23.11.10
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31.8.10
Unusual origami subjects
When I had enough original origami models in my deviantart profile I asked other devious folders to give me a feedback about my work. Most of them didn't responded to my request, in fact only one did, but was the one I cared the most: David Derudas, an Italian origamist whose models are beautifully detailed and strongly founded in geometry (you can se his Flickr gallery here http://www.flickr.com/photos/orsobrusco/sets/72157601342871369/). His comment was completely out of the blue:
"your origami subjects are very inusual! :)" Derudas D., 2007
When I read that I really didn't knew what to think, Is that a bad thing? I looked at my gallery and I got it, something that I hadn't considered before: my models (at least until then) were not animals, dinosaurs, insects, dragons, or modular geometric figures. In that time I just had video game and trading card game characters.
I began to look at other folders' galleries and I got the conclusion than many origamists' first original models are just that: unusual models! The cause is very simple, not everyone likes the same things, the same animals, the same movies, the same videogames etc. Then one day you want to see your favorite spaceship from a weird anime made in origami but no one else has made it, and if someone has, the chances that there is a diagram or even a CP are nanometrical, so you try, fail, try again, fail, try with a larger sheet of paper and finally you got it! You very first original model is a FX-gallactic-ninja-2000 spaceship that only the cousin who showed you the anime will recall.
Finally I want to show you one these "unusual origami" models that left me breathless, this is obviously not the case I talked about, this is a true masterpiece by Shuki Kato. As I said I'm not expecting everyone to distinguish it, and if you don't, you REALLY SHOULD.
This picture is actually out of his gallery because he has already enhanced the model, you can see the new version and his other beckoning original models here.
Die trying.
"your origami subjects are very inusual! :)" Derudas D., 2007
When I read that I really didn't knew what to think, Is that a bad thing? I looked at my gallery and I got it, something that I hadn't considered before: my models (at least until then) were not animals, dinosaurs, insects, dragons, or modular geometric figures. In that time I just had video game and trading card game characters.
I began to look at other folders' galleries and I got the conclusion than many origamists' first original models are just that: unusual models! The cause is very simple, not everyone likes the same things, the same animals, the same movies, the same videogames etc. Then one day you want to see your favorite spaceship from a weird anime made in origami but no one else has made it, and if someone has, the chances that there is a diagram or even a CP are nanometrical, so you try, fail, try again, fail, try with a larger sheet of paper and finally you got it! You very first original model is a FX-gallactic-ninja-2000 spaceship that only the cousin who showed you the anime will recall.
Finally I want to show you one these "unusual origami" models that left me breathless, this is obviously not the case I talked about, this is a true masterpiece by Shuki Kato. As I said I'm not expecting everyone to distinguish it, and if you don't, you REALLY SHOULD.
This picture is actually out of his gallery because he has already enhanced the model, you can see the new version and his other beckoning original models here.
Die trying.
14.8.10
9.8.10
Why I dont like modular origami
What you see in the picture is my room's desk, a tiny region of the cosmos where science and art collide; some days you can see my latest drawing or origami being taken to this world, other days you may be able to see some Firmicutes being organized in a state of the art phylogenetic tree, but recently the most persistent object in my desk is a completely folded (but unassembled) Issei Yoshino's "skeleton of tyrannosaurus rex". Those twenty two clip-joined folded paper squares have been staring at me for a month or two, the final step of this brilliant origami is just impossible, not because it is difficult, but because when I try to join them I feel like I am making a handcraft for my mother's birthday.
I have always believed that the most amazing thing about origami is the fact that you can create anything from a peace of paper, more specifically, an uncut square. The intellectual, artistic and technical challenge of transforming this simple object into whatever the folder wants is the funniest puzzle I have met in my life; the limitations are your imagination and the paper's qualities. If you want to create a model with different sections, you do not need many peaces of paper to make each one of them, all you need is to look at Brian Chan's "Kraken Attack".
1.8.10
Precrease and the Cryolophosaurus v1.3 Diagram!
I created this blog to show the world my origami and discuss my opinions about this wonderful art with anyone who enters here, besides I needed a place where I could publish my origami diagrams and crease patterns.
For years my diagram production was limited to sketches for personal use, for remembering difficult steps in my models, but now my goal is to make (or finish) diagrams so anyone can make my designs. Unfortunately I missed making these diagrams or lost the ones I made for some models, so some of them will only have a crease pattern.
The link below is the diagram for my latest work: the Cryolophosaurus.
The diagram may remind you Stephen O’Hanlon dinosaurs' diagrams (which are great by the way) but I guarantee that this is my original work.
Please try to do it, feedback will be highly appreciated!
Download diagram
For years my diagram production was limited to sketches for personal use, for remembering difficult steps in my models, but now my goal is to make (or finish) diagrams so anyone can make my designs. Unfortunately I missed making these diagrams or lost the ones I made for some models, so some of them will only have a crease pattern.
The link below is the diagram for my latest work: the Cryolophosaurus.
The diagram may remind you Stephen O’Hanlon dinosaurs' diagrams (which are great by the way) but I guarantee that this is my original work.
Please try to do it, feedback will be highly appreciated!
Download diagram
31.7.10
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