SETTLING IN

Hola amigos. So. I've reached a rather boring lull of time between after-the-internship and before-school-starts-again periods and have been using it ever so badly. I've got half-started stuff and ideas-in-the-head stuff that I need to get working on before I get too busy to do either. 

Anyways, as I discovered old origamis from a year ago, I found this one, which just happened to kind of pop nicely onto the existing lamp shade in my hallway. So, for now it's found a decent home up there.

It's been stuffed in a closet for a year so that accounts for it's rather squished, non-symmetrical shape. If I find some fishing line, I could fix it so it gets a nice plump round shape since I'm not sure I'm liking how elongated it hangs. But, that's just adding more to my to-do list of things that will probably stay at the bottom of the priority list. Ta!

WORK IN PROGRESS

It's really been ages since I've had time to sit down and do some real folding, let alone post anything (do I start every post with this?). And sadly, that may be the case for the next couple of weeks as I get settled in my new apartment. Despite that, I've been saving this little work in progress for a rainy day post.

So here's something that I've been working on literally piece by piece, day by day. It started with random scraps of paper I had by my desk at work which I began folding into super simple 9-fold patterns out of boredom. I know I should have been working but I blame a slow laptop that couldn't handle Solidworks all the time. So as the program lagged (minutes at a time) I'd fold a unit as I waited. After just a day, I had a handful of little units that I combined together. After a week, I had a huge long chain. I know this story is really exciting, so I'll continue... Basically this little work in progress came from being bored waiting for my computer to catch up to me. So voila! 

I had to leave this mini-creation in Hong Kong but that's okay since I still didn't really know what it was going to turn into yet. Now I can restart the project when I get the time, knowing how to improve on it and perhaps with a better direction in mind. So in all honesty, I am not sure when my next post will be but let's hope that when it arrives you will get to see whateverthisis V2.0!

WHERE IT ALL STARTED

Wow, my last post was  April 17th. My sincerest apologies. What else can I say? I haven't got much to show for my past two months of absence (sort of) to even make up for it. But just to show that I am still alive, I thought I'd post something.

How about where it all started? This is the book that started it all. My sister received it as a gift when I was around age 10. We'd had lots of fun making our way through the book from simple cranes, boats and hats at the beginning, to fancy flowers and various animals, then to things too complex for us to figure out. By the time we'd reached the last chapter of the book, things got a little too intense. But that's what I truly enjoyed about this newly-discovered form of art. This chapter - "Modular Origami" - started this whole obsession of mine. 

 As you can see, the book is good and worn out from being toted around for the past decade. It moved to Beijing two years ago with my family, then I stole it and brought it to Hong Kong, and soon (too soon) it will return to Ottawa (to its rightful owner). Anyways, enough of that.

 Finally, I'll finish this off with the sneakiest of sneak-peaks. Something I've been slowly working on for the past two months (since I had to fold something even in the most busiest of days). Not going to go into detail. Just a lil' picture. Stay tuned, sooner or later this will become something. I hope.

DROOLING

Yes, I'm drooling. This is too beautiful, magical, magnificent, marvelous, simply brilliant. Time to go find a thesaurus and finish this post. I want to tryyyy.

*Hah, well I can't imbed this particular video, so if you want to see what all the fuss is about go here. If not, please have a fantastic, joyous, peaceful, radical, happy day.*

I normally promise I'm working on something and that posts will be coming shortly. I can't make that promise this time. I'm working on something but it's moving way too slowly and with only 3 months left here, I think I'd rather be lying on the beach (and it's hard to fold paper on the beach - it's too windy and sandy and wet). No, I can't promise, but I'll try!

I JUST DIED

That's all...

Paige Smith via Colossal.

STUFF

Completely unrelated to paper. But it is Ruby-related. I get to do some graphics at work, and that's super exciting! Making an event invite for a party we're having in collaboration with other artsy places on our block at work. So I ran around the neighbourhood snapping some photos and then did some Illustrator-ing (you know what I mean, when you've got 20 artboards open with every iteration possible). Huzzah, life is good! Paper things on the way too sort of. 

PS, Fontsnobs, don't judge.

WHAT TIME IS IT?

Hurrah, my favourite show features my favourite thing! 

"Pagelings are the secret guardians of the books in the Library. They are disguised as the first blank sheet in old books. They only reveal themselves to people that they trust. Their normal forms are paper origamis shaped like humanoids, animals, or a shape. They can turn into different paper origamis. When in the form of a paper airplane, they can fly."

Adventure Time never disappoints. Jokesss.

A RANDOM THING

Hmm, hi again. Here's a random thing I made. Out of boredom. Basically we did a big office clean-up the other week and came across a bunch of paper sample booklets. Naturally, I went all crazy over them cause I'm all into colour and paper and coloured paper and shit. But like so many other little random trinkets I pick up here and there, they sat in my room for a fair amount of time before I (remembered I had them and) actually did something "useful" with them. 

So, umm, yes, here's a random thing: a "colour swatch tapestry" if you will. Perhaps you won't. Well I needed a place to pin my many pictures of the faces I miss most, and it's working pretty well. And it adds colour to my mornings as it's the first thing I see when I wake up. Okay that's enough of that, I'll be getting a life soon. Soon!

Fun fact: my favourite one is fourth row down, fourth from the left. Oh-la-la.