Neale’s “Magic Star”
By: Robert Neale
Published in:: Origami, Rick Beech, ISBN 0754807827
Why:
This is another model that Scott Cramer taught at our local New Hampshire group meeting. Though I own the book it’s published in, I had never tried folding it before. (Story of my life.) It turns out the model is made from a very simple unit, just 8 of them, and is really easy to assemble. Best of all, it’s two models in one, really, and a great toy to fidget with - there’s a trick! It converts, via sliding, from a star to a ring. The star alone is nice looking; the intermediate stages are also pretty cool, and once it’s in “ring” form, you can toss it like a Frisbee (flying disk toy, for those of you not here in the US; though, I dunno, are Frisbees distributed internationally? Fine question.)
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Yamaguchi’s “Penguin”
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Created by: YAMAGUCHI Makoto
Published in: Origami Dictionary (origami jiten) ISBN 4791606485 (in Japanese)
Why: I belong to an amateur press association ‘zine called imagiro, and the members volunteer to make a cover for each issue. One of the other members, Scott Cramer, had come up with an idea to do a wintry-themed cover, even though it was March - both he and I live up in New Hampshire, and it’s been very cold, even for March. He suggested Polar Bears and Penguins, so I folded a whole bunch of the Penguins.
Since they were going to be mounted on a cover, they had to be flat, and stay put, so I used glue to keep the bodies together, hence the binder clip assembly line in the photo.
And, yes, after we’d already made the covers, we remembered that Penguins and Polar Bears are from opposite ends of the planet, so it was silly to have both there at the same time. Heh. It was still a cool cover.
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LaVin’s “Pegasus”
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From: created for TV commercial for Cingular Wireless
Why: …cue Ethel: “There’s no business like show business…”
Yep, this was my brief brush with show-biz; I designed and folded this Pegasus as artwork for use in a TV commercial. The model was created in just a couple of days, so it’s really very simple - it’s made from three pieces of paper, two of them folded into crane bases, one for the front of the body, and one for the back of the body, and the third piece makes the wings. The end result shares a lot of similarities with a great many models made from two crane bases, due to the inevitable geometries involved.
Above is a Youtube version of the advertisement. And two still shots of how the Pegasus got used in the ad:
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