The intersection of origami and welding (sort of)
- Posted by admin at 12:30:12 // //
Never quite got this uploaded last spring when I built it, and with the blog re-hashing the photo was languishing on my disk… But some of my friends asked me whether it was possible to combine my two hobbies, and here’s one of my answers to the question. :)
The shape is called the Great Dodecahedron. It’s brazed together (like soldering, but with brass rod for solder, and a high-temperature torch for heat), and each triangular piece (there are 60) was cut by hand with an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.
I love the contrast of the rough torch-cut pieces and the complex mathematical shape. Can’t wait to do some more of these!
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US Dollar Animals
- Posted by admin at 15:16:14 // //
My mom was leaving on a cruise, and wanted to be able to leave origami as tips. I got the fun of folding the stuff into an assortment of creatures and things! (The hyper-observant of you will note that they are $5s, not $1s, but of course the proportions are the same.)
From left to right:
- Shirt (Fukumoto)
- Swan (Montroll)
- Fish (Montroll)
- Parrot (Montroll)
- Kimono (traditional)
- T-Rex (Montroll)
- Cat (Diaz)
- Teddy Bear (Fukumoto)
- Butterfly (Fukumoto)
- Rabbit (Joyce)
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*cough* *bang* *clatter-of-dropped-tools*
- Posted by admin at 16:33:49 // //
Sorry ‘bout this, but I’m in the midst of trying to get the blog rebuilt with a new system that won’t crash the server (sigh) and things are a bit of a mess at the moment. Please do consider coming back sometime in the next week or so, and I oughta have the content back in place!
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