Practice Makes Perfect

While making an origami fireworks over the weekend...

...I had a abject moment of terror where I thought I had forgotten how to make origami Yodas. So I made six in quick succession:

The Confederation of Yoda

I remember now. Whew! That was close.

I am on vacation in Motherland Taiwan from January 16-30. While I'm away there will be no posts :(

But I'm happy to announce that Shit Chinese People Eat will be coming back with a vengeance, like that Die Hard movie. May they never stop making those movies. Next post will be on February 4th. See you all in three weeks!

Money Origami Car

I spent two days making a money origami car.  Mine looks like this:

But it's supposed to look like this:

Mine didn't turn out too bad for a first try, considering as how this was part of the instructions:

Won Park didn't call his book Extreme Origami for nothing.

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

This is another edition of Whatever-I-Want-Mondays on a Tuesday brought to you by Acexpression who went on an origami-making craze. Below is a magic ball made out of regular printer paper. Click here for instructions on how to make it and what the final product should look like.

 

A rainbow rainbow :)

 

Peacocks only wish they had plumage like that

I left it in its lattice shape because taping the ends together is a bitch.

MoneY heARTs

I was right: Google did not post what I wanted to post. So here is what I did want to post on Monday, September 3, 2012. My thoughts and love go out to NYC today.

 

My project two weekends ago was to make 15 origami hearts from $20 Canadian bills. 

Money origami hearts <3

The level of difficulty goes from easy to hard from top to bottom. Sometimes you have to have strategy when it comes to origami otherwise your fingertips will hurt more like a mofo rather than a S.O.B. from having to make all the firm creases.

I'm proudest of this one because I didn't think I would be able to make it when I looked at the instructions, but in the end I showed that $20 who's boss.

Please see my deviantART for the rest of this series: http://acexpression.deviantart.com/

Gearing Up For Pride

These aren't gears though, they're origami fireworks. Youtube it and see how it's supposed to turn. It's quite trippy.

Better than the fireworks that shoot out from between Katy Perry's boobs, yes?

Each of these were made out of twelve individual squares (15cm x 15cm). Took about 1.5 hours per firework to fold and assemble.

Make It, I Did

An origami Master Yoda, that is:

A co-worker said his face looks like a sideways crane.

The paper is 15cm x 15cm to start with and then it becomes the size of two quarters laid side by side. That little guy is #5 on our suspect line.

From left to right: 1st attempt, 2nd attempt, 3rd attempt, er please disregard, 5th attempt.

I'm going to make an army of these until I memorize every step.