Pop-Ups Plus
I recently saw notice for and exhibition called, Paper Engineering: Fold, Pull, Pop and Turn, about pop-up books at The National Museum of American History. I’ve always enjoyed pop-up books, so I hope I can see this. The exhibit contains book from the Smithsonian Institutions’ Library’s Here’s the NMAH’s quite fascinating video on the subject and how involved a pop-up project may be. I have an even greater appreciation of a pop-up book after watching this. It’s truly a work of art and a paper engineering and folding feat. If you’d like to try a more simple book construction, check out the Altered Book Basics, as a project from a…
Getting More with Your Money
These incredible origami images came to me through an email. They were originally created by Master Origami Artist, Won Park. He has made all of these from folding mostly one and in some cases two dollar bills (where noted). Origami is the ancient art of Japanese paper folding to create a representational image by folding a sheet of paper, without gluing, cutting or pasting. Here’s more of his origami, since he doesn’t appear to have his own web page. On a side note, while keeping money in mind, there are many sources out there to donate to Haiti and the relief effort going on there but we’ve donated to the…
Origami
What did you do for Valentine’s Day? If you didn’t have a card for your loved one or if you didn’t receive one, maybe you can make up for it with some origami. I think there is a real art to paper folding. These videos prove that what may appear to be simple, is in fact quiet complicated and mathematically oriented as well. The science of origami with Dr. Robert Lang. Interview by Jacqueline London. Learn what airbags and origami have in common. Here’s some incredible paper art by Robert Sweeney as found on Shauna Lee Lang’s Art Advisory blog: Finally, this is an a cool trailer for the movie,…
