything that cultivates steady hands for difficult pollinations increases your success as a breeder, and I want to successfully intercross Cannas so, good luck me.
What does the origami look like?
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Modular, simple, colorful.
Stay tuned. Video tutorials and paper selection to follow.
Like cellular biology, I hated origami in school. I hated it. They would schlep it out during rainy days of elementary school and I would sit there and hate at it. Children were forced to fold easy things like hats or cups or dogs that you could draw smiley faces on and take home to your parents.
It looked nothing like a dog.
Now that I am an avid origami enthusiast, I see now how underutilized the art form is. It is a natural companion to geometry and would have been better suited to introduce bisecting lines and angles than to impress upon children that their parents will, in fact, praise them for pretty much anything (even lopsided folded dogs).
Origami found its way back to me in grad school when I discovered modular origami kusudamas. During that time, my brain was constantly overloaded, and folding modular pieces took little brainpower but still felt relaxing. Most importantly, it helped me to feel as though something was getting accomplished, even if the thesis edits, SAS code, and graph manipulations appeared as if they would never be complete.
Undoubtedly, I enjoy origami for the same reason that I enjoy ornamental plant breeding: with enough attention, any permutation is possible. More importantly, once you understand the process, simple, but competent designs, or breeding lines, suddenly take shape, and build until you are designing complex pieces yourself. Each fold builds on the next, as does each generation in breeding. Finally, anything that cultivates steady hands for difficult pollinations increases your success as a breeder, and I want to successfully intercross Cannas so, good luck me.
What does the origami look like?
Modular, simple, colorful.
Stay tuned. Video tutorials and paper selection to follow.
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