Origami!!!

Band Nerd · Post by **Band Nerd** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:51 am

I just ordered an origami book off the internet, hoping it'll be fun. Does anybody here do origami? How much do you enjoy it? I've done origami once or twice, nothing special. It looks challenging, but fun at the same time!

Collin

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:16 pm

Band Nerd wrote:I just ordered an origami book off the internet, hoping it'll be fun. Does anybody here do origami? How much do you enjoy it? I've done origami once or twice, nothing special. It looks challenging, but fun at the same time!

Collin

You need to get in touch with Aaron Walden.

--James

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:29 pm

aka "Walden" in these parts!

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 1:08 pm

Walden's most excellent resource.

Carol

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:36 pm

I've had a couple of phases where I did lots of origami. I liked doing it, but what the heck do you do with all those little folded animals, people, and objects??? I had boxes full of them and ended up throwing most of them away eventually.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:47 pm

seisflutes wrote:I've had a couple of phases where I did lots of origami. I liked doing it, but what the heck do you do with all those little folded animals, people, and objects??? I had boxes full of them and ended up throwing most of them away eventually.

Get a 4-bit box of paper clips, and bend the middle part of a clip back, to make an "S" shape. Glue it to the top of one of the paper animals. Voila... Christmas ornament... repeat as necessary.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:51 pm

I have been considering learning origami. I must admit that I've been influenced by Walden's great ability and talent with the medium.

In my German class there is a little red wine glass that has been fashioned out of a candy wrapper. Whoever made that has a lot of talent (it was probably Walden!

).

I also want to learn to knit.

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:57 pm

Walden wrote:
seisflutes wrote:
I've had a couple of phases where I did lots of origami. I liked doing it, but what the heck do you do with all those little folded animals, people, and objects??? I had boxes full of them and ended up throwing most of them away eventually.
Get a 4-bit box of paper clips, and bend the middle part of a clip back, to make an "S" shape. Glue it to the top of one of the paper animals. Voila... Christmas ornament... repeat as necessary.

Yes, I did a few of those. I didn't want to completely cover the tree with them though, so I stopped with a few.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:03 pm

I give 'em away to kids.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:05 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote:I give 'em away to kids.

That's a really super idea. And the kinds will probably insist that you show them how to do it, too.

carrie · Post by **carrie** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:16 pm

Give them away to anybody, not just kids. Some of my most treasured gifts are origami creations. I think everyone would appreciate such a gift, even--or maybe even especially--for no special occasion.

Carol

seisflutes · Post by **seisflutes** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:16 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Joseph E. Smith wrote:
I give 'em away to kids.

That's a really super idea. And the kinds will probably insist that you show them how to do it, too.

I did that for a while too. The older ones do want to see how it's done. The younger ones squash.

Cute little things.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:45 pm

Origami is cool. About 35 years ago I won an origami competitionat school. I was a bit of a fraud because the 'hovercraft' I folded was improvised pretty much constructed by accident. Luckily for me no one asked me to demonstrate how I made it.

Fraud or not, I ate the whole jumbo-sized chocolate bar prize myself. I was a horrible kid.

Straying from the point: Cranberry, I'm not Christian, nor religious at all, but there is surely no arguing with that avatar, man. Respect.

perrins57 · Post by **perrins57** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:49 pm

seisflutes wrote:I've had a couple of phases where I did lots of origami. I liked doing it, but what the heck do you do with all those little folded animals???

You're not supposed to fold little animals, just paper!

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:11 pm

perrins57 wrote:
seisflutes wrote:I've had a couple of phases where I did lots of origami. I liked doing it, but what the heck do you do with all those little folded animals???
You're not supposed to fold little animals, just paper!

Reminds me of the whole "bonsai kitten" hoax a while back.

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