Folding dragons

[avram]

Wow, check out this highly detailed origami dragon! (Warning, people of the future — that’s a Yahoo AP photo link, and probably will expire at some point. Get yer oohs and aahs in while ya can.) It’s from an origami convention in Tokyo last Friday. Impressive as hell, though it departs somewhat from the simplicity that I’ve always (perhaps irrationally) considered the heart of origami.

I prefer something like Joseph Wu’s Eastern Dragon (which he’s finally diagrammed!).

<sigh> I visited Pearl River Mart after work today, looking for a Mao cap (looked pretty decent on my head, but I didn’t like the stiff cardboard rim), and saw all sorts of lovely origami paper there, and thought about how long it’s been since I stopped folding out of a desire to keep my clutter level down. Maybe I’ll start again, and make sure I give it all away.

(Was it at a Worldcon that I got part-way through designing an origami Cerebus? I wonder if I can reconstruct that from memory....)

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[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I am completely smitten by Michael LaFosse's bats (and koi), but have so far avoided the deep temptation to become involved in yet another craft....

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