Irrelevance Glorified

Week 14, March 31st – April 4th

Helicopter

The text for this one states “drop helicopter and watch it spin as it descends.” Unfortunately, I could not get this to work. It didn’t really spin as much as it fell. Untwistingly. Of course, there’s the slim chance that I didn’t do it right, perhaps sacrificing quality for speed as I burned through a three month backlog of origami. But it’s probably more likely that the instructions were wrong.

Yapping Crow

Turn the speakers up on this one, baby!

Catcher’s Mitt

I have a dream, a hope, that someday I will be at a baseball game, and the catcher’s mitt will break, and they will have run out of spares (there was a dugout fire that destroyed all the equipment), and all of the people in the stands don’t have mitts, and I have a newspaper, and I save the day by quickly constructing this handy little glove. The break-in period is probably real small as well. Oh, and I get a $1 million as a gesture of gratitude for saving the game.

Kaleidocoaster

Strike one was using printer paper instead of the origami sheets. I always feel bad, because I don’t have scratch paper around and end up wasting a pristine sheet of printer paper. But overall, this one left me wanting more. We all remember what kaleidoscopes looked like. This coaster has neither the capacity to hypnotize someone, nor is likely to distract a stoned person, nor is likely to withstand condensation from a glass, thus failing as a coaster.

Sea Turtle

This is one of the more higher quality turtles that they’ve had me do. Turtles seem to be pretty popular in origami. I’m sure there’s a Japanese reason for it. Anyways, that’s a pretty fair representation, and sea turtles actually exist.

As always, these origami designs were found in the Origami Page-A-Day Desk Calendar.

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