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I'm a bit weary of snowy scenes now, although I have saved a picture of some bushes I would like to show you soon.
But I'm talking paper planes tonight because I heard a song with that name on the car radio as I drove to work this morning.
You probably haven't heard, but I was quite good at making planes when I was younger. I always wanted to fly although dreams of it in recent years have been killed off by a power to weight ratio that has gone in the wrong direction, although thrust and lift are still just about sufficient.
But at boarding school we had those Victorian wooden desks with a seat attached to it within some sort of cast iron frame. The desk had a lift up lid, a groove to put your pencil in, and an ink fountain in the corner, and someone-else's still tacky chewing gum and yellow-green bogeys underneath where you sometimes let your hands feel around when you were searching for something to take your mind off Latin verbs and First World War poetry.
But if I wasn't sketching cars of the future, tanks, Spitfires and supersonic jets, I was either carving something into the solid oak lid of the desk with the tip of my compass, or I had my hands under the lid folding and shaping a paper and cardboard plane. Stiffness and sharp edges were crucial to aerodynamics and I could do all that whilst still looking Mr Trevanion in the eye, knowing that if he suspected I was doing anything I shouldn't the punishment would be immediate and painful. (But if you want to know more of that just google "Brambletye first day at school")
Anyhow, what set me off about paper planes was this tune, which will be a big hit, by an 18 year old from New Zealand called Horeah Partsch. Here it is, Paper Planes, www.youtube.com/watch?v=iplFIn34lOI
A roll of unappreciated and undervalued toilet paper basks in the glorious morning light. How much do we value the small things in our pursuit of grand moments or scenery? Here is to the toilet paper, the hairbands and the Sunday light. Cheers.
Precreased sheet of paper, ready for folding my Shamrock Tessellation 1.1. More about the model on my web page: origami.kosmulski.org/models/shamrock-tessellation-1-1
No, I'm not just rehashing old models, I'm working on something new, but menwhile I found the reverse side of this model interesting.
It is the same model as this only with those flaps pointing up, flattened.
It would make a nice sun.
Folded from 12 bronze rectangles of Parra paper of about 6 cm on the long side. Too small for my skills.
I have got loads of these in drawers use them every christmas to hang the baubles up
Taken for this weeks macro monday theme The Office
Papirøen (Paper Island) is a residential, leisure and cultural development on the Christiansholm island in Copenhagen, which was previously the site of paper storage warehouses. Designed by Cobe architects, the first phase was completed in 2024.
What I think are paper wasps decided to build a nest on the front of my house. So, naturally, I grabbed my camera and step stool so I could reach them, and started taking pictures.
Folded from a square of Strathmore pastel paper. Experimenting with diagonal gores - they're a pain with curves. 12 gores.
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I know, it is a safety pin, not a paper clip, but when I was little I used to get the two mixed up - still do sometimes. To me, they look very similar.
I used this lovely doily paper in another way for packaging...
You can print your own paper here...
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Folded from the CP out of a square of skin paper of 25 cm on the side.
A simple concept embellished to its maximum.
This image was generated by focus stacking ~80 images in Affinity Photo. Images were acquired with a Sony A6000 camera with a 55-210mm lens by using a Raynox macro adapter. Post-processed in Affinity Photo to remove the background.
3 sheets of yellow, orange and red paper..
Sony A550
Sony 18-55mm @ 40mm
ISO 200 - f/32 - 1/250s
Strobist: HVL-42, 1/8 Power, upper right corner
Designed by: Akira Nguyen
Folded by: Akira Nguyen
Again, I wanted to try to design a model that uses just square sheets. The nice thing about this model is that theres a "pop-up" feature. However it may have already been designed....
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I got this idea while playing with Rhombic Flower. It turned out to be something like a wreath so I put a star to the middle.
I looked around to see if someone else got this idea before me but it seems that I am the first :-)
It took me two days to fold. It wasn't the most difficult tessellation I have made nor the longest time I have spent folding something but while I was folding it I felt like the time is passing by very slowly. So I decided to name it White Death because I felt like I will die before I finish it. :-D
I've never folded a kusudama and I don't know if a model were folded from different modules and had this appearance could be called a kusudama.
Folded from a square of elephant hide of 30 cm on the side, using the plane side cube from Frans Faase and adding the decorations before folding the cube. I think it's an idea that can be expanded to do more cubes with different decorations on its sides.