origami &pictures ranjeet on 14 Dec 2008 04:46 pm
Origami, Week 44
Well, it’s just about the end game here, and in order to finish the year’s worth of Origami on schedule, I’m gonna have to kick it up a notch. It will be an Origami Extravaganza. Man. If there was only some sort of pun or play on words I could use to describe this massive amount of origami that will happen all at once, an explosion of folded paper. Well, whatever, just know that it will be coming fast and hard at you until the end of the year!
Week 44, October 27th – October 31st
Dragon
I feel like something is missing. Like dragon teeth, I guess. Or a dragon body.
Ancient Ghost
Another Frog Base. Damn you, Frog Base! I think in the instructions, this was supposed to be on it’s legs and menacing you with it’s arms, but I felt it was still strange and scary even if it was on all fours. Also, as I’ve read somewhere before: “Four legs good; two legs bad.”
Ming Dynasty Officer’s Hat
I feel real bad for officers in the Ming Dynasty who had to wear stuff like this. I mean, it’s really hard to get respect wearing something like this.
Jack O’Lantern
This is one more of those “single straight cut” origami. I folded up the piece of paper along a number of mountain and valley folds to collapse the sheet into a strip, and then made one straight scissor cut, and when I opened it up, I had a Jack O’ Lantern! It would be awesome if you could do the same thing to actual pumpkins. I like these ones because if I screw up, I can cheat by just making multiple cuts, and no one can tell the difference. Not that I would, of course, as I am an origamist of honor and full disclosure.
Dracula
This is pure awesome. What really makes it is the additional drawing added, which I just copied from the instructions. I mean, this Dracula seems like a really cool guy to hang out with. Not stuck up and aristocratic, and they are often portrayed in literature, all wearing Victorian outfits and being formal. No, this Dracula is the sort of Dracula that you watch football with while throwing down some cold ones. And that bad haircut and style? That just makes him approachable. I assume his arms are behind his back or something.
As always, these origami designs were found in the Origami Page-A-Day Desk Calendar.